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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?

The Question Nobody is Asking About the War in Ukraine

Posted: September 28, 2026 by datechguy in in Ukraine, media, Uncategorized, war
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Richard Feynman

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a long time you will know that Russia’s War in Ukraine took an unexpected turn over the last year and a half.

Ukrainian drones have hit deep into Russia wreaking havoc economically and causing hardship inside Russia proper and effecting Russians in the Crimea to the point where people who moved there are leaving.

All of this puts the elderly Putin in a bad spot because if you’re an absolute ruler (no matter what “elections” take place) you can’t seem weak. Ukraine is a big piece of the old Russian empire (It belonged to Russia for centuries) and rebuilding it has been a dream of his since the old Soviet Union broke up and frankly it’s a dream that a lot of Russians likely share.

The drone attacks have been a great morale boost as well for the Ukrainians & have encouraged them to avoid a deal that has any concessions in it. I can certainly see their point, but today a question hit me that I had not considered.

During the American Civil War Rebel raiders on land (Nathan Bedford Forest) and at sea (The CSS Alabama & Shenandoah etc) did tremendous economic damage to the Union forces and grabbed headlines all over the world. They were the talk of every schoolboy & editors devoted column after column to them. William Tecumseh Sherman himself said that Forest needed to be caught if it bankrupted the country.

But for all their success and fame neither the raiders like Forest on land nor the various raiders at sea could stop the relentless advance of the Union Army which still had every advantage over the South.

And that leads to my question, the only one that matters:

Has Ukraine’s drone warfare caused the Russians to retreat from and/or abandon positions within Ukraine they once held?

I suspect the answer is “no” because if it was “yes” we’d be hearing about it.

The Ukrainians are rightly proud of their use of drone warfare and the effect it’s had on Putin’s Russia but in all the coverage I’ve not seen any stories about the Russian forces retreating or even losing ground.

That’s the bottom line is that if it doesn’t cause the Russians to lose ground it adds up to an annoyance & an annoyance will not be enough to stop Putin no matter how big it is.

I suspect that both countries are on their last legs and would love to end the war, but neither is willing to lose face as Putin would by not acquiring any territory and as Ukraine would by ceding any.

Cutting that Gordon knot is the key to ending the war in the short term.

In the long term however it’s going to be about Russia giving up plans to rebuild their empire and who comes after Putin but that a problem for another day.

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.

Today’s Book Quote: Putting “Good Morning America’s” Spin in perspective 18 from Fitchburg vs 18 from the entire US

Posted: September 3, 2026 by datechguy in Blame Trump, media, Today's Book Quote, war
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One of the disadvantages of going to my favorite breakfast place locally is having “Good Morning America” on in the background with it’s constant spin. Today’s spin was trying to declare the Iran war a disaster &to overestimate the power of Iran vs our own.

This is quite understandable when you consider that an American victory before the election is the last thing that media wants. If the choice is between our defeat & Iran getting the bomb or the Trump administration having a GOP congress for their final two years they will choose our defeat every single time because Orange Man Bad.

Ironically as I was hearing this spin I was, as I do when I go to breakfast alone reading a volume I didn’t know existed a few weeks ago. As the spin was going on to my right I read the following lines:

Of the eight hundred (more or less,) of Fitchburg [MA] who have served in the army at different times during the war, one hundred forty-two, or upwards of one in six, have fallen by the bullet or by disease contracted in the service.[emphasis mine]

Fitchburg in the War of the Rebellion Henry A Willis 1866 P 148.

I would like to note that at the time of the Civil War or as Mr. Lewis calls it: “The War of the Rebellion” Fitchburg Mass was still a town with town meetings and such and would not become a city for another decade.

The civil war lasted four years and if you take those 142 deaths and divide by four you get 35.5 a year, half that and you have 17.25 every six months.

Think about that math for a second.

During the civil war the town of Fitchburg Massachusetts averaged the loss of just over 17 men every six months.

In the six months that we’ve been fighting the Iran war the entire United States Military has lost 18 servicemen and women.

Yet today’s media declares this war a failure, that a nation of 360 million people is reaching the breaking point due to 18 dead in six months barely over one death for every three states.

I suspect the townsfolk of 1860’s Fitchburg whose young men died would be shocked by the conclusion of the media & even more shock that they’re on the other side.

I close with the following screenshot from a question I asked as I was finishing this post:

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Maybe it’s just me but if we were losing this war I would think that the number of servicemen Iran managed to kill in six month might just be over the amount of people who accidently drown in the US every two days.

But that’s just me.

UPDATE: Here is a more damming figure for the “Iran is winning” narrative:

So let’s put this is perspective.

225 US service men & woman die annually in accidents.

18 US service men & woman have died in 6 months of war with Iran.

That means that the number of deaths that Iran has inflicted on our service personal in six months of war is about 16% of the number of service men and women who die accidently.

I’m sorry if that’s winning a war I’d hate to see what losing is.

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