Treat Politics like a sport, and make people choose one team or another - for LIFE!

You know when your team is buried in last place, and is never going to recover for at least a few seasons, and yet there is still that guy who shows up with the big foam finger and screams “WE’RE NUMBER ONE!”? That guy is MAGA.

They’re as much Christians, as MAGAs are Conservatives.

They were so hungry at that point, that the only alternative was each other, so even semi-liquid protein starts to look good enough.

I got a few chores to do, then I’m going to sit down and do an experiment: I’m going to convert a guitar I just got got from a steel string guitar to a nylon string guitar.

It’s an a 3/4 size, all mahogany acoustic, and it sounds good, with good definition in the mid range, and nicely balanced highs and lows, it’s just a bit harsh for my ears. I already have a beautiful 3/4 size that I like, so I think this conversion could mellow out the tone of this new guitar, and give me a sound I don’t already have.

I’m also going to change the nut, saddle, and pins from cheap plastic to bone. That should help, too.

Religious freaks are predisposed to believe the most outlandish nonsense, so they’re the perfect target for political indoctrination. If they can believe in imaginary friends to the point of tithing to them, they’ll do that with a real life guy who promises to protect them from evil, just like Jesus.

The last guys that had to deal with these kinds of traitors, left us with a great tool to deal with this exact situation, called the 14th Amendment/ Section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

This perfectly describes Trump, and every person who gave speeches at the pre-Insurrection rally, as well as anyone who amplified the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen, which was the premise for the Insurrection.

All it would have taken was a Biden Administration courageous enough to use the exact words in the Constitution to protect us from the resurrection of MAGA. If Lincoln could have seen that, he would have been screaming: “Why the fuck do you think we went to the trouble of amending the fucking Constitution? To keep traitors like these assholes from taking over again, you dopey dipshits!”

Anybody who says they believe in this dopey mythology is either an idiot, or a liar.

And then he went in front of the cameras and fished about how much he loved the amazing beautiful children.

Obvious trolling by the Chinese, and he went right along with it. What a putz.

Can’t take no chances. Better safe than sorry.

Until the state passes a law that they can’t do that. That’s what happened in the early 2000s, when small cities decided to host their own Internet for free, and have local businesses sponsor it. One town in my area announced they could do it for $250K, and there were plenty of local businesses that spend far more on advertising.

Then the big ISPs greased some palms, and it became illegal almost everywhere.

All Marketing Zero Everything Else Extra Profits

I just say I’m a “standard-issue white guy,” and people know what that means.

Well, then where the fuck is my MONEY?!

Waterworld was a flop that got a reappraisal, and is now considered a pretty cool movie. It was really a victim of a critical wall that was against it from the start. That happens with some movies.

Babylon is another. That’s going to get a reappraisal at some point, and become a cult classic.

Showgirls is going through a reappraisal, and people are starting to see it differently. It was a Paul Verhoeven movie, of course it was great.

They remade Dune, and somehow managed to make it worse.

A buddy and me were the first in our circle to get an apartment after college, so we became the meeting place. It wasn’t a party house, we drank beer, and smoked weed, but it was calm and quiet, and the old folks below us never complained. They were frequent visitors, as a matter of fact.

People would start showing up around 8. My buddy and I managed different record stores, and we were into all sorts of music, and we had ALL the latest promo recordings, so usually we had a ball game on the TV with no sound (for our buddy Mark, who loved sports), while we listened to music, smoked, and talked. There were usually a dozen people, guys and girls, all ages, right up to old folks downstairs, sometimes. He’d had a stroke, and he could understand everything, but couldn’t converse, beyond random curse words, which he would deliver with either exasperation or disbelief, which we all thought was hilarious, and so did he and his wife.

At 11:30, we’d watch Johnny Carson’s monologue on the TV, and at midnight wed switch it over to two episodes of Twilight Zone. After that, everybody went home.

That was our ritual about 3-4 nights a week for a couple of years, until everybody started to scatter as they found jobs in different places. We’d go out now and then, but only because we weren’t going to meet any new girls hanging around our apartment. Going out often meant moving the party to someone else’s place for the night.

We couldn’t afford to go out to party much, but we always had a better time at home with our friends, especially since there were no threats of judgemental parents, RAs, etc. Our first real taste of true adult freedom was sweet enough to keep us happy.

There’s a bridge near Detroit that is apparently easy on the Canadian side to accidentally head across the border into America. Used to be they’d just turn you around and sent you back, but I read at least one story of a guy who got detained in an American facility for a few weeks before he could back him, and all he did was take a wrong turn.

They’ve still got a 3000 per day quota, and they’ve never hit it, so they aren’t looking for excuses to NOT arrest people, even if it gets kicked later. That’s why they’ve found that something like 75% of ICE arrests have been bogus. If anything, the likelihood is that they’ll get MORE aggressive, not less.

The last I checked, it was estimated that Trump would be responsible for 55% of the National Debt by the end of his term, and that was BEFORE his war.

Okay, you might be part of the problem. A little lowering of expectations might be a good idea. People shouldn’t be so judgmental, they miss out on a lot of interesting surprises.

And what’s with the cooking thing? You just cook for yourself, and eat it in front of the other hungry people? If you’re cooking for one, you cook for the others in the house, too, or at least offer. And you take turns, because cooking is fun. We actually fight (well, discuss) about it in our house, because most nights there is more than one person who wants to cook dinner.

OTOH, If someone EXPECTS you to be providing dinner every night, and won’t cook themselves, that’s a problem. They’re going to starve.

I like fun voices. And you got a smokin’ hot bod? You and I would get along just fine.