RIP Rush

I realize that I'm a day late with this post. It is not news among my few readers that the "Talent on loan from God" has been returned.

I waited because I wanted to process the news in my mind, and to figure how best to honor Rush. 

Over the past 36 hours since the news broke many of those who were friends, colleagues, contemporaries of Rush have written and spoken millions of words on the impact that Rush had on their lives, and his impact on conservatism. I've read and listened to many of those words. I have reached the conclusion that the spoken and written language is not nearly adequate enough. How does one fully express the impact he has had?

Who Died on 6 Jan

As the 2nd impeachment of Donald Trump gets into full swing I thought this is as good as time as any to post about the deaths that occurred during the events of 6 Jan. I have also added some additional thoughts about events over the summer of 2020.

Who died 6 Jan

Some Final Thoughts

The Final Case for 2020 Vote Fraud. Not really, I'm sure I'll post more. It rambles just a bit, so please bear with me, and the post.

Some background: back in 2004/5 a report on how to avoid voter fraud was released. This was a bipartisan effort, headed by former President Jimmy Carter(D) and one of the all-time DC insiders and policy wonks, James Baker(R). These two individuals have been around the world, observing elections in all sorts of third world countries. And up until just the last few years, they were experts on what to look for and how to avoid election fraud. This blue ribbon committee determined that if voter fraud was to be avoided, the following steps were necessary: voter IDs; reduce or eliminate mail-in ballots, which, according to the report, "remain the largest source of potential voter fraud"; disallow ballot harvesting by third parties; purge voter rolls of all ineligible or fraudulent names; allow election observers unfettered access to observe vote counts; voting machines must count the votes accurately, i.e., no extra or lesser weight given to a particular party or candidate; and ask news organizations to "delay the release of any exit-poll data until the election has been decided."

So You Want Socialism

 From Carpe Diem

Click the link to read an in depth analysis of the above graph. This graph, published by economist Mark Perry, has been cited at many different levels of those who follow and dictate economic policy and direction. The one takeaway that I'd like you to have is this: the items that have increased in cost relative to inflation are subject to heavy government regulation and interference, while those below the line are moderated by market forces. I.E. Socialism vs Capitalism.

Stolen From the WWW, Part Two (Covid)

 

Stolen from WWW, Part One (Election Version)

What's Next

Where do we go from here? It appears that Biden will be installed as president tomorrow. And it is an empty feeling. But fear not my readers, there is still hope and the dim light we see at the end of the tunnel doesn't have to be an onrushing train.

There is and will be a lot to overcome in the years ahead. It will be a lot of work and will require YOU make the effort. It will require we ALL make the effort. We need to make our voices heard. If your representatives at all levels don't fear for their jobs, they won't make the changes that are needed.

Try to remember that more than 74 million folks voted for Donald Trump. That is far and away the highest vote total ever received by a sitting President. Even the messianic Obama couldn't garner that level of support for his second term. We all know how former VP Biden "won" this election. And I know you can be discouraged; how do we overcome a machine that was so easily able to change this election. Turnout! If we encourage our fellow conservatives and Republicans to turn out in massive numbers, the machine will not be able to overcome our enthusiasm. In this most recent election, Republican voter turnout was about 65%. If we were able to generate turnouts at the 90% level, the machine would burn to the ground in its attempt to change the results. While we didn't turn out in those numbers in 2016, we did vote at such a rate that the machine couldn't account for it. The cheaters didn't write a strong enough algorithm to quash the number of votes cast for Trump. If we turn out at the 90% level any attempts to change the results would be so patently obvious, that even the media couldn't spin it in any other way.

Some Thoughts About 6 Jan

Many of the thoughts here are composites of other folks across the internet and blogosphere. The thoughts are my own, but I freely admit seeing and using many sources as inspiration.

How do Republicans and Trump benefit from what happened at the Capitol building? Nearly everyone of us conservatives know, beyond a shadow of doubt, the media and progressives will bend over backwards to portray us as any kind of lunatics. We make every effort to ensure we exercise our right to free speech and to peaceably assemble in a manner to reflects well. Burning buildings, violent assaults, are not in our best interests. That is the arena of progressives. Can any of you honestly say you are aware of any conservative focused protests that turned violent to this level? Of course, many progressives will say words are violent, so anything a conservative says that a progressive disagrees with will be considered conservative violence perpetrated by a conservative. For you I say boohoo.

Lets compare movements from the not so distant past. Most of you remember the Tea Party movement as well as the Occupy "Something" movement. Both had large gatherings in several locations during that time. Both had keynote speakers that kept the crowds enthralled. Both had music and famous folks. But this where the similarities end. Not a single Tea Party gathering devolved, while the Occupy people burned buildings, assaulted outsiders and innocents. Tea Party gatherings left the locations cleaner than when they arrived while Occupy left devastation in its wake.

You Want Unity Now?

From a friend of friend's Fakebook page and I agree:

Credit: Anonymous

I tolerated Obama for 8 years.  Here is my issue with the whole, “let us all be a "United States" again” that we heard from Joe Biden.  For the last 4+ years, the Democrats have gone "scorched earth". You have salted the fields and now you want to grow crops.  The problem is 75 + million of us have memories longer than a hamster.

We remember the women’s march (vagina hats and all) the day after the inauguration.

We remember the 4 years of attacks and impeachments

We remember “not our president” and the “Resistance…”

We remember Maxine Waters telling followers to harass us in restaurants.

We remember the Presidents spokesperson being kicked out of a restaurant.

We remember hundreds of Trump supporters physically attacked.

We remember Trump supporters getting Doxed, and fired from jobs.

We remember riots and looting.

We remember “a comedian” holding up the President’s severed head.

We remember a play in Central park paid with public funding, showing the killing of President Trump.

We remember Robert de Niro yelling “F" Trump” at the Tony’s and getting a standing ovation.

We remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union Address.

We remember the total in the tank move on the mainstream media.

We remember the non-stop and live fact-checking on our President and his supporters.

We remember non-stop in your face lies and open cover-ups from the media.

We remember the President and his staff being spied on.

We remember five congressmen/senators shot at on a ballfield. One almost killed!

We remember every so-called comedy show turn into nothing but a Trump hate fest.

We remember 95% negative coverage in the news.

We remember the state governors asking for and getting everything they asked for and then blaming Trump for their problems.

We remember a Trump top aid verbally assaulted in two DC restaurants.

We remember people banging on the Supreme Court doors.

We remember that we were called every name in the book for supporting President Trump.

We remember that Hollywood said they would leave after Trump was elected but they stayed.

This list is endless, but you get the idea.  My friends will be my friends, but a party that has been on the attack for 4 long years does not get a free pass with me.

Double standard hypocrites wasting our tax dollars. They preach tolerance but are extremely intolerant. The walking contradiction

I will add to this by saying where were the calls from progressives when all of the above was going on? After all President Trump and his supporters have endured over the past four years you can take your unity and stick it where the sun don't shine.

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A VERY Long Post

And just like that, the greatest experiment in democracy died.

As I write this, there are still things in motion that could possibly change the outcome of this fraudulent election, but I think it is all but done. But I'm putting it up anyways, as a shot across the bow to those who have basically betrayed the people who believe in the Constitution as written, and amended.

This post is a bit long, and it will ramble a tad. I am not necessarily directing this to the hard core democrats. You could slap them in the face with a rotten fish and they would still think it smells like roses. No getting through to them. This for those of you who were either riding the fence and fell off the wrong direction or who have been called "never trumpers". Some what will be written here will be quite brutal and might offend. And I don't care. So hitch up your big boy (or girl) pants and without further ado, here we go.