It’s Hammer Time

I’m just going to release my notes on this because the story is still developing. The flow of the post here is going to be a little choppy but such is the nature of my notes. It’s how I develop posts. But in this case, I think it’s best you see my thoughts as they developed.

So Paul Pelosi got attacked with a hammer? That’s okay, Nancy’s been getting hammered for years and we barely noticed.

Look, I’m not buying the reports we’re seeing on this. You see, the one thing that I’m absolutely sure about is it about 20% of this story is true.

First of all, aren’t there guards in this compound? Even assuming there weren’t, it strikes me as interesting that while Nancy Pelosi wants to disarm us, the police couldn’t protect her husband in a rich neighborhood. Funny thing about that, the police refused to comment on existing security in the compound or for that matter how this guy managed to get in… Or why nobody noticed a guy running through the streets of San Francisco and his underwear.

One poster on Twitter put it this way:

My firm served a lawsuit against Paul Pelosi one time in SF after attempting to serve at other residences—Napa, Georgetown. They weren’t home, but staff were, & multiple law enforcement officers were on the perimeter. Break-in is odd given this level of security.

Secondly, at the news conference the police were emphatic about both Paul Pelosi and his would be attacker having hammers in their hands. I can’t even imagine what the setup on that would have been. I suppose we’ll see if that part of the story lasts.

(Update, supposedly there was only one hammer and when the police got there it was Pelosi who had the hammer)

Would this have been set up by the Democrat party? I doubt it, because it runs directly afoul of their constant chant of “Crime problem? What crime problem?” But, it is interesting that it falls so close to election day.

Could have been some deranged right winger? Doubtful. The supposed attacker… One David dePape, is from Berkeley. Not exactly a bastion of right-wing thinking, that place. Supposedly, he’s a Castro nudist protester according to one report. No, I have no idea what that is, either.

Now we’re being told that the guy with the hammer in his underwear was “a friend”. One cannot help but wonder if it wasn’t a friend with “benefits” . It would explain his mode of dress. This is San Francisco after all. Certainly, the motivation for the attack would be explained easily enough that way… If that’s what’s going on here, I think we can rest assured that the two of them were not observing the cdc’s social distancing recommendations.

You know when Rand Paul was attacked, (and very nearly killed by the way), one of the Pelosi kids chirped up, saying that Rand Paul’s attacker was right. Just saying…

From Blaze:

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk reportedly fired four top executives from the leadership of Twitter on Thursday after completing a deal to buy the company.

Musk reportedly fired the company’s chief executive officer Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, top legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett, according to a report from the New York Times that cited confidential sources.

First off, those confidential sources piping information into the New York Times are probably going to disappear very quickly, particularly if Musk is as smart as I believe him to be.

I very seldom weep for fired executives. The firing of the top brass at Twitter the moment Elon Musk walked in the door is not going to be an exception to that trend. The way you kill a snake is you remove its head. I’m quite sure that Mark Zuckerberg will hire them though they won’t be making the same kind of salary. Zuck simply can’t afford it.

I will also say to any Republican who happens to get elected to any high office, the way this was done, is the way you should do it. Bureaucrat heads should roll before the echo dies from your taking the oath of office. And here’s the thing, for the most part they don’t need to be replaced, either.

As to Twitter itself, it’s going to be interesting cover these next few months. I suspect and suppose that the linkage between the propaganda efforts of the government and big tech in general but Twitter in particular will come to a crashing halt. It’s my judgment that Musk will have none of that.

From the Milwaukee Journal:

WAUKESHA - Almost a year after a devastating attack on a hallowed city tradition, a jury convicted Darrell Brooks Jr. of killing six people and injuring dozens of others by driving through the 2021 Christmas parade. After being sequestered Tuesday night after about 90 minutes of deliberations, the jury announced it had verdicts early Wednesday. 

Judge Jennifer Dorow began reading them shortly before 11 a.m., beginning with the first-degree intentional homicide counts. It took her about 25 minutes to read the guilty verdicts on all 76 charges.

It’s been hastily pointed out by many, that Brooks decided to represent himself in the matter, and that it was a stupid move to do that. While I tend to agree, I’m unconvinced this had any effect on the outcome, and indeed I’ll tell you point blank there wasn’t a lawyer on Earth that was going to get him out of any of those charges. You commit several murders in front of literally thousands of witnesses, you’re going to be outta circulation for several years and I don’t care what color you are.

And speaking of that…

I have argued strenuously in the past against hate crimes legislation because the very nature of such laws is unequal. This case is a prime example of that. Let’s imagine that Mr Brooks is white and the people he was mowing down are black. Does anyone suppose even for a split second that a white person behind the wheel of that red Ford Escape, wouldn’t have been charged with multiple hate crimes?

Well, I suppose they could have pinned it on the SUV.

In the end, Daryl Brooks got precisely what he deserved, but that’s the small end of this particular stick. The larger being the question of who taught him all the racist nonsense was spouting?

And of course the next step in these matters is almost invariably an appeal. The question becomes who’s going to file such an appeal? Is there a lawyer on Earth who would take the case?

with the election season coming on, we all need to hear this.

The patterns that Paul Harvey describes in this piece are a matter of History the history which unfortunately are government schools refused to teach.

We Americans, even those of the leftist persuasion have begun of late to recognize that we are losing what we had. We are in large part desperate to stop that slide. And we can do it. We really can. But to do that we need to understand the historical cycles involved and reverse them.

Please take a few minutes aside and listen to Paul Harvey’s description of those cycles, and tell me that the warning which Paul gave us in 1960 is not precisely what we’re dealing with today.

https://youtu.be/EA4zjRBROtY

Admittedly he does get an occasional point right, like for example taking a dump on BLM, and that whole crowd, but the man is such an jerk on the whole that it’s difficult to take him seriously on any subject. I find his swelled head distasteful at least and his anti-Semitism totally unacceptable.

But notice something, please. The denizens of the little paragraph factory in Queens, have decided… ( all evidence to the contrary) that Kanye West is a right-wing figure. You can’t make this stuff up.I’ve got a news flash for the Times, and this news is both actually news and fit to print; he’s nothing of the sort, and your labeling him as such tells me just how far out of touch you are with reality.

Personally I give Parler how about 6 months.

From Victory Girls:

Wait just a minute, the Capitol has been breached and it’s so concerning by that time that Nancy is only WALKING through the building? And again, she had her daughter there filming a documentary? A documentary about what? Pelosi’s continued animosity against Donald Trump?
Funny, isn’t it, this shouldn’t come up until the last couple of days?

• It’s not indigenous people’s day any more than it is the governor Mario M. Cuomo bridge.
• For all the screaming from the left about diversity, can anybody show me a person who is giving up his job willingly to a person of color? Even one??
• So it tu\nrns out that shutting down your domestic energy industries so Greta won’t be sad, and then counting on another country run by a psycho for all your energy needs, has downsides.
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• Western Europe is just finding out about this now, Germany in particular. “Green energy” is completely unworkable, and yet that’s the the cliff that the left here in the states is pushing us over.
• It does take a special kind of “leader” to create a situation where the American people are seeing both the recession and record inflation, in less than 2 years after taking power. It takes a Democrat.
• It’s amazing, it was just a short while ago that we were being told that there wasn’t any inflation. Now they’ve got a bill named after it, which of course has absolutely nothing to do with actually fighting inflation.
• When Govt makes enemies of corporations & profits and energy, and rewards unemployment why is anybody shocked when the economy’s in the crapper?
• Have you noticed that Joe Biden doesn’t seem to blink very much if at all? Kind of makes you wonder what they’ve got him on, doesn’t it?
• If something is a good idea it doesn’t need government to make it happen. In fact, if government is pushing an idea somebody in government is making lots of money off of it

With government subsidies in place we are putting up electric generating wood Mills all over the place. It’s been shown several times over that those things won’t generate enough power over their lifetime to pay for the cost of their installation and upkeep, at least not at current prices.

Those last six words are the rub. You see, we’re being told how much cheaper electric transportation is.. and that may be true at the moment but at some point somebody’s going to have to pay the cost of installation and upkeep for those windmill generators to say nothing of the added electrical grid that will be required to deal with the added load of chargers all over the place.

If we’re honest about this, the cost of electric cars will be prohibitive, being far in excess of what we pay for transportation now. They know this. Think, now, would they be continuing to put these windmills up all over the country with no hope whatsoever of recouping their investment?

The only logical conclusion to draw is that we are being played, and that diving headfirst into the pool of battery powered cars is short sighted at best.

Okay, her reasoning is sound and I find her comments encouraging in that they indicate that even for the staunchest of Democrats, there is a limit to what they will deal with from their own party.

That said however, one of my first thoughts was to Glenn Greenwald, who I publicly labeled the least honest writer in the sphere, back in the day. Like Gabbard, he finally reached to the international ‘enough’ line, and his writings since then have reflected that change.

The thing is in both cases there’s an issue of trust, now. The question becomes after such a change, did they finally see the error of their ways or is it simply that they noticed the torches and pitchforks coming up the road?

So, it comes down to this: Everybody understands clearly that the Democrats are going to get spanked big time come November. Whatever else Gabbard is, she’s not a complete idiot. Seeing the Red Wave that’s coming, did she simply assume that changing labels was a way to hang on to her seat?

Arlen Specter was unavailable for comment.

The New York Post:

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed California Assembly Bill 2098, making it the first state to attempt to censor what physicians can say about COVID-19 to their patients. This is a dangerous, and likely unconstitutional, effort that other states must resist.
They’re losing their minds. They know very well they’re going to get spanked in November and yet they keep coming up with this tyrannical nonsense in a vain attempt to hang on to governmental power.

A new policy update from PayPal will permit the firm to sanction users who advance purported “misinformation” or present risks to user “wellbeing” with fines of up to $2,500 per offense.

The financial services company, which has repeatedly deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their political views, will expand its “existing list of prohibited activities” on November 3. Among the changes are prohibitions on “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “promote misinformation” or “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing.” Users are also barred from “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.”

Well of course, that went over large.

Tilting at Windmills, responds:

PayPal, as part of Big Tech, got a wake-up call.

For years, they de-platformed groups because they didn’t adhere to progressive orthodoxy and worked against people who wanted to use their services for various lawful activities, like gun sales.

They got away with it because even if people were outraged, many at least accepted that as a private company, they could do as they wished, even if customers didn’t like it. A lot of people griped about it, but PayPal was still about the only game in town.

Today, there are competitors like Stripe, Venmo, and Cash App. People aren’t confined to using PayPal.

Yeah, it’s amazing what a little free market will do.

It would appear that the mass Exodus from PayPal after they tried this fascist nonsense surprised them. It should not have.

I’m not sure I buy their claim that this update on their policy went out in error. I think they intended to virtue signal with this nonsense. When people started for the exits, they began to realize that they drilled a hole in the bottom of their boat and went scrambling to patch it.

T@W goes on to point out that the Hunter Biden laptop story was labeled misinformation. I would add that if we’re going to attack misinformation, let’s attack who was responsible for the Steele dossier.

In the end, PayPal doesn’t deserve your trust, or your business. Let them sink.

Good riddance.

And by the way, let that be a message to banking institutions who virtue signal by who they do business with.

It’s not the most recent example certainly, but it is among the most graphic, to look at the history of world war II and slightly before. We let the anti-war sentiments in this country sway us from controlling and eliminating those that threatened the remainder of the world.

The advocates of a false peace, made the argument that Germany was such a strong power, it wasn’t worth going to war with them over a few bits of neighboring real estate. As far as the people in those countries? Well sorry, but there really isn’t much we can do for them.

Thing is by the time we finally found our spine, it took four and a half very bloody years to put an end to the threat.

There was no negotiating with Tojo or Hitler back in the day and there is no negotiation with Vladimir Putin now…. first, because the Crimea and Ukraine are not ours to negotiate away, nor anybody else’s. But secondly and more importantly, negotiated peace never lasts. I did attempt to contact Neville Chamberlain for his comments on his experiences with Hitler but he was unavailable.. However, I believe I can prove quite easily that the negotiations in such matters are not worth the paper they’re written on.

You can go ahead and tell me about how nuclear warfare is too terrible to contemplate in reaction to the despotism of Vladimir Putin. But remember that it was a popular opinion back in the day that reacting to Hitler’s despotism was unthinkable as well. Then as now, the leaders of the West were faced with terrors that the world had never faced before.

The basic patterns have not changed since those days nor have the majority of the dynamics. The only change is the size of the boom.

As Hitler showed us, such people are not bound by negotiation, and they never will be.

Why is it we have to keep relearning this lesson?