Their real objection to Hegseth is that he’s a normal man. Good looking guy, too. Incredibly in shape. They hate that. What I mean is that the basic Liberal’s path to getting a girl these days is to be a “male feminist” which means agreeing with every dumb thing feminists say and hoping you get a shot at it…the darker side is, of course, the actually abusive men who declare they are feminists so they can gain access to their victims. Hegseth is…a man. No saint. As someone once said: “soldiers are no angels, nor the gentlest of creatures”.
Their attempted smears of Hegseth on grounds of drinking and dallying with the ladies is, well, ridiculous and reveals that his critics have spent no real time with a combat unit. People who have signed up to be at the sharp end of a war – even if no war is going on at the moment – do live a little bit on the edge. In wartime, probably a little over that edge. In the World at War TV series, I believe it was an interview with cartoonist Bill Mauldin where he relates the story of when he was in Italy and taking a little break in a bombed out Italian house and in walks a British Tommy with a young Italian girl of…shall we say, questionable moral character…and the pair, taking no apparent notice of Mauldin, proceed to do what boys and girls will do. After they had finished they got up to leave, the Tommy saying, “good day, Yank”, and back off to the battle for him. When you might die soon, questions of morality get a little hazy. And you don’t judge the military by civilian standards. Ever.
The fact that Hegseth is in superb physical condition at age 44 tells us that he’s not a boozer. That he is a good looking man explains why he had plenty of opportunities with the ladies and didn’t refuse them. That he’s now married for five years and there are no recent allegations of him getting off the morality ranch shows that his statement that he underwent religious conversion six years ago is credible. In other words, in his late 30’s, he grew up a bit, as men will do. Sure, would have been much better if he had come to this ten years previously…but life is life and we’re not on a schedule.
They hate Hegseth because he’s a normal man – but they fear him because he’s not one of them. He’s not a career officer who kissed butt to get stars on his shoulders as prep for moving into a defense contractor job as prep for returning to the Pentagon and on and on ad infinitum. He’s not committed to the defense bureaucracy. Not committed to letting today’s brigadier general become a major general just because its his turn. Not committed to “diversity” when what we want is lethality. An old veteran like myself has seen over the past few years our Navy ships covered in rust and I know that its all gone wrong…no sailor would ever allow his ship to look like that. This means that our current sailors, ain’t. I believe that most of them want to be and will be if given leadership to become sailors…and that is what I hope Hegseth will do for the entire military. And the Left hates that, too…to them, the military is a social program for their experiments. For patriots, it is the lifeblood of the nation.
As we watched the lunatic ravings of the Senate Democrats, it became crystal clear that Trump represents a return of sanity to DC…Democrats are in a last-ditch, rearguard defense of insanity. And it is clear they learned nothing from the election…they even engineered some Code Pink crazies to disrupt the start of the hearing (who should now be prosecuted like J6 defendants, IMO). They don’t realize that 2024 was a demand that the craziness end…the clear failure in the California wildfires just putting a nice cherry on top of that…all that money to be spent and they couldn’t even get working fire hydrants. No. We’re done with that. We don’t care about boutique Liberal whines. We want things to work. We want things to be sane again.
Blogs For Victory 
The Mathematics of PsyWar
This is way too complicated for me to process right now—-as I sometimes explain, my mind is like a shelf and it is full, and I can’t put anything else it on till something gets pushed off the other end. But I have a very general idea of what this is saying and a very distinct conviction that it is very important, and I’ll get back to it. I just wonder what you guys think of it.
I thought this was pretty common knowledge. I recall an interview by Glenn Beck back before the 2020 election, can’t remember if the guy he interviewed was with Google, a former Google employee, or just someone who was knowledgeable about “the mathematics of psywar,” but I do recall his statement that Google could affect the 2020 vote by up to 15% simply by manipulating and limiting information.
The general concept of manipulation by controlling information is pretty well known but this is the first time I have seen the dynamics of social interaction and application of mathematics to control behaviors. This is a lot more in-depth than just withholding negative information about one candidate or promoting positive narratives about another.
I think that 15% was a good prediction as polls taken once the truth of the laptop started to surface showed that about 15% of the people polled said they would not have voted for Biden if they had known the truth.
Most people are not very knowledgeable nor do they take the time to think things through. This doesn’t make them stupid, it just makes them human. The day to day of life commands most attention most of the time. The thing about Propaganda is that it provides short, easily digested information that seems to satisfy the basic need for knowledge. The problem is that liars can use this as well as – maybe even better than – truth tellers. And, of course, truth tellers – really honorable, intelligent and educated people are highly averse to even trying to talk. As Lord Salisbury said:
First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
Salisbury was probably the last actual Conservative to hold power anywhere in the world. He knew what was coming and opposed it: this blind ideology that if everyone votes we’ll get a better government than if only the select vote was going to destroy the world. He stood against it as long as he could and after he left office, the UK pretty much went to hell in a hand basket as he predicted it would (he was of the opinion that the USA and France were already in hell by about 1870). But if you look carefully at what Salisbury was saying (and he said it consistently from youth to old age) wasn’t that he didn’t like people running their own lives (he’d be horrified at the mere thought of telling someone else how to live), but that when it comes to matters of national governance, only those with the ability to consider the matter carefully should vote and hold office. Not because they were better or smarter human beings…but because they could think about it before deciding. In his day, the working man was little educated and had to work 12 hours a day just to keep body and soul together…how could he possibly have anything intelligent to say about British policy towards Russia regarding Turkey? In our day, our problem is that we have to consult with people who seriously watch reality TV…and I’m terribly sorry but those who know who’s sleeping with who on a TV show but can’t tell me the names of at least two Supreme Court Justices should not be able to vote.
And precisely for the reason you showed here – such people are easily controlled by the dishonest. For all our great victory last November, 75 million people voted for Harris. The heir of totally failed policies. A person of no individual achievements other than holding offices. A person who can’t give a coherent explanation of her own views. She should have got zero votes. Of course, she never should have held elective office. In a system where the voters have to name three Supreme Court Justices before being allowed to vote, she never would have held elective office (of course, I’d have it more than that – in fact, my preferred way to separate the wheat from the chaff here is to have all voters write out in long hand the preamble of the Declaration of Independence…I’d know they can read and write and they’d have at least a basic understanding of the purpose of American government).
I have referred to most polls as “herding polls”—that is, efforts to herd people in one direction or another by telling them their peers feel that way. Those of us who have used siphons to drain large water tanks can more easily relate to the phenomenon of a certain mass moving in one direction creating a vacuum that pulls the rest behind it. So we see the push/pull at work—the push to follow what feels like “everyone else” and the pull of being drawn in behind the movement to fill the vacuum.
But the real problem is that we have, for generations, become trained to think of elections as choices between people and not between systems. This has devalued elections, turning them into shallow personality contests and tribal alliances. I think a coordinated strategy of identifying this, making fun of it as proof of limited intelligence, and providing actual content in small easily digested bits and pieces over time, can start to make inroads into this silly, superficial and self-destructive erosion of thought and actual agency.
And I think that while the policies of the Left are evil, it is self-destructive to think of all Democrats as evil, because I believe that many if not most of them are Democrats because they have been fooled into thinking that this party represents virtue. Evil people don’t want to be virtuous. It is human nature to take the path of least resistance, and the Left offers this, enticing people into the illusion of virtue by creating simplistic opposing paradigms that rely on belief in the virtue of what they offer balanced by the conviction that the Invented Other (the Right) is evil. That is a powerful combination, one of both being good and fighting evil merely by making a simple “political” decision—though it actually has very little to do with real politics.
I believe we can start to chip away at the lies about the Invented Other by removing people and personalities from the discourse and starting to talk, calmly, about the belief that we are best governed by keeping most power close to the people through state and local government and not supporting the consolidation of power in the hands of elites and a Central Authority. In very casual conversations, carefully avoiding the appearance of lecturing or trying to win over someone, I have not met a single person who has said he or she thinks that the Central Authority is the best form of government. A couple of people who sensed that this might lead to a criticism of Democrats were a little hesitant, but even more hesitant to admit to preferring the Central Authority model. It was interesting to see the internal conflict behind their eyes, and I just left it at that, feeling that I had at least planted the seed of a new thought. It’s a simple, unemotional and abstract idea lacking the drama and inherent conflicts of personality or tribalism, and it is thought provoking without being confrontational.
No wonder the Left hates him. He represents all that they hate and fear, from “toxic masculinity” to faith to fatherhood to understanding the role of the military, and he is freaking them out, not just as an individual but as a symbol of what the Trump administration, and the country, are going to start looking like.
First it was JD Vance, now Pete Hegseth. While the Dems are trying to decide which soyboi to pick for the next go-round—-Buttigieg or Polis. The failed gay mayor or the failing gay governor? And putting up either of them against real men like Vance and Hegseth (and Trump) has got to be very scary.
But this is not insurrection, any more than other flag officers back in Trump’s first term openly talking about plans to ignore orders from their Commander In Chief and even countermand them if they didn’t like them.
BTW, according to a Pentagon spokesperson this guy is no longer with them because he was saying “false things”. More likely saying true things to the wrong people.
First task of Trump’s appointees is to clear out these people…if we can’t fire them, transfer them to dead end positions.
Apparently they are close to a negotiated deal between Isreal and Hamas. I can’t imagine why Isreal would make the reported deal, especially in light of Trump’s recent proclamation to Hamas, “Release all the hostages by Jan. 20 or there will be hell to pay”. However, as former US ambassador indicates, we don’t have all the details.
They’ve been holding 100 hostages for more than 400 days after they were stolen on October 7, 2023 from their homes and a music festival in southern Israel. Seven remaining hostages are Americans.
The details are still coming in, but 33 hostages will be released. Ten of them are deceased, 23 are alive. We don’t have names yet. Women and children are likely to be released first. Thousands of convicted Palestinian terrorists being held in Israeli prisons will be given to Hamas in exchange. A ceasefire will be put in place between Israel and Hamas for six weeks, which could extend into a second phase.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/01/15/breaking-hostage-deal-n2650576?utm_source=breakingemail&utm_medium=email
Tempest in the Turbines
Time to End the Wind Power Boondoggle
Yep. Also really despise the solar plants they have built out here in Nevada – to be sure, they probably are fairly efficient energy producers given our 300+ days of sunshine but they look absolutely hideous and I’ll bet money that they aren’t as efficient as a whole series of nuclear plants we could build out at the old Nevada Test Site.
Yes, they are ugly, and then there is the problem of how to move that electricity from the desert, where it is not needed, to cities, where it is. The elites are fine with making the desert ugly, but they don’t want to live with those big transmission towers and electrical lines. (Speaking of which, I wonder how many miles of electrical transmission lines could have been buried in California, avoiding the problem of them sparking fires, for the billions wasted on the Train To Nowhere.)
One of the most impressive parts of the Trump/Rogan interview was Trump’s commentary on nuclear power plants. He is obviously very well informed on the subject, and explained why it is nearly impossible to build a new nuclear plant given the nature of our regulations. He described a type of concrete that is so hard, it is like steel, and the requirement to have these concrete walls extremely thick—and then having some inspector come in and say sorry, this wall is .1 of an inch too thin, and having to abandon the entire billion-dollar project because it’s nearly impossible to remove that super-hard concrete.
He then went on to say how foolish he thinks it is to build giant nuclear power plants anyway, citing the French approach of many small plants scattered around where they are needed.
Nearly 72% of France’s electricity comes from nuclear power. After the 1973 oil crisis, the French pretty much said “enough of this” and went on a crash program of building nuclear power plants. And for the Greenies: France uses 85 grams of CO2 per KWH while the world average is 438.
Naturally, the Left in France wants to phase this out because being poor and cold is the goal.
But the French reactors are exceptionally first rate designs and we should be getting licenses to build them all over the USA.
All California Insurance Policyholders Could Have to Pay for LA Fire Losses
If the state-mandated FAIR plan can’t cover all claims, Californians could receive insurance bills to cover the difference.
The left ALWAYS labels laws and mandates with misleading titles – “FAIR” plan. This looks like an absolute boondoggle of a mess that could end up punishing policy holders who bought insurance to cover losses, not force them to cover insurance company losses. Leaving a state where you have a job and spent a fair portion of your life would be difficult but CA is a disaster on so many levels. The controlling politicians have been sitting at the trough in the land of sunshine, milk & honey while mismanaging to the point where inept policies and absurd spending will sink the state into a desolation far beyond what the fires have done. Unfortunately, these disastrous idiots will also cause a drain on the rest of the country and incoming administration.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/all-california-insurance-policyholders-could-have-to-pay-for-la-fire-losses-5792282?utm_source=Goodevening&src_src=Goodevening&utm_campaign=gv-2025-01-15&src_cmp=gv-2025-01-15&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZe8kewcNx8Da4%2BAuuWhYArg0yEwDPvCLSRzO6sIrQqEFTVeDyQ%3D%3D
Animal Farm Politics: The Deep State Wins Again
Preventable Deaths and Vitamin D3
Areas of CA will experience a housing crisis like never before. In spite of the demand to prohibit price gouging, housing prices will most definitely rise, and significantly. There are thousands of people who’ve lost their homes, homes that will take years to rebuild even with the removal of certain restrictions that currently restrain housing construction. Those people recently forced into the housing market will further stress an already thin market making the rise in cost inevitable. There are limited resources, especially the necessary construction personal. And because of that, it will also be inevitable that numerous unqualified companies and individuals will be out in full force to scam every opportunity to make a quick buck. Inferior work will be rampant, if that work is even done before the scammer leaves without performing a single task. And you can be sure this crisis will not only affect CA. Federal taxpayer money will by necessity be sent into CA, much that will likely disappear before it helps in the necessary areas. A government bureaucracy that would restrict incoming firefighting vehicles from other states, forcing them on the sidelines to check for state smog compliance while their state is engulfed in the biggest fire in generation, will certainly screw up doing the things necessary to bring CA back to any semblance of normalcy. We can be absolutely certain, once the fires are extinguished, due to the horrific policies instituted by inept & corrupt politicians the escalating damage in a variety of forms will continue to bring CA to her knees, and by extension force all of us to endure of portion of the pain.
Sorry – personnel, not personal.
One of many elements that will hinder CA’s rebuilding is its government’s insistence on forcing EV and green energy mandates, by eliminating gas/diesel vehicles/equipment options. CA has been on a collision course issuing policies that will be detrimental to its recovery, growth and future development. By placing unrealistic expectation on green energy and downgrading the widely used alternatives, the disastrous results of those polices will surely rear its ugly head. Even CA’s EPA policies is still causing sever, widespread water shortages will negatively impact CA on many levels.
Most of those affected by the fires have financial resources to make it through this period of turmoil, but picture for a moment what it would look like if they were forced to join the swelling numbers in tent cities. Those imbecile politicians should be removed from all positions of power and forced to live in the filth they created.