It is only as bad as you think....if you bother to think

*Sigh*

Yes, it really is like this.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mcqueary-taxes-pritzker-rahm-emanuel-pensions-1218-20181217-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1ztwp3OG71Xqt9wtwtbcxj-tHwmXOyQS-THeMP4YwIdM9rDKBaYt0IaZ8

I confess to not having voted for a single politician of any stripe when I recently moved to Illinois….for two major reasons….one is that I actually had to start work BEFORE I moved to Illinois and had exactly zero time to navigate the state or arcane shit needed to document my residency (being a US citizen and not an illegal alien, DOES have its’ challenges).  The other is that my choices really were limited to a democrat who knows nothing about successful leadership, and a republican that only pretends too.  In the state legislature, the man who has held state office longer than any other elected state official IN THE NATION, makes sure that the only thing on the agenda is failure and taxation.

There are good people in this state….I mean, seriously, there are GOOD people here; I know some, I work with some, and, despite their protestations to the contrary, I am related to some.  A number of them are liberals but there is some sanity sprinkled in there…..and you can hear it when you talk to them.  The people of Illinois are defeated.  The farmers and manufacturers of the central and south are defeated….they have no voice.  People that work for a living cannot be the ones responsible for voting for the policies of our state legislature…it would spell defeat in everything in which they believe. 

And in this state, it doesn’t matter the party as long as it is the democrat party…..this is a failed state, failed across the board.  And a lot of us are innocent….I have absolutely ZERO culpability in what this state, county, city government does….I do however have 100% responsibility for funding it.  It does not matter for whom I vote, or what the agenda may be…once that person goes to Springfield, what I want doesn’t matter.

There is no way out for Illinois….or as my acquaintances call it “Ill-Annoy”.  No matter how high the taxes go, Illinois will get no better, because although the state is damned near bankrupt, it isn’t about the money.  For our politicians, this state, the forests, the businesses, the farms, the industry, and most of all, the people, are a piggy bank…..

Do I love my house?  I do.  I like the town in which I live, and my neighbors are great…..it is a very grown up situation and at 57 I actually think I need that.  But this state, this city, has it’s hand in every single thing connected to your life….some of it is good (like a very generous major appliance recycling program) and some inane (cannot burn your yard waste, must buy special bags for disposal and must pay for it to be disposed).

And nothing is going to get better….nothing CAN get better.  If Illinois is a failed state, and I believe it is, then it is only going to get worse.  Let me share something with you.  I was trying to unfasten an idiot proof quick connect on our fridge (yes, I am the wrong person to be addressing idiot proof items, and yes, it is the SAME DAMNED FRIDGE that Lowes cannot get right….so we know this is going to end SPLENDIDLY).  This piece of five year old, Asian technology was kicking my ass, so I called Janet in and she did it at the first touch.  She looked at me and said “Well, I knew what you were doing wasn’t working, so I didn’t try that.”  And the point of THAT little story is that “if what you are doing is not working….don’t do that anymore.”

Illinois keeps doing the same thing over, and over, and over again……at all levels of government…..and they keep getting the same results…..deeper in debt, more corruption, less value for the (more) tax dollars.  But in Illinois, we have no real choices…..like I said up front….I didn’t vote for anyone in Illinois…..and it wouldn’t matter if I had….because nothing will change.  We know how to fix things, we just don’t have leadership that cares to fix things….or doesn’t realize how broken the state is.  Thanks to illegal immigration, the population of the once United States is accelerating at an alarming pace.  Yet, due to taxes and government, Illinois is one of eight states LOSING population (this year, the 5^th losing year in a row, almost 50,000 people will flee).  There is no future here for people looking to the future.

And I know that is what the ruling class of Illinois wants, that is the way they want it….that is the way the left across the nation wants it.  And I don’t know if the headline to this article is exactly correct…..it is not necessarily the government we chose……

…..more like what the government that is chosen insists on giving the people.

I will live here until I die, this is where the family is…..and that is fine…but this state is a direct reflection of corrupt liberalism……and it should serve as a lesson to the nation…..keep voting liberal…..and you will suffer under the government you chose.

Of COURSE you have a legal obligation....but even more.....

I have GOT to think that this court filing was simply a perfunctory act….but hey, this is the US, and it is the courts, and you just never know…..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-finds-former-deputy-scot-peterson-had-a-legal-duty-to-protect-stoneman-douglas-students-and-staff/ar-BBQR7CH?ocid=ientp

So, Deputy Scott Peterson, the armed deputy on duty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the day that Nikolas Cruz went ballistic, and who HID while Cruz killed 17 people, petitioned the judge in a lawsuit brought by one or more of the parents, to rule that he, Peterson, had no legal duty to protect the students during the crazy persons’ rampage.

WTF?

I mean, seriously……what the hell could his thought process have been?

Dude….YOU are a deputy sheriff, albeit one of a crooked sheriffs department, but nonetheless, you are a sworn law enforcement officer.  THAT means that you carry a weapon….that is what “sworn” implies.  And I get it, the weapon is primarily for your protection BUT….it is also to be used for the protection of civilians in harms way.  As part of protecting people in harms way that means you have to put yourself in harms way….you know…..do something honorable, risk your life for a greater good.

In this case, the lives of 17 innocents.

You RUN to the sound of the guns…..you do not hide.

Of COURSE you have a legal obligation to protect those people….if there was no obligation then that school clearly did not need your ass hanging out, oogling high school kids.

And my hat is off to the judge who apparently gave this motion the attention it was due, that it warranted.  And I don’t say that lightly; you never know with our courts and judges mistaking their role with that of a legislator.  If the judge had ruled that the armed deputy, school resource officer, WHOSE JOB is to protect the safety of the school occupants and the security of the grounds, had no legal obligation to do just that, I would have been no more surprised than if New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE (sorry, I got off track there…..that is a different story).  But this time at least, that judge ruled correctly.

Listen, I am nobody’s hero, not to my kids, not to my family, not to me….but a fundamental of being a man is that when the shit hits the fan, you GO TO THE FAN.  You march, you run, you fly, you ride TO the sound of trouble, to the sound of the guns.  It is what men do…..and if you are an armed law enforcement officer…..you have the moral and legal obligation to do that very thing.  I know personally but a handful of law enforcement officers well…..and to the man, I cannot imagine a one of them even THINKING that their role was anything other than a moral, legal, and personal obligation to protect.

Former deputy Petersen…..he only diminishes himself more by asking to be excused for not doing his duty.

Turn the gas (light) down, wouldja?

I do not know whether the left is, or has, suffered a complete, psychological break, or maybe they are emulating Obama…..and they really believe their own shit.  But this story, right here, shows you that, AS A MINIMUM, some of them have ZERO grounding in reality.  Apparently, people like Chuck Todd, and the doddering old, moronic leftist, Andrea Mitchell (didn’t she use to do something in news reporting?) are just not in the here and now.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nbcs-chuck-todd-blames-gullible-voters-for-trumps-election

Hey there, majority of America…..the left thinks you voted for Trump because YOU, yes YOU….were gullible.  Oh, and the media was complicit, along with the Russians, in making you gullible enough to vote for Trump.

Get your acorn around that one for a moment……CHUCK TODD, one of the most biased, bigoted, and to hear him speak on almost ANY topic, uninformed humans ON THE PLANET, thinks that YOU were gullible, and that the MEDIA was biased towards Trump.  I mean, I get it, the left are MASTERS at projection….but this borders on the line of a mental disability.  Has Todd forgotten that he IS the media, and that he and his fellow ‘tards on MSNBC and CNN and in the print media literally abandoned journalistic integrity and decided, vocally and unabashedly that it was their DUTY to ensure that Clinton was elected?  Did THAT reality slip his mind?  Did he simply over look the FACT that over 90% of ALL political coverage during the primaries and the general election was negative towards Trump?  OR….and this is the one that should boggle your mind, that a full 88% of all televised news coverage of the general election, every single day, 88% or more of all on air time was aimed at promoting Hillary?  I agree with Todd that the media was biased, and he should know it, because he helped bias it, AGAINST Trump.

And what about that Alzheimers’ patient at large, Andrea Mitchell?  She acknowledged that Clinton made “mistakes that were self-inflicted,” but continued to lay blame on the “unfairness of the media,” James Comey and the Russians.  What Mitchell calls “making mistakes” by Clinton is what you would call telling lies if she were a member of your family (heaven forbid).  See, that is what lying is….a self inflicted mistake.  When you are a money hungry, morally adrift, loathsome person, lying as easily as a priest recites a “Hail Mary” IS self inflicted.  And the Russians?  Today, two years after the left decided to not accept the gullible peoples’ Constitutional election of Donald Trump, two years after the left STARTED the Russian canard, there is no evidence at all that any voter was influenced by the Russians or that the President had any contact with Russians concerning the election.   As a matter of fact, I am surprised that the investigation has gone on for two years, two years in which every single issue looked at has reflected poorly on the left, and indicate that if anyone was corrupt in the election it was the people that lost it.  “I think [Hillary Clinton] had her opportunities and, for whatever happened externally from Comey and the Russians and a lot of other things, and the unfairness of the media, the conventional media putting so much attention on Trump and squeezing out the legitimately serious stuff she did.”  Thus speaks a woman that has clearly not been on her meds, or NEEDS to be on some much stronger stuff.

Of course, all that is over looked or ignored by Mitchell, and Todd….because they MUST overlook a fundamental reality…..they suck.  Their message sucks, they as leaders suck, their ideals and goals are antithetical to America, to our Constitution and our laws.  And….since they cannot accept that, they grant themselves air and internet time, and print media space to chastise you for the ADACITY to think for yourselves.

These people are dangerous….because trust me, they are infecting the brains of the people behind you, your kids and grandkids generation.

A friend of mine, on these pages, wrote that we would be stupid if we thought people like Todd, Ocasio-Cortez, Maxine Waters, Chris Matthews, that dickhead Cuomo (pick anyone you chose) were stupid….these people BELIEVE……and to use one of their favorite tools; projection, they believe in their bullshit like the NAZI’s believed in theirs.  They BELIEVE you are stupid.  More and more they show it, and they don’t try and disguise it.  The world outside of the east and west coast does not exist; the nation is composed of about 38 flyover states that ONLY matter because there are major cities to be destroyed (Saint Louis, KC, Memphis, Denver……) and taxes to be wrung out of Americans for the overthrow of America…..these people are dangerous PRECISELY because they DO believe.

Chuck Todd is a tool, a ‘tard of the first order…..but he BELIEVES you are a fool, and he is condescending towards those that do not underststand the greatness of his lies, which he believes.  Willing belief in a provable lie, and forcing it on America, especially through a medium designed to PREVENT the government from doing that very thing…..is evil.

The reality remains that Trump did not “gaslight” the American people…..Todd was gaslighted years ago….and uses his position to do the same to Americans daily.

Your gun scares me.....GET OUT!!!!

So, you are a grad student, which puts you in your 20’s.  PRESUMABLY that makes you a fairly smart person (though there is plenty of evidence these days that you may be a liberal, know nothing, asswipe).  As an adult, of legal age, you share an apartment with two peers.  Those peers decide to search your room one day, violating what courts have REPEATEDLY ruled to be your 4^th amendment, inviolate rights, and discover one or more weapons that you legally own, and are licensed to have/carry.  Those two snowflakes shit their fruit of the looms, confront you on your gun ownership, report you, for a violation of nothing, to apartment management, which then evicts you.

Can’t happen?  Bet me.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-grad-student-told-to-move-out-of-apartment-after-roommates-find-her-legally-owned-firearms-uncomfortable

This story is so unbelievable, not that it happened in America, that is becoming more and more believable as we see the rise of a generation with absolutely no roots in reality….but that it happened at all.

I mentioned above that the courts have repeatedly ruled that your room in a hotel, your house, your room in an apartment (separate from a common area), is YOUR space and as such, protected by the Constitution.  Granted that protection is from government in any form, but it has also been extended to unwarranted searches by management, and by extension your idiot roommate’s.  And their reasons for searching the roommate’s room?  Well hell…..she was from Alabama so they just figured that she must have something.

So….you searched her room for no other reason than you figured she may have something?  You were looking for nothing particular, you just thought she might have something?  Booze?  Drugs?  Money?  What would you have done if you found something OTHER than guns?  Report her for booze?  Still a legal product, still owned legally by a legal person…..so what then.  Of course that explanation is bullshit, it is all bullshit….but that is the argument that these two pansies used to have their roommate evicted.

Oh, on the eviction issue.

The management says that the eviction is for no other reason than because it makes the other tenants uncomfortable.  Wonder why he didn’t evict THEM?  Who knows what will make them uncomfortable next?  A republican in the apartment next door?  And to rub salt in the wound the management said that the young lady being wronged here would be FURTHER wronged by being held accountable for the lost rents of the people that moved out because of their fear of guns.

I suppose management would go to court to ask for financial redress.  That would be a good thing, because if I were the student, management would be in court already for violating my rights.

WHAT sort of jacked up adults are we raising?  You know what scares me?  Guns don’t scare me….assholes with guns SHOOTING at me, with me not able to shoot back….THAT scares me.  People breaking in my house, waking me up before the alarm goes off, and me with no gun…THAT scares me.  Having a Mexican drug lord holding a blow torch to my nads….THAT scares me….but the existence of a gun, a gun in my presence, a legally trained, fully authorized gun owner, THAT does not scare me.

Apparently I need to add sissie leftists to the list of crap that scares me.    And check this out; “We discussed with Leyla that all of us are uncomfortable with having firearms in the house, and that their presence causes anxiety and deprives us of the quiet enjoyment of the premise to which we are entitled,” one roommate wrote in an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon (emphasis my own).  When in the HELL did “quiet enjoyment” become an entitlement for which you could infringe on anothers rights?

NOW YOU SEE why arguing, nay, discussing things with a liberal is so difficult.  Their heads are SO far up their ass that normal people can LITERALLY not find a starting point.  How do you argue with authority (the property management), that understands that you are lawful, legal, in accordance and have violated NO laws or rules, but throws your ass out anyhow, not being political of course, because someone else is scared?  

How?

Lawsuit baby……this young lady should drag the lot of them in front of the court…..a real one, not the ninth circuit.