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Fighting Communism

1. https://twitter.com/UsforThemUK/status/1782352331863941537  The World Harm Organization (WHO) suffered a major setback.
    
2. A recent Gallup poll revealed that Brainless is the least popular president at this point in his term (over the past 70 years). Considering that Nixon was reviled and Carter was ridiculed, that is saying a lot. Then again, Brainless wasn't popular when he "won" all those mail-in votes that came in after the polls closed. He's the dumbest, least-liked, most destructive POTUS in our history. He's also deeply racist, which to most of us is not a "plus" in the character department. If the communists don't believe they can get away with stealing the 2024 election, they'll ditch Brainless and put some other whacko in his place. See more commentary about this in "Other News" below.

The Ongoing Covid Scam: Tidbits

1. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/do-vaccines-make-us-healthier?utm_campaign=548354&utm_source=cross-post&r=11unpl&utm_medium=email
    
2. https://twitter.com/PeterSweden7/status/1784900117859889382 Japan's most senior oncologist on the turbo cancers caused by the Covid jab.

Other News

1. Google terminated employees who held sit-in protests while wearing masks and chanting that the company was engaged in genocide by having a cloud services contract with Israel! Hooray for Google!
   
   The fact the protesters were wearing masks is the first sign they are too stupid and irrational to hold a tech job. The fact they openly engaged in anti-Semitism on the job was another reason to fire them. Google fired about 50 of these stupid, irrational antiSemites. These retards might, at the outset, have asked themselves if their Jew-hating behavior would go over well at a company founded by two Jews. But they were too stupid.
    
2. The economy continues to tumble, with consumer credit card debt and defaults both hitting record highs. When Brainless says about Bidenomics that "it's working," he is correct. It is devastating hundreds of thousands of households, just as it was intended to do.
    
3. https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/157/272/068/playable/56ec5a0f73e2a48c.mp4 Tucker Carlson on the invasion. Note: "In August of 2023, illegal invasions outpaced American births."
   [Special thanks to my bro Charlie for providing this]
    
4. Nutcase Nancy, the criminal psychopath who did so much to damage the United States and attack our freedoms (most notably, those protected by the First, Second, Fifth, Eightth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments), was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Brainless Biden. What a mockery.
    
5. The three ring circus that we call the Trump trials continues to waste resources and defy the Rule of Law.
   
   The communists resort to this behavior because they can't win an honest election (except in places like Commie Fornia) and are very aware that their pet retard has had a disastrous Presidency. In a rematch with Trump, it is certain that Trump would beat Brainless again. They are hoping they can keep Trump out and have their own lackey on the Republican ticket. Then Brainless can lose and they are still in power. But they can't have Brainless run against Trump. As implausible as his first "win" was, a second "win" by Brainless over Trump would clearly not be accepted by the already angry victim majority. So it is likely they will replace Brainless late this summer once the abuse of the court system fizzles out. As noted earlier, I think Big Mike is the likely candidate.
    
6. If "elected", then Big Mike would technically be our first black POTUS because his husband isn't ethnically or socially black. Barry is Irish on his mom's side and something like 1/8th African black on his dad's side (the rest is Arabic), although if you account for the fact Barry was born in Kenya that makes him 100% African. Every Israeli is also African, and we don't say they are black. So that's the ethnicity.
   
   On the social side, Barry went to two Ivy League schools. He grew up in Indonesia, not inner city Chicago or some other "black" area in the USA. And we know he came here on a "foreign exchange student" scholarship; as a C- student he could not have gotten into Harvard or Yale much less both of them otherwise.
   
   But unless we are going to be as racist as the Democrats are, then we shouldn't make much fuss about who is black and who is not. Extremely important to them, but not important to those who value merit and character.
    
7. Ford Motor Company reported a $120,000 loss per vehicle for its pollution-enhancing EVs. Why the Brainless administration keeps pushing EVs, which have such a massive downside and very little upside, is a mystery if we assume it's something other than taking away our ability to travel between cities or any distance from home. The alleged reason is to "save the planet" from fossil fuel, though that reason is based on faulty data and faulty logic.
   
   With an EV fleet and no ICE, living in the suburbs, where the vast majority of home ownership is, will be impossible. And that is the real goal, to herd us into dense urban apartment towers while taking away property rights. When you see an EV, ask the driver why they are so against home ownership. You'll get a blank look, because these people are too stupid to connect the dots. Connect the dots for them. Ditto for your misrepresentative in Congress. I would advise writing to Brainless himself, but he is too stupid to even know where he is most of the time.
   
   What about Tesla Motors' Elon Musk, the PayPal founder who has been a very strong force for freedom? When he entered the EV market, things were very different. There wasn't an anti-freedom, anti-human, anti-earth cohort occupying the White House after a coup. If you had the money and wanted a short range car that's zippy and has a cool factor, you could buy an EV the same way someone with a small yard might buy an electric lawn mower, electric leaf blower, electric edger, etc. But today, there is this irrational demonization of ICE cars as somehow destroying the planet while EVs, which are far more polluting and far less usable, are portrayed as a benign and morally superior alternative. You can bet Musk has been thinking about this a lot.

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At the CVS, I often see people wearing dust masks. Recall how Mr. Fauci proved he is not a doctor by asserting that a non-sealing face covering with an aperture of .300 microns will stop a virus that is only 0.070 microns. This assertion of his shows an inability to do second grade math, ergo his PhD is fake or was earned via fraud. So that moron is not a doctor. Anyhow, there were millions of people who, for a time, believed this nonsense. They also believed that even if you can smell the farts of someone six feet away from you, that distance will protect you from an allegedly super-communicable virus hosted by the same person (and apparently clouds of fart gas also stop virus transmission).

I'm writing this column on 23 April of, let me stress, 2024. And today at CVS, a customer wearing a dust mask greeted me with a look of shock in her eyes as I walked in and past her. She backed away from me to a distance of what looked like exactly six feet. I looked at her like she's nuts, because she is nuts. Then an obese employee with piercings and tattoos was wearing a dust mask and also stood back farther than is customary. Now, I don't have an offensive appearance. I dress nicely, stand erect, and smile at people (unless looking that them as if they are nuts, which I sometimes do when they are obviously nuts). Generally, people feel comfortable and at ease in my presence. But mask-wearers do not. They are horrified. Is it just me? No, I see this reaction to other sane people.

The "wear a mask out of fear of Covid" people illustrate a stupidity extreme that most of us will never experience. But we might experience lesser degrees of stupidity for the same reason. That reason is fear. Consider:

• Fear of losing out may cause you to jump at something that is actually a bad deal.
• Fear of not fitting in may cause you to make poor food choices or engage in other self-harm.
• Fear of being ridiculed may cause you to "go along to get along" even though it's a stupid thing you're going along with.

The Covid scam relied on fear to do its work. The gist was you would die painfully from a virus unless you did exactly what the "experts" said, and that included subjecting yourself to an experimental drug that had never been tested for safety or efficacy. People did many stupid things out of fear of Covid, and yet the fear had no basis in reality. Which brings me to my first defense tip.

Six tips for defending against stupidity-inducing fear:

1. Assess the threat. Is it real? Usually, it's not.
2. Assess the likelihood the threat can affect you in any serious way. Usually, it cannot.
3. Assess the potential damage. So what if someone criticizes you? It is their way of saying that THEY are insecure. Let them criticize, and smile at what they are actually telling you.
4. Assess the proscribed action for efficacy. Is it actually going to be effective against the threat? In most cases, no. This is where I came to see the Covid scam as a scam, because not one thing proscribed by the CDC is the least bit helpful against a virus.
5. Assess the proscribed action for harm. Will it do more harm than good? What is the trade-off? When the CDC dispensed such medically unsound advice as it did, telling people to do things that would actually reduce their disease immunity, that's when I saw them as an agency that needs to be defunded. Nearly all of their advice made the people who followed it worse off.
6. Avoid people who parrot the fear-inducing propaganda. That is, if you're being sprayed with cold water then shut the faucet off.

• 34 million = 34,000,000
• 34 trillion = 34,000,000,000,000

Or:

• 34 million = 00,000,034,000,000
• 34 trillion =  34,000,000,000,000

Why is this bad?

I could write a book on that (several experts already have). So let's take just one aspect, which is the "crowding out" effect. This huge federal debt means 34 million million dollars exist as credit. Which means they are loaned. And loans have costs to the lenders, and lenders have legal limits such as reserve requirements that limit how much credit they can create. Which means there is only so much credit available for businesses to invest to produce goods and services. And for consumers to buy them.

The federal government is a massive pig at the credit trough, and it is "crowding out" all of the little piglets who need credit. The lack of available, affordable credit is a key reason for the shortages of food and other items we now see every day.

That is just one of over a dozen corrosive effects that government debt has when it becomes too large. How large is too large? Opinion varies, but it's similar to the formula for a household; remember the 25% rule? This states you shouldn't spend more than 25% of your income on your mortgage (the 28% rule is similar, it includes housing related expenses also). At one time, banks used this to determine how much to loan you for a home. And I remember when it was the 23% rule.

We measure our national "income" in terms of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. It's now overstated because the making of hamburgers at fast food chains (these are consumed, not exported as products, so a lie) and other obvious "doing each other's laundry" items are now included in the GDP. But let's set that aside and go with the inflated number. In 2022, the national debt was 129% of GDP. Compare that to the 25% rule, and you can see "too much debt" is a mild way of putting it. We are in deep, deep, DEEP sh**.

Can't we just pay it off?

If the following took place:

1. Deficit spending suddenly stops, we spend no more than we take in.
2. Interest on the debt is suddenly zero.
3. Every American household pays an additional $1,000 each month (as if anyone could afford to).

...we would pay off the national debt in 22 years. But deficit spending continues to the point that the debt grows by $1 trillion every 90 days, and the annual interest on the debt is $1 trillion. The interest on the debt exceeds our military budget of $849 billion by more than $150 billion. And it's more than 200 times border spending.

If you run this math, you can see:

1. We cannot just pay it off.
2. There is almost no way out of this debt until everything simply collapses. And the collapse would bring several decades of pain, poverty, and misery to about 98% of us.

What can we do?

Here are the potential solutions I can see:

1. Continue to inflate (debase) the dollar. This practice is already having severe economic consequences for us. It's not a survivable option. It's akin to continuing to have amputations for gangrene due to diabetes while also continuing a high-sugar diet. Eventually, you run out of fingers and toes to amputate.
2. Subject captured space aliens to waterboarding until they divulge enough of their technical information to give us huge technical capacity that will boost the economy enough to earn our way out. I'd say this is a long shot at best, but what do I know?
3. Repudiate the debt. This is akin to filing bankruptcy. It ruins your credit and has other deleterious effects.
4. Pretend the debt doesn't matter, even though it is driving the economic depression we are in. That is the current "solution" and it clearly is not working.
    
5. Take a very long view approach. This means a mix of measures that would reduce federal spending and increase federal revenue. These may include booting communists out of power, more strongly enforcing the 10th Amendment and eliminating dozens of agencies, defunding toxic agencies such as the CDC, abolishing the IRS (which, due to compliance costs, reduces the income to the Treasury versus having no IRS), adding a flat rate debt-pay-down tax so the problem stays visible to all Americans, reducing the regulatory power from agencies so they aren't de facto creating legislation, revoking communist legislation such as Obummercare and the various "infrastructure" bills, stop with the "green energy" delusion, enact tax penalties for owning an "electric" car, end the vaccine industry (which gives us massive medical care costs), and generally oppose spending that is unnecessary and/or stupid.

Of these solutions, only the last one is viable. It involves plugging the many holes that exist. But it stands no hope of implementation as long as "Democrat" is on the ballot and taken seriously. This is where you can be part of the solution. Granted, a huge percentage of votes for "Democrat" are fake (dead people voting, etc.). But many people actually do vote "Democrat", and if you take those people away then the fake votes aren't enough to put communists in office. You don't have to argue politics with these people, you merely need to ask a simple question.

What question is that? People who vote "Democrat" are suffering as much as the rest of us. They have seen the costs of homes, food, cars, and many other things skyrocket. They complain about these things. All you have to do is trigger a complaint, and once they make it ask the following question. "Which party do you think has spent us into this hole? I'm thinking of the multi-trillion dollar boondoggles like the Infrastructure Act, as an example." And then quickly follow with, "You don't need to tell me the answer. You need to remember the answer in November."

Not ideal, but necessary

That isn't an ideal solution, it puts some very strange people in power. But let's take one problem at a time. And the most important problem facing the country today is the communists' obsession with growing our unsustainable debt. When your house is on fire, you don't worry about whether the fire hoses match your carpet color. You put out the fire.

Americans increasingly can't afford credit card payments. The Federal Reserve reported this month that delinquencies hit an all-time high at every time horizon (30 days, 60 days, 90 days). And the share of accounts making only the minimum payments rose 34 basis points from the prior quarter. This means there are a lot of desperate people, and that makes for a dangerous situation. The communists have greatly expanded the power and funding of the terrorist group known as the Institute of Reprobates and Sociopaths (IRS), which is fond of targeting the people who can least afford to hire attorneys to defend them against baseless claims and aggressive collection efforts. This raises the desperation level, and thus the danger level, considerably.

On the other hand, US citizens now own more than 700 million ammunition magazines with more than a 10-round capacity. Add in the ammo for revolvers and shotguns, and the smaller magazines (such as the popular 5-shot for smaller automatic pistols and for semi-automatic center-fire long guns), and you can see that those whose desperation drives them to violent theft or home invasion will probably exit the theft business due to "early demise syndrome".

With police departments defunded, dispirited, and understaffed, law enforcement to protect ordinary citizens has shifted strongly to the private sector. But firearms should not be our first line of defense. For this article, I'll take a cue from the world of industrial safety (I write articles on that topic for several trade publications). In fact, I'll base it on NFPA 70E, which is the Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. The relevant material is found in Informative Annex F, Table F.3.

Control dangers in this order:

• Eliminate the hazard. Electrical example: Conductors and circuit parts in an electrically safe working condition.
  Personal security examples: Keep your car fueled and maintained so you aren't stranded, don't leave "invasion bait" out (e.g., boxes that expensive items came in), and combine trips to reduce the amount of time you are exposed to aggressive driving (eliminate those minutes). Follow the "don't be there" rule as much as is practical.

• Substitution. Electrical example: Reduce energy by replacing 120V control circuitry with 24 VAC of VDC control circuitry.
  Personal security examples: Shop in relatively safer areas, where possible travel outside of "rush hour" times, opt for a less conspicuous vehicle if buying one, oipt for a low theft vehicle if buying one.

• Engineering controls. Electrical example: Guard energized electrical conductors.
  Personal security example: Install strong doors and locks on your home, install security cameras on your home, when pulling up behind another vehicle at a light keep enough distance that you can see where its tires touch the pavement.

• Awareness. Electrical example: Signs alerting of the potential presence of hazards.
  Personal security examples: Look for signs of danger. Keep your nose out of your phone, your eyes and ears peeled. Do a 180 degree visual sweep if walking through a public area and periodically check behind you. Constantly update your available exit path / emergency "flee to" spot, and what weapons are readily available. On that last one, when I am in a store I look at all of the merchandise as an armory. I can disable an attacker with things ranging from a pair of pants to a jar of pickles.

• Administrative controls. Electrical example: Procedures and job planning tools.
  Personal security examples: Lock your doors at night, have a pre-departure inspection ritual at home (check doors, faucet, ignition sources, etc.), don't leave your garage door open, smile at strangers (this actually reduces risk of attack for multiple reasons including you look confident), stand erect instead of slouching.

• PPE. Shock and arc flash PPE. Personal security examples: Guns, knives, and nearby objects. Note that a fire extinguisher isn't just for putting out fires; look for red bands at the tops of pillars in an office, store, or other public place. An extinguisher is heavy enough to use as a deadly weapon or blocking device, but you can also pull the pin and blast your attacker in the face. And THEN break his skull (safer for you that way).

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.

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