Significant Commentary Concerning Colonel Juan Sequin - Spaniard, Mexican, and Texian Extraordinaire

A Long and Complicated Life:   A vignette concerning Juan Nepomuceno Sequin

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 Juan Nepumoceno Sequin
Hero of Texas,
 defender of the Alamo
Commander of the Cavalry at San
Jacinto at the defeat of Antonio
 Lopez de Santa Anna, President
 and Generalissimo of
 Mexican National Forces

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      Responding to Jack Ayoub's excellent contribution of 9 June 2020, regarding Juan Sequin and the events pertaining to his light cavalry, there were in fact Mexican/Spanish Texians who were in the Alamo at the very end, and who died there on the fateful day.  There were perhaps as many as 22 of them.   Their commander, Juan Sequin, was following orders, when William Barrett Travis, commander at the Alamo, sent Sequin to search for reinforcements, or in other words, "…where the Hell is Fannin!!!  Bring him and his men, and anyone else you can!!" (I can almost hear him say).  On or before 28 February 1836  Sequin rode forth into the morning darkness, and found nothing but really bad news for the next 10 days.

   All Fannin's men, along with him, had been unlawfully (according to the rules of war at the time) slaughtered as filibusterers and rustlers, by order of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who was commanding officer, essentially of everything.   General Urrea, back at Goliad, was furious with Santa Anna for having countermanded Urrea's urgency to grant POW status to the Texians under Fannin's command.

     We know the outcomes of all these places, up to and including San Jacinto.  Urrea, however, had friends and cohorts during later moments long after San Jacinto. Talk became intrigue which then became lore, but it was accepted by Mexican military people during those times.   The "body count" of Alamo defenders wandered between 168 and 224.   Numbers would vary, depending upon this saloon in Monterrey or that other one in Mexico City.  The monster Lopez de Santa Anna ordered all Texian defenders to be immolated.     There was only one exception, Jim Bowie's number one buddy and caretaker was Gregario Esparza (Bowie was very infirmed, confined to bed).  That caretaker's body was turned over to a Mexican Army officer who was the half-brother of  Esparza.

     An explanation I have heard at times, and from other sources such as Mexican friends and scholars, is that Juan Seguin's patrulleros who stayed back at the Alamo, while Seguin rode out (at great jeopardy) alone save for three other cavalrymen. As those four rode out to search for the non-existent reinforcements, the others of Sequin's cavalry were slaughtered along with the rest of the Alamo Defenders.  They were burned with the rest, although some of their paperwork, orders documents, and such, were"souvenired" by Mexican soldiers, especially officers.   It is known that Juan Seguin avoided speaking about those light-cavalrymen he left behind at the Alamo...all of whom were either good friends or relatives of some kind or another.

That disposition continued until his death on this Earth in 1890 at the age of 84.

   Seguin rode into the retreat line, all the while gathering up his new replacements of "mounted infantry" during the trek to the east.  He was on the way, as we know,  to a place called San Jacinto, and he preferred to talk about "tomorrow",  and his hatred of Lopez de Santa Anna.  He said little or nothing about what had occurred back in San Antonio and the Alamo. His performance at San Jacinto, along with his cavalrymen, brought (Col.) Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar, commander of cavalry, to be muchly pleased with Sequin's successes against Lopez de Santa Anna's best cavalry and artillery.   It is said that Seguin's men did not lose a mount or a wounded horseman.   Phenomenal…

    Lamar, who had come through Mexico and into Texas, came with a distaste for the Spanish-Mexicans in general.   After hanging around with Sequin however, he had become quite affected by Sequin and his men.   Supposedly Houston had put Lamar in charge of the limited but effective cavalry.  Houston, along with General Somerville, urged Lamar to put Sequin in charge of the ground attack by that cavalry.

     Lamar was confident of the "chosen man" in those closing hours before the surprise attack on Santa Ana's forces.  One might imagine his disposition towards the Latin-folk was significantly changed further after watching the performance of his XO, Col. Seguin and his men.  They were heroes all.

    We close by saying that my belief is that the "overcount" of roster of all "Killed in Action" among  the Alamo's contingent was actually accurate.    Why?  One reason might well have been that the last group of Seguin's men had not been in the Alamo long enough to "roster-up" and to be assigned duties.  They died on their third day there.
     Another oddity about the Alamo before, during, and after is that Houston ordered Sequin back to San Antonio…quite close to the Sequin properties and home in Floresville just southeast of San Antonio…and gave him the duty and authority to re-establish Law and proper order to that community.   Upon arrival, Sequin ordered the last  contingent of Mexican troops back to Mexico.

     His next inquiry concerned the location of the Travis, Crockett, and Bowie revealed that it was assumed that they had also been immolated.

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     Colonel Juan Nepomuceno Seguin

and  his eloquent Alamo Defenders' Burial Oration
Columbia (Later named the City of Houston)
Telegraph and Texas Register April 4, 1837

Companions in Arms!!

      These remains which we have the honour of carrying on our shoulders are those of the valiant heroes who died in the Alamo. Yes, my friends, they preferred to die a thousand times rather than submit themselves to the tyrant's yoke. What a brilliant example! Deserving of being noted in the pages of history. The spirit of liberty appears to be looking out from its elevated throne with its pleasing mien and point to us saying: "There are your brothers, Travis, Bowie, Crockett, and others whose valor places them in the rank of my heroes." 

     Yes, soldiers and fellow citizens, these are the worthy beings who, by the twists of fate, during the present campaign delivered their bodies to the ferocity of their enemies; who, barbarously treated as beasts, were bound by their feet and dragged to this spot, where they were reduced to ashes. The venerable remains of our worthy companions are with us as witnesses, I invite you to declare to the entire world, "Texas shall be free and independent or we shall perish in glorious combat."

Colonel Juan N. Sequin, Commandant

 San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

Army of the Republic of Texas

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Thanks for your attention!!  More later.

Please remember…Texas is a composite of a score or more of races and ethnicities, white and indigenous, and African, and various places in the Orient, etc.   I am a Confederate…of that majority of Confederates who despise the Ku Klux Klan.

My ancestry includes two great-uncles (brothers of my Grandfather, Norman N. Newton) who were killed during the middle of that horrid War Between the States…who were Yankees…96th Battalion, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

Five of my Confederate 1st and 2nd degree of relations died in Battle or due to wounds suffered in the face of the enemy.  I apologise neither to nor for neither side…but if asked...am a Confederate of the past…and I am a Texian of the now, and for that which is to be.   God Bless General Lee, and God Bless President Davis…and may God Bless America.  

More Later,
El Gringo Viejo

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The Seas Are Stormy

A note filtered in from the confines of Travis County, Texas which holds itself up as one of those "reasonable" places in Texas where the majority of the people think chickens are diamonds and boys and girls can marry their favourite Cedar tree and live happily ever after because everything is "FREEEEeeeeeeee!!!!".   My Consuegro (remember the word, for it means that two men are criss / cross politically related because He is the father-in-law of my daughter, and I am the father-in-law of his son.)  invests some of his pleasantly-pointed and brief message  posted below:

"We will be 105 degrees or more today. We'll see now  how many protesters and marchers we get this afternoon. I vote that the city DOES NOT supply "free water". Sell water for $2.00 and tell the protesters the funds will go to help fund our police department. 

Defunding the police. I've heard proposals to take away guns, tear gas, shields, helmets ect. Mandatory 6 month 'sensitivity' training and yearly testing.

Oh well, lock and load."

Owl

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The future of America

    Pictured to the left is one of those endearing things that make a Daddy so very proud of his progeny.  Our understanding is this picture actually is a "record photo" and it pertains to her having been detained by the New York Police for some real or imagined violation of good public order.

     This is the face of America's "young intellectuals, and apparently much of the Western World, during these times.   Those who know little, and understand less have arrived at the conclusion that their knowledge and deductive ability has obviously risen above the intellectual ability of the masses.   They know this to be true because their college professors, many of whom are third and fourth generation professors, are more than certain that they are guiding lights of knowledge and truth.

   It is that legal and religion of the left's canon that guides "intellectual  truth", for them.  They have descended from and  derived from great-granddaddy professor, granddaddy professor, daddy professor, and mommy-converting-to-daddy professor and have internalised their entire bucket of leftist / marxist bilge.   They have spilled out the contents of that bucket over the "best and brightest" of America's young and budding intellectual powerhouses.

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The bears hang around during the day, and the
 coyotes come at night.  Pumas come whenever
 they wish.
   We were assured that human activity would
 destroy all the major mammals in the western
 Sierra Madres before 1975, due to American
 pollution and Mexican complicity.
The Mama Bear is relaxing while watching
over her cubs.   It's her third litter in five
years.
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  These are the people who told us that the Polar Bear would be extinct before 1975.   There are now five times the number that were known to have existed back then.    People are having trouble with bears of all kinds turning up in places of all types.   In Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico we have the case where this metroplex of 10 or 12 municipalities ( the largest being Monterrey, obviously) bears are so numerous that the State government and the localities have had to establish a "Bear Round-up Service".   Reasonable estimates concerning these bears is that there are something in the area of 6,000 in the mountains to the west of Monterrey's metro area and it seems to extend down to the Linares - Iturbide area in the Sierra Madre Oriental's very rugged topography, 80 miles to the south.

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Never have so many milled around so much for so little
 justifiable purpose.  Banal, pointless demands, and
 tonnes of chants were in abundance, although
 none of it made any sense.

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     The "We Are the World" people have to explain to us about AlGore's love mansion that he bought for his new squeeze after he ran off his long-suffering  wife.   You see, it is below the sea - level that he predicted would occur if George Bush failed to stop the inevitable 20 yard rise when all the ice in the Antarctic is melted by Texas oil and gas production.  AlGore assured the world that would be a matter of three to five years before that particular coastal area of California would be underwater by several yards.

   Now they, the "protestors" and the Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs, presume to tell us what the new Code of Process and Ethics shall be.  Now they propose that police organisations and operations must be "defunded" and shut down.  The notion that a constabulary and records of process for legal reasons is not needed is ludicrous.  Violence would soar, death and destruction would be incomprehensibly devastating and there could be no judicial punishment.   It would, without any doubt, bring anarchy.

    For the agitators and "protestors", they know the objective is for volatility, destruction, violence, and mayhem.   They fool no one about their objectives.  For them, the more "students" and "marchers" and "oppressed" there are who are wounded, bleeding, and/or seriously afflicted or killed, the better it serves their purpose.   The "mainstream press" will make certain to construe all blame as belonging to the shop-owners and constabulary.

     The main purpose of the disorder, as usual, is to cause a form of anarchy.  Preferably, they want to work by night, when those on the offence have the advantage.  The "protestors" also have the advantage that they actually have no rules of engagement.  To them fall all the rights of anarchy…burning, looting, maiming, killing…without any reason or justification.   Now we have CHAZ, the "free zone" in downtown Seattle that has allowed the scum of the Earth to take possession of what was Police Precinct 13…it is an area of six blocks that has been taken over by something between 1,500 to 4,000 miscreants.
     
     All the disorder is necessary so as to keep the streets blocked, clogged, and menacing.  All ignorant, violent imbeciles who need Antifa and Black Lives Matter and George Soros's degenerate, subversive marxists must be kept at the ready.  At times they might be fully in view, and at other times they evaporate into houses, or alleyways, or predesignated "hidey-holes".   The boulevards and byways must be ready to be filled with zomboids chanting menacing threats, throwing rocks, bricks, and other things.  At times there are more fire engines than people.

     At other times there are more animals dressed up as human beings than there  are fire engines.   Sometimes the nights bring a thousand molotov cocktails, and 2,000 boogie boards that serve to knock out police units windshields, car lamps, and safety lights in the rear.  There is the edge of violence in CHAZ, day and night, weekday or weekend now.  Violence, property destruction, and degradation have become the dress code of the city,

     de Blazio, however made me rethink things.  His daughter who is pictured above is very proud of her violation of established law.  She is very proud of being able to ridicule her own father in public.  She is the future of ruin…of abandoned buildings and homes and productive life alternatives.  She is a slug who is motivated only to tear down, remain ignorant…proudly ignorant…and to remain totally self-absorbed while she pushes for the implementation of projects and schemes that have failed every time they were tried.

We hope calamity falls upon her quickly so as to not allow her suffering to be lengthy.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Troubled Jumble - A few grumpy observations

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     These are the times that try men's souls…and everyone else who has a soul.    Your humble observer will never understand the nature of the rolling out of the "pandemic"by so many wise ones who have magnificent credentials and total confidence in themselves, who then blotch every effort to cure a problem.

Mao Tse Tung - first communist leader of
Red China

     It lends cause to the notion that this entire matter was a collision of different forces…each of which was seeking one thing -  anarchy.    There were the groups who believed that a "mild anarchy" was necessary…while another group, known as politicians, and among the very special  group known as Democrat governors who revelled in the opportunity to play the role of Pontius Pilate.   The third group is, of course, the Red Chinese government and their millions of apparatchiks whose business it is to spread horror, death, disease, and chicanery throughout the world.   The main target, of course, is the United States of America…or what is left of it.

     (1)   There can be no reasonable doubt that the contamination that was inflicted upon various parts of the Planet by the Red Chinese government was a wilful, planned, and then executed act of
and by murderous madmen.   These madmen are composed of a like-minded, fairly close-knit group that probably numbers no more than 100,000 individuals.  They rule Red China autocratically, violently, with no concern or respect for anyone save themselves.
     These people revel in the ability to create death as well as torture.   At the end of the "Revolution of Mao", it is generally accepted that Mao and his zombie ghouls executed (murdered) as many as 30,000,000 Chinese people who had directly or indirectly, or with no affiliation at all, been involved with "counterrevolutionary acts".   Mao and his buddies laughed it all off by calling it a learning moment, or a "petrification".

     China was a different story.   China was severely damaged by the Japanese during Emperor Hirohito's drive to make all the Eastern third of the Globe a Kingdom of incomprehensible size and power.   During the prelude to World War II, the Japanese with a scant 70,000,000 people.  

Generalissimo and President
of China…then Taiwan
Chung Kai Shek
1887 - 1975

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The dissolution of the Chinese Monarchy during the first years of the 20th Century set up a an eventual contention between elements loyal to a conservative by the name of Chung Kai Shek and a blubbering communist named Mao Tse Tung.
     The two unlike-minded leaders and their followers did manage to finally blunt the occupation of China, Korea, Siam, Cambodia, Tibet, and Mongolia with the help of the Aussies, Brits, and the AmericansIt was essentially Micronesia and the previously named nations with about 900, 000, 000 (nine hundred million souls) against the 70,000,000 of the Japanese.   It was a war with nearly 10 to 1 odds against the Japanese.
     The Japanese Crown reckoned that since the Japanese had beaten the Russians back at the turn of the century (1900 - 1902) by destroying almost the entirety of the Russian Crown's fleets and taken almost the entirety of the Czar's handsomely uniformed soldiers…they could probably do it again against the totality of the "Entire Eastern World".   But it was not to be…

(2)     After Kobe, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki  (combined 350,000 civilians dead) and resources totally exhausted, Japan set about trying to re-establish a nation as well as a national entity.   The Red Chinese  managed, while Japan climbed out of its ashes, to push Chung Kai Shek and his partisans off of the Chinese mainland.   The Chung group essentially invaded Taiwan and took control of that island nation.   From there, the "Free Chinese" developed a very productive manufacturing and financial bastion, while fending off constant harassment from the Red Chinese.

(3)     Now we have a situation wherein highly qualified medical professionals, surgeons, medicine gurus, and all nature of such advanced practitioners have waded into the mess caused by this mystical coronasinus contamination.  We have already pointed out in previous postings as well in the present one that there was nothing accidental about this particular outbreak of this exotic flu-like infestation.

    Airplanes loaded with Chinese people coming from China were deplaning in Los Angeles, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Seattle.   On the east coast of America, Chinese passengers were coming in at a high rate as well.    It was one of the reasons that Trump decided to pull the plug on Red Chinese originated people flying into the United States and Canada.

      Why are they coming?   Because almost all of them are carrying the disease of coronasinus.  There can be no conjecture or debate or even moralising howling about racism or any such distractions from the facts.  We were invaded by people carrying the illness, purposely, and they did it in Europe as well.

      Red Chinese disinformation was made abundant and the leftist press in Europe and in the United States soaked it up by the shipload.   "American experts" talked about "flattening the line" and "social distance" (the term sounds soooooo terribly astute and high-brow).  Folks, there is no such thing as social distance…the term is made up to make the unwashed masses believe that there are people who know more than we do.
      They still haven't come up with the method of reconciling how the Spanish Flu killed so many more people in per capita terms (the only way to compare between disparate-size masses).   Please remember that in the 1917 - 1919 period of the Spanish Flu 6.8 people died for every 1,000 people by strict, mathematic ratio.
       During this episode of the coronasinus the ratio is 0.033 for every 1,000 people (one-third of a person for every 1,000 people).   These figures are for the United States.   It proves overwhelmingly that the Spanish Flu was much more powerful than what we are suffering through right now.   Furthermore, there were other Asian Flu outbreaks in North America that were much worse in terms of morbidity than this coronosinus.

     The fortunate thing for the ignorami community is that they have no idea what a ratio is, much less a comparative ratio.  A very authoritative young woman pointed out that she knew these statistics were false, because a lot more people than 1,000 had died.  This writer will defer mention concerning the profession of that woman.   Lamentably…these people can vote…and the woman in question is a legitimate, employed at high salary, degreed individual from a prominent University.   Therefore, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

     Furthering the lamentable deaths matter into the labyrinth of knowledge, we must point out that the vast majority of the people who have gone croak-o during this epidemic are geezers like me.  People over 70 years of age are very susceptible to the rigours of this disease.   They constitute 80 per cent of the deaths…actually slightly more.   Further complicating the matter, both for the geezer community and everyone else is the tendency of Americans to have problems with obesity…which is a massive contributor to the problem.

     One can extrapolate easily what the nature of per capita impact might be, when one considers that the United States of America, before the beginning of the War Between the States had a population of 31,500,000 souls.  The combined losses during that ridiculous War came to 252, 000 killed in action.

We shall return to variations of this topic during the coming weeks.
EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Comparatives between then - 1918 / 1919, and now 2020

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     We are ever so tired of the chatter, discussion, and dull broad-brushing of topics captured into the American discourse…into the American parlance.   El Gringo Viejo is an old man…and he has wasted much time braying at the moon and lecturing people who had better things to do than listen to me.

     One of my fortes' has been to learn and understand the past, to the best of my ability.   Lamentably, my academics are actually the trek of a dilletante who frequently gave cursory study and/or review of a matter.  But there are times when this writer is knowledgable and can comment correctly about certain matters.

     There are those significant times that my work and study has been work that was deep, wide, and high.  There will be no great divulgence here in the body of my studies and conclusions over the years.  The facts and data that will be revealed in the following paragraphs will be solidly accurate facts and figures.
      However, in the matter of the great Pandemic of Coronavirus of 2019 - 2020 we shall vigorously and emphatically declare my case and then turn my back upon the many experts who have fogged and clouded the issue, and who have performed as insipid dolts as purposeful misinterpreters of our current "greatest plague in history".   I shall point the reader to the previous century, and interestingly a time almost precisely one hundred years before these hours in which we now live.

     My paternal grandfather and grandmother, neither of whom I ever had the pleasure of hearing or seeing in that they passed on long before my birth, went through the flu epidemic associated with the end of World War I.    People were amazed when it tallied up a peculiar total in terms of casualties.  They were living near McAllen / Weslaco area of deepest South Texas at that time.

     My other grandparents and uncles were still in Winchester,  Tennessee at that time, and that grandfather could recount the number of people who were lost during the Flu Epidemic in Eastern Tennessee…literally hundreds in one county, for instance just before 1920.

     In those times, the population had crossed over the massive number of humanity of 107,000,000 in the United States of America.  This would include all native born as well as those who had legally entered the United States with the intention to become permanent residents and citizens.

The flu was no joke.  It was as dangerous as
any bomb, grenade, or bullet, constituting
well over 40% of all American casualties
who died in World War I.

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     When World War I was over, and the carnage was totalled up, it was truly a horrible tally.   The American military suffered 115,000 dead in that war.  Oddly enough, almost one-half of those who died while at war, died of the Asian Flu, or let us say…slightly fewer than 48,000 soldiers.

     But waiting back at home and shortly after the return of the American Soldiers, the numbers in terms of killed and/or died in action or disease was dwarfed by the number of Americans who had died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 - 1919 while remaining in the USA .

      During the time of the end of the War, there was a movement throughout Europe and it included the United States, with its pitifully physically spent and intellectually exhausted President Woodrow Wilson, to establish a League of Nations to resolve arguments and disagreements between nations.   Like most everything that Thomas Woodrow Wilson did, he flubbed up that effort, and returned back to Washington, D.C. and the White House.  It is said that

President Wilson with wife Edith.  She became known
 during the last year of Wilson's term as "the first
 First Lady lady President".  According to some,
 she had mastered  Wilson's style of writing.
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Wilson had been in a mental decline, and that a bout with the Flu epidemic had truly reduced his mental acumen and physical stamina.
     It was said that Mrs.  Wilson would meet visitors calling on Mr. Wilson at the White House and deflect them from the private quarters.   She would also write announcements and press releases and sign the President's name to such transmissions.   There were those who snickered that she had become the first woman President of the United States.

     In any regard, with all the analysis, all the hullaballoo, all the opining and debating, we come before the reader to state clearly and unequivocally that the Pandemic of 2020, while serious, to be sure, is not the once in a millennium, Angels' Trumpets announcing Blood in the River Nile, and the Earthquakes that Destroy the Moon and whose pieces will shred the Planet Earth.   The near, to at times total, hysteria about this flu business is truly disheartening.

     The strutting and bluster of mainly liberal political leaders, and certainly the leadership of the Democrat Party during these moments is another "climb down to a deeper cellar" in terms of hysterical posturing and outright mendacity concerning this particular epidemic.   It has been made immensely worse by having nincompoop political leaders who hold high offices in large cities, and major States, demanding to send flu-afflicted older people to nursing homes…among the many terrible decisions.

     The nearly forced imprisonment-by-homestay and the ordering of closure of almost anything that has a door was the stroke of stupidity that will live for the ages.   The willingness to position conjecture and pontification for an understated, steady realistic yet positive posture would have been so much better than what the leftist gurus and pompous authoritative bilge-bearers puked out into the public's attention.   To think that the governor of New York State and the Mayor of the City of New York would clog the lines of communication with dimwitted orders, pointless admonitions, incoherent demands, and cascades of blame on the President is stunning.
     New York State and New York City…so very advanced…ordered up a congestion and set of threats against the population that they finally won the first prize in having the greatest avalanche of dead people during this entire event.   The two entities can lay claim to almost 40 per cent of all deaths associated with the flu in the United States since it began last January.  And the more they bossed people around and pontificated with great surety and authority, the worse it became.
     Their solution, of course was to tell the media to announce to the public that it was all Donald John Trump's fault.   In my opinion, Trump's biggest failing in the whole matter was his trying to work amicably with the various political leaders and medical authorities.   Many of these personalities bore a personal animus against Trump and regarded him as something superfluous.

     In my opinion, the political leaders of the Democrat order, and the medical people who had so much swagger and distaste for Trump's presence, performed very poorly…something like the police officers' pursuit of Charlie Chaplain in the old movies.


Finally:

     At this juncture, it being the afternoon of the 18th of May, 2020 here in deep South Texas we are noticing that in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 - 1919 over 670,000 people died when the total population of the United States of America was lightly less than 107,000,000.  At this point, with the number of new deaths still not over 100,000 and when the total population of the United States of America is 330,000,000.

     We can make a fairly quick comparison then by using these two comparatives:

1918 -1919 Flu     Mortality 675,000       Total USA Population     107,000,000

                                  RATIO:                    6.8  / 1,100
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      2020 Flu         Mortality  96,000       Total USA Population    330,000,000

                                 RATIO:                        1 / 3,300

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    Now…I retire from the field of battle, leaving to the OROGs to guard the precincts and keep the horses saddled and readied with rifle and shell.

  The hysteria, blather, speculation, and useless recriminations against Donald Trump are offensive and pointless actions and I feel that the man should be supported.   He and his cadre have done an A- job in my opinion…and while we are not cheerleaders for the President…we are reasonable in judging the man.   And an A- during these times is pretty darn good.

We do now retire from the field of battle to return to-morrow or shortly thereafter.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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My Consuegro Finally Solved My Problems…and everyone elses'

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     This morning we awoke with that hangover the minor league philosopher always has…that dull sadness that no dream occurred to lead the philosopher to the True and Final Truth of Perpetuity.  The fact is, however, that the problem was solved overnight by my closest associate and political relative, the father-in-law of my daughter.   His axiom is presented thusly:

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Nancy, the new leader of the United States has done it again !!   I am proud to tell you that Lady Nancy, the leader of the New Democrats, is giving the poor and downtrodden THREE TRILLION DOLLARS

 of Free Money!

 We will now make the US a level playing field by taxing  the rich.

 As her Uncle Joe said " to each according to their needs. 

VOTE DEMOCRATIC,  I want free money!

Long live the Queen!!

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     While we can recognise the above pronouncement by Her Majesty as a form of political melodramatic humour, or even a mildly sarcastic lamentation pertaining to a horribly deranged woman whose head has served as a bat belfry for several hundred years, more or less.   My only regret is that my Consuegro seems to always put well into few words what I can put poorly into many words.

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      But the fact is is glaringly correct.  This woman organised a Grand Impeachment Lynching, using the Duke of Mendacity as a quarterback, and then strutted around after the collapse of that issue as if they had just built the Great Wall of the Sahara.   Representative Schiff, using his cadre as the trained dogs they seem to be,  loaded the "press" up with lard, his House committee mates with absolutely no ammunition, and made a giant jackass of himself in two weeks.  Even the lib - "reporters" were puzzled by Schiff's evaporation from the scene.  It was like, "What if they gave a hanging and nobody brought the rope?"

         Schiff managed to play a game of one-ball billiards (while in the dark) for two years.  His greatest claim to fame is the all-time record for mendacity and administrative clunkiness.  In that sense he did well.   And, of course, Her Majesty Nancy I, did something as well, or perhaps nothing at all, or whatever.  Her most famous quote was, "I am not calling Congress back into session or anything like that until I call Congress back into session."  Daring words for a Queen.

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     While the Democrat Socialist Party continues with its Ocasio - Pelosi Snake-Pit novel, Trump (who is not my cup of green tea) has slogged and in his bull-in-the-china-shoppe way, steadily down a fairly decent pathway to prosperity. His willingness to push for re-establishment of business…industry, retail, services, investment, innovations…is the only way to slash our way out of the mess made by the Red Chinese Act of War against all nations.

     Everyone who can think in a reasonable geopolitical manner already knows that the Chinese Plague that was launched upon the World recently was a notice to the heads of state, Kings and Queens of all sorts.  People in Singapore, Australia, Costa Rica, etc. and et.al., have been served notice that Peiping wants absolute control of the entire Earth, and they will force absolute compliance with the demands of the Red Chinese Control Group that guides Red Chinese "democracy".

      If we fail to recognise that the Red Chinese Poobahs see the entire populace of Planet Earth as potential organ donors for the children and grandchildren and all the Highest Placed Red Chinese apparatchiks,  then we will have deluded ourselves into the perpetual gulag.

     Allow me please to expound on a minor matter that, when explained, will give the OROG and the normal observer who is endowed with reasonable intelligence a true understanding of the nature of the Red Chinese.   As many OROGs already know, your humble servant and author of these missives has considerable genealogical, academic, and real-life experience in living, doing business, and enjoying the complexities of Mexico.

     During the time Mexico decided to join the ranks of the World (around the Mexico Olympics - 1968) a new dynamic developed in terms of social, cultural, and economic activity.  One day Mexico was literally into a fairly rich third-world country with a lot of noblesse and also a lot of oblige, into a huge industrial and commercial and touristic bastion…with all kinds of problems that sprouted up in the "new prosperity".

     Among these "sprouting" were maquiladora plants (consignment fabrication factories).  These factories proliferated starting in the 1980s and flooded Mexico, not only along the Frontier with Texas and other "close to America" sites, but to hither and yon anywhere in Mexico.  This event…or movement…or cultural economic change has had it bad points and good points.   But there was one constant.

     The Mexican populace, and the professional administrative class, performed from an A- to an A+ in most respects.  Furthermore, the Mexican workers, blue collar and white, adapted well to the foreigners way of producing.   A fusion of the differing hourly considerations and other customs worked out well 99.9% of the time.

     Everything hummed, and still does even during these choppy times (prompted by the Chinese-dispersed Coronavirus Plague).   But during these times of brisk to intense factory production in Mexico, there was one group the Mexican workers and administrators came to abhor…Americans? Germans? French? Canadian?  Japanese?  English?…..almost everyone knows the answer.

     From one day to the next, the last shift would go home, usually from one of the little maquiladoras in the rural areas…but near enough to good highways and reliable airports.  Then, in the morning the girls would arrive on time to punch in…except for one problem.  "No esta' nadie.  No esta' nadien" the girls would call the administrator in a panic.   No Chinese administrator, no nothing, no electricity, no primary material to initiate the next product run.  No nothing.    This scene has been seen directly by my eyes, and heard from the mouths of very reliable veterans of Chinese maquiladora actions at least 50 times.   And El Gringo Viejo is being conservative in that estimate.

This Donald Trump in his early days
as a stage entertainer.
(not really)
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     My point is…Donald John Trump had little or nothing to do with the recent Coronavirus Plague.   The culpable party is Red China…doing something that they did not understand, or doing something with premeditated intent, or some combination of the two.
   His handling of this matter as it has affected the United States, Texas, Mexico and Canada, and our "friends" over in Europe, and our friends over in the "Far East" has been about as good as any President can handle in my estimation.

   He job has been like the entertainer on the Ed Sullivan Show who occasionally presented his "twirling plates" routine.   Quite an accomplishment, to be sure.


More Later…and thank you Queen Nancy I for inspiring both my Consuegro and me…and making the morning so much better.
EL GRINGO VIEJO

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