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Elon Musk Obviously Wasn’t Paying Attention to the Epstein Story in May of 2016, but I WAS or He Wouldn’t Have Tweeted What He Did About Trump

Posted: June 5, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, politics, Uncategorized
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One of the problems with being a person who is used to getting his way is that occasionally you don’t and when you’re not used to it you can make statements you will regret in the future. This is one of them:

Now I could say a lot about this the most logical thing being that if Trump had been actually involved with Epstein (or if he had been for that matter) there is zero chance that the Biden White House or the Biden FBI would not have leaked it long ago, certainly they would have done so during election 2024 as Musk should be smart enough to know but right now he’s angry and so he is speaking out of his hat without knowing.

However unlike Elon Musk who was too busy worrying about cars and rockets in 2016 to be paying attention to the Epstein story I WAS paying attention to it and thus saw the critical clip from Morning Joe from May 16th of 2016. I’m keying to the critical part

I wrote the following about this at the time.

 take a look at the video

and two things become immediately clear.

Everybody at the Table knows who Jeffery Epstein is, and what the story is

Nobody at the table wanted to talk about it

and more:

Mind you Trump hasn’t even bothered to say a word about Epstein yet and the table does its best to spin this in a different direction, but the very fact that Trump is who is forced MSNBC to deal with the story even if most of dealing with it was talking about Trump’s willingness to go there.

Take a look at the set of dejected faces on that video, remember those faces are being broadcast on MSNBC to liberal viewers who would never do a web search of the words “Jeffery Epstein + Bill Clinton”

Donald Trump did that and if you’re a conservative it’s a joy to behold.

The real funny thing and the giveaway wasn’t the video alone, it was the steps that were taken to hide it making copyright claims and burying it:

So,  You’ll have absolutely no problem sharing this clip with people far and wide and giving them a hint about the relationship between Jeffery Epstein and Bill Clinton and how the media views it…provided you are someone like me who

already saw the clip

remembered what show it was on

knew what day it was broadcast

And knew what time segment to look for 

As for everyone else NBC says to you: Beware of the Leopard!

Again this doesn’t get done if Trump was involved.

Now I’ll give Elon a pass for not knowing this as he wasn’t paying attention back then but an engineer should know better than to open his mouth before knowing what he is saying is true.

I strongly suggest resolving this rift if it can be but it not so be it.

Update: Forgot to mention that it was the TRUMP administration that arrested and jailed Epstein after being protected by dems forever.

Scott McKay at the American Spectator Gives an Exercise in Realty about the House, Senate and the “Big Beautiful Bill”

Posted: May 26, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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As I’m not writing regularly anymore it’s not often that I read a piece and think: “I wish I wrote that.”

But Scott McKay’s piece at the American Spectator (via Hotair headlines) certainly fits the bill.

You see it’s all about the reality of the math.

It’s irritating to have to bring this up, but the Republicans have a 220-215 majority in the House and a 53-47 majority in the Senate which isn’t really 53 votes given that Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Mitch McConnell, Bill Cassidy and a few others seem to do everything they can to torpedo the conservative agenda. For the most part, they’re ineffective in that respect, because none of them are all that willing to be the one vote that kills a bill or a nomination. They know there will be consequences for that, and they don’t have the courage to face those.

Nevertheless, that 53? It plays like 51. And the 220 plays like 215; luckily, 215 was all the Big Beautiful Bill needed on Thursday morning.

You have the number of votes that you have. Then there is the reality of the the filibuster:

Mike Johnson couldn’t send a clean, stripped-down budget bill through the House, though that would have been easier, and the budget aspects of the bill might have been better. Know why? Because codifying Trump’s agenda through legislation in 2025 means everything has to be attached to a must-pass bill.

As in, budget reconciliation.

You have to force the agenda through an omnibus bill if you want to pass it, because Democrats will reflexively filibuster everything the rules allow them to.

There is zero chance of passing a bill in the senate that requires more than 50 votes and JD Vance. Which means it has to be done in a single bill.

And then there is a reality:

The point is that while this thing could have been quite a bit leaner from a budget perspective, assuming it gets through the Senate and Trump signs it, Congress will have then codified the bulk of Trump’s agenda by the middle of the summer and there won’t be all that much to do for the rest of the year other than to shrink the federal government.

Which isn’t a bad place to be in.

And if you can’t understand why Vought would be so sanguine about the bill even though it doesn’t seem to be very aggressive in chopping down on federal spending, this is likely why.

Some of this is speculative, I’ll grant. But again, this is an ongoing process. And we are dealing in the world of what is possible with the Congress we have.

Within that world, this is a win. Sure, it’s probably not a beautiful win. It’s a 50-yard field goal with one second left to eke out a victory, and the team didn’t cover the spread.

But in the end it will be codified into law and let me remind you of something I said 15 years ago during the Scott Brown special election back in 2010:

…in an attempt to stop Obamacare. In a broadcast by 73wire with Stacy McCain and Ali Akbar (Brown’s new media guy) we talked about the healthcare bill and there was an interesting exchange. I stressed how important this election was because it was necessary to stop obamacare BEFORE it was passed prompting the following:

Ali: “And if it does pass, we will repeal it!”

DaTechGuy: “No we won’t.”

It was very telling that Ali (who is a really smart young man) didn’t argue the point with me and changed the subject.

It was six long years before there was a chance to get rid of Obamacare, and when that chance came John McCain with the applause of every Democrat in the Senate cast the vote to save it.

There is a lot that COULD have been in that big beautiful bill if we had more votes to spare in the House or the Senate but there is plenty IN that bill that the left loathes and that we have wanted to get done for a while.

Once those things are law it will be tough for Democrats to get the votes to repeal them. They’ll need the house and the senate and a President ready to sign and they’ll need majorities where even Democrats in swing districts will go along and you remember what happened last time swing dems did so.

Thus came the Stupak Amendment and the fig leaf he provided while proving disastrous to him and his followers was a Godsend to others as he said later:

“I had a number of members who thanked us after because they could vote no.”

But Stupak fig leaf would quickly wither. His seat and 62 others for democrats would not survive election day and even more shocking to the left the New GOP majority would remain even after the re-election of President Obama

I think putting the dems in this position is a good idea.

Just Because We Lied to You About What You Saw With Your Own Eyes on Joe Biden Doesn’t Mean You Should Believe Your Own Eyes on South Africa Says MSM

Posted: May 21, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, media, politics
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Donald Trump decided to present the president of South Africa, with the entire press corps in the room the evidence of the danger to white farmers in South Africa:

This was actually confirmed as as issue by a SA official at the Oval Office today, but hey are you going to believe your own eyes or CNN?

Trump played the video in front of the guy. Every single network was there, and yet every single network denied what they say.

The irony? All of this took place 24 hours after the Biden health story where the media talked about how they missed a story right in front of their eyes.

Why anyone trusts them is beyond me, but I suspect is bubble reinforcement because once people decide they were wrong they have to see themselves in the light of truth, and that’s just too much for most leftist’s these days.

How Bad Was Kamala? The Left Preferred Playing Weekend at Joey’s for a year to Her in the White House leading the party

Posted: May 16, 2025 by datechguy in election 2024, politics
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There are two critical stories concerning the fitness of Joe Biden for the presidency that are both critical and being almost completely ignored.

The first is a question that some people like Dwayne Patterson are asking: Who was in charge during the Biden years?

I don’t frankly care if the Beltway media takes me seriously or not. I know what I know. I saw what I saw daily in Biden media appearances, seldom though they were. I heard what I heard. And I can safely say that after 30 years in this business, I have never experienced Beltway media as in the tank as they were. The Trump effect can be seen in trillions so far in foreign investments coming into the United States. The Trump effect also has caused a lot of reporters to throw objectivity out the window because they view Trump as an existential threat. 

My humble, but sincere advice for my friends in media, and I do have dozens of them that are friends, is it’s hard to take them seriously when they won’t admit their failings in coverage of the Biden regency. If you want to regain trust, go where the story goes, not where you want the story to go. And I’m telling you, the story is who was running the country the last four years, and why there was no accountability in government. Why did the 25th Amendment fail as a failsafe apparatus against an obviously incapacitated president? 

I suspect the answer is the government was for sale to the highest bidder and both the Biden family and members of the administration were able to run the Federal Government like Chicago, alternatively or concurrently people with agenda were able to advance them without all that pesky “explaining to voters” stuff.

However for my money while that first question is a critical one it’s the second question that I find most fascinating.

Why didn’t they just use to the 25th amendment at put Kamala Harris in the White House?

Any time after Jan 2023 she would have been eligible for two terms and if she became the first woman president the media would have had a collective organism. All the protection that was given to Biden would have been transferred to her and she would have had time to actually be ready to face Donald Trump, and would have had the power of incumbency and much more time to develop an actual team to run a campaign.

Yet they did not do this.

Why?

There are several possible things. Perhaps they were worried that Harris would want to actually be in charge, perhaps the Biden family threatened to talk about things, perhaps the people who were buying government wanted a freer hand to act, but all of these explanation don’t seem to fly as the media & party apparatus that was willing to prosecute Trump crossing multiple lines were unlikely not to be able to manipulate around such problems.

I think there is a more likely reason, one that nobody wants to admit that while I was writing this piece Ed Morrissey brought up ahead of me:

However, that wouldn’t be the real reason for that reluctance. The real reason is that Kamala Harris is every bit as incompetent as Joe Biden, only for reasons having nothing to do with dementia. [emphasis mine DTG] Harris could not be trusted with the presidency, as voters discovered in 2019 and again in 2024, when in both cycles she couldn’t even be trusted to handle the media, let alone the world. 

If the United States had had a competent Vice President, the Cabinet might have acted to replace a president whose aides and families had isolated for reasons of incompetence. Their lack of action in that crisis is unforgivably cowardly, but also a massive declaration of no confidence in Kamala Harris. And then they stood by while Harris attempted to win office anyway rather than publicly demand an open and democratic process to replace the party’s nominee, compounding their cowardice.

Or to put it simply if the final year of the Biden presidency was the first year of the Harris presidency the prospects for Democrats running for re-election and/or retaining power would be so bad that the actual results of 2024 would have been considered a best case scenario.

Much better to keep the lie up and hope that they could pass Biden off as functional, Democrat donors and media could be counted on playing along because the person who spilled the beans would be blamed for a Trump victory and NOBODY in the media/left would want to be the person responsible for Trump returning to the White House. And if the worst case scenario happened (as indeed it did) Harris could not only be considered separate Joe Biden’s failures but in a short campaign her incompetence could be hidden from the general public and panicked donors desperate to stop Trump would be so relieved that they would open up their wallets which indeed they did.

That is plausible and the most likely conclusion to me but think about that for a second.

If I’m right Kamala Harris is so incompetent that the Democrats and the media thought playing Weekend at Joeys with Biden was a safer option than having her in office running the show.

Simply amazing.

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