DaTechGuy Off DaRadio 3 PM EST Under the Weather Edition

Posted: October 9, 2020 by datechguy in blogs
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Today DaTechGuy off DaRadio we’ll talk a bit about the VP debate, if there will be more Presidential debates and whatever comes to mind.

I’ve been a bit under the weather so if I sound a bit off or have a shorter show that will be why.

It all begins at 3 PM EST You can watch it live here (last week’s show is a placeholder).

btw I’ve missed a few days of work because of illness and because of Corona quarantines earlier my sick time is used up so if you want to help shirk my deficit feel free to kick in to DaTipJar.

No matter what you do, thanks for stopping by.

Some Interesting Drudge Questions

Posted: October 9, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

As you might have seen the Traffic at the Drudge Report is not what it has been.

According to Comscore data, the Drudge Report had 1.488 million unique visitors in July 2020 — the most recent month for which data is available. That’s down 38.0% from July 2019, when the site boasted 2.399 million unique visitors.

Remarking on a post that said the Drudge Report had seen a “historic crash,” the president wrote on Twitter Sunday, “Such an honor! Drudge is down 40% plus since he became Fake News. Most importantly, he’s bleeding profusely, and is no longer “hot”. But others are! Lost ALL Trumpers.”

The President who has been a frequent target of the change in editorial direction for Drudge has weighed in.

Drudge’s move raises some interesting questions that we simply don’t know the answer to. Here are some that come to mind. All of these questions presume that he has not actually sold the company:

  1. Matt Drudge came on the scene where there was pretty much no media servicing the conservative point of view. Did Mr. Drudge see this as a potential profitable market to be served independent of his personal views and act accordingly or did conservatism reflect his actual views at the time which coincided with market demand.
  2. Until the rise of Donald Trump Drudge was considered a reliable conservative voice. Is the editorial change exclusively a “NeverTrump” or “Trump must Go” change or will this be a permanent move to the left?
  3. Is the current editorial stance of the Drudge report revenue based, that is, has he accepted a large fee or regular fees to steer his coverage in its current direction?
  4. Does the current editorial direction of the Drudge report reflect Mr. Drudge’s personal views, if so does this reflect an evolution of his views or the fact that he is comfortable enough financially that he no longer needs to promote views he disagrees with to live well?
  5. Given that Matt Drudge is considered a rather private person and that he has done very well for decades does he really give a damn if his traffic is down or not?

In the end none of this matters. You can make a very nice living off advertising for a site that gets a 1/3 of what he is currently drawing now so unless Drudge has creditors chasing him or unless his name is recorded somewhere on a Ghislaine Maxwell’s list that we haven’t seen it’s very likely that Mr. Drudge is not going to be all that concerned about what anyone else thinks about his traffic

Governments cannot eliminate risk without eliminating freedom

Posted: October 8, 2020 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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This whole government overreaction to the Coronavirus pandemic has proved that the only way government can minimize risk is by minimizing freedom.   There is no other way for governments to minimize risk.  These lockdowns by states and municipalities, which are meant to minimize the risks associated with a supposedly deadly virus spreading wildly throughout their population, have resulted in the almost total loss of freedom for the majority of individuals living in this country.  This loss of freedom has resulted in tremendous harm to the individuals who have lost freedom and to the country as a whole.

Exercising your freedom naturally results in some form of risk.  It is something we as individuals all understand.  Throughout every day we make decisions based on this fundamental truth. We weigh the risks versus the benefits every time we decide to exercise out freedom.  The only person qualified to weigh the risks of exercising our freedom is each and every individual. 

An honest and thorough investigation of history will confirm that when government, even at the most local, attempts to decide for others which risks are more acceptable than others, government does a terrible job.  California, New York, and Massachusetts, with their disastrous lockdowns, have proved that governors of states do a tremendously poor job making these decisions for us.  It is far worse for every individual in the United States when the Federal Government attempts to minimize risk for us.  We should all be extremely grateful that President Trump followed the Constitution and did not lockdown the entire country.

Freedom used to be a concept that was universally cherished by everyone in this nation.  Sadly that no longer is true thanks to the brainwashing that has been taking place in our colleges and universities for decades.  Far too many individuals meekly accept the freedom destroying restrictions placed on them to minimize the risks associated with Coronavirus.  It turns out that Coronavirus is far less deadly than the media and so called experts make it out to be.  Even if it was far deadlier than it actually is that would not justify any freedom destroying restrictions.   Earlier generations would not have put up with these restrictions.

Whose Side China is on in Election 2020 explained in one Tweet

Posted: October 8, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

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