Why didn't Congress fund Operation Warp Speed?

 Because the Democrats would rather you die, than Donald Trump get any credit at all.

The real scandal is why Congress never put big funding behind Operation Warp Speed–thus requiring the administration to fund OWS by surreptitiously cutting elsewhere. The Trump administration gets blamed for its inept handling of the pandemic but Congress is supposed to be in charge of the laws and the purse strings and Congress was an abysmal failure. Who in Congress lauded let alone funded Operation Warp Speed, the only big success of the pandemic response?

It's not like the Democrats value your life at all, or your freedoms, rights, liberties, personal property, or any other thing that allows you to survive outside of the government.  Youi are nothing to them.  The Democrats hate you, and they want you to die.  Why should they fund an initiative that would let you live, and open the country up sooner than they want?  Opening up the country removes some of their power, and they can't have that.

Funding Operation Warp Speed would have been antithetical to everything they want.

It felt damn good to ride today

 36 degrees when I left the house.  61 when I came home.  Thank the Mrs. for insisting I get a modular helmet.

And now they've cancelled Dr. Seuss

 Although what they hate isn't really Dr. Seuss.  It's you, and everything you stand for.  It's the middle-class American family who goes to church on Sunday and cheers at Friday night football games.  It's the two-parent nuclear family that they want to cancel, and they're attacking anything and everything associated with it by calling it "racist" or "problematic".

Dr. Seuss isn't racist.  He was, in fact, and anti-racist, and his books reflect that.  But like Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", which was one of the greatest anti-racist books ever written when it was published, it can't be allowed to exist because it conflicts with the narrative being pushed by anti-family, anti-American groups.  Like Black Lives Matter, who used to have the balls to admit that they wanted to destroy the two-parent nuclear family.  But they took that part down from their mission statement a while ago, when it became problematic for them to admit their goals.  Of course, they didn't renounce their goals, they just hid them from the public.

You know, no matter how much I hate and loath Marxists, I never called for the banning of Das Kapitol, or Mein Kampf, because I wanted them out there for people to see.   I wanted people to see and hear exactly what the Marxists believed.  Marxists don't want anyone to see or hear you or what you believe, because they're afraid of it.

Texas is open

 About damn time.  Now if Utah will stop being a cringy little bitch and follow suit.

The Establishment can go fuck themselves

 I don't have an argument with the author of this piece, but it's what his friend said close to the end that gave me a red curtain of blood over my eyes.

Not long after I got to CPAC this year, I tweeted that GOP voters will no longer accept candidates who do not support their interests. A good friend who hews closer to the old establishment than I do responded, asking what if the voters don’t know what is in their own interests.

They honestly think they're smarter than you.  They honestly think they have the right to tell you what to do, and what's in your own "best interests".

They have fucked this country beyond all belief.  They have surrendered every last principle they claimed to have, they've given away your freedoms hand over fist.  They've turned a free and prosperous nation into a marxist police state, and they think they can tell you what your own best interest is.

Fuck the GOP establishment.  They are nothing but arrogant, clueless, isolated, insulated from reality, big-state, nanny-government shitstains, and they can all go to hell.  

Do read the whole thing, because despite what the establishment GOP thinks, we're not going back to allowing them to stab us in the back and sell us to the National Socialist Democrat Workers Party.  This is Trump's GOP, and we're far better for it.

The Way Forward

 Or, as I like to say, Embrace the Suck.

So, what does all this mean? Many traditional Americans are sleepwalking into a conflict they are not mentally prepared to handle. The ideals of blind justice and due process are now, for all intents and purposes, quaint relics, and relying on constitutional rights for protection is dangerously naïve. 

Like it or not, we live in a police state, controlled by an increasingly authoritarian regime with near-total electronic surveillance. The national security apparatus views conservatives and free-thinkers as domestic terrorists, and there are now more military deployed in our nation’s capital than in war zones overseas. If America were any other country, it would be considered a non-permissive environment—not a free country.

The future is going to suck.  There's no getting around it.  There's no voting our way out of it.  It will suck, and if you want to survive, you must Embrace the Suck.  Know that it's going to suck, and move forward with your eyes open.  Not doing anything will suck even worse.  There are no good options, every option sucks.  So pick the least sucky option, and Embrace the Suck.

I stole this

 

From here.

For the Second Sunday of Lent

Miserere mei, Deus.

The F-35 needs to be scrapped

 Bring back production of the F-22 in the meantime while you go back to the drawing board.

In spite of its advanced technology and cutting-edge capabilities, the latest stealth fighter suffers from structural flaws and slew of challenges.

Most recent among them is a structural engine flaw and shortage in its production.

The F-35’s engine problem is partly based in not being able to deliver them for maintenance as fast as needed, in addition to a problem with the heat coating on its rotor blades which shortens engine lifespan considerably.

Defense News described it as a “serious readiness problem”, suggesting that as soon as 2022, nearly 5 to 6 per ent of the F-35 fleet could be effectively grounded as it waits for engine replacements.

Another challenge is the plane’s software. Most modern fighter jets have between 1 to 2 million lines of code in their software. The F-35 averages 8 million lines of code in its software, and it’s suffering from a bug problem.

To fix this, the US Department of Defense is asking three American universities to help figure it out.

The fighter jet also suffers from a slightly embarrassing touchscreen problem. After making the switch from hard flipped switches to touch screens, pilots report that unlike a physical switch that you’re confident has been activated, touch screens in the plane don’t work 20 percent of the time says one F-35 pilot. 

One of my acquaintances happens to work on F-35s, and he was recently deployed to the ME with his squad.  To say the planes had issues would be an understatement.  The plane is a money suck that doesn't work.  It needs to be scrapped.

Jeff Bezos is a worthless sack of walking garbage

 And might I suggest not giving Amazon so much damn money?

Amazon has shown its true colors, once again, when it comes to celebrating and appreciating diversity: if your ideals don’t align with the team-left narrative, you will not be celebrated. 

In the midst of Black History Month, Amazon pulled a critically acclaimed and popular documentary on conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black justice currently serving on the Supreme Court, from its streaming platform. 

The documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” is “currently unavailable to watch in your location,” the website reads when the title is clicked. 

The outage appears to be nationwide, as reported by Breitbart.

Commies gonna commie, and Bezos is a commie.  So are a huge chunk of the people running Amazon.

The proof of the pudding is in the tasting

 You want to live through a pandemic?  Stop electing Democrats.

Now that the pandemic has dealt severely with every state in the country, it’s fair to evaluate individual states’ performance—and it’s clearer than ever which ones are responding effectively. 

Maybe if the Democrats actually focused on real world problems instead of their make-believe world, they wouldn't have screwed up so badly when a real world problem hit.  But given that Democrats don't seem to actually recognize reality anymore:

I think all the drugs they were doing in the 60's and 70's have come back to hit them, even the ones who weren't born then.  Don't ask me how that works.  I don't know.

Most of the media in this country is garbage, and this little cartoon nails it.

 

The Green New Deal preview

 It happened in Texas.

In short, between Feb. 8 and Feb. 16 wind power plunged 93% while coal rose 47% and gas 450% according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). What all this demonstrates, says the Journal, is that an electricity grid that depends on unreliable wind and solar needs baseload power, especially coal and nuclear power.  While natural gas is crucial it is not as reliable.

The mainstream media wanted to hear none of this. 

The Cult of Glow-bull Warming is the new religion, and the cult members are zealots.  I like to blow their minds out by reminding them that twenty thousand years ago, the middle of our country (Kansas to be specific) was under two miles of ice.  What caused all that ice to melt, hmmmmm?  Coal-fired electric plants?  SUVs?

If your state is planning on switching to wind power, tell them "NO!" in no uncertain terms.

The CU CateCast: The Perils of Mixing-In Eastern Spirituality

I listened to some of the Merrick Garland hearing

 You can go read the transcripts, but please understand that the transcripts don't convey just what a shambling, pathetic excuse of a man Garland truly is.  He can't get one single sentence out without stammering, "um um um um um" and other verbal tics.  This guy was a prosecutor?  I think that explains the horrible condition of our judicial system.

Yes - I've Seen All Good People Live 1973 (Best Version)

I just wanted some good music today.

Did Biden slur the n-word in a speech?

 I honestly don't think he did.  I think he's so far gone into dementia that even as he's reading a teleprompter he glitches and babbles out nonsense.  I can't begin to imagine the drugs they use to keep that drooling halfwit upright.  So when his eyes cross and he begins a word salad of bullshit, it's just another sign that he's a brainless puppet who long passes his expiration date.

Every time you think Seattle can't get worse, they get worse

 Free drug pipes!  And lessons on how to use heroin RECTALLY.

Rantz reports that the “low-barrier shelters” say they give advice on “harm-reduction techniques,” which apparently includes showing addicts how to better hide their addictions by injecting the drug rectally.

They even provided helpful how-to posters inside the shelters and encouraged residents to ask them how to rectally inject heroin or smoke it because “smoking is a lower-risk alternative to injection. Give it a try!”

The government of Seattle is enabling the drug addicts that have taken over downtown.  I used to jokingly refer to Seattle as "San Fran North".  It's not a joke any more.  You couldn't pay me to go to Seattle right now, as I don't want to step over human feces and used needles in order to get a cup of coffee, and I don't want to be assaulted by some drug addict trying to get money for his next hit.

This is why you cannot trust the government with your safety or your liberty

 Because the government does not care about truth, facts, or reality.

In yet another story purporting to confirm the left’s view of the world, Jana Winter reported in Yahoo News Friday that “the U.S. government is acknowledging for the first time that right-wing extremists were responsible for the majority of fatal domestic terrorist attacks last year, according to an internal report circulated by the Department of Homeland Security last week.” But as you might expect, it’s long on vague assertions and decidedly short on facts.

This is another lead-up to destroying your constitutional rights under the guise of "defeating terrorism".  They didn't do a fucking thing about BLM or Antifa, which BURNED MINNEAPOLIS TO THE GROUND.  They happily released Antifa shitstains who were trying to burn a US courthouse in Portland.  They allowed Antifa to take over entire portions of Seattle and Portland.  They stand by while Antifa flat out murders someone (although another state caught the murderer, who died after the po po shot his ass).  

But despite the sheer volume of pictures, video, and witnesses to Leftist violence, they are going to focus on "right-wing" terrorists.  

Keep your head on a swivel.  The Left is coming for you, and they're going to use the government to do it.

For the First Sunday of Lent

Miserere nobis.