Problems that don’t Exist

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

It gives me no pleasure to see Colorado’s devolution from a laissez faire, individualistic state into totalitarian insanity.

Although Colorado is not my birth state, it is the first place that I felt at home, and it was where I lived for over 30 years. In fact, were it not for the fact my body disagrees with altitude I’d probably still be there, despite shenanigans and political insanity, hoping to do at least a little to resurrect the state I loved.

The problem with Colorado’s idea of a pet tax wasn’t that it was stupid and insane, but that it wasn’t even a surprise to me to read about it.

NOTE though that even in Colorado the opposition was so vocal, and the person proposing it was so shocked at the math, which apparently her mind was wholly innocent of, that it was withdrawn.

It wasn’t a surprise, because once they install vote-by-mail and effectively take away your right to vote with the massive fraud thus enabled, they’re going to do bad things to you.

Like the truism of “Why would you want to take our guns away, if you don’t want to do bad things to us” it is the same with voting, and the reason I say our biggest problem nation wide is fraud. If the fraud weren’t such that the Democrats are sure we’re now a one-party country forever, they wouldn’t be leaving the border wide open. They wouldn’t be trying to ban gas stoves, either, or make oil prohibitive.

They’re not 100% sure, yet, I think, which is why the walking corpse pays lip service to closing the border, even though his “bipartisan bill would jam the border wide-open. I can’t tell if that’s because there’s some loophole in their machine-and-invented-ballots fraud machine, or because they’re terrified of Trump, with an almost superstitious fear, and are afraid he’ll somehow magic their fraud away.

Of course, what they should be afraid of — though, unfortunately I don’t think we’re at that point yet, and by the time we get there might be decades — is that when they try the usual elections shenanigans, irate disenfranchised voters will pull their stooges from the polling place, beat them black and blue, and then continue the count in full sight of cameras and the people. The shenanigans will stop when that happens, but I don’t think we’re there yet.

And unfortunately, if they (almost for sure) fraud themselves in in 2024, secure in their ability to deny us the right to kick them out, they’ll do the full insanity. There will be policed internet, requiring true-ID to get on. There will be full bankrupting of Musk. I doubt Trump will survive (if anyone wonders why he’s running: It’s his only chance at keeping his life. If they’d left him alone, he wouldn’t have run again. At that, I’m not sure he realizes even now the full extent and danger of fraud) and something like the Canadian MAID will be instituted to start killing people in batch lots: all those who might be a cost to socialized medicine, and well, all the “mentally ill” which is ultimately people like us, who won’t be happy in a socialist “utopia.”

Because when they take away your right to kick them out or punish them, they don’t do it to give you chocolate and love you tenderly.

The tells when they’re about to take another bite of your civil liberties, or do something very bad to you is that they’re always solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

Take the jammed open borders. They’re “helping climate refugees” which don’t exist. (If they did, all the seaside resorts of the world would be fully under water.) Or they’re letting in people to work in our understaffed economy (which isn’t, not at the level of people they’re letting in. Unlike in the early 20th century, there are no assembly lines standing ready to absorb endless numbers of illiterate workers.) Or we’re rescuing children from dire poverty (Though coming over takes money, and most of the children are recycled through groups of illegals, because “families” get in faster. Any number of them are also kidnapped.)

There is no problem that the open borders solve. In fact, someone who should know told me that these are not the groups of immigrants we got in the past: families looking for work and a chance at a better life. These people, as our own Bill Reader found out a while back, are mostly communists, recruited through various communist front organizations, and a large number of them are single white males. And they were recruited to come here, be housed in luxury and be given the best in money and food. Mostly because they are prey to the same DEI delusions as our college grads. They think their country is poor because the US stole their “natural resources.” This is how Marxists explain away the differences between nations. Colonialists still away the native “natural resources” and after that the country is forever poor. Note that governance, property rights, the industry of the people or in general the ability to make something of what you have is not taken in account. Nor do they ever explain how the US — who never had colonies. I think we can sigh away Porto Rico because it’s not a colony so much as an ingrown nail — in a land with far fewer natural resources than, say, Brazil, got to be a “colonist” country getting rich. This is mostly because the only way Marxists process the real world is through the distorting lens of their all-encompassing beliefs, so they never notice the things that don’t fit, nor ask themselves why they don’t.

But these people pouring in aren’t particularly educated and have more excuse for not knowing the truth than our college graduates who at least are supposed to be doing math. And their entire government and society has always used the US as an excuse for their poverty. So they view coming over and being treated as our Lords and Masters as … reparations? Of course they don’t ask themselves why they would be treated as our lords and masters. For most of their cultures, particularly for males, that’s a given, and they’re just happy we finally recognized it.

So, yeah, things are going to get very bad.

BUT the point is there was no problem to be solved. It’s more that they serve the purpose of the ruling class, those who have claimed the levers of power in a color revolution and think themselves immune from our wrath. Or at least the purpose the “rulers” think they have.

Now, they do serve some purposes: it’s a group of aggrieved communists, who will vote for them forever, so they can get what they’re “due.” They will also swell the census, allowing cities like NYC that Americans are abandoning in droves, to continue being centers of power. However, I think they’re also hoping to use them as an army. Even though the Israeli/Palestinian war should be giving them a hint they’re wrong, I think they’re counting on Gramsci’s illusion that all people in the third world and everyone who tans are natural communists and communitarian, and naturally “unite” against the white people.

They’re going to be shocked at the deep conflicts between the various imports, the inherent racism of most of them (and races we don’t see, like all the South of the Border countries as different races. Because that’s how THEY see it. And don’t get me started on the many races of Africans. Or the fact that to the Chinese, everyone, including the Caucasians are inferior races, but yeah, the darker the more the Chinese think they’re inferior.) or the fact that there will be tribal wars among their vast imaginary army.

I also think they have illusions of demographic replacement and revitalization of cities. In fact, Wilhelm the Red of NY kept saying they could replace everyone who left with a new batch of vital immigrants, who would replace those who ran away. I don’t think they get the difference between tax payers and subsidized residents, but that’s commies for you.

However, note, the border is open to solve problems that don’t exist, but in fact as a way to get the left things it thinks it wants.

In the same way that pet bill would be solving a problem that doesn’t exist. Not only are there not vast batches of unwanted dogs and cats in Colorado, but in fact the shelters import animals from the towns that border on Mexico. Particularly dogs are almost non-existent as strays and unwanted animals anymore, but even cats were getting difficult to find by the time I moved.

So, why this whole designated guardian and taxing and “encouraging responsible pet ownership?” Well, mostly so that they could come and check and see how many animals you had, or the state of your animals. It was, besides giving them money to house their new “guest” illegals, to give them entry into any house at any time, because someone denounced you as having animals you’re not paying on, or whatever.

In other words, it was all to further the totalitarian state.

If fraud wins once more — and again, though I’ll vote (I have a secret hope they’ll have to fraud 400 million votes for the corpse and the ho), I expect the fraud to win. It’s the overwhelming likelihood. Even if I still hope a miracle will occur — remember that.

When they start solving a problem that doesn’t exist, don’t be fooled and don’t exculpate it. Don’t say as people who don’t follow politics closely said of the pet bill “I guess they have a problem with dog fighting rings?” In fact, don’t guess anything. Assume that they’re just trying to do something incredibly ridiculous to take more power.

Sometimes their motivations are 90% insane, and you have to know their insanity to understand what they’re trying to do. See illegal immigration. But usually you can figure it out.

And when they announce their new hot bill, it’s time to start denouncing what they really want to do.

Some of them — the ones with more brain than a paramecium — know the ultimate danger, and the point at which all their control slips is when they make people angry enough.

And if you get angry enough, early enough, there is a chance you can make them run away and retreat. Even Canada backed off “killing the mentally ill.” I expect some will still go on, behind the scenes, but it won’t be an assembly line, as it would otherwise be within a year or two.

For a little while ahead, that might be our only protection. That and the fact they know we still have guns, and in fact their gun grabs have all been disappointing duds, even in the most controlled states.

Stay alert, stay informed. Raise the alarm every time they try to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

In the end we win they lose, but it won’t be easy, it won’t be simple, and for a while we’ll have to eat the bread the devil kneaded.

It is our duty and our very great privilege to fight the forces of darkness in our time.

Be not afraid.

230 thoughts on “Problems that don’t Exist”

  1. I’m pleased to report that the proposed bill has been abandoned. Apparently the bill’s sponsor was shocked – shocked! – at the negative feedback she received.

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  3. Thank you. This is great. We need to be able to see the underlying knitting that ties together an invasion of dependent needy foreigners, a tax on pets, and fraudulent elections. I am afraid that the persistence of mail-in ballots will indeed cement the end of our republic and that despite reported fear of Joe Biden’s low poll numbers, the Democrats think they can maneuver and defraud their way out of any election threat.

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  4. The inspections to look at pets in the home will be used to house illegals. “You have been identified as having a guest bedroom. You’re required to house four adult migrant males in this room.”

    I know the bill was dropped, but it will be back. These commies hate private property, among all the other principals that they hate. Perhaps they hate it most of all.

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        2. I was thinking about putting that in a story, but wondered if it was plausible.

          First, an attempt (foiled) to crack into their computer and place nefarious content on it. Two hours later, a Fibbie from D.C. (a 5 hour flight away) knocks on the door with a warrant, oddly specific about the content he’s looking for. Plus a USB stick with the same content on it. Just in case.

          Fortunately, the car he commandeered from the local field office came with an honest agent not in on the plot who resents those snooty D.C. assholes anyway…

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    2. Oh, you want to house illegal aliens in my home? Come right in, and I’ll show you around. You seem like a nice person, would you like to try a taste of this fine cask of Amontillado I just acquired?

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    3. They will hide it in one of their Green Leap Forward bills, because the idea of the tax is also to make it unaffordable to have pets, and as we know, the left hates people having pets. Just look at the PETA crowd, and now they have added the climate alarmists who scream about the CO2 and methane emissions from animals.

      These are people whose idea of sustainability is soylent green.

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    1. “Postponed.” Not dropped, not consigned to the trash bin where it belongs; postponed.

      Which means it’ll be back, as soon as they tweak it a little.

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      2. Sometimes it means “dropped on the pretense of postponing because it’s too embarrassing for words.”

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        2. This.

          Happens with trial balloons– which, obviously, we only notice coming back when they try to float again.

          Sometimes for DECADES they float the things again and again.

          :looks meaningfully at the 70’s “sex is natural, kids are naturally sexual” and Kinsley’s child rape “sex research” and Freud’s infamous “can’t be child abuse, they must be FANTASIZING about it.”:

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  6. We had one colony, the Philippines. But other than fighting locals who wanted us out (and now want their current government out), the US largely used the islands as a refueling station for ships at the other end of the Pacific.

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    1. To be fair, the Moros wanted everyone out – the previous ruling Spanish, the Americans, the Phillipine people from the other islands – so they could build up and eventually go out and convert the rest of the islands, by force, to… wait for it… Islam.

      “The word “Moro” – the Spanish word for “Moor” – is a term for Muslim people who lived in the Southern Philippines, an area that includes Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago.”

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              1. Not cslling you a moron (in case that needs to be clarified) but saying thst Moro with sn additional N is “moron.”

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        2. It always made for an entertaining, if brief, conversation piece. They’re officially quiet now, though.

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          1. Last I heard– and it was decades ago– they were having a string of Horrible Happenstance Accidents.

            I don’t remember how much got out officially, but during one of the military exercises a bunch of US Marines and PI military types ran right over the top of one of their secret bases, with kidnap victims and all.

            Weirdly, non of the MILFs survived, they all decided to shoot.

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            2. They popped up during Dubya’s time in the White House after taking some American hostages. But the last I’d heard, the terrorists got smacked down again by the military. And then either Duterte or his predecessor granted the region limited autonomy.

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              1. What I’m not sure of is when the “killed guys who decided this meant they were the law tried to enforce it on the neighbors, who roasted and ate their hearts in front of the lone survivor, and sent hte survivor back to tell the tale” events.

                Obviously, also not in the news. Because it never happened. Because of course the MILF never were attacking and enslaving their neighbors.

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    2. If you count the Phillipines as a colony, you have to count Puerto Rico and Cuba too. None of which were US-origin colonies. Acquired, and thus had/have an obligation to.

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  7. They are also passing a measure to fund the Colorado Bureau of Investigations to directly enforce gun laws, to go after the county’s like El-Paso that won’t toe the line on new gun regulations.

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  8. Canada only backed off on killing the mentally ill because they couldn’t find many doctors willing to go along. What a shock that people willing to go through expensive, arduous training to be able to help people survive & heal would balk at coerced euthanasia!

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      1. When U.S. universities started letting doctors write their own perversions of the Hippocratic Oath, that merely confirmed that medicine was going downhill.

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          1. LETTING? They MAKE them swear oaths written by the woke in the class.
            Of course, they’re free to say watermelon, watermelon, watermelon and swear the real oath in the privacy of their hearts.
            The thoughts are free.

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      2. This is part of the shoving they’re getting from medical people. Most of them didn’t find the mandatory jabs amusing, and now they’re red-eyed about the MAiD thing.

        All off record, of course. Up front, everything is hearts and flowers, as usual. But if you talk to a doc about MAiD, they get this look on their face…

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          1. I must tell you that even the Saudi guys, of whom there are many here in Ontario, get that look on their face. Let’s face it, medical training is not something you go through so you can -kill- patients.

            What they’ll do is designate a specific certification. Take a 6 week course in MAiD and earn a nice five-figure salary offing the mentally ill at the local hospital. “All our medical staff are highly trained professionals!”

            Are there enough psychopaths in Canada to fill that vacancy? Experience since 2020 says yes. More than enough.

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                  1. Yep; SATAN works just fine. ;-)

                    But I suspect they can find quite a few participants for whatever they decide to call it in the ranks of the “doctors” who eagerly support the mutilation of children, plus those who just love the idea of late-term abortions. :evil:

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    2. You know, the Canadian Prime Minister likes to hand-wring about Nazis yet is oddly okay with killing the physically and mentally ill and led a standing ovation of a former SS guy in their Parliament.

      Just sayin’.

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      1. The only reason the Nazis didn’t call the Jews Nazis was that it was not a pejorative at the time. They loved accusing others of what they did at the moment.

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    3. Yes, actually it is a shock. Dutch doctors are fine with it. A Dutch court ruled that a doctor who drugged a woman and then had her family hold her down so that she could kill her while she begged for her life — couldn’t know that it was wrong.

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    4. Yeah, this is what they call a “temporary pause” that was called because they got pushback that they did not expect. From everybody. You didn’t hear about it, because it was not reported, but they got shoved hard. An awful lot of physicians and nurses told them to stick it.

      This is -Canada-. They’re trying to change it into something else with mass immigration and mass corruption, but they haven’t managed it yet.

      People are not down with murdering the mentally ill. They are not down with celebrating HamAss either, despite what you see on the news. The government is, but we’re not.

      They really showed their @ss on the Freedom Convoy. They showed that they can find every person who legally contributed money to a legal charity. They showed that they can do it in hours. They showed that they are willing to freeze the bank accounts of anyone they don’t like politically, and that they can do it.

      Nobody from HamAss got their bank account frozen yet. They’re here, and we can see them, and we can see them getting a free pass while working dudes trying to make a living get trampled by the horse cops.

      An awful lot of people here seem very unconcerned about everything even now. They’re all assuming that their bank accounts will still have money in them, and that their house will retain its value, and that everything will continue along as it has been doing.

      I am trying to decide between road bike and dual purpose bike for my Get-Out-Of-Dodge backup, in case they block roads and ban trucks pulling trailers. I know that a KTM adventure bike will handle anything, but I’m not sure my back will survive the upright riding position and hard seat.

      These are the things I think about these days. That, and boats. Easy enough to cross Lake Erie in the summer, right? Smugglers do it all the time.

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        1. But did they? I can’t believe Canuckistan’s election fraud situation is better than ours.

          Ours will only get worse. This time, Biden will have to get 400 million ‘votes’ to ‘win’.
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          Grandpa voted Republican until the day he died — but he’s been voting Democrat ever since.

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  9. People who spend all their time searching for problems to find “cures” for need to get real jobs, like cleaning out sewers, sweeping streets, picking produce, and other things that actually benefit society.

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    1. What’s a job? It’s how I support my life, either directly by farming my own food, or doing things that other people can’t do for themselves and are willing to pay me to do it. A job is not a position that produces nothing of value, that has to be paid for by taxation, that’s theft; nor is it the acceptance of charity.

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      1. I apologize. I should have been very specific. “People who spend all their time searching for social and political problems, like ‘climate change’ or ‘climate refugees’ or ‘discovering the existence of microaggressions’ to find cures for …”

        You are exactly right – I was too vague in my wording and too broad. Mea culpa.

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    2. I’m alright with them just playing games. I suggest a rousing game of Let’s Lick the Light Socket. Studio lights. 480V or so. And maybe a nice puddle or even tub to avoid dehydration….

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  11. Looks like my 4 year lucky streak came to an end. I tested positive for COVID this morning, but I was feeling a slight sinus headache last night. My wife brought it home from church. Isn’t sharing wonderful? /laugh

    It’s true. The scheme to flood the country with illegal aliens has two goals. First, and hardest to immediately realize, is that under the current federal guidelines, anyone, illegal or otherwise, in a state during census is counted for representative allotment. I’ll let you figure out which blue states got increases in congresscritters as a result of that. A serious interpretation of the Constitution would show that that those guidelines are against the Constitution itself, as no one would recognize or count an invading army for representation purposes, therefore counting illegal aliens who are citizens of another country is not Constitutional either. (I’d love to have the money to sue the government over that.) The second goal, and the one most people concentrate on, is to flood the country with people dependent on government handouts, and keep them here long enough, and in enough numbers, to make identification of legal status difficult, and to convince people that it’s impossible to remove them, therefore we should automatically make them citizens, and in the process, socialist Democrat voters. Biden knows this, as do all of his backers.

    Trump isn’t going to be able to magic their fraud away. And like Sarah says, if you thought 2020 was open fraud, you ain’t seen nothing yet. You can be sure they are organizing right this minute, and will try to hide everything until election day. You’ll likely see some ‘interesting’ rulings in various states by governors and election officials as they set up the board to bake the fraud in.

    None of the territories that we “acquired” from the Spanish-American War were ever colonized by Americans. If they had been, the poor ones wouldn’t still be poor. And the others, like the Phillipines, or Cuba, wouldn’t be independent nations. Any place on the continent that got colonized by Americans is now part of the United States as full members of this country, and hence, no longer colonies in any sense of the word.

    Heh. Roman Catholic people from Latin America vs rabid Muslims from various African and Middle Eastern nations. Gee, I guess I can use that phrase, ‘interesting times’, again.

    Not really afraid. More resigned to the fact that in a year or two I’m probably going to have to put on the Wellingtons, fish my ‘grain scoop’ out of the local lake, and do some serious house cleaning and trash removal.

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    1. You forgot the third reason: Left wing death squads and mercenaries.

      “Here’s a list of Republican Primary voters. The Attorney General has declared these people “Climate Traitors”. See if you can reduce their carbon footprint. Make sure to save the “pizza” for the “Big Guy.””

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      1. Probably won’t be that general, but a kill list of “anyone who donated to Trump” is more doable. We already saw one effort on those lines in 2017, with the “Racist Watch” site. All they need is FEC records.

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        1. A family friend who worked for the state of IL was once told he needed to change his party registration if he wanted to be eligible for a promotion.
          So possible, but more likely to be a handful of state/city/county radicals closer to the voter rolls than official nationwide policy.

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          1. It might be doable in Illinois or one of the Dem strongholds, but elsewhere… there’s this meme image of Chris Pratt looking overjoyed about something, often photoshopped to make it look like he’s wearing body armor and wielding an AR-15 or similar. Might turn out badly for would-be death squads.

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            1. Easy to do for any conservatives living within a hundred miles or two of the Mexican border. Cartels would love a deal with Biden for them to look the other way as they “discourage” any form of liberty.

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                    1. It was the key from a sardine can, and they ran away before Riddick got a chance to demonstrate.

                      “Death by teacup. Why didn’t I think of that?”

                      The pen may not be mightier than the sword but you can still kill a fool with one.

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      2. The absolute second the illegal army faces armed resistance it’s going to crumble and flee this country, probably back to Mexico. They came here because they’re lazy and larcenous and the dems promised them easy work and free stuff, not to be some lefty fool’s private army. They’ll probably realize their lefty fool “masters” are weak and stupid and make softer targets than the armed rednecks before they decide to quit and go home first. The whole idea of “we’ll get the illegal replacements to fight and wipe out the deplorables for us!” was idiotic and suicidal, so it’s a perfect leftist idea.

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          1. In John Ringo’s zompocalypse series the protagonists come across the billionaire CEO of “Spacebook” Mick Mickerburg and see he gathered up an enormous yacht filled with his fellow executives, lots of scantily clad women, “Private Military Contractor” (mercenaries) bodyguards, cooks and luxury items and went sailing off to try and ride things out at sea, like so many others. His bodyguards then mutiny and rape, rob and kill everyone else and rescue ships that arrive some time later find just two survivors.
            When the Dad character explains why this happens he surmised that the liberal tech billionaire just thought that guys with guns were basically all the same and hired bottom dollar third world savages. I have a strong feeling this is what’s going to happen writ large with our own liberal self-proclaimed elites and their pet illegals.

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            2. Look at what you can see of the folks in the personal security details Musk hires. Watch how the detail handles it when the principal is moving – for Musk, go look at the videos of the Starbase tour he gave Tim Dodd (Everyday Astronaut) – turn off the sound and watch the guys moving with them but away from Musk and Dodd and the obvious staff / minionage.

              Watch the folks DJT has around him – there was a public stink about the relationship between his personal detail and the Secret Service when he was first in office, but given I bet he basically had hired all ex-Secret Service guys anyway, they ironed it out, then and since. But look at their movements, or their coverage when he’s on stage.

              Look at the team DeSantis had when he was running.

              For anyone, watch videos of the protectee moving from a building to a vehicle. Mute the sound and watch whoever you can see that is not looking at them. If it looks smooth and you hardly notice them, they are good. If there’s any bumbling or rushing, or people obviously acting like nightclub door bouncers, that’s no bueno.

              Top tier people cost a lot, but they are really, really good at their job. Not really a place to save some money.

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              1. There’s also that they NOTICE their security.

                There’s video of W when he was in office being herded into a meeting…and they peeled off his security guy.

                It took like two steps before he’d noticed, identified where his guy was, and had turned around and dragged the guard back up with him.

                Contrast with Pope Frank’s habit of deliberately undercutting and evading his security, when he notices it exists. Or, again, with Pope Benedict 16th’s (in)famous secret trips to a cat house… literal cats. Weren’t allowed in the Papal rooms, and one of the reporters figured out how to follow his security to catch the pope in secret meetings with fluffy mousers.

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              2. Good security is worth its weight in diamonds. Bad or incompetent security is worse than no security, like relying on a rotten rope bridge it will usually turn out badly; better to not cross that gorge at all.

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      3. They won’t do very well with that, really. The left thinks they’re importing that, but the question is, do they kill each other first, or do we kill them all first?
        No, seriously.

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        1. There’s a reason a lot of the third-world ethnic groups basically fort-up in enclaves wherever they settle – see the Somali community in Minneapolis as an example, or the middle easterners in Dearborn, among many. Where they are from inevitably it comes down to machete parties. You don’t want to be the only foreign family on some suburban block when that inevitability comes to pass – you need to have your cousins around you so your clan can defend itself.

          So yeah, the, what, 20 million this year? Definitely not a monolithic mass of moldable putty for the new elite to apply their great wisdom and guidance to form into their future voting majority / biddable slave army.

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    2. Central America (and South America) are hotbeds of “Liberation Theology” (which is why we have a commie pope). This means any churchgoers in the Central and South American “migrant” hordes got Marxism plus “hate the gringo” baked in to every sermon in every Mass.

      While some of the Roman Catholic stuff pushes them towards certain conservative ideas, the Liberation Theology stuff pushes in the other direction.

      Who else?

      The world of the religion of peace, especially on the radical side, also has thick overlays of Marx.

      Most folks from Africa, whether from north of the Islam-line or south, have been fed colonialism-centered Marxist theory from childhood.

      And all those military age male Chinese “migrants” obviously had their years of CCP-mandatory Marxist formal education.

      So the revelation from interviews really is no surprise. I’d be surprised if any interviewees came up as basically market capitalists, let alone finding any free market libertarians.

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      1. But most of the people coming in aren’t from Latin America. And the chinese…. dudes, the Little EMperors cried at a slap fight with India. LITERALLY cried.
        It’s not as dire as you htink.

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        1. The Chinese do very well with formal, structured conflict where everyone knows and follows the rules.

          Against an opponent that doesn’t follow the highly structured culture of the Han, they don’t fare as well.

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          1. Historically, Chinese armies usually only do well against other Chinese armies. The moment the troops set foot out of China, they tend to do poorly. The last big Chinese war was against Vietnam, and the Vietnamese held them off with home guard-style reservists (the regular army was in Cambodia at the time).

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              1. Well, not the VC (which had been wiped out in the Tet Offensive), but rather the NVA.

                The Khmer Rouge had apparently decided to FA along the Vietnamese border. Hanoi, which had just successfully completed it’s war with the south, got fed up and decided it was time their fellow Communists FO. The provocations were reckless and stupid on the part of the Khmer. But then again, stupid is about the best thing one could say about that insane group.

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              1. Ah, yes; the LGoPs. :-) That applies to just about every US combat organization everywhere, and has for a couple of centuries; initiative was almost a religion in the Corps, as I understand it is in the Rangers as well as the paratroops. Even the non-elite troops are included. Three comments about this, all true to a large extent (I wish I could remember where I read them):

                The Soviets: “One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine.”

                The Nazis: “The reason that the American army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis.”

                Americans: “If we don’t know what we are doing, the enemy certainly can’t anticipate our future actions!”

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                1. I’m a firm believer in everyone in the unit knowing what the end objective is. No hidden agendas, no keeping secrets from your troops. There’s a lot to be said of telling your people to “take that hill” and then get out of their way so they can actually do it. Once the brass, or their civilian overlord, start playing stupid games, the odds are we’ve got the losing hand.

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                2. Husband and I took the kids to the USMC Museum back east.

                  I think I spent half the time laughing and half the time wanting to cry, because I swear… it’s the most… MARINE thing ever.

                  “Hey, we need to get a message to that plane. I know, we’ll hold it up on a line between two sticks, and he’ll grab it as he flies past!”
                  “Hey, look, here’s a helmet that still has the bullet in it. Donated by teh family of Ski, who kept it in his closet after the war, no long term injuries.”
                  :come around a corner and meet a “man” with a knife and facepaint in one of the fighting areas, yes I squeaked and then laughed again, it was AWESOME!!!:

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                3. Hey, get it right! It’s ‘LGoPOPs’. Little Groups of Pissed Off Paratroopers. :-P

                  “Where’s the Lieutenant? Hell, where’s the Sergeant? Where are we, anyway? What do we do now?”

                  “We’re here to fight Nazis, I say we go find some Nazis to fight.”

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                  1. Fits, but here’s the way I found it:

                    “This effect is known as Little Groups of Paratroopers. This is, in its purest form, small groups of 19- year old American Paratroopers. They are well-trained, armed-to-the-teeth and lack serious adult supervision. They collectively remember the Commander’s intent as ‘March to the sound of the guns and kill anyone who is not dressed like you’ …or something like that. Happily they go about the day’s work.
                    (No idea where this originated, but it’s a reference to the Allied paradrops the night before D-Day.)”

                    Addendum:

                    “Basic American tactics: take a bunch of 18-20 year olds, give them a whole bunch of firepower, remove any adult supervision, and point them at the enemy.”

                    Check out the story of the Marine Raiders Makin Island raid; it’s not too dissimilar. :-)

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                  1. I have to say that if I disappear…. you guys know what to do.
                    I will not disappear without oh, six people knowing what really happened. And they know each other. So “She’s in the hospital” will not wash.
                    Yeah, I’m thinking of “what I saw at the revolution.”
                    I disappear and one or two of those people say “that doesn’t sound right”? It’s go.
                    (I don’t think I’m important enough to be on those lists, but at least one of you does, so I’m taking it seriously.)

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            2. Aye, civilians haven’t had “fair” and “treaty” and such beaten/indoctrinated into them. “No, we ain’ gonna fight ‘fair’ – we gonna WIN!! You dunlike it? Shoulda thunk o’ that a while ago, huh?”

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      2. Being a hotbed of liberation theology is more like how the US is a hotbed of progressive ideals.

        It doesn’t mean it’s most, it doesn’t even mean it’s half. It means it’s really useful to a select group of abusers, and some fluff-heads.

        Moreover, part of why liberation theology is pathetic is the same issue progressive churches in the US have– folks that are “members” don’t show up unless their hand is stuck out.

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        1. Fair point. Might have been better to say “the primary target of ‘Liberation Theology’” since the whole shebang was basically cooked up by the KGB to poison the US relationship with Latin America.

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          1. :pushes glasses up nose: Oh, it’s worse than that, and it’s tied to Sarah’s observation that the various socialist ideas are heresies of Christianity.

            The Church is a threat. They HAD to subvert it, or it would destroy them– and there’s quite a few official documents pointing out that no, it’s not really compatible. (I mean, duh; faith built on the value of the individual AS an individual, vs faith that requires individuals be widgets.)

            So, a twofer– kind of like the “Hitler’s Pope” nonsense, which we KNOW was a literal Soviet plant.

            The primary tactic is pushing chaos, but then their “plan” requires it magically stop for them… no wonder their plans keep biting them on the keister.

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            1. Yeah. The entire alinsky stuff, as I just told someone on Frackbook works really well to create chaos. It’s that “Americans will have no choice but to become communist” that ensures a LOLWhat?
              They are not reasoning, but chanting from their hymnal.

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          2. (As you can probably tell, I find this stuff fascinating. And the “Hitler’s Pope” lie was the first time I actually SAW a movie-style evil villain plot IN REAL LIFE!!!)

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    3. The whole counting illegal immigrants shouldn’t be allowed. The part of the COTUS that determine allotments for House Representative didn’t count Indian tribes, for example. Noncitizens shouldn’t either.

      Not that progs care about the COTUS. They just look for a phrase they can seize upon or deliberately misinterpret things like the part about counting slaves as 3/5ths of a person to screech and lull the gullible into doing something for them.

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    4. > positive for COVID

      Last I paid any attention, cdc.gov’s web site admitted those tests were wrong 45% of the time. When the Fed was showering money at hospitals for “treating” COVID, nobody was concerned about that.

      You might have any of a wide family of similar infections, that may also show up as SARS-COVID-19 on the quick tests.

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            1. Heh. Chartreuse would be an improvement. Every time I test it usually comes out plaid.
              Would you believe our staff health office e-mailed me back telling me to send them a PICTURE of the test?

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        2. Oh holy cr@p don’t get me started on those frigging tests.

          The ones distributed in Ontario gave false positives -and- false negatives, AND were unsanitary. They were made and packaged in a shed with “wildlife” running around in it. Video of said shed and coverage of the scandal made it to TV (so you know how bad it had to be) but everyone seems amazingly un-moved by the revelations.

          “You should do the test!” is still heard by me from people who one would think should bloody well know better. [muted swearing and kicking]

          [/rant/]

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          1. They were made and packaged in a shed with “wildlife” running around in it.

            “Take our COVID test, bonus Hanta-virus infection or your money back”?

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          2. There are Type I errors, and Type II errors. I forget which is which, but one is “false positive” and the other is “false negative”.. so this was so useless it had both? What’s that, a Type III or Type 0 error? Or…. Type ERROR…?

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            1. I’m wondering if I need to get around to studying the detection hypothesis again, and write it up with some other conclusions.

              Mathematically, it is impossible to have a test that only has true positives, and true negatives.

              You are usually trading off false positives, and false negatives. I’m not sure if it is always technically possible to have both of those, or not.

              But sometimes you can get the chance of one small enough. High probabilities of false positive and of false negative are a bit notable.

              I’d overlooked the test kits as a disease warfare vector, but makes a disturbing amount of sense.

              There is a strong positive in the detection test for whether the ‘experts’ are contaminated with ‘thinkers’, that think worse than ordinary laymen. Now, false positive versus true positive? I don’t know.

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        3. Actually, I consider it to be kind of irrelevant whether it’s COVID or Influenza. Either way, you feel like yuck for a week, and still need several weeks afterwards to get back in shape. On the other hand, if it really is COVID, that’s just another reason to turn Dr. Faustus, err Fauci, into a lamp post decoration.

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      2. As already reported, we, entire household by this point, have had something this past January. (I am currently in the OMG coughing stage early AM. It gets started and keeps going, until it decides to stop, I swear (NOT whooping cough, not that bad). I never did get stuffed up like son and hubby. OTOH minute the fever hit I took NyQuil to keep the sinuses clear and kept taking it as soon as I felt a slight sniffle.) Covid? Heck if we know. Did not bother with the test. We were sick. Person sick stayed home. (Even son. Between being sick and the ice shutdown, he’s now blown through 42 hours of PTO of 80 hours. Eighteen hours because a coworker choose to come to work sick.)

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        1. It’s going around our area, too, first thing the doctor asked me when I walked into the “Keep the old farmers alive, get sick notes for school” morning clinic. (Not what I was there for.)

          It sucks, seems to have started up not long after New Year’s, at least in the public schools.

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          1. Other than schools, probably the perfect time and place to pass around something is during the holidays, when people frequently see others that they see only occasionally most of the time. And when many may be carrying a long-gestation “bug” they picked up in school just before the holidays.

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            2. Growing up the joke was “Holidays. Time for the flu to hit.” There for awhile, every single year (mostly Christmas, but remember a few Thanksgiving too). One of the reasons I cannot stand cream corn, stewed tomatoes, or jello with cottage cheese. First two, don’t remember ever liking. Last, like jello, like cottage cheese. Combined? Forget it. All 3 are holiday “specials”.

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          2. We don’t have anyone in the petri dish school environment anymore. Son brought it home from work. Right after first of the year. Dad caught it just as son was getting over it, about proper incubation period. Me? Thought I’d skated through without catching it. It was 10 days after dad had his fever. Of coarse, their fevers were 99.9 or 100. Mine? 102 (not quite high enough to haul tush to the clinic as an adult).

            It sucks.
            ……………..

            Agree.

            Made sure to stay away from mom, sister and BIL. Knew they’d want to go see newest great-grand/grandson a week or so after birth. (Due no later than Feb 4 because of nieces pregnancy condition. Born 4 weeks early, one oz heaver than sister who was only 2 weeks early 3 years before).

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        2. Just went through 2-1/2 weeks of Bronchitis-to-Pneumonia. Dang near checked out from it. I think I hit the cat with a lung lobe. She still hides when I cough.

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              1. Remember you both said that, the next time I (annoy) you off.

                It’s a real talent.

                (Grin)

                Seriously, though, I appreciate it. Thanks.

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  13. Re: Trump: they are afraid he will magic his way through their thing, regardless of how effective it is.

    I’ve mentioned that one of the last movies the spouse and I watched in the theaters pre-Covid was Cats.

    The best way to describe it is a liberal fever dream response to Trump. The big bad dazzler magics away their believed Hillarycat, and they have to work together through the power of interpretive dance to magic her back into power and drive away the class-traitor.

    That’s how they think the world works, and their waves of insanity since then just reinforces it.

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      3. I was pushing down on it with my mind at the same time. From California. While I was doing something else at the same time.

        That’s why it didn’t work.

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          1. Or, the lifting thoughts were just so exceptionally ephemeral and lightweight that, even en masse, their collective buoyancy applied locally was fully countered by random thoughts along the lines of “gee, that’s a heavy building” from far away.

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  14. Zerohedge, so you know it’s true, is reporting:

    “That Senate GOP will block border deal, leaving Ukraine in limbo: Hill “

    And

    “Amazing: this is the first time a crowdsourced effort on X to read and “find out what’s in the bill before it’s passed” crippled an attempt by the uniparty to shove more BS down America’s throat”

    Look for congress to pass a law that prevents people from reading what they’re passing. Still, one for the good guys, at least a little. We’ll see what monkeyshines they come up with next,

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    1. They must really be worried either Trump or The Deplorables are going to pull a rabbit out of their MAGA hats or something, otherwise, they wouldn’t be mustering the troops to the border. Surely they know this won’t poll well?

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        1. Yep.

          But that amount of 4am fraud will mean Brandon will be stuck with “lol one hundred twenty five million” for the few weeks until they off him: No need to keep him around past the election when he can’t even puppet reliably anymore, so they just swap kneepads into office and keep her on a short leash, maybe with hair gel as VP, though he is a straight white dude so maybe someone else there to bat cleanup…

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            1. The lovely clause about “Oh, all suits over the Constitution have to start in the DC District court. Suck it up [Red State]” in the “Border Bill” won’t help.

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              1. If they end up managing that one, watch for their sending all gun rights cases to the 9th Circus Court of Appeals “to manage the heavy Appeals Court caseload”.

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            2. You mean like get a kangaroo court criminal conviction in the NYC “money laundering” (i.e. campaign finance) case, deny Trump release pending appeal, and have him murdered in prison before the election?

              They will never let Trump take office, even if their fraud efforts fail. It is why they are spending so much energy trying to get him off the ballot to begin with. They are telling everyone that they are in “by any means necessary mode”, and we all know what the ultimate means, is.

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              1. They’re not getting him off of many ballots. I think it’s three right now? And at least one was a “He’s on the ballot until his appeal is completed” ruling.

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                1. There are times it appears that it exactly what they want because they are stupid enough to think they will win.

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                  1. Of course they will win. That is an article of faith with them. ‘Arrow Of History’ and all that rot.

                    May they all get their ‘Arrow Of History’ good and hard. Without lube.

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      3. Alaska won’t be the last. They’ll pull everyone that they think will obey into DC to prevent a violent uprising at Queen Kamala’s coronation. The year will give them time to vet those assigned and transfer anyone who won’t comply.

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      4. They know it won’t poll well. Otherwise they wouldn’t be waiting until 2025 to do it.

        This seems more like a shot across the bow than anything else. They can’t possibly need to notify Alaska a full year in advance that they’re going to need the men and equipment. And the numbers involved are small enough that I don’t know why they wouldn’t just use regulars instead.

        So I’m guessing that this is an attempt to intimidate the Republican Governors while not actually doing the horrendously unpopular action until after the election.

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    1. When people are competing to get banned, and trading “Banned” badges, you would think Spacebook would get the idea that their system is not working as planned.

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            2. Update at the article:

              Update: The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil has identified the book the Biden administration wanted to ban as “Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective Is Lying,” by Dr. Vernon Coleman. The book’s description, which is currently available on Amazon, reads: “The facts about vaccination – so that you can make up your own mind. Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc FRSA has been researching and writing about vaccines for 50 years. He has lectured doctors and nurses on the subject. He used to debate vaccination on TV and radio but won every public debate and these days vaccine supporters will no longer debate with him.”

              It is on Amazon, and even on KU.

              And, as a ranch kid, the title is AN ABSOLUTE NO BRAINER. Duuuuh level obvious– because if it’s effective, it’s not going to be safe. It’s just going to be safeer.

              Which is a really good defense of Amazon.

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  19. Can we start a Guillotine Manufacturing Company, I mean just a start up, not full production, as least not yet. The good thing is they are made from natural products, wood, steel, and can be readily recycled into something else after we are through with them.
    Asking for a friend, wink wink nudge nudge,

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    2. Any redneck worthy of the title can knock together a guillotine in a weekend.

      From materials on-hand. (Woodpile, scrap metal pile, can of old bolts, etc.)

      Setting it up in front of the Capitol in the middle of the night would take a little more planning.
      ———————————
      The U.S. Capitol is OUR house. Congresscritters are just the help.

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  20. For Sarah, and anyone else interested in popular pushback against the European elites –

    A new episode posted in the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters YouTube channel, “We Are Telling Not Asking”, is worth a watch. The episode has a particular focus on some of the very creative pushback against Sadiq Khan’s attempts to enforce the low emissions nonsense in London, but it also touches on a few other things.

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  21. Ohio passed a Constitutional Carry law in 2022. Crime statistics now show that in 6 of Ohio’s 8 largest (and most violent) cities, crime decreased after the law was passed. Cincinnati showed a spike in June, but crime dropped after that.

    David Yost, Ohio AG: “I can’t say, on the basis of this data, that Constitutional Carry makes crime go down.”

    Why not? If crime had increased, you lot would totally say Constitutional Carry caused it.
    ———————————
    If you call 9-1-1 and tell them that somebody with a gun is breaking into your house, they will send two cops in 10 or 15 minutes. If you tell them that somebody is breaking into your house and YOU have a gun, they will send 10 or 15 cops in two minutes.

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  22. I am reminded of a short story about a man besieged by insects, befriended by arachnids, one of whom says “I think we can save you”, expended to “not you personally; but humanity”…

    In the end, we win.

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  23. in a land with far fewer natural resources than, say, Brazil

    Sarah, you are dead wrong on this one. Even ignoring everything else the US has a MASSIVE fertile zone, larger than anything else on the planet, only beaten by a few tiny regions which are more fertile in a much smaller area. And that fertile zone is criss-crossed with easy river transport (which the Federal government has made practically illegal to use).

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    1. Sweetheart, while Brazil sucks for internal transport, I am NOT wrong. If you look at it you’ll find it’s a HARD case of resources squandered. Land so fertile you can get four crops in a year, priceless woods, mineral resources.
      All wasted because of the colonizing culture(s)

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      1. And there are volcanic islands with fantastic soil as well.

        They still pale in absolute production because they can’t compare with the size of America’s fertile regions.

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        2. John Deere et al has a lot to do with that production, and always has. The thing about American farmers is that they never ever stop trying to do it better and make a bigger buck out of it. That times 200 years gives you the American farm 2024 version.

          And yes, Brazil should be far out-performing Canada, and it never has. Because their culture is stupid. Hilarious [in a really dark sort of way] to watch Canada trying to turn into Brazil, not the other way around.

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        3. A lot of which we made fertile, Israel style. :D
          (I am still gobsmacked to be living in an area that they just…grow stuff. There’s NO IRRIGATION!!! They worry about flood draining, that’s it!)

          Yeah, we have resources– but we’re not really that notably rich, especially if you measure it per area or even per person.

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          1. I suppose that’s one thing the Dems haven’t considered – If they nix the dams that irrigate the Tri-Cities, they’ll eliminate the need for migrant farm labor throughout a wide swath of Washington.

            Because the only thing that will grow there after that is sagebrush.

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            1. “Sagebrush” and Juniper. Don’t forget the Juniper. Could run bison. Bison thrive in Yellowstone. Pronghorn? Cattle and sheep won’t.

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          2. I grew up near farms in western Pennsylvania. Our house was on land deemed “a bit poor for farming”.

            The topsoil in our yard was dark black and ten inches thick. Mom’s veggie garden simply exploded with produce.

            The red clay “topsoil” I observed in Georgia and North Carolina is poorer than the clay dirt three feet down in that childhood PA yard. Yet NC and GA are major agricultural producers.

            Someday, Americans will make a garden of the Moon.

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            1. Watch “Homestead Rescue” sometime. Be it clay, sand, lava, standing water, no water, high elevation, wind, permafrost, Missy will create a garden that will grow. Might have to elevate, mound, or dig in. Something will be created and it will flourish.

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            1. And you don’t have to water it, and the natural disasters don’t destroy everything— yeah, tornadoes suck, but one goes through the middle of yoru field, you keep most of the field.

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    2. But while “natural resources” are certainly a boon, they are NOT the key. Hong Kong or Singapore are…. not verdant plains, rich mines, etc. All they have/had going for them was (relative) economic liberty. Meanwhile other places all but dripping with “natural resources” are poor for the lack of liberty. Having both is ideal. Having neither is death. And if you can have only one, go with Liberty.

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      1. The Reader believes Liberty is the key to utilizing the only ‘natural resource’ on the planet – they human mind. Nothing material is a resource until some human figures out a use for it.

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          1. Sorry, but the Reader is merely a gadfly engineer who believes all economists and other social science nuisances are wrong about ‘natural resources’. Starting a newsletter isn’t on the horizon.

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