A vastly unserious man

 

"Can this state survive back-to-back governors like Dayton and Walz? Probably will. And after Walz, who will the chattering class elect? Maybe Keith Ellison? But that is Minnesota for you. Land of 10,000 lakes and over 1,000,000 morons."    

One of my left leaning friends once accused me of not agreeing with Tim Walz on anything. Let me set that record straight. When Walz referred to himself as a "knucklehead" after the VP debate, I agreed with him. So there.

I also think that if anybody can turn this state red, it will be Tim Walz. Already, since he has taken his comedy act into other states, Minnesota has demonstrated we are a bunch of morons because we voted for this guy. Twice.

Just like Joe Biden knocked Jimmy Carter out of his position as worst president ever, Tim Walz has knocked Mark Dayton out of our worst governor ever. And we had these two guys, back-to-back! Why? The inner part of the Twin Cities. Especially the Cedar Riverside area. Once you go there, you understand. But this little part of Minnesota, seems to dictate how our statewide elections go. Every time. Every candidate. If they are a jackass, they get elected. MNGOP - not so much.

Tim Walz is a perfect example of the Peter Principal. If not for being a teacher or elected to the House and then Governor's chair, he might just be unemployable. Why? He is all hat and no cowboy. Or as President Trump would put it, a very low IQ person. But here he is - here he still is. How in the world could he get re-elected after watching part of Minneapolis burn down? Just ask the voters in Cedar Riverside. Out state, we know this guy is a moron and has wasted our tax money on pure crap. In the Twin Cities, this "knucklehead" is a rock star.

After Walz was cheering on the mutts who are burning Tesla's and torching Tesla dealerships, Elon Musk called Walz an "evil man". Maybe more stupid than evil, as the state has big investments in Tesla. So, to cheer against Tesla is really like cheering against your own state.

I also blame Walz for being asleep at the switch while Feeding our Future was robbing us blind. Some liberal white gal and a bunch of Somali cohorts robbed this state of millions upon millions of dollars. Even though some have already been found guilty in a court of law, where is the money? That is our money. Can we get it back? Probably not. This is all on you Timmy, you knucklehead! 

Can this state survive back-to-back governors like Dayton and Walz? Probably will. And after Walz, who will the chattering class elect? Maybe Keith Ellison? But that is Minnesota for you. Land of 10,000 lakes and over 1,000,000 morons.    

 

Want Elon to go away? Then quit giving him fodder

 

"For those who hate Trump, hate Musk, hate DOGE and most of all, hate the good things this team is doing for America, I feel for you. It is not easy living with all that hate. Here are the facts - even if Elon goes away, DOGE will not. Why? Our eyes have been opened on how much deep cleaning this country needs. What do I say to DOGE? You go boy!"

Elon and part of this DOGE team were on Fox with Bret Baier last night, discussing just exactly what they are doing. Guess what? It is not to rip off people's money nor private information. Actually, to find paydirt, they don't have to dig very deep at all. Most of what they have found so far has been "low fruit on the trees". In other words, because the cleaning team has not been present for decades within the federal government (forget about the GAO - they did not do much), all kinds of financial fodder is there for the discovery. 

I will now quote (paraphrase) that very flawed Jasmine what's her name out of Texas - "Our government is a hot a** mess". Please - no hate mail from the government lovers out there. I will put it in vernacular that we can all understand - Elon and the DOGE team are only doing surface cleaning right now. But on some very important areas, they are doing a deep clean. If - Elon and DOGE had the time and funding to do a deep clean on all parts of our federal government, the results would be stunning and jaw dropping. Our DOGE dividend checks would be rather large I would say.

Who hates Elon and his team the most? Government loving democrats. They hate Elon so much, they are setting EVs on fire. Wait - what? Are we not building EVs to help with climate change? And is not Tesla the number one EV in America? And if we burn an EV, won't that put more unwanted carbon in the atmosphere? Yes, yes, yes - they know all that. But they don't care. What? Why not? Because the hatred of Donald Trump (and now Elon Musk to boot), and their love of this failed government system, is more important than results.

Did you know one of the unpaid people on the DOGE team is a multi-billionaire? The man who came up with Airbnb? He too, is not trying to steal anybody's money. What he has seen has shocked him. The backwardness of some of our government systems. He has volunteered to replace the handwritten system of the government retirement system and make it digital. Why? Two reasons: he hates inefficiency and also and more importantly, he is a good American. You see, many of the DOGE team are working for nothing when with their skills, they could be using this time to make oodles of cash on the outside. But they are patriots, and they care.

BTW - If you get a chance, every now and again check in on the Telsa YouTube site. It seems that when you stock up on good employees in your organization, and have them share your vision, you don't need to be onsite for good things to happen. Tesla is coming out with a Tesla cellphone and Tesla table. Both of which are cheaper than what is on the market right now, and much better. Tesla is also building humanoid AI robots like crazy. Most of what is being built this year will be used in Tesla's factories. Oh yes - Tesla keeps popping out EV cars like gangbusters. All this while Elon is working on DOGE.

For those who hate Trump, hate Musk, hate Tesla, hate DOGE, and most of all, hate the good things this team is doing for America, I feel for you. It is not easy living with all that hate. Here are the facts - even if Elon goes away, DOGE will not. Why? Our eyes have been opened on how much deep cleaning this country needs. What do I say to DOGE? You go boy!

  

Are the days of milk and honey on the horizon?

"What does this really mean? Think of Elon Musk. How many thinks he is going right now for the good of our country. For the good of the world. Trump is the same way. Think big, do big. Don't be afraid of the cliff; learn how to travel on it. The days of milk and honey are within our grasp. We just need the collective courage to get there."      

When the term the Great Reset was used during the Biden debacle, many thought it was the completion of what Obama had started. A reset of our economy from free traders to globalist slaves. From a republic (not democracy Democrats!) to a socialist gulag. But thanks to millions of citizens and patriots, that never happened. Came close but never happened. Why bring this up? Because I think the real Great Reset is happening right now.

Our new president, who has been in power now for just over two months, has a vision which is going to reshape America. How much so? These will not be changes which will tinker around the edges. These changes will change everything. Some will be easy changes; some will not be. Some changes will happen with not so much as a ripple, others will cause us to hold on tight. 

I don't want to dwell on this, but it needs to be said one more time. When Biden came into office, he stopped everything good that Donald Trump had started during his first term. Not because what Trump did was bad for America - it was only because of the visceral hatred this old man with a black heart had for his predecessor. But - when Trump came back into office and had to put out numerous fires, it was not due to hatred of Biden. It was due to the fact the nation (and world) was on fire. Many immediate changes were needed. The train was about ready to go off the tracks.

What is Trump's vision with many of his changes? Peace for starters. Right now, the world is tinkering with WW III. Trump wants us to back way, way away from that cliff. Trump also wants the suffering middle class to taste the same winning wealth the fat cats have tasted on Wall Street over the past few years. He wants America to be a fair trader on the world market - reciprocal tariffs are a good place to start. He wants to onshore what has been offshored over the past few decades. He wants more of an ERS and less of an IRS. In short, this Golden Age of America can also be called the coming land of milk and honey.

History is being written each and every day. Trump's vision is clear, and his goals are reachable. His team shares those goals. I think an easy way to describe this remaking of America through the eyes of Donald Trump is like this - for way too long, America has been a minimalist. Sure, great things have happened, but the great things could have been greater. During this term, Donald Trump wants America to think big and bigger yet. We should no longer be minimalists. We should embrace positive change.  

What does this really mean? Think of Elon Musk. How many thinks he is going right now for the good of our country. For the good of the world. Trump is the same way. Think big, do big. Don't be afraid of the cliff; learn how to travel on it. The days of milk and honey are within our grasp. We just need the collective courage to get there.      

We don't know what we don't know

 

"Many of us were attracted to watch the Star Trek series on TV when we were younger. Some of us still watch it. Why? The Enterprise was full of explorers. To go where no person has gone before. Even though that show was fiction, here is the truth. We are by nature, also explorers. And now in this Golden Age of America, much will be discovered. Much will be learned."

By now, many of us have seen the suspected towers which lie under the Gaza Pyramids. State of the art ground penetrating radar shows "something" that might be buried underneath these great and powerful structures. Many scientists are about jumping out of their skins over this discovery. Others are saying - not so fast. It might just be a glitch or a "nothing burger". Or - it could be something which would have us re-evaluate the past 4,000 years of our history. Bottom line - we just don't know what we don't know.

However, it this does have a grain of truth in it, what we see on the surface is only the tip of the iceberg (so to say). These columns (or whatever they are), stretch down over 400 meters. Some are speculating they might be a giant battery, that the ancients had the knowledge of how to build. Others say they are supports for these very heavy surface pyramids. Whatever they are, they are massive. Or they are just a blip in the radar. We simply don't know what we don't know.

On that subject, the research which is going on with quantum computing has hit a bit of a roadblock. This too, has evolved into a mystery. When a souped-up quantum computer at Google was working on a complex problem, something unexpected and scary happened. The computer started to print out things which were not a bit a part of a solution to the problem. In fact, they repeated, and seemed to have some kind of intelligence behind them. It was so unnerving, that Google stopped the computer midstream. Why? Some scientists think we might be tapping into places we should not be. Another realm or another dimension. Or it could just be a glitch. Bottom line again - we don't know what we don't know.

Finally, did you hear about the Microsoft discovery? They made a discovery which could rock physics to the core. Ever since we were at the age of awareness, we have known there are three states of matter. Solid, liquid and gas. Microsoft might have discovered a fourth state. And it is strange. Somewhere between solid and liquid and has memory. What does this mean? This could be a real breakthrough in better materials and in super conducting. Or - it could just be a mistake. More research is needed. Right now, we know very little. Again, we don't know what we don't know.

Many of us were attracted to watch the Star Trek series on TV when we were younger. Some of us still watch it. Why? The Enterprise was full of explorers. To go where no person has gone before. Even though that show was fiction, here is the truth. We are by nature, also explorers. And now in this Golden Age of America, much will be discovered. Much will be learned.

Soon, the expression of "we don't know what we don't know", will be changed to be "Now we know". Get ready - the ride is just starting. 

 

Is there life after government work? Absolutely!

"To those government workers who have lost their job, here is what I will say to you. Take some time, get it together, and shake off the fact that you lost a job. There is life after government employment. Heck, there is life after any kind of employment. Losing a job is just a bump in the road - but the road goes on. Focus on the long view. You will be fine."  

True confessions. I was a government worker. Employed by the US Government for 21 years. And now, for the past 15 years, I have been drawing a government retirement check. Okay - my 21 years was in the United States Navy - part of the US Government. As nice as it was to be in the Navy, as nice as it is to draw a very modest retirement check - neither were guaranteed to me. I know a lot of folks who for a variety of reasons, did not make their twenty years. They left the Navy with some memories, and zero retirement.

As nice as it is to get this modest retirement check from the Navy, I could not live on it alone. Not even close. I also had a career in defense contracting, where I got some retirement benefits. I also had a shorter career towards the end of my working days at IBM. Again, I got some retirement benefits. Why bring this up? The Democrats are screaming and crying like banshees that government folks are being RIFFED and will receive no retirement. Most are new hires. Wah, Wah, Wah. Go find a private sector job like I did. Life will go on.

ICYMI - President Trump is bringing back hundreds of industries which will employee tens of thousands of people. As one economist puts it - we will soon have way more job opportunities than available people. It is really as simple as this - it you want a job; you can find one. Period. If you don't want to work, it does not matter how many jobs are available.

Here is the long and short of it. Was every job I worked at a blue-chip job? An "A" job? Not even close. Some were, most were not. But they were jobs. Something to do which brought in money. Paid the rent. Kept food on the table. Most folks when working at a "B" job or even a "C" job, always have their antennas out. Waiting for that better job to reveal itself. That is what the American dream is all about. We are only limited by ourselves - the opportunities are always out there.

Do I feel bad for those government workers who have been RIFFED. Sure do. I feel bad for anybody who has lost a job. But that is part of life these days. When I worked at Control Data in the 1980's, the company was going through a huge downsizing. Every week, another group of people were let go. The standing joke was, we all gained five pounds from all the cake and coffee farewell parties we went to every Friday. The people left, but the work remained. Those who survived the RIFFING, ended up with a lot more work. Same money, more work. But at least it was a job.

To those government workers who have lost their job, here is what I will say to you. Take some time, get it together, and shake off the fact that you lost a job. There is life after government employment. Heck, there is life after any kind of employment. Losing a job is just a bump in the road - but the road goes on. Focus on the long view. You will be fine.  

     

The real enemy of the state - largess

"Largess is now and always has been the real enemy. But just like a spoiled child, taming this beast might end up being a bridge too far. Why? Way too many pet rocks. Spoiled children do not like to have their pet rocks taken from them."       

CEOs, like Donald Trump, are accustomed to running organizations which are structured and accountable. Even with that, there are times when any organization can become large and unwieldly. But even the worst of the worst in the private sector, does not hold a candle to the mess in our federal government. Why? Way, way too large. Way, way too unaccountable. And in the past, way, way too many untrained and unaccountable idiots pulling the levers of power.

I can't even count the number of times I have heard over the years - "Let the feds pay for it." Most of the time, that little voice in my head (which I obtained from going to business school), asks, "I wonder if that is in the budget". The answer is most always - "No." But because of the largess of the federal government, and the lack of synchrony that exists therein, tons of money is spent and wasted, and nobody knows about it nor cares about it. That is - until now.

"Government efficiency". Now that is a phrase which ranks right up there with "jumbo shrimp" or "Naval intelligence". Is it even possible to have a government which is efficient? Even more efficient than it is now? To hear the screaming and caterwauling from the left every time DOGE tries to cut or reduce something, reminds me of the old days - when people would have lifesaving surgery with minimal pain killers or no anesthesiologist present.

How bad is the cure for this out-of-control spending spree we have been on with our government? Lefties, who have for years worshipped at the altar of EVs and everything green, are now torching and keying Tesla cars and trucks. In fact, the phony senator from Arizona who has a twin astronaut brother, recently sold his "life-giving" Tesla just to spite Elon Musk. Then to make matters worse, this phony senator bought a gas guzzler GM truck instead! Why? This guy, like many of his peers, are addicted to sucking on the teat of government, more so than their own phony convictions.

What is the real enemy of our state right now? The left? The right? Elon? How about the largess of government. As much as I would like to vilify the left and indemnify the right, both sides are guilty of growing our government into this untamed behemoth. Largess is now and always has been the real enemy. But just like a spoiled child, taming this beast might end up being a bridge too far. Why? Way too many pet rocks. Spoiled children do not like to have their pet rocks taken from them.       

Time for the Saudis to get engaged

"Bottom line? We don't have the time nor money to mess with these guys. Either turn this task over to the Saudis and NATO, or finish it ourselves, using massive force. Shock and awe, baby! This is not good. Sooner or later, we could lose some sailors should the Houthis get lucky. It is simply not worth it." 

The Red Sea. Natures ultimate choke point. If someone were to craft a sea lane which could be used by a bunch of sheep herders to cause havoc in the world of international shipping, it would like the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. For some reason, the US Navy needs to send its warships over there to expend millions of dollars of missiles to protect ships flying all flags from being hit my drones and missiles. make sense to you? Me neither. 

This area is ripe with dirtbags. Pirates from Somalia just down the coast, and of course the real troublemakers - the Houthis from Yemen. These two tribes, right out of the stone ages, are more trouble than they are worth. But they are trouble. And Yemen has the backing of the evil infested Iranians. Again, the questions which begs to be asked - why just us? I know the Saudis have some history with Yemen. But the Saudis have good weapons to fight with. They are in the neighborhood. And they could or should - help out.

Trump and Hegseth have both said they will escalate this campaign so long as the Houthis continue to draw breath. A protracted war will not work with these goat herders - just ask the Saudis. My opinion for what it is worth - go big or go home. It is just a matter of time before a goat herder gets a lucky shot off and takes down one of our Super Hornets. Then we could have another Black Hawk Down type of situation. What to do then? Unleash the dogs of war. Carpet bomb the city of Sanaa (using our B-52's, B-1's and B-2's) until the Yemeni government restores law and order in the area.

Bottom line? We don't have the time nor money to mess with these guys. Either turn this task over to the Saudis and NATO, or finish it ourselves, using massive force. Shock and awe, baby! This is not good. Sooner or later, we could lose some sailors should the Houthis get lucky. It is simply not worth it. 

So far, "unleashing hell" on these guys looks more like ops normal. I guess my idea of unleashing hell with our great military looks a bit different. Time to quit messing around. We have bigger fish to fry. Just ask Australia, as Red China is now surrounding that island nation.