Mindconnection eNL, 2024-03-03

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Fighting Communism

1. https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/stunning-10-million-illegals-have-entered-us-under-biden-tucker-country-being-destroyed. That's over 3 X the population of Kansas. 22 of the 36 states on that list are free states, and there are only 36 free states. This huge flood of Democrats could change the voting in those 22 states, rendering them communist (Democrat). That would leave only 14 states where the rule of law is respected, actually flipping the numbers. So instead of 14 lawless, enslaved states versus 36 free states as we have now, there would be only 14 free states left and 36 that are lawless and enslaved. Commiefornia has a disproportionate amount of power, as do Sickenois (Ill-inois) and New York. The main point of erasing our borders is to nullify our elections.
   
   The commies can't win in a fair election, so they do this kind of thing even though it comes with horrendous human trafficking and a fentanyl epidemic that is wiping out much of a generation. Remember George Floyd? His autopsy clearly showed that he died from a fentanyl overdose, the amount in his blood exceeded the lethality limit. Look at how the commies and their lamestream media propagandists totally lied about that and what happened as a result. Just awful.
   
2. You have to ask yourself, "Why are the communists going to such great lengths to destroy Donald Trump? They engage in grossly illegal and immoral behavior toward that end, what are they so afraid of?" When you have that answer, then you will understand why we must stop the communists without stooping to their level of criminality and debauchery.
   
3. Sylvester Stallone says he is permanently leaving The People's Republic of Commiefornia (not the name he gave it, just the name that best describes it). He's taking his creativity and earnings with him.
   
4. A judge in The People's Republic of Illinois (I'm an escapee from there) has ruled that Trump is ineligible to be on the ballot. Of course, there is no substantiation for this ruling, the communists simply do not want Trump to be President so they abuse their power of office toward that end. What they fear more than anything is elections that are open, uncorrupted, and fair. Because in such elections, they cannot win.
   
5. After two decades of screwing up the Senate, Mitch McConnell is finally stepping down as the Republican "leader". When the Communists took the Senate the last time, I wrote to several prominent Republicans that Mitchie Boy is the reason why. If the Republicans of the upper chamber elect someone decent and trustworthy as their leader, they will take the Senate this year. Else, they won't. I wrote to both of my senators expressing this strongly:

"I am glad to hear that Mitch McConnell is finally stepping down from his "leadership" role, after two decades of screwing up the Senate and harming the Republican Party. The man is a repugnant, repulsive, double-dealer who abhors competence. Sure, his communist counterpart Schumer is far worse but we have to remember that "blue state" people do not want a reprobate Republican to lead the Senate (they prefer a criminal communist). So they turn out in big numbers to vote against the Republican candidate who is running in their state during that election to prevent a Republican majority.

If the Republicans of the upper chamber elect someone decent and trustworthy as their leader, they will regain the Senate this year. Else, they won't. Please make it clear to your colleagues what must be done and do not give a single inch.

Thank you."

The Ongoing Covid Scam: Tidbits

1. Covid itself did not kill a single otherwise healthy person. Only people with comorbidities died from it. However, Covid treatment protocols (which contradict common sense and standard medical practice) killed thousands of Americans who would have lived had they not gone to the hospital. For example, they were intubated when they did not meet the criteria for intubation. Another example, they were denied anti-inflammatories and their condition changed to a lethal a cytokine storm; anti-inflammatories are standard treatment when you have respiratory inflammation as did people with Covid.
   
2. The Covid "vaccine" did not prevent a single case of transmission and did not save a single life. Now the scammers, who have lost the battle defending those assertions say that the "vaccine" reduced the symptoms so people were less sick. What a load of crap that is. All the "vaccine" did was stimulate the body to produce a toxic spike protien, it actually reduced immunity. If you got the jab, you got MORE sick than if you had not gotten it. Your immune system with the jab is already taxed out trying to handle all those spike proteins and the other deleterious effects of the jab. There isn't much capability left to handle the actual flu.
   
3. You may have noticed there was no "epidemic" of Covid among the homeless. They didn't stay indoors per CDC "guidelines", didn't wear masks, and didn't get the fake tests. People who got the fake tests were malpracticed on based on a false diagnosis, and many of them died as a result. But not from Covid.
   
4. The murdering fraudsters behind the Covid scam knew points one and two more than two years ago. And yet, they persist to this day to push the false and deadly narrative. Generally speaking, mass murder is a felony and a capital offense. Why have these people not even been indicted yet? Let's see Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci swing from a rope after being tried in Nuremberg!

Other News

1. https://twitter.com/WYFreedomCaucus/status/1758197945227174331. In Wyoming, a bill that would protect womanhood by biologically defining male and female was defeated and TWENTY "Republicans" voted against it.
2. https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1757594606550610126. A big step in stopping the human trafficking, fentanyl epidemic, etc., due to our open borders.
3. https://youtu.be/eFPi3EigjFA?si=9j7Ot21JEXrgluAJ The truth about George Floyd (the autopsy results and other forensic evidence). We were scammed, no surprise there.... MUST WATCH. "The Fall of Minneapolis". If YouTube censors it, find it on Rumble.
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ffv4IUxkDU. Another video about the George Floyd scam. You might notice the "complexion" of these folks, it's not a race thing to deny the lie.

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I don't watch television, listen to the radio, or read the mainstream newspapers or magazines (I do subscribe to Epoch Times), all of which means I'm not inundated with propaganda and am often unfamiliar with the memes. Do you remember the yellow alerts, orange alerts, etc.? It was nearly two years after those came out that I knew what they meant because I had never seen them. This doesn't mean I am ignorant, it means I am unfamiliar with the memes. So I sometimes get a minor detail wrong, the same way I sometimes use the wrong word when trying to speak Spanish because it's not a language I use very much. No se!

An example of this is early during the Covid scam, Mr. Fauci and his cohorts were claiming a dust mask would block Covid. So in this newsletter, I referred to the N95 mask designation as K95; there was actually KN95 which is the Chinese version. A reader sent me a blistering message about how stupid I am and unsubscribed.

While I do ignore the lying, manipulative legacy media I do find information from primary sources.

Another way to intellectually impoverish yourself is to avoid any discomfort that may arise from challenges to your currently held beliefs by staying in your echo chamber and rejecting anyone and anything that poses such a challenge.

Here's an example, and it's a bit more involved than the first one.

I "fired" my Congresswoman Sharice Davids because I was also subscribing to House Speaker Nutcase Nancy's newsletter and noticed the two newsletters were almost verbatim identical. Which meant my Congresswoman was representing Nancy Pelosi to the Third District of Kansas instead of representing the Third District of Kansas in Congress. I had also watched several videos featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene and had subscribed to her newsletter. I also contacted her via her web form and instead of getting back the kind of idiotic and dishonest message Davids had a habit of sending, I got back something that showed MTG cares about her constituents and her country.

I could see she was a lot rougher around the edges than I like, but she was a freshman Congresswoman during this time so I expected she would either mature into the job or not get re-elected. She was re-elected. But even before she was, I wrote to Davids and expressed my disappointment for her dishonorable conduct and failure in her position. I wrote to Davids that I would be sending my concerns and my political campaign dollars to Marjorie Taylor Greene who, though imperfect, at least understands our Constitution and what her job is.

I've mentioned MTG in this newsletter a few times and also provided links to videos featuring her. In the issue before this one, I discussed this example of "firing" a communist (mis)representative and "hiring" one who would actually do a good job. In that same issue, I mentioned support for President Trump, who was defrauded out of his second term of office and whose accomplishments (despite having the maturity of an 8 year old) in his first term were quite impressive (the numbers don't lie) while at the same time Brainless Biden has literally been at war with America--devastating our economy, fomenting racial hatred, advocating wokeness, and spectacularly failing in every single one of his Presidential responsibilities. With Trump as the presumed Republican nominee facing off against Biden, it is not rocket science to see what you have to do.

And yet, a reader in the People's Republic of Hawaii wrote to me that she has long enjoyed my newsletter. Until now. And that I showed no brainpower because of backing MTG and Trump, so she was unsubscribing.

It's not political

But let's say I was just ignorantly backing Trump and MTG instead of backing them as the rational conclusion that comes from viewing the undeniable facts. This reader could have said, "OK, I'm just going to disagree there." Or she could have written that I didn't make a case for this position, and either do that or write a mea culpa. But the reality is I did make a case and this was her problem. The cognitive dissonance that affects a propaganda-poisoned person who is confronted with logical conclusions arising from facts causes an emotional response. The person either has an "Aha!" moment or goes into kill the messenger mode.

I consider myself to be completely apolitical. It's not the political party of a candidate or politician, it's what that person advocates or does while in office. And for the current generation of Democrats, they advocate hatred and intolerance while committing criminal acts with impunity. But it doesn't mean I reject all Democrats.

Here in Kansas, we have a Democrat Governor (Kelly). Her predecessor, a Republican, mostly shared my values. But he totally botched the state's finances. Governor Kelly shares fewer values with me than her predecessor does, but she righted the financial mess. She also refused to abuse her power of office to foment the Covid scam, and instead left it up to each county. I have sent her several messages of gratitude and encouragement.

The problem today is the Democratic Party has been taken over by radical people who will try to destroy anyone who doesn't follow their orders and support their narrative while they commit crime after crime. Trump isn't their only target, look what they have done to Senator Sinema and many others.

It just so happens that Republicans and I share most of the same values (but not all, I am a registered Libertarian). And the only values I see coming from the leftwing extremists are hatred and intolerance. I don't see any other message from them, these two "values" underpin everything they say. As for what they do, it's all about committing crimes. This means that in a contest between them and any Republican, it's not rocket science which one I will choose. Our only remedy, under our laws, is the ballot box. And thus an apolitical person must engage in political acts to counter criminal behavior, intolerance, and hatred. It's a heck of a thing.

I hold my nose sometimes when voting (figuratively, anyhow) because in certain races the over-riding concern is to ensure a communist does not win. And unfortunately, only a Republican can beat a communist in our current system. So even though I do vote Libertarian for all of the State of Kansas offices, county offices, and local offices, I feel compelled to vote R for the federal ones. I took that position when Barry Soetoro was running for re-election, and have held it ever since. It's not what I want to do, but the communists are an existential threat to our nation and they must be stopped by whatever lawful and moral means we have at our disposal.

Since they use unlawful and immoral means to stomp us down, it's not a fair fight. But if we become like them, they we have already lost. Thus, I vote R in specific races.

What do we spend per day just to pay the interest on the national debt? At this point in 2024, it's $640 billion per year. That's $1.7534 billion per day. A billion is 1 followed by 9 zeroes. So this number is 640,000,000, 000. That's $175,342,465.753425 per day.

• The average Social Security benefit is $21,210. That's $58 per day. So the daily interest on the national debt uses up the Social Security benefits of 3,017,444.60160302 Americans. Each day. All year long.
• Columbus, OH, has a population of almost 1 million people (905,750). That's $193 per person per day, just to pay the interest on the national debt. That's $70,659.67 per person per year.

This analysis helps put things in perspective. Of course, the population of Columbus, OH is less than 1% the population of the whole country. So we don't want to look at those numbers and think we each have to pay more than the median annual wage just to pay the interest on the debt.

The takeaway from this is the interest on the national debt is enormous enough that it has become a major expense item all on its own. What can we do about this?

Here is the equation for debt increase: Revenue - Spending = Debt Increase. Given this, you can either increase revenue or decrease spending to reduce the rate of debt accumulation. Or you can do some of each.

The amount of debt has more than doubled since the coup. It was also growing during Trump's first term, just not in leaps and bounds. The leaps and bounds were due to one-off spending bills inflicted on us when Nutcase Nancy was Speaker. All of these were cynically named to reflect the opposite effect of what they actually did. The only thing this means is if we keep communists from regaining the House then we won't see any more of these huge theft things happening.

Spending cuts are not politically feasible, due to our "pig at the trough" system. Members of Congress get rewarded when the abet theft of the Treasury, and punished when they oppose it. We might make some marginal reductions in spending, if we fight hard enough and are willing to take the punishment that will be meted out by the greediest of the pigs at the trough. What I mean by this is if you get on their radar they will viciously come after you personally.

What remains is growing the revenue side. Since taxation is already excessive, simply raising tax rates isn't the answer. We saw the answer during Trump's first term and during Bill Clinton's second term. The answer involves doing the exact opposite to businesses what the Brainless administration is doing. Rather than bombard businesses with libtard utopian requirements such as DEI, even more reporting requirements, and even more burdensome regulation compliance requirements, the federal government (and state governments) need to back off. None of these requirements are of the "pig at the trough" type, which means there's nobody who financially benefits from them. Which means that rescinding them doesn't take any bit of the pie from anyone else. It merely grows the pie.

If you own or work for a small business, ensure the business joins the National Small Business Association (NSBA) www.nsba.biz (do not confuse this with the .org variation, an entirely different group). This group has been America's small business advocate since 1937. It's not that they lobby for more pig time at the trough, it's that they lobby for the federal government to stop being water boys for the big corporations that employ members of Congress to hobble their small business competitors. Most jobs and most government revenue come from small businesses, while most organize crime and most health costs come from big corporations.

What we don't want to do is lobby for "deregulation". This tends to mean licensing the seediest of the large businesses to commit heinous acts with impunity. It puts the best of the larger businesses at a distinct disadvantage, in addition to harming small businesses. What we want to lobby for is the removal of regulations that don't benefit consumers much (if at all), and there are plenty of those. Most of these are issued by unelected officials of government agencies, who are never held accountable for their actions. We can lobby in one of two ways:

1. Petition Congress to pass legislation with clear and specific mandates to agencies, rather than taking the lazy way out and granting them broad authority while knowing the very companies these agencies regulate offer posh jobs to the employees of those agencies (the revolving door problem). Good luck with that.
   
2. Contact regulators directly. This has had success, an example being OSHA. If you read 1926.29 CFR (the OSHA regs), you find very little to criticize. The whole point of this collection of regulations appears to be to provide employers with specific instructions on how not to fail their employees when it comes to safety. The electrical industry regulations are particularly good. The current head of this hasn't been in the job long, his predecessor worked very closely with industry representatives for 40 years and he had an excellent understanding of industry standards such as the National Electrical Code and NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace). He was often seen at industry events. His successor has carried this same banner since replacing him.

How can you implement #2? If you are "just an employee" get involved in at least one professional or trade society in your industry. Through that, you can make meaningful contact with at least one relevant regulating agency and get communication going. If you are an executive at you firm, you can do something similar and/or identify one employee to do it and back that employee with sufficient resources (time and funding to go to trade shows, specific work assignments toward this function, and maybe even a "Liaison" title). If you are already working far more hours than you should (very common these days), then "outsource" to a special hire or contractor and/or support an organization (e.g., NSBA) that will represent you in Washington, DC.

For example, they backed Barry Soetoro (aka, "Obama") for a second term in office even though during his first term he racked up $1 trillion a year in deficit spending. His predecessor's last year in office produced a $400B deficit. Nutcase Nancy and BS collaborated to puff out GW's outgoing budget by another $800B, bringing the BS budget deficit to $1.2T his very first year.

In case you don't understand how deficits affect prices, I sum it up by saying they increase inflation because the Fed buys the additional debt with money it creates out of thin air. This amounts to a tax on all dollar-based income and assets. It eats away at retirement income like nothing else does.

I know a retired person who has filled his house with useless junk, IMO he should invite thieves in to haul away 95% of it. Instead, he locks his doors (advisable, actually) and has an elaborate alarm system. But he has no problem with being robbed by the AARP.

As an alternative, the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), www.amac.org offers the same discounts while not supporting crooks who steal from the poor to give to the rich. Rather than support an organization that exists to help crooks rob seniors, support an organization that exists to serve seniors. This is a big step toward personal security, financially and otherwise.

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.

Under all four years of Donald Trump, there were only 11 attempts by people on our terrorist watch list to illegally cross our border. In 2022, under Biden's "leadership" there were 659 attempts by people on our terrorist watch list to illegally cross our border.

In addition, the open border policy has resulted in a massive spike in human trafficking, and a fentanyl problem that is killing thousands of American teenagers (Port Huron, MI was particularly devastated by this not long ago). So am I stupid, as that reader claims, for endorsing Trump over Biden? You decide.