Greetings and Salutations!
Sorry for the absence. AWOL per usual. Been at the ‘new gig’.
NOT the South Pole gig.
A full discussion with Gretchen (and w/y’all and Sapper’s input) pretty much made me realize that this time with the Dooney, I’m not going to miss out on ‘stuff’ as he grows up. I still have issues about MY kids (natural born) about having missed so much of their early lives, especially since in many cases I begged to stop contracting and come home as I knew I’d missed out on oh so much, only to be told that “We needed the money.”… I still have issues there….
So this time? Nope. I noped out. Noped DaFuq out.
As much as it killed me to as I do have the “travel-monkey” on my back… that thing is worse than a heroin habit I swear.
So… instead I went with one of my other gigs I had lined up:
People’s Glorious and Productive Steel Mill #231.
I mean what the Hell?
I get paid, get out of the house, learn a new trade and get to further our greater Socialist Goals to build a Superior Soviet Socialist Man amiright?
So off to the Crucible I go.
This past week was alllll the ‘usual stuff’
Dealing with H.R., benefits, basic training, a tour of the facility, issuance of safety gear and badges… the usual. The commute -is- a bit of a bitch, one as it’s the first time I’ve done a commute since like 2017?
(Quick Aside: Can you believe that I’ve been working from home since 2017/18???? Outside of shitty 7-11 ‘Keep The Lights On’ shit-jobs??? Holy Hells!!!)
To continue….
Almost ALL of my gigs since then were either shitty minor gigs I could get while waiting for my legal issues to clear (2019 thankfully) and then after that, work from home gigs, which went into MAD overdrive with the ‘Vid.
To say I’ve been experiencing some culture shock is an understatement. However, I’ll take it as the pay is commensurate with the effort and a fuckload moar than what I was making at the Tractor Factory.
God is Great man.
And by no longer having the stress about worrying about leaving here and the Dooney behind? Yeeeeeeeeeeah. A much less stressful time is being had by all. In fact, I’ve been zero-booze now for weeks… not even trying to count it, but let’s face it… them oh-dark-early ‘baby bottle services’ I have to provide pretty much eliminates the ability to get my drink on (as once I crash out, I stay crashed out), and now add on the responsibilities of being a Commissar at the new gig? It’s going to be a dry Fall for me I reckon.
I mean who can blame me for sticking around?
…….and yeah, that’s a full sized adult hat he’s wearing, cranked down to it’s smallest… it’s a wee bit loose but OMG he’s a Biggun’…
And Cute AF.
His Current “Vital Stats”
The Dooney: (short for Mountain Man Muldoon, AKA My Second Son)
8 Months, 20 days old as of today.
32 Pounds as of today.
32 Inches Tall as of today.
6 Toofuses -so far-, 2x top front and 2x front bottom, plus 2x molars (coming in, with MOAR following that we can tell).
We had to move him to a Crib today as he’s already outgrown the bassinet. We found him -trying- to pull himself out of the bassinet this A.M., hence the need to swap over, as him potentially falling over the edge IF we’re asleep would be a thing of badness to say the least, especially since the bassinet has only 14-18 inch walls, and he’s easily taller than that while sitting up… sheesh… So, New deep crib is now in place.
For that matter, he’s outgrown every. single. outfit. he’s ever been gifted or we’ve bought for him.
Currently wears 2T Bottoms, 3T Tops.
Currently wearing Size 4 diapers, (Size 4 diapers are typically designed for toddlers between 18 and 36 months old) and about to go to size 5. (FYI: Size 5 diapers generally fit toddlers who weigh 27 pounds and up, which usually corresponds to an approximate age of 18 months to 3+ years old)
FML.
He also seems to be bypassing crawling, and is learning how to stand on his own two hooves. His balance is improving daily.
He’s the MOST Smilingest, Happiest, Damned-fool Grinningest Baby I’ve ever dealt with. Makes, my 2x kids (who were exceptionally happy babies), the Nukular Redhead and Addy seem positively dour by comparison, no joke!
Then, his appetite… At this rate, I’ma going to have to buy 1/2 a cow (he LOVES steak and hamboyger cut up smol-smol) and a couple of horizontal deep freezes as r/n, that’d be the best cost effective thing for the future. Eats like a horse when he’s of mind to…
Growing quickly?
At this rate, he’ll be smoking a cigar and asking me for the keys to the car to pick up his date by the time he’s eight… while holding a glass of good bourbon…
Who said life would be easy right?
And for those who doubt?
I clipped that from a vid I shot this AM…
Yeah. he’s THAT big.
Look at his casaba… OMG never mind how BIG he is in general.
Y’all know how big -I- am… so yeeeeeeah…
“The Juggernaut” INDEED
Anyways…
Gretchen was asleep (her turn to get some sleep in time), so during such early mornings, Dooney likes to watch Bugs Bunny w/me, and occasionally, he likes some music videos… he actually keeps the beat… according to G, he’s got a perfect beat measure, 4/1, which I guess means 4 beats per measure…
All I know is the lil booger claps and bounces right in time w/ the music. His favorite song(s) are Pitbull’s “Fireball” and LMFAO’s “Party Rock” He starts going crazy when those come on… LOVES him some music.
Not sure where he got the whole digging the Pitbull “Fireball” song from but they played it pretty regularly on the Cruise on deck when we were out at the pool… maybe then?
Meh
TBH, I sort of dig both tunes myself, if only b/c -he- jams to them and they make him happy…
Speaking of which, Gretchen has been a champ this past week too.
She actually cooked 4 really good meals as well as handling the full time Dooneycare. I mean TBH, I tend to be the cook ’round dis place, and she stepped up her game for certain. For the most part (in the past), it was a situation of “How can toast have bones!?!” outside of a few select menu items that she always could nail… Now? She knocked it out of the park this past week food-wise… her ribs fell off the bones man… great stuff, especially since -I- didn’t have to cook after a full day at work, as it should be.
And then, as far as taking care of the Doonster, well, usually for the past 5 months, we “shared the care” so to speak. I’d take him, play with him, wear him down between naps… let her work on her studies (she’s getting her Real Estate License) and/or nap. Then switch over.
She’s been the sole caretaker this past week, which before y’all say anything, physically, she’s as shot through as I am. She’s in dire need of a double hip replacement and a spinal fusion. Now that we’ve got premium Health care coming in a few days? weeks?
Whenever the Politburo has the Capitalist Pig Insurance Companies send out the Health Cards, well then we’ll see about getting both her and myself back into the body shop for a tune up and repair.
Me? My toofuses are rarin’ to get done.
Because of that, as you might be able to see in the above pics, I’ve lost quite a bit of weight… like 30 pounds between the “no eating food ‘cos chewing hurts” and no booze/beer, and well, whether I like it or not, I’m changing my shape from ’round’ to ‘far less round’.
That and the work… man… have I been dragging ass.
Being a glorified chairwarmer for the past decade pretty much has me wrecked. I mean don’t get me wrong, but man, even with the occasional gym session, it’s a sure thing that I’m now forced into getting into shape.
That steel crucible ain’t gonna fill itself…
So otherwise, it’s been a good week.
I’m sore, tired but happy AF.
The only other thing (poly-ticks speaking that is) is that I want to add it this:
This comes from Native American I follow on twitter.
This’s the actual tweet:
And for those of you who don’t “do” Twitter? Here’s the transcript. I figure he’s got SO MANY good points, it’s worthy of a repoast. You tell me:
“Why do I hate Trump?
Some of you couldn’t care less. Hating Trump’s a sin in your eyes, and I’m the devil. Fine. See you later.
For those of you who care about motivations, who can look at the situation dispassionately and say “Hey, the option is open to Mike to just go along. Say adoring shit about Trump and get paid. But he chooses to do the unpopular thing instead, and he hasn’t even got his subs turn on, so he’s clearly not motivated by personal profit”.
… I’ll do what I never do in my regular life except for the people I care about most… and explain myself.
Right from the start, I’ve been clear. I love White Americans, you’ve built a beautiful country for us to enjoy, and you’ve largely been rewarded with abuse, discrimination and race-based violence.
Through the White parents who adopted me, and my sole White ancestor, my GG-Grandfather, a Scotsman named George MacDonald, we are blood. We are family.
I want to see White people not just survive but thrive, returning to your former glory. Standing astride the world and reaching for the stars.
All of us have reasons for feeling the way we do about people. Some reasons are rational, based on calm analysis. Others are chiefly derived from passion; pure reactive emotion.
Most of us, in hating someone, will fall into the “why not both?” category.
I certainly do in regard to our current… President.
I loathe even affording him the dignity of the office, because he has done so very much to demean its standing in nearly every way I can imagine.
But much worse than that, he was afforded the opportunity to serve his nation in a manner which only the tiniest percentage of human beings ever will, and he’s fucked it up so catastrophically, for reasons so innately selfish, that only people living (very deliberately) under a rock, could possibly be unaware of it.
Because there’s two of us in this dance. There’s me, and there’s you. But I’ll get to you after I’m done dissecting myself in the interests of transparency. Then you can decide how transparent you want to be in response.
I voted for Trump in late 2016.
It wasn’t a choice I made with unqualified certainty. While at the beginning of his campaign he seemed almost tailor-made for the problems the country faced, there were signs which I discerned that caused me concern.
As soon as he’d won the primary, he started to walk back early rock-solid promises. For me, then as now, immigration was the biggest issue. He’d run on more or less the same platform as the UK’s “Restore Britain”; promising the deportation of millions, not just the same tepid levels of repatriation we’d seen under Biden.
Trump would signally fail to beat Biden, much less Obama on immigration, both in overall numbers (which Trump stopped publishing when people realized how poorly he was doing despite ICE’s heavy-handed approach) and any notion of seriously deporting millions, much less tens of millions is now gone.
No border wall. Don’t whine at me about “portions”. He was Mr. Builder, and he was going to build a “big, beautiful wall” and “the Mexicans are going to pay for it.”
Never happened. The only “big, beautiful wall” related to him is that which was built with the assistance of American taxpayers… in Israel. To keep out the native Palestinians.
If you come at me with “buuuuuut they’re not natiiiiive!!!” I’m just going to post pictures of lily-White Israelis and very clearly acclimated brown Palestinians whose ancestors spent countless generations adapting to the harsh sun.
He failed to return manufacturing, he failed to cut spending, he not only failed to end the wars in the Middle East, he has started one with the most powerful and difficult adversary in the region, one that had not attacked us, one that was complying with all nuclear inspection regimes placed upon it (unlike Israel, which never has) and whose chief transgression toward us was the chant slogans… which were in response to the decades of crippling sanctions that we’d placed on their country after they dared to toss out the dictator who we’d placed over them.
In disgusting rejection of everything that Washington, Adams and Jefferson (et al) believed in.
We cannot beat Iran.
We cannot beat Iran.
We cannot beat Iran.
I’m repeating myself for emphasis. Iran is far larger than Iraq. Iran has twice the population of Iraq. Iran is as mountainous as Afghanistan. Iran has lived under sanctions for a very long time and their people have become harder and more resilient as a result.
There is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER for the phantom rebellions and massacres supposedly committed by the regime. The people in Iran, boxed into a corner and repeatedly attacked, hate us. If they weren’t total supporters of the regime before, they sure as hell are now.
In December 7, 1941, the Japanese in a “dastardly attack” without declaration of war attacked Pearl Harbor and killed a few thousand sailors, soldiers and civilians.
Because Israel demanded we do it, and for that reason alone, we attacked the leadership of Iran while we were in peace negotiations with them.
There was no declaration of war.
The Iranian President and many of his cabinet were murdered in their homes, with their families. In the case of the elderly President, who we KNOW had explicitly forbidden his nation to develop nuclear weapons, his wife was also murdered. His children aside from one son was also murdered. His grandchildren were also murdered.
We will have been watching the house via RTDL satellite. We knew they were all there. Then we murdered them. Just like Israel, our ally who has never placed a single soldier in the field of battle outside of ours–yet we name them our “greatest ally?”–murdered the entire Iranian negotiation team in Qatar.
I believe Trump when he says he didn’t know about that in advance. I don’t believe the Israelis told him. I don’t believe they feel the need to notify him of anything.
Why is that?
They are a tiny suburb in what was British Palestine before the Rothschild family tossed a ton of cash at land-rich but cash-poor British aristocrats and got their promise to allow the start of a Jewish ethnostate there.
Everything they have is due to us. Forget the stupid hype. There’s nothing “super” about them aside from their general obnoxiousness.
The Israelis are a mind-bendingly selfish, cruel and inhumane people who have proven that quite openly over the last few years as they genocided the people in the Gaza Strip, which they had boxed in and totally controlled for years and then complained like wounded bitches when the locals fought back.
The American President, at any time, to stop this needless conflict, could threaten to halt the billions of dollars we inexplicably just “need” to send them every year, year after year after year.
None of our other allies require such strange largesse. Why is that? I mean REAL allies, like the Brits and the Aussies and the Canadians, who have been right by our side since day dot.
If Trump did that, in combination with the threat of forcing AIPAC to register as a foreign entity (which they fucking should) the Israelis would have zero choice but to comply. They are the JUNIOR partner. They’re the tail, not the damned dog.
Yet the tail is clearly wagging the dog. Can we at least agree on that much? Trump, a man with a massive ego, is allowing a tiny nation to literally force the hand of the most powerful office in the world. Forcing him to pull 180s on his core promises. Repeatedly.
The answer to this conundrum is, like most things, relatively obvious. Trump has been suborned. He is being blackmailed.
I speak to a lot of Americans here in Australia, Democrats, Republicans and White Nationalists, and they all say the same thing to me: the people in the United States are having a gigantic amount of information suppressed by the news media, most of which is owned by people who would qualify as citizens of Israel (or are already citizens).
Especially in regard to Jeffrey Epstein… and his best friend of decades, Donald Trump.
I cannot in one post relate all of the information the Aussie media has released that never saw the light of day in the US after the first 3 million files were released. But the information is out, we have more ability to garner raw intel than any other people in history, so I suggest you all act like grown ups and educate yourself. I’m tired of people expecting me to wait while you play catch-up.
Trump–after years of swearing left and right that he will release all of the files, has flatly refused to release the remaining 3.5 million files, and none of you care.
These are primary source documents that directly implicate the wealthiest people in our world, 90% of them people who could qualify as citizens of Israel, in the repeated sexual abuse of women and minors, all facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, both of them of that same ethnic group, Ghislaine’s father being Robert Maxwell, the billionaire media tycoon who worked for the Mossad.
They ran a blackmail ring that got the world’s elite under the direct control of Israel.
But Trump has employed various measures to distract you. His people have has used a “flood-the-zone” social media strategy, provocative statements, and policy announcements to shift public focus away from the document releases and inquiries.
He has directed attention toward former President Barack Obama by promoting unverified memos and sharing an AI-generated video regarding a supposed 2016 intelligence setup.
He has launched high-profile online attacks against public figures and critics, such as threatening to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship and criticizing lawmakers like Adam Schiff.
Using his social media platforms, he has posted about non-political or bizarre topics; such as demanding a return to cane sugar in Coca-Cola, commenting on the Bryan Kohberger case, and intervening (but FAILING) in the Washington Commanders’ team name controversy.
He has shifted blame to others. He publicly called for the Department of Justice to investigate other prominent individuals mentioned in relation to Epstein, such as Bill Clinton and Larry Summers, to redirect media narratives.
He has frequently pivoted back to touting economic metrics, signing high-profile legislation (such as crypto and fentanyl acts), and emphasizing foreign trade deals or international summits to drown out negative news cycles.
He has scolded reporters who bring it up, and declared the whole thing a “hoax”. Trump repeatedly dismissed the persistent public and bipartisan pressure for complete transparency as a “Democratic hoax” and told his base to just “move on” from the files.
International banks have paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to Epstein victims… over a “hoax”. Do gigantic international banks do that in your experience?
Was Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles, totally destroyed over a “hoax”?
He has wasted DoD resources having them fabricate stupid grainy UFO videos that look like they were shot by security cameras taken off the wall of a 7-11. Lots of hype, NO PROOF.
Renaming EVERYTHING after America and “owning the libs” on social media; Trump has used AI to create frankly embarrassing images comparing himself to Jesus and naming himself the greatest President ever in a display of childishness that would make all former Presidents disgusted.
He makes useless, childish, empty gestures because he thinks you’re stupid, and sadly, as I’ve seen over the past 24 hours, about altogether too many people… he’s right.
He has what I would have given my left nut to possess… the opportunity to save not just his nation but White people in particular, and the best he’s managed is to get some DEI policies and positions cancelled. He’s either failed through rank incompetence or corruption which the Israelis have leveraged against him.
I hate him because he has betrayed YOU.
He’s not done much of anything to or for me. I could be indifferent to him. I could just look at the fact that he used Daddy’s money and influence to get multiple deferments during the Vietnam war to avoid the draft, because he’s a soft little coward, and I could just despise him in a casual manner.
I could read the testimonies by the roughly two dozen to 28 women who have risked defamation suits to publicly accuse Trump of various forms of sexual misconduct and assault dating back to the 1970s, and his use of his money to purchase the Miss Universe Organization, which included the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA… and from that conclude that he probably got along with Epstein so well because the pair of them were total sexual degenerates.
Aside from making him more of a punch magnet to me, I wouldn’t give him much thought.
But now he’s made that impossible. We’re closer to a world war with Russia AND Iran than at any time in history. Mr. Negotiation promised he’d have a peace deal over Ukraine signed a sealed in his first term.
Instead he’s overseen its escalation.
There’s so much and this post has already gotten so long. I know that a large number of you will simply respond with “TLDR” and I want you to know that I’ll flip you all off individually.
You deserved a leader who would fight for you. A man who couldn’t be blackmailed because he wasn’t best pals with the worst pedo in history. Someone who would make damned sure that our “junior partners” knew their place and never for one moment thought that we would be the ones pulling out chairs for them to sit down.
But we don’t, and that’s partly your fault. You have been fed bullshit and rather than be critical and consult alternate sources of information that were always open to you, you have become a compliant flock of dumb-as-dirt sheep.
I’m not. I see Trump for who he is. Who he has always been and who he will always be. Until he does us all a favor and shuffles off the stage of history, I will continue to be his devout critic.
He has aligned himself with your enemies, he has taken your money to strengthen them, and I hate him for it.
I hate him because I love you. So if you want to tear me up for him, go right ahead.”
OOF!
As I said in my comment to the tweet: “No lies detected”
If I may say, that’s one Honest Injun.
He ain’t wrong…
Shit like that, and where we are headed?
It makes me happy to be a Belt Fed Fucker these days let me tell you… Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and again, sorry for being out of it lately.
I appreciate ALL of y’all!!!
More Later
Big Country
and as a bonus:
what the Hell… one more:
