Archive for April, 2022

Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora The CNN+ Mystery, No Argument, Gas Attack, Klepto Problems, and the cost of a stolen election in Dollars.

Posted: April 28, 2022 by datechguy in under the fedora
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There are wastes of space and articles like this:

What doomed CNN+? How rival strategies and executive intrigue fueled the streaming service’s rapid demise

Seriously, it’s because of rival strategies and executive intrigue that CNN+ failed. How about the idea that it was trying to get a population to pay for a product that they haven’t been able to give away free.

God how stupid do they think we are?

Nothing illustrates how deadly the idea of people being able to make their case to the general public without leftist censorship to the electoral prospects of Democrats as the complete and utter meltdown of the left over the Elon Musk purchase of Twitter.

Again when your opponents have bad arguments it’s not hard to dispute them, when they have better arguments that’s the time to rethink your positions or panic. The left has chosen the later

As Ann Althouse put it: “It’s interesting how much free speech the opponents of free of speech already have.”

Anyone surprised by Russia’s move to cut of Gas to Poland and Bulgaria has no sense of history or of how Russia thinks.

In terms of how they think, anyone who has followed this history of the last 200 years knows that once Russians decide someone is their enemy no amount of local hardship is unendurable if it causing said enemies to suffer. That’s how Putin will sell it to his people and they’ll buy it.

Secondly all of the history of the last forty years of the USSR & Russia funding groups in the west to decrease energy self sufficiency was precisely for this eventually where Russia would force their potential foes into tough choices.

Not sure how this ends.

Speaking of Russia and the war while I distrust all the various sources all we have seen thus far shows the weakness of the crony system of procurement.

When you’re busy stealing and skimming it can be a problem when suddenly the equipment you have turns out to be substandard. Furthermore in a Kleptocrocary which in many ways Russia is the idea that you would use state funds to enrich yourself rather than solve a problem is considered the norm.

It’s very possible that the Russia’s performance in the war in Ukraine is the natural end result and this time around there won’t be the US sending convoys of arms and equipment to save them.

Finally I got an oil bill earlier this month that perfectly illustrates the cost of a stolen election.

It was a split bill for the 180 gallons of oil I got. Half of it was priced at the pre-pay price that I paid under Trump before the election. The other half showed the current price under Biden.

You can talk about the costs of a stolen election in terms of what it’s done to our country, our foreign policy and our freedoms but I have a concrete figure of how much this stolen election is costing me in cash. And that cost is a full week’s take home pay every time oil is delivered.

Multiply that times every voter who sees snow and cold in the winter and that tells me that they’ll have be even more blatant next time to push that walking corpse in the White House over the line.

Liberal Left, Let me Introduce you to the “Block” & “Mute” features of Twitter

Posted: April 27, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

The degree of panic over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been even more fun then watching Basketball folks melt down over Brooklyn being swept in the 1st round of the NBA Playoffs.

Lines like this are typical:

For those concerned that they will suddenly be exposed to all kinds of “hate” speech (which the left defines as any speech they hate) let me introduce you to two features included in Twitter, the “Block” and the “Mute” buttons.

For this example I will use Tweetdeck because that is what I use.

Let’s say you see a tweet that you don’t like say this one:

Now for the record I wouldn’t block someone for this tweet but for the purposes of this example I am going to do so and because people on twitter can sometimes resemble a bad high school clique I’ve put out the fact that I’m doing said muting and blocking only as a demo.

So lets say however I got angry at this tweet and wanted it out of my timeline I have two options: The “Mute” and the “Block” features.

The “Mute” button allows one to remove someone from your timeline without actually blocking them completely. The “Block” button blocks someone completely and they become aware that they are blocked if they try to reply to you or access your tweets.

Here is my timeline before using the “Mute” button.

Now once I click on the tweet and choose “Mute” either within tweetdeck (left) or twitter proper.

tweetdeck on left twitter on right

And presto the offending person and/or tweet is removed from the timeline

Now if you decide you change your mind because let’s say someone does a Rick Wilson and decides to join your side for money you can reverse this as well Simply go to the menu the same way

And viola the tweet is back in your timeline

Be aware you will likely have to refresh your browser for the tweets to return.

Note that in the above example the “Block” choice is there on the same menu so I won’t repeat the example as the images would be redundant. To “Block” someone do the same thing as you would with “Mute” and vice versa.

So this means that if a person sees speech that distresses them they are only a few clicks away from making sure they do not see that speech in their timeline and/or the person who generated said speech.

Now I’m slightly surprised that the folks having fits on the left weren’t aware of this feature and must be reassured by this post knowing they don’t have to be exposed to any speech they “hate”.

Why given their reaction you might think their real problem was people being able to see counter arguments to the things they claim, argument that they are unable to refute because their own points can’t stand up under fire instead of just eliminating what they call “hate speech”.

But no it can’t be that, can it?

Why Doesn’t the Left just make their own Twitter?

Posted: April 26, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I’m slightly confused.

Were not people on the right told that if they didn’t like twitter there was nothing stopping them from making their own?

I mean if the left wants to make their own version of twitter that ruthlessly censors anyone who disagrees with them, I’m sure there are plenty of leftists with money who could begin a start-up. They could call it “Pravda”

In fact they would be in a position to poach hundreds if not thousands of current twitter employees who are in a state of grief and panic over their pending inability to censor others.

And with the Biden Administration in power it is very unlikely that any agency would make any attempt to put up legal roadblocks to do so.

So c’mon leftists show us how much people want to stand with you. I’m sure many celebs would be anxious to delete their twitter accounts and switch to demonstrate their wokeness to the world. I’m sure tens of millions can’t wait to join your alternative.

Aren’t you?

I mean if the right is capable of starting GAB and TRUTH surely you can do what they did?

I like Ike!

Posted: April 26, 2022 by chrisharper in politics
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By Christopher Harper

By many accounts, Dwight Eisenhower was a lazy caretaker of the U.S. presidency.

Again, these analysts missed the boat by a wide margin.

In my continuing deep drive in the presidency, I found that Eisenhower was one of the best presidents ever.

In his 2013 analysis of Eisenhower’s efforts as a general and president, the late Jean Edward Smith dismisses many of the criticisms of Ike’s time in the White House. See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11958983-eisenhower-in-war-and-peace

Moreover, other historians are taking a more positive stance toward the 34th president, who served from 1953 to 1961. C-SPAN’s 2021 ratings of American presidents show that Eisenhower has moved up the ranks from 2000 to No. 5 in the 2021 survey.

In Eisenhower in War and Peace, Smith writes, “With the exception of Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower was the most successful president of the 20th century,” citing his avoidance of several military actions, creation of the interstate highway system, and the restoration of “the nation’s sanity” after McCarthyism.

In my opinion, FDR and cousin Teddy, who rank No. 3 and 4, should be put way down the list; Eisenhower should stand just behind Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, the top two on the C-SPAN list.

In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft, who opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. Eisenhower won that election and the 1956 election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. 

Domestically, Eisenhower balanced the budget, lowered taxes, and reduced the country’s debt. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent the 101st Airborne to enforce federal court orders to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. 

His lasting legacies include the Interstate Highway System and his warning about the “military-industrial complex,” which had become a dominant force in increasing defense spending for power and profit.

Internationally, Eisenhower, the soldier, knew the human price of war and kept the United States at peace for eight years. 

Ike got the United States out of the Korean War. He vetoed his adviser’s suggestions of using nuclear weapons to help the French in Vietnam and Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan. He forced the Israelis, French, and British out of the Suez Canal in 1956 when the three countries seized control of the critical transit route from Egypt. 

Unfortunately, he chose Earl Warren as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also allowed the CIA to expand its reach by overthrowing the leadership of Iran and Guatemala and agreed to the U-2 overflights of Russia, which soured the relationship with the Soviet Union.

Since I was only nine when Eisenhower left office, I didn’t realize what an exceptional president he was. I now understand why so many liked Ike.  

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