<Newly Declassified Documents> detail how they bought, stole or hacked over 220 million U.S. voter files, revealing huge security failures in our election systems.
These declassified intelligence documents - available for your reading pleasure now at <WhiteHouse.gov> - also show bad actors in the deep state knew about and actively suppressed this information.
Instead of sounding the alarm, they kept it secret - not just from the public at large, but also from President Trump and his staff in the runup to the 2020 election.
In a national address last night - which NBC, ABC and CNNlol refused to air for fear of broadcasting unfiltered truth - Trump stated the 2020 election was in fact rigged.
For folks with functioning gray matter between their ears, that's not news.
The only statistic you need to know is the popular (not electoral) vote totals for the last few presidential elections:
Notice any unusual spikes here?
2012 is when Obama was elected to a 2nd term in a landslide over Republican squish Mitt Romney.
You may recall at the time there was much talk about his impressive showing in the popular vote - more than 65 million people voted for Obama!
The Big O was supposed to be, not just the D's savior, but God's gift to the world (insert gagging sound here).
He certainly thought so.
Remember when Barry arrogantly asserted in his 2008 acceptance speech...
"<...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.>" ?
How much hubris did that take?
So what happened in 2020 when the unheard of total of 154 million votes were cast, with the winner getting more than 81 million of them?
Who was this most popular candidate in U.S. election history?
Riiiight...
A dementia patient, who twice before ran for president and never made it out of the primaries...
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It wasn't just a farce, it was a crime, and now the details of how that crime was committed are being shared with the world.
The party of the JackAss is braying loudly in protest;
...no surprise there.
But they better get their donkeys in a row: they're in the midst of a civil war, which Mamdani the Ugandan Commie and his disciples appear to be winning.
They're going for the jugular and if they emerge victorious, there will be no more democrat party, just the lingering stench of their descent into communism.
Back in the normal world there will be referrals of deep state actors - think Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Garland and others - for criminal prosecution.
Hopefully they'll dispense with court trials in favor of Military Tribunals so the perps can be tried and convicted sometime before the start of the 22nd century.
Let's shift gears from the depressing to the delightful:
This weekend features the 154th edition of The Open -
- the oldest continuous golf championship in the world, being played this year at The Royal Birkdale course...
...on the west coast of England:
Do I care who wins?
Not really...would sorta like to see Scheffler go back to back...
...but this hasn't been his year so far.
Mostly I enjoy watching the best in the world do amazing things on the links...
...like <this incredible putt by Colin Morikawa> in the 2023 Open Championship (watch for his little hop step over a Phil Mickelson drive at the beginning).
After 3 rounds, Sam Burns is in the lead this year;
...we'll see what tomorrow brings.
No matter who wins this year's Open, there's still no one in the same league with the great Harry Vardon from the hickory era...
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| wins in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, 1914 |
...the only golfer to win the Open 6 times.
What a great segue to hickory golf, yes?
You probably thought the long absence of the HGU was due to the <brouhaha> (great word) caused by my unexpected retirement, but nyet!
I promised there would be no HGU if I didn't win, and until this past week, I've been taking it on the chin, round after disappointing round.
I stopped counting, but that's a whole lotta 5-4 and 6-3 losses piled on top of one another.
Finally broke through this week: a 5-4 win on Monday and an 8-1 win Thursday.
Thursday's round also featured a thick smokey haze courtesy of our friends in Canada again...
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| 1st tee at 7 am |
...which got worse as the round progressed:
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| that hazy orange ball in the sky is mr. sun who's usually blinding me by the 5th hole, but not this past Thursday |
So why the breakthrough?
Great question, to which I have no solid answer.
I did indeed identify a problem as I mentioned several blog entries ago, but it's taken me this long to get a handle on "fixing it" (a marvelously elastic phrase since every golfer knows disaster is always lurking just around the corner).
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It's a number of small things in several areas - taking a bit more time with each shot, concentrating a little more, focusing on fundamentals of my swing a la Mr. V.
The end result is I'm hitting from the tees a little better, handling my lofting iron around the greens a little more consistently, and even putting with some confidence lately.
Here's to continuing down the path I'm on.
If for no other reason than to stanch the bleeding, let's 23 Skidoo:
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| those don't look like birds to me... |
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| ...so why are they emptying our birdfeeder? |
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| brazen theft, in broad daylight no less |
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| beautiful strawberry vanilla hydrangeas in the vanilla stage |
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| karen's lower patio garden showing off again |
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| black eyed susans loitering outside our courtyard... |
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| ...and white phlox loitering inside the courtyard |
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| the sphinx on loan from egypt |
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| rose of sharon bushes in full bloom now |
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| lily in the upper patio garden...check out the thermometer |
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| loki testing out the place settings before guests arrive |
It's a little scary how quickly I've adjusted to not having to deal with work related problems anymore.
And it's a bit surprising how easily I've filled those hours with tasks related to our household.
Of course there's all the minutia of getting our finances situated, signing up for Medicare and COBRA for healthcare, figuring out what our living situation will be in the future (selling our home, buying something new), etc.
But more than that I've happily embraced tasks that formerly I saw as little more than distractions from "real work" (i.e., what I did to earn money).
For example, today Karen went to see one of her daughters for several hours, and during that time I vacuumed the house, mopped the kitchen floor, mowed part of the lawn, and pulled up a few pavers in a walkway so I could put pea gravel underneath to raise / level them.
I confess to also hitting a few golf balls in the backyard, getting a workout done and watching part of the 3rd round of The Open.
When Karen returned we sat outside in the shade...
Starting to think I might actually be ok with this whole retirement gig.
¹ To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
later, mcm fans...
