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Five “A Week Without Work” Thoughts Under the Fedora Fortunate Timing, The Interviews Keep Coming, The Craziest interview end I’ve ever had, No Pain and Surprisingly no Gain and the Preview of Coming Attractions Trap

Posted: May 16, 2026 by datechguy in business, culture, personal, under the fedora
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As a general rule there is no good time to be unemployed, however just as my last day became in stone my wife’s Asthma which had been pretty much under control flared up something horrible to the point where she ended up unable to function without multiple nebulizer treatments and a bunch of new perscriptions.

She ended up home sick for a week and it turned out I was very available to help her and keep an eye on things.

If you’re going to lose a job that’s the time to do so.

Last week I had three job interviews and a job fair. This week coming I have a 2nd interview at the job I want the most, and two other jobs that I can move to the “next step” on. I have also not double check availability on a third position that a friend clued me into.

To say that this is a huge contrast to the 13 months with only a single job interview during the Obama years is the understatement of the year.

Apparently it’s a buyers market for Job seekers, even in Massachusetts.

How good is the market? I went to one interview last week for a national company that has local warehouses. The job itself seemed pretty straightforward although requiring a bit of physical labor and the pay is very good it unfortunately is a 12 hour shift FIVE days a week.

If I was turning 43 on Monday instead of 63 I think I would have jumped at it as that would have pretty much doubled my pay and put all my debts in order in no time. It’s the type of job a young guy who wants to buy a house should rush to grab. Being an honest bloke I told the interviewer that I don’t know if at 63 I’m physically capable of a 5 day 12 hour shift that ends at 5:30 AM anymore, but if I found nothing else I’d certainly consider and would like to be kept in mind on that basis.

We shook hands and I headed to the exit and out the door into a pouring rain, when I was half way to the car he literally came running out into the rain calling me back. I presumed I had forgotten something but instead he mentioned that there is an opening on that shift for a supervisor and that while I might not be physically able to do 5 days 60 hours of serious labor I might be able to do those hours as a supervisor. He urged me to apply for that position.

That’s one hell of a boost to the ego when it comes to self worth, but it also illustrates the difference in the job market when a 63 year old guy gets chased into a rainstorm to be asked to apply for a job.

This week I’ve had a lot of time to be with DaWife, cook for DaWife and go out to eat with DaWife but due to the weather have not had time to walk and it goes without saying that the physical aspects of my previous employment are not taking place.

I found myself dreading weighing myself as I suspected I had put a bunch weight back on. I had gone into my final day down needed 2.2 pounds to complete my diet (down 51.1 out of the 53.3 goal). Today I weighed myself fully expecting to be outside of the five pound window and having to go hard, but instead found myself 3.8 pounds from completing my died (down 49.5) which is basically in the 2 pound range that I’ve been for a couple of week as those final pounds to officially end my diet just won’t go.

It was a pleasant surprise but I have to make sure I don’t get comfortable with it. That’s the danger.

Speaking of danger there has been one thing apparent over this week.

I’ve done the math & figured out that if I we work to age 70 both my wife and I can retire off of social security alone & cover all our regular bills and still go out several times a week without an issue while reserving all we’ve saved for retirement for special things, maybe a day trip or two, perhaps some season tickets to the woo-sox, maybe another quilting trip etc etc etc.

As I’ve mentioned before I’m the son of depression era parents with a father who served in World War Two and the grandchildren of a bunch of folks who were born in Sicily in the 1800’s with very little to their name who came here 120 years ago for a better future. I find a life spending the day with my wife at home, cooking for her, maybe hitting daily mass, punctuated by a few dinners or breakfasts out & shooting the breeze with strangers at a lunch or dinner counter while reading a book to be a pretty nice life.

I don’t need big flashy trips, expensive stuff or anything else much. I know enough about history to understand that a nice quiet life with a few comforts is all a person really needs.

Alas this week I’ve had a preview of that life and I REALLY like it, however I can’t have this life until I work another seven years to get it, so it’s no time to be lazy about finding work, however comfortable this time living off a severance package and unused vacation time seems.

It’s a trap & I have to make sure I don’t fall for it.

Minnesota Shooting: Five Thoughts Under the Fedora: Leftists Crying in public rejoicing in private, Useful idiot Becomes even more Useful dead, One of Two “That Could Have Been Me” reactions, Evidence smemidence Narrative Uber Alles! and Bad Narcissistic Parenting

Posted: January 8, 2026 by datechguy in immigration, media, politics
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Well the moment that the left has been waiting for and working hard to achieve has finally come.

Lefty pols, lefty press and lefty activists have been doing all they can to produce a dead body that they can decide to lay at the feet of Trump and ICE and now that has come to pass. Several thoughts:

  1. Do not think for one moment that the pols the activists and the press are sad about this woman’s death. I submit and suggest they are absolutely delighted. This has been their goal for almost a year and they’ve done all they can to produce it. While they might have preferred a person of color to be the body in order to cry “racism” the fact that this is a white lesbian woman with children will fill the bill in other ways for them. While publicly they will wail and gnash their teeth I assure you privately they are overjoyed, particularly at the prospect of taking Minnesota fraud out of the news loop.
  2. I feel bad for the dead woman in question and her family. Not because her actions didn’t warrant getting shot, trying to run over a federal agent is a fine way to get yourself killed but while it’s possible that she was all in on the “ICE is the Gestapo” business based on reporting she was persuaded to come down and her lawfully married spouse who was busy was busy blaming herself for making her come down there. Now her dead body and her family are going to be exploited again by the left and used as a prop. You’ll see tearful pols and angry leftists screaming bloody murder and talking fondly of the dead as a brave warrior for freedom when she was in fact a useful idiot who is more useful now that she’s dead than alive.
  3. This will have one of two effects on the rest of the useful idiots out there being paid to harass ICE who should at this point realize: “Oh my God this could have been me!”. I suspect given the idiocy of the left we will get a lot more of the 2nd than the first.
    • What the hell am I doing out here risking getting killed? The money isn’t worth it, I’m being used!
    • This lady will be remembered as a “hero” If it happens to me my life will have meaning and purpose at last!
  4. The fact that there is plenty of video evidence that this woman refused to leave her car when ordered and was trying to run down the Ice agent (whether due to panic or malice) will be immaterial to either the leftist pols or the leftist media or anyone else. Their narrative is out there and no actual physical evidence will matter. Tim Waltz particular is going to go all in as the topic is no longer him or the scandals in the state and even better for the left the President’s success in Venezuela and vs Russia and the revolt in Iran, all of them stories they do NOT want to cover, can be pushed to the back burner. Reality doesn’t matter to these people, just the narrative and now they have their narrative and they’ll push it through as many news cycles as they can, oh and don’t think for one moment that those involved in the fraud will use this distraction caused by this to destroy records etc that will hurt their cause.
  5. Finally Consider this from a non-political angle. You’re a woman with young children, what the HELL are you doing harassing federal agent during the day and taking this kind of risk? What kind of example are you setting? With your spouse filming are you really more interested in getting a viral moment than being a mother to your children? What parent sets this kind of example, and if she was pressured by her spouse what parent doesn’t resist such pressure for the sake of her kids? It reminds me of the transgender craze where mothers are spaying their own kids for status. It’s bad parenting, it’s narcissism and her kids are going to pay the price for the rest of their lives.

Obvious Questions For Democrats Under the Fedora: We’re Armed, Boo Saving Astronauts, An Army of Chuck Schumers, Nobody answering Fetterman’s Question, Future Judgement

Posted: March 21, 2025 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Will someone please ask all these idiots who are cheering violence against Tesla cars and Tesla owners, who are by and large rich leftists if they REALLY want to normalize political violence in a country when a very large amount of their political foes are armed?

One of the dumbest things POTUS 46 Mr. Autopen did was not allow Elon Musk to save the Astronauts who were stranded in the space station in orbit.

Will somebody ask the Democrats what the plan was if Kamala won? If Musk was going to be persona-non-grata and Boeing wasn’t able to get the job done how were the Astronauts going to get down?

By not letting Musk do it was Biden was still in office their rescue became a TRUMP success and a Biden/Democrat failure instead of it being an AMERICAN success.

Idiots.

You don’t have to go far on the net or the media to see leftists denouncing Chuck Schumer as the greatest traitor since Judas for voting for cloture on the GOP budget.

Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who already announced he would vote for cloture was already pissing off Democrats for his support of Israel that he shares with Schumer so hitting him would be redundant but Schumer, he was a new and apparently legit target.

Jon Stewart did a huge piece on Schumer first acting tough then folding on a shutdown and in that piece he noted that the GOP needed 8 votes to stop a Democrat filibuster.

Yet while Stewart named and shamed Schumer he seems to be weak on his math as Schumer and Fetterman only brought the GOP vote to 53 as Rand Paul did not support the the bill leaving the GOP still seven votes short.

This proved not to be a problem as Gillibrand Schumer’s fellow Democrat senator from NY, Both NH Democrat Senators Hassan and Shaheen (who is retiring), Cortez-Matso of Nevada , Schatz of Hawaii, Peters of Michigan, Angus King of Maine an independent caucusing with Democrats) and Dick Durbin (Illinois) the Democrat Whip and #2 Dem in the Senate.

Yet neither Stewart nor any of the other leftists screaming bloody murder online or on the air seem to have a word to say about any of them?

I wonder why?

Speaking of Fetterman he asked a rather practical question concerning cloture, what’s the endgame?

If the government shuts down and the Trump administration gets the right to furlough all the Federal workers (and trust me he wasn’t about to close national parks like Obama did) that he wanted to what is the endgame? What do Democrats do next? Unlike the republican who like the idea of a smaller government Dems love big government.

What was the plan? Was there a plan? Was there a way out?

Nobody on the left seems to have an answer to this question and none of the people screaming for King Chuckie’s head seem to have one either.

Finally while the left keeps running to court to try to slow Donald Trump advance through the government he runs nobody seems to be asking the single most obvious question concerning this tactic.

Right now left is judge shopping trying to curtail the power of the president in the knowledge that they will have to face a Supreme Court which only has 3 secure Democrat votes, perhaps 4 with John Roberts.

What happens in 4 to 12 years when the Democrats come back to power and the GOP decides to judge shop to stop them? What happens when those cases go to a Supreme Court that Donald Trump and/or JD Vance had 4-12 years naming members to?

Nobody seems to want to answer that question.

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.

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