The Morning Rant

One of the unpleasant side effects of the Biden Usurpation is the reappearance of a whole slough of unhinged, loathsome, and mediocre Democrats that I had thought had been consigned to the dustbin of history after the Democrat Presidential Debates. Like Kamala Harris. She never scored above, what, maybe 2-3% in any poll, and remember, they only people being polled at that point were Democrats. And now she's Vice President, and one step away from the nuclear codes. The mind boggles.

And then there's John Kerry. I thought we were done with that pompous ass-clown 15 years ago, but no, Joe has put dragged him out of whatever mansion he's been hanging out in and assigned him a place of prominence on his foreign policy team. And now we have to cringe as he runs around spouting crap. It's frightening that such a man, who has been wrong about virtually everything in his entire career, actually gets listened to by the president.

And this brings us to Pete Buttigieg, a humble man who has much to be humble about. Actually, 'humble' isn't quite the right word to describe Pete, who came off in the Democratic primaries as a sanctimonious prick. But I had to get that insult in to indicate how much of an intellectual flyweight he really is. Buttigieg is now Transportation Secretary, his only qualification being that he once rode on a train. But apart from that, he is a dumb progressive who says dumb progressive things. Like this:

What does this actually mean? First, like everything else progressives say, it's expressed in terms of some sort of moral outrage. Everything is always "ought not" or "should not" and I think the reason is that adding a moral component helps gloss over the crappy consequences of their harebrained policy proposals. Behind this tweet lie grandiose pipe dreams for national mass transit systems where anybody, no matter where they live (even if it's Buffalo Squats, Wyoming, 50 miles away from the nearest post office), is within walking distance of some sort of subsidized bus stop or train station from where they can go anywhere else in the country for some nominal fee, or no fee at all.

Of course, they don't actually want this. What progressives really want is for most Americans to be packed into dense urban areas, where the task for monitoring and controlling the population would be much easier. Progressives *hate* single-family dwellings and suburban areas. A couple of the replies to the tweet claimed "no, Pete doesn't want to take your car away", but that's not true. Of course he does. Oh, not at first, of course, not at step 1 of the Buttigieg National Transportation Reset, but further down the road (swidt?), perhaps at step 10. The point is, progressives hate *any* style of living that allows independence of movement without government interference, what our founders called "liberty", and so their goal is to extinguish as much of it as they possibly can.

And then there was this tweet:

Holy crap, the stupid! It burns! Does Buttigieg suggest that if we were all hit by cars equitably, that would be OK? Because, to get to the progressive goal of "equity", you can either (a) lift up from the bottom or (b) lop it off from the top. Now (a) is, most of the time, not possible, or difficult to accomplish, but (b) is usually easier to achieve. So, for example, the progressive solution for the racial disparities in college admissions and test scores is to exclude Asians, so they won't overperform and skew the curve. Wouldn't be equitable. This is why socialist countries are such shabby little shitholes. Socialists think that it is better for everyone to be miserable than to allow some people to succeed.

I don't know what a "safer, equitable street" looks like, and I doubt Pete does, either. But whatever it is, it will be insanely expensive and impossible to implement, so, in order to get his precious 'equity', Pete will have to fire up the real-life version of "Death Race 2000" and give maniac drivers social credit points for running down Pacific Islanders and white guys. To flatten the curve. (swidt?)

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12/12 – Katya, the designated driver sends an update that she was in the ER with shortness of breath last weekend, and has found she has a blood clot in her lung now. The blood thinner she was on for the clot in her leg wasn’t doing the job, so she is giving herself injections twice a day of enoxaparin sodium. She feels good, mostly. She sends her thanks for prayers and support through her chemo treatments.
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2/26 – Mindful Webworker requested prayers for complete healing for his wife, MJ, who has for decades lived with a disfiguring and debilitating health problem. It has lessened and worsened by never gone away. Suddenly, the night before last, it has become very much worse than it has ever been.

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Monday Who Dis: I think Jessica Walter was the original bunny boiler, the dangerously psychotic stalker that Clint Eastwood shouldn't have messed with in the 1971 film Play Misty For Me. Coincidentally, 1971 was the year actor Alan Tudyk was born. The connection I had in mind is that they both did voice work for the Harley Quinn animated system, but alert morons informed me that they also appeared on Arrested Development. Ms. Walter passed in her sleep just last week, at age 80.

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