Gracious me! The time got away from me. I’m spending too much time on Twitter making fun of Rachel Madcow and some dumb Negro rappers who are threatening to assassinate Trump and kidnap his wife and pimp her out as a whore. And Negroes wonder why cops are wary of young Negro men. As I’ve said many times to the professional Negro grievance industry, if you want the cops to treat you with respect, quit acting like barbarian savages. This is the United States, not Africa. Anyway, here’s Ron’s latest rant because I don’t have time to write anything.

Hard to avoid “breaking news” these days. And even harder not to hear the same thing a dozen times a day when the leftistas go into a feeding frenzy. I’ve lost all confidence in news from all TV stations except OAN, where at least they’re up front about being biased (conservatively).

About the only way to find out what’s really happening in politics or government or international relations or terrorism is to go on line and read CNN, OAN, FoxNews, and BBC (if you can get it), then average ‘em all out and investigate, interpolate, and extrapolate for yourself.

Today it’s Rachel Maddow and her giant nothingburger about DJT’s taxes. I’ve watched Maddow before just to see what all the fuss was about when I picked up some heavy-duty snark about her from conservative blogs a few years ago.

She can be persuasive and contagious, I suppose, to those who already agree with her take on things. She’s certainly glib and quick and articulate, and obviously quite well educated, at least in formal terms. I read somewhere that she has a doctorate in PoliSci.

But despite her intellect and her energy, I just can’t go along with much of what she says. I know it’s not fair to judge a pundit or analyst based on limited observations of no more than an hour or so total, but I’ve tried shrimp in a wide variety of recipes and just don’t like it, and it’s the same with opinions – they’re like armpits; everybody’s got ‘em and all of ‘em stink from time to time, even my own.

Same with Maddow. Don’t think I’d like her even if I had nothing to watch BUT her for political news analysis. You could feed me shrimp or crab or lobster every day, but I doubt very much I’d ever develop a taste for it . . . smells like a dumpster out behind a Chinese restaurant that hasn’t been dumped all summer — can’t get it past my nostrils.

Now, since I don’t like crab, or oysters, or mudbugs, or anything that wears its skeleton on the outside and feeds on the bottom, I don’t eat it. That doesn’t mean I want everyone else to abstain from eating the stuff if they like it. That would be narrow-minded and childishly selfish, downright “progressive,” like the people who don’t like guns and therefore believe that NO ONE should have them, except their own bodyguards.

My wife and all our children and grandchildren enjoy shrimp and all those bottom-feeding necromancers. Fine with me, so long as I don’t have to smell it cooking or its remnants in the trash. Same with Maddow et al. I’ll try it, but if I don’t like it I won’t come back to it.

I just wish people, and that includes ABCNNBCBS and MSNBC and ESPN and SNL and NYC and the Left Coast, would give DJT a chance instead of turning pissant mounds into Vesuviuses and fireflies into flame-breathing dragons while giving unlimited free passes to a magic negro who accomplished nothing positive in 8 years and claims never to have had a scandal in his administration.

What will we get a few days from the media when the income-tax Capone-vault caper has run its course and the Russian connection wears thin and gives out? Incest? Genetic insanity? Crossdressing? Body doubles? Nazi connection? His youngest kid is autistic? J.H.F.C. Enuf is enuf.

With VERY few exceptions, there are no great men. Generally speaking, what we get are guys like Eisenhower or Truman or Churchill who were basically just ordinary guys challenged by extraordinary circumstances.

Very few are actually born great. They might be born into environments or situations which prepare them for leadership, such as Alexander or JFK – power or money – or they might just stumble into greatness, like Steve Young who was a backup for Joe Montana and got the #1 job when Montana suffered a serious tendon injury or Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) the understudy for the famous Lawrence Olivier who got his break when Olivier went down with appendicitis.

Others such as Audie Murphy have greatness jammed in their faces because of fast-breaking life-or-death situations with which they had no causal connection but repeatedly rose to the occasion to become national heroes.

A guy who becomes a somebody, a guy who starts with nothing and accomplishes what others see as spectacular, is going to be criticized while he’s climbing that shaky ladder. It’s part of the dues one pays for being famous. Great men know that, and the shine on their greatness is that they can rise above the BS and make it all the way to the top no matter what people do to impede them or shoot them down.

Trump seems much more open-minded about things than his predecessor. I think he’s willing to listen on most issues. Doesn’t mean he’ll change his mind and he’s often his own worst public-affairs enemy, but in cases where he’s not particularly experienced, I think he’ll hear out the experts before ordering the baby thrown out with the bath.

Without a certain degree of liberal open-mindedness, there could never be any new inventions, no forward progress, only stagnation. But if there’s no respect for time-honored and experience-proven standards, there can be no order, no reliability, only chaos.

An old adage says that if you’re young and not a liberal, you have no heart, and if you’re over 40 and STILL a liberal, you haven’t learned a damned thing so far. DJT looks to me like an open-minded guy with some deeply rooted conservative standards. One helluva lot better than a foreign-oriented socialist who would side with the Muslims if the winds turned in an ugly direction.

And as for the media, let’s just leave it at this: Great men discuss ideas. Average guys discuss events. Immature troublemakers discuss other people.