I never paid any attention at all to Alex Jones. Just hearing his gruff and guttural voice, and seeing his fat, unshaven face, I bought into the mainstream media narrative that he was some Right Wing gadfly. A blowhard. A conspiracy theorist who found some slice of internet audience nutty enough to buy into his insanity.
But seeing him having to negotiate a billion-and-a-half court ordered fine for claiming that “Sandy Hook” wasn’t portrayed to us all correctly in the mainstream media, well, that got me to thinking. I can see someone losing a suit in court. I can see grieving parents wanting to sue someone for slander for putting out misinformation over the loss of their child in such a heinous manner.
But a billion-and-a-half? Life wrecking amounts of cash? Is that right, is that America? Or is something else at play here? Did this Alex Jones begin to expose some ugly truths that weren’t conspiracies at all, but hit on secrets our alphabet agencies wish they could keep under wraps? And did some organization decide that the “Sandy Hook” families were well position to financially bankrupt Mr. Jones and remove his voice from the airwaves?
A billion-and-a-half settlement against anyone not named Zuckerberg, Bezos, Page, Brin, or Diller seems to be excessive.
Is it me? Did I not study the case enough? Did the “Sandy Hook” parents suffer even more because of what some internet gadfly was spouting? Enough for a billion-and-a-half life breaking dollars?
Or do we live in an America where some see the chance to weaponize the courts against a voice they want to silence, and would use a tragedy and grieving parents to exact a revenge?
I’m just asking questions.
I don’t listen to Alex Jones, I’ve never listened to Alex Jones, I have no idea who or what he is. But a billion-and-half just seems to be rather over-the-top.
The only other court settlement against an individual I’ve seen at over a billion was against Trump, and that got bartered down a few hundred million. And I know that was law fare. The Jones event may need another review, is all I’m saying, in light of what I see them doing to Trump.
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Seventy-something Bill Belichick is dating a twenty-four year old woman. Good God. Her dad must be so proud. As the father of three daughters I can’t imagine. My brain would break.
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Caitlin Clark broke black people. Brought black racism right up to the surface and then exploded it across all platforms. Reality is, the woman’s professional basketball league is all black, and pretty much all lesbian. And no one watches. Or did watch. The men’s league finances the woman’s league, which loses millions. Tens of millions. The women’s game is slower, sloppier, nowhere near as fluid as the men’s game.
The college popularity of white girl Caitlin Clark, and her entrance into the league brought a new audience to the fore. Yes, a white audience, but a new audience.
And black people in the league and out are going insane. Because great black players have entered the league for years, and years absent fanfare. Must be racism. Against black players.
You see blacks can all-of-the-sudden get excited about golf, because a black man in Tiger Woods takes the league by storm. But whites cannot do the same, that is racism.
Stephen A. Smith, black commentator on ESPN, just went on a racist rant that is an embarrassment over Caitlin Clark. Black racism is just pouring through the airwaves.
I’ve got news for Stephen. Women’s professional golf is split between all Korean, all white, and pretty much dominated by lesbians. One of their big majors, played out West is called by insiders “The Lesbian Spring Break”. Because in that community they take time off to go attend the tour in numbers, and use that weekend as a big gay vacation stop to congregate.
And there is no black audience for women’s professional golf. None.
Is that racist? A low tune in black audience avoiding watching women play at the highest level, but not tuning in because of representation?
If that is the case then whites watching men’s pro basketball makes no sense. Oh wait, there is a huge white audience for men’s professional basketball.
Huh?
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I can’t trust what I see in the media any longer. I can’t tell what is true and what is propaganda. For example, is it true that Jill Biden was the babysitter for Joe’s children as a teenager? And that after his wife died, and she divorced, they married?
I’ve seen photos but in this day and age of photoshop I can’t tell what is real.
I’ve heard stories from friends that Jill’s ex-husband claims that Joe and Jill were having quite the affair during his marriage to Jill. I didn’t know whether to trust that or not. But hearing that young Jill babysat for Hunter and his sister, well, come on, that changes perspective.
If Trump was banging the babysitter, broke up her marriage and married her, wouldn’t that be a major story? On the Democratic side, crickets.
I see the gushing over Jill being the dedicated “mommy” to Hunter, who isn’t even her child, and doting over him. All I can think of is the stripper’s kid, the “grand-daughter” who has been completely ignored and is persona-non-grata in the Biden family.
I mean come on, if you are going to show me Jill walking hand-in-hand with dear old Hunter leaving the trial, show me a split screen of the pretty little stripper’s kid, discarded from the Biden family like trash. Get real. Don’t show me half the story.
That isn’t news at that point, it is just propaganda. Makes me laugh every time I hear her referred to as “doctor”, when she has a PHD in education. Remember when those dumb hens on “The View” all crowed how much they’d love it if Jill was their medical doctor? As if the “doctorate” was medical, and not in education?
Media is broken beyond repair.
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The powers-that-be don’t seem to realize we are in a new world order for sure, one where their chance at conscription into the military to fight “their wars” is impossible today. In this day-and-age it’s not just hippies who would refuse service, it is just about everyone in America. I know I’d fight tooth-and-nail to ensure that no family member of this family would enter the service. And I think we are legion.
There is zero chance you could create a “draft” today and gain compliance. None.
Those that would normally serve are so turned off by the “woke” military they are sickened and wouldn’t join. The rest are either wealthy and not willing to risk their lives for this country, or “woke” themselves and despise military conflicts.
This talk of reinstating the draft, that is lunacy. Sheer insanity.
We are all “awake”, we watched Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we see Ukraine. None of those conflicts make sense to us at all. None. Those are wars for ideals that do not exist.
And we will not participate. Never.
Unless Russia launches missiles at us from Cuba, there is no chance we go along with a draft. Ever. And frankly, after this bumbling idiot of a President authorized and encouraged Ukraine to hit targets inside Russia with our weaponry, causing Russia to send nukes toward Cuba, I’m not sure I’d want the family to enlist even if Russia sent missiles directed toward US cities. I’d know we provoked such action with our stupidity in the Presidency, state department, and Pentagon, and I’d question this family defending the nation even with Russian aggression.
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If you love golf and don’t enjoy Bryson DeChambeau, well, something is wrong with you. The man brings a new perspective, a humanity, to the game that is dominated by robotic swings, and a “sameness” that is boring.
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People who tell me I have a “moral obligation” to do anything can kiss my ass.
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I’m beginning to believe a flat tax could gain momentum and become law. Pay ten percent of your earnings into the Feds, period. Earn a hundred grand, send ten. Earn a million, send a hundred grand. Flat, easy, no deductions, done. And those 47% that currently pay no Fed tax? Sorry, you now have skin in the game. Get involved. Earn thirty thousand, pay your three grand share.
We could eliminate eighty-percent of the IRS. Remove all CPA’s and tax consultants from existence. Easy, productive, and easily tracked. No more complications. No more loopholes. No deductions. Take all earnings, all of it, including investment interest, tax it all at 10 percent. Done. The rich pay way more into the system since they earn more. And everyone is “invested” in America.
Start the movement, I think it gains real traction.
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I can think of no better way to engender a hatred between races than to memorialize an event where whites burned down the successful black part of town entirely and killed scores.
Now there is a reminder.
Perhaps we should commemorate the manner in which the British burned down entire villages during the Revolutionary War killing everyone in town for being secessionists and not loyal to the crown. That would help British-American relations, don’t you think?
I was probably in my early sixties the first time I ever heard of “Juneteenth”, and while many would say it should have been taught in the history books and we all should be well aware of just how awful the remnants of slavery held on into the 1900’s, trust me, I was educated in the 1960’s and 1970’s and slavery’s ills were covered quite in depth.
No good can come from memorializing the worst of atrocities. It can only bring hate forward. That is human nature. You want to rile up a disgust in one student for the one sitting next to them, have an in depth discussion on “Juneteenth”, where the person sitting next to you can do nothing, not a thing, to change the past. And if you think it can influence that person for the future, we live in a different age. There is no cabal of whites who wish to just burn the black section of town down to the ground with all the inhabitants still in it. They don’t exist. Everyone has moved on. Dwelling over a hundred year old atrocity can only lead to ill will, hatred, and division.
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Trump needs to announce a nationwide upgrade of our water supplies across the entire nation. A 2024 new, technologically advanced, improvement plan to all water related infrastructure. With a focus and start in Flint, Michigan. Bring a new, high tech and improved water system to all the people of the US. To expand our water supply, to improve on waste, loss, and runoff, and to make clean drinking water in abundant supply our nation’s number one priority.
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A boutique owner in Palm Beach was arrested for selling knock-off fakes as originals. And doesn’t that give lie to the entire “branding” horse manure?
The “fakes” were as utilitarian as the originals. Held the same personal items, did the job intended. Even to the point of having the logo that told everyone the owner had “arrived”. the fake “worked” just as well as the original.
When that happens, doesn’t the original become exposed as a “phony”? When an original can easily be replicated by another, what real value does the original have?
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If you find yourself vacationing anywhere near Jupiter or Palm Beach Gardens, Florida this Summer, allow me to recommend a dining choice. Now, I’ll be the first to tell you that “Food Shack” has the very best food to be found in Jupiter. Unreal. But the “Coolinary Cafe”, a little shopping center restaurant on Donald Ross is cranking out some of the best food imaginable. I have “CPC’d” or clean-plate-clubbed there twice recently. I got a piece of Mahi the other evening so damn good it was as if I was eating fish for the first time in my life. It was so fresh, so perfectly cooked, and done with a rice and vegetable combination so well I was amazed with every bite.
For some reason the best food to be found in Florida isn’t at the waterfront restaurant, or the Tiki Bar, but some shopping center restaurant land-locked in the middle of nowhere.
What a meal. You get anywhere near West Palm, do it.
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If you have kids, particularly twenty-somethings starting out, and they are struggling, tell them failure isn’t failing, it is a learning progression on the way to success. From what I have observed too many twenty-somethings today are fragile, they fail and want to quit. They fail and want to give up their dreams almost immediately.
Tell them to buck up, failure is part of a learning process on the way to success. Get up, dust off, go again harder. Few hit big on their first effort out-of-the-gate. It could be the biggest truth that success is owed to perseverance, more than any other trait.
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If you can find a way to disconnect price from product to a ridiculous degree, go for it. Find a way. I saw a photo where Melania Trump was carrying a thirty-three thousand dollar Birkin bag. Now the materials in this bag, even if the finest Italian leather that can be purchased in the known universe can’t run to over two grand. I don’t care if they used leather, and silk. Let’s say for argument sake labor was a grand to build this little shoulder bag. So the damn thing costs three grand to make. An eleven hundred percent mark-up over raw cost of the unit is just incredible.
Now I am well aware to sell the product you need the number one and highest cost retail space in each major city. And that marketing costs actually cost more than the product itself. As in selling perfume. But eleven hundred percent?
I wanna be in that business. I’ve always wanted to sell diamonds. There is no bigger bunch of bullshit foisted on people than the cost of a diamond. DeBeers and a few others have formed a cartel to control world-wide prices and the average suitor is being just raped over the price of a diamond.
Diamonds, the funeral industry, and handbags. Rapists in a suit and tie.
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If you are paying attention to this Stanley Cup series you’d know that at times this blur appears on the screen, streaking across the ice faster than anything else moving on the screen. The figure bursts forth and skates rings around everyone else on ice, as if he has another gear, a super power. This McDavid guy from the Oilers is just at another level from everyone else on ice. You can’t win the cup being out-hustled, out-skated, and out-played. It would be awful for Florida to go down in four straight after leading three-zip.
Florida better find another gear. Sloppy, slow play is leading to goals from a team with their back against the wall.
I know, I know, bread and circuses. The revolution will have to start right after this series ends. Oh hey, is football season starting?
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Maybe it could all boil down to what side of the toilet paper roll you want the feed to come out. Some prefer the “over the top” and down the front side, some prefer the “hang from the bottom”, pull from the underneath back feed.
Of course those who want the feed to come from the back-bottom are psychopaths, who need to be institutionalized and provided with extreme medications and possibly electro-shock.
As we move toward a 1984 utopian fully managed by authorities future, maybe they could just create a special police task force to enter all homes, discover what side you have the roll feeding from, and just take away all the “under-bottom” types, never to be seen again.
I know that if we have to live in a fully controlled society run by Far Left idealists and their Tech overlords, I’d sleep better knowing all the under-bottom roll feeders were either re-educated, or lobotomized until harmless.
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If you aren’t familiar with Poco and “Rose of Cimarron”, take a listen. It’s an old song going back to the mid-seventies.
Should have been a bigger hit. Damn song is beautiful.
Great addition to any playlist.
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We keep hearing about the decline of San Francisco, could some enterprising “journalist” head over to Oakland, show us what is happening there?
I have to believe that Oakland has descended into some kind of Mad Max Hell hole at this point in time.
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Apparently a brawl broke out Father’s Day on a golf course in Ohio involving six people.
Anyone who has ever played muni golf “understands”.
Having people hit into you, fall behind two, then three holes. Make a round last five plus hours. Lining up putts over, and over.
I’m a bad golfer, but a quick golfer.
The number of times I wanted to hit someone over the head with a seven iron, man.
I didn’t, never have, but oh, man.
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Speaking of playlists earlier, I need to add some Candy Dulfer to my playlists. Man can she wail on the saxophone. What a talent. A supreme talent.
If that smooth jazz she runs through doesn’t mellow you out, scratch some calming itch inside your head, and make you want to relax, nothing will.
Talent, brains, and looks, Ms. Dulfer hit the trifecta. I hope to never see her interviewed. If she has a personality to go along with all that, what a gifted soul.
People like that in life make me feel as if I got nothing. Not a smidgen of talent, ability, or brains.
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Rory McIlroy melted down after losing the US Open by missing two short putts down the stretch. The man needs a reality check. He has a beautiful wife and small child. Is worth millions already. And plays a game to make a living traveling the world.
In life’s lottery he hit the freaking jackpot at the top end of all top ends.
Losing that hardware wasn’t the end of all ends. Dust off, come back stronger.
Being a pampered little kid athlete from the start isn’t a good thing. Causes self centered selfish lifetime behavior.
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Biden at this point is gone. I wouldn’t put it past the scheming liars and filth at the DNC to give Biden placebo shots the night of the debate, instead of his usual cocktail of “feel good” amphetamines to get himself “right” for the performance. So he goes out and craps the bed on national television and the entire Democratic nation says “trade him out”.
What will be just beyond belief will be those talking heads who watch the addle brained idiot and conclude “Joe has just really declined in recent weeks”, as if we all haven’t seen it for three years. They will act as if it is all something brand new.
And they will kick him to the curb so damned fast and promote Hillary, or Gavin, or God forbid the cackling hen, that heads will spin.
I keep seeing Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. With her new plastic face. She wants the Presidency so badly there isn’t anything she wouldn’t do to get this nomination away from Biden. She feels robbed of her “birthright”.
The woman would step on Kamala’s face on national television to get the prize of the nomination. Absolutely. And the media would cover for her.
I pray to whatever God lives in Heaven that Hillary isn’t let anywhere near the nomination. She is Satan’s illegitimate Spawn. The worst thing that lives today. The absolute worst creature alive and breathing.
She simply cannot be allowed anywhere near the White House.
If she wins “Lawfare” from this current Justice Department will look like child’s play.
She is the very definition of evil. Satan fears her, even he can’t control the demon spawn.
Ever see that mom and spoiled child in Toys R Us fighting as the kid melts down?
That is Satan trying to reign in Hillary full time. Satan can make every appeal, offer up a plushy toy here, or a cheap doll there, doesn’t matter. Hillary is going to make his life miserable until she gets what she wants and feels she rightly deserves.
Even Satan has regrets he spawned such filth.
I’d rather see the Dems run addle brained Biden and have Obamas henchman keep running things than to see that creature known as “Hillary” inside the White House and in power. She’d have Trump put to death. And I’m serious about that.
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If I could time travel I’d go back to the 1950’s and tell the Republicans just how abjectly evil all Democrats are, how they will allow open borders in a voter replacement theory, how they will use our tax cash to enrich donors who then tithe back a percentage to keep them in perpetual power. And how once they got real institutional power they criminalized the Republican electorate in some crazy way to eradicate them permanently from the face of the earth.
Our only survival is to destroy the Democratic Party completely. It is an evil enterprise Hell bent on jailing all opposition, beginning on J6 and establishing a “show trial” in the Senate. If they are allowed to win again in 2024 no one is safe.
I’d tell those crew cut, thick-black rimmed fifties fat idiots in the Republican Party, we need to castrate the Democrat Party now. Left on its own to grow and metasticize it will grow to be a cancer on the Republic.
Oh, and find those evil Dulles brothers and destroy them too, before they help get Kennedy. Hey, both parties have their evil, the Republicans style is “evil lite”.
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Youre on quite the roll/rant today... Some comebacks:
1) Yes, water supplies (as well as the power grid, which is EXTREMELY vulnerable) need to be upgraded nationwide.
2) Yes, Steven A Smith is a HORRIBLE racist and an annoying personality. Shannon Sharpe is even worse. If you listen to them Malcom X invented the lightbulb, Jessie Jackson discovered string theory, and Revered Ike gave the sermon on the mount!
3) No, your musical tastes BLOW! Away with POCO and all that mind numbing sweet ma trash from the 70's. The P Funk All Stars rule the world... closely followed by the Stones, Eagles, Isleys, Aerosmith, and Bob Seger.
4) What's happened to San Francisco is a national tragedy. What's happened to Portland is almost as bad. Oakland is a horrid slice of Californian crud and should be swallowed up by the San Andreas Fault in its entirety. But Frisco and Portland are worth saving... The government (Under Trump) needs to pick the Hawaiian island of their choosing, move all its residents to the mainland, take all the vagrants, homeless, and douchebags off the streets of Frisco and Portland, scoop them up in a giant airlift, and drop them on the island... with tools, lumber, cement, antibiotics, crops, seeds, and supplies to start their own mini "nation". If they make it, great...if they dont, well...they didnt like it or couldnt conform here, so...good try.
"Roll, roll on roll on....Rose of Cimmaron. Dusty days are gone, Rose of Cimmaron..."
"Crazy Eyes, who's been foolin you..."
"There's just a little bit of magice in the country....."