It’s Bathwater All the Way Down

God has shown me that nearly all church leaders are failing to teach Christians fundamental things that are essential to Christianity working. In fact, they teach against these things, ensuring that Christians will fail and lose, all their lives.

It’s all very obvious when you articulate it, but somehow we miss the obvious, habitually.

Preachers teach pride. They tell us it’s a good thing. Example: there is a big Catholic school near me, and they put up a sign that said, “Celtic Pride.” “Celtics” is the name for their sports teams.

I don’t know how you could get Christianity more wrong.

Pride is worse than sodomy. It’s the worst thing there is. It’s the foundation of every other sin. Pride, not sin itself, is what puts people in hell. People who aren’t proud can repent, change, and be forgiven. The proud won’t.

A few days back, I saw a little ad on the Fox News site, advertising a show about “Pastor Denny,” a pastor who coaches football. It was nauseating.

I know Pastor Denny. He wouldn’t know who I am, but I used to be an armorbearer at Trinity Church in Miami, and Pastor Denny’s daughter, Dawnchere, married the son of Trinity’s hopeless head pastor, Rich Wilkerson. That made Dawnchere a pastor. A kid in her twenties.

At Trinity, everyone related to a pastor automatically becomes a pastor. The only exception is Rich’s one honest son, who has brain damage from meningitis.

He’s too honest to work at Trinity. He has a long history of ratting out the others. Brutally. He used to tell the rest of us things about his family with a big grin on his face.

Pastor Denny is Denny Duron, a self-promoting, shameless, second-tier prosperity preacher. He’s not a billionaire or near-billionaire like Kenneth Copeland, but he’s a lot more successful than Rich Wilkerson, whose church doesn’t pay its bills very well. Rich himself manages to scrape by in a waterfront home in Golden Beach, which is the ritzy part of Miami Beach where the Beegees used to live.

Denny came to preach at Trinity, and he talked about how rich he was because of the prosperity gospel. Of course he was rich. He was teaching other people to give him money.

The prosperity gospel will definitely make you rich, if you’re a preacher. The people who give you money get poorer, however. It’s a lot like a Ponzi scheme. The guy at the top of the pyramid does very well, and people three levels down all wonder why it’s not working.

Denny wrote an awful book intended to make church members feel better about being poor and neglected by their pastors. It’s really a pamphlet. I don’t think he’s smart enough to write a real book. It’s called The Abishai Anointing.

Abishai served under David. Denny’s idea is that Abishai never got a lot of attention or money, but it was okay, because it was such an honor for him to stand in the shadows watching David get all the gravy. The idea is that the special people, like David and Denny, have one kind of anointing, and their sycophants and lickspittles get another, inferior, anointing.

Of course, Denny is wrong about Abishai. Abishai was one of David’s top generals, so he was rich and very powerful. He probably had more than one beautiful wife. And he was cursed. He helped murder Abner, who was very close to David, and David cursed him and his accomplice. Maybe Abishai is not a great role model.

Denny and Rich passed out Denny’s ridiculous book to poor people at Trinity so they would keep doing free work for the church while the riches the pastors promised eluded them. Rich got paid for his work, of course. I guess he doesn’t have the Abishai anointing.

I once received a deep insult in the form of an Abishai Award. Rich was so excited about this helpful anointing, he had certificates printed up, and he gave them to people who did volunteer work. It was a way of saying, “We will never show you any gratitude or respect, we will take advantage of you until you leave or die, and we will promote vile, incompetent members of our inner circle and have them boss you around.”

I actually set fire to my Abishai award, along with my copy of the pamphlet. I put a photo in the frame, which probably cost Trinity 75 cents.

Google “Denny Duron fraud” and see if you think Denny is someone who is close to Yeshua.

Denny is a failed NFL prospect. He says he “signed” with the Washington Redskins, but he claims that while he was in training camp, God told him, “This is your last day,” and he became a preacher.

Maybe it was actually one of head coach George Allen’s underlings who said, “This is your last day,” and Denny misattributed the quote.

Like I always say, never believe anyone’s resume. Never believe what people say while trying to impress others.

I don’t think he’s honest, largely because prosperity preachers have to be dishonest to do their jobs. I think he had no shot at all of making it in the pros, they cut him loose right away, and he had to find something else to do. I doubt God told him anything.

He has one of those very brief Wikipedia entries of the type you get when you create it yourself and hope no one sees it and deletes it. I went to law school with a twice-suspended, now-unlicensed attorney named Don West, and Don had a page like that when he was in his twenties and had accomplished nothing. It was taken down because he was not a real public figure. In all probability, he himself created the page.

There are still pages out there claiming he’s a lawyer in Alabama. I saw one that says he practices in 61 areas of law. Go big or go home, I guess.

Denny’s page is not a big-time Wikipedia article, according to Wikipedia itself. It’s called a “stub class” entry. It doesn’t mention his time in the NFL, making me wonder if it actually happened. He uses it to promote himself elsewhere, so why not on his stub class article?

Maybe he was a walk-on. Anyone can show up at a training camp, embarrass himself briefly, and then be asked to leave.

Wikipedia has rated his article “low importance.”

I hate it when football people pretend God loves their sport.

Football teaches young men aggression and pride, and it teaches them they are worthless when they lose. It teaches them self-confidence, which God hates. It pumps up their egos.

Football also subjects men to a lot of sexual temptation. Football players at big-name colleges get all the slutty women they want. They don’t have to ask for dates. Girls throw themselves at them, at least until school is over and most of them have to take low-paying jobs.

Christianity is not about aggression. It’s not about hard work. Find me a figure in the Bible who impressed God by believing in himself or working hard.

Competition is a Greek notion. It’s not Jewish. Every Christian is supposed to be a winner. A child of God, very literally. Not a grandchild. Not an Abishai to Denny and Rich, the real children. A culture based on defeating other people who are supposed to be your spiritual brothers is not a Christian culture.

The word says everyone who exalts himself will be abased. Building up your pride separates you from God. The word says God is close to the humble and far from the proud. By the symmetry of the supernatural, demons and people who belong to Satan are close to the proud. Is that what you want?

If you’re close to God, he does things for you. He brings you revelation, healing, wealth, deliverance and all sorts of other good things. If you’re far from God, he stands back while you fail.

I’m not happy that Fox is promoting Denny Duron, but it’s not a surprise. It’s not the Holy Spirit Network.

Here’s another thing preachers fail to teach us: they don’t teach us to bless God.

We are taught to bless our food, which is bizarre. The Bible says Yeshua blessed God when he ate. He did not bless the food. When I eat, I speak blessing to God himself, just as Isaac blessed his sons. I have the authority to speak good things that will happen to God.

A lot of Christians think this is wrong, but one important person says it’s correct. His name is Yeshua.

Consider the Lord’s Prayer. How does it start? With Yeshua blessing Yahweh.

May your name be holy. May your kingdom come. May your will be done. Those are blessings directed at God himself, not a plate of food. Yeshua was using supernatural power to make these things happen, and he named the location: on Earth. He said these things had already happened in heaven.

The prayer doesn’t actually say, “May your name be holy.” The Greek word translated as “holy” means “CONSIDERED holy.” By men. God’s name is already holy everywhere, but it is not generally considered holy here on Earth. We use it when we’re startled or when we feel pain, for example.

The blessings are not idle words uttered to butter God up. God has no ego. He is free of pride. It’s not like you’re praying to Beyonce or Hillary Clinton. The blessings are supposed to cause things to happen.

When I eat, I mention the blessings in the Lord’s Prayer. I add other things. “May your children be multiplied.” This is God’s main goal here. “May your enemies be defeated.”

We know God treats us the way we treat him. The Bible makes it clear. So what happens when you bless God? Clearly, he speaks powerful blessings over you, from the throne of complete authority. If you’re not blessed, and you’re not blessing God, you should not be surprised. Nothing is wrong. The system is working.

The word says, “I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be on my lips.”

Why would you bless food? Food isn’t a person. It can’t receive a blessing. You may say you bless it so it will be good for you and it won’t hurt you. That makes no sense. You’re blessing yourself and claiming you’re blessing food.

Some people say “bless” means “thank.” No, it doesn’t. Not primarily, anyway. Isaac didn’t thank his children. He blessed them. God blessed the creatures of the earth when he created them. He wasn’t thanking them. Strong’s lists “thank” as a meaning for “barak,” the Hebrew word for “bless,” but it’s at the end of the list.

God’s kingdom is established in heaven. He doesn’t need to be blessed there. Earth is different. We are the instruments he uses to establish his kingdom here. He uses our prayers, blessings, curses, and actions. If we don’t do our part, Satan’s kingdom is established here.

That has already happened. Yeshua calls Satan the god of this world. We’re the insurrection. The minority party.

People think God controls everything that happens here. Where did that idea come from? We have free will. God doesn’t force us to sin and go to hell. God put us in charge of this place, and we handed it to Satan.

I believe one of the main reasons my life and my wife’s life are so good is that I make a point of speaking blessings to God himself all day. How could God let me bless him and not bless me in return? That would be unlike him, to say the least.

I also curse. I cursed Joe Biden’s campaign over and over, and when Harris took over, I cursed her campaign, too. I curse the entertainment industry, including sports. Why not? Leftism and celebrity worship are possibly Satan’s most powerful tools.

Preachers don’t teach us to love God. That’s amazing. They teach us to be nice to hostile perverts, because Yeshua never said anything critical or threatened anyone, as far as people who don’t read the Bible know. They don’t tell us to love God himself.

We are commanded to love God. It’s the most important commandment. Yeshua said we were to love God as forcefully as possible and love others as we loved ourselves. All the other commandments are built on these two.

Do you ever tell God you love him? I do it these days. Every time my wife and I pray, we tell him we love him. We believe him. We choose to side with him. We believe he is right all the time. Conversely, we hate the spirits that are against him. We contemn them. We find them immature and embarrassing. We say these things.

Yeshua visited me, and his love is so strong, you can feel it, physically. It radiates from him in every direction. We should love someone who feels that way about us. Christianity is not a game where you play by the rules and score points. It’s membership in a family with a perfect, loving father.

I ask God to help us love him more. I ask him to help us love our enemies. I tell him it’s only possible with the help of the Holy Spirit. We can’t do it. The word says no man can please God in the flesh.

How can you teach people about God for a living and forget the most important commandment?

I guess I should stop. I’m sure this information will be helpful to those who put it to use.

Fries WILL be Great Again

RFK Jr. is about to become the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, a department which sounds leftist when you say its name. What conservative would use the phrase “human services”? It’s idiotic. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s too broad. I’m a human. When I hire someone to look at my AC system, it must be a human service. But HHS doesn’t send out air conditioner repairmen.

We had better department names when we had fewer departments. The Department of Defense was the Department of War. No apologies. Truthful. Trumpish.

Let’s Google.

HHS, which is called “HHS,” even though the DOJ is called “the DOJ,” was put together in 1939. Already, it makes sense to me. A socialist put it together.

It was originally called the Federal Security Agency, which is a pretty good piece of leftist PR for its day. “We just want you to be secure and know there are no monsters under your bed.” It was supposed to be in charge of Social Security, health, and education. They must have rejected “the Department of Intrusiveness.”

The guy who ran the department was a man named McNutt. That’s too easy. Before leading the Department of Buttinskyism, he was the governor of Indiana and burdened the citizens with the state’s first income tax.

Perfect.

Eventually, the government felt that the jobs of using Social Security and centrally-planned education were so important, they should be given to separate organizations with independent armies of stooges, so we ended up with the Social Security Administation and the Department of Indoctrination. I mean Education.

HHS includes the CDC, NIH, and FDA.

That’s all I need to know. Let’s disband it.

Okay, okay. We do need someone to keep really awful drugs off the market. I mean, if we didn’t have a government agency doing that, some company might put out untested vaccines that cause blood clots and myocarditis, leading to an epidemic of excess deaths among young people, which the government’s unofficial department, the MSM, would have to tell us did not exist.

All right. All right. We do need the FDA. I think. Even though it keeps Americans from receiving excellent medications used everywhere else in the world. Look up Rowachol. I got covid recently, and the pharmacist in Rome gave me two well-regarded drugs, neither of which had I ever heard of. Thanks to the FDA.

Anyway, the FDA is out of control. It lets lobbyists tell us what to eat. It gave us the Food Pyramid, which was originally known as the Iowa/Nebraska Joint Pro-Diabetes Pyramid. The Pyramid told us to stuff ourselves with all sorts of carbohydrates which rotted our teeth, strangled our pancreases, filled our arteries with placques, gave us high blood pressure, and made us one of the fattest nations outside of Polynesia.

Carbohydrates are the single biggest killer in the US. Think about that.

Here is the Pyramid.

It says to eat 6-11 servings of carbohydrates per day. I overeat, I love food, and I can’t manage that. I can’t even picture the people who do. They must make Jabba the Hutt look like Olive Oyl. All by itself, their gas must have raised sea levels an inch.

Rice and pasta, it says. Bread. Know what you’re eating when you eat those things? Glucose. A sugar so bad for you it’s used as the standard for the glycemic index, a metric which tells you how much damage your food is doing to your body. You chew your bread, mixing it with an enzyme in spit that converts starch into glucose, and before long, excess glucose is pouring into your veins, threatening your eyesight, your circulatory system, your brain, your nerves, and your chances of marrying anyone remotely attractive.

The weird thing about this is that you don’t need carbohydrates at all. We all love them, but you can go your entire life and be extremely healthy without carbs in your diet. Can’t do that with fat and protein.

The Pyramid discourages consumption of meat. I guess the pork and beef lobbyists had a lower budget for hookers and trips.

Meat is harmless. It’s great for you. Plant-based foods cause diabetes, tooth decay, obesity, and high blood pressure. It’s pretty much impossible to have those things without eating plants, and the fewer carbs you eat, the less likely you are to have these issues. Meat simply can’t cause them.

The FDA used to tell us to get 25 grams of fiber every day. Have you ever tried to do that? That’s 6 bowls of raisin bran. You would literally wear out your toilet seat. You would go through life clearing elevators and subway cars.

The government has no business managing our diets. The government is corrupt and stupid. It tells us what lobbyists and leftist freaks tell us to. And nutrition is not properly part of the government’s business. What’s next? Compulsory calisthenics?

Guard the borders. Fight our enemies. Protect business. Run the courts and prisons. The government should do these things. Where does it get off telling us what to put on our dinner tables?

All this being said, RFK is kind of a nut. He seems like he would be a great guy to hang around with, but come on. He eats roadkill. He thinks vaccines cause autism, a theory which is right up there with Pizzagate.

Not taking vaccines causes things like polio, diphtheria, smallpox, and rubella. This is proven.

I don’t know whether he’ll be good or bad for us, but it would be nice to hear less propaganda from HHS, and it would be good if Americans could buy the same drugs that save lives in Europe.

He hates seed oils. I don’t know whether he’s right or not. He loves animal fat, and there, I am with him.

He said something wonderful. He reminded America that McDonald’s used to fry potatoes in beef tallow. They quit in the Nineties. Bad research and the FDA convinced American women animal fat and eggs were bad, which they are not, and women have strong voices when it comes to food purchasing. All sorts of companies started cutting out animal fat. Oreos abandoned delicious lard. We even have skinny pigs now. You can’t make much gravy from a country ham these days.

Women are much more gluttonous than men, and they drive the chip and ice cream industries, but they do more than anyone to deprive the rest of us.

Beef-fat fries are magnificent. I’ve made them. They smell like prime rib. A beef-fat fry is Jane Russell. A canola fry is Elizabeth Warren.

I wonder if he’ll be able to bring beef-fat fries back in some major restaurants. Maybe he can make them trendy. That would be a dream come true.

Potatoes are practically poisonous, but there is no denying their impact on cuisine. They taste wonderful. Fried. Mashed. Baked. Boiled. You name it. Beef fat makes ingesting an inherently unhealthy vegetable worth it.

People say potatoes are actually healthy. They have vitamin C! They’re low in fat! Whatever. Try one without salt and added fat and then return to the discussion. Worthless. Prison food.

I always feel bad after eating potatoes, but they’re too good to give up.

Even if the FDA were right about everything, I would still want it to shut up about our diets. It’s outside the government’s lane.

Getting back to RFK, I don’t think vaccines cause autism. Demons cause autism, and if autism has increased, it’s because America has turned into Sodom. We invite demons to rule us now. They cause disease, mental illness, and other misfortunes. Unfortunately, the FDA will never admit demons exist.

Regardless of what Roadkill Robert says, I plan to take every well-tested vaccine I can get, except for those made with mRNA. That stuff is horrifying. My son is going to be vaccinated, and he will live under the same policy. I don’t want him dying needlessly of some ridiculous 1900’s disease like tetanus or whooping cough.

My son will never be vaccinated for covid.

Covid vaccine : young person :: birth control pills : Caitlyn Jenner.

Trump needs to put a libertarian in charge of the Department of Education. A real Ron Swanson, unlike cookie-cutter kneejerk liberal Nick Offerman, who played him. We need someone who will destroy the department from the inside. The suggestion that states can’t run schools is asinine and insulting. I could run a school. Nearly any educated adult could.

The business of education requires a very low level of competence. You know it’s true. Remember your teachers?

I had one who told us there were 52 states.

I hope RFK succeeds in doing good things and is restrained when he tries to implement ideas he heard from Alex Jones. All in all, I prefer him to anyone Harris would have appointed, sight unseen.

So Much for Bringing America Together

Trump has nominated Representative Matt Gaetz for the position of United States Attorney General, and leftists (and some Republicans) are losing their minds. Not that this is a major change for most leftists. A reader asked what I thought about Gaetz.

I don’t know much about him. I know he’s aggressive. He’s very bold. He infuriates Democrats and lukewarm swamp Republicans. I know he was unsuccessfully accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl. That’s about it.

The failed accusation should not even enter into the discussion. Anyone can be falsely accused. Joe Biden’s hostile DOJ decided two of the three witnesses who came to them about Gaetz were unreliable, and the DOJ must have concluded there was no other evidence that would support a conviction, because they dropped the case.

Remember, the DOJ prosecuted a woman who “stole” a diary she said was abandoned and had her jailed. A diary. We’re talking about a misdemeanor on the same level as the theft of a Doordash order. If the DOJ had seen any hope of nailing Gaetz on sex charges, he would have been tried. They have a history of targeting conservatives unfairly. I consider Gaetz innocent.

Go to your local police and insist they arrest someone who stole your diary and see what happens. If the impossible happens and there is a response and an arrest, beg the prosecutors to bring the case to court. If that miraculously occurs, push for jail time. The prosecutors won’t ask for it. The judge won’t even consider it. It’s a diary.

That’s because you’re not Ashley Biden, the daughter of a sitting Democrat President who was extremely embarrassed by her diary’s content.

Don’t tell me the Biden DOJ was ever anything close to fair. Consider the J6 cases. And the cop who murdered Ashli Babbitt on camera has never been charged.

Nobody is fair. Nearly every president picks Supreme Court justices, who are supposed to be models of impartiality, yet somehow, they rule pretty consistently in favor of the policies of whoever chose them. If our highest tribunal is biased, and it clearly is and always has been, you can’t tell me other government officials should be expected to be fair. All you can ask is that their bias isn’t so extreme it results in extraordinary injustice that causes major suffering.

Gaetz has been accused of campaign finance violations. Well, so was Newt Gingrich, who hates him, and Gingrich was completely exonerated after being forced out of office as Speaker of the House. Donald Trump has been unjustly convicted of felonies involving campaign funds, and the case will never survive appeal.

I don’t trust charges involving the minutiae of campaign finance law. We let Obama win in 2008 even though he raised funds online without screening out the Chinese. I don’t care if Gaetz broke the law in some insignificant way.

The rage over the sex thing is a bit ridiculous. Leftists call Gaetz a pedophile. Ignoring the fact that there is no reason to think the crime occurred. Even if it had occurred, it would not make Gaetz a pedophile.

Pedophiles are only attracted to kids who haven’t gone through puberty. Pedophilia is a mental illness, probably caused by demons. Being attracted to 17-year-old girls who look grown is totally normal for men, even if we have no desire to have relationships with them. A man who is not physically attracted to good-looking 17-year-old girls has a problem.

Women claim they’re not physically attracted to handsome teenaged boys who look like men, and I suppose some are not, but most are. Women lie constantly about sex and relationships because they are extremely concerned about what people think of them.

In Florida, the age of consent is 18. In Washington, that deep-red state known for militias and Tea Party events, it’s 16. No one says Washingtonians who have sex with 16-year-olds are pedophiles who should be locked up.

Gaetz was accused of a purely technical crime which does not exist in many states, including New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. These states allow men to have sex with girls who are 16 years old.

Leftists pass out condoms to kids in junior high, and they commonly support kids who choose to have sex before they can drive. Things to think about.

It’s a bad idea for a grown man to have sex with a teenaged girl, it may indicate problems with his character, and all fornication is abomination, but it’s not pedophilia, and it’s not always a crime.

Maybe his real crime has been bucking the GOP establishment. He got Kevin McCarthy ousted. If you want powerful officials to act, the best way is to convince them your enemy is their enemy. The police often refuse to arrest people who have clearly committed misdemeanors, because they don’t really care much about our problems, but give a cop the finger, which is legal, and you can expect to be illegally detained, at least. He may hold you until he can find some unrelated crime to pin on you. High-level politicians are no different.

Should we care if the government is fair? I’m starting to wonder. The world is controlled by supernatural forces, and rulers are puppets. How much does it matter what our rulers are like, as long as they’re good for God’s children?

Trump is better for Christians and Israel than Harris would have been, and Gaetz would probably be acceptable, too. If so, he’s fine with me. It seems to me that if people who don’t know God have problems with the government, it’s between the government and them. Secular government is a curse, and people who don’t know God are cursed. We can’t fix it. People who don’t know God and who are therefore cursed are like the poor. They will always be with us.

The pharaoh who promoted Joseph was great for the Jews. Ahasuerus, AKA Xerxes I, was great for the Jews. So were Cyrus and Darius. These were not enlightened rulers. They were not very nice. But they were still helpful.

Maybe I’m wrong. Just pondering.

The news says Gaetz will never be confirmed. Is that true? If so, why did he resign from the House? Ron DeSantis has to replace him with someone. Will Gaetz get his job back if he can’t be confirmed? I saw some indication that DeSantis can fill the spot with someone else temporarily. Maybe Gaetz could get it back.

Someone has suggested that Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife, could fill in. That could be a smart move, keeping power in the DeSantis family while things play out.

The Gaetz appointment proves one thing: Trump is not playing around. He’s not catering to the weak voices around him, telling him to curry favor with the left. That stuff never works. Bush II tried it and had his behind handed to him repeatedly.

Trump can’t run again, so from a personal standpoint, he has nothing to fear. Vance is in a different position.

Trump has also appointed Tom Homan to run border security, and his sole, unapologetic policy seems to be, “They are leaving.” Trump got an incredible 55% vote from Hispanic men, and Hispanic men have lots of relatives who want to come here illegally, so I think Homan is a sound choice.

My plan is to enjoy the next 4 years and pray for the rapture every day, as I have been doing for a very long time. If I am close to God, he will look after me no matter who rules the secular world.

Leading Democrats Express Concern

Was I wrong about the left’s response to the second Trump election? I was sure the usual spindly, stoned, spoiled white kids would be out in the streets burning buildings and attacking the cops by now, but it has not happened.

What’s going on? They have gone berserk so many times. Why not now?

I wonder if it’s because even leftists are tired of them. I saw that Oregon’s governor, a lefty wackjob (I didn’t actually check, but I am willing to guess) threatened to meet Antifa with the National Guard. Are Antifers intimidated because they think blue-state officials might actually do their jobs this time?

Maybe leftists are tired of Antifa because it was a fad. BLM seems to be drying up. Maybe kids no longer think it’s cool to post selfies and videos from riots, not because they have grown up, but simply because it has been done already, and other kids are not as impressed as they once were.

I just saw a video from Seattle, where a group of about two dozen black-clad punks with a combined chest measurement of 35 inches tried to buffalo a few bike cops. It went nowhere. They ended up wandering off, chanting some nonsense questioning the cops’ parentage.

Aren’t we supposed to refrain from shaming the unfathered?

Is the rain killing their drive? Leftist nut riots generally occur in decent weather. American leftists are soft. They may dress like the Viet Cong, but they cry when the cops intercept their Grubhub orders. Literally. Maybe they’re afraid rain will wash the food coloring out of their hair.

Riot-prone punks are generally drug users. Has the dope gotten so good, it destroys their motivation to leave the basement? We all know weed kills motivation, except for the motivation to eat Frito-Lay products.

Could it be they’re planning action for later, on the assumption it will surprise THE MAN, who was counting on post-election chaos?

I don’t think so. I don’t think they plan that far ahead. I think they are bad at thinking about the future. After all, Jew-hating leftists at Harvard showed their faces while expecting to receive legal internships in New York City. That’s like showing up for a job interview with an ankle bracelet.

Maybe they’re waiting for a spark. Someone has to go first and make protesting cool again. Someone has to get a whole bunch of likes for fighting the police naked or something.

Herd creatures don’t like to be the one who goes first.

Tiktok gals are telling other gals to poison men. Is that the new leftist intifada? The police can beat you up, and felony arrests can keep you out of cushy jobs, so perhaps it makes sense that crazy, unfulfilled women whose cats aren’t getting the job done would go on Tiktok with their faces uncovered and tell other women to poison husbands and boyfriends they will never actually have.

The poison girls practically worship a long-dead Italian lady who (probably not true) sold poison to women with abusive husbands. The poison is called aqua Tofana, and it contains lead, arsenic, and belladonna.

It’s not like we know these women had abusive husbands. It’s not like there were trials. Maybe their wealthy husbands abused them by not dying soon enough.

By the way, as long as we’re revealing top secret information, McDonald’s special sauce is thousand island dressing. I know you had no idea. Nearly every secret sauce is ketchup plus mayonnaise with or without pickle relish.

The Tiktok assassin wannabes tell other girls aqua Tofana is undetectable after the fact. And that is true. If it’s 1650 A.D.

Lead, arsenic, and belladonna can be detected with no problem, and this has probably been true for over a century.

Girls really are bad at science. I’m sorry.

I don’t know why anyone would think lead was a good poison. Pretty sure cigarettes are faster.

When I was young, I did not understand that lead was bad for us, and I liked the taste of it. Sometimes I chewed on lead split-shot fishing sinkers. You’re supposed to close split shots with pliers, but I used my teeth, and I noticed that lead was kind of tasty.

Maybe this explains a lot of things about me now. Anyway, I did not die or even get sick.

Opponents of the aqua Tofana movement have speculated that very few of these women have access to men on a regular basis, for reasons that are obvious when you watch their videos. But, as an Internet denizen said, going to Starbucks could be scary. And I’m not talking about the prices.

Where are these girls going to get arsenic? Amazon? Let me see. Let me search and put myself on yet another secret list.

Amazon lists a homeopathic medicine made from arsenic trioxide. It’s called arsenicum album, which probably means “white arsenic.” Given that it’s sold openly as a medicine, and the fact that it’s homeopathic, i.e. ineffective, this stuff can’t contain enough arsenic to change election outcomes.

“Homeopathic” is a funny way to spell “placebo.”

Well, this is something. I just found a 100-gram bottle of pure arsenic metal on Amazon for $380. God bless the Internet. I should have expected it.

I just checked, and I can buy a cobra online for $1,000. Not at Amazon, so forget free shipping.

Never doubt the power of online commerce. I can use Paypal. I can’t use Paypal to buy a box of .22 shorts, because Paypal thinks selling gun-related items is harmful to society. But I can get a highly venomous snake that will breed just fine in my yard.

I can buy an inland taipan. Look this thing up. It’s worse than 10 cobras. These things will chase you and bite you over and over until they’re dry.

They’re like long, skinny scorned women.

I don’t like gun control, but shouldn’t we have cobra control? Isn’t that obvious? A gun just sits around until someone uses it, and it can’t reproduce. It can’t eradicate or displace native species, either. We should be controlling dangerous animals like cobras, pit-type dogs, and Will Smith.

If the kooky aqua Tofana girls get serious, maybe some witch with the prerequisite nose hog ring, who works at a university chemistry lab, will start filching arsenic and mailing it around to girls who will end up poisoning themselves and their cats accidentally. Or maybe some girl who doesn’t know Amazon keeps records of sales will just order some.

I can already see the cop videos in my mind. Girls in cuffs, screaming “THEY SAID IT WAS UNDETECTABLE! Oh, and I CAN’T BREATHE!”

I don’t know why America hasn’t erupted in violence, but I am confident it will happen, because you can’t say we’ve changed just because Republicans won elections by small margins.

Maybe the riot-prone are avoiding important dates like the ones like January 6 and January 20. Maybe they’ll flip out and go berserk over minor provocations, when we don’t expect it. Maybe they’ll hear there will be no Barbie sequel.

Farewell to the Wizard of America’s Id

I created another Twitter account so I could survey the situation following the election. When I have created Twitter accounts in the past, I have not been able to stand it very long. I thought this time might be different. I could stay in the background, not get too much dirt on me, and have the ability to look at other people’s pages in chronological order, which is something Twitter took away from non-members.

I lasted 4 days.

I was swamped with fake and/or bot accounts. I don’t know what purpose these accounts serve. They must be making money somehow. Most of them featured posts sort of like this: “I have had it with Mike Pompeo! If you agree, say ‘YES’!”

A lot of them had ridiculous names like “PresOfficialDonaldTrump.” They were labeled “Parody,” not always in a conspicuous way. They contributed nothing at all to the discourse, and they pushed real accounts out.

I had to keep muting these accounts. Muting means you can’t see their posts, but they can see yours. It seemed like it didn’t work. I kept seeing the same trash. Maybe they were posting on multiple accounts with very similar names. I tried blocking. I blocked and blocked and blocked.

I started getting slut posts. One of the first was some sleazy little trollop dropping the top of her bar-grade minidress. Then I got flooded with Cardi B fan posts. “Cardi be CRUSHIN’ it in this dress!” I would guess I muted and blocked over 30 accounts like this, but they kept coming. Cardi B is a slut, she is unintelligent, and she is also homely.

I received similar posts from other rap sluts. I got one from Sexxy Red, another homely pop star. She was bending over in a short dress, facing away from the phone. She looks like a budget prostitute of the sort favored by economically-minded military personnel.

I use harsh terms, I know, but so does the Bible.

There was also a ton of disinformation from the right and the left. The guy who debunked Pizzagate raped a bunch of kids! No, he was caught with child pornography. Doug Emhoff’s daughter had to be committed to a mental asylum after the election! No, that did not happen. RFK murdered 83 kids in Samoa! Really? Read up on that.

Twitter now has “community notes,” meaning you can post a note correcting disinformation. I saw very few of these.

There were a bunch of sick women, telling the world how they hated their friends and relatives who voted for Trump. TDS is not imaginary. It’s real, and it’s everywhere.

Many people were gloating over the Democrats. This is a practice I battle within myself. Here is what the Bible says:

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

I don’t want the Lord to stop defeating these people and the filthy spirits they serve.

I saw a lot of people bragging about a Trump landslide. That was annoying. There was no landslide. Ronald Reagan was elected twice, and in the process, he got over 1,000 electoral votes. Those were landslides. Trump got 312 votes. Why can’t we be honest? He did pretty well. That’s all.

Trump got 304 votes in 2016, and no one called it a landslide.

People were talking as though the Democrats were finished. A lot of people think we own the country now. No. We do not. We won in a squeaker. We had a feeble loser opponent who repelled people, and we still ended up with tiny majorities in the House and Senate. America still loves Satan’s values, and the left will eventually overtake the right. Get ready for it. You will not save America, but you can save yourself by getting to know God.

We will probably lose one house of Congress in the midterm election, so get ready for it.

I don’t know how you’re supposed to get anything good out of Twitter. There are a lot of citizen journalists there, but think of the sewage you have to wade through to get to them.

The big conservative brains on Twitter are disappointing. For example, people say James Woods got a 1600 on the SAT and went to MIT, but his posts are pretty ordinary. Some are immature. He’s not “owning” people right and left. I tend to doubt what people say about his intelligence. It’s true he went to MIT for 7 semesters, but not everyone there is Niels Bohr.

On top of all this, Twitter is a time sink. You sit down to check it briefly, and then suddenly, 90 minutes are gone, and you have nothing to show for it.

I’m out. I’m done. I think Twitter is important, because you can say things all the other social sites delete, but I can’t find a way to make it work for me. Maybe I’ll start another account if something big happens and I want to keep track of it, but I am on the sidelines for now.

God’s Promises are True

A friend of mine has a son with severe mental illness. By that I mean his son is a leftist.

My friend got to know God a few years back, and now he calls and tells me how much he loves being with God and praying in tongues. He gets revelation, and his life improves. Unfortunately, all this happened after his son was grown.

His son married a mixed-race lady who has a twin sister. Their mother was impregnated by a black or partly-black man who is nowhere around. Contain your shock. Both parents abandoned the babies, and they were adopted by white families.

Black people do not adopt black children often enough to save them. If you Google this, Google’s AI will butt in without being invited and tell you this is a racist myth, but it’s true. Black children are overrepresented among children who have no families. There are about 1.5 times as many of them as there should be, given the percentage of American kids who are black. It’s not hard to do the math.

In order to avoid typing “his daughter-in-law” over and over, I will call this woman “Myrtle.”

Myrtle was raised in a very white area. Then, for some reason, she chose to go to a black university and accept the low-standards stigma. After she arrived at the school, she complained that black people scared her.

Myrtle is some sort of vegetarian, although my understanding is that she eats some things vegans will not. She says the smell of beef makes her so sick, she can’t be in the house when anyone else cooks it, so her husband can forget about enjoying it when she’s around. So there’s a rule he must obey.

She is way out on the left. She is extremely fragile. My friend is getting to know the Holy Spirit, so of course, he is conservative.

Her husband is an enabler. He once told his dad his wife was terrified his middle-class, law-abiding wife would be pulled over by the police and murdered. In Massachusetts or New Hampshire, those notorious Klan strongholds. The son was angry at his dad for not understanding her neurotic, unfounded fear, which was probably something she made up to get attention. Leftists pretend to be upset in order to control the people around them.

A husband and father is not supposed to be an enabler. He is supposed to be the one who corrects everyone else. Fathers generally do this. This is why prisons are filled with the children of single mothers, but children of single fathers are out there in the world making a living and obeying the law.

This lady is full of demons that tell her white people and conservatives are out to get her, and her husband is full of demons that want him to have a controlling wife, so this is why they’re together. They know nearly nothing about God, so they haven’t received protection from delusion.

Day before yesterday, two days after election day, my friend told me things were very bad in his son’s house. The wife was having some kind of breakdown. Not the kind where they put you in a padded room. But she was not functioning normally. She was extremely angry. She was grieving.

She is still like this, 5 days after the election. God help her children.

My friend talked to me the way I would expect a moderate Iranian to talk to me about a father who was considering an honor killing. “He thinks my sister has to go, so we are all trying not to set him off.” He and his son were altering their behavior to humor Myrtle.

I told him his son was failing as a husband. Straight out.

God is supposed to be my anchor, through the Holy Spirit. I am supposed to be my wife’s anchor. I share that job with God. Women and kids go off on weird tangents all the time, and fathers are supposed to bring everyone back into line. Women’s hormones make them different people every day, and kids are just inexperienced and not that smart. Somebody has to be stable.

Demons are telling this lady she is right to believe lies about the race of the people who saved her, as well as wacky lies about conservatives. The son should be trying to deliver her from her pathological fantasies. Instead, he rewards them for them, and he expects his dad to cooperate.

Demons love controlling families. They get their hooks into one person, and they use that person as a handle to control the others. “Mortgage the house, Dad. If you don’t, my bookie will break my legs.” “Stand good for the checks I forged to buy drugs or they’ll put me in prison.” My sister pulled that last one, successfully.

My friend’s son is a codependent. He is supposed to help his family and make things better, but he’s pulling the wagon that carries them to the abyss.

He has a baby and a toddler. They dressed the toddler up as a lesbian, they have resisted using correct pronouns, and my friend’s domineering ex-wife, who used to claim to be conservative, curried favor by buying the toddler a book called, The Hips on the Drag Queen go Swish, Swish, Swish.

My friend and I had very dysfunctional upbringings. Two of his brothers were junkies, and one died in his house when my friend was about 7. His older brother physically abused him all the time. He chased him with a horsewhip. His dad was a shady lawyer who associated with shady people. He was eventually convicted of a felony and disbarred. Church was not part of their lives, and neither was the Holy Spirit.

I talked to my friend the other day, and I told him his son was dragging him back into the dysfunctional world. I said God wanted him to be free of it.

Lately, I have realized my life is completely free of dysfunction, and it’s very strange to me. How many people can say they are free of dysfunction?

My dad drank, beat my mother, and abused all of us emotionally. My older sister was sick and cruel, and she tormented my mother and me endlessly. My mother kept holding onto my dad even after they were divorced. My parents didn’t introduce us to God or teach us ordinary habits all successful people have.

Now, my life is so perfect, it’s boring. My wife and I joke about it. We get along beautifully. We love being with each other all day. We don’t manipulate each other. There are no guilt trips. There is no verbal abuse. There is no violence. There are no ultimatums. We laugh and joke all the time. We pray together. We agree about politics and religion.

Sometimes when we’re driving home from Walmart or some other wonderful, boring destination, I’ll say something like, “Another challenging day,” and we’ll both laugh and talk about how good God is to us.

This is what I want my friend to have, but he isn’t there yet. He is working too hard to turn his son around. I told him his son and Myrtle would probably never change, and if they did, it would probably be decades in the future. I said he needed to back up and enjoy his own life with God.

This is the worst thing about being a Christian. You have to cut people loose and let them sink. Most of the people you love are going to hell, and you can’t fix them. You pray for them and talk to them for a while, and then you have to retreat and hope God sends you to someone more receptive.

My dad was the last child of Satan I was close to, and I will never be close to another one. God turned him around at the last minute, and that’s wonderful, but he was an instrument of damage almost his entire life.

I have cut all sorts of people off. When you’re away from God, you attach yourself to people who do you harm, and when you repent, you have to scrape off the ones who won’t listen.

Myrtle and the son are in real trouble, as are the kids who are forced to depend on them. I am constantly hearing about how unhappy they are and how many problems they have. The son didn’t know the Holy Spirit when he was looking for a bride, so demons chose her for him. Now he is stuck with her, and she with him. Even if one of them comes around, he or she will be glued to the other by the bonds of matrimony and the needs of the children. They are trapped.

I pity people in bad marriages. I don’t know how they get through every day. I even understand Godless people who fantasize about killing their intolerable spouses, even though it’s wrong. I understand people who get fed up and run off. They look out over the future, and they see nothing but more suffering. And they’re almost always right.

I always say cancer is better than marrying the wrong woman, and I mean it very sincerely. Cancer kills you in a few months or years, and then you’re free. The wrong spouse can make you suffer for half a century.

I had no judgment at all about women. I was drawn to all sorts of women who were, frankly, losers with zero potential. Rebellious. Arrogant. Ignorant. Trashy. Mean. Unstable. Dishonest. Manipulative. Emasculating. If God had not chosen my wife for me, I would be in a place of torment instead of a bubble of love and protection. I would have a parasite instead of a wife.

My wife says the same basic thing about the men she wanted.

For a long time, I’ve prayed for God to give me a house of love. A while back, I realized he had come through. I don’t have a wife telling me what a disappointment I am or stamping her feet to get what she wants. I don’t have kids with clown hair and pierced noses, locking their parents out of their bedrooms and cutting themselves. We treat each other very well. We treat Marv very well. Nobody has to take a deep breath before entering the living room. It’s astonishing.

Things get better every week. I wish everyone could have this.

God truly is good, and his promises are true. I wish I had capitalized on them much sooner.

CORRECTION

I just found out Myrtle is being pleasant today. What a relief.

The Miraculous Failure of Bizarro Election Tactics

People like to try to convince us that conservatives are morally inferior to leftists. At the very least, they try to tell us we’re just as violent/dishonest/weird.

It just does not fly. No one can deny the existence of bad conservatives. I mean, Denny Hastert. He should be executed. No one can deny the existence of violent conservatives, although I’m having a hard time finding examples on the web. Tim McVeigh was conservative, but he also believed the government had implanted a chip in his butt, so I don’t think conservatism was his main problem. Anyway, it’s obvious there are bad and crazy conservatives out there, but there is no equivalence at all.

Most prison inmates support Democrats. Most violent crime, far and away, is committed by people who support Democrats. Most witches and other occult kooks are Democrats. Terrorists always hope Republicans lose.

Here’s another interesting thing: conservatives don’t have meltdowns after Democrats win elections, even if they think they were cheated.

If memory serves, leftists started melting down in public, proudly, with the election of George Bush, whom they equated with Hitler. The guy who actually gave the world the Obamaphone and mindless printing of cash was Hitler. Celebrities broke our hearts by remaining in the USA after promising to leave. Since then, leftists have ramped things up. The Internet is full of bizarre leftist communications expressing despair and rage coupled with inexplicably bad proposals to “fix” the problem of people whom they disagree with being allowed to win elections.

Rosie O’Donnell just said the Electoral College should be abolished and that we should go with the popular vote.

Trump won the popular vote. Hello?

Here are some stars who said they would leave if Trump won, either in 2016, 2020, or 2024: Miley Cyrus, Bryan Cranston, Raven-Symoné, Lena Dunham, Samuel L. Jackson, and Whoopi Goldberg. Those are just the celebrities I’m familiar with. There are others, like Sophie Turner, I know nothing about. The Internet assures me she’s famous.

Why can’t these people keep their promises?

I was telling my wife I think some of them stay here because they’re not famous anywhere else. Imagine moving to Amsterdam and learning you have to wait in line for a restaurant table. Unthinkable.

Richard Gere is true to his word. He is moving to Spain. But he was going to do that anyway, and he’s not a celebrity any more.

You know what? I can’t find a list of conservatives who said they would leave if a Democrat won. If you search for them, you get lists of Democrats.

When you go to Youtube and search for “conservative election meltdown,” you get videos of leftists.

No equivalence.

We’re just not as crazy. Even the flat-Earthers and truther holdouts aren’t melting down.

So far, we’ve had one riot. Leftists pretended it was something they would never do, and that it was a serious threat to democracy, unlike, say systematically preventing your own party members from voting for their chosen candidates in primaries.

A small group of idiots with no weapons, backing, or strategy rushed the Capitol and shot video of themselves delaying a vote certification. The worst ones fought with the police. They left after a while, they accomplished nothing, and business resumed. And if you were 5 blocks away, fat, reeking of cigarette smoke, and full of arterial placques, and you died from a heart attack on January 6, MSM performers listed you as a casualty.

Leftists riot constantly. They think it’s civil disobedience. They think burning buildings and beating conservatives is speech.

The leftist governor of Oregon had to tell his leftist sheep he was going to beat them over the head with the National Guard if they rioted in Portland after this election. You never see politicians telling conservatives not to riot. We tried it once, and it wasn’t a good fit. Sure, conservatives have shown up to defend their own events by force, after those events were crashed by leftists rioters, but we don’t suit up and go to leftist events with the intention of starting trouble.

Now they’re doing a necropsy, trying to explain Trump’s victory, the way sane people might try to explain a nuclear accident. Democracy functioned normally, the people elected the politician they liked better, and leftists think something went wrong.

Look what they did toward the end when they started to see Harris sink in the polls. They shamed black men and called them sexist. They called people like me Nazis and racists. Professional idiot Will Ferrell put out a video in which he pretended to threaten revenge on a potential Trump voter.

How did that fail to work? It seems like a surefire plan. “You’re not on our side? You’re a bucktoothed, illiterate, sister-molesting, backwoods Nazi pig who hates women. Wait…where are you going? I’m not finished!”

Why did they think this was a good idea? Why are they so crazy? It’s because their demon issues are worse than ours. Conservatives definitely have demons, but we don’t welcome them and feed them as enthusiastically and slavishly as leftists. That’s why we are less insane.

There are people on Tiktok now, screaming, literally, like they’re on fire. Using the word “hate” over and over. Thrashing and writhing. That’s demons expressing themselves. And their viewers are in the same boat. They think their videos are brilliant.

Barack Obama is a man of moderately above-average intelligence. He survived law school on affirmative action. In spite of his acumen, somehow he got the idea that if he scolded heterosexual, masculine black men from the standpoint of a homosexual half-black Oreo who had expressed the goal of becoming more androgynous, they would rally behind him.

Bad choice of words on my part, perhaps, but it was innocent.

Of course they turned on him! Who wouldn’t?

“GET DOWN OFF THE COUCH, BLACK MEN! YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE PEOPLE FURNITURE!” That was his attitude. That was his presumption.

Conservative women were shamed constantly. I would guess the shaming is worse for them than it is for men, because leftists think they own them. What better way to make sure a conservative woman makes it to the polls than to call her stupid and obsequious?

Beyond a certain level, delusion has to be demonic. There are certain levels of missing the obvious that can’t occur unless demons help.

I saw a Jewish lady being interviewed. The interviewer asked if she knew why there was so much antisemitism lately. She said she guessed it was because of Trump. Another Jewish lady followed later, saying the same thing.

Israelis love Trump. Netanyahu loves him. Trump gave recognition to Israel’s history JEWISH capital. Trump has a Jewish daughter and Jewish grandchildren. Leftists who hate Trump are swarming streets with signs calling for the murder of all of Israel’s 7.2 million Jews.

Why am I trying to explain? I should be standing over the toilet and yelling these words so they fall directly into it. Reasoning with demoniacs is like bargaining with stumps.

We are not the same. We are not the same. Conservatives are far from perfect, but we don’t have to go to special rooms to cuddle puppies when we lose elections. We do not have to be treated like mental patients every day of our lives so we will not go berserk.

I’m wasting my time. I have a chainsaw to tune.

The Provocation is Here

Well this is nice.

Donald Trump is back. We will see him assume office in two months, assuming the continuing leftist assassination attempts fail. He will not save America, but God will certainly use him to make things less unpleasant as our country’s spiral around the drain tightens up.

I was not going to watch the returns, but of course, I did. I made the mistake of watching a little bit, thinking I would turn it off and get to bed, but I found myself responding in a Pavlovian manner to gradual bits of reinforcement as they were wrenched from the lips of far-left news performers.

That’s my new word for them. “Performers.”

Trump did well early on, and in some states, returns came in pretty quickly, so I wrongly assumed we would be done by maybe 10 p.m. I nearly went to bed at one point, but those little rewards kept pulling me back.

At around 1 a.m., it was pretty obvious Harris had lost. Sadly, the performers refused to admit it. They held onto every state as long as they could without risking being committed to mental asylums.

Citizen Free Press directed readers to a site called DecisiondeskHQ, which belongs to the outfit that was first to call Biden the winner in 2020. It’s a reputable company that works with other big media corporations. DecisiondeskHQ called North Carolina and Georgia much earler that some companies. It’s 11 a.m., and I’m not sure MSNBC has called them yet.

The Associated Press had a nice live map on Youtube, but when things went sour for the bolsheviks and perverts, AP dragged things out. I think they were at 248 Trump electoral votes when I turned off the PC at about 3:30 a.m.

MSDNC was possibly the funniest outlet. They had a skinny, bespectacled guy in a white shirt, working with one of those big touch screens, pulling up graphics of states and telling us what might or might not happen. They had him still at it after Trump’s victory speech. I am not kidding. This gave my wife and me a good laugh.

MSDNC called the election after 5 a.m., and performer Jen Psaki made the announcement, essentially calling Trump and everyone who voted for him a Nazi.

After Trump broke 260 (in the eyes of sane people), my wife and I developed a running joke. We would say things like, “She may still pull it off! It’s still too early to tell!”

Here is what I told her. For months, performers have been telling us Trump would announce victory whether or not he had won. We were instructed to expect a premature speech. I told my wife they were delaying their victory announcements just so they could say Trump was jumping the gun, and sure enough, that’s what they said.

One performer, Jake Tapper, said that as far as he knew, no major news organization had called the race for Trump, and someone on his show had to correct him on the air, letting him know a little startup called Fox News had done so.

Tapper has one of the top jobs in the MSM, and he had no idea what the competition was up to on an extremely important night featuring time-sensitive news. What can you say about that?

We’re talking about Fox News, the company that has been utterly thrashing CNN in the ratings for decades. Hasn’t someone in the chain of command told CNN’s performers to make an effort to keep track on Fox and make an effort to compete?

Getting the truth out of MSM performers was like getting a dog to acknowledge eating a steak you left on the counter. “Jaaaaaaake…did you eat mommy’s filet mignon?”

“Did Trump win Georgia 4 hours ago? Did he? Bad Jake. Baaaad.”

There are still companies claiming Trump is at 260 votes.

Harris did not disappoint, and by that, I mean she lived up to expectations by disappointing everyone. A bunch of black kids at Howard University stood outside for hours waiting for her to come out and tell them reparations were on the way, and instead, she sent an underling to tell them to go home, because she was not going to speak.

That was nice. That made them feel appreciated. But they say Harris has a gift for doing this kind of thing. Maybe not as much of a queen bee as Hillary, but not gracious to the unimportant people.

She still has not conceded.

That’s amazing, because it’s pretty obvious even the performers want her to go away. They know the election ended last night, and even though a contested election is a juicy story, they are human beings, and they must surely want to see this thing end. When MSDNC calls an election for a Republican, it should be a clue that the Democrat lacks support for a long, drawn-out Gore fit.

Trump has done classless things in office, too. He skipped the Biden inauguration. But that doesn’t excuse Harris, the champion of the party of love and maturity.

Back in 2016, an anonymous insider said that after she lost, a boozy and belligerent Hillary Clinton had to be physically restrained, and that was why John Podesta took the Harris route, appearing before the losing crowd and telling them there would be no concession that night. It sort of looks like Harris (who slurs her words a lot) is also taking the news poorly.

The report about Hillary came from a radio host named Kincannon, and he boldly said it was related to him by a CNN reporter. He said Hillary had been given a sedative after attacking Podesta. Snopes calls the report “unproven,” which means they can’t debunk it.

Bob Woodward has filled bestsellers with things that are unproven and unprovable, and he wins prizes. Lots of news items are unproven, so I wouldn’t get too hung up on that. “Unproven” does not mean “baseless,” except probably in most Bob Woodward books. Every time you see “anonymous source” in a story, you’re reading things that are unproven and which will probably never be proven.

I saw a media outlet say Harris would speak today. I certainly hope she isn’t going to come out and deny the election’s validity. That would be a pitiable spectacle.

I must admit that her refusal to concede gives me some satisfaction. Maybe that’s immature of me.

So…when do the riots start?

I assume we will see action on Friday night. Parties are for weekends. Social Justice Warriors who have jobs will need to get time off from Chipotle. Some may need a day or two to hit Urban Outfitters for black pants and shirts.

Surely there must be some leftist violence, because we are talking about people who have been convinced we elected Hitler Junior. Respected MSM performers have been telling them this for years. If, in 2020, I thought Joe Biden were Hitler Junior, and I lived near DC, I might have felt pressured to join a group of guerrillas myself.

I’m not interested in militia membership, but hey, Hitler was pretty bad.

My wife has not been taken away, as Whoopi Goldberg predicted. She said Trump would take black women away from white husbands and put them in camps. I guess that will happen after the inauguration. My wife patted my leg and congratulated me today. “They are bringing you a white wife.” Once again, I said I would visit her in the camp.

I don’t know if I’d actually do it, but it made her feel loved.

We were both ecstatic when we realized Trump had won. The alternative would have been very bad for the world. Now we get more conservative judges, including a Supreme Court justice to replace Clarence Thomas. He’s the oldest justice, and he’s fat. With a Republican Senate, we ought to be able to pump the federal judiciary up pretty quickly.

I can’t wait for the deportations to start. I realize people will suffer, but that’s on them, and they got to stay here quite a while illegally, so they have nothing to complain about. I don’t know if Trump will be able to do it, because their presence is due to a curse, but maybe he can remove enough of them to diminish their political power.

It was nice to watch election returns without feeling stressed. That was divine help. I could not rid myself of the anxiety on my own. If Harris had won, I would have been okay. I wouldn’t have gone on Tiktok to film a video of myself crying.

Unfortunately, leftists reject God even more than conservatives do, so they are stressed and enraged. More than usual. I joke, but this is the stress and rage that will result in countless killings, beatings, deprivations of property, and imprisonments in years to come. Eventually, Satan’s children will take over.

I think Joe Biden is happy today. I really believe he wanted Kamala to lose. He brags about being vindictive. It’s nice to see Obama’s political power kneecapped for another 4 years.

I plan to make the most of the Trump years. If we get some J.D. Vance years, I will enjoy them fully as well. Thank you, God, for hindering your children’s enemies.

Storm? Where?

It’s election night 2024, and the votes are coming in. In the past, I was very tense on election nights. Tonight I just feel stuck.

I have been through lots of hurricanes, and one thing I’ve noticed is that during the few days before a storm hits, the sky seems grey, everything seems still, and there is a sense that nothing is happening in the world, as though we were all waiting quietly for a big, unpleasant event. Today has felt this way.

I didn’t feel like doing anything. I should have done some work on the tractor. Instead, I sat around watching Youtube and eating leftover takeout food.

I am waiting for whatever is going to happen, to happen. And be over.

If Harris wins, I will not be distraught. Maybe it’s because I already know the world is lost. A Harris victory would be more about the scheduling than the trajectory. Things will be moved up 4 years.

It’s astonishing to me that half of America could want to vote for such a stupid, transparently dishonest, empty, incompetent woman, or for her disgusting polcies, but I have to admit: this is who we are. Our national character has deteriorated, so presidents like Biden and Harris are starting to be what we should expect. A Dwight Eisenhower or a Ronald Reagan would be too good for us.

Many of us are voting for the woman who filled the country with illegal aliens. That, alone, is proof we are on the verge of becoming incompetent to govern ourselves. Who’s next? Kim Kardashian? Charlie Sheen? Rupaul?

If Trump wins, great, but we have to take notice of the fact that a country that will give half its votes to Kamala Harris is washed up.

Incidentally, I have the Fox News Youtube channel on, and it’s really funny to see a presidential candidate represented by a little photo almost identical to his mugshot.

Speaking of distractions, I just noticed that AP has Virginia leaning red. That’s really something. If Trump gets AP, Kamala will be working at McDonald’s again in January.

Remaining calm after a Harris victory would be proof of the Holy Spirit’s intervention in me. I could not do it alone.

Back when Trump was elected, I said I felt God was giving us 4 years of delay so we could get ready for the apocalypse. Then Biden came along and pushed us closer to the abyss. Maybe we’re getting another 4 years.

We have to learn that God, not the government, is our provider and protector. The Bible says God is our refuge and our strong fortress, over and over. It says the righteous run into him and are safe. I feel as though God has made this knowledge part of me, and that’s why I’m not anxious. I would hate to see Kamala Harris win, but I have learned that as long as I pray in the Spirit and spend enough time with God, everything will be fine regardless of what happens around me.

This is how you get favor.

Psalm 91 explains how favor affects you in bad times. A thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only witness the reward of the wicked–the people who aren’t part of God’s family–with your eyes.

Most Christians don’t know these things. They haven’t spent time praying in the Spirit, and they have not received revelation. It’s not enough to know things are true because you read the in the Bible. You have to have God enter into you and make them part of you.

I’m very glad God has gotten me to this point. I don’t know anyone else who has made it this far, except maybe my wife.

Anyway, I will see if I can get the wife to sit down to pray, and I guess I’ll turn off the news and get ready for bed.

We’re all Going to Camp

My wife and I were watching election-related videos, and it served to remind me of something. We have to stop saying the world is going crazy. The world is now completely insane, and it has been for a while.

I believe a demon explosion is taking place. Like the hostile illegal aliens pouring in across our borders, with our inexplicable consent, demons are being poured out on the earth, and they are making people insane.

The other day I got a revelation. Like many revelations, it was something I already knew, but God has a way of making knowledge you already have completely real to you. Without God’s help, knowledge can feel like speculation.

The knowledge was this: just as God’s Spirit is the only source of truth and reason, other spirits pour insanity into people. They make them believe things that are obviously untrue.

There is always symmetry in the supernatural.

I saw some leftist nut with a big Tiktok following, telling people how to prepare for a possible Trump victory. To say he is crazy doesn’t begin to describe him. Check out his tips.

1. If you’re trans, keep it to yourself so Trump supporters don’t harm you physically. As a conservate sharing the video noted, if you’re under the trans delusion, people already know. You can’t really keep it to yourself. And of course, Trump supporters are not going to beat you. Harris supporters beat Trump supporters all the time, but it’s unusual for the reverse to happen.

2. If you know an immigrant, tell people that person has been in the US all his life. So apparently, Trumpers are planning to deport my wife, who has a green card. Her, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (please please). But it may be that he was deliberately conflating “immigrant” with “illegal alien,” as leftists do, as though these types of people were in any way fungible.

3. Refusing to talk about politics will hurt, but you have to do it, because it will help you survive. Actually, this one isn’t all bad. Imagine a world where leftists didn’t talk about politics. But no mainstream Trump supporter is planning to kill leftists.

4. Donald Trump has said, on camera, that he wants to establish a fascist government. What? Maybe this guy has been using mushrooms for therapeutic purposes, and he actually saw this while tripping.

5. You should get firearms training and carry a gun. This isn’t totally delusional, because it’s good advice for most people (sane only), but Trumpers are not going to be forming Einsatzgruppen and rounding up liberals and killing them. While the advice itself is not completely insane, the reason for giving it is, and it’s unbelievably hypocritical, coming from the side that hates the Second Amendment.

6. Delete your social media accounts. This is really a restatement of number 3. Trumpers will search the Internet for your anti-Trump memes, and then you and your family go up against the wall. Oddly, this is exactly what leftists have been doing to Trumpers since January 6, 2021, except they haven’t formed firing squads, because the government still won’t let them.

He says deleting your social media accounts may make the difference between walking free and being put in a camp. Again, I am all for leftists refraining from expressing their political and social beliefs, but there are no plans to build camps, unless Portland counts. Although Australia’s leftist government did build camps and confine people who didn’t take dangerous and completely unnecessary covid shots.

Whoopi Goldberg now says that if you’re a white man married to a black woman, Trump will take your wife away and bring you a white one. Then your black wife will go to a camp. I told my wife not to worry, because I would visit her. Provided the camp was nearby. She does not seem concerned.

Let’s take a trip back in time. Ted Danson the woke actor had a black lover, and with her approval, he appeared in blackface at a roast. She wrote some of the jokes he told. At first she defended him, but two weeks later, she cut him loose. The lover’s name is Whoopi Goldberg. So Whoopi has taken a black woman away from a white man, but as of today, Trump has not.

Oprah Winfrey just said that if Kamala loses, this may be the last chance her supporters get to vote in an election.

Too crazy to believe. She’s not all that smart, but can she really believe this? Oh. Forgot. Demons.

Isn’t the Democratic Party the party that denied its members the right to vote in primaries, appointing Kamala Harris before the primaries were over?

You could spend hours listing more examples. These people are literally insane, as are a smaller fraction of people putatively on the right. The people who think there are tiny robots in vaccines. The people who think the world is flat. The membership of the Lincoln Project.

It’s very important to realize the world is insane. You need to stop denying it. Demons are being dumped on the earth like illegals in red states in the middle of the night from government-sponsored jets. If the Holy Spirit isn’t keeping you sane, demons are making you crazy, and there are more of them than ever.

We argue with these people all the time. It makes no sense. It’s like arguing with a person on PCP. They’re listening to their demons. They like lies much more than the truth. This, not sin, is what puts people in hell. Heaven is full of sinners who listened. Sin is not fatal to your relationship with God. Rejecting the truth is.

Yeshua told us he was the truth. That’s not a little claim to skate past without consideration, on the way to Bible passages that seem more significant. It’s an important statement. He also said Satan was a liar and the father of lies. Satan’s children prove him right every day on the web and television.

Satan loves to project, so when you hear leftists make their nutty predictions about conservatives, you should realize you’re hearing Satan lay out his game plan. A big fraction of these people are literally ready to murder us on the street, take away everything we have, put us in camps, and so on. They are just waiting for permission. Sooner or later, even if Trump wins, they will gain control, and then their sick fantasies will be played out in the real world, with us as the victims.

People think such things could never happen in America, because America is too wonderful and too strong to let these things come to pass.

America permitted slavery for 91 years, and a big part of the country loved slavery so much, they fought a war over it and lost hundreds of thousands of people. Who can seriously say atrocity can’t go mainstream? It’s idiocy to even consider it.

I just saw a story about an old, educated white man who beat a man in a grocery store for wearing a MAGA hat. He knocked his teeth out. The victim was severely injured.

There was no provocation other than the hat. The leftist assailant is going to prison, and surely he knew that would happen as he was beating his victim. Insanity. If a law-abiding, educated man in late middle age can do that in front of witnesses, what do you think Democrats from less-civilized demographics can do?

Snap out of it. We’re at the end, not the beginning.

I pity conservatives and Christians who live in cities. I really pity the ones who think they’re doing good, setting an example and saving souls. Yeshua didn’t settle down among his enemies. John the Baptist fled to the desert, and when he went to the city where he was born, a little slut had his head sliced off.

If Yeshua and John could not save one city, who do you think you are, trying to outdo them? You’re endangering yourself and others for no good reason.

I hope this is useful to people who have gotten used to the insanity. Don’t let yourself stay used to it. Fight the gaslighting. Don’t judge the world by new standards. Judge it by eternal standards. What would your grandparents have thought of this place?

As for the election, I am not anxious. That must be God at work. Generally, I feel bad on election days, knowing America is likely in the process of electing people who will destroy it. I have been asking God to help his children to relax and realize only God keeps them safe and prosperous.

I started thinking of examples of people who lived well under Biblical tyrants. I only came up with three: Joseph, Esther, and Mordecai. I thought about including Nehemiah and Daniel, but their rulers cut their testicles out, so I can’t really count them. Anyway, it is possible to live well under bad rulers if God is with you. It’s all up to him.

Now that I think about it, Mordecai may have been a eunuch, too. He had the king’s ear, and he was a foreigner. We don’t see any evidence he had a family, and the Jews believed they were commanded to reproduce. Mordecai warned Esther that if she didn’t help the Jews, she and her father’s house would be destroyed, and he did not mention his own house.

Well. Joseph and Esther, then.

Anyway, I am not worried about my house. Earlier today, I realized I was not thinking about the election, and it was a big relief. I hope it continues. I don’t want to have my day and week ruined by an announcement I don’t like. I want to be confident my family will be fine, regardless of who is in the White House.

I’m afraid for the world, however. I think if things look good for Trump, we may see a burst of demonic unrest that starts today, much bigger than the problems we saw in 2020. Satan is extremely angry because Trump got in his way. He was furious when Hillary lost. Now it looks like it may be happening again, and Satan is not known for his patience.

It Takes a Village to Kill Your Pets

I find squirrels annoying. I live in a place with an abnormal concentration of oaks, and it’s not unusual for me to look outside and see 6 squirrels running around. Old people come here to retire, and they congregate in large numbers. Squirrels are concentrated in much the same way.

I shoot squirrels. I used to eat them, but then I started shooting them and leaving them for the birds, just to get rid of them. They damage things.

They ate the fuel gauge on my yard tractor. They chewed on my extremely expensive electric gate. They chewed on planters. One got into my chimney, and I had to shoot it in the fireplace. I have a productive peach tree, and squirrels cut the peaches off and leave them on the ground, sometimes without even taking a bite.

I quit shooting squirrels for a long time. I quit after an encounter with a mother squirrel. I was welding something up in the shop, and the shop door was open. She kept walking by, carrying things in her mouth. Ordinarily, squirrels won’t come near people, but this one trusted me. She kept carrying twigs into a nearby crape myrtle. She was building a nest.

This was a problem, obviously. She was going to produce new squirrels right next to my house. But I felt bad about shooting her, so I let it go.

I just paid $6000 to have mechanics undo the damage her offspring and their pals did to my truck. They ate the wiring harness, for one thing. You would not believe what a wiring harness for an old Dodge costs. They don’t make them. They ate the box containing the most expensive electronics. Dodge doesn’t make those, either.

I’m going back to killing squirrels. Nothing else I can do.

I tell the story to show I’m not a weepy squirrel-lover. But I was still incensed to read that government employees had held a man at gunpoint, confiscated a squirrel he rescued as a baby, and killed it. Of course, I’m talking about Pnut the Instagram squirrel.

The headlines say “euthanized.” That’s very pretty, but here’s what really happened: they held this terrified, squirming squirrel down–an animal that had grown to love and trust a human being–and they shoved a needle into him while he tried to get loose. Then they held him in place while he died.

The excuse? Rabies. When they abducted this pet, he bit one of the kidnappers. Understandably. So rather than have the assailant take a series of harmless rabies shots, to protect himself from an animal that had been living symptom-free for 7 years in close contact with two human beings who handled him daily, they killed a beloved pet who was also an Instagram star, loved by millions of people.

In America, animals are property. You can’t use deadly force to prevent someone from killing an animal. It may be your autistic daughter’s service dog. It may be a pet that has shared your bed for 12 years. Doesn’t matter. If a methhead decides to strangle your pet in front of you, and you’re not strong enough to save him, you can’t use a deadly weapon to save him.

Having read the Pnut story, I am inclined to think the law is wrong. I now think you should be allowed to shoot anyone who tries to kill a pet. You can shoot people to prevent rape and kidnapping. In terms of the suffering caused, harming pets is right up there with these crimes. It’s not right to expect people to stand by and witness the killing of a pet when they have the means to stop it.

Unfortunately, a change in the law would not have helped Pnut’s owner, because Pnut was killed by government employees doing their jobs.

Is it acceptable for a Christian to say it’s okay to take a human life to save the life of a pet? Yes.

David was a murderer. He had sex with a loyal subject’s wife, while the subject, Uriah, was fighting in a war to benefit David. The wife, Bathsheba, became pregnant, and in order to hide his sin, David had Uriah killed.

Nathan went to David and told him a story. He said there was a poor man who had a sheep he had raised. It was his only sheep, and he had made it a pet. It shared his bed. He loved it. A rich neighbor who had many sheep took it and butchered it to feed a guest. David was enraged. He said the rich man had to die, and he fully meant it. He had the power to execute. When he said the man had to die, he was pronouncing a sentence with the full authority of the state.

Nathan, a prophet who spoke for God, did not disagree with him.

The story about the sheep, which appears to have been untrue, was intended to show David the evil of his own conduct.

The older I get, the more I think we have gone backward by repealing the death penalty for offenses other than homicide. Under the old English common law, nearly all felonies were capital offenses.

Under Ron DeSantis, raping children is now a capital offense in Florida. The Supreme Court may disagree if a case is appealed, but I agree with the law. There are many types of harm that are more damaging than death.

I wish the people who took Pnut and killed him could be banned from employment and public assistance. They should have to beg in front of malls.

They also killed Fred, a raccoon who lived in the house. I understand why Fred had to be taken away, and an argument can be made for killing him. Animals have to be killed in order to be checked for rabies. Raccoons can have rabies without showing symptoms. Squirrels can, too, but there was no evidence Fred had bitten Pnut.

If they absolutely had to kill Fred, so be it, but it seems to me they could have tested him before killing Pnut. If Fred was clean, the odds of Pnut being infected were infinitesimal.

Personally, given the circumstances, had I been the bitten employee, I would have been happy to let Pnut live, take 4 shots for rabies, and face the vanishingly small risk of contracting the disease.

The real question is why things were done the way they were.

Pnut’s owner, Mark Longo, was in the process of getting a permit to keep Pnut as an educational animal. Having been rescued as a tiny orphan on a Manhattan street, Pnut was hopeless as a wild squirrel, so his only chance at survival was to remain a pet. If the paperwork had been allowed to process, Pnut would have been fine. Maybe Fred had to go, but that should have been a separate issue.

Ordinarily, I don’t get upset by shocking stories of cruelty in faraway places, but I was very disturbed by Pnut’s story. I still don’t like reading about it. Longo was extremely attached to him. Pnut was very affectionate to him. He climbed around on Longo and let him kiss him. He wasn’t doing anyone any harm. He brightened people’s days and reminded them of the power and importance of love.

Longo says he was imprisoned in his bathroom for about 5 hours while armed cops and other ethically-challenged stooges searched his house. Over a squirrel and a raccoon he had tried to help. He didn’t have a filthy house full of hoarded animals. He wasn’t making meth. He wasn’t trafficking kids or building bombs. He fed a squirrel and a coon.

I lost a pet three years ago, and it was very traumatic. I had had him for 30 years, and the infection he caught should have been easy to cure. I mismanaged his treatment, and I took him to a vet who turned out to be a quack. The guilt was crushing. I still hate thinking about it. Now Longo blames himself for failing Pnut. I know how that feels. He should not have had to experience this.

Of course, people will say the cops and other government employees were only following orders. The Einsatzgruppen defense. Nobody wants a mean letter in their employment file.

Sometimes when your boss tells you to do something, you’re supposed to refuse and risk discipline. It’s better than disgracing yourself with cowardice at incalculable, irremediable expense to the innocent.

Conservatives are taking up Pnut’s cause. That’s understandable. We’re not the ones who love sending government agents into people’s houses over trivial things. We’re not the ones who took a boy out of his parent’s home and put him in foster care with a pervert because the parents refused to pretend he was a girl. You can find that story if you Google. We’re not the ones who try to block adoptions, condemning desperate children to lives of rejection, because prospective parents exercise their civil rights and own firearms.

Kamala Harris says she wants to send agents into the homes of people who have not committed crimes–that means you and me–to check and see how we store our guns. While they’re committing this egregious, Satanic violation of our civil rights, who knows what else they’ll see that they can use to abuse us? Bibles, maybe. Trump paraphernalia. Gas stoves.

I wish the people who did this could be jailed. All of them. The cops. The animal control people. Every last one of them. They should have to sit in cells and think about the pain they caused for no good reason.

They Should Make a Cargo Drone

Before I start, an amusing remark I heard from the wife. She said she can’t wait to give birth so she can get some sleep.

She really said that.

Also, an update on my friend, whose wife was jailed recently for aggravated stalking, theft, and violating a protective order. Alleged, alleged, alleged. A female judge let her out on $8000 bond yesterday, so $800 out of pocket.

Ridiculous. If you violate a protective order, you break in the victim’s house and steal, you bother his children at school, you steal the ashes of the person who raised him, and you are arrested for stalking, you have violated exactly the type of crimes that warrant pretrial detention. You have shown you have to be physically restrained in order to keep the victim safe. And she’s also ALLEGEDLY a huge flight risk. It took months to find out where she was, and my friend says she was living in Florida while pretending to live in Georgia.

Oh, well. She’ll be incarcerated again soon enough. She has no self-control, so she’ll keep doing things to get the attention of the authorities. I hope they put her away before anyone else gets hurt.

She appears to be the person who called the cops and reported, falsely, that a man resembling her husband was dealing fentanyl from my house. I hope she’ll leave me out of this from now on, because I do not want to end up in a self-defense situation.

People are like bears. Much more dangerous when they have young to protect. You can let a lot of things slide–you can take risks–when you’re the only one in danger. You don’t have as much leeway when your child is threatened.

They let her out on Halloween, a day when servants of Satan celebrate their defeated, infantile, doomed, embarrassing false god. Interesting.

Today I’m thinking about woods maintenance, as I was yesterday. I drilled out the muffler on my Echo CS-590 and added a couple of parts to seal up the air filter. This model has a problem with letting fine particles by, and the general belief is that once they’re in the cylinder, they will cause it to wear.

Is that true? A good threshold question. It sounds like it might be true, but I haven’t seen evidence yet. People argue about it. Wood dust is very soft, so I’m not sure it can pose a threat to rings and cylinders. If it burns while in the cylinder, it turns to carbon, and it’s normal for cylinders to have carbon in them. It sticks to pistons.

It’s not like the saw lets a lot of this stuff in. It’s a tiny amount. If pressed, I would guess that the otherwise-excellent engineers at Shindaiwa, Echo’s parent company, designed their filters better than they needed to be.

Dirt is another matter, because it’s made of stone. I don’t run saws in dusty conditions, however.

Anyway, I stuck the filter kit in the saw, I drilled 6 3/16″ holes in the muffler, and I started trying to tune the saw’s carburetor.

This is an annoying process, because every single expert on Earth starts out his instructions the same way: “Start the saw and let it warm up.”

What if you can’t start the saw?

I can tune a saw which will run, but when the carb is way off, it’s much harder.

My saw was running very well before yesterday, but after I worked on it, I could not keep it running. Then I fiddled with it, and it ran strangely. It took off and revved up on its own. With the carb set differently, it would only rev up to half speed.

Apparently, when a saw changes speed on its own, it’s a sign of an air leak. I decided to remove the air filter changes. I don’t see how an air leak BEFORE the carburetor can matter, but what the heck.

I got it to where it should be tuneable, but then it decided not to start, so I quit. Today may be better.

For a long time, I’ve been looking for a good way to carry saws on my tractor. Back when I had awful debris tines that mounted on the bucket, I could put saws in the bucket. Now that I have a proper fork with no bucket, all I have is a ballast box with a little empty space at the top. If I put a saw in it, the bar will hang out over the edge. Putting two saws in is worse. And there is always the possibility one will fall out.

I can tell you about one product I don’t plan to buy: the Sawhaul chainsaw holder.

It looks like a fine product. You drill holes in your tractor, or you use a U-bolt, to attach the mount. You attach a plastic scabbard to it. You put the saw in, bar down. It’s like a holster.

My big issues are the price and the fact that the scabbard part of the holder is only right for one size bar. The saw’s weight rests on the inside of the tip of the scabbard, to keep the saw body off the mount so it doesn’t get beaten up. If you have a saw that’s too long, it’s going to flop around. If it’s too short, the saw will rest directly on the mount.

Right now I have 16″, 18″, 20″, and 24″ bars.

I don’t think it’s wise to have a heavy saw resting on its tip in a plastic sheath. I would expect it to cut through eventually.

The Sawhaul goes for $180 on Amazon, and it looks like it could be sold profitably for $60. That’s another problem.

These things are typically mounted on the upright portions of front end loaders. Don’t you need that area clear so you can reach the grease zerks? It seems like a flaw.

So let’s forget holster-type mounts. What’s the answer, then?

I was thinking of building a tray for the top of my ballast box. The box is extremely sturdy, and more weight can only improve its performance. But building a tray would be a pain, and it would not be free. Steel is not free, and neither is plywood. Neither are primer, paint, and fasteners. I don’t think I could do it for less than $50. The necessity of spending money and doing hours of work make spending a little more money and avoiding work look good.

My ballast box has a 2″ receiver built into the back. This gave me ideas. I live in an area full of old people, so many vehicles here have cargo carriers on trailer hitch receivers. A cargo carrier is a metal frame around 4 feet long and two feet wide. The structural bits are tubing, and if there is any kind of platform in it, it will usually be made from expanded metal. People here use them to carry mobility carts.

My big issue with virtually every cargo carrier made is that the sides are open. Typically, a cargo carrier will have a thin piece of tubing going around the top, around 4 inches above the bottom. Between the top and bottom, there is space, through which just about anything can fall.

A guy who calls himself Tractor Mike sells a lot of helpful products, and one is the Tractor Caddy. It’s a cargo carrier made from sheet steel, so the sides are mostly closed up. Problem: it’s small. Problem: it doesn’t mount in a receiver; it attaches to a roll-over device, in the way. Big problem: it costs about $350, before shipping. You would have to be nuts to buy this thing.

So what should I do? I’ll tell you, friends. I should buy an aluminum carrier made by Elevate Outdoor. In fact, I did. Amazon is bringing it here for $138, ready to go.

It’s big. It’s set up for a receiver. It holds (allegedly) 500 pounds, or 440 pounds more than I will ever put in it. The sides are solid. It’s aluminum, so it won’t rust. It folds up so my tractor will fit in my shop with the door closed.

The only problem is that the bottom is made of slats, so stuff can fall through. I’ll have to put a sheet of plywood in there, and I’m sure I’ll end up painting it, because that’s how I am. But I already have paint.

If it’s a well-designed product, it will be perfect. I’ll have no trouble putting two saws in it, along with a strap and some tools. Maybe even my helmet and chaps.

There are a lot of really beautiful homemade devices for this purpose. Some guys have outdone the pros by a wide margin. But they spent a lot and did a lot of work. I want to work on the trees, not the tractor. And their solutions lack versatility.

I had an idea for another solution. You cut a piece of goat fencing and lay it across the debris tines to form a floor. You attach it to the tines at the rear. When you need it, flip it down and put stuff on it. When you don’t, flip it up and secure it. In the up position, it keeps things from coming back at you between the tines. Cost: $0. I already have fencing.

The fencing is good because it makes it easy to hold long tools like pole saws.

Maybe I should have gone with fencing. It would only work when the tines were on the tractor, but that’s 90% of the time.

I can always do both. I need fencing to protect me anyway.

I can keep the carrier even if I end up using fencing, because it will fit my car.

Can’t hurt.

Guess I better get out there and cut things.

Burning Stuff Shouldn’t be This Hard

I got up today with the intention of getting myself a burn permit. I must have 20 tons of tree parts already in piles.

Figured I was prepared. I had my customer number for the forestry people. I knew I had to call before noon. The weather was okay.

Called with plenty of time left. I thought. They told me I had to call by 10 a.m.

Now what do I do with the day?

It seems like they used to give permits more easily. I used to call in the morning and sail right through. Then they said I had to call by noon. They said I had to take a class and get a special status in order to be able to burn under certain conditions. Now I have to call by 10 a.m.

I miss the days before I knew about permits. I went outside, set the pile on fire, and that was that. I never got caught, even when I accidentally set my pasture on fire.

It’s too bad downed oaks are worthless, because God has blessed me with thousands of oaks. They’re useless for lumber and furniture. They make fine firewood and smoker fuel, but the supply is so great, no one wants them.

The types of oak I have rot pretty fast outdoors, so even though they would make very strong posts and boards, they wouldn’t last. Indoors, furniture made from them wouldn’t look very good, and they’re so hard, they’re tough on tools.

I also have a fair number of sweet gums. It’s a second-tier furniture wood, and Asians like to make chopsticks from it. No one wants it, though. It’s supposed to be terrible for smoking. Some people claim it’s toxic.

My latest chainsaw is on the way. I thought I might get out and cut some more wood this weekend, but the saw won’t be here until Monday, and if I use my old saw now, I won’t get to use the new one for much. Also, the burn piles are immense, so I would like to stop adding to them until at least one is clear.

I guess this will be a good day to remove the remaining bits of trash that could obstruct the mower. Then I can replace the mower’s exhaust pipe. Tomorrow, I could mow. My yard looks like a jungle.

I’m looking forward to having the election over with. Biden is basically a retiree, the country is on autopilot, Harris and Walz keep making fools of themselves, and it’s starting to look like Trump will win. If he does, I expect a lot of violence from leftists, who are much more hateful and immature than conservatives. I would like to see that behind us.

Today I saw Kamala say something truthful. That makes it a special day for me.

Christians showed up at a Harris rally. They were protesting the murder of the unborn. Harris was speaking, and a man shouted, “JESUS IS LORD!”, which is true. And Jesus hates abortion.

Harris was talking about walking Trump’s progress backward and making it easier to turn women’s uteruses into murder scenes. The man shouted during a pause, when the room was quiet. He could be heard clearly.

Harris said, “Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally.” She said she thought they had meant to go to a Trump rally close by, which she described as “smaller.” Of course, Trump was in another state so he could go to the Al Smith dinner, which she skipped, perhaps out of the same cowardice that keeps her from doing interviews.

She grinned. She thought her remark was funny.

She was correct about the protestors, though. A Harris rally is no place for Christians. The Democrats openly opposed God and Israel in a voice vote at their convention years ago, they elected Obama, who was very hard on Israel and promoted perversion, and they treat the unborn like unwanted warts.

No Christian has a good excuse to be a Democrat. They have excuses. Just not good ones.

If you vote for Kamala, you’re voting for perversion, the murder of unborn children, antisemitism, racism, rioting, shoplifting, and the persecution of Christians. Those are major issues. Fake Christians who refuse to vote for Trump complain about his personality and his sexual history. That’s ridiculous. Yeshua himself is not running for president. We don’t have an ideal candidate. We have to avoid the worst choice we have, and that choice is Harris.

It’s not just Harris. It’s the flood of demonized Harris appointees that will follow, including EVERY FEDERAL JUDGE. She will appoint judges that support the castration and skinning of confused minors going through phases. They will support abortion up to and possibly past the point of birth. They will persecute Christians. They will empower Muslim terrorists.

Both parties serve Satan to a large degree, but the problem is much, much worse on the Democrat side.

Even though I hope Trump is reelected, I still believe America is finished. Evangelism is pretty much dead here. The perverts have won; even Fox uses incorrect pronouns. Young people are awful, and they are the ones who will take our places. In the future, unless the rapture comes, the vast majority of Americans will be arrogant, cruel, Yeshua-hating, antisemitic, witchcraft-loving, feminized, dishonest, shallow, useless people.

Privacy is a thing of the past. With the advances in surveillance and artificial intelligence, free will is disappearing. Immigrants from horrible places are piling in and having huge families. Nearly all churches where the Holy Spirit is acknowledged are run by greedy, heartless pimps and whores who enslave people with the prosperity gospel. The other churches promote anal sex but not holiness.

It’s not going to get better.

Christians are going to be marginalized more and more. We will be impoverished and silenced. Attacks on Jews will be tolerated and encouraged.

We chose all this. The people who came before us chose Satan over Yeshua, they raised us in their stupidity and immaturity, we are worse than they were, and the nation has continued to deteriorate.

These days, I spend a lot of time resting in God’s presence. I don’t do it just because I want him to do good things for me. I do it because I want to take breaks from this stinking, corrupted world. It’s like cracking the door to heaven and sticking your nose in. I keep begging God to bring the rapture and tribulation and put an end to this culture.

I hope it happens quickly, because otherwise, my children have no future on their own planet. They’ll live in little Christian bubbles smaller than mine.

America was wonderful. We didn’t understand what we had. The lack of persecution was extraordinary, and it was combined with extreme wealth, power, and safety. Those things are disappearing. Living here will be like living in two-tier England, where Christianity is broadly hated and Christians are seen as troublemakers and parasites.

When America is gone, there will be no big, rich, Christian country to run to. Every single large nation will belong to Satan.

The world has two big continents: the Americas and Africa/Europe/Asia. Then there is Australia, which is lost. There is no fourth land mass we can run to in order to establish a Christian society.

The filth of the coming world is disturbing to think about. The whole world will be like the most degenerate cultures we now have.

Consider “Palestine.” They hack suspected Israel-sympathizers to death and leave their body parts on display in the marketplaces. They have children’s shows where they tell kids to murder Jews. The filthiest kinds of terrorists have called their parents during massacres to show off the blood on their hands, and the parents have been transported with joy and pride.

Think of Afghanistan, where the rape of boys is considered normal. It’s a country so savage, it’s not worth trying to save. They murder the people who try to help them, just like the Somalis.

Consider Nigeria, where Muslims are so dangerous, you need multiple armed escorts in order to get around. Think of North Korea, where intelligent, hard-working people drop dead on the streets and rot, starved and full of worms.

Then there’s Central America, where drug dealers skin people alive, and the people support them.

Left to themselves, human beings are almost as bad as demons, and the majority of us have decided to be left to ourselves. There is no limit to the depravity we can embrace.

The other day, I read about government employees in Maryland, removing a young man from his parents home, permanently, because they refused to support his “trans” delusion. The parents are Christians. I was so discouraged, I prayed for God to kill the government employees.

Thousands of times, I have prayed for God to reach vile, cruel people and correct them. When I read about this kid, and I thought about him being castrated and pumped full of drugs by people full of demons, I couldn’t find the patience to ask God to turn them around. Just kill them. They can’t be reached with persuasion. They will do too much harm if they are allowed to live, and what they are doing is an atrocity.

What will I do when the demonized run Florida, my son goes through a feminine phase, and clown-haired stooges with unlimited authority drag him off to have his penis sliced down the middle, hollowed out, and turned into a fake clitoris in a stinking, never-healing hole that grows fungus and bacteria? Shooting them won’t help. I’ll go to prison, and they’ll send more stooges. Suing won’t help. The judges will be on their side. If it happens, I’ll just sit and pray and wish God would take both of us.

I understand why Yeshua, the God who is love itself, is going to return and massacre people. The Bible says his robe will be wet with their blood. I get it. Enough is enough. It’s better than letting this mess deteriorate to the point where life is utterly pointless. Saving new souls is important, but the reality is that human beings have limited value. A person is worth more than many sparrows, but it’s better that people die and go to hell than to have them remain alive and torment the people God loves without significant resistance.

God has killed millions of people, so no Christian should be upset when someone says he will do it again. He told us he’s going to do it.

He created hell and the lake of fire. Satan didn’t do these things. He couldn’t, and besides, the lake of fire is his future home for eternity.

One of the main purposes of these places is to keep the irredeemable away from the rest of us. Heaven can’t be heaven if they aren’t confined and forgotten, and the Messianic Age can’t take place unless fallen angels and demons are removed.

Regarding the apocalypse, I don’t want to see people suffer. I just want evil people to be defeated and kept away from God’s children. I have very little energy left to deal with them. Unfortunately, death and hell are the only permanent solutions. We can’t get permanent relief unless a lot of people die and go to hell. They will not change.

There is a blessing in knowing and being close to a totally worthless, hateful, destructive person who brings misery to everyone around her and makes it impossible for them to relax and thrive. It teaches you that God was right to create hell and the lake of fire. It makes you realize people eventually have to have relief, regardless of what the worthless have to suffer.

Most Christians never learn this lesson. They learn that Yeshua wants us to pray for our enemies, but they don’t pay much attention to the scriptures about turning people over to Satan or refusing to eat with them.

Yeshua never chased anyone. Have you noticed that? He showed up and invited people. He showed them God’s goodness and power by supernatural means. That’s it. When they turned him down, he left without hesitation.

He left most of the Jewish people behind at about 33, knowing hell would swallow them by the millions. He knew Jerusalem would be sacked, the temple would be destroyed, and the people would be dispersed for 2,000 years.

He could have stayed until he was as old as Methuselah, begging and cajoling. The priests had no power to arrest him. He turned himself over to them and chose to be crucified.

Would he have let a worthless son live in his house for 50 years and abuse him? Would he have enabled a junkie or a gambler? Would he have sold his house to pay the son’s creditors or bookies? Of course not. God can’t be manipulated. This is the real meaning of, “Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the test.”

I curse the Harris campaign, literally, as often as I remember to do it, but a Trump victory would be like giving a terminal cancer patient Tylenol. Better than nothing, but no solution.

Incidentally, I learned something interesting about the diaspora. Solomon caused it.

Solomon was a failure and a disgrace. He was also a hypocrite. People talk about him as though he were nearly a god, and he wrote part of the Bible, but he was a curse to Israel.

God told Solomon that if he or his people turned away, the people would be driven out of the promised land. A lot of people think the Jews were driven out because the people turned on God, but according to scripture, Solomon’s rebellion, by itself, was sufficient to invoke the curse.

Look at this scripture from 1 Kings 9:

But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

That’s really interesting. I wonder why no one teaches it.

Solomon praised God before the people, but all the while, he was sacrificing to fallen angels who literally stink. It looks like he, singlehandedly, assured that the Jews would lose Israel.

Look at the people we elect. And somehow many of us think we will never lose America.

Is There Anything it Can’t do?

The last couple of days have been pretty good.

Milton came through, we spent a day without power, it came back on, and since then I’ve been cleaning up the yard.

My tractor has been out of commission for a long time due to a problem that prevented it from starting. I researched it for months. I asked for advice from all sorts of people who know tractors. I got conflicting information. Nothing worked.

I was going to send the tractor to the dealership, but then we had the Europe trip, and we had three storms go by. And we both got covid.

A day or two back, I found I could get the tractor to start with some effort. It’s a pain, but it will run. Since then I’ve been moving trees and limbs.

Last year, I finally learned how to make chainsaws run reliably. I may be the only person on Earth who knows how. I spent years listening to bad advice from people who were supposed to know the truth, and it did not help much.

I have a bunch of gas saws, and I have run three in the last couple of days. All started and ran, on treated no-ethanol gas 5 months old. I have this thing licked.

My lead saw was an Echo CS-590, which is a homeowner-grade saw you can get at Home Depot. I paid $400, which is maybe half what a pro saw would have cost. I kept screwing it up because I got so much bad information. Last year, I invested in a Husqvarna 562XP, which is a real pro saw. It has electronics in it that supposedly reduce or eliminate carb adjustments.

I got good information on maintaining saws at about the same time I got the Husqvarna. I modified the Echo to make it run like a pro saw. It’s a monster now. But I’m glad I got the Husqvarna, because anyone who has a farm needs two big saws. One could need repairs. Also, the Husqvarna has a 25″ bar, which is 5″ longer than the Echo’s bar. On this property, you need a 25″ bar, but there are times when 20″ is more convenient, so now I’m all set.

I wonder how many other people in this entire county know how to maintain and use saws correctly. I would guess nearly all are arborists. I took the Echo to an authorized repair guy who didn’t know.

Milton dropped a large oak across my driveway. I would say this tree was around 20″ thick at chest height, and it may have been 80 feet tall. As noted in an earlier post, my neighbor showed up after the storm, cut the tree in two places, and moved it out of the driveway with a forestry grapple. That still left me with two big collections of debris to disentangle, cut to sizes a tractor could carry, and move. A tree service would probably have charged over $1500.

I took a little homeowner-grade Jonsered/Husqvarna with a 16″ bar and did a lot of cutting. I moved a lot of distracting junk to my pasture. Today I used the Husqvarna to cut the tree’s trunk in sections. I also cut up a 16″-thick oak Hurricane Helene left caught in some other trees.

When I went back in the house, bleeding and covered with grease and sawdust, I told my wife it was a good thing she hadn’t married a Democrat. She said, “Don’t even say that.”

I didn’t mean a Teamster or an ironworker. I meant the kind of Democrat whose pores weep estrogen. Like the pansy in the old pajamas-and-cocoa Obamacare ad. Like the skinny-jeans-wearing waifs who get pummeled when disrupting other people’s rallies.

Compared to men from the World War Two generation, I’m practically a girl, but I can fabricate, machine, shoot, run a tractor, buck trees, make ammunition, shoot sub-MOA, smoke ribs, make beer, and do lots of car, mower, and tractor repairs.

I’m very good at interior painting. I don’t mind killing annoying animals. I have stomped on mice instead of taking them to therapy and trying to rehome them. I’ve shot a bunch of squirrels from inside my home. I know how to fish for everything from snapper to marlin. I can run a yacht or open fisherman 200 miles to Eleuthera with no help, and I’ve done both. I can keep a marine diesel running. I have a basic knowledge of electronics, and I have built a bunch of electronic devices.

I can also practice law.

If my wife had married a boy-band-looking liberal, they would be equally helpless. She would be able to do all the woman stuff, but he wouldn’t be able to do man stuff or woman stuff. Hot yoga and sitting in a cubicle. That would be all he could do.

I had to make a 50-amp San Francisco adaptor for my generator on Thursday. A San Francisco adaptor is male-to-male. I went to Lowe’s and asked for 6/3 cord. The Lowe’s guy and I started having a conversation. Maybe they didn’t have 6/3. Would 8/3 be okay? Well, I wasn’t sure my generator could break 30 amps, so 8/3 was fine. I didn’t have to ask him what kind of cord a generator uses. I didn’t have to ask what 8/3 was.

He didn’t explain anything to me. He seemed to know there was no reason to. Men in this area can do things, except for some of the snowbirds.

Came home, took apart two cords I had made for 220-volt tools, put the plugs on the 8/3 cord, and we were in business.

Two new plugs are on the way from Amazon.

I am sure leftists will eventually start swarming homes all over America, killing and looting. They’ve done that in every revolution. But should we all be scared of them?

In percentage terms, there aren’t many tough leftists. There are a lot of leftists who can throw bottles of pee at the police, and many of them can rob and kill unarmed people with stolen plastic 9mm pistols, but how many can deal with a conservative who can shoot and has multiple weapons, modified to suit his needs, for various uses?

Even gang members don’t train, and they are generally stupid.

Kyle Rittenhouse was a chubby, out-of-shape high school kid with a cheap AR-15, and he obliterated three leftists as they and a big crowd tried to lynch him. He killed a child molester (raped 5 boys) who had been in prison and gotten a reputation for fighting. He blew the bicep off a criminal who charged him, committing assault, with an illegal pistol in hand. He killed some idiot criminal who tried to bash his skull in with a skateboard. He scared the rest of the lynch mob off. Rittenhouse was extremely effective, and his two armed assailants, as well as the unidentified person who shot at him early in the incident, were incompetent and useless.

I just don’t think you can sit around smoking dope all day and apologizing for your maleness and expect to be a real factor in physical confrontations with armed people.

If my wife had married a vegan yoga boy, they would have to live in an apartment or on a very small lot. They would have to live somewhere where there was little for men to do.

Man stuff is fun. Burning things and blowing things up are fun. Steel-toed boots are fun. Shooting is fun. Catching fish and cutting them up is fun. Welding, machining, running heavy equipment, and bucking trees are fun. How could anyone prefer wearing a man bun, carrying a murse, and spending his time going from one moronic activist meeting to another?

Good knives are fun. Concealed carry is fun.

God is masculine, and he was right to make men masculine. The sex roles he created work. People who accept them enthusiastically are fulfilled.

I feel like buying another rifle.

Tomorrow I have to finish moving trees and limbs. Then I have to replace my diesel yard tractor’s exhaust pipe, cut off the muffler I made for the old one, and weld it onto the new one.

I’m glad God didn’t let me become a sissy.

Is Florida the New California?

The Wall Street Journal says people are leaving Florida because of the hurricanes. I can relate. This is one reason I left Miami and moved inland and north. I’m in an area that has never had sustained hurricane winds, and I’m not in a floodplain. If it floods here, start putting animals in a big boat, because it’s over.

Is the story reflective of reality? Probably not. It’s not hard for a reporter to go out after a storm and find a dozen exasperated people who haven’t had a shower in three days and can’t face another meal of Pop Tarts, but most people feel better when the power goes back on.

We have had awful hurricanes here since before the Indians got here, and people have stayed and prospered. If large numbers of people leave, to the point where housing prices are affected, it will probably be because of the price of insurance, not the stress of the storms themselves.

I can’t help wondering if we are about to see a gentrification of the coasts.

As I have often written, hurricanes are only a problem for people who don’t prepare. If you build properly and manage your foliage, you can weather any hurricane in your own house. Build from concrete, not wood. Make sure your first floor is above the storm surge line. Get a big generator that turns itself on. Get a steel roof. Buy the right windows and doors. Find a place to put your vehicles when things go bad. Give up on the romantic notion that you should have huge trees close to your house. Don’t buy a Tesla. Boom. You’re done. You don’t have to go anywhere. Your worst problem will be removing your neighbors’ walls and outdoor furniture from your lawn.

Plenty of ordinary houses went through Andrew without real damage, and Andrew had sustained winds of at least 165 mph. Houses with second stories made from sawdust were decapitated. If a normal house built to pre-1992 codes can survive, you better believe a modern house built to better standards will make it.

If you can afford a seven-figure house on the water, you can afford to build a hurricane-proof home.

I think there are enough people with money to guarantee the continued popularity of coastal living. Americans are getting older, they retire to warm places, none of them want to live in California, and Arizona is a roasting-hot sandbox. I would rather live in Florida in a fortress than shrivel and die in the desert. The average daily high in Phoenix in July is 106°.

Maybe I’m wrong. Someone would have to look at the numbers to determine how many potential migrants there are.

Regardless of what journalists say about an exodus, my area is getting jammed up with yankees. They are packing in here like the rest of the country was on fire. We now have traffic. Tract houses are going up all over.

I hate what’s happening, but what if it’s God, moving his people here? Anyone who doesn’t live in a box knows that Florida has come to symbolize conservatism and Christianity, so they know what they’re getting when they decide to move here.

For quite a while, the population of the state has been increasing. I don’t think it will stop. California refugees have to go somewhere.

We know many of the new Floridians are conservative Christians, because they say so. And DeSantis, PBUH, has been giving cops from blue states money to move. Tired of arresting the same smelly, screeching clownhairs three times a day? Tired of being told you’re the problem? Florida awaits.

Every day, my wife and I pray that God moves his people to special areas he has set aside, and it looks like he’s doing it.

We also pray he makes these areas large and comfortable. In the Bible, living in a small space is a curse, and living in a big space is a blessing. We pray that God lures the wicked to little, cramped places like New York and Martha’s Vineyard, where people are too busy prancing about and impressing each other with their status to realize they’re land-poor.

The citrus groves to our south are generally gone because of the citrus plague. Where there were hundreds of thousands of acres of citrus, there is now bare soil dotted with piles of PVC water and sewage pipes waiting to be installed. If you haven’t driven up through the state many times over several decades, you wouldn’t know this, but I’ve made the trip dozens of times since the Sixties.

Go to your local store and look at the “half-gallon” citrus cartons. They’re not really half-gallon cartons now. They shrank. The price went up. Some of the products are only partly juice.

It will continue. Citrus juice will become a luxury unless someone discovers a cure. Even then, much of the land where trees grew will be covered with houses.

Based on experience, I think Florida will continue to be popular. Some people will make a better effort to build wisely. Most will not. Life will go on, just like it did after we were hit by Rita, Wilma, Katrina, and Dennis in one year.

I saw an interesting article on the web, bashing Florida. They asked people about destinations they would never want to visit, and one person mentioned Florida. I can’t say I disagree entirely.

Here is what the commenter said:

“I hate Florida. I’ve been to the Everglades, which is the one thing going for it, and I’d highly recommend everyone go once in their lives. It is every bit as incredible as Yellowstone. But I would not voluntarily go back again, I don’t think. I’ve had to go for work since then. I don’t understand the allure. The people are so rude, and I’m from NYC. The food is not that great. The weather sucks, it’s just so hot. Beaches like that can be found elsewhere. And it seems they’re getting hit by hurricanes more and more with climate change. I truly would die happy never going to Florida again.”

I will respond.

1. If you think the Everglades is incredible, you are easy to please. It’s a featureless, flooded, hot, bug-infested swamp. The sawgrass goes on forever, and every acre looks exactly like the next. It’s a shame they won’t let developers fill most of it. I have been there plenty of times, mainly driving through it, and I can’t understand why anyone would go without a reason.

If you were to go to the Everglades and look at one representative acre, you would see everything there is to see.

The Everglades probably shouldn’t be included in the land mass in maps of Florida. It’s underwater.

Comparing Yellowstone to the Everglades is insane. I can’t comprehend this. It’s like comparing the Louvre to the wall art at a Motel 6.

2. “The people are so rude, and I’m from NYC.” This is what I said when I went to Columbia University. I thought New Yorkers were relatively nice compared to Miamians. But the person who wrote the comment is clearly talking about South Florida, which is like a sludge trap that collects Florida’s worst. Once you get away from South Florida and Orlando, the people are wonderful. Warm, helpful, conservative, and Christian. I’ve been here 7 years, and they still freak me out.

We went to Sonny’s BBQ the other day, before the storm hit. Two old Southern ladies were leaving as we went in. Me and my too-young African wife, in the South. The oldest lady, who had to be pushing 90, looked at us and said, “You may as well turn around and go home.” I stared, thinking the restaurant was closing. Then she said, “We ate it all!” Hilarious. So much for red state racism.

Honestly, the South has changed a lot. When you walk around in public, it looks like the government has made interracial marriage mandatory.

The waitress stepped on the toe of a lady sitting across the aisle from us. She was apologetic. She said, “Did I get your toe?” The woman’s husband said, “Want to try again?”

3. “The food is not that great.” If you lived in New York City, it’s no wonder you would say this. New York City has incredible food. Here, it’s just okay, except for barbecue, which is excellent.

4. “The weather sucks.” Again, this must be someone who lived down south. It’s very hot where I am for 4 to 5 months a year, and the rest of the time, it’s magnificent. It’s not California, but it’s very good most of the time.

5. “Beaches like that can be found elsewhere.” That’s not harsh enough. Much better beaches can be found elsewhere. Florida’s panhandle and west coast beaches are okay. The east coast beaches are bad to mediocre. None of it compares to the Bahamas or Mexico. Long Island has better beaches. The Carolinas. Hawaii. Massachusetts. Jamaica.

Florida tourism makes no sense to me. There is nothing here. It’s a nice place to live, but tourists should to somewhere else. I understand locals going to the beach because it’s convenient, but you can fly to Cancun and back for $200.

6. “And it seems they’re getting hit by hurricanes more and more with climate change.” No, we’re being TOLD more and more that hurricanes are increasing in frequency because of climate change. It’s not really happening. Hurricane frequency has always varied, and some places have been pummeled or spared for no clear reason. I lived in Miami from 1969 through 1979 and never experienced a storm, but the state of Florida got 8 storms in ’69.

If I loved living by the water, I had to have warm weather, and I didn’t mind having an HOA and living 10 feet from my neighbors, I’d try to find a Florida property with a house built for storms. No doubt about it. It can be done, and there is no real alternative in North America.

If you don’t care about the water, you can find a sturdy house in this area, no problem. It will be way cheaper than living on the Intracoastal or the Gulf.