Musings, opinions, observations, questions, and random thoughts on island life, Fernandina Beach and more

Musings, opinions, observations, questions, and random thoughts on island life, Fernandina Beach and more

Americans Are Tiring of Being Called Names; “The Squad” Is Succeeding In Destroying Dems

Last Saturday, July 20, Peggy Noonan devoted her weekly Wall Street Journal opinion column to America’s need to rediscover tact, citing Democrat NY Governor Mario Cuomo’s “rubbing their noses in it” act of lighting up New York City skyline landmarks in pink following his Democrat controlled state legislature passing one of the country’s most pro-abortion laws, Nike’s decision to pull its Betsy Ross American flag sneakers off the shelves, and other not so subtle acts.She cited Democrat members in Congress who visit the country’s southern border and then lie to the American public saying they saw concentration camps and people drinking out of toilets there. They implied that the border guards are Nazis, and just like good German soldiers, follow their orders. They’re OK with girls claiming to be boys and vice versa, and puppies being more sacred than babies. Tolerance they say is the moral code of the day – unless it involves Christians and conservatives.

Americans don’t like it when they hear this kind of crap from politicians, corporations, or anyone else because they know it isn’t true. Americans are not stupid or heartless, just the opposite. And they don’t like people and companies who say otherwise and lie to them.

Ms. Noonan said that, tossing out terms like racist and lying, saying white males are inherently racist and so is the United States, doesn’t sit well with most Americans. She’s right. But I’m not sure she picked the right word.

More appropriate ones might be respect, or appreciation, or gratitude. Maybe even ethics or morality. Or all of them. Because from what this Canadian immigrant and naturalized American citizen has observed, the American far left (these days meaning the entire Democrat Party) has gone over the top with its angry, hysterical and relentless bashing of this country. The Democrat Party is eschewing the very measures that made the United States the most successful and compassionate country in the history of the world.

When that is pointed out to them they become more hysterical and go even further by bashing the bastions of American culture that are traditionally defended by conservatives, particularly President Trump, whose name alone sends these social warriors into spittle-flecked rages of incoherence. Americans who oppose same-sex marriage, pre-pubescent transgender rights, open borders, social services for noncitizens, bathrooms for genders that don’t exist, champion traditional family values, and want immigration laws enforced are mocked, smeared and lied about. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s senate judicial hearing was a prime example of how far these psychotic lunatics will go to destroy anyone who opposes their fanatical socialistic agenda.

Nope, I don’t think tact was the correct choice of words.

Think about the quartet of freshman congresswomen who call themselves “The Squad.” Even in Lenin’s wildest imagination he probably never envisioned four elected U.S. Congresspeople becoming such “useful idiots.”

Was President Trump using tact when he tweeted that if the four didn’t like it here then they should leave, go back to their place of birth or their ancestral homes, fix them, and then come back and tell us how they did it? Nope. But due to his impulsive and indelicate tweets he now has the entire Democrat Party defending these four nitwits and their nonsense, coming out of the closet to publicly embrace their socialistic Marxist beliefs. And these four wackos are driving the out of control Democrat bus that crashed through that closet door.

The socialistic claptrap spouted by these four women and their defenders is a like a plague. If it spreads the results will be needless and massive human suffering. Young people, who are so enraptured of communal ownership of this country’s economy, have never learned or have forgotten what happened to countries wherever it’s been instituted. It’s never once worked, failing dramatically, ensuring misery, starvation and persecution on a colossal scale.

When it comes to these four slapstick twits, most Americans are able to cut through the fog of the Democrat Party’s propaganda, media bias and college campus nonsense. Americans aren’t stupid as evidenced by a recent national poll indicating that these four gals aren’t looked upon favorably. New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who — (I know I shouldn’t say this, but I can’t help myself) with her prominent front teeth, resembles Bugs Bunny in a dress — already has four Republicans vying to oppose her in the 2020 election. Americans have given her only a 22 percent approval rating while Minnesota’s 5th District embarrassment, Ilhan Omar, picked up a whopping nine percent.

Ocasio-Cortez has yet to bring home a single rasher of bacon to her district, just the opposite, she has succeeded in singlehandedly running thousands of high-paying Amazon jobs out of it. She doesn’t appear to give a whit about the folks that elected her and proves daily that she is undoubtedly the dimmest bulb in the congressional chandelier. I think she’s aiming for a job as a CNN commentator, she wouldn’t be any worse than that cable network’s current lineup of ill-informed left-wing gasbags.

America-hater and vocal anti-Semite Somalian-born Omar appears to be a total fraud. This week government watchdog Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint with the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics against Omar over numerous allegations of fraud and repeated criminal action.

“Substantial, compelling and, to date, unrefuted evidence has been uncovered that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have committed the following crimes in violation of both federal law and Minnesota state law: perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, and federal student loan fraud,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote in a letter to Congressional Ethics Chairman David Skaggs.  “Rep. Omar’s actions in this suspected immigration fraud, marriage fraud, perjurious statements on her Minnesota divorce filings, and falsifications on her tax returns, merit your immediate investigation.”

Where’s the mainstream media on this story?

The other two members of this motley crew, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, are equally disgusting and vile. And in another gift to the Republicans, Tlaib and Omar are headed to Israel, a country they hate and want to destroy, thus assuring the GOP of some electrifying election sound bites as this duo will almost certainly be meeting with and praising terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah and berating America’s strongest Middle East ally and the only democracy in that region during their tax-payer funded bash-the-Jews trip.

When you pause to think how far out of touch this quartet is from the average American and the damage they have done to the Democrat Party, it seems almost probable that Republicans in some secret meeting somewhere created these loons to scare the hell out of 2020 voters thus assuring Trump of a Nixon-McGovern-like landslide victory next year.

Where else could this quartet of otherwise unknown nutjobs, who mysteriously appeared all at once following the November 2018 elections, have come from? Did they escape from the U.S. government’s top-secret Area 51 in the Nevada desert that allegedly investigates crashed UFOs? No matter, the GOP should hope all four continue on their hysterical path nonstop until the November election because they’re the gifts that keep on giving.

This fruit loop quartet brings to mind a famous scene from the 1931 movie “The Public Enemy.” In it James Cagney, playing a Chicago hoodlum, shoves half a grapefruit in the face of actress Mae Clarke, playing his girlfriend. I think there are a lot of Americans out there that would love to see halves of grapefruits shoved across the table into the faces of this crowd. But that would be tactless.

***

Fernandina’s Plan To Plan More Plans: Maybe the City of Fernandina Beach can raise money by conducting a yard sale or an auction to sell some of the Amelia River waterfront proposals and plans it has paid hundreds of thousands of tax dollars for over the years and has never implemented. The problem is it would have to find another city government dimmer than the one currently populating our city hall to buy them. Instead of dusting off and updating one of the many plans on its shelves the city commissioners voted, 3-2, July 2 to buy another one, this time from Passero, a company that as far as I know specializes in airport design. This one I hear will cost about $240,000 and basically it’s a plan to plan how future plans should be planned. Got that? Yeh, me either. But it involves more plans and more money. And this is on top of similar plans and studies currently underway. The city is addicted to plans and studies and, like a junkie, it can’t stop. Since Passero helped give us the airport terminal that looks like an airplane, maybe they’ll suggest that all future waterfront plans should involve things that look like boats. Aside from the silliness of the it-looks-like-an-airplane-airport-terminal, another example of planning stupidity is the tiny Shrimp Museum without any restrooms that currently sits on the waterfront?  When the contractor was told to build a “shrimp museum” he must have thought they were speaking figuratively, because that’s what he gave them. You can tour it before you finish listening to Frederick Chopin’s Minute Waltz or while cooking a three-minute egg depending on your degree of urgency. Who planned that plan? The folks at City Hall need some adult supervision and an intervention forcing them into a plan addiction program.

***

An Ad That Works: I’m not in the market for a new vehicle and even if I was I never thought I’d consider buying a jeep. I drove one when I was in the army and it was fun and could go just about anywhere. But it’s not a practical form of transportation for me today, particularly when I have a wife who piles two suitcases, a hanging bag, makeup bag, a cooler full of snacks, a bag of groceries, a large purse, magazines and assorted gifts, for a two-night stay at our son’s home in Asheville. There’s hardly any room left for my change of underwear and three cases of beer. However, my attitude toward jeeps has changed as much as the jeep has since someone sent me the following ad. Even though I don’t want one or need one, this ad inspires me to at least consider one. See what you think.

Jeep “Big Game Blitz” | OneRepublic | “More Than Just Words” – YouTube

***

Losers & More Losers: In his latest “Ross Rant” investment banker, CEO, soldier, educator, and pundit Joel Ross explains why some of the two dozen Democrat Party presidential hopefuls don’t have a chance of getting their party’s nomination. He starts with South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg saying: “Question – Budabug is openly gay. Arab countries arrest and kill gays. So how would a president Budabug have any discussion or negotiation with Iran, Saudis, Iraqis or any of them? I dare a moderator to ask that one in a debate. In case you missed it, the cops in Ft Wayne are in revolt because he does not support them in a shooting incident, and all he talks about is apologizing for being white. He has minus zero chance to get nominated. Then we have Pocahontas claiming falsely that we are about to have another crash unless she can pass a whole new set of regulations on banks and break up corporations. She has no clue at all about finance or economics and can’t even produce accurate data which is publicly available She has no chance. Old Joe might get nominated if he stays moderate, but he has already blown that. And Kamala is a left wing radical, maybe she is nominated to be Old Joe’s VP. Should be fun to watch them make fools of themselves.

***

Drinking, Dining & Dancing: Next Thursday, August 1st is the opening date we are shooting for, the address is 5472 First Coast Highway (A1A). He will be open mon-fri 5-9 dinner, sat 11-9 lunch and dinner, sun will either be brunch 11-3 or all day 11-9 lunch and dinner he hasn’t set a decision. The menu will include all of the old favorite sandwiches and sides, plus some new dishes. Kenny’s number is 9047536250, I have told him about your blog and that I want him to give you the information first, just call his cell phone and he will set a time with you!  Piano-man John Springer and his sidekick drummer Rob Taylor picked up another gig recently at Yulee’s Dick’s Wings, where they appear Friday evenings from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. I’m betting John is the first person to ever step into this wing joint wearing a tuxedo.

•••

Recent Posts

•••

Recent Comments

Dave, although stuck in VA for now, I read your blog weekly. So glad you…
Being a lifetime Redskins fan I refuse to call the team the Commanders. About 20…
Why would anyone vote for Harris/Walz after the last disastrous 4 years of failures? They’ve…
The Washington football team is and will always be the Washington Redskins, save to the…
Right on Dave as always - let's pray that the Dems can't cheat their way…
Great read this morning! Hope we can all hang in there until we take what's…
•••

subscribe to my blog