Older and Wiser, 17 Years Later

Posted on 29/08/2025 by Grumpa Joe

Wow! Too many projects with too little time to finish them. Does that sound familiar? Let me tell you something folks, it doesn’t change with age. As long as a person has his health, and mental faculties, he will continue to want to be a useful citizen of this earth.

Several years ago, during the election cycle pitting John McCain against Obama, a friend asked asked a question. As a conservative He was concerned because as a conservative, and the candidate aligned with his political philosophy was an older man named John McCain. He looked at me and asked, “how old are you Joe?

“Seventy,” I replied.

“Do you feel that you have the energy and mental capacity to be president?

“Yes,” was my answer.

The real question in my mind is whether nature will be good to me, and let me keep my health and energy as I age. I fully intend to stay healthy, and today, I am reasonably healthy, but will I stay that way for much longer? I don’t know, neither do you. Only the Lord knows what is ahead of us. All we can do is, “Remember yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.”

So what if our current conservative candidate is old? He will select a younger Vice Presidential partner, who will rise to the occasion if it is necessary. It is also a fact that young men die too. Many of them live a higher risk life style than older men, so their chances of meeting with injury or accidental demise is probably greater. Remember Christopher Reeves, “Super Man,” broke his neck while enjoying his passion, i.e. riding a horse. More recently, Heath Ledger died of too many medicines at one time. To quote Forest Gump, ” Shit Happens.”

Life is filled with stories about people who die when they shouldn’t.

Instead of worrying about a candidate’s age, and his prospects for surviving life, we should concentrate on which political philosophy we want our kids, and grandkids to grow up with. We should be discussing our life values and the reasons that we believe in them.

My parents were staunch Democrats. They made one “X” under “D” on their ballot. They believed in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the saviour of the working class. Mom and Dad, lived through the depression, they blamed President Hoover for everything that went wrong with the economy. Yet, when I think about how they taught me to live, they were as conservative as the day is long. They never spoke of conservatism, but they lived it. They wouldn’t have understood what “Green” meant, but they lived more “Green” than any modern citizen does today. Their bottom line philosophies:

“If you don’t have the money, don’t buy it.”

“When you have land, you will always be able to feed yourself.”

Mom wasn’t talking about acres or hundreds of acres, she was talking about a back yard. She made our tiny yard into a farm. She raised vegetables, chickens, flowers, and some grass too.

“Never waste.” Mom knew how to mend socks, shirts, and pants. She knew the value of re-cycling hand-me-downs, and somehow we managed to survive without knowing we were poor.

“Welfare is for people who are worse off than we are.” My Dad would have hung himself before he accepted money from the government. He came to this country with the clothes on his back, got a job, learned English, took abuse from his co-workers, and managed to feed and educate three kids.

If you believe in big government, and the philosophy that Big Brother should take care of you, that’s okay. You should vote for the Liberal.

I happen to believe that the government is way too big, and the National Debt is out of control. If you want to tax me to pay off the debt, okay. If you want to tax me to pay for more social programs, go fly a kite.

I’m voting conservative even if the candidate is 101 years old. He’d be the much wiser choice.

I just turned eighty-seven, and I voted for an old man, who in my eyes is a teenager compared to me. I still feel mentally capable of doing the job, but I am a little slower than I used to be.

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The Party of Karl Marx

Posted on 23/08/2024 by Grumpa Joe

Thank God, Lovely decided to have a conversation with me at the very end of my favorite program. Like always I turn off the TV to give her my full attention. Ten minutes later she left to speak to her grandson in her native tongue. Our conversations are very short because her English is limited. I looked at my watch to decide if there was enough time left before retiring to turn the TV back on. Oh no, I am missing Queens Kamalas address to her subjects. I turned it back on to listen to the last five minutes. Luckily I saw her face turn into something a man hates to see, a woman who is angry and mad. She spoke about foreign leaders and how she would deal with them. My, my how I shivered with fright. I just can’t seem to envision her standing face to face with Putin in a face to face showdown. Every time I picture this scene it winds up with Putin ignoring her and angrily turning and walking away. It is as though she is not even there.

I will give the democrats credit for one thing, they are relentlessly banging away on Trump as hard as they can. The joy they propose to spread in the world disappears when Trump becomes the subject. I see it as another example of hypocrisy in action. The only joy democrats can experience is watching republican millionaires being taxed into poverty. Democrat millionaires are permitted in their perverted society of equal outcomes for all. The envision republicans and conservatives as the new slaves which they control on a chain-leash around the neck.

On the subject of the vice presidential candidate I have a few questions. I’m okay with his quiting the army when it came time to deploy to war, but I am not okay with him telling the people to squeal on their neighbors for not wearing masks during the pandemic. What kind of grammar schoolyard policy is that? I’m also not good with the lack of action he took during demonstrations in his state that wound up burning cars, buildings and hurting people. Supposedly, he was giving the wrong side a chance to be equal. I am also not okay with him giving kids the right to change their genders. What was he thinking when he had tampon dispensers installed in the school mens rooms? Were they supposed to use them to plug up their asses? How could he think that when these kids already have their heads planted up there. I am not ready to accept a man as the next in line when I believe he will fail to press the nuclear button when he sees an a-bomb headed for the white house because it is not the joyous thing to do. I do believe he would insist that world leaders joined to discuss world peace join hands and sing kombayah before deliberating.

I see this country drinking the cool aid and giving the first woman presidential candidate a bye just because it is time to have a woman president. The people of this country are not principled enough to compare Queen Kamala to Golda Meier, Margaret Thatcher, or Catherine the Great, and to see that she is a lightweight at best. She will win for the same reason Obama won, she is half-black, light skinned, raised by a single mom, has an Ivy League degree, uses language with words that are undiscernable to the common people and avoids the ghetto dialect. It will be another example of affirmative action in practice.

The fact that she is a progressive who practices and believes in the Marxist philosophy that all men are the same as their neighbors, and the means is justified by the end will not make a penny’s worth of difference in deciding how to vote.

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Bring It On Big Guy

Posted on 20/11/2020 by Grumpa Joe

It is Friday night, and instead of going on a date I’ll try writing a response to the nut job liberal who wants to reprogram 75 million Trumps supporters to become nut jobs like him.

I know the feeling this man has, I had it to the same extent eight years ago when his immortalized icon Obama ascended to the throne. If Obama has anything over Trump it was his ability to dodge scandal. Why wouldn’t he? When the entire world’s press aligns itself with the liberal side of things Obama could do no wrong. Obama controlled the message and brags about it. Yet, over the last four years Obama frailties have been trickling out time after time. It still doesn’t make news because of the protection he is afforded by the press and the Deep State.

For the past four years, I have enjoyed not hearing from my own radical nut-job friends on Facebook. Now that Biden is declaring himself the Lord they post only negative stuff about Trump and very wrong stuff about Biden. We believe in our leaders. I believe everything Trump says, my own son-in-law does not. I often wind up with a shoe in my mouth because of our discussions. I’d rather eat shoe leather than offend the young man and jeopardize my daughter’s relationship.

The past few nights I have watched several documentaries on American Indian life. All of them put the government into evil light. I actually come away feeling guilty for the way the tribes were treated by our own ancestors. The players in these documentaries tell their side of the story without any opportunity or desire to look at things from the opposite side. The effect is empathy by the viewer. I see the current players of the left telling the story the way they want it t be heard. I’m not buying it. Why, because I know better than to believe anything a lefty says or does.

Yesterday, I watched a press conference held by Trump’s lawyers exposing the democrat voting shenanigans uncovered during the election. When I heard that the same vote counting machine developed by the Hugo Chavez and Maduro regimes was also used to count our votes my heart began racing. It doesn’t matter that the machine is made by a company connected to the infamous USA hating George Soros. How in the world could these people be so damned stupid? Or were they stupid? If you want to win an election you use systems that you can manipulate to change the winds into your direction. Combine that with the timing of the vote-count-stop during the night to give the counters a break being coincidental with the rising surge of Trump votes which coincidentally dropped like a rock after the break is really stretching my mind a bit. Oh yeah, the votes they found during the break had to be run through the newly reprogrammed machines. Yep, I’m believing it one hundred percent.

If the libs want to retrain me to think like them they will have to split my head open and empty my brains into a bucket. Anyone with the brains of an ostrich has to know that the facts don’t add up. And these are the kind of thinkers who are commenting on Twitter and Blogs all across the country about how lame the Conservatives are. What is worse is that the so called press rides the wave with the empty headed libs who propose so much stupid stuff. I should replace the word stuff with ideas, but ideas such as theirs are not even stuff. I am being generous by calling their fecally tainted output as stuff.

How about finding thousands of ballots with only one mark on them all for Biden, and all with a perfectly round dot in the voting space.? I try to be very careful when I mark my ballot with the black ink pen and work at staying inside the lines, but even with all my precise care I go outside the lines. Putting a perfect circle inside the little oval boxes is damn near impossible on thousands of ballots. For one thing one person would not be able to mark that many ballots, it would take several people to mark thousands and what are the chances that all those people would all do the same precise job? I will buy that the ballots were marked by a printing machine, and not a registered voter.

The list of irregularities found during the counting is endless, and is certainly evidence enough for me to believe that the election was definitely being influenced by an outside organized source, maybe it was the Russians, but I’d rather believe it was the Democratic National Committee.

I grew up in Chicago, and followed city politics from the time I could read. Mayor Richard J Daley was the master of organizing the democratic machine. His Precinct Captains told immigrants to vote for democrat candidates, my parents among them. They used intimidation by way of threats to job security, they suppressed the black vote, or intimidated them to vote democrat. He locked up the politics in such a way that the city was nearly one hundred percent democratic. His system of patronage is being used in every democratic city across the nation. He ruled for years. His successors were all democrats from his administration. Eventually, his son Richard M Daley finished the Daley rule, but the democratic party lives on. The result is a city where only the white neighborhoods are respectable, black neighborhoods all resemble war zones. Money for anything is lacking, but the budget is overwhelming.

As a kid, I remember the Chicago Park District being the greatest ever. I walked two miles one-way to use the park. They were great places to play sports, to swim, to take walks. The landscaping was outstanding, the lawns were manicured. Today, the parks are a mess, yes they still have a semblance of a park but they are not safe, the services are fewer, and the people who frequent them put their life in danger. There is only one area that is totally safe in Chicago, i.e. except for this past summer, The Magnificent Mile and Grant Park along the lake front. It is the jewel of Chicago. Tourists from around the world come to visit this area. However, this summer Michigan Avenue was visited by BLM and other protest groups who showed their liberalism by smashing windows and looting. The lady Mayor Lori Lightfoot treats the city as though it all belongs to the black elements. There is no law and order in neighborhoods that are not hers.

So my good friend, you who wants to teach me to become a liberal, all I can say is bring it on!