It is now less than two months before The Donald again assumes duties as Massa. That is, as President of the United States: the most powerful office in world history: an elected tyrant or monarch that ultimately has more power than any other ruler on the planet, and in 6,000-7,000 years. More potential power, even if he and his predecessors have never exercised it.
Of course, Uncle Joe (and the people who try to and often do apparently control him) had that for four years and we are still here. Things may be bad, but they could be far worse. Will it be any different with The Donald?
Is disaster on the horizon – are we watching the clock tick down to “doomsday,” as the talking heads seem to push?
Or could we once again muddle through and avoid the disasters that so many people think they see coming. But fear sells, so…
We say two months, assuming that something doesn’t happen. To Orange-Man-Bad, to the FedGov, to the entire planet, of course. There are a lot of things, of course, that can happen. He can have a stroke, a heart attack, or a successful wannabe assassin. He could have a car crash or a plane crash; someone could poison him, stab him, or figure out some way to get a judge to put him behind bars. Theoretically, a Woke military could stage a coup and keep him from taking office.
This article describes how the FedGov’s. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a 2020 plan (during the Beer Flu Pandemic Panic) to create concentration camps for Americans who were classified as susceptible to the COVID disease, including the elderly, those with immunity problems, and others with high health risk factors: people of any age with “serious underlying medical conditions.” (That last phrase is understood to include obesity, diabetes and asthma.)The camp inmates would be given minimal food rations and some cleaning supplies but little else. There would be no religious services (provided from outside, at least, and difficult with mandatory enforced isolation (“distancing”). Oh, and no provisions for legal appeal or right to legal counsel.
Time and time again, we see American judges – from the Supremes on down – twist the definitions of words to suit their activist, political, and often Woke agenda. Not that so-called “conservative” judges do not act the same way.
The FDA announced early last month that close to 80,000 pounds of Costco’s Kirkland Signature Butter was being pulled and that recall has just been upgraded to a Class II as of November 7.
Warning: (May) Contain Milk
The reason? “The labels did not contain the warning “Contains Milk” even though the ingredients listed include “cream.”
Colorado is considered a “Blue State” today – having voted against the GOP and Trump in the last three elections. And with the State GOP in seemingly permanent disarray, and a frankly worthless LP; the General Assembly (both houses) is a hotbed of regressive actions. Maybe not up to California “standards” but bad.
But the reality is different. Despite the gerrymandering (the usual political partisanship both old parties engage in), Colorado’s congressional delegation is evenly split: 4 to 4. (Both senators are currently Dems, together with most State officials.) The final race was just called 6 days after Election Day, when a GOP member defeating the Democrat by only a few hundred votes in District 8. District 8 is the northern side of the Metro Denver area, stretching along US85 to the college city of Greeley and including portions of oil- and gas-rich Weld County, and parts of both Adams and Larimer County. Those two counties are dominated by “liberal” (regressive) cities: Aurora and Fort Collins (home of Colorado State University).
Democrats losing District 8 is shattering the Front Range: the Democratic urban area stretching nearly from Wyoming all the way to just north of Colorado Springs. (Colorado Springs is the small rectangular red area: home of massive Army, Air, and Space Forces installations).
The gerrymandering was exquisite.
The Eastern Plains (deeply conservative ranching, farming, and oil) were lumped together with Douglas County, which has become another bedroom suburia for Metro Denver and as liberal as the other seven counties around Denver.
The Western Slope (again mostly deeply conservative ranching, oil, and once upon a time farming and timber) was also crafted carefully. In addition to the Woke wealthy areas like Telluride and Durango, it was stuck with the Hispanic San Luis Valley and Trinidad and the union-strong Pueblo area. All very loyal to the Democrats, of course. But not this year.
Two of the blue districts are most of Denver Metro, but the two larger blue districts are carefully (and weirdly) laid out. The north one is rooted firmly on Boulder and Fort Collins (university towns) and a few mountain liberal bastions (Aspen, Steamboat Springs). The south one holds regressive Woke Jefferson and Broomfield Counties, with Vail and Dillon, and drags the Central Rockies along with it: conservatives and libertarians in the mountains are vastly outnumbered.
Still, the Democrats hold great power because they control the major urban areas. Denver reelected their harridan with 76% of the vote. And the votes in most other districts were close.
But as in the rest of the States, the Democrats did it to themselves. For once, the Republicans couldn’t make enough of a mess of their party to defeat themselves.
How did the Democrats do it? They estranged much of the Hispanic vote, for one. Although Colorado has its more than fair share of recent immigrants, many Coloradoans of Hispanic heritage are descendants of settlers back in the 1600s when it was part of Mexico Nuevo. They apparently even ticked off a lot of black Coloradoans – the State followed national trends which saw many more black men vote red this year. Even though the urban areas far outvote and dominate the rural areas, many traditional Democratic voters in those rural areas either switched sides or just didn’t vote. Coupled with similarly disaffected Democrats in suburban areas, it has tilted Colorado. At least temporarily.
Sadly, the Colorado LP – the original home of the modern Libertarian Party – is about as dysfunctional as it is possible to be and still exist. Or so it seems. Even more so than the Colorado Republican Party is. And it is pretty bad: torn between the extreme (and apparently popular) Lauren Bobert wing and the growing number of “compassionate conservatives” who seek some influence with the Democrat majority in the General Assembly. And mostly that means caving in on anything and everything, instead of taking a stand. A forlorn hope, in multiple ways.
The entire State is up in the air – a state of flux. But we fear that for now, despite the split congressional delegation, Colorado is increasingly captive to the Regressive tyrants of both the Democratic Party and their GOP “opponents.” There is less and less room for liberty in the beautiful State.
Cannibals, we all know, eat their own kind – even if they do not see that particular individual on the BBQ to be “fully human.”
Consider Alferd Packer of Colorado gold rush fame. According to the local newspaper, the judge’s sentencing statement went like this:
Stand up yah voracious man-eatin’ sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of ’em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t’ be hanged by th’ neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin’ ag’in reducin’ th’ Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.[23]
But the really evil, perverted types of cannibals, whatever their excuse, will eat even their own. Not just those they don’t think are “real people.”
Again, having looked at a Republican (if indeed Packer was), consider the words of “Independent” (Socialist) Bernie Sanders, just hours after the massive defeat of the Democratic Party in 2024:
As we listen today to the media-inspired and politician-encouraged screams of how Americans’ rights have been taken away, how women are property and a hideous military (well, fascist) dictatorship has descended upon the American people? What are we to think?
The level may vary, but the cries of fear and loathing are little different from what we heard in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and the last year or so.
Or for that matter, or virtually all of human history. For people understand that government – specifically the rulers and the power behind their thrones and their goons and shills – is evil and delights in treating humans (outside their select group) in horrible ways.
Solomon told us there is nothing new under the sun. So let us consider this, from the Sixth Century BC.
The brazen bull was a horrifying invention designed to make death itself a spectacle.
Bad as The Donald is, we cannot help but be grateful that Kammie the Commie is going to have to pack up and move further than the few blocks from Blair House to the White House come January.
Yes, we know it is fall (especially since we finally got freezing temps at night here in the compound). But except for the never-Trumpers and the totally brainwashed or master manipulators in “Blue,” a lot of people seem to be relieved that we will not have a fourth Obummer term.
One of the major issues in the States in which almost all libertarians disagree with most conservatives and a fair number of “liberals” (progressives or Regressives) is prohibition of cannabis (marijuana). Advocates of legalization had high hopes for 2024. Those were dashed.
Not just in the elections, but in other government actions as well.
Ballotpedia discusses the results of the election here.
Early 2024 status map (courtesy LifeHacker.com)
Five ballot issues regarding marijuana were on the ballot in various states: legalization of recreational marijuana was defeated in Florida, North and South Dakota, but in Nebraska two ballot measures will allow and regulate medical marijuana. (Both Dakotas and Florida have legalized medical use; South Dakota had previously approved recreational use in a popular vote which was overturned in court.)
As you read this, it is now at least 24 hours since the polls closed on “the most important election in our lifetimes” according to pundits and celebrities of all political flavors. Whether we believe that or not, whether all the races are resolved or not, we take a certain pleasure in having made it this far. If nothing else, most of the ads will stop. The mailboxes will be emptier, the neighborhood corners and empty lots will start to get cleaned up.
As we are writing this, we have no idea who won where. No idea where there were protests, riots, gunfire, bombings, concessions, or claims one way or another.
But we do suspect that virtually all of the people alive when we wrote this early on election morning are still alive this Post-Election Day evening as this is posted.
The Price of Liberty 
Can things get better in the next two months?
It is now less than two months before The Donald again assumes duties as Massa. That is, as President of the United States: the most powerful office in world history: an elected tyrant or monarch that ultimately has more power than any other ruler on the planet, and in 6,000-7,000 years. More potential power, even if he and his predecessors have never exercised it.
Of course, Uncle Joe (and the people who try to and often do apparently control him) had that for four years and we are still here. Things may be bad, but they could be far worse. Will it be any different with The Donald?
Is disaster on the horizon – are we watching the clock tick down to “doomsday,” as the talking heads seem to push?
Or could we once again muddle through and avoid the disasters that so many people think they see coming. But fear sells, so…
We say two months, assuming that something doesn’t happen. To Orange-Man-Bad, to the FedGov, to the entire planet, of course. There are a lot of things, of course, that can happen. He can have a stroke, a heart attack, or a successful wannabe assassin. He could have a car crash or a plane crash; someone could poison him, stab him, or figure out some way to get a judge to put him behind bars. Theoretically, a Woke military could stage a coup and keep him from taking office.
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