He told America the war with Iran would be over in 2 to 3 months; we're now entering the 9th month of this conflict.
Along the way energy prices have soared, and since almost everything moves by truck, our cost of living has skyrocketed.
Sadly, he recently stated that even though it cost him this historic whipping in the midterms, "he wouldn't do anything different".
Really?
You just tanked the Senate and House at least through the end of your term as president, and you can't think of anything you might have done differently to avoid this disaster?
Here's an idea:
How about if you'd done what you said you would do -
safeguard America by destroying Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon, putting an end to the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism
- instead of wasting months "negotiating" and playing military tit for tat with corrupt liars who chant "death to America", all while our citizenry gets soaked at the pump?
The failure to see that, kind reader, is hubris; a prideful refusal to admit mistakes and correct them.
¹² Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
- Proverbs 18
I'm not saying I agree with the morons who cut off their nose to spite their face by voting for D's.
Our patience and pocketbooks have been needlessly stretched to their limits, but this war will end soon.
When it does, costs will drop.
And two more months of the current nonsense is infinitely better than years of D's in power.
So what exactly was the reasoning for this brainless self-deception that led to our political suicide?
Hard to know how morons "think", but here's a guess:
"I'm really pissed about gas prices and this stupid war that should have ended months ago!
"I'll stick it to the republicans by voting for the people who let 20 million illegal aliens into our country, who pushed inflation above 9% and gas prices over $5 a gallon by June of 2022, who mutilated children's genitals as a form of health care, and invited men into my daughter's bathroom !
"That'll teach 'em a lesson!"
Did you really believe D's meant what they said on the campaign trail?
C'mon...really?
Dana Perino of Fox News interviewed Ro Khanna and asked him about D campaign promises of "Medicare for all".
"How will you do that?" she asked.
He responded by blathering inane talking points about ending the Iran war; since his answer wasn't anywhere near the same zip code as her question she cut him off and tried again.
"How will ending the Iran war provide Medicare for all?"
He literally stared blankly at the camera for several seconds while the neural network that passes for his brain short circuited.
Completely unprepared to provide an actual answer to a real question, he spewed more irrelevance at which point she ended the interview.
Truth: D's have neither interest in nor answers for making your life better; they only want to <change the demographics of this country>, destroy their political enemies and retain power.
That's their agenda, not improving your life.
It is certain prices will come down when Trump finally ends the war.
When they do, three things will happen:
1) our worthless D overlords will rush to take credit;
2) the lapdog media will mindlessly laud them, knowing full well they had nothing to do with it; -and-
3) hordes of semi-conscious plebes will glance up from their cell phones long enough to congratulate themselves on making such a wise choice at the ballot box.
Rest assured, investigations and lawfare will be the <cirque du jour> for the foreseeable future thanks to the arrogance of Trump and the stupidity of the general electorate.
Hang on...
...it's going to be an ugly couple of years.
On that happy note, let's chat about your favorite subject:
If only that was my current reality!
As hoped in my last blog entry, I did get one final round in - sadly, on "the links at nasty meadows" - but definitely did not play my best golf.
However, did manage to finish with the same ball I started while scratching out an ugly 5-4 win by bogeying 9, so there is that.
Also carded a birdie on 4 and a par on 5 - the 2 shortest par 3's on the course at 108 and 97 yds.
The 2 other bogeys against the 4 doubles were all "meh"...forgettable / regrettable, respectively.
And so my hickory season is officially done for 2026, and I'm loathe to let it go.
Ergo, I've decided to buy a mat...
It won't be ideal, obviously - besides freezing my butt off, I won't truly be able to tell if I'm hitting them straight or not - but at least I'll be swinging my hickories and making contact instead of starting from scratch again next year.
Who, me? Desperate?
Let's go <Spring!>
I've bloviated and stalled as long as I can; time to 23 Skidoo:
from the Larry files "up north":
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| nearing the end of the color season |
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| beautiful sunset pic |
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| ditto |
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| pretty fox - only saw him once, thankfully |
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| the look in her eyes says, "oh, really?" (snooty british accent implied) |
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| big buck back for an early breakfast |
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| rocky on the prowl |
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| typical juveniles trick or treating late at night |
in the miscellaneous department:
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| karen shared this with me wednesday morning |
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| starting to get that november look and feel |
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| doing our best to keep up with leaf removal |
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| I tried to stop her - it's only the 1st week in november - but the diva of decorating shall not be denied |
Feeling very 2020-ish in the aftermath of Tuesday's results.
For a state like Texas to turn blue?
Never thought I'd see that in my lifetime.
Yes, Trump did a dumb thing - a very big, very dumb thing - but the electorate did an even bigger, dumber thing by handing power to the D's.
These are corrupt, immoral people who care nothing for their constituents, only for themselves and their lust for power.
And of course, like 2020, there are all kinds of conspiracy / cheating theories circulating, which undoubtedly will end up the same way they did in 2020.
True or not, with D's coming to power and their entrenched liberal judges already in place - short of Trump using the military to enforce martial law - nothing will come of these accusations of wrongdoing.
The bottom line?
Millions of Christians across the country prayed for a different result:
God said "no".
Where to from here?
¹⁷ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stall:
¹⁸ Yet will I rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
- Habakkuk 3
The just shall live by his faith.
Soldier on, mcm fans...
