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by Roving Reporter, ©2023

(May 10, 2023) — “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” (2:58)

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. Our featured guest today is a retired General who oversaw procurement for, what, the Army?”

“Everybody.”

“Navy?”

“All of them.”

“National Guard?”

“Son, you just don’t listen, do you? No, don’t answer; it’s a rhetorical question. Here’s what I’m going to do: I’m calling your General friend — you know, the one who pushes his blackboard on wheels all over the place, and asking him to take my place. Please excuse me.”

“Very well. While you do that, we’ll take a short commercial break. Don’t go anywhere.”

Blues in Open G” (1:16)

“We called the General and have him on Skype. We see you clearly, General, and thank you for taking my call.”

“You’re out of uniform, son.”

“Been there,; done that. I’m out, sir, Honorable Discharge with Good Conduct.”

“Nonsense. Once the Oath, always the Oath. Don’t forget that. You were going to talk about ‘procurement,’ isn’t that right?”

“Yes, sir, I was going to ask about government contracts to civilians and if the Joint Chiefs got a piece of it.”

“You mean ‘kickbacks,’ don’t you? Well, then, why don’t you just come out and say it? Cat got your tongue? Of course there were kickbacks; get real. Now you’re going to ask me how many civilian contractors were left behind and subsequently discovered by the Taliban, tortured, and beheaded, aren’t you?”

“Well, yes, I was.”

“Thousands, believe me. Between the French, English, and Germans there were over a thousand, easy. Now as far as the Americans go, another thousand or more, besides the 13 we all saw blown to bits on TV.”

“Understood. So, after Afghanistan, what do the troops think of Biden?”

“In one word, they want O-U-T. To put it honestly, they hate his guts, and the same for VP Harris.”

“Please comment on our readiness for war.”

“If Andorra declared war on the United States, Biden would surrender, and that’s all she wrote. General Mark Milley would cry, maybe, and then call the Chinese for them to fight the Andorrans for us, but China would decline because by then there’d be no more women on our ships and no ‘wokeness’ in our military.”

“That’s right; there’s no ‘woke’ in any other military except ours. There aren’t any ‘trans’ and queers, okay? There are men and women who took the Oath and that’s all there is to it, or should be. Patriots. And bring back the Draft, abolish the Department of Homeland Security and let those Jan.-Sixers OUT OF JAIL (2:24). The real insurrectionists that day were Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi and all the others, including the Capitol Police GESTAPO goons who, if anyone deserves to be in lockup, it’s them.”

“Anything else?”

“Look, the Deep State is going to do everything they can to keep Trump (3:30) off the ballot in 2024. They will cheat, lie and pay off as many as it takes. They’ll run as many so-called Republicans against Trump as possible. They will use perhaps well-meaning but, basically, really stupid people to come after Trump. They’ll call themselves ‘good Republicans’ and claim they once ‘liked’ Trump but they’ve ‘moved on.’ But they are but pawns of the Deep State. Beating protesters to death is what Hitler’s Brownshirts did. Torturing and beating to death prisoners in the German concentration camps is THE EXACT SAME BEHAVIOR that we’ve sunk to, isn’t that right?”

“Another rhetorical question.”

“You’re learning. Why aren’t there thousands surrounding the Washington gulag every night at 9:00 p.m.? Why are the guards allowed to drive to and from work without driving through a gauntlet of protesters? As long as we accept the abuses the Deep State throws at us, nothing will change.”

“So, if the same people who counted the votes in 2020 count the votes in 2024, what can we expect?”

“Same result: Trump will win by millions of votes, but Biden will still be sworn in. Listen: The Deep State has taken over and it’s up to us to take it back. If Katie Hobbs remains the governor of Arizona, the USA doesn’t stand a chance.”

“Any good news?”

“I’m afraid not, unless I can draw you General Lee’s attack plan of Gettysburg, which, by the way, would’ve worked except for the fortunes of war.”

“And what are the fortunes of war?”

“That the best-laid plans go out the window as soon as the first shot is fired. Flexibility is the key; that, and luck.”

“In the novel, ‘War and Peace,’ the Russian Army officer’s horse bolted towards the front and, hence, won the battle. I think it was Fedor Dolokhov’s horse, but I may be mistaken.”

“Maybe.”

“Well, bye, and thanks for talking with us. We’ll take a short commercial break.”

Kung Fu Fighting” (3:17)

“And we’re back with Jack Nichols who has a different point of view, so he says. Take it away.”

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“As I was cleaning the kitty litter box this morning, my mind wandered back to when I was stationed at the US Navy transit barracks in Yokohama, Japan. An old Marine ‘Gunny’ took me under his wing and taught me some Judo moves that, for real, saved my life a few months later. Anyway, as I was cleaning the litter box, I thought about what he said one time, but as soon as I tried to remember what he said I forgot what I was supposed to remember.”

“That sucks.”

“You’re not tellin’ me anything I don’t already know.”

“Old age creeping in.”

“It sneaks up on you, with no warning, and the next thing you know is that you can’t bench- press half of what you could just a couple of years ago, except that the couple of years ago turns out to be a couple decades ago. Not fair.”

“Seems that time accelerates the older you get.”

“Remember when Santa Claus couldn’t get here soon enough?”

“Yes, I do. Lately it seems he comes too darn often. So, the Judo moves worked.”

“Saved my life. Was jumped by a couple of Chinamen in Hong Kong and had a knife pressed against my throat. Anyway, thanks for having me on your popular show.”

“Anytime. Reminder that Biden has been responsible for deaths all over the world, from our southern border to Ukraine, and it’s getting worse. The longer we tolerate this inept and corrupt administration, the worse off everyone will be. It is possible that Biden may irrevocably harm our country. The dollar is being replaced as the currency of  the world; that’s what I mean by ‘irrevocable harm.’ This is your Roving Reporter, on behalf of Jack, wishing each of you a goodnight: Goodnight.

“Good show. Burger time: my treat.”

Shout” (4:28)

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