Archive for March, 2025

GOP No Longer Being “The Stupid Party” Democrats and Particularly Chuck Schumer Hardest Hit (Wish Rush Could have Seen it)

Posted: March 14, 2025 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I remember the day I left the republican party.

The tea party was on the rise and went to cover the MA GOP convention that was going to pick the new chair. It was an exciting time as GOP voters were finally excited and had actually fielded candidates statewide in practically every race. At the time Scott Brown had indicated his choice and implied that if said choice was made rather than the tea party candidate for who many activists who had showed for the vote, that he would run for a rematch against Elizabeth Warren who had edged him for the US Senate seat he had won by upset in 2010.

After a rather, shall we say...interesting vote with an even more interesting count of said vote (a count worthy of Democrats these days) Senator Brown’s hand picked candidate was put in office. Once and within 24 hours Brown announced he was not running and abandoned the state for New Hampshire where shock and surprise a candidate who would win in MA by being weak on abortion & guns proved he could not win in NH.

More importantly all those activist who had been excited about the GOP and had turned up and seeing how …interesting… the vote and the count had been decided to walk away from the GOP as well. I went to the City Hall in Fitchburg and officially changed my registration to unenrolled the next day and since then there has never been a real threat to any Democrat running for national office in the state.

This is the type of GOP I am used to seeing, the GOP playing “the stupid party” and never failing to fail to take advantage of a situation.

Apparently not anymore.

For all the shade thrown at Speaker Mike Johnson he’s managed, thanks in a large part to Donald Trump’s efforts to help, to keep the GOP caucus intact with a whisper of a majority to the point where he is managing wins on things like the Continuing Resolution usually by one or two votes and thus keeping the Democrats on the defensive.

Thus we all got to enjoy the spectacle of Chuck Schumer on one day defiantly opposing the House CR and threatening to shut down the government

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, proclaiming that Republicans don’t have the 60 votes needed to keep the government open past Friday. But President Donald Trump and senior White House officials are increasingly confident Schumer will release enough centrists to put up the votes for passage, according to multiple White House officials I spoke to over the past 24 hours.

and then 24 hours later after a bunch of Dems made videos opposing the CR and after 50 house dems put out identical messages and tweets attacking the CR…folded like a wet blanket.

Schumer threw in the towel last night and vented on MSNBC, blaming those “bastard” Republicans over forcing him to vote to keep the government open. That slip of the tongue was not intended, but the Democratic leader is stewing over this defeat. In less than 36 hours, the Democrats caved

I must say I’m not sick of all the winning but it’s going to take some time for me to get used to the idea that the GOP isn’t the “stupid party” anymore.

I wish Rush Limbaugh had lived to see it.

I Guess UMaine Didn’t Need that 30 Million Anyways

Posted: March 12, 2025 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Looks like he means it.

Union Soldier on the arrival of General Grant to the Army

One of the things I wrote about Donald Trump after his first term is that we hadn’t seen a president like him in terms of keeping promises since James Knox Polk.

And while we’ve seen a few changes, driven by experience and the help that Elon Musk has made possible, this trait of doing what he says is still evident as the University of Maine has discovered.

An email forwarded to the University of Maine that appears to have originated from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer directs the Department’s “awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding to Columbia University or the University of Maine System.”

Maine Pols are not happy:

In a statement, Maine Senator Angus King said the funding pause will impact Maine’s economy.

“The abrupt, unprecedented decision to cancel millions of dollars in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for the University of Maine will have dramatic impacts on Maine’s current and future workforce, agricultural research, supply chain resiliency, and small businesses across the state,” he said.

Abrupt? Unprecedented? Leftists must be redefining words again. It’s been weeks since Donald Trump VERY publicly informed the governor of Maine that this was coming if universities in the state continued to defy his executive order on men in woman’s sports, furthermore there is a very long history of various presidents using the stick of threatening federal funds if they don’t comply with either law of EO’s

And the ACLU (which has become rather selective on what rights they defend are screaming this is an assault on free speech.

“Now what we’re seeing is the federal government trying to coerce schools to teach a certain way or to not teach certain topics. That’s inconsistent not only with freedom of expression but also with this broader idea of academic freedom,” Heiden said.

This would be news to Hillsdale College which happily teaches what it wants without a dime of federal funding. There is nothing stopping UMaine from doing without federal funds and loading their women’s teams with all the men they want.

But for now their reaction is having the same effect as the execution of Admiral Byng did on the British Navy. They are discovering in Maine that Trump, like General Grant, means it.

Five Weekend Thoughts Under the Fedora: Bugging Toddlers, Suddenly Minority Parties Matter, Tucker and Owens, The Army of the B Ark and the Church / University scandal parallel

Posted: March 9, 2025 by datechguy in under the fedora

Vice President JD Vance talked a bit about protesters harassing him while he was out with his toddler.

What I really want to know is where was the secret service? If there were people who might have been a threat to a sitting VP & his kid one might think that would be a reason for them to act.

But maybe that’s just me.

I’ve noticed a big chance in the MSM over the last couple of months.

During the Obama years and During the Biden years when the Democrats had all three branches of government the MSM had absolutely no interest in any GOP position as they had no power. You could turn to any network and you would not find a GOP member of congress anywhere in sight as they had little power to change anything.

At the moment the tables are turned as the GOP has not only the White House but a majority in the senate and a small majority, albeit a small one, in the house. So on fiscal matters which require only a simple majority as has always been the case the Democrats can’t stop a united Republican majority from passing what they want you would think that the MSM would be talking to the GOP and reporting on their plans.

Amazingly they seem to have decided that the Democrats who are completely without power are the story and they’re talking about their plans to shut down the government, which is apparently no longer a crisis if they do it.

Funny how that works isn’t it?

I must confess that I’m a bit confused about the sudden onset antisemitism that has hit Candice Owens. I find it particularly particularly odd as it seem to coincide with her discovery of the Catholic faith (a discovery that I approve of). You would think that this would cause one to be better disposed to the faith that the the Catholic church came from.

Tucker Carlson’s dalliance with the “blame the Jews” business or at least sympathy with their enemies has also seemed to coincide with a move toward the Christian faith (though not the catholic church). Again this is odd to me.

I’m wondering how much of this is due to grief they got from the Jewish left in the past and their distrust of them now (frankly I’d distrust people who have to be dragged screaming and kicking into opposing those who want to see them dead) and I’m also wondering if they as independent podcasters are dependent on funds that are coming from those who oppose Jews in general and Israel in particular after all that’s how those folks got their footholds in academica.

The real question to me isn’t so much their opinions, which they have a right to have, but this question: “Are their positions on Israel, Iran etc. etc. etc. Different than the positions they held say 10 or 15 years ago?”

If there is a significant change then the why becomes VERY interesting but frankly I’m not interested enough to research it, although I’m sure there are people out there who are.

The sheer scale of the amount of money being spent on NGO’s by the US government and on actual government employees doing nothing by Doge.

It seems like a lot of the people whose jobs are at stake seem to be leftists who make a permanent living in NGO’s.

I’m thinking that it’s a lot like the British peers buying commissions for their 2nd, 3rd and 4th sons who were not all that bright.

But if you want to really figure it out, the thing to do is to consider all those leftist folks who took useless majors in college that make them unemployable in the private sector where the last thing employers want is someone who rocks the boat vs people who get things done.

A lot of money democrats have a lot of kids like this who want jobs that bring prestige and money the NGO’s provided this and the feds willingness to fund them gave them power.

In short they are the B Ark from Hitchhikers who are pretty much a useless part of the population who are now panicked about the idea that they might have to actually be productive for a living.

On the plus side they’ll have plenty of time for a bath.

The folks at Columbia University seem rather put out that 30 million of federal funds are at risk due to letting the mob take over building and persecute Jews.

Nobody seems to realize that the Universities are making the same mistake that the Catholic Church made when they discovered priests going after boys.

If the church had exposed and prosecuted these men right at the start while it would have caused short term scandal it would have made it clear that this sort of stuff wasn’t tolerated and would have saved decades of grief and prevented a lot of evil.

Likewise the solution for the Universities remains pretty plain

  1. Prosecute those who violate law
  2. Expel those who commit violence, vandalism or impede students from study
  3. Sue students & NGO’s who damage properties for the cost of repair

The solution is simple it’s a question of will

The SOTU Speech Highlights a Great Truism About How the Cost of Trump Hatred

Posted: March 5, 2025 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Yesterday’s speech by the president scored huge with Americans and I suspect will advance his agenda. It was a good and effective speech but it was made stronger and more effective by the actions of Democrats in the audience.

Pro-Tip if you can’t stand and clap for:

  1. A terrorist mastermind who murdered Americans transferred to the US for Punishment
  2. The release of a US Citizen held by Russia
  3. A 13 year old who beat brain cancer

You have no business in politicts.

Bottom line, this illustrated a truism about the dems and Trump, If they had treated Trump as a normal president from the state they would not be in the state they are today.

And frankly if they treated last nights speech as a normal speech and didn’t try stupid stunts and refuse to clap for good things Trump would not have been able to play them.

Idiots.

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