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Communism or Socialism?

Thanks to long-time reader Ryan for requesting some clarification on my use of "socialism" and "communism" and the two concepts generally. Here it is:

• Socialism is an economic/governmental system in which the state controls the means of production and distribution. That's more intense than it might sound. Essentially, it wipes out free enterprise (and with it, prosperity and innovation).
• Communism is socialism without property rights. Karl Marx said socialism is a transition phase to communism.

In the USA, the socialists rose to dominance with the coup; that's what secured them control of the Executive Branch. They already had control of the House and Senate at that time.

• They have been transitioning to communism since then.
   
• You can see the transition to communism in things such as the massive inflation rate (50% tax on dollar based assets in the two years ending August 2023), huge hikes in property taxes, and the imprisonment of political dissidents for the "crime" of getting a guided tour through the Capitol Building or the even worse crime of using their 1A rights to peacefully protest a stolen election. When you are accused of a crime in the USA, you lose all of your property to mount a legal defense. There go those property rights.
   
• The communists destroyed a huge portion of small businesses with the Covid scam lockdowns and other Covid scam BS. Small business owners are overwhelmingly free market proponents (almost by definition) and conservative (because we can do math). Thus, we are an existential threat to them and must be wiped out. The fact the vast majority of us are gun owners is what stops them from simply rounding us up and putting us in concentration camps or "re-education camps" Mao-style. But they have talked about doing just that.
   
• As confiscations, tax hikes, and burdensome regulations continue to manifest, we see more of the communist side of these people who were initially socialists. So I use "communist" now more than "socialist".
   
• Apparently, Donald Trump is the only imperfect human being on the planet and thus he is deserving of being hated, hounded, and harassed. That also makes him the atheist version of the anti-Christ. Here I was, thinking I have plenty of room for personal improvement and will never reach perfection, what an idiot right?
   
• This November we vote for Trump or we vote for communism. We know this because that's what the communists have been not just telling us but showing us. But it's not just about voting for him, we did that last time and despite having won by a landslide when the polls closed he "lost"--due to the massive flood of mail-in votes that came in after the polls closed and that were 87% for Biden and in some counties there were more votes cast for Biden than there were registered voters.
   
• Remember, there are three branches of the federal government not just two. Freedom has been prevailing in the courts at the federal level, win after win. That's our checks and balances system, which is why the communists keep making death threats against members of the SCOTUS. I would like to remind those communists that we do have a 2nd Amendment and in Texas when some a-hole went into the courthouse to kill a judge whose ruling he didn't like, an armed attorney shot him dead. If the commies cross the line, we will hunt each of them down whether the DOJ wants to help or not.
   
• And also remember that under our system, power is widely dispersed. It also resides in the state, county, and municipal governments. We must also secure those governments against communism. George Soros has invested millions into communism-ising small American cities (mine, for example), with hopes the cancer will metastasize from there.
   
• Newsflash to Comrade Soros, what you have done is trigger powerful antibodies to wipe out the cancer of communism. To quote a famous admiral, you "have awakened a sleeping giant". It's not just this November, either. Freedom fighters are "nailing it" in court. We are also speaking out against DEI and other aspects of woke-ism, and we are boycotting woke companies--Go Woke, Go Broke. See the next section for highlights of the latest accomplishments in the fight against communism.

Fighting Communism

And now, some highlights about our battle against this toxic ideology that always impoverishes (and not just financially):

1. Judicial Watch, an organization I support, is fighting the inJustice Department's attempt to move the Ashli Babbit lawsuit to the District of Corruption.
    
2. Governor Youngkin of Virginia vetoed 30 (Thirty!) Violent Criminal Safety bills pushed through by Virginia's communist party. The communists just love their violent criminals (and illegal aliens), but they need to understand that sane people do not share that adoration. We want violent criminals to fail in their chosen line of work, and if they get hurt on the job that's just how it is.
    
3. On 18 MAR, SCOTUS heard oral arguments on censorship cases filed by the AGs of Louisiana and Missouri. Two lower courts already found for the Plaintiffs. This is a landmark case, and it directly concerns the separation of powers. It will involve the 1st, 10th, and 14th Amendments in addition to Article 1, Section 1 ("All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives"), and Article II (the powers of the POTUS).
   
   This particular SCOTUS is different from its predecessors in ways that bode well for freedom. For example, they recently were unanimous in a pro-freedom decision. The main difference, IMO, is they are the first to break with the doctrine of "judicial deference". This doctrine states that when Congress writes a law in a vague way, the Executive Branch can interpret it in "any reasonable way" which actually means the Executive Branch can twist the logic and redefine words however implausibly to get what they want. When there's vagueness, the state (drafter of the law) gets the benefit of the doubt and the individual automatically loses. This is in direct contrast to contract law, in which the burden for clarity is on the drafter of the contract.
   
   If this case is decided correctly (using commonly agreed upon principles of law and basic common sense), executive overreach and chronic abuse of power will be greatly restrained.
    
4. A recent Florida Atlantic University poll showed two-thirds of voters under age 35 reject Biden and will not support that retard this November. The communists had counted on this age cohort. What they hadn't counted on is this age cohort would be severely unhappy with inflation, Biden's racism, the fentanyl crisis, the border crisis ,th eCovid scam, constant threats to free speech, the insultingly obvious lies of the legacy media, stagnant wages, the high cost of cars, the high cost of rent, the high cost of homes, and the high cost of food. Gee, who woulda thunk?
    
5. The Brainless administration came up with some pointless, hugely expensive scheme that would require massive resources of individual states to be misdirected toward calculating the tailpipe emissions of cars using national highways. You can bet the Brainless people do not factor in the terrible pollution caused by EVs and they assume electricity generates itself. Their delusions notwithstanding, this was clearly an illegal measure and a US District Court Judge struck it down.
    
6. Regarding Easter, I am stunned at what the Biden administration did. You'd think nothing stupid they do would be surprising, at this point. But they issued an edict that religious themed designs are banned from the White House Easter Egg art contest. But Easter is a religious celebration! What do they think it is? Well, the answer to that is even more stunning. They have also declared that this Easter Sunday is National Transgender Visibility Day. This is part of their larger agenda of dehumanizing Americans and subjugating us under communist rule. Remind people of this as Election Day approaches.
    
7. Chicago, long the central cesspool of the People's Republic of Illinois, is undergoing a "Red Revolution". The inmates of that city are feeling the significant and negative effects of the Brainless administration's open border policy. It seems ridiculous that it finally took this to wake those people up, considering what they have endured for generations. But awake, they are. And angry, too. It would be awesome if Illinois became a free state. If it can happen in that bastion of communism, corruption, and depravity, it could even happen in Commie-fornia.
    
8. The Epoch Times reported on 02APR, "In a rare win for election integrity, a federal appeals court has just ruled that mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania do have to be dated in order to be considered valid. This puts an end to a two-and-a-half year long legal battle—which really underscores the difficulty of these election integrity efforts."
    
9. In the People's Republic of New Mexico (a communist country that my sister moved to and then fled from), a federal judge ruled that the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office and the New Mexico Attorney General violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by refusing to release voter data to an election integrity watchdog group. Similar cases are being pursued in other states where the smell of election fraud is odious in the extreme. In February, corrupt officials in Maine lost a similar case to an election integrity group, setting a precedent that was drawn on in this case. Now with two precedents upholding the Rule of Law, it is going to be exceedingly difficult for the communist criminal class to hide their election corruption crimes.
    
10. The communists maintain the absurd fiction that Brainless won a fair election in 2020. The latest in the vast collection of facts showing our elections are not safe, secure, honest, or fair is on 25 MAR of this year 9,000 uncounted mail-in ballots were discovered sitting in a cage in Chicago. During the Covid Scam, the communists used mail-in voting to erase Trump's win in several battleground states. It is statistically unlikely that Trump's win at the closing of the polls was reversed by mail-in ballots that came in after the polls closed and it is statistically impossible that 83% of such "votes" were for Brainless. It is also statistically impossible to have more total votes than more total voters, but that happened time and again in county after county.
    
    NOW is the time to pressure our state legislators and county election boards to prevent another fraudulent election. In 2020, the American people overwhelmingly chose to re-elect President Trump and instead we were saddled with an economy-destroying, military-enfeebling, overtly racist pedophile who can't speak coherently and often has no idea where he is.
    
    Remember, the communists aren't really after Trump. They are after us. Trump is just in their way.

The Ongoing Covid Scam: Tidbits

1. https://twitter.com/i/birdwatch/t/1652195355742863360  Good video about this toxic shot, everything in the video is 100% verifiable (unlike anything said by Mr. Fauci or the CDC).
    
2.  Did you know that in the UK you cannot be injected with the clot shot unless you are 65 or older? In the USA, they want to inject babies with this poison. Why the age limit in the UK? Because the medical authorities and the government could find no benefit to the clot shot, and the risk of death from Covid for those under 65 is something like 0.00000001% unless you have a comorbidity. If you're over 65, the thinking goes, you should be smart enough to know better than to get the shot (and if you're not, then at least you won't be looking to half a century of being disabled due to "vaccine" injury). A limit is more politically safe than an outright ban, because with a ban you'd get all the crazies coming out and demanding to be poisoned.
    
3. Why did so many people "die from Covid" in the USA during the height of the scamdemic? The vast majority died with Covid; if you took the 80% false positive test and were deemed to have Covid at the time you died from, oh, cancer or getting hit by a train, your official cause of death was Covid. If you actually had Covid, you were subjected to "medical treatments" that violated standard protocol for respiratory inflammation and these treatments almost certainly would kill you.
    
4. On what basis was Brainless able to say, "It's an epidemic of the unvaccinated?" Granted, nobody was actually vaccinated but the reference is to the clot shot. The software used to track Covid deaths by default put the patient's status as "unvaccinated". It was a complex system and changing the status was a mind-boggling process. So hospital staff just left it as is. The reality is it was an epidemic of the "vaccinated" because the clot shot causes an overwhelming of the immune system.
    
5. America's Frontline Doctors reports that the Fools and Dummies Administration (FDA) finally "...has agreed to remove misleading statements about Ivermectin, one of the early treatment medications proven effective against COVID-19." Personally, I believe the honchos at the FDA who were responsible for posting that misinformation should be personally charged with involuntary manslaughter at the very least. Given the death toll from this behavior, they would be looking at life sentences or lethal injection due to having several thousand counts of this charge. Why is there no justice when some people commit these kinds of crimes? Now that the CDC has zero credibility (except among the dimmest of us), it wouldn't matter. They could claim that eating a gallon of ice cream every day will cause rapid fat loss and nobody would care. But at the time they were making equally preposterous statements, they had major influence. Once the communists are out of power (which I hope will happen following this November's elections), the House can bring the CDC budget to a single dollar. That's still a dollar too much, but it would effectively defund this harmful, worse than useless agency.

The Clown Show

1. Brainless made a severe goof (what else is new?) by getting Laken Riley's name wrong. In a follow-up interview, Nutcase Nancy was asked to evaluate Brainless' performance. She said it was fine, except he used the term "illegal alien" instead of the correct term "undocumented alien". This is a classic case of deflection from a big issue to a non-issue. In fact, people who enter illegally are illegal aliens. Calling them "undocumented aliens" makes it sound like they just didn't get the necessary paperwork. And that whole line of stupidity by Nutcase ignored the elephant in the room.
    
2. https://youtu.be/cQlwkzDrQ1Q Our Retard In Chief. I think we need to change our national anthem. Between now and January 6 of next year, it needs to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w772GXG5LnE
    
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTTwrrGBlAg. 3:37, an excellent presentation by Beth Van Duyne. In just a few minutes, she makes an iron-clad case for why Brainless should not be POTUS.
    
4. Presidential bio books have always sold well. But books about Biden have been poor sellers. Simon & Schuster, in fact, terminated its contract with Alex Thompson for his upcoming Biden book. Nobody is interested in Biden. Books about Obama sold very well, and books about Trump have sold extremely well. If book publishers, who tend to be very liberal, had paid attention during the 2020 election, they would have figured out that 30,000 people at Trump rally versus zero at Biden rally didn't bode well for Biden books. They also would have figured out that election was, beyond any shadow of a doubt, stolen through massive fraud. And they would have commissioned a book or three on that topic instead of inserting their heads up their nether regions and pretending nothing was wrong.
    
5. Bidenonomics is working! On 03 April, Amazon announced it will be laying off hundreds of employees. Amazon has already shed 27,000 employees since late 2022. For these and thousands of other people, the slogan is, "When Bidenomic is working, you aren't!".
   
   The idea behind Bidenomics is when you devalue the currency, impose onerous and useless regulations, constrain the energy sector, inhibit the transportation sector, increase the tax burden, increase the compliance burden (massively re-arm the IRS), foment racism, erase the borders so we are flooded with illegal aliens, actively protect the fentanyl trade, and expose businesses to massively higher theft losses due to lack of police coverage and lack of prosecution when the police do catch looters and squatters, you get a different economy from what we had during President Trump's first term.
   
   Different clearly doesn't mean better. There is absolutely nothing positive that the Brainless administration has done for the economy. Not one thing. On the contrary, they have aggressively taken measures to severely damage our economy. And their efforts are working.
    
6. When discussing the travesty that is Bidenomics, it's tempting to also complain about other problems such as the massive increase in human trafficking or the diminution of our First Amendment rights, or the spreading of deadly disinformation by the CDC and FDA, or how legacy media has been repurposed to being communist propaganda outlets. Or how Mr. Fauci has yet to be held accountable for his crimes against humanity. Or how our military has been drained of its munitions to fight a pointless proxy war in Vietnam, er, I mean Ukraine. Or how the "EV" insanity is harmful to the environment and has no demonstrable upside to it (see item below). But those are separate issues.

Other News

1. On 20MAR, the EPA finalized rules that limit tailpipe emissions, in an effort to coerce us all to coal-powered cars. Now, maybe it's just me but I thought Environmental Protection Agency meant the agency's mission is to protect the environment. If that is the case, then they should have finalized rules restricting how much lithium can go into the batteries of coal powered cars and calculated some formula that restricts how much coal these cars can burn.
   
   Now, when I say "coal powered" cars I am using that in the same way the world's navies have referred to diesel submarines for decades. The don't call them electric subs, because electricity is not itself a power source. They call them diesel subs because diesel is burned to generate the electricity to charge their batteries. Calling a coal powered car an electric car is an obfuscation.
   
   If the EPA actually did its purported mission, and actually applied reality instead of delusional ideas, the agency would seek to restrict EVs such that they are not used in lieu of their far less polluting counterparts (ICE cars). But sadly, this agency is driven by ideologies that have nothing to do with science and everything to do with being mentally retarded.
    
2. NYC, which punished Daniel Perry for stopping a brutal robbery, cannot figure out why NYC men no longer come to the aid of brutal robbery victims. Gee, it is a mystery. So their answer is to install gun scanners at subway entrances. This is great news for knife-wielding criminals, especially those who prey on others in group-fashion. Is this stupidity beyond belief, or is it evil? At some point, is there any difference?
    
3. The basic idea behind Planet Fitness is "no gymtimidation". It's not a hard core gym intended for people who are serious about their training, it's a place where the moderately fit and the unfit can go to get some exercise without being intimidated by those who do serious work with the iron. That's why they have fancy machines, spinning classes, etc., and not much in the way of free weights. And a policy of "no shirtless". Given this, why on earth do they now allow men into the women's locker rooms? Did the Morons In Charge not think women would find this intimidating? The company is now suffering a severe backlash that could cause it to go out of business. When the "woke" talk about "inclusion" they exclude common sense practices that help women to feel safe.
    
4. https://twitter.com/i/status/1772466901345599716 Solar panels after a hail storm. Draw your own conclusions.
    
5. Boeing has had its troubles, lately. Especially with quality control (and things like a door blowing off in mid-flight). Another whistleblower inside Boeing has related performance changes resulting from the company's implementation of Dumbness, Exclusion, and Ignorance (DEI) policies. Under DEI, you promote Dumbness by Excluding people based on things that have nothing to do with performance and stomp out diversity so as to inculcate a homogenous culture of ignorance. Then you claim the opposite of reality and pat yourself on the back for spreading the mental illness we call "wokeism". When your product is widely used by the public and your product safety depends on  your workers being methodical, smart, and competent then implementation of DEI is at the very least negligence. In the case of death, it's involuntary manslaughter. The top execs at Boeing should be brought to trial over this and held personally liable. Killing a whistleblower and clumsily making it look like a suicide has, amazingly, worked for them once. But they can't keep doing that. Let's hope this time some Attorneys General decide to prosecute.
   
   For more information on this latest chapter in Boeing's woke drama, do a Bing search for "journalist Christopher Rufo Boeing". His emphasis is on the "absent exec" problem Boeing has, but the DEI insanity is woven into that story.
    
6. This 28 year old bride wrote and performed this song at her wedding. Touching. https://youtu.be/WOE0oZwl-Mw
    
7. Fannie Willis is increasingly finding her fanny on the hot seat. Let's hope she gets indicted, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. It would serve as a warning to other criminals who believe the laws do not apply to them and they can subvert our democratic process to suit their own twisted ideologies.
    
8. The castration-medical complex just got dealt a major blow. This paper, from a 15 year study, shows kids often wonder what it's like to be the other gender and it's normal and doesn't mean they are trans: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02817-5
    

9. Just a highlight (one fact of many) on this disastrously stupid idea that EVs are somehow better for the environment: they are significantly heavier than an ICE car. For example, a typical Toyota Camry weighs about 3200 lbs while a Tesla Model X weighs about 4600 lbs. If you increase the weight of the national fleet proportionately, we are talking about vastly more CO2 release needed for the extra road construction and maintenance resulting from the additional wear and tear. Not to mention the CO2 from the accelerated replacement of tires, or the rebuilding of parking garages that were not designed for this extra weight (or excluding EVs from using them, which presents additional problems). And as the Hertz debacle recently proved, EVs simply do not work as ICE replacements. They are short-range glorified golf carts.
   
   What we should be doing is adjusting policy AWAY from EVs and TOWARD fuel-efficiency in ICE cars. My 5-speed manual Camry, for example, gets 36MPG on the highway and the car is over 20 years old. A new Camry Hybrid (which is not a plug-in) has a gas-wasting automatic transmission, but still gets over 50 MPG. The govt could provide incentives for manual transmission cars and that would result in an overall fleet MPG boost and overall reduction in CO2 emissions--in Europe, 80% of cars have manual transmissions. And maybe combine that with an energy credit instant rebate for cars with a combined MPG over 30MPG or whatever number. You have to be careful with MPG targets, because there are undesirable ways to meet them such as using extra-hard tires (low rolling resistance) that reduce handling, increase braking distance, and provide a lousy ride.
   
   The best option is for govt to get out of the way so that auto manufacturers don't focus so much on selling large, gas-wasting, highly-profitable vehicles that help them make up for the ridiculous compliance costs the govt has put on automakers. For example, I've owne a couple of Ford Probes. Small sports car with 5-speed manual, excellent gas mileage. But it retailed for about $12,000 and the profit on a Ford Explorer was $15,000. Ford made the obviously intelligent decision to stop making Ford Probes. Do a Bing search on "automotive regulations that don't make sense" or "automotive safety regulations that don't work" and you'll see how easy this option is to implement for low-hanging fruit. Generally, federal regulations are made by libtards who are disconnected from reality and whom are rewarded for their "output" no matter how odious it is. That alone tells us we need to go through those regulations and instantly suspend any that seem suspicious. Then add them back only when the agency in question provides proof such regulations confer an actual benefit and with a positive return on the investment. I suspect this would mean an 80% reduction in regulations upon implementation of the suspension, and that would work wonders for the economy, consumer safety (through innovation), and the environment (again, through innovation). We get innovation when the resources for it are not misappropriated to comply with stupidity.

Brainless Says We Are Safer

In his angry rant that was his inept attempt at the State of the Union Address, Brainless claimed we are safer now than when he took office. OK, let's count the ways. Here are 11:

1. Open borders and massive invasion of illegal immigrants, rape, murder, and other violent crimes are up. Hey, Joe, say her name!
2. The fentanyl epidemic, which is a direct consequence of the Brainless border policies has wiped out the youth of Port Huron, MI. Hundreds of other cities have borne a death toll from this.
3. The Defund the Police movement that got its start when George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose after years of chronic drug abuse left him with a weakened heart, was assisted by Brainless and his fellow communists (AOC, Nutcase Nancy, etc.). Now our highways and city streets have become an order of magnitude more dangerous due to a lack of police presence.
4. Our planes are not safe to fly in, due to a combination of things including myocarditis in the pilots (not a single pilot could pass the cardiac part of the fitness test, so the FAA simply eliminated it).
5. Our military has gone woke.
6. Our munitions are depleted.
7. Brainless' policies have destabilized the Middle East.
8. Brainless is a joke, we have zero credibility on the international scene. When Trump was in office, people knew he meant business.
9. We have excess inflation that has destroyed our financial security.
10. The medical system is not safe or effective.
11. The IRS is getting a huge funding boost (remember, its purpose is to subjugate the population through systematic abuse and terrorism).

If this is that submoron's idea of improved safety, he should be removed from office on the grounds he is both certifiably insane and irredeemably stupid. And since Cackling Kamala clearly does not have all of her marbles, she should also be removed from office. The job is then required by law to go to Speaker Johnson.

Big Mike

Things are shaping up for Big Mike, aka Michael Robinson, aka "Michelle" Obama to be put on the ticket by the communists / "Democrats" after the "surprise" news that Brainless is too far gone to be POTUS. How do we know this? Big Mike is saying there is absolutely no way he wants the job. Translated from Democrat-speak, in which what is spoken is the opposite of reality, it means he is absolutely going for that job. But if that is so, why doesn't Big Mike come out and say that? Why wait until the 11th hour? Let's connect some dots:

• During the eight years that he and his husband Barry Soetoro (that's his legal name, he was adopted and never legally changed it back) occupied the White House there were never any pictures of "Michelle" pregnant with either child. No baby pictures of those girls, either.
   
• There are no childhood pictures of "Michelle" were to be found anywhere, but not so for Mike. No adult pictures of Mike anywhere, but plenty of Michelle. We do not see Michelle until we stop seeing Mike. He's simply gone, and "she" appeared out of nowhere. There's no obituary on him to be found anywhere, and "she" does not appear to have existed until adulthood.
   
• After enduring "Obamageddon", we thought we'd never again see such ineptness, racial hatred stoking, dishonesty, and economic damage by a POTUS. Then along came Brainless. It has been an agonizing time. For Brainless to run on his abysmal record, the scale of election fraud will have to be unprecedented and of such staggering proportions as to be grossly self-evident. In other words, running Biden means losing in November because the amount of fraud required for him to "win" exceeds what they can in their wildest dreams hope to get away with.
   
• Tying into the previous point, it will be harder to get away with fraud than it was the last time. It's now a face-off between the winner of the 2020 election and the beneficiary of massive fraud (such as the mail-in votes that came in after the polls closed and were 83% for Biden and that tipped a win for Trump to a "win" for Biden all on their own). All but the densest of people, including many Democrats, find Biden unacceptable. And, as before, there is no way he can beat Trump without massive and blatant cheating. Most of the 330 million victims of that last round of "no democracy for you folks" are fired up about not letting it happen again. And there's no plandemic to abet fraud, as there was last time.
   
• Big Mike is the most popular trannie to ever occupy the White House. Maybe the only one. But he didn't have the bottom surgery, as several untouched photos revealed when he was "First Lady". So some of the most ardent in the LGB-whatever "community" consider Mike a bit of a traitor to their cause. Most, however, will back him. Maybe he's had the vaginoplasty since then, we just do not know.
   
• If Brainless is the presumptive nominee until an 11th hour switcheroo can take place, there won't be time to do serious investigative work and publicizing of the findings to derail Big Mike. Big Mike is staying under the radar.
   
• Barry is half-Irish and 7/16 Arabic. So by genetics, he's 1/16th "black". Yet he has been promoted as being "black". But is he really "black"? His sperm donor (the one who raped his mother and thus got her pregnant with Barry when she was 17) did not rear him. He was born in Kenya, but moved to Indonesia while very young. There, his mother married a businessman named Lolo Soetoro. And Mr. Soetoro helped rear his adopted son. Barry did not grow up in the inner cities of America. In fact, Barry did not even grow up in America. But he came here as a C- student and got into not just one but TWO Ivy League universities due to a student exchange program. Big Mike, by contrast, can legitimately call himself "black". But black people in general are very religious. They, in general, reject woke-ism, racism, gender ideology, and other tenets of today's Democrat Party. Big Mike would not appeal to these people if all doubt to his actual sex were obliterated.
   
• During the first half of Obamageddon, when Barry was hitting the economy with one gut blow after another (this was especially hard on black people, let us not forget), concerned citizens were trying to find a way to ensure he was a One Time POTUS. So out came the undoctored photos and the cogent analyses showing that "Michelle" is a man. The "Obamas" made no move to object to this, they just rode out the bad PR because all the Obama handlers had to do was ensure that John McCain could not be elected. They made Sara Palin his running mate, mission accomplished.
   
• Just as there is no record that Barry was born in Hawaii (other than an obviously fake hospital certificate) or that his mother was even there at that time, there is no record that Michelle was born. Anywhere. They both have their records sealed, and we don't have to wonder why.
   
• Also note that a birth certificate is provided by the state not by a hospital. I showed up for the TSA precheck certification with a hospital certificate and that's when I was told what the difference is. I applied to the State of Illinois for my birth certificate. I had to pay a fee and provide a lot of information not just about me but also about my parents. It took a few weeks, if I recall correctly, to receive my birth certificate. Barry never produced his despite the big controversy. And Big Mike has never produced one showing "Michelle Robinson" was born anywhere.
   
• All of this is why Big Mike is feigning zero interest in being on the November ballot. It will the the mother of all s***storms if he announces early. But announcing late in the game means voters won't have time to sort through both sides of the "debate" and figure this out.

I believe this next "election" is not about a second term for Brainless. It's about a 3rd term for the "Obamas". We can't let that happen. Get the word out about Big Mike now, even if that means just dropping a hint here or there. The lie that he's not a guy is a major weak spot for them. It's not Big Mike's trannie status that will anger people, it's the many years of lying about it. Or, maybe it's both. If we pretend that Big Mike is running now, we won't actually be pretending. He's using the rope a dope strategy.

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Contrary to libtard doctrine, repeating a falsehood doesn't make it true. The key is to examine an idea, concept, statement, purported fact, position, etc., at the outset. At least administer the smell test.

As an example, we were being told that Covid-19 was rampaging through our population and people were dying by the millions. Yet, nobody I knew died from Covid and nobody I knew knew anyone who died from Covid. That's a good size sampling in which nobody died of Covid. And where were all the hearses? The alleged virulence of this virus was an idea that simply didn't pass the smell test. Something else that didn't pass the smell test was the six foot rule. I found that some people were more comfortable passing gas in checkout lines under the belief nobody else would smell it due to being six feet away. They were wrong. And I told some people who apparently believed this about my smell test (I selected masktards for this revelation).

Here are a dozen other observations:

• Libtards never pause to ask questions about plausibility. We sane people who aspire to optimize our brainpower need to ask, "Is this even plausible? If so, how plausible is it--and why?"
• Libtards never have any evidence for their assertions, and they will not accept evidence contradicting their assertions. A brainpower-enabled person looks for evidence on either side of a question.
• A scientist poses a hypothesis and then looks for evidence disproving it. A libtard poses an absurdity and then twists facts around (or makes them up) to support it.
   
• The brainpower-enabled among us seek the truth. We invite honest debate, because we are truth-driven instead of driven by ego, ideology, or tribal approval.
• Libtards mindlessly argue with anyone who is not a blind follower of their ideology. The brain-enabled respect the views of others, as long as those views are reality-based.
• Libtards consult only sources that are known to be flawed and biased. The brain-enabled consult primary sources (look at the data) whenever possible.
   
• Libtards are "offended" when people use facts and logic. The brain-enabled are delighted when people use facts and logic.
• Libtards actively try to silence people whose views do not align with their own. The brain-enabled are self-confident enough to entertain opposing views.
• Libtards cling to their absurdities even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The brain-enabled will modify or even change their position based on new evidence.
   
• Libtards deliberately redefine words to obfuscate reality and say the opposite of what is actual. The brainpower-enabled and use words in a way to make communication clear.
• Libtards limit their "information" sources to those that are approved by the people who tell libtards what to "think". The brain-enabled avoid those disinformation sources and find information that hasn't yet been filtered.
• An intellectually curious person will consider multiple possibilities and weigh them all based on the evidence s/he can find after some digging. A libtard will consider only one possibility, the official narrative.

• Consumer debt passed the $1.2 trillion mark in mid-2023. That's $1.2 million million dollars. Owed.
• In 2023, we had three of the four largest bank failures of all time.
• Since 2022, depositors have taken more than $1 trillion from the US banking system. They need it to pay for the far higher costs encountered today.
• At the end of third quarter 2023, the banking system had an estimated $1.5 trillion in estimated losses on their securities portfolios and loan books.
• The federal debt (which the Fed "buys" by simply creating fake money out of thin air) stood at $34 trillion. It's growing at $1 trillion every few months, and that will accelerate if Brainless gets his budget approved.

So, yes, if your goal is to impoverish all but the very elite then Bidenomics is "working". It has already sharply reduced wealth across the board (in the two years ending August of 2023, we had 100% inflation which translates into a 50% theft of dollar-based assets), and it's positioned us for the most devastating banking crisis in US history.

Prior to the coup, the economy was growing and most people were doing well. Today, the economy is in a death spiral and most people are not doing so well. Not only is buying a house a pipedream for the new generation of potential homebuyers, so is getting an apartment. Food prices have skyrocketed and shortages are common.

My own company's revenue is down a staggering 83% from 2023 even though 2023 was one of our worst years ever. We did extremely well during the Trump years and the momentum carried us through the first couple of years of communist rule under Biden. But during 2022, supply chain problems, the Covid scam shutdowns, wokeism, increased regulation, and huge leaps in the federal debt started catching up to our suppliers and our customers alike. In 2023, many of our suppliers went out of business and our catalog of good selling products shrank by 80% while consumers snapped their wallets shut for what remained. That's anecdotal, of course, but the causes are not anecdotal. If you drive by any strip mall or even a "main drag" lined with shops and restaurants, you will see the same thing in the offline world.

I don't have a tip on what to do about this. I just wanted y'all to know the truth. We are in deep sh** and it's getting deeper every day. Note that as individuals, we cannot "economize" our way out of this. My natural gas bills are never significant, even if I stopped heating my home and used only cold water that would not make much difference in my overall financial picture. Analyzing your own bills, you will reach a similar conclusion about economizing. You can't reduce your spending enough to make up for the hit to your real spending power. We have to correct the root causes, and the question of "How?" doesn't have any easy answers.

If you have suggestions on solutions, send them to me and I'll include them in a future edition.

This is actually a safety tip article, but "safe and secure" might allow me to put it here as a security top. At any rate, it just might save a reader from major trauma or even death. I originally wrote this for a trade magazine, but they didn't want to do a Babylon Bee kind of thing.


How to Make a Ladder Dangerous

Tap into the expertise of people who can make a well-designed product dangerous

On OSHA’s list of citations for 2023, ladder safety made number three. This perennial favorite is always near the top, which helps explain why there are about 300,000 ladder injuries in the USA every year.
In its simplest form a ladder consists of two rails connected by rungs. This is not a complicated device to use. But 300,000 people suffer injuries related to ladder (mis)use every year. What do they know that we don’t? Here are some tips how they do it (do the opposite of these, and you will be much safer).

Selection:

• Don’t use commercial grade ladders. Instead, get the cheapest wooden ladder you can find. Commercial grade ladders are heavier, withstand more abuse, and cost more. If it breaks, it breaks. Buy a new one.

• Buy only aluminum ladders for electrical work. They are lighter and less expensive than fiberglass ones. Yes, there’s a significantly higher shock hazard with a ladder built from a conductive metal rather than an insulator, but if you are really, really careful this should not be a problem.

• Save time by skipping the length assessment. Assessing the ladder lengths needed for upcoming projects or for maintenance of installed equipment (say, in a production plant) takes time. You could be doing something else with that time, such as arguing with someone on social media. If all of your ladders are 6 ft ladders, this also makes for nice neat storage. And a 6 ft ladder is easier to carry than a 10 ft one.

• Don’t pay extra for accessories. Special feet, ladder wings, tool lifting systems, ladder pads, and so forth might qualm the nerves of the safety obsessive on your crews, but they cost money and can easily be lost. And if you baby people by providing these safety devices, the next thing they’ll want is a harness and lanyard to work at elevation. Where does this ever stop?
   

Setup:

• Boost your productivity by eliminating the site evaluation step that safety gurus advise you to perform. They really make too big a deal about things like loose gravel, uneven surfaces, foot traffic.

• Get more done in less time by not addressing whether your ladder feet are the correct ones for the particular application. If the ladder slips, you can probably catch yourself before it goes too far.

• Show your bravery by just standing the ladder up at a convenient spot and leaning it over. Going through the process of getting the correct run/rise angle, testing the side to side stability, and testing the front to back stability just makes you look like you’re afraid of something.
   

Usage:

• Carry your tools up with you. Sure, it alters your balance, blocks your view, and reduces your ability to hold onto the ladder. But life is full of challenges, is it not?

• Always look up where you’re going. People who stop to look at their feet, move a foot while watching where they put it, then look up are just wasting time. Can your foot really miss a rung? Talk about paranoid!

• Work faster by reaching to the side. Let the other schmuck spend all day moving the ladder just to reach an extra foot over. The safety gurus say reaching too far to one side will shift your center of gravity outside your base of support and cause you to fall. Here’s a trick the speedy worker uses to reach to the left. Stick your right foot out as far to the right as you can to shift your center of gravity to the right. Sure, you’ll now be balancing on only one foot and maybe that foot will slide right off that little rung. But think of the time you save.

The “tips” mentioned above are fairly common mistakes made with ladders. In an OSHA-compliant company, you would not see any of these mistakes being made. The main reason for that is OSHA requires training [1926.1060]. If your company has had some close calls with ladder “accidents” (negative outcomes resulting from unsafe acts), conduct a careful review of Subpart X in OSHA 1926.

Safe ladder use requires accounting for many variables and not taking “time-saving” shortcuts. The laws of physics don’t change due to wishful thinking. The gist of safe ladder usage is:

1.  Select the right ladder and accessories for the job.

2. Set the ladder securely.

3. Don’t do anything that will put your center of gravity outside your base of support or reduce your ability to hold onto those ladder rungs.

Regardless of job pressures, schedules, or deadlines, there is always enough time to ensure ladder safety practices are being followed. Once someone takes a lethal plunge, there is no do-over.

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

Statistics when this photo was taken, 10 days before my 63rd birthday: Height: 6'0" Wingspan: 6'1" Weight: 152.6 lbs, which is more than the 148.8lbs from the 2022 shoot. I am also leaner for this one (notice the striations in my left pec). Bodyfat: Unknown, but well below what the Tanita scale says is 5% Waist: 29 Chest: 48 Arms: 15 Quads: 20.25   Max bench press: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 10 reps with 150 lbs to warm up on chest day Max squat: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 8 reps of front squats with 90lbs to start Leg Day Cholesterol: In normal range, on low side Testosterone: Above the upper limit of the normal range   Last illness: 1971 Last workout missed: Spring of 1977 Training days per week: 6 Type of training: Split routine, heavy on supersets   Meals per day: 7 on training days, 6 on rest day Number of eggs eaten per day: Between 7 and 10 Percent of diet that is processed food: 0 Amount of meat, wheat, corn, or soy eaten annually: 0 Number of clot shots received: 0. ********* See all of my climbing videos here: https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel. Some cool climbing  videos: https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens. The scale: Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9 Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d 5.11a, b, c, d Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d 5.13a, b, c, d. Almost nobody climbs at this level at any of the 5 local climbing gyms.

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.