I was picking up the little girl from daycare yesterday when I saw something that reminded me of this video.

Infants need to see faces.  It’s how they communicate and understand their surroundings.

We as humans needs to see faces.  Faces humanize each other.

The blindfold or hoodwink at an execution isn’t for the comfort of the condemned but for the comfort of the executioner.

The history of military technology is extending the lethal range of your weapons because it is very hard to kill a stranger when you can see his face.  It’s easier when you are vollying arrows hundreds of yards or shooting artillery or dropping bombs on map coordinates.

The reason we can watch a movie like Star Wars and accept Stormtroopers as blaster fodder is because they are masked.  You don’t see their faces so it’s easy to discount them as people.

So we have children in daycare where all the adults wear masks.  That’s a state mandate.

We take children into public and all the strangers are in masks.

We are raising a generation of infants where anyone who isn’t immediate family is a mask not a face.  How will this affect their long-term socialization and communication?  Are we going to have a generation of sociopaths because they spent the most important years of their lives cut off from other humans’ faces and facial expressions?

Has anyone remotely considered this.

“We have to stop the virus.”

But is the cost for that a generation of kids with stunted emotional development, poor communication, and no empathy for strangers?

That cure is far worse than the disease.

I saw a Michelle Malkin tweet last night referring to Tsinelas and by the context, I sort of figured what it meant… and I was frightfully right.

My dearly mom had also the sniper badge when it came to the accurate throwing of chancletas (how we call them in Venezuela) and no manner of weaving or zigzagging on my part made her miss. The part I laughed the most (because it is true) is that the “death hit” was a square impact on the butt. Dear readers, I am not the most graceful person in the world, so I had my share of falls, cuts,  puncture wounds , hard impacts against solid objects and even one vehicular collision. Nothing ever hurt as much as mom’s landing a perfect hit on my ass.

The only “unreal” part of this video IMHO is that the culprits actually grab on mom to defend themselves. You are allowed to do blocking moves, but you never touch mom! I do believe pretty much it carries the Death Penalty to do so.

I sent the video to Blog Son and he is back in therapy. He shared the video with other past victims of tsinelas’ abuse and he had this to say:

A lot of us are unpacking trauma.

I know how you feel.

PS: In Venezuela, the flipflops are also called cholas so if you see me flipping back and forth in the future, rest assured I am still talking about the same evil instrument.

(I apologize, this post ended up being a tad long)

Musú
“Musiú” is a generic name which Venezuelans apply to all foreigners. It is a corruption of the honorary title monsieur and has been in use since the late eighteenth century.

The definition is almost right. But its fails to mention that it is derogatory just like the Japanese use of Gaijin (Foreigner/Barbarian). And here is the shocker: It is applied to White People mostly and not only the foreigners but their children.

I was a  Musiú and I reckon I still am.

So I see this idiocy in J Kb’s post, I had to laugh. She knows shit about Latinos, no matter how much she said she studied us.

Old time readers have endured my explanations about Latinos/Hispanics before.  For their own reason, the Left has tried to portray the “Brown Peoples” as a pure lineage that tracks directly to the indigenous tribes prior to the arrival of Columbus while in reality Latin/Hispanics are a creation of the need for nookie. Allow me to explain again.

After the Americas were discovered, Spain began what we know as La Conquista (The Conquering) which was done by male Spaniards almost exclusively. Central and South America were not even remotely a suburban patch of land but a huge jungle populated by highly aggressive and  in some cases, cannibalistic indians who were not very happy with the Spaniards searching for gold, silver and precious jewels. As you can imagine, this was not a “Let’s get the wife and kids in the family truckster and drive leisurely to Buenos Aires” vacation trip but a damned dangerous enterprise, so there was one important element missing in the Americas during La Conquista: Spaniard women.

So the solution for the Conquistadores was to take on comely natives to be their partners and eventually their wives with the blessings of the Spanish Crown and the Church who hated the concept of bastard children. By the time La Colonia (Colonization) begins, we already have a substantial amount of mixed-blood descendants which will come to be know as Hispanics/Latinos and who basically start managing for the Spanish Crown the lands their parents conquered.

So, the concept of “Whitness” as the Left loves to wave around, simply did not apply in Central and South America. Let’s begin with the fact that the Anglo-Saxon immigration south of the Rio Grande was almost non-existing and also the fact that 700 years of Islamic oppression in Iberic lands was bound to leave an important amount of North African DNA in the Spanish genealogy. Oh yeah, they don’t mention that save for some provinces in Northern Spain, (Galicia, Cataluña and Vascongadas) the rest of the country was enslaved and dutifully used by the Muslims for 7 centuries.

And here is the other tidbit of information they fail to pass to you. Same as with the British Colonies in  North America, the Hispanic/Latinos had to bring slaves from Africa.  I read somewhere that up to 80 of the slaves brought to the New World ended up in the Spanish and Portuguese domains. But this time, there was no intermingling of races to create a new race. Black Slaves remained mostly separate from the mainstream society even after Slavery was abolished. Good and proper Latinos simply did not mix with the Negros. That disdain still permeates ever so subtly to this day throughout L:atin America.  Just check how many black presidents there has been in all the countries or how many blacks have risen to positions of power in either the public or private sector. Get a comfy chair while you do

So when I see Black people trying to cuddle with Latinos here in the US as if they both had suffered under the Evil White Gringos in lands near and far, I have to laugh. And I get real loud with the laughter when the same Black politicos demanding reparations are standing next to a Latino whose ancestors may have owned slaves in Latin America.

This is getting long, even for me but I have to add something else on the Musiú thing. Many years ago when I was a college student here in the US, I had the official argument with a fellow black collegian about being the target of racism. He said I simply could not understand what being a minority was and what came with it. I asked him if it was like being targeted every day at school, beat up by racist bullies, spit upon, made lewd fun of your mother because of her race, have teachers look at you and grade you as you were a low-level moron, not to be chosen for clubs or outings or sport teams, never to be invited to parties because of who you were, having the derogatory name used against you anytime you had an argument with somebody, assume that what you owned was not legally obtained with the sweat of your brow but that you stole it. I asked him if it was anything like that.  He was smart enough to recognize he had screwed up and the discussion ended.

Oh yeah, I grew up feeling and enjoying all the perks White Privilege and oppressing the poor Latinos around me.

Look at these Tweets:

A few things here are clear:

They hate white people.  There is no other way to consider this.  Objectively they associate white people and whiteness with evil.  Anything that is evil therefore must be white.

White Supremacy, like fascism, or Nazi, had become another codeword for “anything I don’t like.”

The Left uses flexible definitions, where they can take something that is universally agreed upon to be bad, and stretch it to fit over anything they want to make it a target for scorn.

When most people hear “white supremacy” they (accurately) think of the Klan.  This directs the scorn people have for the clan at a population of people who fled to this country with nothing, escaping poverty and persecution in a Communist dictatorship.

Cubans are racially diverse people, being a former slave colony.

The reason that Cubans are generally more Republican is the very recent experience of fleeing a communist dictatorship.  If the voter themselves didn’t flee, their parents or grandparents did and they were raised on the stories of the horrors of what happened there.

The Left does not appreciate this fact.  They only see things in terms of race.  Therefore, the only reason for Cubans to reject the Democrat party is that:

Republicans are evil, white people are evil, Cubans vote Republican, QED: Cubans are white.  

This is actually a semi-accurate statement.  If by “we” she means the Left that sees everything in terms of racial division.  If by “we” she means the United States as a whole then she’s wrong.

Her ideology is failing her, and rather than try to understand why, i.e., why Hispanic/Latino Cubans in Miami don’t vote like Hispanic/Latino Mexicans in California, she cannot let introspection make her question her dogma, therefore Hispanic/Latino Cubans in Miami are actually white supremacists who probably use their Klan robes as sails when they come across the Florida Straits on their homemade rafts.

Cubans are now a hated group, to be persona non-grata on the Left.  I’m sorry that you escaped persecution in a Communist dictatorship to be subjected to the same Marxism from Democrats here in this country.

This is how it will end.

When you have dehumanized your enemy, you can do anything to them with a clear conscience.

Ask me how I know.

This is a headline that I never expected to see:

Sources: Boeing corporate yacht Daedalus sold for $13M

Boeing had a corporate yacht.

Boeing has had several rounds of layoffs.  According to Boeing, they expect the bloodletting to end sometime in 2021 with a total reduction in force of 30,000 since the beginning of 2020.

Boeing’s goal for this year was to cut 16,000 jobs.  They cut 12,600 from the Seattle area this year already.

After all of that did they finally decide to get rid of the yacht.

Why did they have the yacht in the first place?

The Boeing yacht has been used for entertaining and hosting the airplane giant’s corporate customers, strengthening corporate relationships and philanthropy. In the summers, the Daedalus was often based at Vancouver Island, where its primary role was as a small floating hotel, providing a way for Boeing sales teams and airline customers to get away for fishing trips and conversations in a private setting.

Translation: It was a place where corporate executives could step out on their wives without leaving a paper trail at a hotel.

I can just imagine the conversation in Boeing’s bard room:

Exec 1: “Our major projects have failed.  We are hemorrhaging money.  We need to cut costs.”

Exec 2: “Do you know what time it is?”

Exec 1: “What time is it?”

Exec 2: “It’s RIF o’clock.”

Exec 3: “How about we sell the corporate yacht before we fire people?”

Exec 2: “Fuck you, Gary.  We’re not selling the floating pussy palace.”

Exec 1: “Yeah, Gary.  Do you really expect me to bone my mistress at the Four Seasons like some common day trader?”

Exec 2: “Besides, do you remember how we got the Starliner contract in the first place?”

Exec 3: “Yes… I remember.”

Exec 1: “That was a hell of a blowout, wasn’t it?”

Exec 2: “Man, I remember how you looked at those Congressmen and said (mimics drunken slur) ‘Gentlemen, all aboard the SS Bang Barge, toot toot.'”

Exec 1: “If we don’t have a taxpayer-funded party barge for members of the appropriation committee, how will we ever get another contract every again?”

Exec 3: “I dunno, maybe we could deliver quality products, on time, and on budget.”

Exec 1: “Fuck you, Gary.”

Exec 2: “Yeah, I second that.  Fuck you, Gary.”

Exec 1: “We’re not getting rid of the yacht until it is absolutely necessary, and that’s final.”

Exec 2: “Yeah!  Speaking of… you guys up for hookers and blow on the yacht?”

Exec 1: “Yeah, hookers and blow on the yacht.  Let me call my wife and tell her that I’ll be working late this evening.”

End Scene.

And so, months after several major rounds of layoffs, they quietly sell the yacht.

If it is official and Biden won the election, the thing that scares me the most is that it all worked.

Followers of this blog know that four years ago I wasn’t a Trump supporter.

In the intervening time, he won me over.  The economy shot up under his presidency.  He actually took on our trade imbalance with China.  He really supported Israel and scored major peace deals in the Middle East.  He killed the real bad guys that were hurting our troops overseas, he had major successes.  I voted for him on Tuesday.

During that time, he was attacked mercilessly in a conspiracy between corrupt members of our bureaucratic state, the elected Democrats, the news media, social media, and social influencers/celebrities.

It has become absolutely and undeniably clear that the Trump Russia conspiracy was a hoax.  It was fabricated by Hillary Clinton and known by the Obama Whitehouse.  Those lies were leaked to the press, the DOJ used those published lies as evidence, the evidence leaked to the press, and around and around it went.

Nevertheless, the narrative was set that Trump was “a puppet of Putin” and “a Russian agent.”

In the early part of 2020, Trump was being impeached by the House Democrats for totally fictitious reasons, right when the Coronavirus was making its way here.

The initial projections were over 2.2 million dead, while the Democrats attacked the travel ban as racist and xenophobic.  The greatest American economy was scuttled on purpose because of these projections.  Then immediately it was all retconned, where the narrative was that Trump failed to manage the virus, all the deaths were preventable had Trump acted, no culpability fell on governors, and the current economy is Trump’s fault, as though all his pre-COVID policies didn’t work.

Harvard’s review of the media coverage on Trump showed 95% of that was negative.  Fifty-seven minutes out of every hour of Trump coverage was negative.

In the video of the federal employee Zoom call I posted, actual federal employees said how they leaked all the damaging stuff they could to the press.  Federal employees used their on-the-clock time to undermine him.

Google manipulated search results against him, Facebook and Twitter censored conservatives.

Celebrities used every moment in front of the camera that they could to attack him.

They pulled out every stop and through every sort of fuckery, destroyed the most effective administration this country has had since Ronald Reagan.

There was nothing so unethical they didn’t do it.  No place too low they wouldn’t go there.  No sewer too filthy that they wouldn’t muckrake in it.  No lie to absurd they wouldn’t say it.

And if Biben wins, it all worked.  There is no honor in this, it is win at all costs.

And if they did it to Trump, that could do it to anyone of us.