The Devil & the Deep Red/Blue State

Posted on January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 by thependulumswings staff

One needs to be underinformed, a conspiracy theorist, savvy, dumb, smart, jaded, or all of the above to believe what is swirling around us these days.

After all, how deep is the red or blue deep state? It might depend on how deep you look.

If black lives matter, why aren’t the media and the White House condemning the ultraviolent white terror group that just attacked a predominantly black Atlanta city and its police force? Only the funder and founder of ANTIFA really know. Take solace in the fact that the protests were mostly peaceful.

Concerned with the now Republican-controlled House, President Biden assured Americans yesterday, “I have no intention of letting the Republicans wreck our economy.” Nuff said we suppose.

The President’s son keeps popping up as a possible beneficiary of his rental home(his dad’s), the storage location of classified docs(his dad’s), and his last name (his dad’s). “Hunter was obviously fed detailed information on Ukraine so he could show Burisma why he was worth millions of dollars,” said Senator Ron Johnson(R) of Wisconsin. Johnson continued, “Was this classified information? Did Joe Biden know about this?” The $49,910 monthly rent seems excessive at a minimum even in these transitory inflationary times.

Hiding classified documents seems to be as popular as posting a dumb video on TikTok these days. Vegas will give you +250 that Mike Pence thinks TikTok is the sound emanating from the old Cuckoo clock in his Indiana home’s comfy den.

At least Hunter’s dad is concerned about the health of the commoners. One of his mouthpieces fed the frenetic folks yesterday. Busy Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host of Morning Joe, the lapdog of wife Mika Brzezinski, and water carrier for the Democratic Party, who already got three covid shots and just got a bad case of covid, said yesterday on air he should have gotten his fourth booster to stop this from happening.

Mika sat next to him and scolded him sentence by sentence. You can’t get enough of these free shots that aren’t free you know?

Meanwhile, if you enter “how do I reverse the effects of spike proteins?” in the Google search bar you’ll get “About 8,790,000 results (0.45 seconds).” There seems to be some interest there.

Conspiracy theorists on Twitter believe Damar Hamlin should have used the google search bar. They contend he isn’t alive because he has yet to show his face & the NFL allegedly used a stunt double at the game to cover themselves & boost ratings. This one seems a bit of a reach unless you are a Saints fan still healing from the no PI call four years ago in the NFC Championship Game.

Maybe help is on the distant horizon. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ralph Norman (R-SC) introduced a constitutional amendment yesterday to impose term limits on members of Congress. This is Cruz’s third attempt after 2019 and 2021 attempts were as effective as Scarborough’s first three jabs.

The bill would limit Senators to 2 six-year terms and House members to 3 two-year terms. A 2/3rds majority in both houses and 3/4ths of all state senates would need to vote yes to ratify it into the Constitution as an Amendment. Such an amendment would have put Joe Biden out into the private sector about 24 years prior to his successful run from the basement for Prez in 2020.

Maybe help isn’t on the horizon. Biden will soon announce that he is running again in 2024.

The orange-faced one who truly believes in the deep blue state has already announced that he is seeking the red side’s nomination for 2024.

Color us jaded.

Two Worn Out Boxers

Posted on May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 by thependulumswings staff

Mass murder. Senseless. Horrific.

It happened again. And, it will happen again.

The terrifying truth of the matter is that it can’t be stopped. But, it could be reduced in frequency and severity if significant, important, and immediate steps were taken.

The most important step might be the first one. We need new, better, and different dialogue about its root cause and possible preventative measures.

In Uvalde 19 innocent young children and two school teachers trying to protect them are dead. So is the killer.

But, predictably, law enforcement officials had barely pulled the sweaty palms of the deranged gunman off of his weapon(s) of choice and the blame game began. To the airwaves and virtual airwaves they went.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz(R) tweeted that he and his wife were praying for the victims and their families. Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego(D) tweeted, “Just to be clear f— you @tedcruz you f—ing baby killer.”

Cruz also said that he was “closely monitoring the situation.” Worthless words.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat whose city is notorious for its high violence rates commented, “Now more than ever, we must push our legislators to pass sweeping and effective gun control measures. Our children’s lives depend on it.” The right quickly swept in to defend the Second Amendment.

In 2021 Texas was second only to California in new gun purchases. CNN showed Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s year-old tweet in retort. It read “come on Texas, we can do better than that.” A retort to the retort exclaimed, “don’t ever forget where Abbott stands on guns!” “We must elect Beto and defeat Abbott.” Abbott didn’t pull the trigger yesterday.

How odd that California, of all places, outgunned Texas. How odd that Californians by the thousands are moving to Texas monthly. How odd that four weeks ago the mass murder of the week took place in California.

Sadly, it’s like two old boxers emerging from their corners. They possess passionate energy for a round or two, tire soon, and limp away. It’s another draw.

Speaking of old, the nation turned to President Joe Biden’s address on the tragedy early last evening. We were hoping that he could seize the moment and offer a new course. We were hoping the Great Unifier would unify.

He shuffled out to the podium wearing a mask while the First Lady followed without one to stand behind him.

About two minutes in he angrily asked, “When are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” Check another talking point box. Later, he told the nation that the victims, their families, and the city of Uvalde were going to need a LOT of help.

After a “God Bless,” he shuffled off this time mask in hand while Dr. Jill somehow found hers and walked off with one on.

It was a short play. It was bad theater. It was a rerun, actually.

The Unifier visited Buffalo and talked about white supremacy, racism, and gun control. Will he visit Uvalde?

What should we do? The answer lies in large part to stop doing what we’re doing. A full-on examination by open-minded thinkers is past due.

Before you board a plane, you pass the “no-fly list” test. Then you head to the lone public entrance to the terminal. You’re identified. You take your shoes off. You empty electronic contents from your belongings. You are body scanned. You, or your bags, might be randomly checked further. You might have a dog or two sniffing around. Police are overtly present.

Once onboard you are more often than not accompanied by an armed US Air Marshall.

All of this is done in the interest of public (your) safety. It’s not easy getting on a plane. It’s not fun. A lot has changed in 20 years.

Compare that to school. How do unwanted outsiders get into a school? They walk in their choice of multiple doors. It’s that easy. Not a lot has changed in 20 years.

The plane/school comparison is just one small part of the much bigger aforementioned examination. And, it does little when murderers enter grocery stores and movie theaters. But, is it better than standing still?

Mental health issues might be the biggest need to tackle somehow. Identifying, tracking, and denying access to weapons for dangerous folks is yet another. Does 18 seem young to be able to buy a gun? There are others.

It’s true, guns kill people. But they only kill people when people pull triggers. It’s true, cars kill people. But, it’s only true when lunatics run over innocent people waiting for a Christmas parade.

It happened again. And, it will happen again.

Widely known are the words from Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.

That Pesky Swamp Thing

Posted on May 11, 2022 by thependulumswings staff

Have you ever heard anyone say, “OMG, why would anyone ever have voted for Donald J. Trump?” We thought so.

Why? “Why” was on full display yesterday in Washington DC, otherwise known as The Swamp.

Current president in name only Joe Biden addressed a few important issues. On one, inflation, he was asked what his plan was to combat this runaway train. His answer was that it’s 1) covid’s fault, and 2) Putin’s fault.

He went on and asked what the GOP plan to fight inflation was. “How about spending less?” Ted Cruz tweeted back later.

Finally, Biden went for the kill shot. His teleprompter prompted him to exclaim that his spending policies help lower inflation not make prices go higher.

In short, assign blame elsewhere, make it political, ignore the problem, and spend more money.

Meanwhile down the street another pesky Swamp Thing, Mitch McConnell, took the podium in the Capitol Rotunda. He proudly stated that he contacted the President directly last week and told him that in order to get more aid for Ukraine, they should rush a bill through that had nothing extraneous attached to it. Let’s get $40 billion directly to Ukraine ASAP.

He went on to say that he thought all of us could agree that the war in Ukraine was the most important issue facing Americans today. Out of touch, much?

This is the same Senate minority leader who helped usher in Obamacare after the Democrats greased his old sweaty palm with $2 billion inside of that “affordable healthcare act” earmarked for infrastructure spending in his great home state-Kentucky. If you like your interstate you can expand your interstate.

This is the same Senate minority leader who said last month that if the Republicans regained control of the Senate that he would indeed be the majority leader all over again.

This is the same Senate that has 50 Republicans that didn’t offer one scintilla of objection to his power grab before the Republicans possibly grab the power again.

Meanwhile, down at the virtual ink press, The Washington Post ran a story titled George Washington University Needs to Change Its Name. Do you notice any similarities in the two bolded words in the previous sentence?

That’s journalism 101? What’s important now?

Meh. What’s $40 billion anyway?

A LOT of money.
The same amount that a citizen is paying for Twitter when everyone flipped their non free speech lid. It’s his money. He can do what he wants.
This $40 billion is your money. Washington thinks they can do what they want.
Except, it’s money that you don’t have.
As a matter of fact, you don’t have the $30 trillion that you (the U.S.) owe to creditors and counting.

Is the $40 billion a part of a NATO aid package? Doubtful. How much combined have the other NATO nations provided. Our guess is that it’s in the very few millions with an “M.”

Can Volodymyr Zelenskyy turn the $40 billion into tanks, bullets, or guns anytime soon? We’ve heard of Carvana, but not Tankvana.

Have you ever heard anyone, or everyone, at a Trump rally chant harmoniously “Drain the Swamp, Drain the Swamp?”

We thought so. We hope so. Like a bankruptcy sale, everyone must go.

Maybe The Washington Post should change its name to The Swamp Post.

It should.