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a few simple snarky rules

friday, february 20th, 2026

There are many simple “fixes” to things in life that will improve basics or just relieve stress. Some are obvious: avoid girls with septum piercings and unnaturally colored hair, as they have daddy issues and will always lead to something involving bail money. Others are less obvious: if you love the food at a small, local Chinese restaurant, avoid looking into the kitchen. Still, there are some things you’ve likely never thought about before, so I wanted to talk about a couple of them here.

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First, avoid anyone with no inner monologue.

I don't mean that you should ditch friends who have no filter or speak bluntly. I mean, don’t let your kids near a teacher who thinks the world, through their TikTok account, needs to hear their every thought on whatever has the unshowered, virgin, mutant progressive mob upset that day. These people are posting racist, anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-cop rants that, at a disturbingly high rate, call for the murder of everyone from the average beat cop to the President of the United States. You will make their list, should they ever obtain power.

The odds, however, of them gaining power are long. Part of being mentally defective is that you can’t control yourself, and these people can’t blend in with normal human beings. Here are some signs to look for to help you avoid these people:

Year-round lawn signs about whatever is fashionable on the left. They usually read “Hate has no home here” or “No person is illegal,” which are both ironic because they’d happily set your home on fire if they thought they could get away with it. They make you want to put out a “Hate rents a room in my basement” sign on your lawn.

They post more pictures of illegal aliens and videos of themselves crying about what Rachel Maddow lied about in her one day of work per week than they do about their kids, if they have any. This is probably because their kids hate them and illegal aliens don’t, or at least they can’t understand them when others speak Spanish at rallies to “free” some random gang member from ICE custody.

They have a progressive flag in their classroom or anywhere. There are warnings for flashing lights and “historical smoking” on movies, but this seizure-inducing vomit rag has so many colors and symbols on it for various groups of weirdos and sexual deviants that there isn’t a human being alive who can fully explain what they are. While it can be fun to watch them try, there’s a possibility one of these people will bite your finger off, so the possible laugh isn’t worth the rabies shots.

Second – and this could be a subset of the first one, but warrants its own section – anyone who tells you their pronouns. Be they in an email signature or something that comes out of their mouths, do not let these mutants into your world.

The pronoun Nazis always as “What harm is it to address someone with their preferred pronouns?” None, but I’m still not going to do it. I will not bastardize our language for the fragile psyche of an unstable control freak. No one refers to anyone by a pronoun when they’re talking to them, aside from “you.” This is about controlling HOW you talk about them when they’re not around, and it empowers other passive/aggressive leftists to police your speech when you don’t obey.

I don’t play that game – you are not now, nor will you ever be a third person plural, no matter how much you cry about it. In keeping with my “never hire anyone it would be a lawsuit to fire” policy, I am grateful these people can’t control themselves, as it makes avoiding them completely that much easier.

Third, anyone who insists that gender is a social construct who exclusively dates or has married people of the opposite sex. They insist gender is fluid and can’t define what a woman is, but become a gynecologist when it comes to who they’ve gone to bed with. For all the screwing around Bill Clinton, Hunter Biden and Gavin Newsom have done, they never ended up in bed with a dude, even if they wore a dress – and they would all sleep with anything in their day.

I can have sympathy for people with gender dysphoria and contempt for liberals indulging that disorder rather than helping them get through it. Either way, your life is better with these moral peacocking hypocrites in it.

Lastly, this doesn’t have anything to do with politics, but the world would be a better place if the NFL moved the Super Bowl to Saturday.

I don't care about Bad Bunny; the halftime show is for 13-year-old girls and dumb people with no taste and those who have no one to talk with during the break. I don’t speak Spanish, nor do I want to – sounds like baby talk wired on cocaine – nor do I care if he wears a dress. If he dropped dead today, it wouldn’t impact my life any more than his would be impacted if I did, so I won’t care about whatever he does because I have better things to do.

But the game on Saturday makes sense for the simple reason that the Monday after will never be a holiday, nor should it be. The sponsors of the game would make more money because they’d sell more food and drinks if people didn’t have to wake up in the morning for work, so the NFL could charge even more for ads. Plus, the post-game show could go later, which means even more ads.

The main reason, however, is that Super Bowl parties could go longer – no need to rush out right after the game, viewers could have some afterglow. Considering all the crap happening on a daily basis in the world, who couldn’t use an extra beer or two with the time to sleep it off in the morning?

These are just a few of the simple things you can do to improve the quality of your life – that most of them involve avoiding liberals isn’t a coincidence. I highly recommend you implement as many as you can and incorporate any others you come up with along the way. You get one trip in this life, why let horrible people waste any of it?

A Day In The Life.

Up at 10a on Friday, a mild, 30°F, overcast, breezy morning, I upped the heat, made coffee, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let its 32 million lines of code load, had breakfast, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the leftover errands list. I scanned the weather -- 40s and 50s temps setting-in, and no complaints from me -- and the rapidly-breaking news, tuned into the "CP Show LIVE" at 9, and relaxed for the morning.

Sis stopped by to visit, p/u her containers that she'd brought full of food, weeks ago, and after she left, I got ready for the day. I left for Weis Pharmacy around 1:30p, after their lunch period was over, picked-up the 3 waiting Rxs and a 2lb bag of red, seedless grapes. Home by 2 in heavy traffic, I unloaded, had lunch and hit the LR couch for a 2hr snooze. Nice napster. Temps started dropping from the mid-40s into the low-20s, so I closed the condo, made dinner and watched the news. I switched to Discovery's "Gold Rush" and "Gold Rush: Mine Rescue" until 1a, and unplugged.

Up at 8a on Saturday, a very bright, sunny, breezy, 'balmy' 47° morning. I upped the heat, made coffee and scanned the weather and news. I had a bunch of little condo chores to do, and finally got all of them done, but saw the 2025 Taxes folder on my desk, and needed to get that process started. I had some more 1099s to locate and print, before starting the YUGE process of sorting, categorizing, labeling, adding-up many hundreds of pieces of paper, and filling out my CPA's 2pg Tax Form.

I grabbed a quick, 50min nap on the LR couch, made dinner and watched the news, then switched to Discovery's "Expedition X" until 1a. Lights out.

It's not the years, it's the miles.

Up at 8a on Sunday, a cloudy, breezy, semi-warmish 39° morning, upped the heat, made coffee and scanned the news and weather. Everyday, the ice-hardened snow is slowly melting, but with colder temps and 1-2" forecast for tonite, it'll just look the same in the morning. I got ready for the day, started the first load of laundry, and the rain arrived around 2p.

By mid-afternoon, the laundry and all of the many minor chores were done, I called Sherry and because of what's happening in her Family's life right now, we decided to postpone our get together this week, so I grabbed a quick 1hr snooze on the LR couch. Later, I watched the evening news, switched to History's "American Pickers" and then to Discovery's "Filthy Fortunes" until 12:30a, and bagged it for the night.

Up at 8:30a on Monday, a cloudy, cold 29°, I upped the heat, made coffee, and scanned the weather and news. Tuning into the usual morning "CP Show", from 9-12, I left for my usual Monday 3 or 4 stop trip to points here in East York, and south of York, around 12p.

RIP, Rush

Traffic was light, but was maddeningly S-L-O-W. Anyway, I made decent time, and was back home by 1:30, unloaded the YUGE amount of laundry (starched shirts & jeans) from Devono's, made lunch, and listened to some of the "Vince Show" on WMAL. Tax time. I started gathering all the stuff I'll need to compile my state and federal taxes, using my CPA's yearly tax form, but got interrupted by an elderly neighbor's problem, and helped her get it fixed. I took an hour nap, got the recyclables and garbage bins out to morning p/u, had dinner and watched the evening news.

After 15mins, I switched to Discovery-MT's "Iron Resurrection" and History's "History's Greatest Mysteries", and quit at 12 midnight. Lights out. My cleaning lady's in tomorrow at 8:30a; I need some sleep.

Up at 0-DARK-THIRTY, aka 6a, with the alarm, on Tuesday, a breezy 37°, and forecast to be cloudy/then sunny in the afternoon, I upped the heat, made coffee, checked the news and weather, and got ready for the day. JoAnne arrived at 8:30, got to work cleaning, and I got out of her way, with a short nap on the LR couch. Later, I brought in the garbage and recycle bins, and took a short walk to the community mailbox, since the pain was so bad in my R/S buttock/hip/leg, I couldn't make that trip around the complex.

Due to heavy cloud cover, darkness arrived early, I closed up, talked to Sherry for an update on her "full plate", watched the news, had some dinner, and watched History's "Curse of Oak Island" "History's Greatest Mysteries" until 12:30a, and bagged it for the day.

Up at 8:30a on Wednesday, a foggy, 31° morning. I fired-up the furnace, made coffee, had a couple smokes in the garage, and tuned into the "CP Show", from 9-12. After lunch, I did a few errands, checked on the neighbor lady who I'd helped a couple days ago, and took a short 1hr nap. The 6p news was a zero on the 23+ day Guthrie Case, so I switched to Discovery's "Expedition X" and "Mysteries of The Abandoned" until 1a, and unplugged. Lab/blood work at 9:30a, so I've had no food or drink since 9p tonite. Lights out.

Up at 7:30a on Thursday, I upped the heat, made coffee and drank it wo/ Rutter's Half & Half -- Kona is drinkable either way -- got to the lab at 9:30, and IT WAS PACKED! 12 people ahead, but it went quickly. Lab work done, I was home by 10:30, Sis stopped by to drop-off one of her 'world famous' meatloafs and visit for a while, and after she left, I did some computer work until 1p.

The rain arrived around 2, I kept at the computer project, and took a short drive around the township, to wash the birdshit off the Jeep, before garaging it, and hitting the LR couch for a short nap. I had a "meatloaf sandwich" for dinner, watched the news and "History's Greatest Mysteries" and "Roadworthy Rescues". Lights out at 1a.

Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the Journal, and I have an early week Dr's app't; otherwise clear. Sherry's Family plate overfloweth right now, so we'll make some plans for next week, perhaps. Life goes on.

How Soft Persecution and Socialist Indoctrination Are Erasing America's Soul.

The aggressive push for socialism in America is not just a policy debate. It is a direct assault on the American founding and the prosperity it created. Under the guise of “progress,” bloated liberals are imposing a compulsory, state-led ideology and economy that mirrors failed socialist experiments of the past.

In 1988, I escaped the crushing weight of communism in Romania, trading a life of state-mandated silence for the promise of American liberty. As a political refugee, America gave me the soil to rebuild my life from nothing. But today, America’s foundation is shaking. I look at the country that once stood as a beacon of freedom, and I no longer recognize its face.

The values that drew me here – the very soul of America that saved me – seem to be slipping away. Is this still the land of the free? Or are the shadows of oppression I fled finally catching up to me?

With the new Democratic Socialist Marxist Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, we are witnessing a state-sponsored effort to radicalize youth and transfer the American economy to democratic public control, replacing the American dream with a collectivist vision that history has repeatedly proven to fail. The systemic infiltration of socialist ideology into America’s public institutions is eroding the foundations of individual liberty. America’s schools and universities have transitioned from centers of learning to hubs for socialist indoctrination, stripping the next generation of their appreciation for free markets. Expanding government control over housing, healthcare, and education, these modern socialists are creating a permanent socialist state of dependency that undermines national self-reliance.

Socialism has never worked and never will. And the truth of the matter is playing out in New York City right now. Mandani was mayor for less than a month when the streets of New York were buried in garbage and snow. And 16 homeless people have died as temperatures plummeted. Mamdani’s housing czar called “white, middle-class homeowners a weapon of white supremacy.”

But how did we get here? How have foundational principles of American governance and economics been eroded?

The Founding Fathers' vision for America has shifted from a unifying force to a legal battlefield. Scholars describe the U.S. as largely "post-Christian," meaning that while many people still follow Jesus, their values are no longer the primary drivers of legal or social systems.

Having lived through the suppression of belief in communist Romania, I see the same transformation sweeping through the American Bible Belt. Many describe it as a "vanishing" of traditional cultural norms. This shift is a change not only in personal faith, or of its structural realignment of the region’s social, but also of its legal landscape.

For decades, the American Bible Belt was defined by a steady 78 percent Christian majority. As of early 2025, that has dropped to 62-66 percent, representing a loss of approximately 15 million self-identified Christian adults in just five years.

As Christianity has contracted, a biblical worldview is no longer the “default” lens in American political debate. Today, public policy is increasingly driven by secular consensus rather than biblical conviction. While Christianity has shrank since 2020, Islam has grown by 12 percent, Buddhism by 56 percent, and Judaism by 21 percent. This shift often leads to the creation of faith-centered enclaves that operate under cultural expectations different from those in the traditional Bible Belt. There is a sharp divide between the "Silent Generation" (85 percent Christian) and Gen Z (only about 55 percent identify with any religion).

When Christians speak out, they face persecution. To implement socialism in America, liberals are using soft persecution. That includes Cultural and Social Marginalization, like being fired or passed over for promotions because of biblical views on marriage, gender, or life. Or "cancel culture," involving public mockery, shaming, or being "de-platformed" for expressing faith, and making believers feel like outcasts in their own communities. soft persecution has a "squeezing" effect as a way of building socialism – faith isn't banned, but it is pushed out of the public square as restricted speech. Laws may technically allow faith but penalize "offensive" religious speech, leading to self-censorship among Christians who fear social or legal consequences. The goal of soft persecution is to make the cost of following Christ seem "too high" so that the truth remains unspoken.

I’ve stared down the barrel of a gun when an assassin came to take my life in communist Romania. My perspective is one forged in fire, and I urge you all to take these urgent and courageous steps now.

1. Stand Up Without Fear

Refuse to be "bullied" or “indoctrinated” into socialism. Stand up for faith in Christ, be involved in the political arena, and spiritually rescue America.

2. Victory Over Fear

In my memoir, “Saving My Assassin,” I explain that fear is the primary tool of any regime or movement seeking to silence faith. I was just a 5-foot-tall attorney against a brutal dictator, yet I prevailed because I refused to let fear dictate my silence.

3. Prayer and Persecution

The early warning signs of socialist indoctrination are very clear and happening right now. We cannot wait for "better times" to speak. Now is the time to recognize that in persecution with Christ’s power, our strongest faith is built.

4. The Power of Truth in Public

Take your faith into the marketplace, the courtroom, and the school board. A single voice speaking God’s truth can dismantle a lie that an entire government is trying to uphold.

5. Loving Your "Assassin"

Standing up for Christ includes the courage to love and share the Gospel with those who oppose you in America. I famously led the man sent to kill me to Christ. We are called to pray for our enemies, and that’s what we must do.

Socialist indoctrination poses significant risks to individual freedoms and societal structures. Promoting a single worldview often stifles critical thinking and dissent, leading to a homogenized society where alternative perspectives are marginalized. This can undermine personal choices and freedoms, harm economic growth, lead to authoritarian governance, polarize communities, and threaten the very foundations of a free, democratic society.

And that’s exactly the direction America is headed in if we don’t wake up and take action now.

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Top Democratic fundraisers sought Jeffrey Epstein’s support despite child sex offender conviction.

Jeffrey Epstein was registered as a high-risk sex offender, but it did not matter to the fundraisers? working for Democratic leaders Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who sent VIP dinner invites and sought private meetings with the millionaire for their quest to control Congress.

The Justice Department’s latest release of its long-hidden Epstein files shows fundraisers for lawmakers in Congress, most of them Democrats, didn’t hesitate to solicit Epstein’s company at exclusive fundraising dinners or to invite him to private meetings as recently as 2017.

They pursued his money and sought his favor for nearly a decade while he was a registered sex offender, since his 2008 conviction on soliciting a minor for prostitution.

The outreach continued even as lawsuits revealed that Epstein’s offenses were much worse and his underage victims far more numerous than his plea deal indicated.

A “Schumer Senate Candidate Reception” invitation, dated Sept. 18, 2012, asked Epstein to attend a reception for then-Rep. Martin Heinrich, a Democrat who was running for an open Senate seat in New Mexico.

At the time, Mr. Schumer was head of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

“Heinrich has done everything from lead white water river tours to build his own electric car. He is an engineer and would be one of the few people in the Senate with a science background,” Democratic fundraiser Darren Rigger wrote to Epstein.

Mr. Heinrich’s victory in New Mexico was critical to Democrats, who at the time were battling to hold on to their majority in one of the most competitive campaign cycles in memory.

“New Mexico is a key state for Obama,” Mr. Rigger wrote to Epstein.

Other top Democrats who solicited campaign funding in exchange for VIP access included New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, then a House lawmaker running for reelection, and Sen. Kristen Gillibrand of New York, who currently runs the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm.

The solicitations were made on behalf of the lawmakers by Dynamic SRG, a political fundraising and public affairs firm where Mr. Rigger served as a partner.

The outreach shows the extent to which Epstein continued to remain influential and sought-after in the highest political circles despite his conviction and mounting accusations that he had victimized underage girls. Lawsuits in 2008 accused Epstein of sexually abusing girls as young as 14 after luring them to his Palm Beach, Florida, home to give him a massage.

A 2009 lawsuit accuses Epstein of luring a 16-year-old into his home and sexually assaulting her, and then paying her $200.

The girl, who sued as an adult, “experienced confusion, shame, humiliation and embarrassment and has suffered severe psychological and emotional injuries.”

By the early 2000s, Epstein had become a major political donor, primarily to Democrats. According to Open Secrets, from 1989 until 2003, Epstein gave $139,000 to Democrats running for federal office and $18,000 to Republican candidates and groups. Among Democrats to rake in money from Epstein was Hillary Clinton, whose joint fundraising campaign accepted a $20,000 donation during her 1999 campaign for New York’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Fundraisers continued seeking donations from Epstein long after his 2008 conviction and as women began suing him for sexual abuse when they were underage.

In May 2013, Mr. Rigger wrote to Epstein, inviting the sex offender to the party’s congressional fundraising dinner with President Obama.

The email was on behalf of Mr. Jeffries, whom Mr. Rigger described as “one of the rising stars on the New York congressional delegation” and “Brooklyn’s Barack.”

Mr. Rigger invited Epstein to “shoot us an email or give us a call if you would like to get involved with the dinner or would like to get an opportunity to get to know Hakeem better.”

Later that year, Dynamic SRG partner Lisa Rossi wrote to Epstein to invite him to an “Old School Hip Hop, New School Politics” fundraiser for Mr. Jeffries, with special guest New York City Comptroller-elect Scott Stringer.

In July 2017, Epstein was invited to join Democratic Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the Virgin Islands’ nonvoting member of Congress, for a dinner and meet-and-greet event with Mr. Jeffries in St. Thomas.

The email was sent by Ms. Plaskett’s campaign.

The Washington Times reached out to Mr. Jeffries, who deferred to a recent interview on CNN.

Mr. Jeffries said he had no knowledge of the emails sent to Epstein on his behalf by Dynamic SRG and never met Epstein.

Federal Election Commission records do not show any Epstein donations to Mr. Jeffries.

His campaign paid Dynamic SRG to fundraise on Mr. Jeffries’ behalf until 2015.

The Times reached out to the firm.

A spokesman for Mr. Schumer did not immediately respond to an inquiry.

Mr. Schumer and his fundraising committees accepted roughly $20,000 in campaign donations from Epstein in the 1990s, years before the powerful and wealthy financier was sentenced to 18 months in a Florida prison for soliciting underage girls for sex.

Ms. Plaskett maintained her connection to Epstein, even as federal law enforcement began investigating his sex trafficking. His private island, where some of the sex crimes took place, was part of Ms. Plaskett’s at-large district.

She reached out to Epstein a few months before he was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. She texted with him before and during a February 2019 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, asking for his help as she prepared to question Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney and fixer.

By then, the Miami Herald had exposed that Epstein had settled lawsuits with more than 20 female victims of his sex trafficking and that the FBI had identified more than three dozen underage victims as young as 13 whom Epstein had sexually assaulted.

After Epstein’s arrest on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019, Ms. Plaskett took Epstein’s contributions to her campaign war chest and donated them to Virgin Islands organizations for women and children.

Ms. Plaskett said Epstein’s donations were legal, but she was “uncomfortable having received money from someone who has been accused of these egregious actions multiple times.”