Take Out The Garbage!
They Always Accuse You of What They Are

If you’ve been on vacation living under a rock, the reference is to a Sleepy Joe remark about how all people in opposition to his impeachment-insurance VP to succeed him as POTUS are garbage—raising the question of butthurt on his part in a micro-second of cognitive clarity and sabotage…like when your Alzheimer’s addled grandmother suddenly recognizes you on your 10th visit to the home and berates you for not visiting more often.
Hours from now, the voting polls open in the USA.
I voted for President Donald J. Trump and Senator J.D. Vance, from Thailand, a week or so ago. … And from the heart, I also voted for RFK Jr., Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, and so many others in The Dream Team of Centuries.
It’s the team that takes out the filthy, putrid garbage (if we’re lucky, and whatever version of God or nature you love most, smiles upon us this time).
As I’ve posted the last two times, Trump is sure to win. My main reason for asserting that was outlined in my first post, going back to the 1968 election when I was 7 years old. Then, a couple of days ago, Too Big to Rig.
I’ll lay it out like this:
- Trump wins
- Hoping for a Landslide we haven’t seen in exactly 30 years: Reagan vs. Mondale, 1984
- Realistically, somewhere between Definitive and Landslide
… I fully understand I’m largely preaching to the choir and that’s easy. I’m not going to convince anyone about anything here.
So how about if I dish you out some Audacity of Hope?
That’s really the true must-watch. Sure, it’s geared to hit your heart just right if you have the value set that champions human advancement under the constraints of whatever God or structure that gives you guidance in how you navigate your life. And let’s be clear, when the founders established freedom of religion, it was with the recognition that everyone will naturally have one…which really boils down to belief in something beyond the facts.
So you think Islamics and Born-Agains agitate for one true God?
Then how about The Science!!! and MISINFORMATION!!! ???
… So to crystallize that, freedom of religion means: let all the stories we tell ourselves and teach to our children all compete on a level and open playing field.
Let science be science, again. Good science produces undeniable facts of reality. The effect of newly discovered facts of reality is that the stories we tell ourselves evolve over time. The undeniable facts also give rise to new stories that supplant and supersede the older stories, and those become known as myths—still often valuable for the lessons they can impart.
There’s no need to toss anything out. Everything that ever measurably advanced human civilization is of eternal value, even if it was “bullshit” at the time or in the future. It may be that examining some myths of civilization becomes the equivalent of panning for gold, but that effort will always render nuggets and flakes.
Rule Number 1: Never Destroy Value
(But take out the garbage.)
Andrew Tate is not a billionaire yet. He’s worth hundreds of millions and, at last tally, makes about $12 million per month with his main drive: teaching young men to get rich. And why? So that they become free agents. Because once you become a free agent, you never go back. You don’t even go back if you lose it all and go poor, again. Free agency is for life and, so far, only ever attained by less than 1% of the 117 Billion humans who have ever lived. If you don’t understand what agency means in this context, then, well, you have your homework assignment. I’ll close this post with a bit of elaboration.
As I was gathering all the loose shit to consolidate for this post, it popped up that Rogan just did a gig with Elon, again. Whoa, and wow. Does this guy get a 48-hr day, or what?
Here’s the link to the full 2 1/2 hours, which will be the first thing I sit down and watch, once I publish this.
… What follows below is an exposé published by Elon about the enemy within, the assault on free speech from the left. More thoughts after the video.
The assault is on free speech…the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution. It’s sacrosanct, and “freedom of religion” is simply a corollary.
Ask yourself: why this global assault?
There are many reasons and perhaps the doofus so doofus he lost to warmonger Bush II, John Kerry, puts a fine point on it in the vid: “It’s FUCKING hard to govern, now.” (paraphrased)
What he means is that it’s impossible to repeal or supersede the 1st, even though there is a perfectly legal path to do that.
And because SCOTUS has become a conservative court, as it should be—because we’re talking CONSTITUTION!!!—and it will be for a long time, they can’t even count on bullshit legislation that’s unconstitutional, but a Lefty-Activist-Marxist court will give in to for a generational pass.
IT’S FUCKING HARD TO RULE!!!
What it comes down to is the dashed hopes of a world where single-source information gets proliferated at light speed by phone-in-pocket—like when you had ABC, CBS, and NBC on the television dial—and nothing else is taken seriously.
They tried that with Covid, and it worked so good that it will never work again. (Think about that for a minute in a double-edged-sword context.)
… Ok, wrapping up. I just posted this on FB.
I was just thinking this hours ago, leaning on my 10th floor balcony perch in Pattaya, Thailand…gazing out on Vegas-like lights in the distance…ciggie and whiskey in hand.
Concerning the assumption that because a record numbers of women are voting and voting early, it’s all about women presidents and candy-store abortion.
I’ve known enough chicks in my life who had an abortion early in life (just 1), and it’s not that simple. Regret and 2nd guessing are high—particularly when she’s in her 30s or 40s and hasn’t been a mother yet…
“they simply cannot take it, cannot take her, and do not want the first woman president to be a flailing dumpster fire DEI hire that will bring discredit to the office by being so ostentatiously unqualified.”
And that’s pretty much the conclusion I came to as honestly as I can. Sure. Women are going to think about things fundamentally important to women.
Chicks know other chicks and know their motivations and how they think a lot better than dudes do, and they don’t buy Kamala and that goes all the way back to the dynamics of kindergarten boy/girl infatuation and all the way up to how girls undermine other girls.
All the way to cat fights.
So, women are being asked to get all righteous and active because SHE’S A WOMAN!!! And she’s FOR ABORTION!!!
I’m betting that most women think that sound mind and sound public policy are more important.
… And as I have loved saying for 2 decades:
Resurrect Margaret Thatcher, and I’ll join the chicks in voting for the 1st COTUS (Chick of the United States).

… Finally finally, a bit about Agency, as promised.

There are many ways to explain or express agency. Fewer than 0.01% of people currently alive exercise agency (99.9% are not free agents). I have zero family who are genuine free agents. I know 1 guy (a retired Army Blackhawk pilot…my best mate, here) who is a genuine free agent.
It is very rare.
“Know the terrain, have fun anyway.” — Me
So let me try to boil it down for you with a fun little allegory.
… One day, the King makes a profound proclamation that’s politically calculated to have the eager and enthusiastic love of most in the kingdom.
Of course, not everyone will be happy, but the King well knows that his loyal servants will do the rest of his work for him. That’s an ongoing process of public discourse where if the political conditions are good enough and the King is more politician than ruler, near total applause will be achieved.
… The next day, a Citizen and Lord of the Kingdom walks out to check on his plots of land and the nurture and harvesting of them by his peons.
In a moment of curiosity, he asks about the King’s latest proclamation.
He gets a lot of feedback, and most of it is stupid, low-IQ bullshit which is rightfully dismissed.
One old lady, however, offers an argument, perspective, assessment of downstream consequences, and pure down-home common sense.
The Lord is convinced by her argument over the King’s proclamation and the policies and attestations of all of her peers—and he dismisses the self-serving, butt-hurt complaints of the other peasants.
He determines to affect change over time.
… Or, if egregious enough, he launches a coup or a revolution.
That has turned a million different ways over the eons, but the one fundamental thing that’s always in play is that the agents of change were first free agents in themselves.
The nugget there is that if you don’t instinctively think that whatever “Word of God,” Laws, Proclamations, and Constitutions there are, are mostly bullshit, then you have zero agency.
You are a peon.
And it’s self-imposed because all you have to do is think under your own authority while always discounting and usually dismissing external “authority.” You judge for yourself…but like, real like…and not just the common bromide everyone espouses, like getting diarrhea now and then.
… I’m not doing a member’s section this time. Since I began posting this stuff about the election, I have received exactly 3 member cancellations, 1 monthly and 2 quarterly, and they were in minutes or hours of sending out the email, each time.
But I also got 2 new members. One was a Lifetime for $500, with an MIT address…
Just sayin’.
… The three cancellations will be back on Nov 6, once they realize they have zero agency and serve completely fucktarded news sources that made them emotionally butthurt about my prediction of what will happen, tomorrow.
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1000 hrs Zulu, and it’s almost over. Trump has 266 EVs with a lead in many states, and it does indeed look like he will win the popular vote (a nice 🖕 to the Democrats as icing on the cake).
Watched a clip of CNN panel. They all look so dejected. One panelist addressed the gorilla in the room, saying the results here prove the public sees many things the way Trump does and the Democrats will have to do some serious reflection.
It was such a reasonable speech (and obviously so) that of course Van Jones completely rejected it and started whining that Orange Man Bad, what about sad black women, etc.
These people are the scum of the earth, and it is so delightful to see that eight and a half straight years of full throttle anti-Trump propaganda could not prevent his second term.