Simple Musings of a Simple Mind
The unfiltered ranting of a guy who has seen what Communism and Socialism really look like...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Free Speech is a threat to Freedom!
I Think I Am Sensing a Pattern Here…
Radical Lefty Democrat: We would never do any such thing. We are insulted that you would even think so!. This is ridiculous that you would question the integrity of the vote! You are undermining faith in election integrity merely by asking the question!
NAP: OK, then you won’t mind if we pass a law saying you must abide by the election rules we had before the pandemic?
RLD: What?!? You fascist! You anti-American racist homophobes! You’re destroying democracy!! We must be allowed to mail out millions of untraceable ballots and conduct the counting away from your prying eyes in order to ensure election integrity!! Minorites can’t be expected to vote without our help! All future elections will be stolen if you demand that ballots be linked to an eligible voter and prevent people from voting more than once!
NAP: Hey, we noticed you’re
teaching Critical Race Theory to little children in order to radicalize them
into little America-hating, self-loathing communists that will help you destroy
Western Civilization.
RLD: We would never do any such thing… Critical Race Theory is an obscure legal theory only taught in college. We aren’t teaching CRT to school children!
NAP: OK then… Do you mind if we pass a law banning Critical Race Theory from grade schools?RLD: What??!?!? You racist, xenophobic, bigoted, clan-hood wearing fascist!!! Children must learn the true history of America!! The must learn to hate the US as an evil, rotten, disgusting country that needs to be destroyed so that we can rebuild it as a racial justice-based utopia!! Skin color is the most important thing!!! Your children need to learn to hate themselves!!! You transphobic scuzzball!
RLD: We are not grooming children. This is crazy talk!! We would never do any such thing! Our curricula are laser focused on reading writing and arithmetic. We are molding the future of America!!!
NAP: Well, then you won’t mind if we pass a law banning the sexual grooming of kindergartners
RLD: What??!?!?! You trans-phobic piece of garbage! Children will die if we’re not allowed to teach them to masturbate in public schools, and they will die again if I’m not allowed to parade my perverse, abnormal lifestyle in front of them! The future is queer and we are coming for your children!! Children are much more susceptible to programming at this age, and parents have no say in their kids’ education and should stay the fuck out of the classroom!!!
NAP: Hey, we noticed you’re using social media platforms like Twitter to censor information such as the contents of Hunter Biden‘s laptop thus influencing the outcome of the presidential election.
RLD: Our algorithms are designed to be evenhanded, fair-minded and they’re only there to prevent hateful comments of the most vile nature… Twitter is deeply committed to freedom of speech!
RLD: What?!?! Insane conspiracy weirdo! Evil, fascist, homophobic billionaires buying social media platforms is the end of civilization as we know it! Allowing actual free speech on a free speech platform is completely against the core mission of Twitter! You have no right to interfere with the narrative! WE CONTROL THE NARRATIVE!!!!
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
No Fly Zone is a Very Bad Idea
The war in the Ukraine drags on and now some people are
calling for a ‘No Fly’ Zone to be enforced over the conflict region.
We should be very clear what a No Fly Zone means: It means World War III.
A No Fly Zone is enforced by shooting down any aircraft that
violate the Zone. Shooting down aircraft
and killing the crews is an Act of War.
If NATO attempts to enforce a No Fly Zone it will
immediately escalate into open warfare between multiple nuclear-armed nations. This is a Very Bad Thing.
Here is what No Fly enforcement would look like:
NATO would declare the No Fly Zone. In order to enforce the
Zone, you have to put NATO aircraft in the air over Ukraine very close to the
front lines. Backed by AWACs airborne
radar, they would fly Combat Air Patrol over the disputed territory.
Russian aircraft would ignore the rules and continue combat flight
operations over Ukraine. Of course, the
Russians have fighter jets too, and they would attempt to protect the bombers,
transports and attack helicopters.
NATO would have a choice: Do nothing and look like impotent morons
or shoot down the offending aircraft.
Shooting down Russian planes would be the first shots of
WWIII.
Of course, the disputed territory is also filled with Russian
antiaircraft missiles. Those missiles
would be fired at the NATO planes. NATO
would respond with SEAD strikes (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses). NATO aircraft would directly attack Russian
troops on the ground in an effort to knock out the SAM (surface to air
missiles) batteries. THIS IS WWIII.
Alternatively, NATO could position Patriot missile batteries
deep inside Ukraine to enforce the No Fly Zone. These missile systems would need to be
manned by NATO troops because the Ukrainians are not trained to use them. The Russians, being shot at by SAM’s, would target
those positions and attack them. NATO
troops would die. This is WWIII.
If NATO somehow managed to establish local air superiority
over Ukraine, Russia could still target NATO aircraft with long range SAM’s
launched from within Russia. This would
force NATO planes to attack Russian soil to suppress those missile
batteries.
WWIII would quickly spread and escalate.
The US would send a Carrier battle group into the region to
allow the Navy to support the effort.
Russian submarines would find that to be a tempting target, and NATO
would be forced to start sinking submarines in order to protect the carriers.
Flying combat missions over Ukraine from Poland or Germany
would greatly reduce the amount of time the fighters could loiter in the combat
zone. You would need multiple tankers
for air-to-air refueling. NATO would increase combat effectiveness by using
Ukrainian airbases. This would require
NATO troops on the ground to protect against Russian special forces attacks.
NATO would need to knock out Russian radar sites near the Ukrainian
border. These sites inside The Motherland
are well defended and would be very costly to attack. NATO would resort to cruise missiles to evade
and degrade the air defenses. These
weapons normally carry high explosives warheads, but cruise missiles can also
carry nuclear warheads. From the Russian
point of view, a wave of cruise missiles crossing the border headed toward
Moscow would be indistinguishable from a nuclear first strike.
The Russians would have 5-15 minutes to decide – is this a
conventional strike targeting our air defense network? Or is NATO launching nukes in an effort to
cripple Russia’s nuclear defense capabilities and kill Putin? Well, comrade, do we launch our nukes, or do
we risk nuclear annihilation? You now
have 4 minutes to decide….
And that, folks, is how nuclear wars get started.
A No Fly Zone is a terrible, awful, no good idea. Best case scenario it starts WWIII and kills
millions. Worst case scenario it leads
to nuclear war and the death of billions, if not the outright extinction of the
human race.
If you are cheerleading for a No Fly Zone, you are cheering for
the apocalypse.
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Something strange is happening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Something strange is happening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
WWDD? Flee, of course.
“We are all Ukrainians now!” is the current mania as the
brave people of the Ukraine fight for their freedoms.
Oh really?? I’m not so
sure about that.
Only 40% of Democrats would stay and fight for their country
event of a foreign invasion (!), according to a new poll.
Only 68% of Republicans would stay and fight.
Overall, a just a little more than half of Americans love their
country enough to fight for it.
I am absolutely disgusted by the results of this poll.
I am disappointed with the Republican answer. 25% of them would flee to another country.
I am disgusted by the Democrats answer. Only 40% are prepared to give the last full measure
of their devotion to save the country that they claim to love. More than half of Democrats polled (52%) would
flee rather than fight.
I see what is happening in this country, a nation conceived
in liberty and dedicated to proposition that all men are created equal. I have my doubts whether this
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
When Democrats tell you that they are patriots more than
half of them are lying to you. Ever
wonder why a party would advocate for policies that are so obviously destructive? Well, now you have your answer.
Why are we electing to positions of power a party that loves
this country so little that only 40% would fight for it?
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Will the Real Racism please stand up?
It has been axiomatic to Democrats for decades that this is
a deeply racist country. The only
problem with this idea is the lack of actual racism to support the claim of
systemic racism.
We see this in the never-ending parade of race crime
hoaxes. Jussie Smollett, swastikas painted
on doors, nooses on garages and trees, faked attacks on subways, and more, nearly
every racist hate crime turns out to be a hoax.
We also see this when the media insert race into things that
have no racial component.
The death of the iconic John Madden provides the loony Democrat
Left with the opportunity to manufacture racist tropes out of thin air.
Here we have a college professor scolding us for mourning
the passing of Madden because the Madden video game ‘glamorized violence and
dehumanized Blacks’ and accuses him of building a ‘digital plantation’.
Claiming such ridiculous racist grievances only calls into
question all of the claims of the Race Grievance industry. It makes us think its
all nonsense.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Racism? More Cowbell!
When a white guy shoots three other white guys in self-defense,
this is proof of systemic racism. And
when three white guys are convicted of murder for shooting a black guy, this is
also proof of systemic racism.
When a white guy with no racist social media history kills
two white people in Wisconsin, this is evidence that his motive is racism and white
supremacy. When a black guy with a long
history of racial grievance posts on social media drives his van into a parade
of white people killing 6, this is evidence that it was just a traffic accident.
When a random police officer is on trial for accidentally shooting
a black man who was resisting arrest, that trial must be hyped every day in the
media and there must be riots and protests.
When a famous socialite is on trial for being a procurer of underage girls
for a sex trafficking ring that has many of the world’s most famous people as alleged
clients, including former US Presidents, royalty, celebrities, and others, that
trial may not be televised nor discussed in the media.
Over the past 5 years the Democrats have lost their
collective minds over Hillary losing the election, Trump-Russia, the ‘stolen’ Supreme
Court seat, the Kavanaugh nomination, the Impeachments of Trump and the 1/6 Capitol
riots. They have repeated the same
bumper sticker nonsense about this ad nauseum, even as the truth about all of
this comes to light. You may have wondered
why they won’t let this stuff go even though all of it are lies or completely
debunked.
The arguments in favor of, and in opposition to, abortion
are intensely felt on both side of the issue.
This week the pro-abortion people argued before the SOTUS that Roe V
Wade, though it may have been decided on very weak legal grounds, must be
preserved because it is now a long-standing super precedent. When
the justices pointed out that Brown v Board of Education overturned the longstanding
super precedent of Plessy V Ferguson, the pro-abortion attorneys implied that the
court should have let Plessy stand as the law of the land in honor of the
precedent.
For those of you who don’t follow this stuff, Brown is the famous
Supreme Court case that said racial discrimination violated civil rights and
forced the end of Jim Crow and the racial segregation of schools. The pro-abortion lawyers seem to be arguing
that black people should still be barred from lunch counter and schools so that
the Court won’t overturn protections for a procedure that disproportionately kills
millions of unborn black babies.
So the pro-abortion Democrats seem to be arguing that black
people should not have equal rights under the law so that they can continue to
abort millions of black babies.
Margaret Sanger, the racist eugenicist who founded Planned
Parenthood with the explicit goal of reducing the number of black people, is surely
smiling up from hell as we speak.
Monday, November 29, 2021
The EMP problem? Good Luck!
EMP is one the most dangerous, if unlikely, threat to modern civilization. A nuclear weapon explosion generates an Electro
Magnetic Pulse, or EMP. A nuclear device
detonated high above the US would generate an EMP pulse across the entire
country. This pulse would flash across
the line of sight from the explosion and create massive amounts of electricity
in things that conduct electricity. Things
like wire, generators, cell phones, pumps, and virtually every other modern
device. That EMP generated electricity
would instantly melt every wire, circuit board, computer chip and anything else
that can conduct electricity.
The only nuclear EMP scenario that does not result in nuclear
Armageddon is that of a terrorist strike.
Perhaps a terror organization steals nukes from a nuclear power, say Russia. They are then able to smuggle these nukes
onto a platform capable of getting high over the United States. Commercial aircraft, perhaps. They are then able to get the stolen nukes
to detonate somehow, and the US has no one to launch nukes against, sparing us
nuclear war, but leaving the US to deal with the EMP effects. Unlikely
in the extreme, but possible.
The last scenario for an EMP hit is a Coronal Mass
Ejection. The Sun has been known to periodically
blow out massive solar flares that disrupt telecommunications here on
earth. A large enough CME event would
have the same effect as an EMP by creating a magnetic pulse across the entire
globe. This event, although unlikely, is
possible and would hit us with little or no warning.
So if we experience an EMP…
In an instant we would return to the 80’s in terms of
technology. No. Not the 1980’s. The 1880’s.
No lights, no refrigeration, no pumps, no engines, no phones,
no cars, no elevators, no airplanes, no trains.
The effects would be devastating. Without pumps there is no running water. Without trains, trucks, harvesters, or refrigeration
there will be no food. Food supplies would run short in days, and the
efforts to distribute emergency supplies would be hampered by the lack of
communication and transportation.
In the immediate aftermath, hundreds of thousands of people would die. At the moment of the EMP, planes would fall from the skies, cars on the highway would crash, elevators in high rises would be stuck, exploding electrical equipment would start fires. There would be no way to call the fire department, no operable firetrucks, no pumps, and no water for the hoses. The resulting fires would burn millions of buildings to the ground with big cities at risk of massive firestorms that burn out the entire city.
After the fires burned themselves out, the real problems
would begin.
Millions would be without shelter. If the EMP pulse hit during the winter months,
low temperatures would kill millions in the northern parts of the country. Exposure to extreme cold would kill in a few hours,
and even moderate temperatures in the 30-40 degree range would kill within
days.
Then things would get really bad.
Food would start to run out within days and weeks. The average American has only a one-week supply
or less of food on hand, and much of that will spoil when freezers and refrigerators
stop working. Most of the food on hand
will be difficult to prepare – no electricity for ovens or cook tops, no natural
gas pumped into your home. Medical supplies
would disappear, and everyone dependent on regular medication would succumb to
the ravages of age and disease.
There will be no police or other first responders. You can’t call them, and they could only walk
to your location if they somehow got your distress call. The thin veneer of civilization would quickly
tear away. Those displaced by the fires
and lacking food or water will attempt to take it from others that do have food
and shelter. Isolated incidents will
give way to waves of looting and an orgy of violence.
Then things would get really, really bad.
The food on hand would run out within a few weeks, perhaps a
few months if people can make do on canned goods and dried pasta or the outside
temperature keeps food on hand from spoiling immediately. The water situation would become super critical. With no fresh water on hand, people would need
to travel on foot to rivers and streams.
The same lack of running water would also prevent the sewers and toilets
from working, so the streams and rivers would quickly become fouled with human
waste and other chemicals released in the chaos. The contaminated water would spread diseases such
as cholera and dysentery, further worsening the situation. People traveling to water sources would be
set upon by criminals and gangs. They
would need to form gangs of their own to create safe passages to water.
With limited food, contaminated water in short supply, and no way to procure more in the short term, millions will die of starvation or disease.
Guns would ultimately decide who get food and water, with
the organized gangs and militia’s rising to ensure collective safety. Warlords would take control of the areas
where the government, if it functions at all, can’t reach, which would be likely
be vast swaths of the rural areas and the inner city.
The world would look a lot like feudal Europe in the
aftermath of the Plague, with small bands of survivors huddled inside defensive
forts and intergroup communication and trade nearly non-existent. Rivers and waterways would again become the primary mode of transportation. Armed brigands would control the highways, and
there would be battles over key resources like water and arable land.
Compounding the difficulties would be the lack of 19th
century skills or resources. Even if
there were enough horses, plows, and seed, very few people know how to use them properly.
Out of this chaos and destruction, some people would try to
rebuild.
They would try to get the pumps and generators back online. They would try to get the internal combustion
engines working again. But this would
be nearly impossible.
Every modern device depends on computer chips or tiny
sensitive electronics on circuit boards.
You can’t just start building these things – the factories and the entire
supply chain are dependent on electricity. To fix the pump (assuming it’s an old school
pump with no circuit boards, you would need to re-wire the motor. This would
require copper wire, which would have to be made on machines that need
electricity. It would require copper,
which needs ore to be mined and transported to machines, all of which need electricity
to run.
You would have to re-build from scratch. Hand tools and horses to build non-electric
machines to build the wires to fix the pumps.
The process took us 100 years the first time, but we could probably do
it in, say, 5-10 years this time. The
horse shortage alone would take years to alleviate assuming you could double the
available stock every year or so.
In the meanwhile, people would have to return to pre-industrial
farming techniques. To make matter worse,
there would be a massive shortage of hand tools. Hoes, scythes, plows, axes, shovels, and
picks would be in short supply, with no immediate way to make new ones.
The population would drop to the levels that could be
supported by pre-industrial agriculture.
It would probably drop below those levels as it would take a few years
to effectively switch from modern agribusiness farming techniques to traditional
methods.
So who would be worst off and somewhat better off in the
event on an EMP:
People in airplanes, fast moving vehicles, elevators: Dead. Immediately, if not sooner.
People in low rise city buildings, suburbs, and smaller
urban centers, commuters at work far from home: At Risk, survival is dependent on preparation or luck. Survival past 30 days is a 50/50 chance,
longer survival problematic and dependent on access to food, water, and
firearms. Food riots and gang warfare will
kill as many as lack of food and water.
People in rural areas: Decent Chance of survival
depending on degree of preparedness. Will
be largely insulated from the urban food riots and will have access to cleaner
water.
So if you hope to survive an EMP… well, good luck.
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Rittenhouse Verdict...
As we wait for the Rittenhouse verdict, I have a few final thoughts:
There are a number of really questionable things done by the prosecution that make me wonder about the state of criminal jurisprudence in this country:
Lied about the Law: The prosecution straight up lied about the law. They repeatedly said that "if you have a gun, you lose the right to self defense'. Kyle should have 'taken a beating' rather than use deadly force. This is not the law in Wisconsin, or anywhere else for that matter. Why does the Prosecution get to lie about the law?
Fast and loose with the Rules: The prosecution made several statements that brought down scorn and admonishment from the judge. Attempting to impeach Kyle for his silence, bringing in evidence that had been ruled out of bounds, and other indiscretions raised the ire of the judge and gave Rittenhouse grounds for a mistrial ruling or a very strong argument on appeal.
Grosskruetz shadow deal: The lack of interview recordings and the failure to seize his phone are very unusual. As noted in a previous post, Grosskruetz's treatment by the authorities is very odd and smacks of a behind the scenes deal.The defense was weak. Kyle's defense was on solid factual footing, but missed a few important elements on the narrative:
Factual misstatements: the prosecution made a number of factual misstatements or distortions that the defense did not object to or correct. "Guns aren't Left or right handed" and 'full metal jacket bullets are extra scary and deadly" stand out as false to the gun nuts like me. These were not corrected by the defense and a critical to the self defense claim:
- Full metal jacket bullets for an AR15 are not extra deadly. They are the standard ammunition for that gun. They are used for training, target shooting, varmint hunting and more. It is the specialty ammo that is out of the ordinary. It costs more and is used for specific purposes like long range shooting, hunting, or military applications. The assertion about the full metal jacket ammo is a farce.
- The fuzzy image that purportedly shows Kyle point the weapon at Zaminski looks like Kyle is handling the weapon left handed. The prosecution claims that guns are not 'handed', and the defense failed to point out the obvious. Every picture and video that night show Kyle with the rifle slung for right handed use. In order for the prosecution's claim to be correct, Kyle would have had to unsling the gun, switch the gun over to his off hand, point it at Zaminski, then shift the gun back and re-sling it. None of this is consistent with the crystal clear and voluminous images of Kyle carrying the gun right handed.
Time Parsing: The prosecution made a big deal out of the frame-by-frame review of each of the shootings. They then argued that Kyle had the information and the time required to re-assess and take a different course of action. Kyle didn't have to fire again after the first shot at Rosenbaum. Kyle had more room to retreat, etc. All of this is obviously false when you view the video at full speed. There was less than a second between the first and fourth shots at Rosenbaum. There was no time to reassess, and more importantly, no way Kyle could have known that in the moment. Kyle missed Jump Kick man entirely at the same distance a few minutes later. Kyle's shooting of Rosenbaum was one single shooting, not four separate incidents you can parse apart in .2 second increments.
Jump Kick Man: If this is what the prosecution and the media want you to believe (Kyle is an active shooter being lawfully detained by heroic citizens) then why has Jump Kick Man not come forward? If the media narrative is correct, then he would be lauded as a hero. He could fill in missing pieces of the puzzle such as what the motivations were for attacking Kyle, and what happened in the gap between the first and second shootings. He has reportedly been identified, but this is still unconfirmed. But he has
not come forward. This makes the Active Shooter narrative seem rather suspect.
Protesters: The protestors outside the court are reportedly audible from within the jury room. Surely this is prejudicial to Kyle. What are the chances that the jury can reach an impartial decision when death threats and more are being chanted by a mob outside the window. Why is this allowed?
Friday, November 12, 2021
Fact Free Legal Hot Takes
There are several ways people are attempting to put Kyle
Rittenhouse in jail for murder that need to be exposed for the pure evil inherent
in their arguments.
Argument #2: Opine sans
facts. Many of the arguments I have seen
lie or mislead about every single fact in evidence in the case. “Kyle brought a gun across state lines to hunt
down peaceful protestors and he shot unarmed people who had their hands up”. This sort of fact-free invective is
inexcusable in light of 8 days of testimony and hours of video evidence to the
contrary. It is not constructive to
spout lies while demanding justice – you are only making things worse.
Argument #3:
Raaaaacist! There are people arguing
that Kyle Rittenhouse is a racist. This
is not supported by the facts, and many of these people seem to think that Kyle
shot a bunch of black people. This is a
tragic situation and dragging race into it when there is zero evidence that
shooting three white people was in any way based on racism borders is evil. We have enough racial grievance in this
country without making up fake racism to add to the fire.
If you are going to make arguments in favor of locking someone
up for the rest of their life, at least have the decency to use actual facts and
think through the public policy implications of your ideas.
Rittenhouse Prosecution Fail
Proud to be an American?
Monday, November 1, 2021
This Week I Learned...
Joe Biden met with the Pope.
There was widespread criticism that he is not actually Catholic given
the many heretical statements he has made that directly contradict the core teaching
of the Catholic church, his dubious election to the office, and the rampant sex
scandals under his administration. Some people
even said the some of same things about Joe Biden.
A pilot says ‘Let’s Go Braves!’ as his Southwest Flight
takes off out of Houston. A reporter mishears
it as “Let’s Go Brandon”. She storms the
cockpit and twitter-starts a national political firestorm claiming the pilot
represented a terroristic danger.
Members of the fair and unbiased media leapt into action to claim the pilot
was likely so deranged that he might fly the plane into the ground based on
this statement. There was a wave of
media reports calling for the pilot and the entire crew to be fired. Also some commentators demanded that the pilots
entire family and children be permanently barred from hold jobs due to the risk
of radicalization they represent. Zero reporters
actually bothered to ask if it really happened.
It was all fake news, and it exposed who the actual dangerous lunatics
are in our society.
Carbon emissions represent a clear and present danger the
future of humanity. And also 400+ private
jets are required to fly all the fancy people to Glasgow to talk about why
excessive carbon emissions are a danger, and how you little people need to stop
driving cars.
The Climate Summit people can accurately predict the climate
in 100 years. They are demanding that we
all switch to electric cars because of the accuracy of those dire
predictions. Also, they failed to correctly
calculate the number of electric car charging stations required at the event,
and so many cars attending the Summit were unable to find a place to recharge.
American Airlines is experiencing ‘bad weather’ resulting in
the cancellation of over 2,000 fights. This
has nothing to do with vaccine mandates, and everything to do with bad weather.
In unrelated news, American Airline is shocked to learn that the traveling public
can see the weather maps that indicate clear skies over 90% of North America.
The COVID vaccines are being approved for children, the group
that is statistically the safest from the effects of the disease. No discussion of the potential side effects of
the vaccine being more dangerous than the disease for this age group is permitted
on social media. In completely unrelated
news, new outlets have begun running stories about how “heart attacks in kids
are more common that you think” and ‘strokes in children are rare, but you shouldn’t
be surprised…”. These stories are in NO
WAY connected to the upcoming wave of vaccines being forced on children despite
there being zero evidence that COVID is a threat to children.
The COVID vaccine was approved for children despite the lack
of long-term data on the effects because, in the words of one of the approving
committee members ‘we have to give it to kids to find out what happens to them’. In unrelated news, Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine
remain banned because despite millions of doses being administered over many
years around the world, there is not enough data to take the risk of allowing
doctors to prescribe that medicine for adults.
Joe Biden fell asleep during the opening speeches of the Climate
Summit. I don’t blame him. Who could remain conscious for long with all
that droning idiocy?
Monday, October 25, 2021
Another Great Week! Thanks Biden Voters!
Joe Biden froze in in place in an awkward Beavis pose for an extended period during a nationally televised Town Hall. No one noticed, apparently because it was on CNN, and none of the 7 viewers were actually paying attention.
Friday, October 8, 2021
Nothing Burger of the Year
Here is a summary of the timeline:
- Obama Administration 2016: Hey! Let's put Tubman on the 20!
- Federal Reserve: Ok, well, we need to do a lot of technical stuff, that will take until 2028 to accomplish that...
- Activists: Hey! The 100th Anniversary of 19th Amendment is in 2020, let's introduce the Tubman bill in 2020!
- Trump Admin: Uh, no, you can't really rush the process. There is a lot of anti-counterfeiting technical stuff.... the 2028 timeline is still the timeline.
- New York Times: Trump cancels the Tubman $20 Bill! He's a raaaaacist!!!!
- Federal Reserve: Uh, no, we have not canceled anything. This stuff just takes time.
- The Rest of the Media: Trump hates Tubman and all black people and the Fed is terrified of him!!! Systemic Racism!!!!
- Biden Administration: We are going to 'revive' a project that was never cancelled. See? We aren't racist like Orange Man Bad.
So, the bill is still in progress but the government moves very slowly. As per the usual arrangement, the media is lying, and those lies are now the generally accepted narrative.