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1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good
Fighting Communism
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Since the 2020 coup, an astounding 22,300,000 (22.3 million) Americans have decided to
become first-time gun owners. That's quite a repudiation of communism (which
requires an unarmed population and you can easily guess why). It also
speaks to the fear that people feel in this era of extreme shortages of
police added to the problem of DAs in many large cities refusing to
prosecute violent criminals, repeat offenders, and home-stealers. The
good news is this is not a temporary change. These new gun owners have
added themselves to the majority, have awoken from a Pollyanna slumber,
and are far more inclined to vote for freedom over communism. In short,
the communist strategy of protecting violent criminals so as to invoke
fear among ordinary people is backfiring.
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Jon Voight speaks for freedom:
https://x.com/i/status/1820696287156850803
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The same kind of communists that have trashed the USA since the coup
spread their idiocy and envy everywhere. A prime example of this is the
vandalism of Leo Messi's multi-million dollar mansion. Where were these
idiots when Messi was devoting his entire life to practicing and honing
his skills? Communists believe that people gain wealth purely by chance.
What they don't acknowledge is the work it takes to earn or create that
wealth. The vast majority of communist believers are lazy failures in
life. Maybe if they would "man up" they could vastly improve their own
situation. Instead, they seek to use force to steal from those who have
sacrificed to get where they are.
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A similar situation has befallen Shannon Sharp, who looks awesome for
55. But he's an NFL Hall of Famer with genetic advantages, a truly
annoying lifestyle (not to me, but to most folks) in which he brings his
own food everywhere and does not miss workouts, and the kind of
discipline you tend to find only among extreme athletes. He got into
Cross Fit and they "randomly" test him for juice quite often because of
the way he looks. They ignore the way he trains, that can't possibly
have any bearing on his physique, right? These judgmental, jealous
people also let men compete against women in women's events. How is this
related to communism aside from being the attitude behind the Leo Messi
property damage? Communism isn't a meritocracy. It's a demeaning system
in which those who work hard to achieve or produce are vilified,
bullied, and stolen from.
Defeating the communists this November
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Since the coup, most states have beefed up their election integrity
measures (aka, election protection). In Virginia, the government went to great lengths to prevent
disenfranchisement through fraud. Governor Youngkin said, "Every legal
vote deserves to be counted without being watered down by illegal votes
or inaccurate machines."
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Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, which
typically have tight margins, implemented election integrity measures,
just not very strong ones. Gretchen the Witch has fought election
integrity in Michigan, which is a swing state. Florida, a tight margin
state, has enacted strong election integrity measures.
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In 2020, the communists used fraud to steal the Electoral College votes
of Arizona, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, and Georgia (among others). Those four states will be far harder to steal,
this time around. Combined, they are worth 57 Electoral College votes.
In 2020, Trump did not have those states due to fraud--in three of them
(AZ, WI, GA) Brainless was just barely put over the top by less than 1%.
Biden "won" Pennsylvania by 1.2%. If those four had
then the election protection measures they have today, Trump would have
had 289 Electoral College votes. And it takes only 270 to win.
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Virginia, which was also mired in fraud, would be impossible to steal
today. But its 13 Electoral College votes would likely still go blue due
to the sheer number of government dependents living there (they tend to
vote Commie).
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CK is going to have a tough time stealing the 2024 election, due to the
election protection measures taken by just those four states (AZ, WI,
PA, GA). But also, she's a very unattractive candidate in the
first place and is likely to lose Nevada, which was blue in 2020 but
by only 51.1% to 47.7%. Remember, CK came in dead last in the Democrat
Primary in 2020 and when she replaced Brainless on the 2024 ballot many
big donors demanded their money back.
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There's also been a huge change in attitudes toward President Trump. The
abject failures of the communists have resulted in major economic pain
to demographics they count on. Blacks and organized labor are two, and
among them there's been a significant decrease in Trump Derangement
Syndrome. They remember what things were like before the coup, and they
are not happy with how far things have deteriorated since the coup. CK,
who was American-Indian and recently became Black, isn't seen as a
welcome respite from Brainless. She has the same word salad problem, and
on top of that failed miserably at the one job given to her (Border
Czar). This last is particularly galling to organized labor, which has
taken the position that the orders of magnitude increase in illegal
aliens is costing American jobs. Illegals don't join unions, they work
cheap and they work under the table so to speak. Trump is noted for
securing the border and he's also noted for making cheap, clean energy
available as opposed to the crazy schemes hatched by the current regime
whereby energy is neither cheap nor clean.
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Trump has also modified his behavior. He doesn't do all the mean tweets,
he doesn't interrupt people, and he doesn't get riled. He comes across
as not only confident but as presidential. Then of course, his response
following the assassination attempt completely eviscerated some core
smears made by the anti-Trumpers. He didn't cower, he STOOD UP. He
raised his fist and said, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" And that is what we
must do, we must fight for a fair election.
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Another big factor is that Mark "I hate the democratic process"
Zuckerberg has been under "cajones roasting" for quite some time now,
for his various illegal activities. And Facebook is dying. Zuck
massively helped with the election fraud in 2020. You don't hear much
anti-Trump garbage coming from him these days, in fact he's publicly
complimented President Trump.
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In the meantime, each of us can help by contacting our own state
legislature reps to request assistance with ensuring election
protection. Quote Governor Youngkin in your request, I think that will
help make it more persuasive.
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The C*O*V*I*D* Scam
Anecdotal reports from people I know around the country are that the
idiotic practice of mask-wearing is on the rise again. It's in response
to the alleged bird flus which are resulting in the senseless slaughter
of entire populations of chickens at farm after farm and in response to
chatter about another (fake) pandemic. People who are clueless about
protecting themselves from illness are taking a cue from the Patron
Saint of Harmful Responses to Pandemic Scares, non other than the fake
doctor Anthony Fauci. Mask up!
Generally, the maskers avoid engaging in any real health care. As if
donning fabric that can't possibly stop a virus makes up for
crippling your immune system by subsisting on highly-processed foods and
engaging in other unhealthy behaviors.
During the height of mask mania, I made a point of publicly violating
the mask ordinances. I also made a point of asking people about their
mask. It would go like this:
- Me: Excuse me, I see you are wearing a dust mask. I'm sure you
have a reason for that, can you please tell me what it is? Maybe I
should be wearing one too, so I am really interested.
- Other: Covid.
- Me: Well, I certainly can't blame you for protecting yourself
from Covid. Do you know how many microns the Covid virus happens to
be?
- Other: No.
- Me. I didn't either, so I looked it up. That darn virus is
really tiny. The biggest ones clock in at only 0.070 microns. I had
no idea what that could relate to, I mean what's a micron right?
- Other: Right.
- Me: But I happened to have a box of N95 masks and guess what?
They can't block anything smaller than 0.300 microns. Says so right
on the box. And correct me
if I'm wrong, but isn't 300 a lot bigger than 70?
- Other: Uh, you're saying the mask won't stop the virus?
- Me: My friend, I'm not saying that. The science is. Or you could
say the math. Which is why I'm not wearing a mask, it can't possibly
help in any way.
- Other: Oh, the virus is in your saliva and the mask blocks that.
- Me: If that were true, then cars would have windshield wipers on
the inside instead of the outside. Have you ever seen a car with
windshield wipers on the inside?
And then I usually walk off. It's enough to get this person thinking.
And I did it without passive aggressive behavior, attacking the other
person, or acting like a threat in any way other than not wearing a
mask.
At some point, I stopped doing this. I don't know why. But as the
November election draws closer and the communists become increasingly
desperate to install CK or some other idiot instead of Trump, they will
most likely create another fake pandemic to enable mail-in voting fraud
on a massive scale same as before. We are already seeing the response to
the prelude. So I am giving you this approach as something you can use
to help neutralize the brainwashing and fear mongering. Before, with
everybody forced to wear a mask it looked like we were all in grave
danger. And that helped foment fear, which led to more mask-wearing,
which led to more fear. And that amped up fear mentally disarmed the masses.
The thinking among most of the sane at the time is a mask is a small
inconvenience and not a hill worth dying on. But that thinking is
incorrect. The universal wearing of masks is part of a psy-ops effort.
We fight that by pointing out to individuals how stupid the idea is, but
in a way that is palatable to them.
Bonus items on the Deadliest Scam of All Time:
- Here's a great video that explains a bit about how studies can be
done poorly, and what the minimum requirements are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q4qaZsk8UU. The presenter also
notes that we should not confuse incompetence with malice.
- Some people
are just stupid beyond belief and say stupid things because they lack
the ability to think. Anthony Fauci, for example. Speaking of that
idiot, watch this:
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1823000289223315573
- Flowing in Fauci's stream of stupidity was all his nonsense about
masks (including the baseless idea "it's an individual thing" even
though Fauci advocated for mandatory masking. Those masks stink and what
you smell are carcinogens. See this study, for example:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024004896
- Why do some people still wear masks? Because they are afraid not
to. Fear makes people stupid. And when they are stupid, you can
control them.
News for the Gender Confused
Among mammals, an individual's sex is determined when genetic
material from each parent gets sorted right after conception. It's
determined by the X and Y chromosomes. It isn't possible to have YY, so
there are only two possibilities: XX and XY. Thus, there are only two
sexes. We call them male and female (XY, and XX respectively). We can
trace lineage back via mitochondria only on the mother's side; this fact
further collaborates what we know about there being only two sexes.
We have long had "trans" sexuals among us. It had never been a
problem in society, people are what they are and some choose to follow a
different path for themselves. And these people were both very tiny in
number and very discreet about their choice.
In recent decades, "trannies" have grown dramatically in number and
militancy. There's no getting around the fact there are only two sexes,
but might there be more than two genders? The trans people themselves
provide the answer to that question, by their own behavior. They
"transition" from one sex to the opposite sex, not to something on a
list of 21 genders.
Much of the time, this includes using surgical alteration in an
attempt to look more like the opposite sex. If there are multiple
genders, then why do these people spend huge sums of money to mutilate
their bodies in an effort to look like the opposite "gender"? Men who
decide they are women get fake breasts, not an extra penis. Women who
decide they are men often opt for a radical double mastectomy, not for a
radical breast enlargement operation.
Then we must also ask, "Where are all the trans animals?" Humans are
animals. We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. In other words,
except for 1% of our DNA we are genetically the same as chimps. And yet
Jane Goodall never encountered a single trans chimp. And neither has
anybody else.
Veterinary chains like Banfield make big bucks administering
unnecessary, unproven, unsafe vaccines to cats and dogs. This is huge
for them, and they push it really hard. If they could hop on the trans
surgery bandwagon and extend that to cats and dogs, don't you think they
would have done so by now? At least in San Francisco (aka Trans
Francisco)?
When we, unlike Anthony Fauci, apply basic science to medical
questions, we quickly cut through the nonsense to arrive at the truth.
If a man wants to live as a woman to the extent he can do that, it's his
choice. But he should not be able to say he IS a woman, because that is
both delusional and dangerous. When a man still possesses that XY
chromosome (it's permanent), there's no amount of hormone treatment or
surgery that is going to make him a woman. The fact that men are allowed
to compete in women's sports is dangerous to the women, and many are
suffering serious injuries. Look at this dude, who has invaded women's
boxing while claiming he's a she:
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1822020154219548843
Harm to female athletes is one way this delusion is dangerous. There
are many others. For example, being taken to the ER with the wrong sex
on your driver's license and insisting you are the opposite sex from
what you are can be fatal because protocols for men differ from those
for women in many cases. And that is all determined by XY not by how
much a dude paid for fake breasts.
Other News
- Household debt in the USA has surged to a staggering $17.8
trillion ($17.8 million million). This does not bode well, and it is
further evidence that despite the legacy media's warnings of a
"possible recession" we are already in a depression and have been
for some time now.
- While the puppeteers behind Brainless and CK used those two
idiots to enable Iran to (via Hamas) attack Israel, thus de facto
making the USA regrettably an enemy of Israel, Russia (Iran's key
ally) strongly warned Iran not to attack Israel. And according to
Iranian media, it was a very serious warning. While WW III obviously
holds great appeal to the communists now running the USA federal
govt (because it would save the plant by dramatically reducing the
number of humans infesting it), that radical view is not shared by
the leaders of Russia and other nations.
- If we have a federal election in the USA this November, and such
an event is not at all certain to happen, then the window for
"saving the planet" via an all-out nuclear war will be only three
months.
- That same window will exist for the other twenty dozen ways the
communists are currently working to destroy every bit of this
nation's economy, history, legal system, society, civil rights
apparatus, environment, educational system, medical care
capabilities, food supply, energy sector, science, and security --
to name a sampling of what they have been busily damaging like
termites drawn to wet wood. In short, if anything is good in any
way, they make it a target for destruction.
- "Based on data from a U.S. Treasury report, the federal
government has amassed $142 trillion in debts, liabilities, and
unfunded obligations. This staggering figure equals 93 percent of
all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s
founding, estimated by the Federal Reserve to be $152 trillion."
-- James D. Agresti, President of Just Facts
- Here's a good article on what's been going on with our medical
care in the USA:
https://www.goldcare.com/blog/hidden-agendas-the-nazification-of-american-healthcare
- A recent survey of 80,000 small businesses (that's a big
survey!) showed that 48.6% believe they will not survive much longer
under current conditions. Based on what I have seen since the coup,
and especially since the communists plunged us into the current
economic depression, most of the remaining 51.4% are overly
optimistic. However, the report on that survey wasn't clear as to
what was meant by "much longer." The typical small business is
heavily borrowing to stay afloat until relief comes in the form of a
Donald Trump Presidency starting next year. Allowing for a few
months for sane policies to produce effects, these businesses can
cease going deeper into debt. And by the end of next year, they can
start paying down that debt. See my analysis above on defeating the
communists this November. Everything hinges on that.
- Impeachment double standard. The communists impeached Trump four
times. At the end of his first term, we had the lowest unemployment
in 50 years, the rate of inflation was decreasing, we were
energy-independent, we met our CO2 targets, peace was being brokered
in the Middle East, Russia stayed out of Ukraine, and businesses
were growing. All of the opposite is true now after 3 years of
Biden. And yet, not a single impeachment.
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3. Brainpower tip
You probably know someone who trots out facts you never thought of, saving you
from doing something wrong or at least getting you to stop. Or it may simply
appear that way. I know more than one person who tries to impress with his (they
are all men) "expertise" by making others wrong, and they simply make things up.
I'll give you an anecdote, to illustrate. My kitty is 15, and among other
things I noticed some issues with her gait. I took her to a holistic vet clear
on the other corner of my county. We had a full lab workout done, plus x-rays
and a urine sample. It turns out she had a UTI that had spread to her kidneys.
The gait issue is separate, it was just the triggering event for taking her to
this particular animal hospital. So she got a time-release antibiotic shot, and
the vet wrote out a prescription for a renal diet. This is a special catfood
that, among other things, has extra calories and extra potassium. It's not
cheap, and it comes in cans that are 3X the normal can size for her. She doesn't
want to eat the same thing for all of her meals each day every day (who does?),
and she can't eat that whole can before it goes bad.
So, what would you do? You'd divide it up and freeze some of it. Right?
This comes as a pate, but she likes her wet cat food pureed (she's OK with
kibble as-is, but not wet cat food). So I always puree it. When I open the can,
I dump the contents into a small glass bowl. I add water, and then puree by hand
(if I buy something coarser than pate, I use my food processor). Then I put the
lid on the bowl and stick it in her spot in the fridge. I serve spoonfuls from
that bowl into a cereal bowl for her, until the storage bowl is empty. And that
usually takes 1.5 to 2.5 days. In this case, I made two purees and froze one.
Mr. Expert asked how my cat was doing. Instead of saying, "Fine" I made the
mistake of telling him she has a kidney infection and her diet now includes a
prescription cat food, but it comes in large cans and so after pureeing it I
divided it up and froze some.
He tried telling me that freezing degrades the enzymes and I need to serve it
to her fresh not frozen. For real. First of all, canned food is by definition
not fresh (same with kibble). Second, it's cooked so there aren't any enzymes
(that's why I also feed her raw food and give her a probiotics supplement).
Third, the alternative is to feed her something that is spoiling or toss out
half the expensive prescription food.
He also lectured me on how pureeing increases oxidation. First he said that
pureeing increases the surface area. After I pointed out that the opposite is
true and explained about asperity points, he said it entrains air into the food.
I wonder how this moronic "expert" feels about soup, which could be called an
extreme puree.
The whole world was treated to such moronic advice by Anthony Fauci, who
poses as a doctor. Thinking people immediately saw through this guy, but most
people are not thinking people and for a long time most people believed his line
of BS. Many still do.
How do you detect an ignorant "expert" who is actually spewing nonsense? Here
are five tips:
- Analyze their premise. You can't degrade enzymes that aren't there, so
this was a false premise.
- Think of scale. In response to his oxidation claim, I told him he was
straining at gnats. So you get a 1% increase in oxidation, so what?
- Think of counter examples. We stir our food all the time, this whole
theory was a non-sequitor. I mentioned that you can buy pureed cat food, and
in fact it is recommended for cats who have constipation (puts a lot of
moisture in that large colon) or some kind of dental issues (no need to
chew).
- Think of motive. He's told me enough things over the years that I know
he has below average intelligence. He's a gifted BSer, and that's how he
gets by. He has a need to impress people by making up "facts" to show he is
superior to them. I just know how he is, and I am suspicious when he says
anything. My BS detector goes to DEFCON TWO any time he's near.
- Look for negativity, the fear factor, or the implication you are doing
something wrong due to your ignorance. These are not definitive proof of an
ignorant expert, but one or more these conditions is nearly always present.
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4. Finance tip
We have been in an economic depression for some time, now. The lamestream media,
meanwhile, warn of "a looming recession" which is idiotic in the extreme. We
aren't at risk of recession when:
- Housing prices have doubled in three years.
- Inflation exceeded 100% for the two years ending August 2023.
- Companies have been going bankrupt at alarming rates every month for the
past three years.
- There are chronic shortages of food and other goods.
- Food prices are up by an average of 60% from two years ago.
- The national debt now stands at $266,000 per household.
- Etc.
All of this is a consequence of the coup, which the lamestream media was
instrumental in bringing about. That's why they lie about it now.
Before the coup, not a single thing I listed was true. Now, it all is.
Also true is the communists via their pet vegetable Biden removed the
sanctions against Iran and also sent them $5.8 billion right after simply giving
the Taliban something like $85 billion of advanced weaponry for them to sell to
the highest bidder. Now we have two wars going, and a few more nearly ignited.
If the communists cheat enough that CK "wins" the election this November, we
can kiss everything goodbye. This is obvious vis a vis the dismal stats listed
above. It is very important to debunk the lies being told by the lamestream
media so that people think for themselves and draw the correct conclusions.
You can't possibly clip enough coupons or turn your winter thermostat down
far enough to make up for the sharp rise in the cost of living. Though all of us
will need to conserve and to think carefully about how we spend our money, we
also need to address the root problem. Which is criminal corruption of our
federal government (don't vote for communists), large banks, large
pharmaceutical companies, and the lamestream media. We need to provide them with
as little of our business as is practical.
Here's an example. Verizon actually celebrates its wokeness and DEI, both of
which invariably corrode any company's competence. Puretalk, by contrast, is
avowedly non-woke and non-DEI. Nearly everyone who switches will save money in
subscription fees, but the real benefit is you stop voting against yourself with
at least some of your consumer dollars.
Some practical things you can do:
- If there is a television in your home, take steps to ensure it's not a
brainwashing machine. For example, use it only for live-streaming of movies
and keep "news" completely off of it.
- Don't subscribe to any newspapers, except for The Epoch Times (which is
unashamedly anti-communist).
- When people you know refer to some article in The New York Times, ask
that they cite a credible source and state clearly the New York Times is
noted for outright lying instead of reporting news.
- Cancel your Facebook account, if you have one. This can be difficult if
you've been there a long time, but then Mark Zuckerberg didn't think it was
important in 2020 that we have honest elections and he took extreme measures
to ensure we didn't.
- When people say they don't want to discuss politics, agree with them and
start talking about the economy. About the Depression we are in. Just lay
things out as they are. No need to assign blame, and no need to say Trump
has a plan for fixing this.
- If you have drug prescriptions, ask for those to be reviewed and any
Pfizer products replaced by some other brand. This is prudent anyhow,
because the goal of the "vaccine" injury litigators is to bankrupt Pfizer
for the terrible, illegal, unconscionable things they did. And those
litigators are building an impressive portfolio of case law with which to
bury Pfizer. So whatever Pfizer medications you take now may be unavailable
in the near future. Plus, why would you trust them with something you're
putting into your body?
Some less practical, but very valuable things you can do:
- Do a search online for your local (your county) election integrity
group(s). But be careful, because there are election corruption groups
posing as election integrity groups with the purpose of defeating election
integrity efforts. Here's a good place to start:
https://whoscounting.us/citizensguide/ . Then volunteer to do some work
or maybe form a chapter.
- Contact a candidate who is trying to unseat a communist. Volunteer to
help with election integrity efforts and ask them what you can do.
- Many libraries, community centers, civic clubs, professional
associations, and other organizations are always looking for speakers. Give
a speech! Spend some time researching some issue the lamestream media have
gotten badly wrong and offer to speak about it. You should be able to speak
contemporaneously (no slides, no notes) for 20 minutes. When you give your
presentation, that 20 minutes will end up being 30. Many groups offer a 45
minute slot, with Q&A as part of it. Make sure in your presentation that you
can cite a few sources and that you don't simply give propaganda "from the
other side".
- Offer to speak to a grade school class on the basics of the
Constitution. Make sure you bring copies of it to hand out to the kids, with
the idea that at least a few of the parents will read the document.
- Write short blog articles or similar for sites or blogs that are
pro-freedom, anti-communist, anti-fiction, etc.
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5. Security tip
Many libtards believe that
the Second Amendment doesn't protect the right to keep and bear arms. They
further assert this idea was made up by Justice Scalia in 2008 in DC v
Heller.
Charles C.W. Cooke, an
American historian born in the UK and a senior writer at The National Review
Online, answered that assertion in an article that appeared in the August
2024 issue of America's First Freedom. He started off by saying the right to
keep and bear arms has been a part of American life since the 17th century,
predating our Constitution. He went on to say, "...it was acknowledged and
affirmed by every major political scholar of the 18th and 19th centuries; it
was explicitly extended to all Americans by the drafters of the 1866 Civil
Rights Act, the two post-bellum Freedmens Bureau Acts, and the 14th
Amendment."
These are good facts to
have in mind when you encounter anti-gunners. And they will be coming out of
the woodwork as the November election draws closer. These people allow
themselves to be programmed by the echo chamber propaganda of socialists,
communists, statists, and others who view individual liberty as a disease
and totalitarianism as the cure.
An unarmed populace has
invariably proven to be a preyed upon populace. Let's not forget that one of
the first things Hitler did after rising to power was to disarm the
populace. What followed was horrific, especially for unarmed Jews. Some
other facts to keep in mind:
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Afghanistan has defied
being conquered, even by super-power nations. Because they are armed.
This lays to rest the idea that armed American citizens cannot stop a
military takeover of this country. The reason the Japanese never
attempted to invade our homeland is "There's a gun behind every blade of
grass."
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Violent criminals who
are killed by law-abiding citizens defending their homes or persons are
not repeat offenders.
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We have chronic and
severe police shortages, along with DAs who refuse to prosecute. Our
self-defense is up to each of us, not the government.
Don't let brainwashed,
blinded-by-lies ignoramuses destroy your personal security. Address their
gun fears rationally and politely. For many of these people, the only reason
they vote communist (Democrat) is they have an irrational fear of blood in
the streets due to guns. Indeed, the communists like to use the idiotic
phrase "gun violence" even when violence includes knives instead of guns.
Here are some statistics you can relate to them:
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Most gun-related
deaths are black on black crime, involving gangs and drug dealers.
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Twice as many
Americans are killed each year with bare hands and feet than with guns.
Are we going to ban hands and feet?
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Four times as many
Americans are killed each year with knives than with guns.
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The top ten causes of
death in the USA are all lifestyle choice related, yet we don't ban
tobacco, sugar, or seed oils (the causes of these causes).
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6. Health tip/Fitness tips

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Statistics
when this photo was taken, 10 days before my 63rd birthday:
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Height: 6'0"
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Wingspan: 6'1"
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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).
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Bodyfat: Unknown, but well below what the Tanita scale says
is 5%
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Waist: 29
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Chest: 48
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Arms: 15
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Quads: 20.25
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Max bench press: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 10 reps with 150 lbs
to warm up on chest day
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Max squat: Unknown, but I do 4 sets of 8 reps of front
squats with 90lbs to start Leg Day
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Cholesterol: In normal range, on low side
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Testosterone: Above the upper limit of the normal range
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Last illness: 1971
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Last workout missed: Spring of 1977
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Training days per week: 6
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Type of training: Split routine, heavy on supersets
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Meals per day: 7 on training days, 6 on rest day
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Number of eggs eaten per day: Between 7 and 10
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Percent of diet that is processed food: 0
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Amount of meat, wheat, corn, or soy eaten annually: 0
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Number of clot shots received: 0.
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See
all of my climbing videos here:
https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel. Some cool climbing videos:
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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There is a difference between extending life and extending the quality of
life. The former simply means living longer, and it often means languishing
in a nursing home bed for five years instead of two. Many of us, myself
included, would prefer to be fully functional and able to do things until
dropping dead while enjoying a rigorous activity or dying in our sleep. Even
if that means not at a ripe old age, though readers of this column know
that's exactly what I mean. I fully intend to be climbing hard problems and
doing hard weight training sessions at age 100 and beyond. Given where I am
at the age I am, that looks entirely achievable. In a podcast (and other
places), Dr. Rick Cohen says
that to have this quality of life, you "must lift heavy things". Fitness
expert Vince Del Monte talks about using "baby weights" and I write about
using less weight to get a better workout. Is Dr. Cohen wrong?
No, and I have yet to find an example where he is. So what gives, here?
How can Vince and I be right if it's true you must lift heavy things?
Ronnie Coleman lifted heavy things, way too heavy. He destroyed his
quality of life in so doing. Dr. Cohen is not advising that kind of "lifting
heavy things".
Let's use the biceps curl to illustrate the principle.
- I can curl a 90 lb dumbbell if I use poor form and put my back into
it. This doesn't do my biceps much of a favor.
- Now let's say I correct my form and isolate the biceps. Now I can
curl "only" 55lbs, but to do that I move only from full contraction (arm
straight up so no gravity effect) to 20 degrees. This isn't advancing my
fitness.
- Next, I engage in the mid-range of motion (-20 to 90 degrees,
assuming 0 is horizontal and 90 is straight up) and I can do 30lbs this
way. This is much better, but I'm not lifting at full contraction or
full extension.
- If I break this into 3 exercises (decline curls, bentover curls, and
standing curls) I can get the full range of motion. But now I can lift
only 15, 25, and 25 respectively.
- What if I precede each set of curls with a set of pull-ups or
similar exercise? So I do a set of wide-grip lat pulldowns followed
immediately with a set of standing curls and complete four sets of this
combo without resting between. Then I do a set of pull-ups, immediately
followed by a set of mid-range curls for a total of four sets of this
combo. I do the same thing with chin-ups/decline curls. My weights are
20, 20, and 10. Believe me, each rep feels very much like I am lifting
heavy things. The results are vastly superior to the 90lb cheat curls
and the safety is 1000X.
If you use momentum or other forms of cheating to lift, you are
effectively reducing the weight of "the heavy thing". It's not about moving
the weight, it's about using the muscles to do the work.
Lifting heavy things creates metabolic stress, which is a huge signal for
the adaptive response. You also need cellular damage, which newbies try to
get via using too much weight. They usually do significant damage to their
joints, ligaments, and tendons and due to poor form don't get the intensity
that causes the muscle cells to blow out. You also need time under tension,
which you get from doing lots of sets back to back (super setting). If you
are struggling to move 25lbs, rather than do only 4 reps and lose time under
tension (unless you've already done your normal sets and this is a finishing
set), reduce the weight so you can lift for at least 40 seconds (that may
not be the exact, scientifically proven time).
I also use bands to help me do more pull-ups and chin-ups, but not so
much that I'm not getting the feeling of lifting my body. BTW, these
exercises must be done in the full range. Drop all the way down so your
shoulder blades are out, then bring your head above the bar. Anything other
than this is cheating and you are cheating yourself of the benefits these
exercises can bring.
The curl example I gave illustrates the point of using less weight in a
smart way. It does not illustrate the totality of lifting heavy things. If
your program is missing squats, deadlifts, or similar exercises then you are
not lifting heavy things. In general, you need to lift things off the
ground. If, for example, you do the Farmer's Carry (even with buckets of
water), then you are lifting heavy things. Walking is not "lifting heavy
things" except where I live with these steep hills it is lifting heavy
things. Stair climbing is "lifting heavy things" as is the sport climbing I
do.
A climbing buddy of mine is a full-time yoga instructor. For him, yoga is
far more than stretching poses. It does incorporate "lifting heavy things"
although many people who say they practice yoga stick with the easy stuff
instead of embracing the "lifting heavy things" part.
Whatever your training program is, make sure it entails "lifting heavy
things" (not tossing them about). Just because things are heavy and you can
use momentum or other cheating methods to lift them doesn't mean you are
"lifting heavy things". If you do isolation exercises or gym machines (which
isolate), don't forget that the "lifting heavy things" effect must be felt
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At
www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative
articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to
do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:- 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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7. Factoid
Democrats don't believe in democracy. Anyone who even
suggests they do has not been paying attention to how they treat people who
disagree with them (deplatforming, bullying, libeling, slandering, threatening,
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8. Thought for the Day
People who gaslight and bully are essentially telling you
they have nothing good to offer. So don't listen to them. When rebuffed, they
simply assume they haven't gaslighted or bullied enough, so they just do it all
the more. Rather than argue with them, call them out on their bad behavior and
ask them to stop.
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The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or
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and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do
basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts
relevant to any topic that they are passionate about.
Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified.
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