Attended Greater Greater Washington Happy Hour In College Park

Last month, I attended a Greater Greater Washington happy hour event at a place called Milk Boy Art House in College Park, Maryland. I had a good time. I have attended these events in the past, and that night, being like most of these events, I was more than likely the only conservative in the room. Most of the attendees at these events are urban professionals that are in the planning, nonprofit, and advocate/victimhood industries; these industries, and they are industries despite their claim, tend to attract liberal social justice warriors and Marxist control freaks to their ranks. At this event, there were also several attendees that were running for the Prince George's County County Executive job in the upcoming election. All of them were liberal Democrats. Despite our political differences, I do enjoy their company, and occasionally, we do find that we have common ground. Two areas are affordable housing and public transportation.

I have always been a big fan of public transportation, ever since I took my first ride on the Boston subway system when I was a young kid. Once or twice a year, when my family drove up to the Boston area from Hartford, Connecticut, to visit my mother's brothers and sisters, my father and I would have a father/son bonding experience spending the day riding the Boston "T." We might make a couple of stops at the Museum Of Natural History and/or the Boston Aquarium. Most of the time, though, we would just ride around on the subway and eat junk food from the vendor stalls that sold their wares on the train platforms (yes, at that time, you could eat on the platforms), and use the really gross, dirty bathrooms at the stations when nature called. No wonder my mom never joined us. However, it was a great time for a father/son catch up. It was a cheap way to spend a day bonding. I think the fare at one time was 10 cents.

Another area where I agree with the GGW crowd is affordable housing. We do tend to disagree with what is considered affordable. I realize that we live in a high cost area, but I don't consider spending 35% to 45% of your take home income on housing affordable.

This is going to shock a lot of my conservative friends, but I am a big advocate of employer provided housing as part of your compensation package. I spent 26 years in the military, and I'll tell you this: The military does take care of its own. The military provides housing on base for both single personnel as well as families. If there is nonavailability, or a housing allowance is one of the perks of the job, the military provides you with a tax free allowance for housing, that is variable based on the cost of living for the area where you are stationed.

My father taught school in Farmington, Connecticut. He taught US History, English, Geography, and Civics at the junior high school level. He also had a Masters Degree. At that time, teaching was one of the lowest paying professions, even with a Masters Degree. The junior high school and high school were in the same cluster of buildings. Across the parking lot were what were called the "barracks." The barracks were teacher provided housing. He had to be at work at 7:30 AM, and he would leave the house at 7:28 AM and still be early for work. He would also come home every day for lunch. At the time, my mother didn't work, nor did she need to...and despite a low teachers' salary, they were able to save up enough money for a down payment on the only house they would ever own.

There were quite a few sacrifices living in the barracks. First of all, there was no central heat. There was a kerosene space heater in the kitchen that provided heat for the entire unit. You had to keep the doors open, and run fans to send the warm air from the heater to the outlying bedrooms. The kitchen had a 4 burner electric stove with 3 working burners. There was an old fashioned wringer washing machine that was in the corner of the kitchen, and my mom used to roll it to the middle of the floor, attach it to the sink, and do her laundry, which was then taking outside and hung up on a clothesline. If you needed a dryer, you drove to the laundromat in the center of town. There was also no air conditioning in the summer. You ran fans, and you roasted. The barracks were two long rows of housing, back to back. Today, they would be considered slums. Yet, somehow we survived. It is common for many of the elite private schools in this country to provide faculty housing on campus. Maybe it is time for the governments and industry to start doing the same.

Thoughts On Bernie Goldberg's Prediction About Trump's Reelection

Yesterday, January 8, 2018, Bernie Goldberg wrote an article about the media, and how they will help Trump be reelected in 2020. You would think that the media would do everything in their power to make sure that Trump is defeated. However, think about it. It's about ratings. Ratings mean advertising revenue.

It is no secret that the mainstream media despise Trump. Everyone, except for Fox was in the tank for Hillary. They hate him, and he has no use for them. However, they need each other. "The media,...love their ratings more than they hate him — and in crunch time, will act in their own best interests."
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0118/bernie_g010818.php3#jx1LLDAk9RPVISL5.99 

The mainstream media will never get on the Trump bandwagon. They will continue to bash him every chance they get. It's good for business. Also, President Trump will continue to poke a stick in the media's eye every chance he gets. It's also good for business with his supporters. Isn't dependency a wonderful thing. There is a supposedly Chinese saying that says, "May you live in interesting times." Yes we do.

The Tide Has Changed In Alabama

It is December 12, 2017, and there was a special election in Alabama for Jeff Sessions on Senate seat. Doug Jones, the Democrat pulled it off and defeated Republican Roy Moore. This is the first time that Alabama has elected a Democrat to the US Senate in over 20 years. How did that happen in ultra-conservative, Deep South Alabama? Simple: Roy Moore was too much of a flawed candidate, and a lot of Republicans didn't vote for him. Also, things are changing in this country politically, including in the Bible Belt. The way that I see it, this is another step in the end of the evangelical born again Christian movement that actually had a political voice back in the 1980s. Other casualties? Christine O'Donnell, Todd Aiken, and I'm sure there are others...

Let's be real here folks. The long march through our institutions with a large emphasis on Marxism has made tremendous inroads. Look at our education system and our social services systems. We have become a nation ruled by mostly White educated elites, ruling over less educated Whites, and ghetto Blacks. Add a bunch of Hispanic immigrants to the mix, and you get the picture of where this country is heading.

For now, I hope the Republicans learn a lesson from this election. Don't run a flawed born again candidate who "probably" fucked 14 year old girls when he was about 30, even if it was with their parents' consent.

Also, we no longer live in the 1950s. Our culture is controlled by educated urban Liberals. That is not going to change. The election of Donald Trump was a fluke. Just like the election of Ronald Reagan was a fluke. The Democrats are regrouping, and my prediction is they are going to take control of both houses of Congress in the 2018 election. Once that happens it's going to be revenge time. The elites are going to destroy the White working class once and for all, so they will never again be able to elect someone that the elites don't approve of. There can be nothing standing in the way of the long march to a one world government based on the principles of managerial Marxism. Once the Democrats get control of Congress, you will see impeachment proceedings against both Trump and Pence. Nancy Pelosi, being the new (again) Speaker of the House, will become the first woman president. We are witnessing the collapse of the great American experiment.

The Electoral College Is In

Let's see...the Electoral College, or the electoral college, depending what source you site, is in. Donald Trump is now the official president. I've been hearing rumors about death threats to electors, threats of gang rapes of female electors, and other sundry violence. Hey lefties and liberals...GROW UP!!!!! You lost. Get over it. We had to put up with your shit for 8 years. Guess what? The shoe is on the other foot now. Suck it up. Now go see your therapist and have a good cry.

The dust is settling post election

I have refrained from commenting about the 2016 election until now. I wanted to wait until things settled down. Now that the recounts are basically over, and Trump gaining votes in Wisconsin as a result...thank you Jill Stein, it's time to start moving things forward.

Liberals have no one to blame for Donald Trump becoming president, except for themselves. After pushing the working class, especially the white working class, down for the past 50 years, the proletariat finally rose up against the bourgeoisie. Just like Marx predicted would happen. Hear that liberals? Guess what you educated types that wear your moral superiority on your sleeves, YOU are the bourgeoisie, and you just got handed your asses on a silver platter. You can whine all you want about how Trump is an embarrassment, and guess what? We don't care. We don't care about your global citizenship, we don't care about your education level, and we don't care about the fact that you hate the fact that we don't care about your opinions. You dissed us, we will continue to dis you. Donald Trump is going to be the president of the United States of America. Go have your cocoa, color in your coloring books and see your therapists.  End of discussion.  

Is A Military Coup Possible In The United States?

In regards to my post about where this country could be headed, I think that there is a possibility of a military coup that would "fundamentally transform" this county. People are looking for strong leadership, and are sick and tired of a government that is becoming more and more corrupt every day. Enter Donald Trump. More to follow on this...What would life be like in the United States if our corrupt government was overthrown by a military coup? I don't know exactly, but I do have an idea of what things would be like. After all, I served in the United States Air Force for 26 years.

 I've lived on base, and off base. I rose in rank from an E-1 Airman Basic, to an E-8 Senior Master Sergeant. I've been junior enlisted, and a senior non-commissioned officer. Because I am familiar with military culture, I would not have a problem adapting to the United States being run by the military. I would survive just fine. However, there are a lot of people that would have a hard time with it. It would definitely be a rude awakening for some people. Many aspects of society would "fundamentally change." Enter the "special snowflakes." The so-called free spirit types, who call for more government control over other peoples' lives, would be the biggest whiners, because more government control over other peoples' lives would also mean more control over their lives too. You can't have it both ways.

The first thing that would change would be the make up of the government. We would no longer have three separate parts of the government, checking and balancing each other. Everything would be under the control of the military. Our legislative branch of the government would be dissolved. Even the judicial branch of the government would be under the control of the military, just like the military courts martial system.

Everyone from the Commander In Chief to the lowest worker on the totem pole would have a military rank. There would be two rank structures just like the military...officer and enlisted. Only 15% of the working population would be allowed  by law to become officers, which means that at any given time, only 15% of the school age population would be allowed to go to college. You must have a college degree in order to become an officer. Everyone else would go to some sort of trade school based on the needs of the military governorship. Personal ability would be considered, but personal desire would be secondary. There would be options for a small select number of enlisted personnel to become officers, but the criteria for qualification would be the same: You would have to have earned a college degree, and you would have had to earn it before you reached a certain age and rank.

We are in the process of a great sorting right now, and there have been times in this country where this has occurred. We went from an agrarian economy to an urban industrial economy during the Industrial Revolution. We are now moving from an industrial based economy to an information age economy.

The Rationing Of Public Transportation

This is kind of a continuation of my December 30th post. As most people know, I'm an urban kind of person. I have no desire to live in the country, or in a small town where you have to be reliant on an automobile to transport you everywhere. I love riding public transportation. I only drive when I have to, and many times that driving is driving to where I can catch public transportation to my final destination. Currently, I live in the inside the Beltway suburbs of Washington, DC.

This is the point of this blog post... Convenience, and how things are made inconvenient in order to force a certain demographic into their cars, despite all the environmental bleating from the Left. Why would these environmental types and the local governments want to force a certain demographic into their private vehicles? Because, doing so generates tax revenue.

I live in Prince George's County, Maryland. Let's look at the demographics of the county: Black professionals, middle class, working class, and poor; White working class, lower middle class, pink class, and a smattering of White professionals, and a small smattering of Asian lower middle class, middle class, and professionals. With exception, many of the people that live in this county work in the suburbs, and don't commute into the city, except for some of  the professionals and a smattering of non-professionals like secretaries and such. Some commute county to county, but the majority commute both to work and live here in PG County.

Many of the residents of PG County have a problem riding public transportation. It's not part of their culture. Dan Reed of Greater Greater Washington wrote an article a while back describing this phenomenon pertaining to the Black middle and upper classes. Many of them grew up in DC and before they started making decent money and moved to the suburbs, they were poor and were reliant on public transportation. Once they arrived, so to speak, they distanced themselves from the trappings of the working poor, and the ghetto poor. That meant driving everywhere, even if there was a bus stop feeding the Metro right across the street from their house. Another demographic that won't use public transportation are the working class whites and lower middle class whites. For them, even though they won't admit it, it's racism. They are not going to ride bus public transportation with those "little brown people," and those N word types. They will ride the Metrorail if they work in DC, but not the buses.

It's sad, but that is the reality of the situation. Hopefully, as this part of Prince George's County becomes more gentrified things will change. Maybe then, Metro and the PG County Council will reach an agreement to increase the bus service serving the Metrorail, as well as bus service as an alternative to the rail system. I hope so.