Grossly Unfair

 

Grossly Unfair

 Is he controversial?  Does he have a big mouth?  Does he say weird things at times?  Does he have multiple offspring from multiple relationships?  Yes, all of that, and more.

 Elon Musk, free speech warrior?  No Donald Trump, the most persecuted president in American history, whose political, mainstream media and big tech opponents have smeared him beyond belief.  In addition to “fixing” the 2020 presidential election against him in favor of Joe Biden, the most inept president since James Buchanan, the DOJ/FBI broke into Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, and now the democrat led House Ways and Means Committee has ostensibly illegally leaked six years of Trump’s tax returns.  This latter is normally a felony, - but not to the current corrupt regime.

 These are just the latest grossly unfair actions against President Trump undertaken by his “woke”, “politically correct” leftist enemies.  The worst, of course was the “bought for”, covered over news and “fixed” 2020 election.  And then the “kangaroo” January 6^th committee persecuting demonstrators against “the fix”, while conveniently dismissing the summer of 2020 “reign of terror in our streets by leftist Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

 Have the billions of dollars and massive leftist persecutions done their job in smearing Trump beyond recovery?  It seems that even his most visible backers have turned against him, as have those susceptible to the media and educational propaganda of the left wing.  But there still remains the same populist “silent American” groundswell across the country that cannot abide the rank destructiveness and unfairness they see perpetrated by the grossly incompetent Biden administration, and who remember better times under Trump.

 Honest recollections include 2% inflation, $2 per gallon gasoline, energy independence, a growing economy, low crime rates, a stable and real southern border, a peaceful Ukraine, a stable Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, the Abrahamic Accords, Covid vaccines within nine months and Covid being realistically controlled, and many other aspects of a prosperous and stable life interrupted by Covid, but coming back. 

 Honest thinkers cannot forget that a grossly incompetent leftist administration made short work of destroying everything positive from the Trump administration and replacing it with their sophomoric “woke”, “politically correct” dogma.

 Trump is a fighter, sometimes to his own detriment.  Will he overcome all of the persecutions that have been mounted against him, and prevail?  Or will he lead to the split of the republicans and the hegemony of the next incarnation of extremist democrats and their “political correctness”?  The 2022 mid-terms have shown January 6^th and pro-abortion left-wing propaganda to be very effective with the gullible electorate, who apparently have no issue with 9 % inflation, $5-6 gasoline, high crime rates and no borders, so only time will tell.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 31, 2022

Twitter Files – Removal of Trump

 

Twitter Files – Removal of Trump

 Matt Taibbi’s latest tranche of Twitter files (no. 3 from Elon Musk), shows that the FBI, DHS and other federal police agencies collaborated with the old Twitter management to interfere in, and rig the 2020 presidential election, and specifically to prevent Trump from winning the presidency.  https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281

 In spite of vehement denials and charges of “right wing conspiracy”, a recent Newsweek poll showed that upwards of 40% of American voters felt that the 2020 election was “stolen”.  https://www.newsweek.com/40-americans-think-2020-election-stolen-days-before-midterms-1756218

 Now, internal documents from pre-Musk Twitter are confirming that the 2020 election was rigged by federal law enforcement and police authorities conspiring with Twitter to suppress and distort the real news, and replace it with anti-Trump propaganda.  In other words, to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of the democrat party.

 So, is this major scandal and criminality on part of federal law enforcement to “fix” an election being widely discussed and condemned by the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and other left-leaning news outlets?  Why, no.  They are covering more important news, like the exchange of an America hating black lesbian athlete, exchanged by our great leader Biden for Viktor Bout, the American killing “merchant of death”.

 But I digress.  Where is the media outrage, other than in the Murdoch owned media and a few other honest purveyors of the news, of how federal agencies and the big tech media companies fixed the 2020 election, and effectively handed it to Joe Biden, the most incompetent and corrupt political hack ever?

 Government law enforcement agencies interfering to rig an election is used by totalitarian regimes to control their people.  Is this where we have gone?  To the likes of China, Russia, Venezuela and the ranks of repressive dictatorial governments?  It looks that way.  And the left-wing establishment and their media and big tech lackeys just call it a “nothingburger” and refuse to report it. And the gullible indoctrinated and propagandized populace looks the other way to America hating Brittney Griner.

 Ray Hruszecki

December 10, 2022

Elon Musk’s Exposure of Twitter

 

Elon Musk’s Exposure of Twitter

 Elon Musk has named three authors/journalists to release and discuss the inner machinations and workings of the old Twitter just before and after the 2020 election with respect to the suppression of the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the censorship of President Trump.  These three individuals are Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger.

 If there is a common thread among these three writers, research shows that they are pragmatic liberal centrists who espouse the practical, rather than the progressive extremist views of the political spectrum.  Another common thread is that they all are associated with and write on “Substack”, a San Francisco authors’ and journalists’ publishing platform.

  

Matt Taibbi

Matthew Colin Taibbi, born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is an author of several books, co-host of Useful Idiots, and publisher of the newsletter, TK News, on Substack.

 Taibbi began as a freelance reporter working in the former Soviet Union, including a period in Uzbekistan, from where he was deported for criticizing President Islam Karimov. Taibbi later worked as a sports journalist for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. He also played professional baseball in Uzbekistan and Russia as well as professional basketball in Mongolia. In 1997, he moved back to Russia to edit the tabloid Living Here, but eventually left to co-edit rival tabloid The eXile. Taibbi returned to the United States in 2002 and founded the Buffalo-based newspaper The Beast. He left a year later to work as a columnist for the New York Press.

 In 2004, Taibbi began covering politics for Rolling Stone. In 2008, Taibbi won a National Magazine Award for three columns he wrote for Rolling Stone. Taibbi became known for his brazen style, having branded Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in a 2009 article. His work often has drawn comparisons to the gonzo journalism of writer Hunter S. Thompson, who also covered politics for Rolling Stone. In 2019, he launched the podcast Useful Idiots, co-hosted by Katie Halper. In 2020, he began self-publishing his online writing on Substack. In recent years, Taibbi's writing has focused on culture war issues and cancel culture. He has criticized mainstream media including its coverage of Russiagate. In 2022, Taibbi published the Twitter Files.

 Taibbi has authored several books, including The Great Derangement (2009); Griftopia (2010); The Divide (2014); Insane Clown President (2017); I Can't Breathe (2017); and Hate Inc. (2019).

  

Bari Weiss

Born March 25, 1984 is an American journalist, writer, and editor. She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal (2013–2017)[1] and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times (2017–2020).[2] Since March 1, 2021, she has worked as a regular columnist for German daily newspaper Die Welt. Weiss edits the Substack newsletter entitled "The Free Press" and hosts the podcast Honestly.

 According to The Washington Post, Weiss "portrays herself as a liberal uncomfortable with the excesses of left-wing culture" and has sought to "position herself as a reasonable liberal concerned that far-left critiques stifled free speech." Vanity Fair described Weiss as "a provocateur". The Jewish Telegraphic Agency said that her writing "doesn't lend itself easily to labels." Weiss has been described as conservative by Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Daily Dot, and Business Insider. In an interview with Joe Rogan, she described herself as a "left-leaning centrist".

 Weiss prefers not to label her sexual orientation but has stated that although she had been married to a man, she is mostly attracted to women. While attending Columbia University, she had an on-and-off relationship with comedian Kate McKinnon. She also dated Ariel Beery, with whom she had co-founded Columbians for Academic Freedom. From 2013 to 2016, Weiss was married to environmental engineer Jason Kass. Since 2018, Weiss has been in a relationship with Nellie Bowles, a former tech reporter for The New York Times. The couple have since married, according to the National Review[89] and have a daughter.

 

 Michael D. Shellenberger

Born June 16, 1971 is an American author and former public relations professional whose writing has focused on the intersection of politics, the environment, climate change and nuclear power, as well as more recently on how he believes progressivism is linked to homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and co-founder of the California Peace Coalition. He is also the founder of Environmental Progress.

 A self-described ecomodernist, Shellenberger believes that economic growth can continue without negative environmental impacts through technological research and development, usually through a combination of nuclear power and urbanization. A controversial figure, Shellenberger disagrees with most environmentalists over the impacts of environmental threats and policies for addressing them. Shellenberger accepts that global warming is occurring, but argues that "it's not the end of the world." Shellenberger's positions and writings on climate change and environmentalism have received criticism from environmental scientists and academics, who have called his arguments "bad science" and "inaccurate". In contrast, his positions and writings have received praise from writers and journalists in the popular press, including conservative and libertarian news outlets and organizations] In a similar manner, many academics criticized Shellenberger's positions and writings on homelessness, while receiving mixed reception from writers and journalists in the popular press.

 Shellenberger was a Democratic candidate for Governor in the 2018 California gubernatorial election, placing ninth in a field of twenty-seven candidates with 0.5% of the vote. In 2021, he supported recalling Governor Gavin Newsom in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election. Shellenberger ran as a "No Party Preference" candidate in the 2022 gubernatorial election, placing third in a field of twenty-six with 4.1% of the vote.

 

Substack

Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack is headquartered in San Francisco.

History

Substack was founded in 2017 by Chris Best, the co-founder of Kik Messenger; Jairaj Sethi, a developer; and Hamish McKenzie, a former PandoDaily tech reporter. Best and McKenzie describe Ben Thompson's Stratechery, a subscription-based tech and media newsletter, as a major inspiration for their platform. Christopher Best operates as chief executive as of March 2019.

Content

Substack users range from journalists to experts to large media sites. Among the high-profile writers to have used the platform are Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and author Glenn Greenwald, culture critic Anne Helen Petersen, music essayist Robert Christgau, and food writer Alison Roman. The New York Times columnist Mike Isaac argued in 2019 that some of these companies see newsletters as a more stable means to maintain readers through a more direct connection with writers. In 2020, The New Republic said there was an absence of local news newsletters, especially in contrast to the large number of national-level political newsletters. As of late 2020, large numbers of journalists and reporters were coming to the platform, driven in part by the long-term decline in traditional media (there were half as many newsroom jobs in 2019 as in 2004). Around that time, The New Yorker said that while "Substack has advertised itself as a friendly home for journalism, [...] few of its newsletters publish original reporting; the majority offer personal writing, opinion pieces, research, and analysis." It described Substack's content moderation policy as "lightweight," with rules against "harassment, threats, spam, pornography, and calls for violence; moderation decisions are made by the founders."

 In 2019, Substack added support for podcasts and discussion threads among newsletter subscribers.

 Major writers on Substack include historian Heather Cox Richardson, journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, authors Daniel M. Lavery, George Saunders, travel writer Blake Nelson and Chuck Palahniuk, novelist Salman Rushdie, tech journalist Casey Newton, blogger and journalist Matthew Yglesias, and economist Emily Oster.

 As of November 2021, the platform said it had more than 500,000 paying subscribers, representing over one million subscriptions. Substack announced in January 2022 that it would begin private Beta testing video on its platform.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 10, 2022

Twitter Musk and Trump

 

Twitter Musk and Trump

 Whatever else may have happened and acknowledging that Trump’s big mouth is partially to blame, the left-wing establishment in this country, (the democrat party and the administrative state, the mainstream media, big tech), have effectively ruined Donald Trump, and made it very difficult for him to mount an effective campaign for president in 2024.  Why? Because he dared to challenge the ruling elite.  Trump is a controversial, loud-mouth New York real estate battler who has fought and will fight all comers, sometimes to his own detriment.  Trump’s enemies are not the conventional political crowd.  They are almost religious crusaders who will not stop until they see him in an orange jump suit behind bars.

 Now the same left-wing ruling cabal that “got Trump” is out to get Elon Musk.  Why?  Because he dared to purchase Twitter, and expose the past dishonest and illegal machinations, inner workings and leftist collusions of the administrative state, with the social media giant and influencer.  They are attacking Musk with the same type of fervor once reserved only for Trump.

 So, Merrick Garland and his henchmen are first coming after Neuralink, Musk’s brain enhancement company, for animal abuse.  As many times before, the virtue-signaling and propaganda driven left can get a lot of mileage out of accusations of torturing and killing little piggies and bunnies.

 And Elon Musk himself?  Well, his origins are in South Africa and he is white, so he must be steeped in racist apartheid.  A good place to start for the same character assassinators that “got Trump”.

 It is almost shameful to write about these cliques that exist in our government, that have eroded our constitutional freedoms and protections, and who treat the issues as if they were in the right.  The mainstream media even refuse to report about the Twitter exposures.  Biden and his ruling cabal dismiss any suggestion of impropriety and lie to our faces, while continuing to line their pockets with taxpayer money.

 Something needs to be done to restore effective government and a modicum of decency in our society.  Unfortunately, many of our young people and other voters, particularly along the Acela, West Coast and democrat run inner cities, have been indoctrinated to “political correctness”, “wokeness”, environmental activism, and other forms of leftist-distorted “social justice”.  As proven in recent elections, they will continue to vote for the “D” in spite of inflation, high gas and grocery prices, high crime, social deterioration and other obvious ills caused by the ineptitude and mismanagement of the left.

 Trump started to turn it around before Covid hit, and before the millions of dollars poured into the democrats and into other left-wing entities like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple and others in 2020, took full effect and brought Trump down.  Unfortunately, rather than a measured, intelligent response, Trump’s response was twisted by his enemies, to lead to an attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and this got perverted into the ensuing kangaroo committee hearings by the left.

 Forgotten were the many whistle blowers and the abuses during the election.  Also suppressed by the leftist cabal, were the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop defining Joe Biden’s complicity in the “Biden Crime Family”.

 Now, with Twitter opened up by Elon Musk, and with a republican house of representatives, we may get some exposure of these egregious violations of our constitution by the left.  Hopefully, these lessons will not be lost on our gullible and easily deceived electorate.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 6, 2022

Twitter Fairy Tale

 

Twitter Fairy Tale

 The fairy tale that the 2020 presidential election was honest, that the election was not rigged and effectively “stolen”, and that clueless, mewling Joe Biden is our valid president, is being relegated to myth, along with Grimm’s works and with tales of the Loch Ness Monster.

 Oh, but not so very easily, and not to all of the slavish followers of anything with a “D” after it, and not without the shrieks and denials of the perpetrators of this egregious election interference.  Along with Donald Trump. Jeffrey Dahmer, and Jack the Ripper; free speech advocates Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi, are being pillorized by the left-wing perpetrators of this election interference as unspeakable villains. How dare they expose these underpinnings of political correctness and “wokeness”, (and the democrat party).

 It is absolutely amazing how the leftist media, big tech and the deep state in this country have manipulated public opinion away from news that is detrimental to their cause, such as Joe Biden’s role in the Biden crime family’s “pay for play” schemes, and replaced real news with manufactured distortions, such as the January Sixth demonstration kangaroo committee.

 Same with any questions or suspicions around the 2020 election.  Any such doubts about the election were quickly relegated to the realm of “Russian misinformation” or “conspiracy theory” by these same left-wing actors.

 But now the truth, which was suspected if not voiced by as many as 40% of Americans according to a recent CBS poll, is now emerging as a result of Elon Musk’s efforts to restore free speech within the workings of Twitter.

 Be very careful, American Patriot Elon Musk. The knives are out for you.  Not only in print, or on the Internet, or on TV.  The left is unscrupulous, and they can use real “knives”.  Remember Vince Foster and other mysterious Clinton era deaths.

 https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/twitter-files-paint-an-ugly-portrait/

 Ray Gruszecki

December 5, 2022

World Cup

 

World Cup

 I have been watching snippets of the World Cup each morning while I have breakfast.  I just saw Netherlands score their second goal against the U.S.  In spite of the American team’s Christian Pulisc little Holland will most likely go on to defeat big, rich USA.  Why?  The U.S. is the third most populous country in the world.  Netherland ranks 67^th.

 The link below points to the answer.

 Quoting. “Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. There is no doubt about it. However, it continues to struggle for the limelight with more popular sports in the United States of America. As per statistics on how many people play soccer, it is the fourth most popular sport, and its popularity is declining.”

 I have travelled all over the world, and one sight is ubiquitous, whether in wealthy Europe, or relatively poorer parts of Africa and Asia.  It is kids as young as three years old kicking a soccer ball around.  Not so in the U.S.

 Oh, we also play soccer in our schools and playing fields in the U.S.  I remember playing soccer 70 years ago as part of school PT.  My grandkids are probably as well=played in soccer as any kids in the country, and my son coached it for years.  But there is not the same national fervor and dedication to the game as in most of the rest of the world. 

 So, with professional football teams like Feyenoord, Groningen Sparta and several other professional teams as their heritage, little Netherlands wills most likely go on to beat big old USA.

 https://historyofsoccer.info/soccer_in_the_usa

 Ray Gruszecki

December 3, 2022

Elon Musk – American Patriot

 

Elon Musk – American Patriot

 Elon Musk is the richest person in the world.  He is a native South African. He is also a Canadian citizen from his mother’s side, and a naturalized U.S. citizen. By his release of the inner workings of the Twitter cover-up of Hunter Biden’s laptop, he will stand as a true American patriot who may have just saved our constitution and first amendment from its erosion by our leftist “woke” democrats.

 With the release of the inner workings of social media giant and influencer, Twitter, during the 2020 election concerning the suppression of news about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Elon Musk has cast himself as a champion of American freedom of speech.  One can only hope that Mr. Musk’s bodyguards and security are up to the task of protecting him as he executes his duties managing his various companies, (Tesla, Space X. the Boring Company, Neuralink, Open AI, Solar City, Zip2, PayPal, and now Twitter).

 Prior to the 2020 election, the Biden administration, the dishonest media, big tech, and all the left-wing opinion gurus disparaged and suppressed any mention of Hunter Biden’s laptop and it contents implicating Joe Biden in the Biden Crime Family’s “pay for play” schemes.  They tried to convince public opinion that the whole Hunter laptop issue was misinformation or some right-wing conspiracy.  And now, Elon Musk is releasing the true story of the duplicity foisted on the American public.

 One only hopes that this suppression of the illegal nature of Joe Biden’s involvement in the “pay for play” schemes described in Hunter’s laptop is not swept ‘under the rug” as with so many other transgressions that the democrats pull off.  Since we have a republican house and investigating committees, hopefully something will get done about this egregious breach of the law by the leftist deep state.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 3, 2022

The Dishonest Banana Republic 2020 Election

 

The Dishonest Banana Republic 2020 Election

 According to a recent survey by left-leaning Newsweek Magazine, 40% of the people in the U.S. still believe that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, and that President Trump, and not Joe Biden, won the presidency.  This is in spite of extensive efforts by the Biden government and the supporting left-wing media, to relegate any opinions questioning the probity of the election to the realm of “election deniers” and “conspiracy theorists”.

 Thousands of whistle blowers reporting election fraud back in 2020 have been silenced and discounted.  Unconstitutional aberrations in the 2020 state election laws were allowed to prevail.  All challenges to the outcome of the election in the swing states were summarily dismissed, and the questioners and doubters of the election results held to be some sort of “kooks”, even though they testified under oath.  Does this not smack as some sort of banana republic?

 To any discerning individual, it has to be evident that even allowing that all of the denials of actual fraud during the 2020 election are true, the election was still dishonest and “fixed”.  The democrats and their media and big tech accomplices (and the DOJ and FBI), covered up news that most probably would have changed the election result away from Joe Biden.  Only now, are these corrupt and dishonest actors admitting their complicity in withholding and distorting the news about the “Biden crime family” contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop.  And of course, this is all to the continuing arrogant denials of the “big guy” and his minions.

 I go back to my analysis of the dishonest 2020 presidential election.  I maintain that if news about Joe Biden’s involvement in the “pay for play” schemes contained in Hunter’s laptop were known, Joe Biden would never have won the presidency.  Just a few votes in several swing states would have been sufficient to given Trump enough electoral votes to retain the presidency.

 Biden won the electoral college in 2020 by 306 to 232, with 270 electoral votes necessary to win.  This included Arizona with 11 electoral votes with 10,457 winning popular votes; Georgia 10 electoral, 12,670 popular; Pennsylvania 20 electoral, 81,660 popular; Wisconsin 10 electoral, 20,682 popular.  These four states add up to 51 electoral votes, and would have given Trump a winning total of 283 electoral votes.  The total popular vote in the four states necessary to attain these 51 electoral votes would have been 125,469 out of the 18,360,000 total votes cast, or less than 7 tenths of one percent of the total votes cast in these states.

 So, even discounting the chicanery and fraud on election night, and the millions poured into democrat coffers by Zuckerberg, Soros, Bankman-Fried and other leftists, the news cover-up of Hunter’s laptop was the key element in this dishonest banana republic election.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 2. 2022

Bad Boy Trump

 

Bad Boy Trump

 Former President Donald Trump is being cast as the villainous “bad boy” of American politics who dared to contest the results of a dubious presidential election.  His loud, “in your face” New York personality is being used to characterize and define his “unfitness” to be president again.

 Starting on the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, Donald Trump has been persecuted mercilessly by his left-wing enemies. He continues to be persecuted for supposed infractions that democrats have walked away from with impunity.  The media continues to pillorize him, and even the conservative Murdoch based media have turned against him.  Candidates backed by Trump in the mid-term election have generally fared poorly.  Trump is currently politically a persona non-grata.

 With Trump announcing another run for the presidency in 2024, with multiple New York State and U.S. government charges against him, and with a “special prosecutor”, (or inquisitor}, just appointed by Merrick Garland, it should be an interesting election season, to say the least.  We’ll be lucky if the republican party doesn’t disintegrate.

 Forgotten or glossed over, now, and in both the 2020 and 2022 elections are the statistics from Trump’s previous tenure, the 1.5% inflation; the $1.80 per gallon gasoline price; the stable southern border; the relatively low crime rates; the Abrahamic Middle East accords; the stable foreign relations (with no wars); Covid vaccines in 9 months; and myriad other accomplishments.  What’s remembered is his big mouth; his halting response to the Covid pandemic; and, of course, January 6^th, blown all out of proportion by the hatred of his leftist enemies.

 I personally never liked Trump all that much during my twenty plus years working in New York City.  His ostentatious nature and personal foibles turned me off.  I disliked the “Trump” signs all over “my city”.  I did not follow his career closely, and I did not watch his reality shows.  I became more positive about Trump after his accomplishments as president became apparent.   

 Trump’s popular appeal was evident from the start of his political career.  He did not cast himself as the rather spoiled and mercurial New York playboy, but instead as the anti-establishment champion of the “little guy”.  He flew in the face of the 12 or 13 primary candidates on that stage in 2015, and cut them to pieces with his biting, unwashed, proletarian rhetoric, applying satirical nicknames to many of them.

 Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton literally drove the democrats to tears, and established an illegal fifth column in the DOJ and FBI to bring him down.  Republicans had a majority in both houses of congress for the first two years of Trump’s presidency.  That they did not accomplish very much can probably be attributed to Trump’s political inexperience, as well as to the wasted machinations of the Russia Collusion investigation.

 The democrats came to congressional power in 2018, and the next two years were wasted by Nancy Pelosi and her minions mounting two impeachments against Trump for issues that ultimately will prove trivial.  Trump and the republicans presumably lost in 2020, and the democrats spent trillions of dollars, under the cover of Covid relief.  By their mismanagement, the democrats threw the country into inflation, high crime, open borders and general chaos.

 SCOTUS revoking federal Roe vs Wade, and a massive democrat propaganda campaign to “save democracy” in 2022, resulted in a democrat-controlled senate and a marginally republican controlled house.  “Gridlock” seems to be the prediction for the next two years, but republican control of the house means that Hunter’s laptop and the Biden crime family may finally be exposed.  The “big guy”, Joe Biden could be impeached for corruption.  Again, an empty gesture, since the senate will never convict him.

 And, into this mix, comes Trump, once again.  He has been cast as the “bad boy” of politics before, and prevailed.  One cannot forget his controversial personality and personal foibles.  But one should also not forget the considerable accomplishments during his administration. Were it not for the Covid pandemic ruining the economy and Trump’s presidency, we would have a completely different world.  Low inflation, low crime, energy independence, a stable southern border, no Ukrainian war, respect from world nations, - and many other benefits of a strong presidency, rather than the weak, mewling Joe Biden and his sophomoric handlers.

 Trump’s run for the presidency in 2024 may split and ruin the republican party.  All I can say, is if we allow this to happen, we deserve it.  Trump may be controversial, but he is a strong leader with a business background.  Other than the internal machinations of the republican party and the political scene, there is another fundamental question that this country must answer.

 Are we to remember Locke’s and Burke’s principles of liberty and freedom that formed our country and kept it alive and great in the face of fascism, communism and other corrosive philosophies, or are we to succumb to the movements seeking to destroy us?  Are we to continue to adopt identity politics and “wokeness”, the racist and socialist teachings of Critical Race Theory, and the far left communist/socialist philosophies hiding behind “social justice” and “environmentalism”?

 This is hoping that American values and common sense has not been completely over-shadowed in our young people and minorities by the leftist indoctrination infesting our schools and colleges, and being further embellished by our dishonest left-wing media.  And also hoping that there is enough of middle America left outside of the Acela, West Coast, and democrat run inner cities, to revive and sustain our founding values.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 21, 2022

Vaccinations

 

Vaccinations

 I braved the Dallas 30 degree cold this morning to get shot up at my local CVS pharmacy.  I got the  0.3 ml PFIZER 12YR+ COVID-19 BIVALENT Covid vaccine in the left arm, the 0.7 ml FLUZONE HIGH-DOSE QUAD 2022-23 flu vaccine in the right arm.  If my reaction is about the same as the previous shots in March of 2022, I should have a slightly sore left arm from the Covid shot, and not much more.

 Unfortunately, the Covid shots have become politicized.  If we remember, and as forgotten by many, President Trump beat on the Pharma industry to develop Covid vaccines in the unheard of time of nine months, which Big Pharma did.  Then Joe Biden stole the credit for this, just like some say he stole the election.  In the meantime, the anti-Trumpers prior to the 2020 election tried to indoctrinate the country not to take the “Trump vaccines”, notwithstanding the science behind the vaccines.

 So the country ended up divided from this propaganda, and some people died from Covid because they would not take the vaccine.  In the meantime, Biden and his minions and handlers eventually imposed totalitarian draconian measures insisting that everyone in the country be vaccinated.

 Well of course there was resistance, despite the beneficial medical benefits and science of the mRNA and other later vaccines. Statistically insignificant, but very real, side effects contributed to the confusion.  For example, my sister experienced severe nose bleeds after both Moderna mRNA shots.  Many people, like myself and extended family back East, got mild cases of Covid in spite of the shots.

 Now, Covid is on the wane in most places, because it seems that one way or another, humanity seems to have achieved herd immunity, or close to it.

 Personally, I’m reasonably healthy, but I’m old.  Because of age, it was pretty evident that I had a Covid target on my back.  I researched the vaccines early on, trying to keep the political rhetoric out of it.  I concluded that the scientific and medical aspects of the vaccines were valid, and I proceeded to get the shots as soon as I could, including every booster available.  I still contracted probably the Omicron version of Covid from a wheezing 350 lb guy sitting next to me on a plane, but it was really mild, and I probably would not be writing this if I did not have the Covid vaccines.  So much for political brouhaha about Covid.

 Concerning the flu shot, I’ve always gotten them, and have had very little flu.  Some people are against them.  I’m not.  I believe in the science and medicine, not the rhetoric and bs.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 19, 2022

Knives Out!

 

Knives Out!

 Now that President Trump has announced that he will run for president again in 2024, he is once again being attacked from all sides.  Even the editors of the conservative National Review comment with a hearty “No!” to his candidacy.  A quick survey of media coverage about Trump’s announcement shows it to be generally negative, even among traditionally conservative media.  The coverage of Fox, Breitbart and the Boston Herald was neutral.

 Media coverage of Trump’s announcement generally acknowledges the accomplishments of his administration, (low inflation, a strong economy, energy independence, low crime rates, a valid southern border).  What the media reviles him for is his narcissistic and mercurial personality, his role in the January 6^th demonstration and his past refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.

 The same old points are being made about Trump as in 2015 onwards.  One is that his unstable personality will lead us into a war.  Apparently forgotten is how close to a world war we are right now because of Biden’s mewling weakness and inappropriate comments.  Many feel that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president.  Instead, we are close to nuclear disaster because of Biden’s and his minions’ stupidity in foreign policy.

 As evidenced many times in the past, Trump thrives on adversity and conflict, and is a rough and tumble political fighter, (sometimes to extremes).  His is a populist movement that really does not fit conventional political patterns or analysis.  That’s why all of the knives out and current negative commentary against Trump sort of falls on deaf ears.  Populist movements have a life of their own as evidenced by Trump in 2016 and by other famous populist leaders.

 The question in this country is = are there enough voters who still have traditional American values, or has enough of the country been indoctrinated by our schools and left-wing media in “woke” extremism to counter any “America First” Trumpism?

 Trump’s early announcement that he will run for president in 2024 gives him enough time to consolidate his forces with massive rallies and hoopla.  As a presidential candidate, it also protects him somewhat from DOJ and New York State charges against him.

 Trump is Trump, and knowing that, it is also pretty obvious that he will either go all the way to win the presidency in 2024, or bring the republican party down in flames with him.  It’s doubtful that he will back another candidate like DeSantis or Abbott or Haley for the good of the party, and not for the good of Trump.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 15, 2022

Our Misinformed Electorate

 

Our Misinformed Electorate

 One has to ask, just what is wrong with the electorate of this country, that they continue to elect the democrats who are responsible for ruining our country over the past two years during the Biden administration.

 The only explanation is that half the country would elect a slug if it had a “D” after it.  No matter our inflation and high gas and grocery prices.  No matter the crime wave in our cities.  No matter the “walk across” southern border.  No matter the destruction of our morals, history and heritage.  No matter the social falsehoods being fed to our schoolkids.  No matter our being a laughing stock in our foreign affairs.  No matter the Fentanyl killing our kids.  No matter the leftist BLM and Antifa riots of 2020 which resulted in 18 deaths and some $2 billion in damages. No matter the autocratic Covid lockdowns.  Issues simply don’t matter.  The “D” does.

 A particularly egregious example of voting for the “D”, no matter what, is electing Fetterman to the senate in Pennsylvania. The man can’t formulate a sentence, lives with his parents and walks around in a “hoodie”, and he’s elected to the senate.  That’s as close to a slug as you can get.

 One reason for such blind adherence to the left is ignorance.  Most media in the country is a propaganda tool for the democrats and simply does not cover much of the news enumerated above.  What they do cover is the January 6 mock trials, a distorted picture of the abortion question, and the propaganda that the MAGA republicans are destroying democracy.

 Another, more insidious reason for what seems to be a slavish following of the democrat party irrespective of how badly they are governing relates to what increasingly more of our electorate has been indoctrinated to in our schools and universities. They have been taught the altruistic aspects of socialism/communism, neglecting the corrosive nature of these philosophies, which has resulted in countess deaths in the past.

 One can say that “truth will out”, but truth stands increasingly less chance when it is replaced by propaganda in our educational systems which is supported by a dishonest news media which obfuscates and distorts what is actually happening in the country.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 10, 2022

Our Poor Country

 

Our Poor Country

I was born a democrat in the 1930’s.  My mother, born in Poland and grown to adulthood in Chicago, was an inveterate FDR supporter.  We all were.  FDR was our wartime leader.  His socialist tendencies got lost to most in the rhetoric of the world war.

I became a republican/libertarian/independent as soon as I could reason out the defining differences of free market capitalism and socialism/communism.  I have voted for both democrats and republicans in our elections, but mostly republicans.

I have also come to understand, that despite the low hanging fruits of altruism that socialism/communism offers to the naïve, the rest of the tree is a poisonous killer to those who try to absorb it all.  These corrosive philosophies have never worked in their true form without modification by capitalist principles.  Socialism/communism is responsible for the deaths of upwards of 30 million people in the 20^th century.

Poor old senile Joe Biden, after representing himself as a moderate voice of reason as a counter to boisterous, controversial President Trump, was co-opted by the vociferous, inexperienced, sophomoric extreme left wing of the democrats, who have imposed Marxist and Marcuseian principles to literally destroy the very fabric of our society.  With poor old Joe bumbling along, egging on the leftist extremists, and arrogantly taking credit for the destruction of America’s economy, its border, its cities and its moral values while patting himself on the back for the great job he’s doing.

To obfuscate the damage that they’ve done, the democrats have been beating the drum on abortion, January 6^th, and inconceivably, that “democracy” will be lost if republicans win the congress.  Not inflation.  Not $5.00 per gallon gasoline.  Not the rampant crime in our cities.  Not immigration and our southern border.  Not the abysmal state of our schools after Covid. Not the elevation of “gender” and “gender change” as major issues in our schools.  Not the myriad other destructive elements tearing down our morals, heritage and history.

And yet, despite paying inflation prices for fuel and food, the country remains divided.  Upwards of half of Americans will still vote for democrats in this mid-term election.  They have been indoctrinated in our schools and by our continually left-wing media that distorts and hides the true political situation from them.  Hopefully, enough American voters will see their way to the truth, and vote out the left-wing extremists who have nearly destroyed our country.

Ray Gruszecki

Election Day

November 8, 2022

Biden and the “Wokesters”

Biden and the “Wokesters”

 Not to beat a dead horse, (or a cognitively impaired Biden or Fetterman}, but I have been around for a long time, dating back to FDR during World War II. and I have to admit that I have never seen a federal government as just plain bad as this one.  Literally everything that they have touched has turned to crap.  The economy, our society, our morals, our border, our crime rate, our schools, - you name it, and Biden and his handlers have tainted it with the imprimatur of failure.

 It is almost as if this current Biden administration has adopted the principles outlined by Karl Marx and later by the Frankfurt “Critical Theory” movement of philosophy, to tear down our society as oppressors, and replace it with some sophomoric concept of “social justice”.

 The people behind and controlling Biden seem to have absorbed a distorted concept of the socialism and communism which are the underpinnings of this ruinous administration.  They apparently have been taught in our increasingly leftist schools and universities, that the altruistic aspects of these philosophies, taken out of context, are benign, rather than historically corrosive and destructive, which the overall movements of socialism and communism always are.

 And much of our gullible younger American public, indoctrinated into socialism by our schools and steeped in the democrat party propaganda of the left-wing media, just goes along with the lies that are continuously spewed by this administration.

 But even this left imbued group can’t fail to get the message when they pay $5.00 per gallon for gasoline, exorbitant prices for groceries, are forced to get jabbed multiple times and wear ineffective masks, and see their kids lose education due to incompetent teachers’ unions and practices.

 And Biden and his sophomoric handlers, rather than doing something about the chaos and strife they’ve caused, instead outright lie to our faces about how great a job they are doing.

 We can vote some of the current crop of inept members out of congress in these coming mid-term elections, and thanks to three justices appointed by President Trump, SCOTUS is slowly returning the laws of the country back to some degree of common sense.

 But the executive will stay with Biden and his crop of “wokester” incompetents, so not much will be accomplished until 2024 when we vote them out of office and install a real, legal president.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 5, 2022

Tracking Covid

 

Tracking Covid

 I started tracking Covid-19 cases and deaths in a spreadsheet in mid-March of 2020, just as it was beginning to spread.  I chose the Worldometer as a source of Covid statistics for the U.S. and the world, and the New York Times data for U.S. states, counties and cities, which dove-tailed with the Worldometer data. In addition to the overall U.S. and the world, I tracked locations of interest to my extended family, namely Dallas, Texas, Eastern New York State and Western Massachusetts.

 I am ending this process as of September 30, 2022, because Covid is pretty much under medical, (if on political) control, and some of the areas that I’ve been tracking hardly report numbers any more.  In retrospect, I probably should have written a routine to automate data transfer to my spreadsheets, rather cutting and pasting for about 10 minutes every day.  But, so be it.

 On March 12, 2020, there were 1,282 Covid case in the U.S., and 17 deaths.  On September 30, 2022, these numbers for the U.S. were 98,166,904 cases, and 1,084,282 deaths.

For the world, there were 129,800 Covid cases and 4,800 deaths on March 12, 2020, and 622,586,038 Covid cases and 6,547,878 deaths on September 30, 2022.

 Ray Gruszecki

September 30, 2022

China Covid and Fentanyl

 

China Covid and Fentanyl

 If I were a communist planner deep in the bowels of the Beijing Politburo’s Dirty Tricks Division, what could I do to bring China economically, materially and militarily equal to, or ahead of the West?  Also, how could I ensure that modern China pays back the West for the humiliating defeats of the opium wars of the 19^th century, the colonization of parts of China by the West, and the addiction of many ancestors in China to opium?

 All under the cloak of absolute secrecy, what if we weaponized a killer virus, ruthlessly controlled it within China, and ensured its release to the outside world?  That would allow China to sprint ahead of most of the rest of the world, particularly using our “Belt and Road Initiative” to acquire infrastructure throughout the world.

 As a further effort, and remembering our addicted ancestors in the 19^th century, suppose we develop a killer drug and export it to the world?  Illegal drug users would take it and die.  We can even make it look like candy for the western kids.  In truth, Fentanyl is now one of the leading causes of deaths in the U.S.

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/fentanyl-overdoses-leading-cause-death-adults

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/overdose-deaths-fentanyl-meth.html

 Far fetched?  Maybe.  But anything is possible in this crazy world, particularly in secretive, Machiavellian, communist China, whose announced goal is to become the dominant power in this century.

 Is China furthering its goals while doing a little pay back for the 19^th century?

 Ray Gruszecki

September 27, 2022

Cesspools of Crime and Homelessness

 

Cesspools of Crime and Homelessness

 Beginning in the 1950’s with Kennedy and continuing in the 1980’s with Reagan, and at least partly justified by new ant-psychotic wonder drugs, we emptied out and closed our “warehousing” mental institutions and released the inmates into society.  The idealists posited  that these mentally unstable people would take or be given these new psychoactive drugs and adjust into normal society,  Some did, but many did not, without the structure of an inpatient facility, and these gravitated toward homelessness or the prisons, where their criminal education progressed.

 Also, over the years, inimical foreign countries emptied their prisons into the U.S.  Egregious examples are the Mariel boatlift from Cuba in 1980, and Venezuela’s recent reported release of prisoners into the U.S.

 And then along come extreme left D.A.’s and prosecutors in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, and funded by the likes of George Soros, who practice no bail, catch and release, for even the most heinous crimes.  This completes the “perfect storm” that has blighted our urban scene with democrat party run, feces infested tent cities that have become focal points for the massive crime wave afflicting our country.

 The most notorious of these Soros backed “woke” city and state prosecutors are Alvin Bragg of New York City, Larry Krasner of Philadelphia, Kim Foxx of Chicago, Chesa Boudin of San Francisco, and George Gascon of Los Angeles.

 Oh, the siren song of “social justice” rings in the background.  The mentally ill should not be warehoused in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” conditions, and our black and brown brothers should not be disproportionally harassed, arrested and jailed, even if their crimes are disproportionate.  Hence, the mentally ill living on feces infested streets, and “no bail”, “catch and release” criminals preying repeatedly on law-abiding society.

  Some references on Mental Illness, Homelessness, Crime

 https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progressive-das-behind-us-crime-surge/

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25839642/

 https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-group-woke-prosecutors-dangerous-justice

 https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/09/18/exclusive-venezuela-empties-prisons-sends-violent-criminals-to-u-s-says-dhs-report/

 https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progressive-das-behind-us-crime-surge/

 https://1md.org/article/why-mental-health-crisis

 https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/us/defund-police-crime-spike/index.html

 https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-mental-hospitals-contribute-to-homelessness-here

 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/05/truth-about-deinstitutionalization/618986/

 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html

 https://www.cchrint.org/2014/12/23/how-big-pharma-made-antipsychotics-everyday-drugs/

 Ray Gruszecki

September 26, 2022

Clean Energy and Clean Vehicles

 

Clean Energy and Clean Vehicles

 A lot has been discussed and written about replacing much of our energy use with renewable sources like solar and wind, and replacing our fossil fuel guzzling and polluting vehicles with battery powered electric vehicles.

 The starry-eyed among us propose building solar panels, windmills, EV’s and charging stations across the land, plugging our cars in, and “off we go”, paying little attention to the science, engineering and practicality of the issue.

 Here are some references that discuss energy production, electric vehicles and such, both pros and cons.

 A review of this material, which is both starry-eyed optimistic on the one hand, and negative and derogatory on the other, points out several issues.

 Comments on Sources of Power

-        Solar and Wind

-        Relying on solar and wind as the main source of power generation has been shown to be impractical with current technology and conditions.  Sun and wind are unreliable.  Also, solar panels are primarily made in China by slave labor.  Wind turbines are massive, expensive and elicit environmental concerns.  Sun and wind and tides make excellent supplements to other main power sources, and could comprise as much as 20-25% of a country’s power requirements in some locations.  However, they are not likely as a country’s main source of power.

-         -        Hydropower

-        The use of hydropower involves using the kinetic motion in water as it flows downstream, part of the normal water cycle of the Earth, to generate other forms of energy, most notably electricity. Dams use this property as a means of generating electricity. This form of hydropower is called hydroelectricity.  All countries take advantage of hydro generated power, with Brazil, Canada, China and France as major users.

-         -        Geothermal

-        The Earth generates a lot of heat while going about its normal business, in the form of subterranean steam and magma among others. The geothermal energy generated within the Earth's crust can be harnessed and transformed into other forms of energy, such as electricity.  Kenya, Iceland, Philippines, El Salvador and New Zealand produce as much as 30% of their electrical power from thermal sources.

-        -        Biomass

-        Biomass is not really a separate type of energy, so much as a specific type of fuel. It is generated from organic waste products, such as cornhusks, sewage, and grass clippings. This material contains residual energy, which can be released by burning it in biomass power plants. Since these waste products always exist, it is considered a renewable resource. Major countries producing energy from biomass are Germany, U.S., China, Japan.

-         -        Nuclear (fission) power generation makes use of the thermal energy produced when a uranium nucleus is split. This energy is used to produce high-temperature, high-pressure steam from water boiled inside the nuclear reactor. The steam then drives a turbine for generating electricity.  While nuclear processing and nuclear power plants produce radioactive wastes and the potentially for environmental disaster could be large, the advantages of nuclear power in generating large amounts of sustainable energy without polluting the atmosphere with toxic fumes and greenhouse gases outweighs the disadvantages of nuclear power.  Accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima have poisoned public opinion about producing power using nuclear plants.  Many countries have nuclear reactors producing power.  France has adopted nuclear in a big way, while Germany has phased it out completely.

-         -        Fusion power is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions. In a fusion process, two lighter atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing energy. Devices designed to harness this energy are known as fusion reactors. Research into fusion reactors began in the 1940s, but to date, no design has produced more fusion power output than the electrical power input.

-         Where does the Power Come From? - references

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/cost-to-charge-electric-vehicle-charging-station/?fbclid=IwAR2Vn_oOoUQxtIh4EipPHDyhHzdgCyvUz9_aviyytv6gzT4iC17HooxQM9w

 More about Power - references

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-to-turn-electric-vehicle-into-generator-for-home/

https://www.thoughtco.com/sources-of-power-production-2698916

https://www.worldbioenergy.org/uploads/201210%20WBA%20GBS%202020.pdf

https://www.soocial.com/bioenergy-statistics/

 Nuclear Fusion - referenxes

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-arent-we-using-nuclear-fusion-to-generate-power-yet.html

https://www.vox.com/22801265/fusion-energy-electricity-power-climate-change-research-iter

  

Electric Vehicles

https://www.cars.com/electric-cars/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-upside-down-logic-of-electric-suvs-vehicles-co2-emissions-ford-subsidies-climate-change-auto-sector-11658524738?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR1ixfWhfKTcyusnVOgvEyx8aos6KtAebqX6xoM6EBdCzXEARPnGG36QLw0

  

Batteries – Materials

-        The materials in electric car batteries include elements such as lithium, cobalt, manganese, nickel, graphite, and other metals and materials. These raw materials are processed and individual battery cells are made. There is a cooling system and electrical power management system added to regulate the battery.

-         -        One of the biggest suppliers of raw cobalt is the Democratic Republic of Congo with around 60% of the world’s cobalt coming from here.

-         -        China dominates the Lithium-ion battery production as they produce about 65% of the world’s lithium-ion batteries as of February 2021.

-         -        A sodium-ion battery is being produced and many are very hopeful that it could replace the lithium-ion battery in electric cars.  Sodium-ion batteries are not the only new type of batteries that are currently being researched, but if a few different types of batteries can be produced that have similar results, powered in a similar way, and even recycled, then we may have a chance to never run out. If this is the case and we can properly spread out the use of these materials, we could have plenty of materials for years to come and in a perfect world maybe even never run out.

-         -        Right now, these batteries are not being recycled to their full potential and more research is being done to make the recycling of these batteries more viable but as of now this process is not refined and could cause some alarm if not handled correctly in the near future.

 Batteries - references:

https://gearandcylinder.com/what-materials-are-in-electric-car-batteries-here-are-the-facts/

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/ev-batteries

https://www.cars.com/articles/your-guide-to-ev-batteries-premature-death-range-loss-and-preservation-446126/

 Ray Gruszecki

September 22, 2022