Early last year I watched a video of SpaceX launching a Tesla towards Mars.

I knew I had seen that scene before.

And I said to myself “Elon Musk, that motherfucker is going after the Loc-Nar.”

I didn’t realize at the time, just how much of an evil super-villain genius Elon Musk really was.

Then I watched on November 21st of this year, Elon Musk unveiled his partial-birth-abortion of an electric pickup truck.  The unveiling was a disaster, the bulletproof windows were not.  It was awkward to watch.  Musk looked much less like a Billionaire CEO in command of a game-changing technology than he usually does.

Even I fell for attacking the Cybertruck for being a piece of shit.

How could the guy who created SpaceX allowed such a half-assed launch to occur making him a bit of a laughing stock?

The answer: misdirection like a fucking boss.

The Cybertruck debuted on November 21, 2019, the same day that PlainSite broke this story:

https://twitter.com/PlainSite/status/1197592445812232192

Elon Musk seems to have had employee Martin Tripp swatted because Tripp is a whistleblower in a case against Musk.

Here is the report from the Tweet above, regarding the report of the active shooter and the deputies’ meeting with Tripp, from the Storey County Sheriff’s Office.

I clipped this part out to make it easier to read:

I’m not sure how it is legal for a company to hold a fired employee and interrogate him for hours on end.

Then there is this section snipped from the report of the other responding deputy.

Does it seem odd that it was the director of security for Tesla that made a call about a threat to another location through the internal call center, as opposed to the Gigafactory calling the local police.

Considering that a mass shooting was supposed “possibly take place at any moment,” the threat going from the Gigafactory to the call center to the director to the Sheriff seems to be a lot of time wasted.

According to PlainSite, Musk has a history (evidenced by court documents) of harassing people who cross him.  And by cross him, including people who question his technology or reported on Musk’s unethical behavior.

And this misdirection worked.

Who mentioned anything about an executive-level conspiracy at Tesla to swat a whistleblower with the Stoney County Sheriff when the Cybertruck disaster was the big, flashy Elon Musk news?

That is evil super-villain type shit right there.

And find out about this without the benefit of my morning coffee:

Low tide during a windless summer… for some reason that came to my mind.  That poor woman is not right in the head. First is shoving jade eggs up her cootch and now is selling the smell?

Nevah Fogget!

It has been freaking 9 months. I have been on the phone for 20 minutes listening to some cheesy Brazilian techno music (I am this close to go torch Sao Paulo) waiting for somebody to pick up and give me an idea when I am going to get the substitute Taurus 605 they promised to replace my recalled  Rossi snubby back in September 2019.

If I had ordered a silencer, i would have had a better chance to be doing quiet pews-pees by now.

UPDATE:  Finally I got through and the news are not good. A very polite young lady informed me that the gun is still in backorder and suggested that till Taurus finishes moving to its new location in Georgia, things are going to be slow.

Nothing to do but sit, grin and wait. Taurus should add a couple of Safariland speedloaders to the return for the annoyance and waiting.

Am I getting grumpier?

Lizard: “Guys.. look at this! I am gonna set off the surveillance camera’s motion detection!”

Sometimes I hate the little suckers.

Ilahn Omar is so upset that there is talk about war with Iran that it’s giving her PTSD.  Never mind the soldiers who had their lilmbs blown off and witnessed their buddies killed by Iranian supplied EFPs, that’s nothing compared to Omar having to contemplate the enormity of enemy casualties.

She took to Twitter to explain how sanctions are killing Iranians.

This makes no sense. Sanctions are economic warfare.

They have already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran.

You cannot claim to want deescalation and then announce new sanctions with no clear goal. This is not a measured response! https://t.co/sGWtwXuNDT

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 8, 2020

Most rational people think that the problem lies in Iran.  They chose to spend the money on funding terrorism rather than the Iranian people.  But no, not Omar.

When asked why she supports BDS, the “S” stands for sanctions, against Israel, she said it was “very different”  because BDS “is a movement driven by the people.  The sanctions on Iran are sanctions that are being placed to create maximum pressure by a government. ”

It’s clear she wanted to say it’s different because it’s against the Jews but she has wised up enough to know not to say that on camera.

Her statement is bullshit because she introduced pro-BDS legislation in the House.  Which would, of course, make sanctions against Israel “maximum pressure by a government.”

That, by her own train of thought, would cause countless deaths in Israel.  But that’s what she wants, so thinking about dead Israelis isn’t going to give her PTSD.

By now it should be plain as day that she wants Jews to die.  I just hope Progressive Jews recognise that and stop supporting her.

I’m a big Star Trek: The Next Generation fan.  I like other great works of science-fiction, there is a lot of real-world lessons to learn from it.

My minor in college was military history and strategy.  I love military history.  History is always repeating itself, all you have to do is know history and keep your eyes open enough to recognize it when it is happening again.  If you can do that, you will know what to do to address your current problem, either by emulating the successes or avoiding the failures of the past.

So, Star Trek was running a marathon on BBC America and I was watching it.

It is interesting to follow the arc between the Federation and the Cardassians given current geopolitics.

The Federation sign a treaty with the Cardassians and the Cardassians are always fucking violating it.  It’s not hard to understand why.  The Federation doesn’t like violence.  No matter how egregiously the Cardassians violate the treaty, the Federation exemplified by Picard refuses to blow the fuck out of the Cardassians.

Even when Picard s tortured, the Federation takes its lumps and slinks away.  They do this with the Romulans too.

The Cardassians know a simple truth the Federation refuses to admit, a treaty is only as good as the character of the people signing it.  If one party has a shitty character, you need something else to back up a treaty.  That something else is usually force.

The Cardassians are people without honor.  They know that if they violate words on a piece of paper, the Federation will not attack them, so they have no motivation to abide by the treaty.  There is no consequence for their illegal actions.

Most people are aware of the quote by Theodore Roosevelt: “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

Having a big stick is important, but if you are unwilling to smack anybody with the stick, nobody will fear your big stick and you might as well not have it.

The Obama administration was a great analog to the Federation.  The people at the top spoke of lofty ideals, but really they were corrupt and cowardly, and they let an enemy without honor violate treaties without consequence.

Now Trump is in office, and he’s reminding the world that we have a big stick, and they should fear it because he’s perfectly willing to beat a motherfucker down with it.

This lesson exists everywhere.  Why is property crime out of control in California?  Because there is no force to back up the words on paper that is the law.  If you can rob a store for $950 and get a ticket, why not rob the store.

At the very end of the day, you need to be able to say to a person “you will do what this piece of paper says you will do, or we will break your fucking skull.”  If you can’t do that, the paper is meaningless.

From criminals to countries, it is the same.  There needs to be consequences for bad acts and those consequences need to come with force.

If you don’t want to listen to me, just watch how the Cardassians and Romulans treat the Federation.