Moving On to Other Things

It’s been almost six weeks now – count ‘em! – since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the November 8, 2016 presidential election. In the aftermath of a cantankerous campaign season filled with slaps, smacks and broad insults, things went forward as they should. No one was, to my knowledge, threatened with retribution at the polling places for not voting a certain way, and unless there is some odd bit of uncounted this and that, the full poll vote count is completed. I haven’t even heard any more about electoral voters asking for the ‘faithless’ label.

During this past campaign season, Jill Stein, the Greenies candidate, offered what I consider to be impractical solutions and nonsensical ideas to potential voters, with no thought to the long-term effects of her plans, and not even a short nod to the real concerns of those she was addressing. I didn’t follow her campaign very much, mostly because I think she’s a birdbrain, and anyway, it was all about her. Yes, I can dig into the short-term production costs of some of her proposals, but the long-term costs are much higher than she can possibly imagine, and I won’t go into that right now. Let me just summarize the Greenies as merely another bunch of shortsighted petty tyrants who know nothing practical about much of anything. Frankly, I’m not sure they even understand that the Earth can take care of herself and destroy our entire species in the blink of an eye. It’s happened before, repeatedly.

While it was a contentious campaign, frequently full of animosity and reactionary rhetoric and twitterpating, in the end, one side won and the other lost and that is when The Howlings started. That is when heinous behavior erupted from irresponsible and quarrelsome brats whose idea of maturity was to say ‘someone has to die’ because their side lost the election. Threats, misbehavior, foiled attempts to destroy private property – well, it all failed. There is a protest march planned for January 21, 2017, but the online squabbling over what to call it shows that there are cracks opening in the base of that side of the political fence. Maybe that fence is made out of plastic, which does not hold up well under real use. It appears to be slowly disintegrating. There was, in fact, a press conference held on Pearl Harbor Day, but I only found out about it by trying to track down info regarding the January protest march. It appears that most of us are moving on and no one is paying any attention to the claims by The Howlings of imagined wrongs. Even those noisy Oregon protesters gave up and went home when it got cold and snowy, didn’t they?

Jill Stein’s feeble attempts to meddle with a legitimate function of our government, the national election for the office of President, have met with defeat. The recount lawsuit in Pennsylvania was dropped by Stein’s group because of the cost of the lawsuit.

While you’re taking that in, this article in Fortune Magazine says, in plain English, that the judge who canceled the Michigan recount demanded by Jill Stein did so because Stein has no legal basis for making that demand.

Finally, in Wisconsin, a state in which ballots are counted by an optical reader and the voting booths and ballots are not connected to the internet at all, the state started its own recount before Stein even shot off her big mouth. The WI recount has now found an extra 49 votes for Clinton, which is nice but doesn’t change the results.

While Stein whined, she completely ignored Wisconsin’s voting procedures, insisting that the state’s computers may have been hacked when there is no internet connection to the voting process. That’s a good indication of her attention to detail, isn’t it? Remember that in 2020. So much for trying to interfere with a legal process in a free country, you skank! Blow it out your shorts!

This next story is what I really like about the lamestream media: all sorts of allegations but no real verification of sources. We get the news from some anonymous CIA tipster that Russian hackers did naughty things with hacking e-mails and balloting systems, and stuff. But never fear, Obama is on it! And yet — well, I think it simply did not make a whole lot of difference, because the people who cook up this kind of media release forget that the rest of us are capable of thinking for ourselves. And we have important things to consider.

The Middle Eastern war has already scaled up to full warfare instead of just sniping and IEDs. Mosul may fall shortly. People are starting to bail out, despite the ISers attempts to stop them. There are lots of oil well fires to put out elsewhere in Iraq, all started by Daesh, like the scumbags they are. Aleppo has been completely trashed. Mosul isn’t much better, but the inner city has not yet been breached. Personally, I’d blow the Mosul Dam and let Nature take its course. But that’s just me.

I’ve said this before and will keep saying it: if you are paying attention, then you know that political changes are in the air everywhere, especially in the UK, Europe and here, because people are fed up with being nice and generous, and then being run over roughshod by uncivilized thugs of all sorts. It is everywhere. They all want their cities, states and countries back.

It is not about exclusiveness. It is about NOT taking a dump in your host’s living room or trashing his house. When you do that, you become an unwelcome, unwanted guest, and you may be shoved right out the door into the street. And the cops don’t like vagrants, either.

Over the next 85 to 90 years, things will be changing slowly and changing a lot. I think it will be for the better. There is no reason that industries we’ve lost can’t come back home, you know. We’re at the start of a new cycle that will play itself out, no matter what. We are The Inventors. Others just copy what we do.

All the noisy protests in the world cannot stop it. And those protesters would be far better off spending time helping the Society of St. Andrew with gleaning unwanted or donated produce from farms where it will otherwise be thrown out or sent to landfills. With people gleaning the farm fields, the produce is sent to food banks and soup kitchens. The total to date is 793 million pounds of usable produce that would otherwise have been tossed out.

Is it Trump’s job to clean up Obama’s mess? Yes, unfortunately, it is his job. I don’t particularly like him, but I think he’s smart enough to do it and make it last.

All I’m saying is give him a chance.

Category: Politics