Mindconnection eNL, 2024-07-21

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Fighting Communism

1. The Communist News Network (CNN) recently laid off about 100 employees (3% of its brainwashing force). People are so sick of the blatantly dishonest "reporting" that they are tuning out CNN. Consequently, advertising revenue in early 2024 dropped 40% compared to a year ago. It's almost hilarious that the CEO has responded as if the problem is they need a third attempt at a digital strategy (the previous two bombed), when it's painfully obvious that the "our viewers must be really stupid, let's sling this BS at them" strategy was overplayed since the coup and people are simply connecting the very big dots between CNN's fantasy world and the devastating consequences of communism in the real world.
    
2. Replay of a particularly good VSRF show: https://rumble.com/v56915e-vsrf-live-134-pandemic-in-paradise-an-insiders-view-on-the-pandemic.html It's a couple of hours long, you may want to watch it in smaller segments.
    
3. The communists know they cannot beat Trump in a fair election. In addition to everything else they've done, on 13 JUL one of their people they shot him at a rally in Butler, PA. There are so many red flags about this, it is almost certainly a conspiracy. How did the tall ladder get there? Why was the massive flag (wind indicator) flying over Trump's head? Why did security people ignore the warnings from multiple people who saw the sniper long before Trump was shot? Why was the whole security detail not only devoid of a single tall person but "over-represented" by people much shorter than Trump? The list of anomalies is far longer, but I think you get the point.
    
4. Let us take moment to remember Corey Comperatore. He died after throwing himself on top of his family to protect them from the flying bullets. He was a 50 year-old former fire chief. Just the kind of hero the communists hate but the rest of us respect and hold in high esteem. Some private individuals raised money for Corey's family and for the two other shooting victims (who were in critical condition for a while there). It's a huge amount of money, but of course it doesn't make up for the loss to the Comperatore family.
    
5. It's worth noting that of the six Presidents assassinated or upon whom an attempt was made, all but JFK were Republicans. And JFK (a Life Member of the NRA) would by today's standards be labeled a right-wing extremist. Lincoln, McKinley, T. Roosevelt (attempted), JFK, Reagan (attempted), and now Trump (attempted). Lincoln, a Republican, freed the slaves. The Democrats have never forgiven his party for that.
    
6. After Carter, the Democrat Party strongly shifted first into socialism then into communism. Bill Clinton was still a Democrat while POTUS, but his wife was firmly in the socialist camp by then. It's a good thing he didn't let her bully him into doing her bidding.
    
7. Nearly all Silicon Valley tech billionaires opposed Trump in the 2020 stolen election. Now, after nearly four years of devastating communism, nearly all of them support him. I hope they realize that it's not so much campaign dollars and more voters Trump needs as it is help with ensuring the election is at least somewhat honest and fair. After all, in 2020 he set a new record for votes received at the time the polls closed. It was the devious cheating after that which resulted in flipping the election to Biden (mostly via fake mail-in votes). Those billionaires need to fund election integrity efforts and organize trained teams to police things so any fraud is caught and corrected. And you can bet there will be plenty of fraud.
    
8. I found this uplifting: https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1814113542775415272?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email, as did millions of other Americans. The communists are defeated, and they know it. The awful consequences of their own policies, combined with their hatred, dishonesty, and racism made this outcome predictable.
    
9. On 18JUL, the 9th Circuit handed a HUGE election integrity win to the people of Arizona. Voters must provide proof of citizenship. This doesn't solve all the election fraud problems, but it is a big step toward doing so. [Thanks to Jeff Childers of Covid and Coffee for that information.]
    
10. Also on 18JUL, the 8th Circuit blocked the Brainless scheme to buy votes via transferring student loan debt from basket-weaving majors to everyone else. [Thanks to Jeff Childers of Covid and Coffee for that information, too.]

The C*O*V*I*D* Scam

1. https://x.com/ConlustroR/status/1809620480803983643 One-hour documentary.
    
2. Yet another victim of the myocarditis shot, which many foolish employers mindlessly made mandatory: NFL Star Damar Hamlin. Cardiac arrest in mid-game.

Other News

1. You've no doubt watched videos and read commentaries on the attempted assassination of President Trump. So I'm not covering that here. But I do want to say the Communist News Network (CNN) simply reported that he "fell" at the rally, as if he's a bumbling old fool like Biden. All of the lamestream media downplayed this in various ways, but the Communist News Network was the worst. If you know anyone who exposes their brain to this particular news sewer, make sure to point out the kind of fake news they provide using this example.
    
2. You may also be aware, by now, that last week the Department of Injustice dropped its bogus documents case against
    
3. The US Budget Deficit now stands at $1.27 trillion so far this year. As more pork gets added to it, that could increase. That's not the budget, that's the deficit. Let that sink in
   a. This is TRILLION, which is a 1 followed by 12 zeroes. It's a million million.
   b. The budget is planned spending and anticipated income, which means they are planning to dig us a deeper debt hole by this amount.
   c. The income projections are unrealistically rosy. The actual number is probably a half a trillion greater, thus $1.57 trillion.
   d. The budget deficit is what drives inflation, because to pay for it the govt "sells" the debt to the Federal Reserve, which pays for it by creating the money out of thin air (e.g., counterfeiting the money).
    
4. Brainless said yet another stupid thing, this is pretty funny: https://x.com/TaraBull808/status/1811845484434399423
    
5. The man who actually won the 2020 race for POTUS (if you don't count the thousands of fake mail-in votes that came in after the polls closed) is also very funny, but because he's bright as opposed to stupid:
   https://x.com/i/status/1810758360607658338
    
6. Here's Brainless again: https://x.com/i/status/1811846551565926475
    
7. The FDA, which has been incredibly lax at doing anything to protect our food supply (and which has actively worked against that goal for years) finally banned brominated oil. Now if they would also ban seed oils (canola, safflower, etc.) and hydrogenated oils (e.g. Crisco shortening), they would reduce the cost of medical care in the USA by a few billion dollars a year while ending much unnecessary suffering. They could improve on that by banning margarine, high fructose corn syrup, and  various other highly processed foods.
   
   But first, they need to ban the Covid "vaccines" that are responsible for so much death and misery and have not saved a single life (they cannot possibly reduce the risk of infection or severity of infection, because triggering production of a protein spike has no such effect).

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• They hold very strong opinions.
• They get emotional very quickly if asked to substantiate something they say.
• They know little or nothing about the topic in which they hold such strong opinions.

These symptoms are all related. If you don't know what you are talking about, you have an opinion rather than knowledge and your ego is tied up in this thus you get emotional if the opinion isn't validated by another person. In short, these leftist people are, without exception, "low information" individuals. They may hold advanced degrees or may even have membership in Mensa. But they lack the intellectual curiosity to dig into a topic and truly understand it. They live in a low information bubble, getting emotional reinforcement from other low information individuals or from groups led by either low information individuals or evil people who prey upon low information individuals.

I see low information individuals who aren't leftists, but I have never seen a leftist who is not a low information individual. If you ponder on this, you can create new information such as what the cause and effect relationship is. I will cover "create new information" in a bit.

Those who are low information are usually also "thinking disabled". That's a different topic, and I'll probably write about the thinking disabled at some point.

Readers of this enewsletter tend to be high information individuals, so I won't go into how to avoid being a low information individual. Same for being thinking-enabled. So far, without exception, none of the readers I have interacted with over the years are low information individuals. A few have been "thinking inhibited", but in general I am impressed with the degree of intelligence behind whatever messages I receive from readers.

So two things:

1. How to handle a low information individual.
2. Some tips on becoming even more informed than you are.

How to handle a low information individual (LOI)

These people tend to be obnoxious. They spew all kinds of nonsense, and they like to argue with other people. The LOI often argue so they can "win" by using some kind of deception or other tactic to make the other person seem wrong so that the LOI can validate their own low information opinion. So don't argue with them. Or they try to impress with BS. Either way, you can stop them by simply asking a probing question.

Here's an example. A LOI told me 98% of residential garages in a particular large city have floor drains. I told him that was fascinating, and I asked him whether he conducted a study himself or was able to obtain a government survey or other record showing what kinds of drains city residents had in their garages. He waffled a bit, and then said that all the ones he saw had such drains. I asked him how many garages he saw the inside of. Was it 300? 500? Or maybe a handful of neighbors on the block he grew up on? He got the point. Ever since then, he's avoided trying to BS me.

You can apply this to people who respew the official narrative about Trump, Brainless, c*o*v*i*d, "our democracy" or any other issue. Don't say they are wrong, ask them to explain how they "know" this and word the request in a way that demands specifics.

Tips on going from high information to ultra high information

• Subscribe to a newsletter, Substack, blog, etc., of someone who is informative. I like Dr. Rick Cohen, Steve Kirsch, and Dr. Peter McCullough. And there are many others. And thanks for including me in YOUR list.
• Subscribe to a few informative magazines. In addition to general purpose ones such as the Reader's Digest and National Geographic, try topical ones such as Consumer Reports, Family Handyman, Science Digest, and Discover. I also like the Epoch Times, IEEE Spectrum (very specific niche), and EC&M Magazine (super specific niche).
• Talk with people who are not siloed into echo chambers. They know a lot of the stuff you know and vice-versa, but each of you can learn from the other.
   
• Watch documentaries. Yes, many of these are biased. But all of them will get you thinking about a subject and you do have the ability to apply the smell test to reject the overly biased, propaganda-emitting ones right away. Also consider the film maker's previous works (e.g., don't watch anything produced by Michael Moore).
• Set aside time to do thought experiments. I actually synthesize new information by using logic to build on what I know. If you take an IQ test, you will be tested on this very ability. If you practice it on purpose, it will become very strong. You can, for example, gain new knowledge such as the fact that "masks don't work". You know the mask material aperture (it's on the packaging), and you know the virus size (easy to look up on online). From those two facts, you derive the third -- masks do not work.
• Reject interaction with low information people, to the extent practical. There's an opportunity cost, here. Time spent with these ignoramuses is time you cannot use to gain knowledge.
   
• Aim for a variety of valid sources and reasoned viewpoints. This will round out your knowledge and avoid the echo chamber effect and siloing that we see among leftists.
• Don't reject a source or write-up just because you don't agree with it, and don't consider one valid just because you do. This is the trap that low information people find themselves in. Practice objectivity. Maybe you are wrong and need MORE information.
• Don't fall into the trap of "all you see is all there is." Use the other tools at your disposal to look beyond what you've seen thus far.
   
• Avoid judging sources by their speech patterns or other cultural clues. Using shibboleths can be very misleading. A neighbor who didn't yet know me remarked to another neighbor it was a shame I didn't have an education (I have a Master's Degree and several lower-order degrees). She wondered if I had completed high school, just curious. To the other neighbor, she cited my use of y'all and the fact I was always barefoot when outside. The other neighbor told her I had a lot of college degrees and to just pick any topic and get me into a conversation on it.
• Avoid deferring to "experts". They usually know far less than their titles and credentials would indicate. Anthony Fauci is an example of this, as is the entire CDC. You have your own brain, use it. The more you do, the more you will be sponge for information while simultaneously repelling disinformation, propaganda, and BS.
• Don't be afraid to say, "I don't know". When said to the appropriate person (as opposed to BSing someone), it leads to information.

Increasing the Standard Deduction by these amounts (basically doubling it) did the following:

• For the vast majority of itemizers, eliminated the need to itemize. All of their previously taken deductions are more than covered by the increase, leaving the funds in their pockets and the IRS out of their lives.
• Disproportionately benefitted the poor, then the middle class. This is basic math. If your first $12K isn't even taxed anymore, the effect is much greater for low-income people than for those with 7 digit incomes.
• Eliminated billions of dollars of economic loss in the form of compliance costs (filling out forms, getting audited, taking off work to go to an audit, hiring an attorney, going to Tax court, being levied, being harassed, dealing with inappropriate liens and levies, etc.
   
• Each year, prevents thousands of innocent tax payers from losing their home. Renters who can't afford rent because of IRS levies must live on the street, and for home owners a similar dynamic plays out.
• Vastly reduces the cost to the federal government of harassing, intimidating, and brutalizing millions of innocent tax payers each year. THAT savings can go to reducing the federal debt.
• Greatly simplifies tax filing, which reduces the many hours of unpaid labor individuals donate like slaves to the 1040 system.

This part of the TRJA was made temporary as a sop to the communists (they were merely socialists back then). Now the communists want to let it expire, citing the need to increase federal revenue (this would actually have the opposite effect due to skyrocketing compliance costs) to help pay down the massive federal debt (said debt also being their fault, or mostly so).

Keep in mind that the 1040 system has a net negative effect on federal revenue. The TRJA closed a door IRS once used to inflict massive misery just to gain "revenue" that was less than the funds IRS expended to get it. The net negative effect is due to such things as hiring accountants to get through the thick maze of often-conflicting IRS rules just to file, hiring attorneys to fight collections (which is often inflicted out of sequence, with the taxpayer not even knowing why), the massive hit to productivity when millions of people are stressed out from IRS threats and actions, and just generally a pointless misallocation of private sector resources to deal with an unaccountable, morally bankrupt federal agency.

My tip for you is this: Tell communist sympathizers (Democrat voters) how good this high Standard Deduction is and that letting it expire will actually increase the federal debt by unleashing IRS on millions of taxpayers who correctly itemized. If they want to see their federal income taxes increase 50% and their audit risk triple, then they should vote Democrat. But if they like staying in their home rather than living in the street, they should either not vote at all or vote Republican.

Also write to your Congressional rep that preserving the increase in the Standard Deduction is important.

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.

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