The Crowhill Journal

I like my Toyota Rav-4. It’s been a reliable car, and almost no trouble. But there are some things about it that annoy me, like the tire pressure sensors. Those things are notoriously unreliable. I want to turn them off, but there’s no way to do that.

Or how about the “I will lock your doors when I think they need to be locked” function? I want to turn that off. I will lock the doors when I want to lock the doors.

Or the “your headlights will stay on after you turn off the car” function? Again, I will turn them on when I want them on, and off when I want them off.

Other people might like these “features.” Fine. They can have them. But why do I have to be cursed with them?

I can drill into my phone and turn (most) annoying settings off. But I can’t do that with my car. Why not?

I imagine Toyota would say something like “we’re doing this for your safety,” to which I say “go soak your head.” Seat belts are for safety. Locking my doors when I didn’t ask you to is just annoying.

Morning Wire (which I listen to almost every day) had a very interesting episode on why pro-transgender laws continue to pass in red states.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-transgender-laws-fail-in-red-states-2-19-23/id1576594336?i=1000600381676

Spoiler: because Big Pharma gives them campaign contributions.

Big Pharma wants to sell more drugs, whether people need those drugs or not. Rather than reining them in, Congress is helping them.

And that’s not the only form of government corruption. For the past several decades, the country has wanted Congress to stop illegal immigration, but they steadfastly refuse. Why?

Somebody is paying them, and the corrupt media doesn’t even report on it.

Our checks and balances have failed. We need new ones.

The recent nonsense about balloons has proven that both the Biden administration and the mainstream media are inept, incompetent, and untrustworthy.

To say nothing of the incompetent response to the train derailment in Pennsylvania.

Recent studies have shown that trust in the media is at an all-time low. It’s well deserved. But it still shocks me that Democrats didn’t get more of a no confidence vote in the last election.

I just saw a video about some teacher who wrote out the 9 times table, but did one of them wrong. He had 9 x 10 = 91.

The students laughed, and then the teacher went into some goofy “life lesson” about how people pay attention to mistakes, but don’t praise you when you get things right.

Well … okay, but think how tiresome life would be if people were praising everyone when they got things right.

“Well done, honey. You stopped at that stop sign! Hey, that’s fabulous, you used your turn signal! Holy smokes, you stopped at the red light! You’re so great!”

For good or ill, Donald Trump has changed the Republican Party. Pre-Trump candidates of the Bush, Romney, and McCain variety — people who want to be friends with the media, who want to compromise with Democrats, who uphold rather than challenge the Washington system, who are mortally afraid of being called racist or sexist — are no longer acceptable. The time is over for that kind of Republican.

Ron DeSantis is a post-Trump Republican. He doesn’t take any guff from the media. He doesn’t allow them to set the agenda with their questions on their terms. He fights against the establishment without apology.

What about Nikki Haley? Is she a pre- or a post-Trump Republican?

I haven’t followed her very carefully, and I hope she proves me wrong, but I have a strong feeling she’s more in the Bush, Romney, and McCain mold, and therefore won’t do at all.

If I’m right, I hope she’s not chosen as a box-checking VP candidate.