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Featured Post
by Medron Pryde on January 19, 2024 at 12:02 am
Posted In: Diaries

We found hyperspace in 2105 and the Great Space Race began. Alliances, nations, corporations, and religions reached out for the stars and humanity spread beyond the Solar System. We learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time in 2205. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and we expanded our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.

Jack grew up in a world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then an alien sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and wiped out almost everything and everybody Jack knew. He volunteered to serve and kick the alien scum back to the other side of the galaxy. But the Marines wanted more than people looking for revenge, and cybernetic partners demanded a far higher commitment. If Jack wanted to earn his commission as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, he had to grow up. He had to let himself be forged into something stronger than he’d ever wanted to be. He had to live up to the name of his squadron.

The Republic of Texas Marine Corps Fighter Attack Squadron 112. The Cowboys.

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Cancer Sucks

by Medron Pryde on May 20, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Cancer Sucks.

My mom died of cancer three years ago after fighting it for a few months. It was fast. Far more aggressive than the doctors expected. It attacked her faster and harder. It was originally skin cancer but went to her bones, chewed up her spine, and went everywhere. The treatment worked, but it blasted her heart, so they took her off it because they didn’t want her heart to stop. And the cancer roared back fast enough to overwhelm anything the treatments could do. In the end, Mom saw no hope and chose to stop fighting it. She would have died better if the treatments had finished killing her heart. Instead, the cancer chewed through her brain, painfully and destructively and painfully, until she just went away.

Now we know that Scott Adams has cancer. He says he has prostate cancer that has gone to his bones. He’s known about it since at least last year and probably won’t last through the summer. He’s been using a walker for months, he’s always in pain, and he has weeks or months left. He’s going to probably take a little drink, go to sleep, and drift away. I wish Mom would have had that option.

And of course news came out on Sunday that Joe Biden has prostate cancer as well. That it is in the bones and that he is going to die soon. Cancer sucks. How long as he known about it? They say Friday. I don’t believe that. It’s caught by a standard yearly blood test. The same blood test his doctor’s didn’t talk about last time. And he said back in 2022 that had cancer. That might have been his mind going, but I think it was probably just him forgetting to censor that bit out. Because his mind was going. We deserve to know how long he’s had it. We need to know for very important political and criminal reasons.

And at the same time, I can say I’m sorry for him. Cancer is not an easy way to go. The cancer is ripping you apart piece by piece and it hurts. It hurts for a long time. It hurts until you die. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, and I hope he gets out easier and quicker than Mom did. Maybe he can take a drink with Scott Adams and they can check out together.

In the end, Cancer Sucks. And that’s all there is.

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Trump – The Presidency

by Medron Pryde on May 19, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

On this week’s episode of Trump – The Presidency, Season Two…

In a fit of grand retarded political theater, Democratic politicians bum rush a migrant holding center in New Jersey. Their purpose? To have the media film them making an idiotic scene, something they fully accomplished. The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is arrested, and sentenced to remain in Newark. His lawyer claims this is cruel and unusual punishment. The other politicians involved deny they assaulted officers, despite the overwhelming video evidence. Their exact legal defense was, “Did not!”

China comes to the bargaining table ending the media’s self-proclaimed “tariff war.” Democrats are left confused as to which flag they should be using on social media, Ukraine or China.

Hamas releases the last American hostage held in Gaza. Students at Columbia University seize a building in protest.

President Trump finally found an enemy of the American people that everyone can agree upon: Big Pharma. He signed an Executive Order to reduce the price of drugs and medication across the board. Once more the left decides to side against the people they allegedly represent. The Democrats immediately flip their stand on the issue; now opposing price controls, while offering to let the representatives of the pharmacy lobby take them out for dinner to discuss what lawsuits they want filed in court against RFK and DJT.

Saturday night, Trump convinces India and Pakistan to a cease fire, bringing to question, “What in hell did you do Saturday night?”

Trump orders the converting of a housing shelter into residents for veterans in Los Angeles. In an act of protest, left wing politicians decide to rush VA facilities all over the country to barge their way in to prove that Veterans don’t need shelter. When they arrive, they are put on six month waiting lists and given a bottle of aspirin, the universal VA cure for anything.

While in the Middle East, Trump met with Syria’s acting President, hoping to bring some stability to the region. The left immediately denounced a stable Middle East as a threat to democracy.

Trump announces that China has agreed, in principle, to renegotiate our current trade imbalance. The Trade War lasted three weeks with a significantly better deal for the US. There was no recession, no economic collapse, and the stock market is up for the year, meaning that the Democrats are enraged.

Qatar gifted the Department of Defense a Boeing jet to be used as a temporary Air Force One. The left immediately forgets about tariffs and demand that the plane be returned and a new one purchased for $10 billion over cost, because overspending is what their party is all about. Bernie Sanders criticizes it as he boards his private jet to talk about how Trump is an oligarch.

The President upped the deal by securing purchases for Boeing for aircraft ($96 billion); causing the Democrats to refer to manned flight as racist. By the time he left the gulf region, he had secured over two trillion dollars in investments in the US. If it had been Joe Biden on this trip, he would have left with Hunter appointed to an energy company board and the soaps he would steal from the hotel room. Kamala wouldn’t have been invited because drinking alcohol is an offense, and she hasn’t faced four sober days in years.

This episode was capped off by James Comey executing the worst book promotional move ever by posting a photo showing shells spelling out, 86 47, then decrying that he didn’t know what 86ing something was. He also didn’t apologize. While the rest of the planet knew what that message was, many were more offended of the thought of James Comey in a Speedo, walking along the beach.

Eww!

Will Comey get a cavity search by the Secret Service, and will they film it? Will Iran roll the dice and pray for a win? Can Newark Airport’s reputation actually get worse? For these answers and more tune in next week, same MAGA time, same MAGA channel.

– Blaine Lee Pardoe

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Joe Biden’s Mind

by Medron Pryde on May 18, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Joe Biden’s mind has been gone for years. We knew it in 2020. We saw it when he stumbled out onto the campaign for the nomination back in 2019. We saw it throughout the campaign for the Presidency. They had to drug him up to get Dark Brandon out and screaming at his enemies. Otherwise he stumbled around and talked to dead people. His wife knew it. The Democrat party knew it. The media knew it. Anybody who watched Biden in action knew it. But the Democrat Party and Big Media, but I repeat myself, lied to us all. They said what we saw with our own eyes was a lie and that he was the best Biden ever. That he was the smartest man in the room. That his people couldnt keep up with him. They lied. They lied until enough people saw through the lie that they could no longer keep up the lie. And now they want to say they were lied to. They were deceived. They truly believed that Joe Biden was the man in charge of the Presidency. Don’t believe them. They were in on the lie, the con, since the beginning. Don’t let them lie their way out of the lie they told all of us for years. That Joe Biden’s mind was functional. That Joe Biden was the President in both name and action.

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What a Crazy Week

by Medron Pryde on May 17, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

What a crazy week this has been for Democrats. In one moment of crazy, Trump brought around 50 South Afrikaners fleeing gang slayings, rapes, and dismemberings (and for the really lucky ones it was in that order) into America. Democrat leadership and the Main Stream Media went nuts, decrying Trump for daring to bring those evil White people into America. A church even stopped supporting the refugee program because they couldn’t support bringing white people in. And basically everybody with a brain looked at them and said… dudes… you know that’s racist…

And it got so bad for them that a former director of the FBI went and shared a picture calling to assassinate Trump, I’m assuming so it would take the pressure off them for looking like giant racists.

What a crazy weeek…

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Wyrd West Rawhide Revenants

by Medron Pryde on May 16, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Raconteur Press has put out Wyrd West Rawhide Revenants, and I hope you check it out. The Wild West can be a crazy place, especially when you bring the fae or other magical creatures into the mix. You never know what you’ll find there until you open the pages to see… if you dare…

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2304 - Forge of War

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2305 - The Audacious Affair

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2307 - The Family Affair

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2309 - The Thunderbird Affair

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