maniac nebula

3-24-2024

Maniacs,

It is me, Captain Grifter.  I am backing Joe Biden.  I’ve read what the other mods have posted.  It’s time for me to chip in.  I want to give you my viewpoint, my background, and I want to fill in gaps the other mods didn’t get to.  The 2024 election is important, but I’m not so sure it’s the beginning of the Apocalypse.  Donald Trump has recently said there will be a bloodbath if he is not elected.  There will be no more America.  “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” he previously told supporters.

Let’s start with my background.  I am a school teacher working in Florida.  When I was old enough to vote in 1996, I voted for Ross Perot.  I believe in election reform.  I was attending Pensacola High School in 1992 when I first watched Perot interviewed by Larry King on CNN.  He was anti-NAFTA, and he was a billionaire spending his own money.  I liked that!  He used lots of charts and graphs and had a strong America-first agenda.  During a presidential debate, he said:

“You implement that NAFTA, the Mexican trade agreement, where they pay people a dollar an hour, have no health care, no retirement, no pollution controls, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and you’re going to hear a giant sucking sound of jobs being pulled out of this country …”

Perot resonated with me.  I want to mention Pensacola was a great high school, 1992 was a great time to be alive, my older brother played linebacker on our 1988 national championship team, and I looked up to him.  He had voted for Perot in 1992.  I emulated my brother.  I won’t deny he influenced my early political attitudes.

The Reform Party was formed in 1995.  I voted for Perot in 1996, like I’ve said, and it started to heat up in 2000.  By then, I was in college at the University of Alabama, another football powerhouse, and it wasn’t too far from my home.  I became a volunteer for the Reform Party and I loved our candidates.  They were mavericks!  Pat Buchanan, Donald Trump, Ron Paul, John Anderson, John Hagelin, and Jesse Ventura were there to shake the world up!  Of course, things did not end well.  Jesse Ventura became jaded, dropped out, then rebuked the party.  Donald Trump won a couple of primaries then dropped out.  The convention in Long Beach, California was a complete mess.  Hagelin organized a walk-out in protest of Buchanan, who went on to become the nominee after a crazy court battle.

I had a talk with my brother the night before the election in 2000.  “Vote for Al Gore,” he told me.  “I certainly am.  The Reform Party became a retarded circus overnight!  Who’s going to reform the Reform Party?”  I laughed.

On the morning of the election, I had butterflies in my stomach.  Ross Perot had backed Hagelin over Buchanan.  My brother was right.  It was a shit show.  I studied ecology in college and I had read Earth In Balance by Al Gore.  I was young and I had become convinced that the two major political parties were bureaucracies which no longer functioned properly, and they were out-of-touch with common people.  I conisdered voting for Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader.  I remember driving to the polling place having no idea who I would vote for.  I even considered for a third-party candidate, Harry Browne.

I got inside the booth.  I remember being slightly confused by the butterfly ballots.  This would play on my mind, later.  I made my decision.  Al Gore.  I would vote for Al Gore.  I took the device in my hand and I punctured the card.  I voted for Al Gore!

Or did I?

All these years later, I don’t know with certainty that my vote counted toward Al Gore.  We had those dang butterfly ballots!  I truly can’t remember if I voted in the correct slot.  And I don’t know if my card wound up being swept into the “hanging chad” heap.  I volunteered to help count them, by the way.  That’s what I did back in those days.  A whole lot of volunteering!

People like me are drawn to conspiracy sites for a reason.  We’ve experienced something weird, and we want answers.  One of our members, Moe Szyslak, lost a friend in the Twin Towers.  Another guy, Technocrat322, has inside knowledge of Directed Energy Weapons, and the Santa Rosa fires.  Another, Ambrose, went to a high school where a mass shooting happened.  Barney Rubble posted real-time updates of the Las Vegas shooting because he was staying at Caesars Palace.  These events turn us into maniacs… if we bottle them inside.

I’m proud to be a moderator, here.  Trump recently said there will be a bloodbath if he is not elected.  In our forum, there are heated debates.  “He’s trying to incite violence yet again!” some say.  “He doesn’t mean it literally!” his supporters argue.  “He’s saying the American auto companies will suffer financially under Joe Biden!”  As a moderator, I am not here to care about who’s right or wrong.  These are opinions.  They are rooted in different perspectives stemming from different life experiences.  Moderators are the referees of social forums.  When I watch NFL football, I often wonder about the personal lives of the officials.  Who did they root for as children?  In an ideal world, you’re not supposed to know.  In other words, the calls on the field are not supposed to indicate any form of bias.  Funny, but there was a great thread in the Maniac Nebula having to do with favoritism toward Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.  It was great!  After Nine Eleven, the Patriot Act was passed on October 26, 2001.  Weeks later, the Raiders were beating the Patriots in the New England snow when Tom Brady fumbled the football, sealing his fate and his future.  New England would go on to lose and Drew Bledsoe would resume as their starting quarterback the following year.

Or would he?

The officials in that game were part of a psy-op later known as “Sacrificial Rams” and they pulled out a rule nobody on Earth ever heard of:  the Tuck Rule.  Did you watch the Simpsons “Stonecutter” episode?  Homer is the chosen one in a secret society.  All the members bend to his satisfaction.  When he bowls and a pin is left standing, Chief Wiggum takes his gun and shoots it down.  When they play pool, they tilt the table so all the balls go in on Homer’s break.  When they’re playing poker, Homer has a crap hand but, wait!  Carl tells him he has the Royal Sampler!

The “Royal Sampler” has become big at Maniac Nebula.  It started with the New England Tuck Rule.  It’s when an authority figure makes up some bullshit on the spot and passes it off as something that was supposed to happen.  The Dallas Cowboys were the victim of this in 2015 when referees decided Dez Bryant didn’t catch a ball at a critical moment against the Green Bay Packers.  The theory goes that authority figures have their chosen ones.  They deliberately have biases, but they disguise them.  The Patriots and Packers are their darlings in the NFL.  Maverick teams like the Raiders and Cowboys are their black sheep.

Quick timeline:

It’s clear to me what happened.  There have always been more registered Democrats than Republicans.  Why?  I read Grumpy Old Man’s take on the 2024 election.  He compares the populous to chess pieces.  The reason there are more Democrats is because there are more pawns than bishops.  There are more pawns than rooks.  There are more pawns than knights.  There are more ordinary employees in the United States of America than managers, CEOs, and corporate presidents.  How do Republicans ever win elections then?  The short answer is, “They don’t.”  Even when Trump beat Hillary in 2016, he lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes.  He lost by seven million votes in 2020.  When I was young, Ronald Reagan was president.  He beat Jimmy Carter in 1980 and he won re-election in the biggest landslide the country has ever seen.

How did he win?

There were Reagan Democrats.  They believed the economy was strong.  During my first job interview, I was asked, “Where do see yourself in five years?”  This is the key.  Even though there are more regular employees than managers, people project themselves into higher positions.  “I will be a manager like you!”  This is a typical response to the “five year” question.  Reagan was inclusive.  He made people believe upward mobility just took a little bit of effort.

According to theory in a Maniac Nebula thread, the “Sacrificial Rams” psy-op began on Super Bowl XXXVI.  It was sacrificial in nature, of course, and many speculated about numerology being that it was the thirty-sixth Super Bowl.  “We can’t allow patriots to be raided!”  This was the mentality behind the Tuck Rule incident.  Someone in the higher ups no longer allowed football to be a frivolous game with hardly any meaning.  There was too much symbolism going on.  That’s why they demanded a tiny United States flag be put on the back of all helmets that season.  The St Louis Rams were heavy betting favorites, but the fix was in.  Neocons in the Pentagon were operating off the PNAC script and the Republican Party was their vessle to implement a soft form of martial law.  Wars have different components.  There is a hardware component which deals with tanks, bullets, airplanes, battleships, and rockets.  There is a psychological component which deals with propaganda.

I have no problem with Christians.  There are many people who believe Jesus Christ is a deity who personally interacts in their lives.  “Christian” is a word, though.  Words change meanings.  Consider these song lyrics:

A couple of generations ago, “gay” always meant “happy” but today it predominantky refers to homosexuality.  Words change meanings.  Sometimes this happens naturally, but sometimes it’s intentional.  Neocons put a lot of effort into co-opting “Christian” and “patriot” as words.  The “Sacrificial Rams” thread explains these things.  In college, I read Paul Tillich’s writings on symbols.  Words are symbols.  They are tools.  He who controls the symbols of society controls its people.  I remember when Iraq was invaded in March of 2003.  By then, I was teaching high school English in Sarasota.  One of my students approached me and asked, “Who would Jesus bomb?”  That’s the first time I remember hearing that phrase.  “Aren’t these guys supposed to be Christian?”  But they planned a “shock and awe” attack to look for weapons of mass destruction which never materialized.

Off subject, I wanted to talk about my students.  I was required by law to teach them proper sentence structure.  Subject, verb, object.  They had to understand run-on sentences, and incomplete sentences.  You can see here I don’t give a crap about grammatical rules.  I encouraged my students to find their own styles.  I just wanted to throw that in here before the Grammar Nazis start complaining.

Sarasota was a wild place.  It’s where former governor, Jeb Bush, was involved in a Nine Eleven cover up.  I recommend the book:

Welcome to Terrorland —

Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida

by Daniel Hopsicker

So Neocons took over symbols:  “Christian” and “patriot” as words, and they changed the meaning of the American flag.  When I hear right-wingers call themselves Christian on Fox News and Newsmax, I think, “No you’re not!”  And when they say “patriot”, I always cringe.

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

I love this quote from Edward Abbey.  If someone were to ask me today if I was gay, I would pause to answer.  I am a straight man who is happy.  What do you mean by “gay”?  And if I was asked today if I’m a patriot, I would wonder where they’re coming from.  Abbey’s assessment of patriotism is where I stand, but I believe the Patriot Act was a dog shit piece of legislation.

Sooner or later, all of this backstory must tie in to this year’s election.  That’s the point we’re trying to get at.  I’m hear to make a case for Joe Biden.  I’m a moderator at Maniac Nebula, keep in mind.  I have seen a lot of content posted by a lot of people.  Let’s consider our motivations, though.  Some people vote for people.  In other words, they vote based on a candidate’s character or personality.  Other people vote for parties.  Grumpy Old Man makes no qualm that his primary reason for voting for Trump in November is his political affiliation.  Between you and me, I’m not so sure Trump will be the GOP nominee.  There are loads of criminal cases and anything can happen at the convention.

Let’s continue with motivations, though.  There are people who vote with their hearts, and people who vote with their heads.  Then, there’s a massive group of people who vote AGAINST people.  I did this in 2016.  Here’s my voting record:

Do you see the outlier here?  Besides Perot, I mean?  I voted for a Democrat in every election since then but one.  Let’s think about how Trump explained his opponents back then:

“So their lobbyists, their special interests and their donors will start calling President Bush, President Clinton, President Walker. Pretty much whoever is president other than me.  Other than me.  And they’ll say, ‘You have to do it!  They gave you a million dollars to your campaign!'”

He was talking about a hypothetical two-and-a-half-billion-dollar factory to be built in Mexico.  Then he said, “And the plant will be built in Mexico.”

Tomorrow is a massive day in American history.  Trump doesn’t play by the rules he creates, by the way.  He said people shouldn’t run for president if they’re being prosecuted for a crime.  He was talking about Hillary Clinton at the time and the possibility they would charge her for deleting government emails.  And Trump scorned Jeb Bush and the rest for being beholden to donors and lobbyists.  Tomorrow is the deadline for him to pay $454 in bond or cash and it doesn’t look like it’ll happen.  He has been criminally indicted four times.  “I don’t need anybody’s money,” he said.  “I’m rich.”

Donald Trump is morally bankrupt, and soon he may be financially bankrupt.  I voted AGAINST Hillary Clinton in 2016.  Trump came along as the so-called Washington outsider, similar to W in 2000.  I take all of my voting with a grain of salt.  I told you I liked the idea of a rich man spending his own money when I voted for Perot.  In theory, it’s wonderful.  Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003.  He campaigned that we would “open the books” so everyone could see how their tax dollars were spent, but he never did.  I like Arnold, actually, but my point is these guys never keep their promises.  Trump said he would declasify the twenty-eight pages of redacted material from the Nine Eleven Commission Report, but he didn’t do it.  For a conspiracy theorist like me, that was a major failure.  I remember Technocrat322 and Space Ghost were ticked off about that as well.  These pages implicated Saudi Arabia and wound up getting released under Biden.  For a guy saying he was going to drain the swamp, Trump wiffed badly on that one.

Why was I voting AGAINST Hillary though?  I’m a Democrat, but I’m not a straight-ticket voter like Grumpy Old Man.  Some people think the “Sacrificial Rams” psy-op was a joke, but I don’t.  As part of the program, popular Democrats had two choices:  play ball or get persecuted.  Hillary Clinton was shelled out.  Originally, she was a Republican campaignimg for Barry Goldwater.  PNAC Neocons saw use in her.  They figured if they jostled her husband enough, she would stand in line.  If they told her to jump, she would ask, “How high?”  She was no different than a captured soldier caught behind enemy lines seen in a video reading a script denouncing the United States.  In 2016, she was willing to go to war with Iran.  One way or another, the Neocons were going get their person elected president whether it was her or Jeb Bush.

People like me threw a monkey wrench in their plans, though.  As a Democrat, I voted for Donald Trump and I hoped I wouldn’t regret it.  I don’t like voting for lesser of evils, but I did it.  I wanted Donald Trump to be a good president.  I told you I was excited to work for the Reform Party in 2000.  Donald Trump was a candidate.  I was hoping things would work out for Jesse Ventura and he’d get the nomination, but I still rooted for Trump.  He said he would select Oprah as his running mate and I liked that, but it never got that far.  Trump registered as a Democrat after leaving the Reform Party.  Bill and Hillary Clinton went to Trump’s wedding in 2005.  They were in tight with each other.

When I voted for Trump in 2016, I thought I might be getting Ronald Reagan:

I thought Trump could be a great unifier but it didn’t pan out.  Today, not only does he talk shit about Democrats, he rants about Republicans who have minds of their own.  His former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, had the gall to suggest Trump try to win over non-MAGA voters and he turned around and called her a RINO.  Who’s the real Republican In Name Only, though?  Trump has been a member of three different political parties since I started voting in 1996.  Who can take him seriously as a Republican?

Megyn Kelly famously exchanged barbs with Trump during a 2015 debate.  “Blood was coming out of her wherever,” Trump said.  This past December, Megyn Kelly was moderator again during the Republican primaries. Trump didn’t have the balls to show up to debate Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and the rest.  When Trump was asked the next day who the loser of the debate was, he said it was Megyn Kelly!  What a total dick!  And today she still toes the line for him!

As a Democrat, I love Lincoln Project ads.  Somewhere along the line, things went off the rails really bad.  It culminated on January 6, 2021.  I liked what Republican Denver Riggleman said about Trump’s supporters who claimed the election was rigged:

“That really is, really, I think, the Island of the Misfit Toys at that point. You have crossed the Rubicon, you jumped on the Crazy Train and you’re headed into the cliffs that guard the flat earth at that time, brother …”

Our loyalties are to the Constitution.  The Constitution is greater than any individual, but Trump posted:

“Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution …”

He also posted that he should be reinstated as president.  They pretend they’re for the rule of law but there’s no legal mechanism for this to happen.  His supporters believe he is more important than the Constitution.  You know what it reminded me of?  The 1995 movie, Congo.  The plot center’s around finding Solomon’s diamonds in a lost African volcanic lair.  The greed in the movie was over-the-top and it ruined my suspension of belief.  “No one can be that stupid and greedy!”  The worst character was Herkermer Homolka played by Tim Curry.  “Come on, man!  Save your life!  Fuck the diamonds!”  Special gray gorillas protected the mine and killed anyone trying to take its treasure.

That was MAGA to me.  It was a movement which began sane and then turned psychotic.  Wacky Taffy started a website:

Deprogramming Maga

Of all the mods, she’s the one voting AGAINST a person.  It’s the person she facetiously calls Orange Jesus.  Her issues primarily stem from the overturning of Roe vs Wade, bragging about grabbing the pussy, and also the rape allegations.  I’ve checked out the site.  It’s basic and simple right now.  I like it.

I know how it feels to vote AGAINST a person, though.  I did it in 2016.  You might ask, “Is this 2024 election about voting AGAINST someone?  Or are you for FOR someone?”  In this case, that would be Joe Biden.

I want to answer honestly and thoroughly.  First of all, our elections are rigged.  I’ve believed that since I participated in the Florida recounts in 2000.  Electronic machines have been hacked over the years.  In 2004, Walden O’Dell was CEO of one of the companies, Diebold, and promised Ohio for George W Bush.  These machines had no paper trail.  Somehow, lawmakers weren’t allowed to know the inner workings on the pretense of trade secret copyright issues.  California banned Diebold machines.

A solution came from a former accountant.  Athan Gibbs became an inventor and created a new type of voting machine.

“Gibbs also suggested that I look into the people behind the other machines.  He offered that Diebold and ES&S are real interesting and all Republicans. If you’re an investigative reporter go ahead and investigate. You’ll find some interesting material …”

Gibbs died a mysterious and untimely death on the highway.  More about his invention:

“Gibbs’ TruVote machine is a marvel. After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt. The voter’s receipt allows the tracking of his particular vote to make sure that it was transferred from the polling place to the election tabulation center …”

We would not be having these January 6th problems if the Establishment meant to keep democracy sacred and trustworthy.  The voting machines were meant to give a back door to murky people.  The TruVote system could have kept outcome doubts out of people’s minds.  Katy Couric produced a good documentary called “I Vote?” which I recommend.  

So, elections are rigged.  The second thing I wanted to point out is that the Deep State is real and makes the ultimate decisions.  Bone Face is a believer that we shouldn’t vote at all. He said that even showing up to a polling place is voting for a deceptive and corrupt system.  I beg to differ, though.  I still have the same child-like fairy tale belief that my vote counts.  And let’s say it doesn’t.  Let’s say it’s like the 2008 Simpsons episode when Homer is in a double wide voting booth.  He touches the screen for Barack Obama:

It goes on until the machine says, “Six votes for president McCain.”  And in the 2012 episode, Homer’s walking to the polling place.  “Ah man, not another election! Why do we have to choose our leaders?  Isn’t that what we have the Supreme Court for?”  

The Deep State will pick our leader.  They will do it through banking, the media, the Supreme Court, or suspect voting machines.  They’ll do anything.  One of the reasons I voted for Trump in 2016 is because our site had a pretty member who went by Detroit Rock City.  She was single, and flirted with all the pro-Trump guys.  So there’s a lot of manipulation going on.

Let’s also get something else out of the way.  Joe Biden was known to be a pervert.  He would sneak behind ladies to smell the shampoo scent of their hair.  I’m a moderator so I’ve seen bad stuff.  In the GIF thread, he was standing behind a young Asian girl, possibly eleven years old.  His hands were on her shoulders, then they slid down to the side of her chest.  The young girl looked to her sister and their eyes became huge.  Then there were the sexual assault allegations by Alyssa Milano and Tara Reade.  These things bothered me, and they bothered me bad.

In the same way that Grumpy Old Man will only vote for Republicans, I have reached that point concerning Democrats.  I don’t care about Hunter’s laptop and the crack and the hookers.  I belong to a teachers’ union.  I care about my personal economy and I care about the economy as a whole.  Homer Cocktail said we have an outward kackistocracy.  I believe it.  Biden is seen as a senile, Communist pervert by those who hate him.  Trump is seen as a narcissistic, criminal clown.

Let’s have an economic debate.  The Dow Jones is at a record high.  Republicans will always talk about inflation just like they did with Jimmy Carter, but it has leveled off and other forces are at work.  Republicans say we are “tax and spend liberals” but their supply-side economics got us into the debt crisis to begin with.  I studied Laffer curve theory in college and the idea that tax cuts for the wealthy will speed up economic cycles is actually true in some cases.  It depends on what side of the curve you’re on.  Tax cuts in all cases is asinine.  Senior George Bush ran on a promise of no new taxes.  His party turned against him when he realized something everyone else knew:  Sometimes tax increases are the best thing to do.  And we learned that Adam Smith classical economics will stall and not revive itself without outside help.  John Maynard Keynes illustrated this and that’s why quantitative easing is appropriate in proper circumstances.

End of the day, you’re going to vote for who you’re going to vote for.  Or you’re not going to vote at all.  End of the day, you’re going to believe supply-side economics is the way to go or you’re going to believe in something else.  I can’t change your mind unless, maybe, you’re new to all this.

I will vote for Joe Biden in November.  I believe in strength in diversity.  We aren’t a theocracy so I understand why Republicans have suffered backlash since SCOTUS reversed Roe vs Wade.  I believe in environmental protections. Private industry does not regulate itself well enough.

Here, at the Maniac Nebula, we discuss these issues.  Most the time, we’re civil.  Things get heated and dicey like the time when Hot Chocolate met Duke Donut at a gas station in order to fight him.  But that’s the exception to the rule.  I am here as a moderator to make sure it doesn’t escalate that far.  I am not here to tell you how to vote.  However, I am comfortable telling you which way I am going.  I’m not here to tell you what conspiracies to believe, if any at all.  Fate will decide that.  I’m here to make sure no idiots or bots are spamming threads.  That’s my job.  I’m here to make sure we enjoy talking about conspiracies, extra-terrestrials, and good times.

Sincerely,

Captain Grifter

3-26-2024

Just a quick update.  “The test” has been mentioned a couple of times concerning becoming a member at Maniac Nebula.  I talked about the Tuck Rule and Royal Sampler as things larger than they seem to be on the surface.  I said the Deep State can do anything they want.  Yesterday was a perfect example.  No one expected Donald Trump to come up with his $454 million bond.  His assets were due to be seized, but lo and behold!

I present a way to use Maniac terminology:

“The appellate court Tuck Ruled New York’s lower court.  At the eleventh hour, they allowed Trump’s team to successfully claim a Royal Sampler by reducing his bond amount to $175 million, and they gave him ten more days to pay.”

Have a good day, all.

— CG

in this bit of commentary, Donald Trump is talking to hobos in an alley
in this Simpsons metaphor, Trump is Bart as short stop, and the fly ball is the 2020 election

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