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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

Five Trump Thoughts Under the Fedora: The First Big Test, Orders Up, Learning Nothing , The Missing Meme, A slight Bow

Posted: January 31, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, media, under the fedora
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The Collision of a flight with a military helicopter over the Potomac is the first real big test for the Trump administration.

This is something that has to be handled wisely, Trump needs to be presidential while at the same time highlighting the importance of competence vs DEI when dealing with important life and death jobs.

Of course the press spin has helped him as it again seems to be titled toward amplifying the loudest and most hysterical “Blame Trump” declarations.

I suspect Trump’s instincts will prove wiser than the press’ but time will tell if I’m right or not.

While Trump executive actions have been swift and decisive and dizzying there is one thing that needs to be remembered.

All of these actions that Donald Trump has taken and he has taken many rather popular acts are completely reversible because they are by executive order.

If he wants them to stand beyond his presidency Trump needs to get these thing codified into law and the fact that the GOP house has not taken any action along those lines yet disturbs me.

Of course they might be waiting for an opportune time or might be waiting for a spending bill that can’t be filibustered to attach his EO’s to, but whatever the tact they need to keep this in mind otherwise the next Democrat president can and likely will put all of this nonsense that Trump has removed back in play with a single signature.

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me concerning the media and Donald Trump is their complete inability to learn from their mistakes.

President Trump after a term in office and four years to think about how to achieve his goals has pivoted in terms of tactics to adapt them to current conditions and has used this to achieve the highest approval ratings he has ever scored.

Meanwhile the media continues to try to spin and play “gotcha” in an age where the net allows us to debunk them to a public that doesn’t trust them.

Perhaps never having been taught how to think but only how to react they may not know how to deal with the onslaught of action that this administration has become and serving a niche market means they don’t dare go out of the zone.

They’ll have to wait for a mistake, one will eventually come but will they be ready when it does?

I’ve been surprised by the lack of focus on Abortion in the hearings for RFK JR.

The reality is that it’s going to take republican votes to sink any Trump nomination and the place where Kennedy should have been most vulnerable was abortion being a lifelong Democrat. Of course his description of abortion as a tragedy rather than something to be celebrated shows his age.

That they didn’t press it more suggests it’s all about show and fundraising from true believers than anything else.

Of course the unwillingness to celebrate killing kids rather than simply tolerating it at alone might be enough to cost him Collins and Murkowski. But will it cost him more?

As Trump’s press secretary welcomes new media to the press conferences in DC allow me to take a slight bow.

While I was unable to secure Trump as an interview in the closing days of the blog as a business I can take a bow for another matter.

I’m welcome to allow someone to correct me but unless I’m very much mistaken the very first question asked of Donald Trump either on the campaign trail or as President by a member of the new media in an official setting was asked by me in Derry NH in September of 2015

Not a bad legacy

Five Quick Trump Week 1 Thoughts Under the Fedora: Pardon Me, Predictable Press, Trump’s Kasserine Pass is Behind him, To Their Faces, Questions Every Day and Getting the Message

Posted: January 24, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Biden Administration, Blame Trump, media, politics, under the fedora
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You can’t get a better contrast between the Trump administration and the Biden Administration than the pardons issued. All the people Trump pardoned are folks that he thought were punished for their political beliefs and or overcharged were pardoned at a time when it would cause maximum blowback from the media.

Most of those Biden pardoned were those who had aided him in attacking his political foes or enriching him and or enriching him and his family and were pardoned at a point least damaging to his presidency.

Oh and there were the killers as well.

It was hilarious watching the press go after the J6 pardons and acting as if Trump didn’t care about police less than 24 hours after Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier who killed two FBI agents. along with quite a few other violent criminals.

It is even more ironic that as they still complain about this they are ranting about going after violent thugs that have been let free by blue state authorities directly after committing violence because they came here illegally.

The narratives never change from the press, never.

The biggest contrast so far from Trump term 1 to Trump term 2 is the fact that the inside people are no longer restraining him.

There were a lot of things Trump wanted to do in term 1 that people in the Senate or in the Cabinet or elsewhere repeatedly advised him not to do or secretly tried to stop him from doing and Trump trying to get along went along.

Not any more, like the US army at the Kasserine Pass he learned from his last term and the years in between and is plowing full speed ahead.

One of the best realities of the situation has been Donald Trump telling people to their faces actual reality. From his inaugural speech to Davos Trump has not hesitated in calling a spade a spade and doing so in the face of those who deserve it.

Such frankness in saying the truth aloud is completely foreign to Capital Hill and their minions.

I wonder how they will deal with it?

The biggest Contrast between this week and last week has been press access.

Trump has taken questions every single day and spontaneous questions from hostile press outlets and hasn’t ducked any of them.

The press has had almost nothing to say about their sudden access and the the contrast between a president who IS in charge and a president who isn’t.

But industry has got it and Chrysler has already announced that they will restart one plant in Illinois and build another vehicle in Detroit.

Jobs no doubt that the blue governors of those states will take credit for.

Under the Fedora A Hack? Say Something Nice, The Last Chance to Appear Competent, Revising the Economy Downwards, Underreported My Ass, Big Ears, Jacked, A Tale of Two Business Models, Solving Problems, Sweden, Pinball and my Goodbye

Posted: December 31, 2024 by datechguy in under the fedora
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Am I the only person who when I heard about the reported Chinese Hack of Treasury instantly thought this was to cover data already sold to the CCP willingly by this administration?

It’s a little too early to speak ill of the dead so rather than talk about Carter the president let me say this about Jimmy Carter the man. He really loved his wife and they apparently had an excellent marriage.

The one thing that the death of President Carter means, besides the issuing of his presidential dollar coin, is that the Biden Administration gets one final chance to do something right, handling the funeral as President Trump will have no responsibility for it.

Remember how that Cancer bill that the left blaming Musk for holding up was finally passed by the Senate when it was no longer useful for the narrative, well now that it’s no longer useful to lie about the job numbers they are being revised downwards in a spectacular fashion before Biden team is gone. As if any sane person believed them.

Oh now the press is also calling Biden’s mental decline the most underreported story of 2024. This is false, it was not underreported. It was specifically denied by the press and those speaking what was plain to any person with eyes or showing video examples of it were declared liars. These people are at best incompetent fools and at worst bought lying scum, or possibly both.

Side note. One of the advantages of having been a credentialed member of press while wearing a Doctor Who scarf is that the MSM assumes you are a leftist, I was able to hear what these people were saying in the press areas and let me say, there is nothing like hearing what the press has to say to each other off camera to make you realize they can’t be trusted.

If you really want to understand how Bad the Press is watch this fellow try to defend carjackers from being shot.

Speaking of Doctor Who the Christmas Special this year apparently did very poorly in the ratings. It was not a bad story and it had some real moments, particularly the ordinary year, and in most years it would have drawn respectable but not spectacular numbers and Gatwa wasn’t bad at all, but when you spend years chasing away your customer base bad things tend to happen to the numbers.

Of course quality Doctor Who stories are continuing to be produced regularly, only they are coming from Big Finish on audio rather than the BBC. It’s worth noting that Jodi Whitaker’s Doctor is getting a 12 episode series at Big Finish, while I won’t be buying them it will be interesting to see if with competent writers she can pull off the Doctor. The high quality of the writing at big finish did wonders for the reputations of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy’s place in the Doctor Who pantheon.

It will be very interesting to see what a year or two of problems solvers being in charge does for America and the world. The amount of problems already solved just by them being about to take power has been considerable.

Speaking of competent Sweden whose novel approach of reality seemed to work with COVID has apparently decided to solve their problem of violent Islamic Immigration

On a local note a Fitchburg Bar & Grill is hosting a weekly pinball event. Alas Mill City Pub is holding it on Wednesdays and I have at least 2-3 Wednesday’s a month already taken for the next few years.

Finally this is my last post as a business. Starting tomorrow no more paid writers, no more covering stories, this blog ceases to be a business as of tomorrow. The writers who are here will still have posting rights if they want to use them and I’ll still post on occasion likely about our Dynasty Baseball leagues (Having a bad start in 73 so far)

or if something moves me to do so and of course the Indulgence Calendar will go up every month.

I regret that I didn’t score that final Donald Trump interview for you all and in addition to finding me here you will find me regularly on WQPH 89.3 FM’s Your Prayer Intentions and of course I’ll be at Pintastic NE every year scarf and fedora in hand although the camera will be optional from this point on.

I hope you found that last 15 plus years entertaining and informative. I’m very proud of that but most proud of the title I once held as “the hardest working person in the blogosphere”. And I thank all those who have had good things to say about the blog from Steve Bannon to Donald Trump, Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, the Granite Grok gang and of course Stacy McCain who I learned an awful lot from.

I’ve been all over the country and met amazing people everywhere because America is an amazing place full of amazing people. I shown and told you things as they were and have given my honest opinion unspun by cash or power. In return you have given me your time and support.

I will take the joy of those things to my grave, you’ve all made my life better. I won’t forget it.

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