This is not your grandpa's FAA - or is it?

 

"Our air traffic control system is like our electrical grid. Outdated, and very risky. On both systems, the clarion call for change and upgrading has been going on since the 1980's (or even before). And yet, here we sit, on the verge of going into 2027, with both systems looking like they are straight out of grandpa's era."

Boy, am I glad we did not plan any airline travel this weekend! What a mess! But maybe it was a good thing, as the Secretary of Transportation just ripped the band aid off that festering wound. What festering wound? The floppy disk system we have in our modern-day transportation hubs. It seems that as we are now embracing the future of everything, we left our control towers and such - in the 1960's. And what happened yesterday with the nationwide ground stop, was another "canary in the coal mine" warning. Duffy was very blunt when addressing the public - we need $50B from Congress, and we need it now! This is ridiculous!

Here are the facts. We, as a nation, love to fly. Why? Gets you there real fast. When that mode of transportation is not available (like yesterday), we are stuck. On the news this morning was the story about a man who was in Baltimore and could not leave as his flight was cancelled. He did find another mode of transportation will was available in NYC. So, he took an Uber from Baltimore to New York. For the Uber driver, that fare made his month. For the poor guy who needed to endure that long expensive ride, welcome to our patchwork air traffic control system.

When I was in the work a day world, I traveled quite a bit. However, this was before 9/11, and I suffered under no ground stop events. The fact the air traffic control system worked as good as it did when I was flying is nothing short of a miracle. For the most part, I scheduled a flight, got to the airport, left on time, and arrived on time. Once in a while there was a minor glitch, but not too often. NOTHING like what happened yesterday.

Our air traffic control system is like our electrical grid. Outdated, and very risky. On both systems, the clarion call for change and upgrading has been going on since the 1980's (or even before). And yet, here we sit, on the verge of going into 2027, with both systems looking like they are straight out of grandpa's era. What we found out from Texas in 2021, we were only minutes from a HUGE catastrophe with their grid - we lucky beyond luck we have not had a similar close call with our air traffic control system. Sooner or later, one or both systems will go belly up.

President Trump would like to have the FAA upgraded and fixed before he leaves office. Is that even possible? Sure, if he serves three terms. With the speed at which government works, and now with a slew of socialists in power, not much is going to happen the next two years. How do I know? I know, as do many of us do, Washington. No warp speed there - only sloth speed. 

 

The new Watchmen...

 

But other than looking at the forensics of some sketchy voting totals, I am all about looking forward instead of backwards. Okay, we lost. Maybe the right way, maybe the wrong way - but we still lost. Now is the time to reactivate our Watchmen, our Paul Revere instincts. We can cry in our beer or look forward with resolute purpose.

The dust has settled, and our wounds are licked. We lost the midterms. To the victors go the spoils and all that crapola. Our numbers have been thinned but not eviscerated. Many are asking the really tough question - what now? Do we just cower in the corner and let the socialists cry havoc as they continue to ruin our landscape? Or do we, can we, do something? The short answer is yes; we can. We can be the new Watchmen. Now that the enemies are no longer at the gate, but now inside and ready to pull the levers of power. We need to watch them, record them, document them - 100% of the time.

I know to some, this might sound trite, as we have heard this before. But this time it is for real. This next election in 2028 is for all the marbles. If we lose the White House in 2028, and the socialists and progressives hold the Congress, we will lose the country. A friend of mine had sent me an interesting article about how this past election was an example of many in the far left acting as Judas Goats for the empty-headed minions who fell for their line of crap. A Judas Goat is an animal who had the ability to lead the sheeple to slaughter while being able to avoid the same fate. Do we really have that many uneducated or underinformed voters who voted blue that would fall for this trickery? Count on it.

And because we did not have the Save America Act enacted prior to this election, we need to rely on forensic analysis to determine if all votes cast were legit. Even in Texas, where the number of red votes were the same as last election, almost two million new blue voters showed up. No - wrong way to say that. Almost two million new voters showed up, and they were all blue. Coincidence? Maybe - but probably not. And now that Governor Abbott has been ousted by a nobody from nowhere, the governor elect is feeling her oats. Already she is hinting at opening the southern border to all who want to come in (illegally). And - ICE will be persona non grata as soon as she is sworn in. Maybe she is really Mayorkas in drag. Who knows.

It would be disingenuous of me if I did not discuss the other side of the equation. Republicans. Conservatives. Those of us on the right. I recently saw an article which stated that 25 million Christians who could have (should have) voted - stayed home. Trump said it was because he was not on the ballot. Maybe true - probably not, however. If Republicans and/or Christians stayed home for reasons unknown to me, that is a shame on us. When I look at how razor close some very important races were, and to know that millions of our voters stayed home instead of voting, all I can do is shake my head in bewilderment.

But other than looking at the forensics of some sketchy voting totals, I am all about looking forward instead of backwards. Okay, we lost. Maybe the right way, maybe the wrong way - but we still lost. Now is the time to reactivate our Watchmen, our Paul Revere instincts. We can cry in our beer or look forward with resolute purpose.

I should point out one more thing. The sharks are sensing blood in the water. We have recently needed to house some cabinet members on military bases. Why? Serious death threats from Iranian sleeper cells. Plus - guess who is back? The caravans coming up through Mexico. Ready to storm our southern border. Why? The election results. Democrats = open borders, and Republicans do not. So, get ready.

We owe it to our ancestors, we owe it to the men and women who died preserving out liberty and freedom, to DO SOMETHING. Remember what Bono warned us about a few years ago - it we let America go; we have no place left to move to. This is it - our bright shining city on the hill. A lamp for freedom loving people to look toward. It will be up to the new Watchmen to protect and preserve it.       

  

   

After this election, it is high time for the Save America Act

"That is it. We need voter integrity which will withstand the strongest scrutiny. Right now, there may be ebullience on the blue team, but many on the red team think they have been had (again). If something is broken, it needs to be fixed. If everything is 100% fine, show us the proof. End of story."   

We are now in the strange world of "lame duck". The Republican controlled House and Senate can now make amends for being the do-nothing session by doing something good. Would the Save America Act have helped this past election? Maybe. Probably. Instead of catching any voting irregularities before the election, now the DOJ will need to do some postmortem analysis on suspicious vote totals. What? Do you mean some illegals have illegally voted in one of our elections? I know - knock me over with a feather - I would be that shocked.

Maybe to keep our elections free and honest we need to do the "purple finger" system like Iraq did once they were liberated. Why would that be a better system? Because regardless of what you might hear from the other side (Voter suppression!), our system is long on trust and short on verification. And then, to see the margin of victory that Omar (or whatever her name is now) had in MN CD5 with her tales of misdeeds, something really needs to be fixed. Why? Because failure to fix the system, will allow the "fix" to be in where it should not be.

Some (like the MN SOS) may say over and over again that we are just fine with voting integrity, but those words ring hollow when millions of new people show up to vote this year, and almost 100% were Democrat or socialist. Is it even possible? Maybe - but in my book, a bit of forensic science might be in order. Why? Many elections were razor thin victories for the blue team. Having the Save America Act might have prevented many of those. Having the Save America Act before the 2028 elections is a must. If we don't have it, losing the White House will go from a chance to a certainty.

Now that Thune has been reelected in the Senate, he better get busy and get this passed. Failure to do so will take his skinny popularity down to zip. Once the wild children take over the Congress, all we are going to get is platitudes and investigations. 

That is it. We need voter integrity which will withstand the strongest scrutiny. Right now, there may be ebullience on the blue team, but many on the red team think they have been had (again). If something is broken, it needs to be fixed. If everything is 100% fine, show us the proof. End of story.   

What comes after the after?

                                          

"Ready for the after the after? Better be. It is going to be rough and tough. Those who love this country and what it stands for (or stood for), get ready to weep. We had a republic if we can could have kept it, and now it looks like we were not able to. We will now be governed by a plurality of useful idiots and socialists. Sorry Ben Franklin - we tried, but we failed."

Wow! Talk about being drunk with power when power is not yet assumed! The toilet bowl blue crowd is so excited, they are about vibrating in their shoes. Somebody in the media had the gall to ask one of them, as that socialist was babbling on about really nothing, what are the newly elected folks going to do about prices? It is after all, what they campaigned on. The best part was how that question was answered - it wasn't. They have no answer for that nifty campaign message. It was just garbage, and it still is.

Oh, the loony left has lots of ideas - none of which are cogent. "We need to stop this illegal, Israel backed war so the prices can come down", said one of the minions. When asked about the necessity to ensure that Iran never can have a nuclear weapon, there was only silence on the line. When asked about the threat of Iran proxies in the Middle East and beyond, again there was radio silence. I really thought this Rhodes Scholar would have responded by saying the war was all Israel's fault. Kind of like the October 7th attack in Israel never happened.

What is on the docket instead of bringing down the prices that they promised? Impeachment (don't forget about the "lawyer up" warning they gave just about everybody) of Trump and many of his cabinet. The very unaffordable Medicare for All. The fact that it would cost trillions and be just about impossible to implement is just noise to them. They still want it. Forgiveness of all student loans - more trillions. Defund the military - now there is another Rhodes Scholar type of idea. Might as well defund the cops also. Living in total anarchy will fit in well with the socialists.

What does then, come after the after? Now we are in the "pinch me to see if I am awake" stage of the "victory" on election day. But remember - those who campaigned on a lie, now must govern by the truth. But we don't have to worry about that until January. Right now, what is happening is much sound and fury, signifying nothing.

However, those who voted blue without a thought in their heads, might want to wake up and smell the coffee. Why? The enemy is no longer just at the gate - they are in our government, just itching to pull our levers of power. And what happens when they try doing that? That is when the after the after happens. Better known as either the hangover, or buyer's remorse.

The most interesting part of this election is so many of the chattering class voted for people who have no clue on how to run this government. In fact, many have no clue on what kind of government we have. Some want to pack the Supreme Court; some want to get rid of the Electoral College. And some want to return to the good old Biden days, where we can trash our borders, and then let in anybody and everybody, no matter their intentions or skills. Why? For reasons beyond understanding of the normals and patriots, many in this new class hate America for what it stands for. SMH.

Ready for the after the after? Better be. It is going to be rough and tough. Those who love this country and what it stands for (or stood for), get ready to weep. We had a republic if we can could have kept it, and now it looks like we were not able to. We will now be governed by a plurality of useful idiots and socialists. Sorry Ben Franklin - we tried, but we failed.

   

Turning the Twin Cities red!

 

"The part which makes me almost giggle when I look at the new political map of Texas, is not that the blue so outnumbered the red, it was the blue eviscerated ALL the red. Something like that could only happen in the land of never happen. So then, what was this? Fraudulent overreach. Cheating in the highest degree. Cheating so blatant, that if these results are not torn apart by the DOJ, we will be stuck with a result which stinks without measure."

I had a dream last night. The midterm elections were over, and the nearly impossible happened. After years of progressive propaganda, indoctrination teaching in the MSP, and the influx of 100,000 or more Somali voters - the Twin Cities went from dark blue to light red! When the results were published, the minions who live in that area of the state, went stark raving mad! "This cannot be! Somebody cheated! We demand a recount and an investigation!" Then I woke up. It was after all - a dream.

But now I want to discuss something which was not a dream of mine. In fact, it was a national nightmare. Texas, one of the most reliable red states in the union, went from bright red to many shades of blue. They elected a very flawed candidate to be their next senator. Huh? How did that happen? And then to put frosting on the cake, a real nobody came out of nowhere and beat out Greg Abbott to be the next governor. THAT - was not on anybody's bingo card.

Some might look at the new political map of Texas and think it was an April Fool's joke. Others might think it was a sick joke. The millions of new voters who flooded the Texas voting booths are really too good to be true. And as we have all learned when growing up - if something is too good to be true - it generally is. One of my social media friends posted that this type of blue wave in Texas is possible - however, the chances of it happening are about one in a trillion.

This nut ball governor elect was very quick on the trigger once the voting stopped on Tuesday night. "No more ICE - no more border security." What? She wants to undo all the good that Greg Abbott has done for Texas? Think of the hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters who have recently fled to Texas because Texas was normal. A safe haven. And now look at it going forward. It looks like California, New York and Minnesota, all wrapped up into one big mess.

The part which makes me almost giggle when I look at the new political map of Texas, is not that the blue so outnumbered the red, it was the blue eviscerated ALL the red. Something like that could only happen in the land of never happen. So then, what was this? Fraudulent overreach. Cheating in the highest degree. Cheating so blatant, that if these results are not torn apart by the DOJ, we will be stuck with a result which stinks without measure.

I may be proven wrong on this, but I doubt it. I want the results from all 50 states put under a microscope. This time, we cannot allow the left to get away with the steal.     

The Great Wall of Minnesota

 

"The local newspaper had an election map showing the entire state of Minnesota. Looked very red. Then it focused in on just the Twin Cities area. Very blue. Ergo - the problem. Ergo - the future. Until we can rid ourselves of the Twin Cities by actioning them off to China or Somalia, we are stuck with the lunatics. We are stuck with being a blue state. We are stuck with being stuck."

The last time the DFL had a trifecta in Minnesota, we ended up with the worst looking flag in the nation, and abortion rights which can go into the third trimester. That managed to rile up enough normal citizens up so that we took back enough of the state legislature to call it an even split. Now they (the DFL) are back - for another trifecta. And who will be the new Speaker of the House? One of the chief architects of the last trifecta - Zack Stephenson.

How does it always come to this? Where the Republicans can NEVER it seems, no matter how good the slate of candidates is, win a statewide election. Yet the DFL can get the most flawed set of lunatics over the finish line time after time after time. And for some reason, the metro area, who would vote for Jack the Ripper if he were on the ticket, can never seem to pull the red lever in an important election. In fact, in the case of Peggy Flanigan, who sat at the right hand of Tampon Timmy during all the fraud - got a promotion. If that is not the Peter Principle live and in color, I don't know what is! 

I really don't whom we can run for governor in 2030. I really don't. We have run some very good candidates in the past, as well as some not as good. All lost. But the Democrats have run some very shoddy candidates, and they have won - and won re-election. One might ask, how could somebody so flawed win re-election in Minnesota? The answer is Yellow Dogs. A cowed Democrat will vote for anybody who is on the ticket, up to and including a Yellow Dog.

Our newly elected Governor to be, Famous Amy, recently said she will not raise taxes. Really? Can I get a collective "horse feathers" on that one? Why do I say that? Have you seen the agenda the DSA wants to put forward? Medicare for all? Forgiveness of Student loans? Just those two alone, have a price tag of $50T over the next ten years. What does that mean? Without a massive tax increase to pay for just these two items, our national debt will be over $100T by 2040. Sustainable? Not on this planet.

The local newspaper had an election map showing the entire state of Minnesota. Looked very red. Then it focused in on just the Twin Cities area. Very blue. Ergo - the problem. Ergo - the future. Until we can rid ourselves of the Twin Cities by actioning them off to China or Somalia, we are stuck with the lunatics. We are stuck with being a blue state. We are stuck with being stuck.

 

 

Two years of pain, followed by a decade of prosperity

"For those who have been enjoying the smooth ride of Trump 2.0, things are about to get very bumpy again as we head into Biden 2.0. And one more thing - for those who voted for this crap - shame on you. What you gave us was a pox on ALL of our houses."

Holy smokes! We could not even get out of the first week, before the Democrats and socialists start showing their true colors. They said, almost universally, they were going to fix our "affordability issue". That was a stone-cold lie. They are going after ICE, our managed borders, the death penalty, wealth, gas and oil, and the list goes on and on. Look familiar? They think the next year will be Joe Biden 2.0. But they are forgetting one minor detail - Joe Biden is no longer in the White House. Donald Trump still is until January of 2029. 

In business, one of the first lessons we are taught in business school, and retaught once we are with a good company after graduation is a very simple rule - under promise and over perform. The Democrats, however, seem to always do the opposite. Not only that, but they are also going to go hog wild - starting yesterday. How do I know? The almost three trillion dollars of market sell-off is just the canary in the coal mine. The Democrats, and their first cousins the socialists, are going to show their true colors in a very vivid fashion. In other words, there is no harm we can do to them that they are not doing to themselves better. 

For the next two years, all we have between us and disaster is Donald Trump in the White House, and a hand full of Constitutionalists in SCOTUS. That is it. Come 2028, should we lose the White House, and the Democrats and socialists are able to pack the Supreme Court, we will all be screwed, blued and tattooed (as we would say in the Navy). 

Make no mistake - for the next two years we are going to be in a cold war with the very blue left. We will expose them for the traitors and frauds they really are. They want our current country gone, replaced by something unrecognizable. And the biggest problem we have, are the millions of sheeple who were cowed by their line of BS. So much so, they ignored all the good things which have happened during the past two years and focused completely on this temporary run-up in gasoline. Is food too expensive? Sure is - but much of that inflation happened under Biden. Trump can take the hit on the gas prices due to the war, but the other stuff is mostly all Biden.

Oh yes - they also want to resurrect the "Green New Deal" and all that DEI crapola. Anybody hear anything about that on the campaign trail? I sure did not. Same with open borders. Crickets. That is okay - some of the local minions out there might have some short-term memory problems on how bad the Biden years were, but we are here to help them recall the pea poor shape we were in under Sleepy Joe.

One more thing - one of the newly elected socialists also said that in the next two years they are going to sully up Kennedy, Rubio and Vance as much as possible. Good luck with that one. For those who have been enjoying the smooth ride of Trump 2.0, things are about to get very bumpy again as we head into Biden 2.0. And one more thing - for those who voted for this crap - shame on you. What you gave us was a pox on ALL of our houses.