Open thread 9/9/2024

This debate will be a bloodletting.

I want to see her crying.

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I would watch convention speeches and debates on the teevee in real time. I lost my taste for them. The speeches were all fake, sound and fury signifying nothing. The debates are all fake drama, I figured that out when I watched the immediately-after spin-doctors in the spin-rooms try and tell we the people what was just seen. Noise that told us to ignore our own lying eyes and ears, forget about all that, here’s a comfortable substitute fantasy of what was seen and heard.

It also came about I think because of all these years in the wilderness: my preferred candidates always lose, self-destruct, or show themselves to be controlled opposition. The illusion that there is a choice. Why bother listening when it’s a bunch of charlatans, both in on the con, going through the motions to gull the rubes. I got tired of the endless disappointment.

The few snippets of the Fraudulent’s debate with Trump that I saw in the days following did not match the narratives pushed by all of the adversaries. Which means the debates are just random raw materials from which narratives are created and consensualized. What’s different this time around is that there are so many alt-voices, the big news networks no longer can quickly “write the first draft of history” and make everyone believe it.

So I will avoid the news for several days, and wait for the fake and gay narratives to stabilize, and then dip my eyes and ears back into the news flow and see just how bad we’re being boned this time. Same as it ever was. Bohica, again and again and again, world without end.

They say, I ought not to complain because I’ve chosen to not be in the arena. And I say, why should I, it’s all kayfabe.

Think the “diversity is our strength” folks will eat the swans that grace our public parks? Swans can vigorously defend themselves.

Both candidates lost some points due to a lack of answers or incomplete or obtuse answers, but Harris seems to have fallen behind there. I didn’t score each point; Pro Trump News headlines detail how badly Harris did on several points.

It was Trump vs the 2 moderators and Kamala. The mods kept correcting Trump on several things (wrongly and with standard BS) and by the same token threw many softballs at Kamala. When they finally did give her a hardball question, you could almost see the nod where they were “wink, wink” we gave you these ahead of time. Just like it was shown to be the case with Hillary.

To my ear, and IDK what voters will think, Harris sounded empty and nasal. Trump was in better form than she, although not his fire-breathing best self. The debate rules and format all conspired to weaken Trump’s strong points, since there was no audience, and the mics were off until the mods decided to tune in the candidate. Always a few words late on Trump.

I’ll be interested to hear if any moderate voters got anything from this. Harris did, in prejudicial form, throw Biden right the fuck under the bus. Biden? Who dat? Man, fuck Biden! It may be true he is better forgotten by all, and especially his own kinsmen and kind, but that dearth of loyalty was creepy.

You could tell, by the way he walked into the room, that he didn’t want to be there.
Trump didn’t even want to be in that woman’s presence.

It was so far beneath him that the very thought was repulsive.

He, a self made billionaire many times over, and a former president of the US.

Her, a common negro skreet hor, with no accomplishments, just like every other common negro skreet hor you can easily see in any metropolis across the fruited plane.

Then, to be heckled, harrassed, and insulted by such a lowly, criminal creature, who was facilitated and encouraged by the media, and a large portion of the immature american population.

While I hope the best for Trump and honestly wish he could do what he believes is right, but my core values and long term historical american knowledge believes the experiment is too far gone and will never come “back”.

Through the dense future fog I see something new eventually emerging, something that will take many years to get to a place considered wide scale society, and only after some seriously violent and prolonged culling happens.

From the lowest greasy, crime infested gutter in the worst place in an american metropolis to the gilded statue atop the capital building, every single facet of the original american lifestyle has been poisoned in such a way as to be completely unredeemable.

A cost, and a waste, of unimaginable magnitude brought about by the overwhelming desire for criminal greed and power by many.

I yearn deeply for justice.

Anne, fascinating to see a grizz in real life! I had the occasion to pull my pistol on a large black bear in a cinnamon phase, who I had to determine if he was grizz or black, such was his huge size. He was within pistol range!

The only time I’ve seen a grizzly outside of the zoo was on a Canadian highway, and did stop to watch him for awhile. He was a leviathan. They are not to be messed with.

So, after I survived this bear encounter (I’ve encountered black bear many times at close range, and been alone just me and Yogi. It’s never been that remarkable an experience, but when they are big and too close, it is more than remarkable!) -back on subject – I studied up on whether my big 6 inch .357 Magnum was enough gun in case I’d have pulled the trigger. What I found out was that 99.999% of the internet authors on the subject never shot a bear. My own dad shot 5, and made light of it as far as being game. It’s easy hunting with a 30.06 or bigger rifle.

To cut to the chase, one author had shot some bear with handgun. He notes that .357 magnum is non-optimal but will do the job with proper shot placement. You’ll actually wish for the best rounds and the heavier loads, or a bigger caliber. Do not try this at home.

I went out and got slugs for my .12 gauge since the bear encounter was within a half mile of my house.

Best wishes. My advice is don’t encounter the bear at close distance.