FERRERMAN- AGAIN?

Saw a post earlier that claimed 45% of California's migrant fieldworkers have gone missing in action. I would imagine this means they are self-deporting, knowing that the gig (jig?) is up and there is no more American dream for them.  I'm curious too as to how busy the border can be at this point with world-wide knowledge that America is being run by an idiotic menace to democracy? Why bust your  culo  to come here only to be deported to the Sudan, or worse, Florida?  There's a lot more that goes on at the border than any administration lets on. Drug and people trafficking is big and quite consistent. Maybe not so much the people right now, and this has got to anger the cartels bigly as they seem to have a good relationship with this Trump regime, despite the War on Busboys. Trump recently granted asylum to about 17 cartel family members. Game recognizes game in the criminal world. In the recent past, Trump has also been bigly on allowing pregnant Russians to travel ...

 Learned a new term in the sphere of American, political assholery last night: "accelerationist". Essentially, these are cells of people who want to watch the world burn so that they can take over on downs after it is destroyed in a massive civil war. They will do things to accelerate  that like assassination, bombings, disruptions of power grids and poisoning of water supplies, in the hopes that various groups of people will blame others for these events, and react accordingly against whomever they suspect. It seems to be pretty much like Charles Manson's goal of inspiring a race war via the Tate/Lobianco murders, only they are crazier and far less showy. To me it sounds like Trump and maga really, but it's not an ideology that subscribes to any political party at all. It's more anarchy than anything else in that they hate any  dang gubmint you got.  I happened upon this as I viewed on YouTube a clip in an interview with a former FBI undercover agent, Scott Payne...

Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, tore into Jennifer Griffen, a former colleague of his at Fox where he was a weekend anchor, at a news conference about the bombing of possible Iranian nuclear sites. Now, she knows more about all this shit than Pate does, even though he's the guy that made the incredible leap from parttime anchor to underboss of the military, not her. That's the way employment works in politics, unfortunately, at least now that we have a president who himself was a former TV gameshow host. He's bigly on "Central Casting".  What happened was, Jennifer asked Pete a question he couldn't answer and so he told her something like, she was the worst journalist ever. Maybe ever since him? I'm not sure. Doesn't really matter. The point is, he had set out to ambush her and she took the bait by being called on by him. I can't believe she fell for that. Of all the insane reasons to vote for Trump, the craziest seems to be that he alone could...

 I met "Rivas" in 2016, after Trump somehow beat Hillary Clinton for the presidency. He was sort of a carpenter for my brother-in-law, a young guy learning the trade. He was Mexican, but for all intents and purposes, American as he had crossed the border with his family at the age of six. He had the same vague memories of Mexico that you might have of any place you lived at that age, some twenty years later. Your mileage may vary of course but think about coming from a village in another country to Anytown, USA, at a young age. Your folks might not even know it at the time, but your job is to be an American and learn English while they work. This is also the story with many Greeks and Slavs I worked with in the restaurant business, however in the case of those guys, they were bilingual as they translated for their parents. For whatever reason, Rivas left his language behind and went about being an American.  He wasn't a bad worker. I was used to being around hard-working ...

I've seen a lot on YouTube about a John McPhee who is known as "The Sheriff of Baghdad". He was in the 75th Rangers and later, Delta Force. He's seen a lot of action and killed untold numbers of people. War is Hell, it's a dangerous world and things must be done by men who are very  well-trained to do them. I totally get that. Thank you for your service and boy, I couldn't do that.  When you get out of Special Forces, the government issues you a podcast so that you can interview other Special Forces guys. Well, it seems that way. There's a bunch of them. I wasn't familiar with the interviewer on the REEL the algorithm sent my way, but he looked as if he were ex-SF as well. He asks John where he was from and he answers, South Side of Chicago. I'm thinking, "Oh fuck- a Sox fan..." But baseball didn't come up. The podcaster wasn't interested in inane baseball rivalries. He needed to know if Chicago was as much of a hellhole as he had...

 You see, folks, no other president could pull this off. No normal  republican president could do this- or would. No, not even a Bush. Certainly not Dwight Eisenhower, the last great republican president after Lincoln. They've only had two, ya know.  It had to be Trump.  He doesn't mind being an asshole. It comes easy to him because he is one. The old proverb: "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit" applies to him in the abstract way, because what he is doing now is planting fiscal depravity for others to enjoy, years after he is gone. I don't know how delusional he is, but "very" seems like a good guess, and I wonder if he is cognizant of his own mortality. He might have taken then Dr. Ronnie Jackson seriously at his diagnosis that Trump would live to be 200. I bet Ronnie did. The other day Trump inexplicably said to a reporter that they shouldn't be near him, that it was dangerous. I took that to mean th...

 Saw a rerun of a spirited debate that a collection of high school students in Kansas engaged in, some five years ago. The kids were polite and smart- even the kids that were wrong were impressive. The debate was about flying the Confederate battle flag, and the issues of slavery as a cause of the war. I'd have to say that, under the first Amendment, one does have a right to display that flag. I personally see nothing wrong with displaying the Confederate battle flag or even the Nazi swastika, Or a Trump flag.  Flags show the public where one's allegiances lie. You fly the swastika, I know you're a Nazi asshole. You can't be anything else if you do that. Same with the stars and bars. That tells me that this flag-waver is a racist secessionist. A trump flag announces that you love and support a fucking moron, in anything he does. As awful as these allegiances are, it is best to keep them out in the open so that there is no mistake made about where these people's assh...

 Donnie Silver looked like Billy Mummy, all growed up. Nobody knew that me. It wasn't that it was a secret, it was just that most everybody reminds me of somebody and he reminded me of the creepy kid who wished people into the cornfield if they angered him. Donnie, by his own admission, was the biggest vinyl guy in town. Pretty successful and I had worked around him for years because most outfits hired him to do their commercial vinyl. If you don't know, vinyl is a commercial wallcovering you've probably seen in banks and offices. It's pretty easy to hang in that I don't think I've ever seen it in any kind of pattern (like roses) where you have to drop match and goofy things like that. It's so easy to hang that drunks and crackheads can do it.  I never liked Donnie. I found him to be aloof and arrogant. But when I found out he was looking for help, I was underpaid, under-appreciated and doing nightwork at a Target store in the city for a once pretty good out...

 Well, I think  I cancelled YouTube TV. They don't make it easy- or do they? Could it be as un-ceremonial as clicking on the "cancel now" button? I did that and it went to a page offering me several different packages I don't want. I didn't expect tears from them, but a "Sorry to see you go" is usually what companies do. So far, no follow-up email either. Maybe I didn't quit? I still have it until my month is up. I was a little slow on their live chat option and very quickly lost the chance to chat with "Kyle". I had words for him that are probably part of my permanent record, though Kyle must have been too busy to read them anyway.  I got an email from Walmart advising me that unless I quit them  by July 15, they would automatically renew the $98 membership dealie/thingy that I never knew I signed up for. I know I never paid for that! And I would never. There are like ZERO perks and my Walmart is like 5 minutes away. No tears, but Walmart ...

 Did Trump cheat to *win* the 2024 election? Probably. Why wouldn't he? He's been cheating all his life. For a second-rate conman and third-rate gangster like him, cheating is fun. It's basically the only way he knows how to get anything done. Think of a suspected cheating spouse. The other spouse, suspicious, makes repeated accusations which are denied. They are  cheating, but as long as they don't confess, they have a growing appearance of innocence because, here come those accusations- again! Even when they get caught, the tables are turned and they still claim innocence because, "Well, you WOULD  say that, wouldn't you??!! It's kinda like that, but in Trump's case he's both the cuckold spouse and the accuser.  Now, nobody in their right mind believes Trump was cheated in 2020. He was an embarrassingly awful president, and among a million other flaws, totally mishandled Covid 19. That's really enough. We could be here all day listing his crim...

 All you need to know about the criminal intent of this regime is in the face of Tom Homan. He is the ICE Director, the ICE Czar- The ICEhole of Trump's goon squad. Trump likes the Central Casting element of picking his winners and losers to join him in his quest to rule the world. He learned about optics, I guess, during his time as a game show host where he pretended to be a billionaire, picking winners and losers out of a cast of showbiz losers. In his cabinet and beyond, he has filled slots with- largely- people who to him look the part, qualifications and competency be damned. He like technically attractive women like Alina Habbadabbado, Spam Blondi and Thirsty Gnome (not their real names). Lookism. We all do it. We just don't do it (usually) in hiring people, certainly not for important positions. Trump nailed it with Tom Homan though. This guy has 'mob associate' written all over his ugly face. This man is serious thug, born for this position. Though you could  p...

Don't get me wrong, I like Todd Rundgren. I just never saw him as a pop/rock deity like many people do. He had a few hits in the 70's- "Hello It's Me", "We Gotta Get You a Woman", "I Saw the Light" and I like those. They take me back to the halcyon days of my youth, and every day as I get older, I appreciate that more. Great stuff, but not God-like.  It's just that many friends of mine- at the mere mention of his name- would say, "Oh- you mean God!" as in "God Rundgren". Well, noooooo...just, you know, Todd Rundgren... There's a couple of things I use to judge people in life. Politics and sports alliances are big with me. I guess music might be another one and, with women, spankability goes a long way- but not as far as you'd think. So, let's change that to a few things. Through the miracle of modern YouTube, a few years ago I discovered Todd was a frequent guest on Bill Maher's old show, "Politicall...

 Know what I hate about 2025? Television! Why does it have to be so fucking complicated? I grew up in the era of three network stations, one local with a side of PBS. This was in Chicagoland. You know the three networks, but we also had WGN which broadcast Chicago Cubs games, pretty much all over the country. So, we had four networks in a sense.  TV life is different now. Cable came along- and it's still around- but it doesn't have the stranglehold it had for decades as someone decided to invent streaming because life wasn't complicated, or expensive enough for the masses. People hated cable after a while because of poor customer service and 'packages'. If you wanted a particular pay channel, you might have to get- and pay for- Latvian TV to get what you wanted. Mind you, they didn't force  you to watch the Latvian channels, but you were paying for them. It's still like that with streaming, but who cares? We've been well-trained to accept all sorts of bu...

 I am certain that the average American has no grasp of how sick and dangerous this world actually is, how cheap life can really be, depending on where you live and what rules are set in placed and followed. There are rules in different sections of the US. It's kinda like an HOA, but instead of what color you can paint your house, it might be whether you can talk to the police or not. Every mafia guy will boast about how safe their neighborhood is, because of the mob presence. No one dares commit a crime because if they do, mafia justice will be swift and harsh. Sounds nice and rather civilized until you realize that justice is swift and harsh towards you  if you cross them.  So, just like an HOA.  On YouTube there is a wide variety of videos about prison, motorcycle gangs and other 'communities' like the special forces and the adult porn world. There are a lot of weird tribes that make up America and those are just a few. Prison is nothing but tribes and it's far mo...

When cell phones first came into common usage, the only guys on the paint crew who ran out to get them were the rats and guys who had to be in near-constant contact with their wives. They'd get calls all day from the old lady, talk for five or ten minutes and then say, "I love you." Invariably, one of us would then ask the guy, "Was that (the boss)?" Much mirth-making and frivolity! Well, I don't know if I started that trend, but I know I started this one. Whenever I had to talk to our bosses (162 IQ Lou or Little Jimmy) I'd end the calls saying, "I love you". MORE mirth-making and frivolity. They played along. I told Little Jimmy many times that when he wasn't being a dick, he was a pretty good guy. This wasn't necessarily true, but I know how to talk to people.    It was fun for a while and helped pass the time. 

 I looked at a YouTube of a former Army Ranger and CIA sniper known as "The Reaper". He seems like a nice fella, but it's a little hard to picture a Ranger sniper in a man who currently has dreadlocks. That's not Government Issue. People change and so do fashions. It doesn't take away from the story as obviously he is long removed from the battlefield, and you get that. YouTube is full of clips of old men retelling their WWII exploits and I'm so glad they are because their history is our  history. These are the untold stories of young men who fought in WWII, Korea and now Vietnam, who were lucky to survive Hell on earth to go on in life and live reasonably normal lives, and beome old men. There is a perception that WWII veterans adjusted easily after post-war combat because they were The Greatest Generation  and men were just built better back then before all the woke shit ruined everything, for everybody. Those guys easily adapted from being killing machines ...

 People say, "I don't believe in God". Could they be a little more specific?  They might be like me, and they don't believe in the Biblical God, the crazed, murderous one of the Old and New Testaments. The one that speaks to Mike Johnson. I'm not believing in that God at all. That's the God of charlatans even though he's based on the book. He's the God of war, famine and general hate, that is presented as love. Let's face it: he's the republican God, the God of excuses for bad behavior because interpreting him is so flexible. He's the God that suits your needs, depending on who you are and how much power you have. No, I don't believe in that God, and you can't make me, but I know you're going to try. I've long felt, that if you look around the world, somebody  did this on purpose. This is above my paygrade, but you have the polar icecaps way up north to regulate the planet's heating and cooling in conjunction with the de...

We always knew these 2A gun nuts were full of shit with all their bold, vainglorious, jerk off fantasies of fighting- beating- an oppressive US Federal dang gubmint on the battlefield. They would do this as the founding fathers defeated mighty King George, way back in the day, and as more recently, the Viet Cong defeated the mighty US dang gubmint, in the rice paddies of Viet Nam. Home field advantage. How could this victory happen against the US military, which is legit the finest fighting force in the history of the world? Well, if you were paying attention, I already told you that it was because the founders and the VC had done it! PAY ATTENTION! Past is prologue .  These guys were to be our heroes just like the founders had been, delivering us from oppression. How do you do this? Simply with good old fashioned, American country boy know how like our ancestors- and more recently the communist Viet Cong- had. There was no doubt in their minds that Victor Charles- country boy of a...

I consider all my neighbors beneath me. But that's because I live on the second floor.  Until recently, a young Hispanic girl had one of the two apartments below me, but she moved. She was very quiet and that's everything you want in an apartment neighbor.  She was so quiet I hadn't even known she moved out. Linda was like 18 years old, a recent high school grad and a nursing student. I never officially met her though, but I did meet her mom and dad. The girl was either terminally shy or tragically aloof. I'll never know. She was a kid. She'd walk by, avoiding any eye contact, but she would say "hello" if you said it first, and that would be it. I got that. She's a teen and I'm an old man and we have nothing in common beyond living in different parts of the same house. A little civility never hurts, but haven't we all avoided eye contact with neighbors in the past, because some days you just can't even with people, and you don't want t...