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Election 2026: It’s the Pastor Hall (or nothing has changed since 2016) Election

Posted: October 31, 2026 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, culture, politics
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Sir Thomas More: [More has been found guilty of treason, and now for the first time breaks his years-long adamant silence on Henry VIII’s divorce of Queen Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn] Since the Court has determined to condemn me, God knoweth how, I will now discharge my mind concerning the indictment and the King’s title. The indictment is grounded in an act of Parliament which is directly repugnant to the law of God, and his Holy Church, the Supreme Government of which no temporal person may by any law presume to take upon him. This was granted by the mouth of our Savior, Christ himself, to Saint Peter and the Bishops of Rome whilst He lived and was personally present here on earth. It is, therefore, insufficient in law to charge any Christian to obey it. And more to this, the immunity of the Church is promised both in Magna Carta and in the king’s own coronation oath!

Cromwell: Now we plainly see you *are* malicious!

Sir Thomas More: Not so. I am the king’s true subject, and I pray for him and all the realm. I do none harm. I say none harm. I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, then in good faith, I long not to live. Nevertheless, it is not for the Supremacy that you have sought my blood, but because I would not bend to the marriage!

A Man for All Seasons 1966

They came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on the Battle of Waterloo

10 years ago when this blog, while being in it’s post noticing Clinton & Epstein decline, still had some oomph in the blogosphere I wrote two pieces concerning election 2016 that were significant. An endorsement of Donald Trump once he won the GOP nomination:

I called my support for him a “leap of faith” but the real kicker was this:

I think the breaking point is near, I think there are a lot of people in this country who are deciding that the Government is openly hostile to them.  I think that the sight of women and gay men being beaten by leftists because they support the presumptive GOP nominee, having it happen in full sight of police ordered to do nothing AND SEEING THOSE OFFICERS CHOOSING TO LET THEM BE BEATEN means that they can not count on the authorities to obey their oaths of office if they think doing so might cost them their jobs.

Even worse than this is the obvious question it raises: If leftists are willing to resort to violence and boast about it before an election when it might hurt their ability to persuade the people to vote for them, how much more willing will they be to violently suppress their political foes when such behavior is rewarded with electoral victory by the people?

Thus my conclusion:

And the single best temporal step will be the election of Donald Trump and the breaking of the power of those Americans who have decided their fellow citizens are the enemy.

Again I don’t take this step lightly, I know that there will be times that Donald Trump will disappointment me just as I expected Mitt Romney to disappoint me on social issues and John McCain to disappoint me on immigration and George W Bush who disappointed me on spending and the bank bailouts.

But while Trump will occasionally disappoint me (when he does I’ll call him on it) I am convinced he will neither persecute me nor strip me of my rights for holding my Conservative Catholic beliefs and acting on them.

I am very sorry to say I can not make that same statement about Hillary Clinton, and I’m even sorrier to see the day when I would say this about a presidential candidate.

That was July 3rd just before the GOP convention. In October when the left’s October Surprise of the Billy Bush tape dropped a lot of people cut and ran.

I didn’t:

Now I concede this is bad, not only in terms of what was said but what it implies.  I strongly disapprove of it as I suspect many others like me do.

And that’s why I’ve chosen this moment, Catholic Blogger that I am, to double down and re-endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States!

Why would I do this?  Quite simple, I’m not going to let myself be played.  Let me explain.

My reasons were simple:

Nothing on that tape changes these truths.  Clinton is going to persecute me, Trump is not.

Furthermore in terms of electability there is one thing that still favors Donald Trump,  Hillary Clinton.

I must confess at the time I didn’t realize how true that statement actually was:

But here are the two key sections:

No this is about convincing those who still have to values to allow the election of someone who not only is directly opposed to all you hold dear but will persecute you on every level.  This is about tricking you into letting go of your one chance to stop your own destruction.  They want you to lose your nerve. Furthermore they want the GOP to lose their nerve and the press will do all they can do enable it.

In other words they are counting on you to be suckers.

And the results of the magic ballots in 2020 proved the point I made to Jonah Goldberg in spades:

Update 4: I respect Jonah Goldberg whose point is valid:

Either way, this video is not an aberration. It is not a special circumstance. It’s him. There’s no pivot in him. There’s no “presidential” switch to flip. He’s Donald Trump all the way down.

However given the reality that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States I ask Jonah this question:

If we concede that Donald Trump’s character is bad, Would it be better for the country to have a President of poor character who will be under intense scrutiny by the press, pols and law enforcement agencies (Trump) or to have a President of poor character who will be given a pass and or defended by the press, the pols and apparently the FBI regardless of what they say or do (Hillary).

I submit and suggest the answer is clearly the former.

Trump has proved that such a concession on Character is not necessary. I am and have been astounded at the quality of his character. It’s a coarse character which reminds me of many of the WW2 vets I knew as a youth but it’s a strong character which is a was a huge surprise given where he came from.

And to those now saying “He’s an election denier” let me answer with my favorite phrase on election 2020:

Joe Biden won election 2020 as sure as the Cincinnati Reds won the 1919 world series

But not let’s flash forward to 2026. It’s a mid-term election. Trump is not running for anything and will be gone in two years. His list of accomplishments is mind blowing that he’s done it in the face of the opposition and resistance from his own party in the Senate is even more incredible.

But let’s put that aside for one moment. I referred to this election as the Pastor Hall election. Let me explain why.

Pastor Hall is a movie from 1940 that I recently discovered which stared one of the most forgotten great actors of his time Wilfred Lawton as a protestant Pastor in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party who stands up and speaks out about what has happened to his country & is sent to a concentration camp because of it,

What’s interesting about the movie are these trivia quotes from IMDB

This film was officially banned in Chicago by the city’s police censor board, which deemed it “exceedingly controversial.”

Completed before WW2, but shelved at the behest of US distributors United Artists for fear of offending the Third Reich.

In the late ’30s, when the Boulting brothers submitted the script to the British Board of Film Censors (a common practice for years), it was rejected as unsuitable. The board claimed that it would have a negative effect on the Prime Minister’s attempt to make peace with Hitler. However, after war broke out, the film was instantly put into production as an anti-Nazi tract.

What’s really amazing is that it was argued that the portrayal of the Nazi concentration camps was considered too over the top to be real & a slander. The irony was in fact that the reality was so many degrees beyond what the movie suggested that if the US Army at the direction of IKE had not made sure things were documents and made sure the troops saw the reality people wouldn’t have believed it and many are still in denial today.

That bluntly is the state of the left.

10 years ago I wrote about my fears of what the left would do & quoted some of them above, reality has shown itself to be far worse than anything I had imagined from

  • the celebrations of the murder of Charlie Kirk for daring to engage
  • to the multiple attempts on Trump’s life
  • to the wholesale taking over of parts of cities
  • The refusal to enforce laws or prosecute violent crime
  • The withholding of FEMA funds to concervatives in National disasters

and a lot more I could say but I have to be somewhere shortly.

Put simply if you told 2006 me when I was 43 years old that the Democrat left would be openly doing the things & and openly advancing the things that they are, I would have called you a conspiracy nut.

It is quite evident that the reality is much worse than I ever dreamed.

Now I’ll concede that this is a midterm election, that even if the Democrats win the house and senate Trump will still be Trump and will do all he can for the country, but frankly I’ve reached a point where I don’t put anything past either the violent irrational people who are now the loudest on the left or the cowards who are silently consenting to their advancement out of a combination of fear, profit indifference or tribalism.

The statement from 2016 still stands: I trust Trump to protect my rights as an American, I can’t trust the Democrats to do the same and I now have 10 years of evidence to support that distrust.

I know I don’t have the reach and the oomph that I once did but I urge any of you considering sitting on the fence for this election to get out and vote for your own rights, because never forget in the history of the world, American freedom and prosperity are the exception, not the rule and if we lose it, it will be our own fault.

Closing thought: Take a look at the coup attempt currently in progress in Poland for daring to defy the EU. That is what the left has in store for us once they are strong enough to try it.

You have been warned.

Five September Thoughts Under the Fedora: Greenland, A Great Incentive , First Amendment Reality, Russian Noises and The Election Comes Closer

Posted: September 21, 2026 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, elections, politics, under the fedora
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So let me get this straight. We now have full military control of Greenland, independent of what happens with NATO and veto power over any other power doing a thing in the Island.

We have this without condition, without payment and without any responsibilities of the governance, and the press wants to pretend this is no big deal?

The best deal is the one where you get what you want and the other guy thinks they’ve pulled one over you. This is classic Trump.

No wonder the press is pissed.

The Washington Examiner is reporting that illegal immigrants are being increasingly deported to third world countries.

I can’t think of anything that might provide an incentive for people to decide to self deport or to not pay a coyote to smuggle into America.

I have no idea how accurate this report is but if I was Trump I’d spread this far and wide as the deterrent effect shold be considerable.

The text of the First Amendment is as follows:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

It says absolutely nothing about allowing CNN, MSNOW & Politico access to the president inside the White House.

All three “news” organizations are free to report whatever they want & present it however they want. When that stops, call me.

Russia seems to be making threatening noises in the direction of NATO countries and the Baltic states.

In one respect it makes perfect sense, NATO countries have been aiding Ukraine defense against Russia and pressure on such states and covert actions against them is only to be expected.

But given Russia’s lack of success in Ukraine proper I don’t see how they are in a position to open up a front in the east when such a move might not only unite Europe against them but when it means fighting a Polish military that is solid, intact and has plenty of motivation historically to give them a bloody nose.

The real question nobody is asking is this: How desperate is Putin’s position in Russia?

The most desperate is position is the more likely he will do something stupid or risky to restore it. That more than anything else is the real danger and the wildcard in play.

I’ve reached a point where I’m not sure who to believe when it comes to what’s happening in the national races.

I’m pretty much resigned to Massachusetts not learning from it’s mistakes that driving people out of the state but the sheer amount of noise coming from all sides makes it practically impossible to figure out what is actually happening.

I suspect this is by design but the noise doesn’t matter because reality will eventually bleed through.

Let’s hope it’s a good one for the country.

Iran and the Democrats Playing the Jefferson Davis 1864 War/Election Strategy

Posted: September 13, 2026 by datechguy in middle east, politics, war
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That Grand Old Army [of the Potomac] did performed many heroic acts but never in its history did it do a more devoted service than vote for Abraham Lincoln.

Unknown Soldier quoted by Ken Burns in The Civil War Episode Seven Host Hallowed Ground 1990

After the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg and the fall of the Mississippi river to the North the Confederate Armies were no longer capable of major offensive actions against the North. This was punctuated by the defeat of Braxton Bragg who failed to follow up on his victory at Chickamauga by seizing Chattanooga giving time for Grant to take over the armies there and defeat him and force his retreat back into Georgia & his relief.

With overwhelming forces the plan of the North was for Grant as general in chief accompanying the Army of the Potomac under Meade going after Lee & Richmond and with Sherman commanding the Army of the Tennessee going after Joe Johnston & Atlanta.

This was a problem for Jefferson Davis and the South. Both Union Armies were at least a half again larger than the Confederate Forces, they were well supplied by a United States whose industrial and agricultural sectors were expanding. Meanwhile the Union blockade was squeezing the South, inflation was rampant and despite interior lines the pressures from both advancing armies combined with raids on infrastructure were creating a supply crisis. The discontent on the home front meant that the government itself was in danger

It was true that daring raiders such as the CSS Alabama at sea and the genius of General Nathan Bedford Forest cavalry on land gave the North grief neither was sufficient to do more than annoy the forces of the Union Army or dent their trade and while Johnston was an excellent general and Lee, despite his defeat at Gettysburg was rightfully considered a military genius they simply weren’t strong enough to destroy the Armies converging on them.

Davis had one card left to play. The election of 1864 was coming and with the war was not popular. If the Democrats which has a large peace faction could manage to unseat Lincoln who was committed to conducting the war to the point of victory, the South could win diplomatically what they were incapable of winning militarily, and such an electoral defeat of the GOP might even bring France or England on board diplomatically to end the war.

Thus is was the job for Lee and Johnston to do all they could to slow the advances of Grant and Sherman making sure it was costly in terms of time and lives to put the Democrats in power who would be amiable to the end of the war, even if it meant a defeat for the Union while expelling the hated Lincoln from the scene.

162 years later Iran and the Democrats have the exact same game plan.

Iran has been creative in their use of drones in order to try and overwhelm US capabilities and to strike (with aid & intelligence from Russia & China) bases in the middle east and the Houthi’s moves against the Saudi’s can drive the price of gas up but in the end Iran can only resupply by land and very slowly, they can’t sell their oil to get hard cash, their tankers which are not being blockaded find themselves venerable to the US navy at sea. What’s left of their air force is currently on the ground in Pakistan to avoid destruction, their navy HAS been destroyed & their army dare not move against US bases in the area for fear of being desiccated, that is even if they could manage the logistics to move, supply and feed their forces.

For all their loud talk and big treats they are unable to do much to wit:

Four days later no missiles are heading to Israel, which is just as well as Israel are much less reluctant to hit Iranian targets in Iran as we are and could even decide to go after the Houthis (although I suspect they will make the Saudi’s ask for the help or to sign the Abraham Accords before they do). Iran can basically hunker down and take it, but they can do one other thing, STALL.

Iran knows there is an American election in less than 60 days. Iran also knows that Democrats hate Donald Trump much more than they love America (at least among the minority of Democrats who do according to pols). They know that the Democrat left will do all they can to have the war end in an American defeat & will advance propaganda to that effect. If they can keep the price of gas high enough and create enough economic cost they hope to cause President Trump to end the stranglehold on the nation giving them a chance to rebuild. It will take years to do so, but that’s better than the Islamic republic falling.

In 1864 the Army of the Potomac had a ton of votes and despite the Democrat nominee being their beloved first commander who treated them well they voted enmasse for Abraham Lincoln and came from people all over the nation. In my city of Fitchburg which was still a town at the time of the war, a book on Fitchburg’s service members needed many many pages to list them all. They knew what they were fighting for

Today those in the service & who have served know what Iran is and who the enemy is, but they are a tiny minority of the country.

So it will be up to the non-serving members of the public, if Iran will be more successful than the Confederates.

May we as a nation have the wisdom to see things as they are.

Five Quick: 0-3 Trying to Kill Trump Thoughts Under the Fedora: Methinks the Left Objects too much, Who Moi?, Trump Now 2nd on the All Time List, Don’t know much about the “Teacher of the Month” from CA, A class closing act

Posted: April 26, 2026 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, media, Uncomfortable Truths, under the fedora
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I was in a middle of a full screen game when DaWife told me about the attempt to kill Trump and when I checked my feed on the subject the first things I saw was the left either

  1. Claiming Trump had faked this
  2. Objecting to the right being blaming them for trying to kill him a 3rd time

I’m sorry but if you want people to not think these things perhaps go lighter on the whole “Trump is Hitler” thing, but in fairness given what we’re seeing these days in Maine if Trump WAS Hitler the left would likely support him.

Speaking of what we’ve been seeing

Here is the right response from someone who doesn’t like Trump

The summit of this nonsense was this:

Although the best answer was of course this:

Let’s go to the video

Grok’s Pointed gun standard which doesn’t count Palm Springs not withstanding this puts Trump two behind Lincoln for 2nd place on the attempted assassinations all time for Presidents.

It would be nice if he doesn’t get a chance to break the record but given the left being the left and that we’re not even half way into this 2nd term I think he might do so

Of course in fairness the idea that at an event full of people who would privately cheer him being killed someone would try to do so isn’t all that odd. BTW can you imagine if the assassin succeeded yesterday how difficult it would have been for the assembled press to feign public outrage with all those camera running?

It was interesting enough to see the general silence since the attempt took place with them there and nobody had a chance to establish the left’s desired narrative nor feed it to those in attendance.

We don’t know much about the teacher of the month who has been arrested except that:

  • He’s fast
  • He shot a Secret Service agent who fortunately had body armor
  • He managed not to be shot and killed, how I haven’t figured out
  • If this guy was “Teacher of the Month” it’s more proof you need your kids out of public school

Given the use of AI these days I’m going to be a bit more careful about what gets spread today about him as the technology to manufacture a narrative has exploded but I must say I think this take is pretty good:

.Already we are seeing people trying to say he’s Mossad or that it’s all about an excuse to start shooting in Iran again (he doesn’t need an excuse btw Actually it would be more legit if he was an Iranian agent instead of just the avg loony lefty, after all we’re fighting a war against them and in war the other side gets to shoot back.), but we can expect everything from gay fanboy of Tucker Carlson trying to impress him to fanatical Catholic upset at the clash with the Pope.

No matter how wacked some narratives are there are fools online who will buy them if it fits their worldview.

The trial will be interesting but I alas think Van Jones is right about one thing:

“I’m starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi [Mangione], who shot a CEO to death and somehow became a hero. So, they said tonight you saw the worst of America. You saw the best of America. Tonight, you definitely saw the best of America. I hope on Monday we don’t see the worst again. 

The chances of this not happening are so zero.

Finally Trump’s press conference was both informative and gracious you can watch it here:

This was likely the best dressed news conference in the history of Presidential press conferences.

Could you imagine giving such a press conference less than an hour after someone tried to kill you? This guy has ice in his veins.

The security for the new event in 30 days should be interesting.

I’ll close with a quote from Stonewall Jackson:

He who does not see the hand of God in this is blind, sir. Blind!

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