Looking Back

Riding in the Truck toward the East Verde River Emil and Kadizzle somehow got on the topic of the Vietnam War. So many years later everyone has concluded it was a farce a waste of humanity, and a political nightmare. History has a way of bringing clarity. As we are swamped with Hoopleheads how will we look back on the time when a clown, a con man, a thief and a liar was president, and the Hoopleheads loved it. If the Hoopleheads prevail in this election it will be a gut punch to democracy. The crazies will run the asylum. Tax breaks will flood the rich. Opperssive laws will suppress women and minorities. The schools will be dumbed down beyond belief. The dark ages are upon us. Lies are the new currency of the Republican Party, and Frank is in dreamland. 

 Was that really us?  Were we a country of slavery? Yes we were the idiots who bought Vietnam, now Trump, Blake Masters, Kari Lake. The dolts have ruled the day. Fox News won, America lost. The Franks will be the new Nazi Party. Q anon is the new religion. If you believe it, it is true. No more science, logic, or reason, just fantasy, conspiracy, and idiocy. Frank will love it. Will we have stupid pride parades? We already have Trump rallies. 

How do you explain the Franks of the world? Simple people want simple answers. How does Santa Clause get down the chimney? Any answer will work for a child, and so it is with Frank. Kari Lake can tell Frank the most stupid things, but it works. Trump knows the trick, and he taught it to Blake Masters, and the rest of the gang. Electricity is not exactly like water, but to teach the principles to laymen faulty analogies are often used. 

Simple people love the idea that Biden has a big dial in the White House where he can turn up or down the price of gas. Why study economics? There is no climate problem. That works for the simple minded. All you have to do is show Frank a snowball, and the argument is over. Covid was a Chinese prank, right Frank? So it goes. 

Stupid people do best in a crowd of stupid people. Go to a Trump rally and see how one ignorant person is fertilizer for another. You can see the same thing at the Tea Party. One simple minded fool tells a conspiracy story, and another one says Amen. The race to the bottom is on. Trickle down economics was the ultimate silly game played on the Franks of the world. Give the rich more money, and you will have more. How does that work? We found out it didn't?

The Jesus wagon went by and Jesus gave us the finger. Some old confused dinger restored a nice early model Ford. On the side he has plastered Jesus signs. On several occasions the old fool has made it a point to drive by our protest and give the finger. You know  you got a problem when Jesus gives you the finger, but that is modern religion. Jesus loves Trump even if Trump indulges in a little pussy grabbing and a lot of lying. 

The Dancing Cowgirl

Old Kadizzle was standing by the chicken place with his protest sign when a younger woman came out from behind the chicken palace. She was carrying a protest sign. At first Kadizzle thought she was part of the hornet gang of Republicans doing a counter protest to our Jail Trump effort. On closer examination Kadizzle realized she was on our side. Wonderful to say the least. Her enthusiasm was great. Cowgirl danced with her sign. She said she was a Republican, but wanted no part of Trump and his lies. Also she said she was a history teacher, which gave authenticity to her protest. Like those with working brains she could see Trump was like Mussolini.  Now Frank, Mussolini is not an Italian dish. Do some homework Frank and find out who Mussolini is.  

In no time cowgirl got to experience the dingers. The crude uneducated Republicans giving the finger and shouting obscenities. It was a fun protest day. A Hooplehead pulled up by Kadizzle in a shiny red pickup truck. A discussion ensued. On the issue of Trump stealing documents the Hooplehead said " Well Biden has classified documents".  The Hoople did not understand that presidents are allowed to have classified information. Ex presidents are not allowed to take the classified material home when they leave. The Hooples are special. Kadizzle pointed out to red truck Hoople that Trump stole 25 million from college students. The Hoople said " Well it was Trump's college".  So if you own the college you can steal from the students.  The Hoopleheads have no concept of reason and logic. 

Later a young high school aged kid with his girlfriend confronted Kadizzle. Kadizzle challenged him about going to college. The simple kid said he did not need to, he claimed he already had a six figure income. This is a typical Payson teen, it is all about money. Getting smarter is not important. Just getting the money for a goofy car or truck is the main goal in life. 

Wrote Shirley a long email about freedom of the press and free speech. Shirley is the Queen bee of the Tea Party Hoopleheads. Maybe frank and Thug man hushed up Shirley. Have not heard back from Shirley. She is in a corner to try to defend free speech when her outfit throws out anyone who disagrees. 

Eating Out

There is no real industry or economic base in Payson, Arizona. Just about everything revolves around tourism, and people with retirement homes. The selection of places to eat is incredible. Two small towns, Pine, and Strawberry are nearby. The towns live by catering to the people visiting. 

Last night after a movie the Kadizzles went with friends to a restaurant in Pine. The food was Italian, and good. Kadizzle has come to know Mary one of the participants. Mary is an electrical engineer and played a role in the development of the GPS system. At dinner Kadizzle was able to acquire some new knowledge about how the system works. Strangely Kadizzle had been teaching the working of a GPS to Israel the son of one of the contractors. Israel had been suspended from school for having a sip of vodka prior to class. His single dad father punished Israel by making him help with the paver projects going on. 

How so many food vendors stay in business is amazing. People must eat out a lot. A simple hamburger is now ten dollars. Have a real nice meal and you are talking $75. If the economy and inflation go the wrong way it would seem the restaurant business will suffer. 

Kadizzle ordered his fourth ebike yesterday. Lets count. Ebike number one was wonderful and went 5, 000 miles. Ebike number two was the absolute best from Italy, but the motor conked out at less than 300 miles. Ebike three was a very nice bike, but terribly underpowered. So ebike three has to go back when ebike four arrives. Hopefully ebike four will have the power and glory Kadizzle needs. 

Crime in the country seems to be on an upward trend everywhere. Income disparity does not help. Strange that with modern technology the thieves are doing so well. There are so many new things that can foil thieves, cameras, alarms, and other tracking devices.  Just about every home around here has a security system with cameras. Sadly it is the poor the thieves pick on the most. After we suffered the theft of our ebikes Kadizzle has a new awareness of the sneak thieves and more respect for them or that should be disrespect. 

Mrs. Kadizzle is sitting over there reading the NYT. She commented on the attack on Polosi's husband. Republicans are stirring up violence. No one could surpass Trump and the mess he caused at the Capitol. Disgusting are the Republicans in Arizona carrying guns, and intimidating people at the ballot box with their guns and military garb. I have more respect for a cancer on Trump's bunghole than a Republican.

Two Old Men

 Awake at five in the morning the adventure began. Kadizzle picked up Emil Kashuntz at seven and we were off to the Spanish Ruins. The transition from town to vast forest is instant here. Rumbling down toward Doll Babby Ranch the mountains surrounded us as we dropped down to the East Verde river. 

The goal was to hike to the Spanish Ruins. The name makes no sense the ruins are from native Americans, but the myth somehow got started it was an ancient Spanish settlement. Kadizzle had warned Emil it was a steep hike. Emil is 80 and Kadizzle 73. Weather was just about perfect with a little morning chill. Cottonwoods still were bright green along the river with all their leaves. With every step the view improved as we went up and up the old dirt road. The road was cut off by a locked gate by the Forest Service. 

At last we reached the top. Once through the last gate it was time to scramble up the side of the cliff to the plateau on top. This part of the hike was challenging for two old guys. One slip could result in disaster. Fortunately the coolness had the rattlesnakes inactive. This was famous snake country. 

Emil was absolutely dumbfounded when he saw the ruins and exclaimed it was the most wonderful place he had ever seen. Secretly Kadizzle thought Emil must not have seen to many places. Kadizzle explained to Emil there were many ancient sites like this, but this one was unique. The walls were dry stacked stone six or seven feet high. 

Our thoughts out loud were about why this structure was built. Kadizzle felt it was surely a fort of some sort to defend the people when they were attacked. The strange thing was there was not a single shred of pottery .  This was not a place where people lived, but a place where they ran for battle. The view was incredible. This was a three sided structure that backed up against about a four hundred foot sheer cliff. You could see for miles in every direction. 

If you want go to Youtube and you can see some videos on the ruin. Maybe Kadizzle can post one. Yep found a perfect video. Watch it. The video is two young men who made the exact trip. If you come for a visit maybe old Kadizzle can muster the ability to take you up there.

Spanish Ruins - Doll Baby Trailhead, Payson, Arizona Hike

Coal Miner

 This picture almost brought tears to the eyes of Kadizzle. This coal miner rushed home to take his son to a basketball game. He did not have time to change or get cleaned up. The picture has gone viral. 

Kadizzle at one time was an underground coal miner. Underground coal miners are special people. Working underground with these men shaped my life. You learned so much about life from them. They had a special code of humanity, that never leaves you. There is no racism underground. When a guy pulls you out from under a rock that fell on you, you don't care what color he is. The coal miners Kadizzle met in southern West Virginia had more humanity than most preachers Kadizzle ever dealt with. Once Kadizzle went to a coal mine in the mountains of Southern West Virginia. He was young then. Kadizzle was at this remote dirty mine up on the side of a mountain. Sitting outside the mine office at lunch Kadizzle had none. Two miners blackened with coal dust offered Kadizzle some lunch. Kadizzle taught mine safety to the coal miners in Southern West Virginia. They were grateful. Once in the heart of the southern coal mines Kadizzle put on a safety class for the miners. At the end of the class the miners gave Kadizzle a pocket knife they had gone together to purchase. It was a thank you Kadizzle will never forget. 

When you go over to the wall and flip that light switch always think of some people hundreds of feet under you mining that coal. It is a dangerous, thankless job. 

A story Kadizzle likes to tell is about his time in Eastern Ohio working to promote mine safety. The human relations guy who was Kadizzle's boss often spoke badly of the miners, and bitched about how much they were paid. The white shirted guy had never been in a mine. One day Kadizzle was with the uppity man when he made his first trip underground. We went into a dangerous part of the mine where a lot of the top had fallen. Old Mr. Brave office man's eyes got big as he looked around. You could tell he was scared. After his eyes roamed he said " These guys deserve every cent they get".  Kadizzle has never in his life seen such an instant change in attitude.  If only you could do that with a Trump supporter. Maybe if a Trump supporter saw Trump laughing with his family about bilking the cult it would work. 

Two question IQ test

 What if you had to interview someone for a job? Two questions could solve your problem. First ask the person if they know what the formula E=mc2 represents. If they answer correctly hire them. For the second question ask them if they voted for Trump. If they answer yes, offer them janitorial work. 

Sell the Hoopleheads some pillows.

Kadizzle would love to go to the next Hooplehead Tea Party meeting and distribute copies of the New York Times article today about Mr. Pillow. Mike Lindell is the mother of all grifters and the twin of Trump for ripping off the simple minded. Does it get any better than lying to stupid people and getting paid for it? The first to recognize the gold mine in stupidity were TV evangelist. They knew you could bilk a Hoople so easily just by lying to them. Fox News, and so many podcast and radio stations now specialize in telling the Hooples scary stories. 

The scary story has always been a staple for bilking the simple minded. The Tea Party gang likes to hear how the homosexuals are in the schools making more homosexuals. Sex works for the right wing scam. Immigrants work just as well. Every right wing political ad in Arizona shows a Hoople candidate walking by the border wall or throngs of immigrants climbing the fence. With the fear pumped out by the con men the Hoopleheads respond by arming themselves. 

Real information is toxic to the Tea Party bunch. They avoid it like the plague. Yesterday Kadizzle went down to the protest line with Emil. Things were pretty quiet and the finger dogs were scarce. Later however the hornets came out of Republican headquarters to take down their icons to Trump. Kadizzle could not resist blasting the hornets with some facts from history about how Hitler and Trump use the same plays.  The old skinny hornet said he had a PHD in history. What school did he attend? It had to be Trump University. 

There is a special kind of stupid that permeates Payson. The dumbest of the dumb love to make loud noises with their vehicles. It starts at a young age. The teenagers all drive pickup trucks and if you have a loud one you can let all the stupid girls know how stupid you are and find a mate. Apparently the older dolts thing the same mating call works. To express their love for Trump the simple minded go by and make obnoxious noises with their vehicles that run on low octane IQ. 

If you could measure stupidity with middle finger gestures and goofy pickup trucks the meter would be pegged here. Nothing is better than taking pride in your ignorance. You can do it with a Trump flag, a Trump hat, or just plain telling people you are going to vote for one of the right wing idiots. One sure way to let people know your brain went south is to invest in tattoos.  You are busted flat and your body shows all the money went into ink to let people know you don't have any sense at all. 

The businesses are so desperate for workers here the bums are waking up in their tents and going to work. My bum took a job. He told me an interesting story.  Earlier Kadizzle mentioned the scammers, like Trump and Lindell. Religious scammers are a special breed. Goodwill is the classic case. Goodwill is privately owned by people making millions. The is a mini good will operation going on in Payson. Here is how this scam works. You get Hoopleheads high on Jesus to donate used goods. The goods cost you nothing so you make nothing but profit. You pay no taxes. Religious scams are tax free. Now how can you juice the scam. Well in this case you claim you are rehabilitating the drug addicts. Now this is where the game gets good. Part of the rehabilitation is teaching the ex or current drugged people that they need to work. You farm out the druggies now hooked on Jesus and ask people to donate for the work the field hands do.  Of course you do not pay the drug dogs. This is just like slavery, but better. In exchange for curing the drug people of their stupidity you give them room and board. That was the deal with the slaves. The slaves did not get paid, but they got a slave shack and some food. Now if you convince some poor soul this is what Jesus had in mind you are off to some good tax free money. The answer to all these scams is reveal where the money came from and where it went, but no. Trump hides his taxes, and the religious scammers don't have to reveal the accounting of Jesus. 

Bilking people is older than history. Religion perfected it. Hell was invented to scare people out of the grain they produced. Now you can sell them pillows and guns. 

Almost forgot the rest of the bum story. My bum thought he might take the Jesus cure, so he went to the slave camp to sign up. Bumore told me he went in the restroom where the slaves were smoking some sort of drug. Now Bumore might be on the right track. First, he got a job, good for him. However, his best move was realizing a drug rehabilitation place that has druggies smoking chemicals in the restroom is not legitimate. Good for Bumore. One more note about Bumore. Kadizzle gave Bumore $20 bucks the other day.  What did he do with it? Bumore went to the gas station and bought his dog a gallon of bottled water. Bumore currently lives in a tent. What is Bumore saving money for? Bumore wants an electric bike.  Now like every American the most important thing is a good ride.  Look at almost every slum shack you see.  The roof leaks, the yard is full of junk, but out front is a half decent car some dealer is using to bilk the slummer. Are the kids saving for college? No, they are saving up to get a new noisy car they can spin the tire off of. Automobiles are more addictive than crack, and it is legal to sell them to people who cannot afford them. 

Frank ain't happy

Tuesday is Tea Party day. Old Kadizzle brushed his teeth, took a shower, put on clean underwear and headed to the meeting. He even gargled some mouthwash, but Frank was having no part of it. Once inside The Ponderosa Bible Church Frank quickly rushed over to Kadizzle and asked for a word outside. Apparently Frank did not want the people inside to know Kadizzle was being thrown out for writing about the Tea Party on this blog. You see the Tea Party likes to portray itself as a free speech outfit. There is a catch, you are free to write anything you want as long as it is complimentary. The reporter from the Payson Roundup was thrown out awhile back because he wrote some factual things about Wendy Rodgers that did not follow the party line. The Tea Party is against communist, but they use their formula for conducting meetings. 

Frank explained to Kadizzle once outside that he could not enter because of the blog. Kadizzle asked to review the rules. Apparently the Tea Party can call Biden a pedophile, and make any absurd lie they want, but no one is to do the same to them. Then a fellow thug showed up. Thug man wanted no part of rational discussion, or negotiation. Kadizzle asked to talk to Shirley. Shirley has a sense of fairness and a vague idea of how free speech works. Thug man and Frank knew it was critical to keep Kadizzle away from Shirley, So Thug man said Shirley does not make the decisions. Shirley seems to run the meetings, but the thugs like to operate behind her back.  Thug man said he would call the police if Kadizzle did not leave. Now here comes the zinger. The Tea Party invites candidates to speak so the public can hear their views. If you go to a Tea Party meeting and some simple minded dinger running for office says absurd things, you should not report it. If that dinger is a Republican Hooplehead they can say the most ridiculous things and if you report it on your blog, no more meetings for you. This is Trumpland where the truth is labeled " Fake News".

This is indeed a strange world Frank lives in. Frank watches right wing TV and listens to nonsensical right wing radio. Anything is OK if a Republican says it, but free speech or free press for that matter is not a privilege of the left, the liberals, the socialist, or any of the people who disagree with the Tea Party. 

So lets summarize. You can go to a Tea Party meeting, but you cannot write or disagree with anything you might hear. You must keep secret the racist, and crazy things said in the meeting. It is something like the old Las Vegas thing " What is said here stays here".  However, if you wanted to praise one of the insane people the Tea Party endorses that would be fine. This is very much like the good old days leading up to Hitler's rise. The brown shirts were Hitler's thugs. The Brown Shirts knew who to beat up and throw out of the gatherings. Frank and Thug man like that role. They are protecting the Trump gospel. 

The cult atmosphere is a new phenomenon to Kadizzle. The Tea Party is truly a cult. Trump is their Jesus. Trump can lie, cheat, steal, molest women, or rob college students, but they still love him. You can see the magic as they go into the trance. Logic is gone. There is no tolerance for ideas or deviance from the party line. Religion always used the good old devil to whip up the believers, the Tea Party has the immigrants, the socialist, the communist, and of course the liberals. Fear is the bread and butter of the Tea Party. The liberals are going to take your guns, your money, and make homosexuals out of your kids. We all know that don't we.  The answer to every question is the same " What about Hunter Biden's laptop".  Do you think it will rain today? What about Hunter Biden's laptop?

Information is poison to these people. Truth is like a death ray. Nothing is more mind boggling than the Tea Party version of free speech. Free speech is the freedom to praise Trump, and help spread Fox News lies. Free speech is a special privilege of the Hoopleheads. The truth is an abuse of free speech so the Hooples don't read real news, listen to it, or watch it. The real truth is on Hunter Biden's laptop. 

Kadizzle has recently enjoyed reviewing old W.C. Fields movies. One scene in particular reminded him so much of the Tea Party Hoopleheads. W.C. Fields is in a rowboat. The rowboat is filling with water and sinking as W.C. keeps rowing, he declares the river is rising. The ability of the Hooples to distort reality is a sight to behold. 

Homeless in a land of empty homes

The Payson Roundup had a big article about homeless people. In Williston, North Dakota hundreds of man camp housing units sit empty. In Sun Valley, Idaho hundreds of second homes each worth millions sit empty most of the year. All over the country there are livable spaces empty. Across the sea cruise ships meant to last 15 years are being scraped. The ships were taken out of service early because of covid.  

There is no housing shortage. There is a greed disaster. The problem is distribution. Republicans have distributed excess housing to the Trump driven rich of the world. Republicans don't see any real need to provide the worthless lazy  poor with shelter. Realistically there is no food shortage, or any shortage for that matter. Americans feed enough food to dogs to feed the world. On it goes. The economic system is designed to enslave the poor and enrich the rich. 

The plantation never went away, it was merely refined. The slaves starved while the plantation owner got fat. Nothing has changed as the Russians hide their yachts. In India, and China people struggle to live producing stuffed animals from the rags sent to them from America. Seems wonderful. Americans throw away perfectly usable items by the truck load. 

Sit by route 40 that crosses America from coast to coast. Beside the highway is a train track. You can see a hundred car train of crap every fifteen minutes, and on the highway the trucks are in a line. Where does all that Chinesiem end up? In the dump. Our dumps are swollen with ship loads of needless, senseless crap. Halloween is upon us, and stores are filled with Halloween crap, and soon Christmas crap. The kid in India can barely eat, and the kid in America is fat on candy. What is wrong with the world. Legitimized greed sparked by capitalism is the problem, don't dare mention it. Greed is the new religion. I got mine, and Trump will help me keep it. The immigrants at the border are after my SUV, and TV. Only a wall can stop them. We are special, we are entitled. God loves America and gives us all the stuff the heathens produce. All we have to do is go to church pray for Trump and die from overconsumption. Amen.

Republican Termites

Old Kadizzle is 73 years old. Never has he seen the country in more peril. Maybe the Cuban missile crisis compared. The polls are not looking good. For some strange reason stupidity is spreading faster than Covid ever could. The thirst for dictators is world wide. Look at Britian, they crave crazy worse than the Frank's in America . The Kadizzles now reside in Arizona where the crazy Trump people thrive like weeds. Imagine going down your basement and finding the foundation eaten away by termites. You were fat and happy, now your world is upside down. Go test the wood of our society. The Hoopleheads are everywhere. Kadizzle used to think Pennsylvania was a state of educated people. Nope, the Hooples are there. Kadizzle grew up in West Virginia, a state that always was solid union, Democrat. Nope, those days are gone. Kadizzle's own brother back in West Virginia swallowed the stupid pill Trump handed out. One of Trump's criminal buddies, Bob Murray scammed my brother, yet he still believes in Jesus Trump born of a virgin con artist mother and father. 

It appears Britain is ahead of us in the race to explode with economic stupidity. Who engineered this mess? It was not the immigrants, or the liberals, the real culprit were the greedy rich bastards who cannot stand paying taxes. The Republicans cooked up a scheme to dumb the country down, scare the simple minded, and use divisiveness to conquer the people with brains. 

The sled is at the top of the slope, and it appears a minor shove will get us rolling toward disaster. Has anyone noticed the concept of making the rich pay their share is never even mentioned. All this economic nonsense is the result of the rich walking off with everything. Of course it is forbidden to talk about the real problem. Instead Fox News cooks up silly explanations. Every Hooplehead believes Joe Biden has a giant dial in his office that controls the price of gas. Joe turns it up just to piss off the Hoopleheads. Of course Trump will turn the gas dial down when he gets elected if he has time off from golf. 

A spirit in the Earth Module

Kadizzle dreary and half asleep awakened with a groggy head. The lumbering lump made it to the coffee pot to make coffee. Something that appeared to be no more than a shadow appeared and disappeared so quickly Kadizzle thought his brain had misfired. Then again. 

The coffee was brewed and Kadizzle sat at the computer. The sun was still behind the Earth and darkness was all about. Next something kept popping up over by the coffee pot, alas, it was a mouse. The speed the fellow moved around was amazing. 

When Winky got the news a mouse had entered the sanctum of the Earth Module she went nuts setting mouse traps and announced we could not return to Payson until the culprit is apprehended. 

On to politics. Reading the New York Times about the meltdown in Britain it seems the British are challenging us in the race to elect a dolt like Trump or Boris Johnson. Another NYT article focuses on how Republicans are using " Devil language" to recruit Hoopleheads. The planet is in turmoil and we are entering the dark ages. 

Ken and Rita pulled in yesterday, and the trail crew slowly comes together. Rita pointed out an article she read comparing the current Trump insanity to the period before World War two. Sadly the Franks of the world do not read or understand the concept of history. Republicans are the new Nazis. Trump has used every trick of Hitler, and the Hooples love it. 

The Hoopleheads love the idea of a supreme being. So much the better if they can see him and go to his rallies. Hoopleheads like to think they understand things they don't. The Bible simplifies everything in a confusing fashion. It works for Frank and the other Hoopleheads. Trump simplifies life for the simple minded. All problems are simple in Trump's world. Immigrants, communist, socialist, and liberals are the problem. Somehow a world where the rich don't pay taxes is the answer to everything. 

The Fantic Died

The Italian ebike died. The Fantic was a wonderful bike, and it had more power than most, but coming up the hill it gave up the ghost. Kadizzle has spent a total of about $12,000 on ebikes now. Had to buy another. Finding someone to fix the Fantic was impossible and the company said they would give back the cost. So Kadizzle is without an ebike. It is like missing a leg. 

 The end is near. Britain is in chaos because of their Hoopleheads. Kadizzle has a bad feeling our Hooples are going to blow up our country with their stupidity. The Hooples have so many bizarre ideas. A classic is that Biden has a dial to adjust gas prices. 

You can look around out country and see the confusion and decay. There was a black man selling Trump crap in Payson. Kadizzle knows several gay people that support Trump. Jews for Hitler seems to be the theme of the Hoopleheads. No one stomps on the poor like Republicans, yet the Hooples love the Trump lies. This is like the dark ages when people abandoned rational thought. 

It is supposed to be a desert

The Lake Roosevelt area is supposed to be some sort of desert, but when rain hits the world changes, all deserts have this characteristic. Once a thousand years ago we were in the Baja. A hundred year rain fell. The desert exploded with plant life. Kadizzle will never forget the experience. Walking in the desert there was like walking on another planet. Strange weird plants were everywhere. It seemed like the setting to a science fiction movie. Now back to Lake Roosevelt. Last year we had all the local trails cleared. A bike ride this morning revealed the blasted cat's claw made a major comeback. To show humans how much he loved them God made terrible desert plants. The absolute worst is Jumping choa. Jumping choa will leap from the plant to stab innocent animals and people. Choa has a barbed needle that can go through tennis shoes. It does not actually jump, but if you just barely brush it that damn stuff stabs you. Cat's claw is called that because the needles are shaped like little curved knives. With no trouble it will cuts you with a thousand bleeding cuts. Since God loves us why did he invent mosquitos, and flies?Then comes the next question. When God flooded the Earth he had a chance to fix all his mistakes. God could have asked Noah to leave the flies off the ark, and the flood surely wiped out all the terrible desert plants. But no, all the mistakes by plan were brought to the newly flushed world. How is this a loving God. 

The Earth Module has landed

Here we are settled in for the winter at Lake Roosevelt. What a wonderful nights sleep. Quietness here is wonderful, so is the RV bed. The isolation and new surroundings are also a bonus. Dave, out nearest neighbor came over. Ken is trying to get Dave to quit the beer habit. Dave can go through 30 cans in two days. Dave weighs so much he is crushing himself, and his blood pressure is in the death range. He has cut back and looks better. 

Ken put a super cackle on Kadizzle and we talked for about an hour. Ken got gypped by one of those so called warranty companies on his truck. The Kadizzles got caught up on the Forest Service politics. As usual they are short of people and money. 

The water heater on the Earth Module is not working and that will be the first problem today. Before we get started we need to inspect the entire area on the ebikes. 

Will be good to see all our old friends down here. So nice in the Earth Module wondering why we built a home. Omar if you are reading this you should bring The Guzz down here. You might like it. Since most of the week we will not be home in Payson you could stay there and be the butler. You would have to make Kadizzle a gin and tonic, and iron the newspaper two days a week. You might even have to push the buttons on the remote control. Additionally you may have to fill in at the Tea Party and on the protest line. 

A new chapter

Today the Earth Module comes out of it's summer long rest and heads to the lake. It will be life on a different planet. Dropping down about three thousand feet makes everything change. From mountain forest to high desert is a switch. Three days a week the Kadizzles will be doing their volunteer work clearing the trails. 

Snowbirds will migrate back to Arizona, our trail crew will assemble and all will be right in the world if we don't turn on the news. 

Rita and Ken bought ebikes so we may be able to take group ebike adventures. Having our mountain home 60 miles away will be a bonus. 

The Javelinas attacked the neighbors garbage can and made a big mess. Since they were not here the Kadizzles had to clean it up. So far it looks like a nice day. The monsoons did bring plenty of rain. Perhaps there will be little fire danger. 

The Kadizzles have met so many new people since moving to Payson. Very few people in Payson grew up here. Just about everyone moved here to retire. Our friends building a nice home near us gave us a wonderful meal last night. There is very little flat ground in Payson and a lot of homes are jammed on hillsides. All the rock presents other problems. On the East side of town huge boulders the size of house are scattered about. Building is difficult because the rock is so shallow. A major problem for so many homeowners are driveways. Steep driveways are abundant. The good news is how many people like the area. It will be interesting to see if the housing boom slows down. 

Very soon we will have new neighbors on both sides. We have met them and they seem like nice people. The big danger here for the Kadizzles are Republicans. Naturally we will have Republican friends, but most of the people with money are Democrats or moderate Republicans. Most of the hard core Trump cult people are not in the same crowd we find friends. 

The upcoming election will be like the nation taking an IQ test. Things are not looking good. Dealing directly with the Hooples yesterday was a lesson in how much the Hooples enjoy being in a daze. Trump is the new Christ for the Hoopleheads, he can do no wrong and is without sin. 

 

Too much fun.

Emil called today and said he was going down on the protest line. Kadizzle does not like him to be there alone. At 1:00 Kadizzle joined Emil down on the corner. Kadizzle told Emil he was going up the street aways to see if he could lure the hornets out of their nest. The Trump Cult guys have special yellow T shirts that make them look like hornets. As Kadizzle was standing there in front of the Trump signs put out by the Republicans near the sidewalk the little fellow with big dreams of going to Trump heaven pulled into the hornet nest. Kadizzle said something to him with the bull horn. Later brave man said Kadizzle scared him so bad he almost wrecked. 

A dream come true, Kadizzle looked over and here come the hornets. Two old ladies, and Mr. Sawded Off and Short. As predicted the hornets would have to come out with a sign. The old hornet lady had a sign that said " Village Idiot".  Under that was an arrow to point at Kadizzle. Now the fun began. Kadizzle got to explain to the delusional Trump hornets all about Trump's crimes. Kadizzle got to ask the women about pussy grabbing, and Trump's three marriages. The old hornet lady with the sign kept making a mistake and pointing it at Sawed Off. 

Next the junior bumblebee came out with her phone taking videos. This is even better. If she plays the videos to the other hornets they will get to hear about Trump's crimes and theft of classified information. Junior Bumblebee said Kadizzle was infringing on Republican land, which was insane. Their headquarters was over a hundred yards away. Junior Bumblebee loves to call the police on our protest.  The police know by now how much lying the hornet gang does. Junior told the police Kadizzle came into their headquarters. Kasdizzle never left the sidewalk. 

Emil was down the street a ways and when Kadizzle got back to him the police showed up. They said what we were doing was fine and that Sawed off said Kadizzle almost made him wreck.  The Republicans have cried wolf so many times the police know they have no credibility. Next the police had to go over to the hornet nest and explain to them that Emil and Kadizzle were not breaking any laws. 

The Trump hornets like free speech except when it involves the truth. Then free speech requires you to call the police. The Democrats have never made a police report about the Republicans. 

All's well that ends well.  Dazed and confused the hornets went back to their nest to regroup. Kadizzle will bet the Trump hornets will cook up something. By lying to the police all the time they have painted themselves in a corner. 

Maybe the Republican gun guys will show up next. Kadizzle asked Sawed Off where his gun was. Sawed Off flexed his arm muscle and said " This is my gun".

Now all this reminds Kadizzle of an old camp song. 

My brother Bill has a still on the hill 

Where he whips up a gallon or two

My uncle Nort is Sawed of and short

But you give him a pint and he thinks he's a giant. 

With that good old mountain dew. 

America is a great country. When you can have so much fun in front of Republican Headquarters teasing the hornets, it just gets no better. You get to stand in front of their Trump propaganda with a " Jail Trump " sign. Freedom is a great thing, and that is what the Trump gang wants to take away from everyone.  For some strange reason they want a dictator that lies to them.  Trump turned on Pence, Bill Barr, his attorney, and so many others who broke with his lies. Even the judges he appointed have ruled against his fraud. Are the hornets really that stupid to think Trump will be loyal to them?  Once Trump is King he will shovel money to the rich like he already has and bilk the poor with lies and taxes. You cannot save the hornets from themselves. 

Ignorance is the new coin of the realm.

Looking at the polling data we are in deep trouble. The Republicans want to return to childhood. What does that mean? Republicans love the idea that some godlike figure takes care of you. Mom and Dad used to make all the big decisions, then it was God, and now they want some dolt or con-man like Trump to do their thinking. Life is good when someone else does the major thinking. That is why so many love the military. Someone tells you when to get up, when to march, and then how to get killed. Thinking is painful and Republicans like to avoid it. If you think about it, you will surely die, get old, maybe get sick, or maybe fail. Far better to turn all that nasty thinking stuff over to Trump or God. Thinking can get complicated, but believing is simple. Why waste time figuring something out when a dictator will do it for you?

Our ship is sinking, our bodies have swollen from junk food, and our minds have shrunk from junk philosophy. Exercise involves not only the body, but also the mind. The mind needs good food, just like the body. Fox News is junk food Frank. Kari Lake is junk food. Sure junk food taste great, but it slowly kills you. Donald Trump eats junk food and spouts junk information. French fries, and Donald's lies, that is a loser's cocktail. 

Stand by the highway and count the dazed and confused. It is a simple process. Hold up a " Jail Trump" sign. The dazed and confused will give you the finger, shout obscenities, or give you a blast of smoke from their goofy truck. Quickly you will realize how many hopeless people there actually are. Those people want someone to lead them. They do not want to be responsible for thinking. They crave simple answers. Religion and Republican propaganda answer ever question. Normal, sane people, are toast. The ignorant reproduce at a higher rate than the educated. Think about the implication. The poor reproduce at a higher rate than those with sufficient resources. 

Now for some maybe good news. Kadizzle once read about an experiment where the experimenters bred dumb rats to dumb rats, and smart rats to smart rats. The dumb rats got dumber, and smart rats got smarter. The good news was when you put them together they came back to average pretty quick. However, we have a problem. The dumb rats now isolate themselves from the smart rats. The Tea Party is a perfect example, all the smart rats abandoned the dumb ones. That is society at large. Look at the insurrection at the Capitol, it was dumb rats associating with dumb rats. How many educated people do you think were with the Proud Boys. Go to a Trump rally, what do you find dumb rats associating with dumb rats. 

In nature animals are not too picky about who they breed with. Throw one bull in the pasture and all the cows will get the bull's genetics. Not the case with humans. The dumb ones will marry the dumb ones, and the smart ones will keep their kids away from the dumb ones. 

This whole theory has played out in under developed countries. Once you give people a better standard of living they start having fewer children. Education has the same effect. 

Kadizzle went down to the Jesus store yesterday. Remember that is where the Qannon guy is. The disciple was dressed very nicely in a suit. Inquiring why Kadizzle found out he had been to court in a custody battle over his little four year old girl. Disciple said he won custody. Kadizzle and disciple had been discussing how to teach his young girl to read. Kadizzle implored him not soak her mind in nonsensical things. Kadizzle tried to tell him to just spark curiosity. The little girl can turn out to have a good mind or the typical mind of a child soaked in home school nonsense. What a waste to fill a young child with mythology as real, conspiracy, and the whole silly fundamentalist religious nonsense. 

A big day

Tuesday will be a busy day. One disappointment will be the inability to attend the Tea Party meeting. Kadizzle has been contemplating putting real news out for the Hoopleheads to read. As you walk into the Hoople meeting tables are there with right wing insane literature. The Tea Party espouses that are opinions are welcome. What if you put real new there? Would the Hooples read it? Most likely they would not. Unless it has some certification from Donald Trump or a right wing author there is no way they will pick it up. 

Kadizzle thought about giving the cult a challenge. Pay them to read something real and well written with facts. What would a cultist do if you offered to pay them for reading real facts? OK, Frank, you read a good article and underline what you disagree with, and Kadizzle will donate ten bucks to your favorite cause. Now Frank could read the article and give the ten bucks to Trump for golf balls. Probably not. Kadizzle has tried this before. You cannot pay these people to get smarter. They know real knowledge or what the call fake news is toxic. Ask a Hoople if they watched the Jan 6th hearing. Guarantee you the answer is no. Remember these are the people who said the moon landing was fake. 

John Rose

Long ago and far away Kadizzle was a new resident in the town of Hazen, North Dakota. The little town was having a meeting about taxes and the public was invited for comments. In front of about 75 people who wanted to bitch about their taxes was a panel of the town commissioners, and the tax assessor. Ed was the town tax assessor. As the meeting went on people made their comments, and then John Rose stood up. He must have been eighty. Like an old man his balance was not good, and he was frail. John stretched his right arm out with a pointing finger like a shotgun. Pointing at the rotund Ed, John said " That man, that man right there is an idiot, everyone in town knows it" It was one of the funniest moments Kadizzle can remember. The way John said it was perfect. John said it with a shaky old man voice, and you could tell by his demeanor he could not understand why anyone would not recognize the problem. 

Indeed, John was correct. Ed assessed the value of homes by how much the owner made not what the home was worth. At one time in history a doctor bought the house at the end of our street. It was a cheap run down house the doctor intended to fix up, but before he made any improvements Ed came to assess the home. 

Looking about the house Ed kept muttering " It is a shame, it is a shame".  Finally the doctor inquired what is the problem. Simple minded Ed replied "It is a shame you will have to pay the taxes you will be charged on this house". The doctor asked Ed to explain. Ed replied that the house was run down, but the doctor would have to pay based on his doctor salary. 

Kadizzle learned in Hazen many government decisions were made on who you were and if you were born locally. Out of town people were expected to pay more for everything. Kadizzle bought property to build a home and was going to be charged three times more for street assessments than the people on the other side of the street. Before the Kadizzles had a home in Hazen they looked for a rental. One woman asked what the rent was said one quarter of your salary. Asked to explain the woman said " You make good money and we are entitled to our share".  Hoopleheads have a different operating system in their brain. It is not really logic like we know it. Instead it is some mix of what grandpa and dad taught the Hoople. 

Little did she know.

 Mrs Kadizzle was just now sitting out front of the house on a big rock. Little did she know a huge female elk was sauntering up behind her. The elk stopped to much some grass and then move on. Winky could have killed it with a baseball bat. The Kadizzles are still getting used to having pet elk in the yard, but for new people to the area it is fun. The bull elk are bigger and more fun to see. Strange this was just one female. Usually a few travel together. They are totally used to humans. Hunting season is on and they probably wonder why gun nuts shoot them and other humans. The elk must think humans are insane. Unfortunately they are correct. 

Watch Frank shoot his foot off

 This election the polls are not looking good. Frank's gang at cult headquarters may get their wish. If the Republicans win, and maybe they will get the dictator they want, what will happen. The Franks of the world are clueless what the Republicans are really about. Republicans are about nothing but protecting the rich from taxes. If they dominate they will slowly starve Frank of his social security, and all the benefits the poor live on. The Franks are like slaves voting for the plantation owner, they just don't get it. Back in the good old days of slavery they used to tell the captured people in Africa pancakes grew on trees in America. Now Trump just lies strait out to the Franks. 

The Kadizzle's filled out their ballots to vote yesterday. Of course there were clever measures with hidden agendas by the Republicans. Mrs Kadizzle and Lord Kadizzle went back and forth on one measure. The Republicans want to make it impossible to pass any taxes in Arizona. The Republicans have cooked up a measure that would require a 60% margin to pass a tax increase for schools, or any other good cause. 27% of people are hard core Hoopleheads. That means to get anything sensible done you have to overcome the Republican supply of idiots. Arizona is full of poor old people scraping by on social security that can hardly afford to breathe. Add to that greedy rich people who refuse to pay their share and taxing in Arizona is hopeless. 

The rich have perfected manipulation of the Trump Cultist. Blame every problem on the poor, the immigrants, liberals, and socialist. Throw in some God and Flag magic and you got Frank on the hook. 

The upcoming election could well be the end of our country as we know it. If the dolts running in Arizona get elected we are off to the races. The Hoopleheads will suffer the most. If all the dreams of the Tea Party come true and we a ruled by fantasy driven idiots like Kari Lake and Wendy Rodgers it will be a storm of insanity like none other. Frank and the Hooples will dance at first and then slowly starve as the Republicans pull the rug out from under them. 

Maybe the Tide is turning

Down on the protest line yesterday things seemed more positive. The Barber showed up and we had a good line of old giessers protesting. As the cars go by you get the mean Trump goats that give you the finger, and on the other side you get the cheerful thumbs up from the good Americans. A very positive day yesterday. 

Of course you get the goofy little men who have to puff themselves up with a loud pickup or the motorcycle jerk who makes his mating call with his exhaust pipe. One symptom of a masculinity problem is the desire to join the Trump cult. Men with inferiority complexes like to join other men of the same ilk. It is nice to be with other high school dropouts for comfort. Knowing you are among a crowd of stupid people gives comfort to the mentally challenged. Then of course the bravest of them all is the gun guys. 

Canvasing

Maybe there is hope. Kadizzle for the first time participated in canvasing. Trying to get Democrats to come out and defeat the lying demons is a process that now is aided by modern technology. Normal people are a pleasure to find. The abundance of cult members in Payson is a scary thing. Truth will not penetrate the concrete of the Hooplehead mind, but there are people who read, and actually watch real news. 

Canvasing is fun meeting real people. The last man we met was very interesting. He told of going to Germany very shortly after the war ended. His father was an assistant to Patton. The man was a child at the time and his father wanted his family to join him. So the man now an adult got to see the ruination of Germany first hand as a young person. 

The same man when asked what he did for a livelihood told how he taught murderers at San Quentin to become machinist. He had led an interesting life. Everyone has a story if you just pry a little. 

Even the dingers have a story. Kadizzle always likes to ask about how people grew up, and what kind of work they did. Sometimes you meet a dinger and wonder how did they get this stupid. The fellow who is now a Qannon simpleton said his father died when he was eight. No doubt he had a hard upbringing. Since he was in the " Program" he must have had some serious addiction or other problem. Life shapes all of us. The early years are so important when the brain is programmed. Our country is raising a crop of idiots, home schooled, religious schooled, and just plain poorly schooled. The dolts are fodder for the Republican's Party. If you could see a list of the cult members and how much education they had you would see they are below average. 

In a strange way the cultist are obsessed with sex. They fear sex in the schools and love to claim Biden, and Hillary run sex rings. Homosexuals, bisexuals, and democratic sexuals are all recruiting good school children. Republicans suffer from some strange sexual repression. It is amazing they can even reproduce they are in such fear of sex. The strangest thing is the idea you can change the orientation of someone with just a few lectures at school. Imagine the teacher saying to the class " Would any of you like to become homosexuals, I can show you how", but that is what the cult thinks is going on. Of course you can read just one wrong book and become an agent of the devil. Think about it, the dingers got hooked on one book, you know what the book is.  Look what that book did to them. That book allows them to go to church on Sunday and vote for Trump on Tuesday. Now Frank, and the cult thinks any book can be poison. 

Now for a little fun in the protest report. Emil Kashuntz and Emily protest were both out there with signs on the highway when Kadizzle arrived. Emily is actually a Republican fed up with Trump's evil ways and lies. Kadizzle had a brain storm. Kadizzle borrowed a bull horn to yell back at the people who drive by and shout obscenities. It occurred to Kadizzle the yellow jackets would come out of the Republican nest nearby. Kadizzle saw them coming out of the nest take down their Trump tributes. Kadizzle hustled up there with the bull horn anticipating they would be obnoxious. Sure enough the Trump cult guy gave Kadizzle the finger and made a stupid remark. Kadizzle blasted him with the bull horn saying how Trump bilked the college kids out of 25 million. Then a female hornet drove out of the parking lot and chose to say some nasty things, again Kadizzle had the pleasure of blasting back at her. The right thing to say to a cultist is " I love you man".  It is hard, but you need to show them you are more human than they are. However, the devil often sneaks in. Kadizzle hoped some of the gun dogs would show up. You know you don't have good ideas when you need a gun to sell them. 

Did not mean for this to get so long, but the idea of selling ideas sparked and old memory. Frank, this could be a good lesson for you. Way back in 1972 Kadizzle was in college when Dick Gregory came to speak at a spring celebration. Gregory made one of the best speeches ever. Gregory said if you have a good thing you don't have to force it on people. Gregory said if you want to spread democracy make it so good people will steal it. To illistrate his point he told this story. Gregory said "  You know that black cleaning lady that comes to you house to clean? She comes with an empty shopping bag, when she goes home, it is full, if you have something good people will take it."  Gregory was speaking at the time the Vietnam war was raging. Make the United States such a great place people will want to imitate us was the point. Gregory pointed out how could you sell democracy when the Untied States oppressed black people, poor people, and had so much needless poverty. Think about it Frank, if we want to sell our ideas how are we going to do it when Trump spreads hate and lies, and gives the rich tax breaks when some children are denied school lunches. Frank how are we going to tell  other countries how great we are when we have shootings everyday, and 400 families have as much wealth as the rest of us combined. Think about it Frank, and maybe you can bust out of the cult. 

Just for Frank, and the Tea Party

 Who knows what the Payson Roundup will publish? To make sure the Tea Party and Frank get the latest epistle to the paper, here it is. 

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”  The poet  Anatole France made that observation over a hundred years ago. Somehow it works out that the rich don’t have to sleep under the bridge or steal bread. Donald Trump has shown us the law really doesn’t apply to the rich. The rich owe 900 billion in taxes, they refuse to pay , and say 87,000 IRS agents trying to make them pay are an invasion of their privacy. 

Trump has shown that with enough money, you can buy crooked lawyers, accountants, and judges. Yes, the rich are different. The rich have bail money, the poor are locked up immediately. The poor utilize street walkers, the rich have Jeffery Epstien to supply them with young girls. Politics is no longer the will of the people, but the will of the rich. Since the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people and free to buy all the politicians they want, our country has been on a steep slide to an aristocracy. 

The rich are clever enough to blame all our problems on the poor, immigrants, and lazy welfare cheats. Sadly the ruse works. It is the poor who clean the restrooms, cook the hamburgers, and pick up the garbage. The oppressed buy into the Republican lies, and who do they support, the very people who make them poor, steal their healthcare, destroy their schools, and rob them of their social safety nets. 

In the upcoming election the poor can vote for the slave masters, or rebel and throw out the Trumps of the world that have exploited them for so long. 

You can't be that stupid without being mentally ill

 Kadizzle often stops at the Jesus thrift store to scout for bargains. The store is part of a rehabilitation program run by some fundies. The fundies recruit ex drug addicts or miscreants and try to set them right with an overdose of Jesus. At the store the fellow behind the counter made some remark about Trump to Kadizzle. He knew Kadizzle had no use for Trump. 

The remark set off a discussion. During the discussion Jesus disciple said such crazy things, Biden is running a sex ring for children, a private company runs the IRS, and of course the one world order nonsense. When Kadizzle thought the poor fellow could get no worse Kadizzle asked him where he got his information. Disciple said Q annon was one of his sources, and he was a member. Add to this he claimed he supported Trump because Trump accepted Jesus. Kadizzle pointed out Trump's three divorces, lying, and theft of money from college students.  Yea but that was a long time ago and we all make mistakes. 

Playing behind the counter was his little four year old daughter. Somehow we got into abortion. Kadizzle asked him if his daughter was raped at 14 would he force her to have the baby. Yes he said, and he would raise the child. Then he went on to tell me he does not pay taxes because someone told him taxes by the IRS were illegal. 

How many crazy, total idiots are there in the United States? Trump proved there are 71 million for sure. The scary thing is they vote. There are hard core idiots out there. If you live a normal life you don't have a clue how many of the dingers there are, and how crazy they are. 

While in the store talking to the delusional Trump guy behind the counter another guy who claimed to be a veteran spoke up and said he was on the side of the crazy guy. This guy was just like every Republican, when you confront him with facts he had to leave. 

When you live in a nice suburb, or gated community, you don't realize the mass of idiots that is out there. They look somewhat normal, and you might be fooled until you see a Trump sign in their yard. 

Now think about people who should know better. My old neighbor flew a Trump flag. Knew he had a Republican infection, but did not know it  metastasized. Kadizzle grew up thinking doctors, lawyers, and businessmen were inherently immune to idiotic politicians, but no. In North Dakota you have a doctor spouting the most Trumpy nonsense and running for the legislature. In Pennsylvania you have Dr. Oz running as a lying idiot. 

Going through life Kadizzle has realized you can be anything and still be as dumb as a brick. Remember the brain surgeon black guy who ran for president? Look at Kelly Armstrong, a lawyer who is a Trump supporter, Hoeven, a banker.  These people come off as educated, but they are clueless when at the mercy of a con man like Trump. 

Well this morning Kadizzle will go out canvassing for Mark Kelly. It will be a new experience. No doubt will find some dingers. 

Yesterday Emil Kashuntz, and Kadizzle were down on the highway through Payson with the anti Trump signs. Sometimes people come up to us for a political discussion. It is about half and half. Some come to support our cause, some come to fire out some anger. A white old car pulled into the lot behind us and the guy got out. Kadizzle marked him as a Trumper. Kadizzle never learns, the man turned out to be a strong supporter. The reason the barber who came to talk to us was anti Trump was because he watched the insurrection on television the day it happened. That is precisely what is wrong with the Trump cult they refuse to believe their eyes. Kadizzle must digress. Yesterday talking to the Jesus Trumper we watched a video together of people attacking the Capitol. It was clear what they were doing, but the Q annon Jesus guy said the police let the Trump army in. Back to the barber who came to talk. The barber said he wanted to protect us and participate. Over the last several times down on the highway there seems to be more support for our goal of " Jail Trump".  If only the upcoming election will show some hope. 

Movie review

Another two post day. The Kadizzles went to the movies for the first time in many years with new friends in Payson. The movie was Amsterdam. It seemed like a different version of a Netflex series we liked called Babylon Berlin. Both movies delt with the time period between World War one and World War two. 

If you have time Babylon Berlin is the better of the two, but Amsterdam is a good quick review. In both movies the rich were plotting to support Mussolini or a Hitler like government. There is a lot of history wrapped up in both presentations. 

The striking thing about both films is the parallel with current history. It is the same old story, a bunch of rich people feel a dictatorship of the wealthy is the best form of government. Of course the Republicans are trying the same tactics today. 

A key to getting a good Hitler like country going is to convince the poor some minority is the problem. An absolute favorite of the Republicans today are the people at the border. Of course Republicans all play on the underlying racism that is a hallmark of their thinking. At the last Tea Party meeting the new name for black people, homosexuals, Mexicans, and liberals is " THEY".  Kari Lake, Eli Crane, and Wendy Rodgers just have to say THEY and all the racist in the audience know who is being targeted. Of course Trump, and the wealthy love the scheme. As long as THEY are the target, no one will notice the real thieves. The real thieves are the 400 families that now own half the country. Some day the Hoopleheads may wake up to what is going on, but it will involve studying history. Destroying history in the schools is an important part of the Tea Party, and Republican agenda. If the simple minded could watch and understand either of the movies mentioned earlier they would see they are being played. That ain't gonna happen. Deep thought is painful and why learn history when you can watch NASCAR?

If Hitler had a little brother his name would Donald Trump. Trump has used everything in the Hitler playbook to perfection. Blatant lying is Trumps specialty. Using the sediment on the bottom is also a technique Trump adopted from Hitler. 

One thing you see in any portrayal of the time leading up to the disaster in Germany are the brown shirts, or the SS, or the Gestapo. Always in a group of dingers there are some like Frank who want to play the role of enforcers. Trump has the Proud Boys, Hitler had the Brown Shirts. In the movie Amsterdam they featured the American Nazis who actually were active and supported people like Charles Lindberg. Frank, read about Lindberg and learn something. At any rate when  you have one coward, you have one coward, but when you get four cowards together now you have brave cowards. That is how lynching's worked. A crowd of stupid people that can be manipulated by someone like Trump is our greatest threat. Our country came withing inches of a dictatorship on Jan 6th. Only moral honest people with integrity saved us from Trump. If Trump does not go on trial the next round the Hooples will wind. Think about what the Hooples have set up. No matter who wins the Hooplehead will say they won. They have put in place the propaganda. If they lose the election was rigged, if they win it was fair. At the Tea Party they are recruiting people to watch the election. That is scary, if a bunch of people who think Trump won are going to monitor the election in Arizona, just think about it. Once you digest that think about Wendy Rodgers showing up in Payson, and instructing the Hoopleheads how to cheat. We got a problem Houston. 

Shooting the fact gun

Emil Kashuntz loves to protest. Every week or so he makes a new protest sign to try out on the Hooples. This week's sign says " Republicans  living the lies". 

Kadizzle joins Kashuntz most of the time. It is evil fun, but the most fun are the Hooples that stop and want to confront us. If  you start shooting facts at a Hoople they will usually run. Yesterday an old Hoople made the turn near us onto a side street and gave Kadizzle the finger. The Hooplehead went over by the ice cream place and parked. When he came over and said a couple of nasty things, Kadizzle said" I'll bet you twenty dollars you will leave if I give you some facts. Kadizzle then recited how Trump bilked college kids out of 25 million. The Hooplehead took off. 

If you want to keep Hoopleheads away just hit them with some reality. 90% of the time it works. They will try a couple of " What about Hunter Biden's laptop" or maybe " Look what Biden did to the gas prices".  It will always be some " What about?" argument. When you give them the answer they go on to the next silly statement. If you sort of get them cornered they will say " Trump did a lot of good things".  Ask the Hooplehead to name the good things, and look at the blank stare in their eyes. 

Kadizzle and Kashuntz concluded the tide is turning. On the highway there are more supporters giving the thumbs up than the old mean finger guys and women. Cannot deny how much fun it is to see an old mean Hoople give us the finger. The poor Hooples are caught up in the Fox News spin. At some level the Hoopleheads must know they are just not that bright. One thing that is pretty reliable are the signs of simple minded Hoople. The young ones will drive a loud obnoxious pickup truck. The one with extreme lack of intelligence have rigged their diesel to " roll coal". These are the dumbest of the dumb. They have a special way to make their truck spew a cloud of black smoke. They love to go by Kashuntz and make the truck roar and spew black smoke. The Hooples cannot understand they are announcing to the world how stupid they are. A simple minded dinger went by yesterday with a Confederate flag superimposed on the American Flag. Now you can bet that guy would fail any IQ test, and be a hit at a Tea Party meeting. 

Both Kadizzle and Kashuntz hoped gun guy would show up. Nothing beats a display of stupidity more than a gun slinger. Kadizzle likes to ask the gun slingers what they fear. The gun slingers are all good guys with guns waiting to shoot some innocent person. The black guy selling Trump crap from China left. He will be missed. It did not take long talking to him to get the diagnosis of mental illness. 

Kadizzle had a conversation with the black Trump supporter. He told Kadizzle 80% of black people were thieves, drug dealers, or internet scammers. Next he said " I have had enough of those niggers".  Wow, Kadizzle was amazed. The black fellow was all caught up in his new found respect for Jesus and the Republicans. You know a brain is on something strange when it can mix Jesus, Trump, and the Republicans and come up with something they believe in. 

The Hooples deep down know they are not that bright. Trump brings them hope. In Trump they see a successful idiot a man who can lie his way to prosperity. Unfortunately the Hooples got it wrong. You have to lie to other people, not yourself. If there is one thing the Hooples have mastered it is lying to themselves. Thankya Jesus Fox News, and the right wing radio host help the Hoopleheads along the path to the delusion that keeps them going. 

The Tea Party is not watching.

Kadizzle is sitting watching the Jan 6th hearings. The Tea Party is not watching. If the Tea Party members were watching Kadizzle would hear their heads exploding. Frank, the evidence is overwhelming against Trump, but you guys will spin it in every direction to declare him innocent. Normal people cannot help but conclude Trump should be in jail. Cult members will get hoarse saying "fake news".  

Second Post for Today, Think about it Frank

Yesterday was a tremendous victory for truth. Think about it Frank. Alex Jones got busted. Jones lied in the Donald Trump fashion, and now he and his company are bankrupted. There is a lesson in this Frank, and the whole Tea Party gang needs to review the lesson. Countless idiots tuned into Alex Jones and made him a rich liar. Donald Trump is no different. The point is a lot of simple people can be sucked in by a national liar. There are mini liars trying to make it big on the lying circuit. Here in Arizona you have Kari Lake, Blake Masters, and that other goof Gomer or whatever his name is. Did you learn anything from Alex Jones, Frank?

Why do simple minded people like liars. The answer is simple. Simple people like simple explanations. Snake oil salesmen have a simple solution. The $19.95 salesman on TV has a simple solution. A gun is a simple solution. Simple people love simple solutions. Put some drugs in your veins, simple solution, vote for Trump, simple solution. Conspiracy theories are simple solutions, that is why Frank and the gang love them. God is a simple solution. You don't have to think or plan, God took care of all that. Why read a lot of books when you only need one, the Bible. There is no global warming, simple solution. Make life simple, be simple, hang around with simple people, it is all just that easy Frank. 

Yesterday

Yesterday Kadizzle, and Mrs. Kadizzle took the ebikes up to the Highline trail. The electrons enabled us to go right up the mountain. Before we did the big ride we did a little practice ride. The wife had a couple minor crashes. One crash resulted in scratches and bleeding that plagued her the rest of the day. Mountain bike trails are very tricky on a bike, and one must pay careful attention. One miscalculation can result in a disaster. 

After the initial ride we headed up the mountain. The trail is wonderful and has recently been improved. The views are astounding. After about three miles the brush on the trail is heavy, and the trail has not been put in top shape like the first three miles. At that point we returned on the downhill run. 

A couple simple rules for ebiking. Know what you are capable of. When in doubt stop. Do not try to keep up with someone with more skill. 

The real key to ebiking in the mountains is to look ahead and quickly decide what is the best route. Unfortunately this means your eyes must constantly be on the trail. Always be prepared to crash at any moment. Kadizzle played high school football and wrestled. Both endeavors taught the art of falling. Some people know how to fall, others don't. One key is to reduce your momentum gradually. This usually means falling on your shoulder and rolling. If you think you are going to put your hand out to break a fall, what you will break is your hand. 

Anyone would be a fool to go in the mountains without head protection. Two fools went out yesterday with only head protection. You should really have elbow pads, knee pads, and gloves. We did not. 

Our good buddies that work on the trails with us in the winter bought ebikes so it should be fun this trail season. Ken and Rita rode conventional bikes the entire length of the Rockies so the ebikes should come easy for them.

The Flat Earth society

This is another take on last night's Tea Party meeting. It was like going to a Flat Earth society meeting. Of course the Earth is Flat anyone can walk out the door and see that. There is no global warming because I was cold last night. Why do liberals have such a hard time understanding right wing science? The president controls gas prices, we all know that. Anything that is wrong is caused by liberals, communist, or Mexicans. Why do liberals make things complicated. Simplifying things is what we do when the Flat Earth society meets. Why make life complicated when you just believe whatever seems to work?

Got a problem? Shoot it. What causes poor people? Liberals. Are people waving Confederate flags racist, no they just like that flag. 

If you gave a Tea Party participant a test about the news, every answer would be " What about Hunter Biden's laptop. Of course you get extra points for saying Nancy Polosi. How did these people get through college? Well actually they didn't. If you asked most of the Hooples would say college is a waste of time. Look what college did to the liberals. The liberals read books and get confused. 

One nice thing about a Flat Earth meeting is God controls everything. Eli sort of told us God is mad at the United States for chasing him out of the schools.  A nice woman stood up and said if we let God back into the schools things would be fine. God is kind of sensitive. 

You can't have a good flat Earth meeting without some sex. Liberals love sex and try to force sex on everyone. What is wrong with our children? Well of course at school they are teaching them to be homosexuals, bisexuals, tri sexuals, and Blts, opps, maybe that is LGBTs, who knows but how can kids learn when we have to make them deviants. 

Now since most problems can be solved with a gun, you need a gun. Who wants to take your gun? Bingo, the liberals want to take your gun. Eli explained at the meeting that the founding fathers knew there would be AR 15 assault rifles some day. If you read the constitution (there is a copy in the hall at the Tea Party meeting if you need a quick review) you will see like the Bible, the Constitution knew someday there would be liberals, communist, socialist, and BLTs. If you read the constitution, and Bible carefully you will find the Republicans are right about everything.  

If your car will not start, it is more than likely something Nancy Polisi did. How did she do it? Well she passed and environmental law that made them put a pididalator on the car. We all know cars don't run well with pididalators. OK, we got real problems. Don't despair, God and Donald Trump can solve the problems. Who better to solve the sex problems in school than Donald Trump, you know the man who said grab them by the pussy. 

And one more thing, you need to leave. Kadizzle confronted several Republicans with facts. What does a Republican say when you confront them with a fact? " You need to leave".  At the Donald Trump lovefest Kadizzle engaged the campaign manager for Eli. He was 23 and as naive as my dog. Kadizzle asked him if he read the New York Times. He said of course not, it's biased. Kadizzle said how do you know it is biased if you don't read it. Well Kadizzle kept nailing the poor young fellow with questions about Donald Trump bamboozling college kids out of 25 million dollars. Nothing was going well for the poor kid his brain was spinning.  An old Hooplehead was sitting behind Kadizzle overhearing the conversation. The old Hooplehead could see a spark might go into the young guys head and he would wake up to reality. The old Hooplehead told the young guy to leave. 

Kadizzle has had about the same experience every time he confronts a Hoople with reality, you need to leave is always the answer when you confront a Hoople with facts. Of course before you are told to leave, you will hear about Nancy Polisi, Hunter Biden, or problems at the border. 

Ok, you want to be a Hooplehead, right? Here are the basics. 

1. Avoid big words and well written articles. 

2. Watch Fox News

3. Buy a gun

4. Blame everything on Nancy Polosi, Joe Biden, Obama, or just say the liberals. 

5. Learn to say " What about?".   If someone ask you a hard question, like how do you get to New York from here, and you don't know the answer just say " What about Hunter Biden's laptop".

6.  You can show people how stupid you are by wearing a Trump hat or putting Trump stickers on your car

7.  Find some people who are as confused as you are and hang around with them. 

8.  Use Trump as a role model. Lie whenever you need to. Just make things up. The more absurd the better. 

9. Whenever you are about to mislead, lie, or bilk someone ask them to say a prayer with you, and pledge to the flag. 

10. Be very careful not to use logic, science, or real history. Those things will destroy your will to be simple minded. 

11. By some vitamin supplements, buy a Mr. Pillow pillow, buy some gold stock, and some identity protection. 

12. Try your best to repeat what Hannity and Tucker Carlson tell you.

13, If you put a loud muffler on your car, remove the exhaust cleaning stuff, jack up the suspension, and put a Lets go Brandon sticker on the truck everyone in town will know instantly you are an idiot. You won. 

14. Take pride in your stupidity. Tell people about how you dropped out of high school, came to Jesus, and then to Trump.  

Life at the funeral home

Kadizzle would have a hard time choosing between a Tea Party meeting and going to a funeral home. Eli was the guest speaker who tried his best to recite all the lines from Fox News. Basically our country is under attack from liberals and people at the border. Almost forgot the schools are trying to turn our children into oversexualized homosexuals. Of course the liberals are trying to chase God out of the country. Eli told everyone the Marxist have a new game plan. Strangely Trump seems to be following the new Marxist game plan. 

Some lady recommended everyone join the John Birch society. Eli managed to say nothing of substance, and droned on with all the scary things THEY are doing. Not sure who THEY are, but THEY are very busy ruining our country and helping all our enemies. 

Recite the magic words. That is what Wendy Rogers did, and Eli followed suit. If you want to be elected as a Republican you must have the endorsement of their God, The Donald. Eli is endorsed by Trump. Do you need to know anything else? Stir in the usual terrible things THEY are doing and you have a winning formula for some applause by the cult. 

Walking out was like leaving a nursing home of confused elderly people. Eli kept saying they were educated. Wow, if an education consist of watching Fox News, and listening to right wing radio, leave me out. 

My buddy the gunman was in the parking lot when Kadizzle arrived. We chatted. Later another liberal told me when ever he meets the gunman he says " I see you have. your small penis compensator". The gunman is a nice guy and I helped him find his phone. Eli is was a real Navy Seal. That and being endorsed by Trump is all the Hooples need to know. 

A normal person attending a cult meeting would walk away thinking they are harmless, but there are 71 million of them. 71 million ants, mosquitos or anything can be a problem. 71 million people who will buy any lie Donald Trump sells is a real problem in a Democracy. 

Two young guys were the campaign workers for Eli. As Kadizzle wondered how two young guys could get caught up in the right wing mess it occurred to him that to be that stupid you would have to be homeschooled. Both denied they were homeschooled.  Engaging one of they young guys with a couple hard questions about Trump's dealings, the poor guy dodged the questions and then asked if Kadizzle was a reporter because he had some notes in his hand. Kadizzle explained he only writes a blog the poor guy said he had to refuse to answer questions. Mostly because he had no answers for the crooked things Trump has done. 

Not sure there is a point to attending one of these cult meetings. It is like seeing the same show over, and over. The immigrants are attacking, they are after out guns, they are oversexualizing out children. Donald Trump can solved all these problems. The man who has been married three times and cheated on all his wives will solve the problem with oversexualized school children. It is as simple as grabbing them by the pussy as Donald would say. 

Mixing religion with politics is an explosive mess when the politics are those of the Republicans. 

Strange thing about the gunslinger. At the meeting he did not have his gun. His gun is something he wears when he wants the public to know how stupid he is, apparently all his friends already know, so he can go about unarmed. 

What can you feel but sorry for these people who have been scammed? What did it feel like to walk among the bodies of the Jim Jones cult who poisoned themselves at his request? What a waste of humanity, to abuse people with lies and delusions. Trump has no morality he turned on Pence, and so many who pledged loyalty to him, yet the culd stays with him. The only phrase that comes to mind is " slow learners".

Greeting with a gun

 My old buddy Emil Kazhuntz went down to protest in front of a black guy selling Trump Cult uniforms. Kadizzle talked to the black fellow earlier. Somehow he found out Payson has an unlimited supply of dupes he can sell " Let's go Brandon " shirts to. Kadizzle had a conversation with the black guy. He told Kadizzle 80% of black people are thieves, drug dealers, and killer. Kind of amazing to hear a black guy selling Trump crap say that, but the world is a strange place. Talking to the guy he explained it was Jesus who brought him around to Trump. Kadizzle wants no part of that Jesus. 

Kashuntz figured he had to get down there and he did. Kadizzle has some task so he could not protect Kashuntz right of way.  Kashuntz was in front of the Trump nest when the Cult sent people out to intimidate him. When Kadizzle arrived Kashuntz told him about the cult members. Kadizzle took the " Jail Trump" sign and walked up to the Trump cultest holding signs for their mentally ill candidates, like Kari Lake. Quickly they summoned the gun guy. Look at the picture carefully and you can see the side arm on the guy holding the sign. He came out to do his best to intimidate Kadizzle. Click on the picture to enlarge it. Take a note Frank, the Democrats have never used guns, have never made false police reports, or done any of the underhanded stuff the Republicans have pulled. Kashuntz told gun guy to " shove your gun up your ass".

Kadizzle engaged the crazies in a peaceful conversation and asked gun man what he was afraid of. No answer. It was not long before Little Miss Muffett came out to video Kadizzle talking to the crazies. Miss Muffett likes to stir things up and is probably the one dreaming up reasons to call the police. If Muffett recorded the conversation she would see it was peaceful, some joking remarks were exchanged and there was nothing to report. 

Every time Kadizzle talks to a cultist he gets a strange response. Kadizzle asked the Republican gunman about January 6th. Gunman said Trump tried to call troops to stop the people he told to go to the Capitol. Does it get any more insane. 

Blow up the school boards

Part of the Republican strategy to make Trump King is to destroy the school system. Republicans like Frank love ignorance, and there is no better way to create ignorance than homeschooling, and charter schools. The local paper features and article about how the dolts are trying to get elected to the school board. If the Hooples succeed there will be an endless supply of new Hoopeheads to vote the thieves, and liars like Trump. 

Reality is always a nuisance, and the religious, the Republicans, and the con men all would like to do away with reality. Public schools tend to deal with reality, real math, science, and history. However, reality does not work well for Republicans, and lying politicians. Propaganda is the stock in trade of the right wing. 

As mentioned before the United States now ranks 28 in education, while China is number one.  China is not plagued with charlatans running charter schools, nor is China stuck with religious schools, few countries would tolerate turning education into propaganda factories, but that is the goal of Frank and the Republicans. 

Pay the bum

This morning Kadizzle has to go give the bum his share of the winnings. Mr. Bumore is currently residing in a tent out by the rodeo grounds. Kadizzle was amazed by how much squaller one bum can create. Bumore claimed someone tore up his camp. Kadizzle suspected an animal might have been involved. Then Bumore himself may have made the mess. 

The nights are getting cooler here in the mountains, and the bums may need to go down to a lower elevation or find better bum nest. Our good friend Bill was bum by choice for about five  years. Bill lived like a bum in a tent. Bill was a highly skilled machinist, why he chose to be a bum was a mystery. Most bums have a drinking problem, or drug problem, but Bill just like to hike and do what he wanted. 

It is hard to feel sorry for the bums. They all have a hard luck story. However, in this economy jobs are plentiful and a bum could work if they wanted to. If you have the endurance to stand in front of Walmart begging you surely could take a job and get paid. 

The Jesus gang has a program to rehabilitate bums. It is aimed more at the addicted. Somehow Kadizzle suspects some of the so called rehabilitation ends up making money for the rehabilitator. Goodwill is a classic case. The owners of Goodwill have fooled the public into thinking it is a charity with good intentions. Not the case. Goodwill is run by millionaires. 

Think about it. If you ran a store and got the inventory for free you could make a profit. Add two things to that and you are in the chips. You promote yourself as a tax free charity, and then you hire poor people and pay them nothing. The public thinks you are doing a good deed so they bring you stuff to sell. Meanwhile you appoint yourself as CEO and rake in the money. Notice every goodwill store is in a shopping center with a nice building. How do they do that? No taxes, cheap labor, and free material to sell. A lot of the stuff they do not even have to sell. Goodwill bundles up tons of clothing and ships it to be recycled for a profit. Goodwill gets donations of brand new material from dupes. Goodwill is a racket. 

Rehabilitating drug people is an industry. Where does the money come from? People with good intentions get duped. Remember Elizabeth Dole? She was getting $500,000 a year to head the red cross. Her husband, Bob Dole had plenty of money from being a Republican lickspittle. A decent person would have worked for less or free. It is always a matter of creating an illusion. Trump said he would take no salary, but with his crooked dealings in Washington, and shoveling to his kids he did not need a salary. Remember his buddies stole money on every turn. Steve Bannon had the wall scam, and Trump raked it in at his hotel in Washington from the Arabs and other supplicant. One only need examine the TV preachers to see a scam in action. Here in Arizona the charter school scam promoted by the Republicans is a sure winner.