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Five Weekend Thoughts Under the Fedora: Will We See the Long Bomb in Paris, Potemkin villages all the way down, Didn’t expect this, Keyboard Warriors never satisfied, Two Years and Two weeks to go

Posted: October 25, 2026 by datechguy in culture, elections, nfl, politics, Sports
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The Steelers and Saints are as I’m typing this in the first quarter in Paris. I suspect the amount of security at the stadium is incredible.

Several fan events had been cancelled for safety reasons as the left continues to riot, but at least for now the game goes on.

I suspect the game will go off safely, but if I had advice for any fans from the US I’d make sure I’m on a plane faster then the modern French raise the white flag.

The revelation that at least one polling firm was making up numbers and that those numbers highly favored Democrats is no surprise.

There is so much in the left that is incredibly false but the real damage here is to the left.

Conservatives as a whole don’t trust the polls to begin with but Democrats who bought what was being sold likely poured money into a lot of races that they either didn’t have a chance in or deluded them into a sense of security.

I still have no idea what will happen but we’ll see.

The Ilhan Omar story has been a huge surprise to me.

Not the fraud and deceit, I saw that coming a mile away.

What shocked me is that the justice department is actually pursuing justice. Apparently they’ve been building the case for a while and went where the facts were. An administration willing to do this is all it took for this to happen.

If I didn’t understand why the left was so intent on destroying Trump, this clinched it.

The Omar case highlights something I’ve talked about before.

It takes only a few seconds to type out a tweet to express outrage.

It takes only a few minutes, or maybe a few hours depending on the quality of what you’re writing to complain why the administration is so slow in going after fraudsters and grifters

If you wanted a panel of “experts” to declare the Iran war lost for a show or podcast you can manage that in less than a week.

BUT if you want to actually accomplish things, build things, get things done that will hold up over time or stand up to legal scrutiny. This takes time, effort and sober thought.

If your goal is to get clicks & eyeballs to sell the first three on my list are fine, if you want to actually DO things, get things done and achieve goals, none of those things matter.

Trump is a builder, he knows this.

Barring a not quite untimely death (Trump after all is 80 you know, a strong and healthy 80 but still 80) in two years and two weeks we will know who our next president is.

There are literally millions of people who have invested their entire lives and souls into hatred of Donald Trump convinced that he is the source of all evil and all of their problems and have made their hatred of him define them.

When he is out of office I suspect this will create a big empty hole within them, but I suspect they will pretend that Trump is still running things from the outside. If Trump is as much like Teddy Roosevelt as I think he is, he might even complain if a Vance or a Rubio heads in a direction he doesn’t like which might feed all this.

But it’s a real possibility that all these wild leftists will have a big hatred hole in the psyche that will have to be filled by something.

I suspect that doesn’t bode too well for the country & even less for them, but you never know perhaps for some it will be a chance for self awareness.

Hey I have the right to hope don’t I?

Robert Spencer, Pam Geller et/all (Unfortunately) Proved Right: France Edition

Posted: October 17, 2026 by datechguy in culture
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As I look at what is happening in France today and see the MSM try to downplay it all I can think of is England banning Robert Spencer & Pam Geller from visiting while allowing their country to be overrun.

I’ll wager there are plenty in Europe in General and France in particularly who wish they had heeded the warnings of people like Robert & Pam. If they had their cities would not be burning today.

Ironically I suspect both Pam and Robert are very upset they are right, but for them to be wrong was impossible. After all if they had been wrong people would not have been trying to kill them for a decade for sounding the warning.

An Apology to Blondes And/Or the Best Case I’ve Ever Seen for Sharia Law

Posted: October 14, 2026 by datechguy in culture
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Repeated Line: Dumb Dora was so dumb….

Match Game 1975

All my life I’ve heard dumb blonde jokes.

My favorite is the one where the blonde is walking down the street and sees a commotion, there is a guy at a skyscraper threatening to jump. She watches fascinated as Police and Fire try to persuade the fellow not to do it but alas he decides to jump and it was a terrible sight to behold.

Still bothered a few house later she’s at a local bar that she frequents talking about the incident when a news report comes on showing the man threatening to jump and the police turning up. She immediately speakers up: “$100 that he doesn’t jump.” She is quickly covered and the broadcast shows the unhappy ending.

As she’s paying out one of her friends asks: “Why did you make that bet, after all you were there?”

She answers: “Yeah I it was horrible, I can’t believe he did it again!”

But now we owe blondes an apology for all the various jokes that, at least according to my 18 year old co-worker that I asked last night are still being told, because yesterday I saw a non-blonde woman do something (via Instapundit) so insanely idiotic that no blonde no matter how dumb would ever be dumb enough to do.

You see she is a supporter of the riots going on currently in France, and she wanted to defend the immigrant who set a woman’s face on fire and her argument was that having your face set on fire was no big deal, so she decided to demonstrate that it didn’t hurt so much on a live stream:

To wit:

So on behalf of all of us who have told blonde jokes over the years, let me apologize as there is absolutely no way any blonde I’ve ever met is dumb enough to do this.

But there is another point to make here, that’s just as important.

If this lady was trying to make the case for Islam in general and for Sharia Law in particular she could not have done a better job.

You see Sharia Law makes a woman practically a slave to a man:

  • It argues that women are inferior.
  • That she must cover herself
  • That she is completely subject to her husband
  • That her testimony is worth only half of a man
  • That she can be divorced merely by her husband saying: “I divorce you.”

In short that a woman must be and needs to be kept under the complete control of a man, her father until she’s married and her husband after that.

And if I ever saw a woman who needs to be under the control of a man to make decisions for her, it’s this one.

So congratulations, you may have failed in proving that setting your face on fire is no big deal but if you wanted to back the Islamic invasion of France by showing the inferiority of women, particularly western woman you couldn’t have done a better job!

Closing thought #1: If this woman lived 50 years ago before the Internet this likely would not have happened

Closing thought #2 If this woman lived 200 years ago she likely would have died young as stupid people didn’t have today’s safety net to protect them from the world.

A Quick Reminder: 100 Years ago Every Single Protestant Denomination Had the Same Position as the Catholic Church on..

Posted: September 25, 2026 by datechguy in catholic, culture
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…abortion

…gay marriage

..birth control

…what a woman is

Less than 100 years later…:

An Episcopal priest in New York City declared that Jesus is “transgender” and told the congregation that if they deny this, they are denying the “divinity” of Christ.

Reverend Flourish Klink, who considers herself a transgender nonbinary individual, made the outlandish assertions during a recent sermon at Christ & St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

“God is non-binary. God is non-binary, but I’m going to go further than that, and I’m going to say God is actually also trans,” Klink said. “And now let’s get on the same page here. When we trans people are born, folks assign us a gender based on what they see. Then, when we’re old enough, we realize that that wasn’t right, and we’re not in our deepest selves the gender that everybody thought we were.”

On a side note I was reading William Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Colony today and it’s really funny to see that even as early as the 1600’s not only did the various protest denominations not get along but the Puritans in Holland who had fled England were not getting along with the Puritans who remained in England as the Papal envoy in Holland put it at the time: (translated from the Italian).

The Puritans are also tolerated—those even purer and more rigid Calvinists who refuse to acknowledge any authority—including the Puritans from England who frequent Holland and the other United Provinces for the sake of trade. Almost all the English Puritans in Amsterdam are there for the same reason, and some likewise reside in the city of Middelburg in Zeeland for commercial purposes. Thus, from every part—indeed, from every corner—of the United Provinces, one hears their sectarian clamor.

This is human nature, once you decide you know best you don’t just decide you know better than the church, you decide you know better than everyone else.

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