The Week From HELL
There have been worse weeks in my life, but this has been up there with them. It started late Saturday night when I felt the illness coming on. I didn’t feel at all hungry the next morning - always a bad sign for me - and fasted the entire day. I should have continued into day two and day three at least, but compromised by eating thin soup.
It got really bad but neither crashing out nor over-the-counter medicine did any good. Then my hard disk crashed as well. When I turned on the machine Wednesday morning, I received a message to the effect that there was a problem and it would have to restart. It did but never got to the opening screen. I’d had a similar problem back in January but found a way out of it, although not before I’d forked out £400 on a laptop that proved to be worse than useless.
This time, I took the machine to my local computer shop and the guy saved my life when he offered me an old machine (as a stop gap) for £150. He actually charged me £120 and I got it working the same night. That’s what I’m using now. It’s a lot smaller disk space and a lot slower than my custom built machine but will have to suffice for the moment. A new one will set me back at least two grand, an amount I am loathe to spend but there will probably be no alternative.
The half good news is that not only is this machine holding up but I appear to be over the worst of the illness. I’ve done a lot to deserve my suffering, but looking to the other side of the Atlantic, I have to wonder what Elon Musk has done to deserve his week from Hell. Musk used to be a Democrat but switched his support to Donald Trump when he realised the leadership of the Party had gone insane. It was not only flooding the country with totally unvetted illegal immigrants from all over the world but was attempting to destroy Donald Trump and free speech, and everything else decent about America.
Although Musk was and may still be the richest man in the world, the forty billion dollars he spent on Twitter put a big dent in his personal fortune, but he did it out of pure altruism, to save the First Amendment.
I need not go into the minutiae here about shadow banning and the outsourcing of censorship by the Biden gang to the social media platforms, but it was bad beyond all meaning of the word.
Musk’s reward for that and especially for his adventures with DOGE has been a terror campaign directed at his Tesla company, against the car itself, and ordinary owners of the car. As I write these words, there have been a number of arrests, but arguably worse than these lunatics has been the response of the mainstream media.
The headline in The Washington Post reads
Trump escalates threats against those who destroy Tesla vehicles
How about instead
The President promises the full force of the law will be used against anti-Musk terrorists
surely that is more fitting?
The intense hatred of the far left for Trump and now Musk is easy to understand. The deconstruction of US A.I.D. in particular portents the end of their gravy train. The Creature from Jekyll Island has been creating money out of thin air then passing it to leftist causes through this outfit and NGOs for decades. This money has been used for all manner of nefarious schemes throughout the world, and the American taxpayer has been left to pick up the tab.
With US A.I.D. sufficiently downsized, spending cut in other departments, and some - like Education - abolished - these parasites on the American people will have to find themselves real jobs. That will include many of the protesters who have clearly been paid. The protests have certainly grown more violent, but the angry crowds are thinner. They will be even thinner when a few of them have been locked up for twenty years; no free passes this time, unlike the Summer of Floyd.
Elon Musk and his team are doing amazing work and are halfway towards saving America. Hopefully, when they have done that they will save Europe as well. For me, the week is nearly over, and I can but live in hope.