HALF-FULL REPORT 08/05/22
Welcome to the Summer Fun HFR!
It’s early August, we have a month to go ‘till Labor, so let’s enjoy it. The photo and story linked above is in the New York Post. She’s Mimi Israelah, a pro-Trump proud Filipino-American. When she couldn’t find her driver’s license when pulled over, she showed the cops her White Privilege card for a laugh, and they thought it so funny they let her go.
The Post, however, doesn’t mention The White Privilege Card’s inventor, the “Legendary Black Redneck: himself, Joel Patrick.
“Let’s Make America Great-Together! I believe that the silent majority will win. i believe that hard work, loving God and your fellow man and woman is the way to a better, and more fulfilling life. The truth may set you free, but may ruffle some feathers along the way. I won’t apologize for my beliefs, but I will try and speak the truth in love. – Joel Patrick”
A very good friend of mine (and TTPer) is his next door neighbor, and says he’s the real deal, one of the coolest dudes he’s ever met. He’s 26, has one million followers on Instagram, over 800,000 on Facebook, many of whom are young Gen Z buying his t-shirts like:
There’s hope for America with Zoomers (Gen Z) like Patrick and his legion of admirers.
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Zers’ generational time frame is supposedly from the mid-90s to early 2010s. (I personally think artificially compressing generations into about 15 years is ridiculous, as is commonly asserted now as in Wikipedia – a generation was always before and still should be 20-25 years.)
In any regard, kids 10 years and younger are being dubbed Alphas, and there’s evidence they’re catching on to wokery fast. Try this: Woke Teacher Asks Student His Pronouns and It’s Hilarious.
On Wednesday (8/03), Libs of TikTok posted a 5th grade teacher asking TikTok what to do about her class. In a discussion on pronouns, one boy said his pronouns were “banana” and “rock” and should be addressed as such. The teacher thought he was making fun of her, but the class all agreed with the boy, and she didn’t know what to do. Watch:
A bunch of 10 year-old Alpha kids own this teacher and she’s too woke-stupid to get it. More hope for America with kids like this.
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Overseas from America, here’s a Thursday (8/04) Yahoo Finance headline of schadenfreude fun: ‘There’s No Path Out Of Economic Oblivion For Russia’: Latest Yale University Research Reveals How Corporate Exodus Has Already Wiped Out Decades Of Post–Cold War Growth.
“As of Aug. 4, over 1,000 companies, including U.S. firms like Nike, IBM, and Bain consulting, have curtailed their operations in Russia. The mass corporate exodus represents 40% of Russia’s GDP and reverses 30 years’ worth of foreign investment, says the Yale report.
The international retreat is morphing into a larger crisis for the country: a collapse in foreign imports and investments.
Russia has descended into a technological crisis as a result of its isolation from the global economy. It’s having trouble securing critical technology and parts. The domestic economy is largely reliant on imports across industries…with few exceptions.
At the same time, Russia’s domestic production has come to a complete standstill—with no capacity to replace lost businesses, products, and talent… And the ruble’s recent dramatic turnaround doesn’t indicate a strong Russian economy, but marks something far worse: the clear collapse of foreign imports… Russia is headed toward economic oblivion.”
This reminded me of a book I read back in the 60s by German historian Werner Keller: East Minus West=Zero: Russia’s Debt to the Western World 862-1962. I recognized his claim of history – that Russia’s civilization was imported from the West and never vice-versa – from an experience I had at the University of Moscow in 1958.
There was a series of bas-relief images of men along the entrance hall, which our Intourist guide Valya identified as the Great Scientists of Russia with reverence. She’d point to each, say their name and what they invented: “He was the inventor of electricity… of railroads… of the automobile… of the telephone… of the airplane… of the television,” on and on. Every modern device or technology you could think of, they all were invented in Russia.
I was 14, old enough to know this was pathetic, the result of a terrible inferiority complex towards the West. But I was polite, and just asked, “Valya, you mean if these people had never lived, we in America would never have had these inventions?” “Oh, yes,” she nodded, “absolutely.”
Now, 60 years after Keller’s book, Putin and his country are learning how bitterly true it was.
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More schadenfreude fun regarding the Chicoms. This headline on Tuesday (8/02): Chinese Economy Nosedive Continues, Sinking Oil Prices.
“A poll conducted by China’s Caixin news service on Monday (8/01) found China’s economy foundering as the second half of 2022 began, with slower manufacturing activity, higher unemployment, and a depressed real estate market.”
Meanwhile, Wuhan Back In Lockdown After Four Covid Cases. What? Completely lockdown and shut-in over a million people in their homes because of four cases of what has evolved into an ordinary flu?
An intel friend of mine thinks Xi’s “Zero-Covid” policy that has done such massive damage to China’s economy is an on-purpose strategy to make China poor again.
“There are well over 5,000 millionaires in China now,” he says, “and well over 500 billionaires. Wealth of that magnitude easily becomes a power center separate from the Communist Party, meaning it’s a threat to Xi’s monopoly power – and that is all Xi cares about. Shrinking that threat to where it’s not a worry may be his goal – and impoverishing hundreds of millions along with the super-wealthy gets a shoulder-shrug from him.”
And if those impoverished hundreds of millions rise up against him? “Oh, Xi thinks that’s easy – blame it on Taiwan. He wants to succeed conquering Taiwan just as Putin is failing so badly to do so in Ukraine.”
Will he? I ask. “No – it will be his ruination, just as it will be Putin’s. That’s the message, by the way, that we’re sending him by every back channel we have. Saber-rattle all you want, no problem, but don’t pull a Putin or your fate will be his.”
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That’s why he, along with virtual unanimity among both parties in Congress, cheered Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan: Pelosi Taiwan Visit an ‘Unequivocal Statement that America Stands with Taiwan’.
Standing up to China’s hysterical threats was simply an extremely cool thing for America to do. Especially when it was an 82 year-old lady in a pink pantsuit. Face-Loss City for Xi. Too funny for words.
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Back in the US, however, this week’s coolest politician wasn’t her. Far and away, it was RDS.
Florida’s Governor is The Man. This morning’s (8/05) headline: DeSantis Sends Cops To Physically Remove Suspended ‘Soros-Backed’ State Attorney. Awesome, Dude.
Then this headline: Gov. DeSantis Declares War on Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing Scam.
“We protect Floridians from the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement which threatens the vitality of the American economy and Americans’ economic freedom by targeting disfavored individuals and industries to advance a woke ideological agenda.
My proposed legislation will amend Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices statute to prohibit discriminatory practices by large financial institutions based on ESG social credit score metrics. This ‘ESG score’ is a framework created to force companies to meet ESG standards and arbitrarily includes metrics based on political affiliation, religious beliefs, certain industry engagement, and ESG benchmarks. Violations will be considered deceptive, and unfair trade practices will be punished according to the law.”
Speaking of ESG by the way: West Virginia Blocks Wall Street Titans Pushing ESG Agenda. That’s because the Woke Banks are waging a war on coal.
The fun news is, it’s a war they and other woketards are losing: Tuesday (8/02) headline: ‘Dirty Ol’ Coal’ Is Making A Comeback And Consumption Is Expected To Return To 2013′S Record Levels.
Back to RDS. How ‘bout this Tweet on Wednesday?
To this on Wednesday: Judge Rules Transgender Surgeries Must Be Covered By Medicaid, and noting the ruling’s caveats, he responded:
And as far as the Oval Office Occupant declaring monkeypox a national public health emergency, RDS’ reaction: Florida Gov. DeSantis On Monkeypox Emergency Declarations: ‘We Are Not Doing Fear’.
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It’s no wonder that there’s so much talk about DeSantis making a run for the White House roses in 2024. He has made it clear that he will focus on being governor and not even entertain ’24 until and unless PDJT says he’s not. He will not challenge Trump.
(You know what I’d like. DeSantis is young – he turns 44 next month, Sept. 14. Trump stops being an “inhabitant” of Florida per the 12th Amendment and moves to another of his homes, so RDS could be his VP, giving him 12 years potentially in the White House, not just eight.)
What’s interesting is that a lot of the DeSantis ’24 hype is coming from the Lying Left Media. This infuriates professional Trump-hater and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi, author of The Insane Clown President (guess who…).
Yesterday, Taibbi wrote The Press Is Already Working Overtime To Elect Trump Again. He’s bitter about this, and about the voting public not caring about the media anymore. It’s a short but must-read. Basically, he thinks the more the media tear Trump down or talk someone else up as the alternative, the more it helps Trump, and he can’t stand it. Sorry, Matt.
The most important must-read of the week, Skye told you about yesterday. You really should carefully read Michael Anton’s They Can’t Let Him Back In.
“Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump. The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want.”
The Deep State is absolutely completely out of their gourds terrified of Donald Trump. They know if he gets back behind the Resolute Desk, he will gut them, draw and quarter them, burn them at the stake and scatter their ashes to the winds. Which is precisely what every normal American wants him to do – and they know that too.
This week has left them boot-quacking shaken. Why? Trump’s Endorsement Record Sits at 172-10 After Perfect Picks in KS, MI, MO. Add Arizona with Kari Lake winning along with Blake Masters and several others, so it’s 173-10.
The midterms are three months away. The new GOP-run Congress will go MAGA. Deep Staters are going to start putting in for early retirement in massive numbers. Here he comes, folks. They can’t let him back in? In two years, they won’t be there to stop him.
