Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Here we go again the Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling has overturned president in affirmative action case saying the Colleges and Universities can’t in any way use race as a criteria in admissions. But in the same ruling they don’t disallow legacy as criteria in the admissions process.

The court, with their lily white + uncle Tom majority, is not so quietly saying that there is no underlying racism in this country. The horrific events from our nation’s history when it pertains to underrepresented groups are all in the past and we should collectively move on. Well, that sounds great and completely blind to the reality that we live in. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has it right in her dissent when she said, ‘With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces “colorblindness for all” by legal fiat,’. Currently we are not in any substance of the phase ‘colorblind’ and that blaring omission to reality is what this current, heritage society majority, court continues to prove.

Uncle Tom Clarence Thomas, who definitely benefited from affirmative actions is now pulling the ladder up behind himself so that other can’t be aided by the very system that he used.

I am sure everyone is thinking, “Race shouldn’t be considered in any decision, college acceptance or employment.” I don’t disagree but unfortunately that is not the reality that we live in.

What is ruling is going to cause is that when ‘Tyler’ doesn’t get admitted to Stanford but ‘Tyrone’ does Tyler’s family is going to sue the college because, they will claim, that race was the deciding factor. Sadly, based on this ruling Tyrone will more than likely have his acceptance removed so that Tyler’s family’s lawsuit won’t bankrupt the school. This same lack of accepting reality will invariably make it way into the corporate world and the scope of the ruling will expand past race to include gender, sexual orientation, religious preference.

This pulling the rug out from affirmative action has no upside unless you happen to be, WHITE, MALE, and WEALTHY. Yes, I included wealthy because if Jethro thinks that just because he is white and male that people like Trump will let him into the country club, he is dead wrong.  

It is time to expand the court for the good of the nation and our collective progress. This 6 to 3 (can’t even call it conservative) majority court is going the wind the calendar back 100 years if we let them.

Sorry for such a bummer rant just before a National Holiday…  

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

   The Congress is at it again, or at least the Republican part. They are now trying to put more restrictive limits on abortion and the reason for this assault is to accomplish what. Would any of these individuals agree to required vasectomies for all males over 12 until they are married?

   Evolution has brought us to the place we now are in time, will it create another method for us to populate the earth. It seems unlikely just as it seems that mankind will get it figured out that all this crap that we heap on one another in the name of religion is just so much hyperbolas bull shit. The idea that one individual’s beliefs are all that is needed to put everyone else in bondage for the sake of that idea. All the “holy” scriptures ever written were written by men for the purpose of imparting a particular set of values on those around that man. His agenda was all that really counted and we are seeing the same efforts now with writing laws that suit the leader not the people. 

    For instance, Florida has some of the most horsed up rules in the nation right now and the governor just keeps putting wood on the fire. He tried to control Disney and got outsmarted, so now he is talking about putting a prison next to Disney World. This would be great for the Republicans as they seem to be happy when they are making others sad. The trouble is the little twirp failed to think all his programs through and now all the migrant help has left the state and crops are not being picked, hell of a deal. (A twirp is a guy that goes around sniffing girls’ bicycle seats to give himself a hard on.)

    With all that is going on for the masterful Mr. T. it looks like escape might be the only option. Not sure who wants him as a house guest, outside the US prison system. If only half of the stuff showing up is true he should be put somewhere light has to be sent in via a bottle.

   On a larger scale it is sad that the GOP has become the party of violence. They are the ones responding to the calls to the party, Jan 6. They are the ones that are backing Trump, MTG, and all the other members of Congress that continue to try and find something they can attack the opposition about. There are issues on the table that are being ignored while they scream and complain about the cases that are naming Trump as traitor and are hauling him into court to face the music over and over again. 

   One travesty after another is what we have in our Congress. No one is getting anything done to protect the nation. Radical ideals seem to be more popular than common sense, but then most of the elected folks display no common sense. We can go back to the early days of Trump’s campaign and see this. Calling to have his opponent locked up and accusing her of being behind a human traffic ring. Anyone that could pull their head higher than their ass could figure out this is talk to insult or insight. 

   The attack on the Capitol with no comments being made about this being wrong, rather join and enforce this behavior. This is what is being demonstrated by the Republican party and a goodly number of the MAGA persons that have not figured out that too much involvement in this movement usually ends with jail time.

    Across the nation it seems that ideas are being brought to the table about how to criminalize any and all effort to promote policies and programs that favor inclusion. If what you advocate does not promote rich, white, christian morays then it needs to be made a crime and all that espouse that sort of ideal need to be punished for promoting those ideas. Need we ask why this sort of rhetoric is being promoted?

    The answer is pretty clear, it is that the person that ran for and won the Presidency in 2016 has planted the seeds of dissent and hate in our national conscience and made it not only okay but desirable to hate and kill those that do not follow our lead. His entire future depends on the hope that he gets reelected. Then I am sure it is his intention to grant himself a pardon and he might extend that to some of the people that backed his play, but those that turned on him are in for a one-way trip to a place they will not want to go. As for the rest of us, we will see our Constitution disavowed and our freedoms curtailed to the point of virtual servitude. What else is going on in that sick mind is anyone’s guess. With a sincere hope that nature will take its course and find a way to silence him and all that have followed him into the rabbit hole. Just remember the family that prey’s together stays together.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Are we at one of those very consequential moments in our history?

There have been moments in the past that if the tides had gone a different way the world would be a different place. In the early 20^th century if America hadn’t elected FDR in 1932 and Hoover had retained the Presidency would we have gotten out of the depression? For sure we would have had the New Deal, social security would not be a thing. Would the United States stayed out of WWII, would we even have supported Great Britian in the late 30’s when Hitler was blitzkrieg London?

Thankfully these are questions we only can hypothesize on our current timeline.

Lots of those historical What Ifs linger in our collective consciousness.

What if Nixon beat Kennedy?

What if Nixon refused to resign in 1974? Would he have been impeached and removed from office setting a historical standard that we could have followed after Trumps impeachment? Hell, what if Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon and let him stand trial for Water Gate? Wouldn’t that have been something…   

I really think if we had exercised the actual wheels of democracy in 1974 that the unindicted crimes of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would have never happened. But we have let crimes go unpunished for the sake of decorum and president.

For the first time in our history we are holding a former President accountable for his criminal actions something that if Nixon had been held to account no future office holder would have attempted. Nixon was a politician that became a criminal while Trump was and is a lifelong criminal, and due to the electoral system this country has, became a politician.

This country so craves Royalty that we elevate celebrities to that level of nobility. Trump is a C list celebrity at best but has ambition to be King and we can not let that happen.

We have been told that this coming election is the most pivotal election and 2020 certainly was if Trump would have retained the Presidency, I am not sure that he would have ever relinquished it. He’s the only office holder in our history that refused to concede after losing the election then attempted to stay in office by inciting an insurrection. This nation was built on the smooth transition of power after an election and a winner is declared. Trump would not acknowledge that he did not win the election in 2020 and in 2016 he stated during his campaign that he would only accept the results if he was the victor. In both 2016 and 2020 he did lose the popular vote but based on an antiquated electoral system he was able to win. He wholeheartedly tried to corrupt that system in 2020 but wasn’t able to because of the overwhelming number of citizens that actually voted.

In 2024 I know the argument that Biden is old and can’t do the job. Which is true but look at Donald 3.5 years younger than Joe and in far worse condition physically. The accusations that Biden is senile and confused but also the mastermind behind a crime family make no sense at all. If he is senile then what does that say about the Republicans that he continues to out flank at every turn.

Yes, Joe is 80, but he is getting shit done. He is getting shit done that has never been done before, historic lows in unemployment, an infrastructure package that rivals the interstate highway projects of Eisenhower and the New Deal programs that saved us for the Great Depression. Trump promised infrastructure and a better health plan than the ACA, he delivered on none of it.

Yes Joe is Old but if Donald is the alternative I will that Joe ‘old’ over Donald ‘unkept promises’ any day.

Thanks for suffering through another rant.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

We live in a world of BIG TALKERs, but their actions don’t seem to add up to the rhetoric. One blaring example is the Freedom Caucus that continues to cry freedom while taking right away from those they pretend to represent. Most recently the Freedom Caucus held the debt ceiling hostage nearing causing a National default if they didn’t get what they wanted. What did they want you may ask, well mostly they wanted all or most of the infrastructure funding stopped because they are unhappy that the Democrats passed the bill during the last session of congress. None of them seemed to understand that the debt ceiling isn’t about future spending, it is about spending that has already happened. They also refuse to acknowledge that 25% of the debt they the nation has was accrued during 45s time in office… yes nearly 250 years of national debt and one quarter of it belongs to the Republicans and Trump form 2017-2021.

That faction of the GOP aren’t the only people in this country that aren’t providing the action that their words specify.  Florida Governor DeSantis proclaims that his state is the freest state in the Union, yet he has banned books, LGTBQ+ events, drag show, transgender treatment for minors with gender dysphoria, teachers from even mentioning anything about gender all the way till 12^th grade, he has also banned Black studies in primary school and universities base on his distorted definition of Critical Race Theory. That really doesn’t seem like it is free to me. He has also gone to war, in a legal sense, with Disney because they had the audacity to disagree with his ‘don’t say gay’ law.

People that have co-opted the moniker of Patriot but then attack the very government that they proclaim to hold so dear… again ACTIONS not words show everyone who you really are. Those that proclaim they are for LIBERTY and even use the word in the title of their groups but continually step on the right of others… ACTIONS not words.

I want ACTION and so far the only group that are consistently working for the Nation and its people is getting drowned out by the words of that non-actors. It is time to take back the words that define what we stand for FREEDOM, LIBERTY, PATRIOT from those that use them but don’t understand the ACTION necessary to keep them.

Thank you for reading and I hope you take ACTION.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The term “Weaponization” keeps coming up with reference to the DOJ and the FBI and just about any department or organization that is actually doing the job they were created to do. This is especially true if that job is looking at corrupt activity and specifically if that effort is directed toward Trump and his attempts to overturn the election, stealing classified information or sticking his fingers is someone’s body orifices. 

Why is it weaponization but rather, they are doing their jobs. The reason is that with investigation there are certain things that are being exposed and the result of catching someone with their hand in the cookie jar or finger in an orifice is leading to rather large settlements or jail time. Neither of these options make T happy because, “I could shoot someone on the streets of New York and get away with it” is not having great luck in the “getting away with it” category.

It is unlikely that he would shoot someone, that would take involvement. The only thing he knows how to shoot is his mouth and that never seems to be out of ammunition, most of it fictitious, or an out and out slanderous lie. So we talk of weaponization and we have T right in the middle of winding up those that believe his line of horse shit and they are all ready to go do the dirty work for him. The ones that stormed the Capital are finding out how much he thinks of them, as I am guessing he has yet to pick up the legal fees for any one of them. 

Then we have members of Congress that have someone run against them and they go to the effort of finding out about the family to see if there is anything useful, as in a way to cause problems. That is weaponization for the purpose of being an ass hole. The person that is running against you should be your focus, not family members, they are not running for office. Then you go get a “News” media involved and possibly endanger someone for the sake of your campaign. 

Well if the party you are running against finds out that you worked as a Stripper to get through college or maybe the Mustang Ranch, wouldn’t that be great in a headline. Those are just two examples of the things that could be dug up and of course with scab newsagents running around your reputation could go down the drain in short order. That outcome would be deserving as you have weaponized the media to make life difficult for one, it is only fair they hand it back.

The one thing I would like to see coming from Congress is that they can all present themselves in an adult fashion. All we have seen for at least 7 years is childish nonsense, pointing figures, name calling, and in general slapping one another around and getting nothing done. How about you all remember why you got elected, to take care of the nation’s business, not the party’s business, and get on with it.