The Left's Desperation

 After two indictments, the Russia Hoax, the endless lies and two assassination attempts, the Left is unbowed.  It constantly invents new attacks on the President -- and half the country -- which only underscores the charge that it is not concerned about the country or its citizens, but about gaining and holding onto power.

Desperate to find its version of Joe Rogan, it's hitching its wagon to some shill named Jennifer Welch.  An uglier human would be hard to find.  Think of her as the female James Carville, only without functioning grey matter.  Engaging in unnecessary profanity as if to show how earnestly she believes in her cause, she makes unfounded declarations that are as provocative as they are libelous.  One of these days she's going to be taken to court and, even if she prevails because of bad SCOTUS precedent, she'll lose whatever credibility to which she lays claim.

There seems to be an adjustment of sorts happening at CNN, where the hosts push back against the more scurrilous comments from guests.  MSNOW, formerly MSNBC, holds course in its self-destructive past.

Meanwhile, on a state and local level, insanity prevails.  The governors of New York, Illinois and California continue to sound the alarm against non-existent fascism and oligarchy.  Mayors of larger cities, like whatever that is in Chicago, have lost their ever-loving minds.  The new communist mayor-elect of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, makes illogical pronouncements, putting at risk much-needed federal funding.  Even those who aren't even in office yet, with an opportunity to modify their political zeal, proceed unafraid of the consequences.  The governors-elect of New Jersey and Virginia crusade against Orange Man Bad, trying to bolster their liberal bona fides.

Of all the liberals, the man once thought to be out of his mind, Senator John Fetterman, seems to have retained a grasp on reality.  Hardly a convert to conservatism, he speaks with a more rational and measured tone than most of his liberal cohorts.  Sadly, he has few colleagues willing to join him.  

Civil war looms.  Whether it actually breaks out is anyone's guess.  

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Favorites

 Here is a list of my favorite things.  It's more of a repository for me than anything:

Favorite movie:  The Quiet Man

Favorite food:  Pizza

Favorite fruit:  Blueberries

Favorite ice cream flavor:  Chocolate chip

Favorite book:  The Count of Monte Cristo

Favorite foreign country:  Spain

Favorite vacation:  2019, the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies

Favorite boardgame:  Chess

Favorite drink:  Iced tea

Favorite beer:  Guinness

Favorite bird:  Loon

Favorite color:  Green

Favorite fashion:  Art deco

Favorite architect:  Frank Lloyd Wright

Favorite musical instrument:  Drums

Favorite phenomenon:  the Northern Lights

Favorite sport:  Baseball

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Free Speech and the Left...Again

 College campuses used to be centers of learning, where students were challenged to reason and analyze together with learn.  Nowadays, they're nothing more than expensive indoctrination centers where jaded professors inculcate them with nothing more than the ability to regurgitate anti-conservative tropes that are inherently flawed.

After Charlie Kirk's assassination Turning Point USA ("TPUSA") chapters have sprung up around the country, much to the consternation of the indoctrination centers.  Conservative students put up folding tables inviting people to join the organization.  These tables have brought in plenty of new recruits, but they also serve as a magnet for the opposition's ire.  At Illinois State, Oklahoma and other campuses, self-appointed defenders of the One True Faith approached these tables and upended them, claiming that it was their exercise of free speech under the First Amendment.  What these civics-challenged idiots don't understand is that although it is, in fact, an expression of their right to free speech, it is also a crime in many of these states.  No one suggests that they can't oppose TPUSA; quite the opposite.  It's the manner in which they express their opposition.  It's akin to murdering someone then claiming it was simply the exercise of their right to speak freely that the murdered the person to show how much they disliked him.

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Although this may not encompass the Left, Moslem immigrants in this country are also embracing a warped interpretation of the First Amendment.  At a town hall meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, a fellow citizen spoke out against the call to prayer that is now being broadcast throughout the town.  He was told in no certain words by the City Council that there was no place for him in Dearborn and cut off from speaking further.

Moslems are enjoying the benefits of the First Amendment to tell the rest of us how they are going to take over the country, that Sharia law trumps the Constitution and how our way of life -- the one in which they inserted themselves when they moved here -- is wrong.  Again, they have a right to not only their opinion but also to express it, no matter how incongruous or vile it may be.  But native Americans should not only take heed of these incidents but also watch out.  I fear that Dearborn is tinderbox of insurrection.  Just last week the FBI arrested five people -- Moslems -- in connection with a planned massacre.  I pray that I'm wrong but don't think that I am.

I may be gone before anything happens regarding an insurrection, but the Useful Idiots on college campuses are paving the way for the Moslems to engage in their initiative.  Proof of that is abundantly available in the UK.

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Trump and the Nobel

 Today the warring factions, joined by several countries who brokered the deal, signed the peace accords ending the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.  Earlier this week the Nobel Prize for Peace was given to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Cochina Machado.  After she was notified of her award, Ms. Cochina dedicated the award to President Trump, whom she said deserved the award.

President Trump will never be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

It's not that he doesn't deserve it.  He does.  If nothing else, he deserves it more than President Obama did, who was awarded the prize for going on an apology tour.  He didn't assist warring factions settle their differences.  He ended no wars.  He simply went around the world and apologized for the United States' actions.

I hope I'm wrong.  For years now I've said that this country owes President Trump and his family an apology for all it's put him through.  But much like his opponents here who hate him more than they love their country, the woke voters of the Nobel committee would never dare risk their standing in the woke community by giving the prize to President Trump, no matter how deserving he is.

Those who oppose President Trump -- or those who simply hate him -- are like the mean girls in high school. They're more concerned with their own feelings and how they're perceived than doing the right thing.  In this regard, President Trump is a lot like Jose Canseco, the bash brother of MLB, who came out and admitted that he used PEDs but also named others who used PEDs.  The MLB establishment and the MSM pilloried Canseco, claiming he was lying to cover up his own misdeeds.  The fact of the matter is that Canseco was -- and still is -- brash and conceited, traits that many find in the President.  That Canseco was telling the truch was something they simply wouldn't accept, no matter how right Canseco was.  The same goes with President Trump.

Sure, he's brash.  That gold adornments he's put up throughout the White House is gaudy and, frankly, not my taste.  His use of augmentatives -- biggest, greatest, smartest -- is tiresome.  It's like listening to a used car salesman.  The trouble is he actually believes what he's saying, where the used car salesman is unconvincingly just using his schtick.

If people were honest, there would be no doubt that President Trump deserved the honor.  But people will rationalize how someone else who did comparatively less deserved the award more.  

It's a shame. 

And yet another thing for which people have to apologize to President Trump.

I hope I'm wrong.

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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

 Charlie Kirk was killed today by an as yet unknown assassin.  He was shot for his beliefs.

The Left's hypocrisy is on full display in the aftermath.  Rather than mourn the death of a young father and husband, it is twisting itself in knots trying to explain away and, in some sick instances, justify the killing.  

Mr. Kirk was at another university event in Utah where a gunman shot him in the neck, hopefully killing him instantly if only to spare him pain.  Unfortunately, the shot did nothing to spare his widow and his now fatherless children years of pain that are to come.  Likewise, thousands if not millions of his young followers are bereft of the inspiration that guided their lives.  Hopefully, if sadly, his spirit will now inspire them to greater heights.

But what of the Left?  Early reports indicate that the macrocephalic idiots masquerading as journalists at MSNOW were basically saying he had it coming.  Leftists trolls are saying he had it coming due to his clothing.  Democratic congressmen booed the Speaker of the House when he asked for a moment of silence.  True colors come out in moments like this.

The hypocrisy is only going to get worse.  Recently, a lunatic stabbed to death a young Ukranian woman on mass transit for no apparent reason.  Brian Stelter, for some odd reason still employed as a pundit, called the reporting of the incident baldly racist due to the assailant's color and the victim's color.  Van Jones, slightly higher on the evolutionary scale compared to Stelter, blamed the action on the assailant's wounded psyche:  Hurt people hurt people.  Any suggestion that the assailant was a murderer was quickly dispatched.

So far -- and I haven't had a chance to listen to its rhetoric -- the Left has not called for gun control.  Why not?  Because a conservative was murdered?  When Kyle Rittenhouse rightly defended himself with an AR-15, the calls for gun control were loud and proud.  So far not a word, just as happened after the attempt on Donald Trump's life.  Ask a Leftist whether gun control is on the table now that a conservative has been murdered.

Think about all the politically-motivated shootings over the last twenty years.  Steve Scalise, Minneapolis, Nashville, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump.  Every one of them was perpetrated by a Leftist.  Not a white supremacist, despite what the FBI would have you believe, but someone who leaned to the Left.  Moreover, trans people, who may very well have a mental illness, had a hand in a couple of these shootings -- and may have been involved in Kirk's assassination as well.  That, however, is conjecture.  But if it were to be true I wouldn't be surprised.

Once a suspect is apprehended and then charged, wait for the calls about that person being innocent until proven guilty.  And if this person is anything like the Charlotte train murderer, gird your loins for talk that we need more investment in mental health.  

But ask yourself:  Were this a conservative who had murdered a Leftist pundit, would there be calls for restraint?  Wouldn't calls for gun control be loud and endless?  

Ultimately, the assassin is responsible for this.  There is a class, however, that bears some responsibility for this.  Both the MSM as well as a segment of the Democratic Party is liable for creating the environment that encouraged the shooter to take this action.  Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib, Corey Brooks, Ilhan Omar -- any politician who recklessly encouraged people to assault conservatives bears the guilt and shame for this death.  They didn't pull the trigger, but they loaded the gun.  And the MSM egged them on, acting as their loudspeaker.

A good man died today, needlessly.  He didn't advocate violence.  He disagreed with people politically.

Shame on the Left.  

QDEP Charlie Kirk.  

You were a good man.

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Let the Games Begin

 With the release of the so-called annex of the Durham report, including those documents found suspiciously in burn bags, Washington D.C. just became hotter than an active volcano.  No wonder the likes of Cankles, Obama, Comey and their minions are curiously quiet these days.

It may be that they know better than to talk.  It may be because they're unsure of what their useful idiots and co-conspirators the MSM would do were they to talk with them.  Or it may be because they're working with high-priced attorneys planning their defense strategy.

I doubt any of them plan to leave the country any time soon.

Oftentimes we measure scandals against the infamous Watergate burglary.  Without any chance of sounding hyperbolic, if these allegations are proven to be true, Watergate will look like child's play by comparison.

A sitting president, anxious to get his former challenger elected, allows the intelligence community to float a story that is known to be false -- not only false, but fabricated by the person who the sitting POTUS is trying to help replace him -- to a willing MSM to derail the opposition candidate's campaign.  When that fails, the loser continues to peddle the story with the assistance of the co-opted MSM -- one of whose mastheads reads Democracy Dies in Darkness, ironically -- and members of the intelligence community who declare that what is known to be the elected President's son's laptop is instead a Russian construct.  Such chaos is sown that the newly elected President is hardly able to govern.

Breaking into the Democratic Party's office is somehow not nearly as egregious.

As I said, right now the main culprits are pretty quiet.  The MSM, not surprisingly, is not covering the story.  A grand jury was just empaneled to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to move against any of the unnamed parties.  If and when charges are brought, all hell is going to break loose.

Comey should certainly be indicted on a number of different charges, as should Cankles.  Neither of them can claim immunity for any of their actions.  If anyone needs a refresher of what these miscreants did, a very thorough recitation can be found in Gregg Jarrett's book Witch Hunt:  The Plot to Destroy Trump and Undo His Election.  It's dense but it explains everything.

The interesting defendant would be Obama.  Given the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity, would his actions be protected?  Certainly, there would be court challenges.  How the SCOTUS would rule is anyone's guess; all we can know for certain is that he already has three votes to acquit.

Regardless, this mess will go on for years.  It will further drive a wedge between the parties and embitter millions of voters on both sides.

And all for what?

(c) 2025 The Truxton Spangler Chronicles

Word Confusion

 In my profession, words matter.  I've always appreciated a clever turn of phrase, or a witty rejoinder or a pithy remark.  By no means do I consider myself a wordsmith, but as a spectator of language, of sorts, I'm unnecessarily critical of the misuse and abuse that goes on with the English language.  I can't help it:  I hear something that's amiss and it grates.  I have no right to be so critical; as I've said, I'm no wordsmith.  But I appreciate when the language is used beautifully, so I'm critical when it's misused.  

Every day, someone in the media or in entertainment misspeaks and says something to butcher the English language.  Here are but a few of the ones that irk me.

When singing the national anthem, the word perilous has various pronunciations.  Forget about the extraneous yodeling -- bothersome in and of itself -- but the word perilous can be pronounce as PAIR uh lis, as opposed to PAIR i lus.  Focus, people, focus.

Sad or tragic events are referred to as heart-wrenching.  Hearts are rent, not wrenched.  One wrenches a gut but rends a heart:  Heart-rending and gut-wrenching are the expressions.

For those wishing to sound sophisticated, from whence is uttered when someone wants to say from where.  The only trouble with this pseudo-sophistication is that whence already means from where, making from whence from from where.  It's a bit redundant.

On the mindless romantic shows (Love is Blind, The Bachelor, etc.) people speak of their journeys, their chemistry and their connections.  These have been beaten to death so much they're glue now.  Find better words.

In a similar vein, every year there seems to be a word previously in the shadows that becomes fashionable.  A few years back the word icon and its adjectival form iconic were in vogue.  They have been so overused that something or someone that is highly visible or successful is now an icon or iconic.  If that's the case, everything is so iconic that nothing is iconic any longer.  Recently, the word kinetic has gained traction.  I fear for its overuse.

The word none is abused daily.  None comes from no one.  That means it's singular, not plural.  Nevertheless, it's almost always used as a plural:  There are none in here...

...Similarly, there is and there are have morphed into there is.  There's at least fifty ways to do that....  We can do better.

In church, whenever a layman leads a prayer, the word just is overused.  For example:  Lord, we are just so happy to praise You and just ask that you protect us and guide us as we just try to honor You and live the life You want us to lead.  We're simply sinners who are just trying to live our lives according to Your dictates.  We just want to love You and honor You as you deserve....  Humbly could substitute for just a couple of times...just to mix it up.

This reminds me one time where I prepared a client for a deposition.  I advised the client that in the event he couldn't remember something exactly he should qualify it by saying as far as I recall, if I remember correctly, I'm not sure but, approximately, etc., but to alternate which phrase he was using.  In the deposition the client got so nervous that he got so nervous that he used approximately every time he tried to qualify an answer.  It didn't sound like he was programmed at all....

As a Spanish-speaker, it irks me when someone wants to sound sophisticated and throw a Spanish word into a speech.  I should be happy.  But in the current climate where bad men from foreign lands have invaded our country, talking heads like to talk about bad hombres, but mispronounce hombre as hambre.  So much for sophistication:  hambre means hunger, not man.

Who v. Whom.  The endless debate from people who don't know the difference.  They misuse whom to sound sophisticated.  Ugh.

Likewise, the use of you and I when it should be you and me is grating.  I is a subject pronoun; Me is a prepositional pronoun.  If the usage is uncertain, take away the you and and see how it sounds.

We all get tongue-tied, trip over our words, have senior moments.  But it's easy to discern when someone is simply making a mistake versus not knowing the correct usage in the first place.

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