Mindconnection eNL, 2024-12-08

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Fighting Communism

1. Rumble, the censorship-free alternative to YouTube, is suing the People's Republic of Commie-fornia for, as the suit says, "Waging war against free speech." With the 9th Circuit having been converted from Commie to Constitutional during Trump's first term, Rumble has a good chance of prevailing. The PRC should gird up for more lawsuits, due to its record of lawless conduct that has left a trail of destruction and dead bodies.
    
2. The Gateway Pundit recently reported on the fact that various anti-Trump groups, such as the Pink Hatters, are burnt out. Having endured the same four years of economic destruction and horrible foreign policy as the rest of us, and having watched a pair of complete morons face Trump in this election, they have finally realized they have nothing to complain about. Maybe they will vote Republican in the mid-terms. Wouldn't THAT be great?
    
3. Some of the more extremely libtarded women mistakenly believe that Trump has banned abortion and the ban will start when he resumes office. They believe this because they are stupid. We can be grateful that their solution is to opt for sterilization. That means they won't breed. Wonderful news!
    
4. MS "DNC" (MSNBC), a PR firm for the communist (formerly "Democrat") party that pretends to provide news, is finding the pool of idiots who buy their schtick is drying up. Several key people have left, and even the CEO has said she might. If they go out of business, I say good riddance. The world would be a better place without them.
    
5. Justice Samuel Alito shows the castration industry's position is self-contradictory: https://x.com/i/status/1864347450690961554, and https://x.com/i/status/1864351601856581773. [Thanks to Jeff Childers for providing these clips. I would put the name of his newsletter here, but it includes the "C" word which would result in censorship of this message. But the first word in that newsletter name is Coffee. You can find him online with that clue and I recommend subscribing. Look for Coffee & [C word]. The C word is a bit coded in the first subtitle of the white area below.
    
6. Daniel Penny was on trial for his life for the "crime" of saving other people's lives on the subway. He needs to be on Trump's pardon list, and he probably is. The communists have 32 days from the date of this issue to complete their attacks on him.
   
   The good news is a New York judge dismissed the manslaughter charge against him because the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. The bad news is that the jury had at least one person (probably more) who believed the violent offender deserved better treatment than the victims Penny saved by stopping said violent offender. That the violent offender died in the altercation is just too bad for him, he made the choice to play it that way and he lost. The even worse news in this sham trial is the jury is still deliberating on the lesser charge of negligent homicide. The violent offender who chose this path should be on trial for negligent suicide!
   
   So the communists have ruined Penny's life with a lifetime of debt. Perhaps a grateful public will do a fundraise and erase his legal fees. That would be the right thing to do.
   
   Someone needs to remove that DA from office. That would send a message to the violent-offender-loving commies that attacking those who protect innocent victims from their attacker will not be tolerated. If Penny's heroism had taken place in one of the free states instead of in The People's Republic of New York, he would have been treated as the hero he is. Maybe all sane people should flee New York, leaving only criminals there to prey on each other.
   
   In my own case, I came to the aid of a woman on a bus when two guys decided to assault her. I quickly took them out. I punched the closest guy on his breastbone to shock his heart and as he dropped, I sidekicked over his head to nail his pal in the chest and send him flying backward. I rendered each attacker unconscious. I was not worried at all about their safety, only hers. When other men on the bus stood up right after I did this, I at first thought I had a real fight on my hands. But they dragged the two assaulters to the door and threw them off the bus. And not delicately. That was in Louisiana, where the rights of the innocent and their defenders are respected. In New York, all of us would have been arrested except the two perpetrators.

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

• Tony "Fake Doctor" Fauci recently co-authored a paper in which he defends several of the yarns he spun in the C*O*V*I*D scam. These include the absurdity that the virus occurred naturally, which of course he needs to pretend is true to avoid being extradited to stand trial in a country that actually prosecutes mass murderers from the elite class. Remember, he was deeply involved in "gain of function" which is a euphemism for "make it a lot more lethal." He's also defending his "low tech" advice, all of which was idiotic in the extreme. These include masking and social distancing, both of which were pointless and stressful. They also include "better ventilation" which means bringing in more outside air while at the same time he said stay inside--which is it?

• Fauci's worst advice, which he pushed relentlessly, was to put people on ventilators. This was tantamount to murder. Here are some resources: https://youtu.be/oTevRwhjuRg, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK560535/, "https://atriumhealth.org/dailydose/2021/10/01/covid-19-roundtable-what-really-happens-when-you-go-on-a-ventilator ". I put that last one as plain text, due to the heavy censorship that exists while we are under communist control. Simply copy and paste the URL into your browser.  You can also research this on your own, there is a vast body of evidence showing ventilators should never have been used. One reason they were used was to get the death count way up there and claim that people died from the virus instead of deliberate murder. We saw this in the early statistics released from Italy, where every available ventilator was pressed into service and consequently deaths spiked sharply. The death toll in Italy was then used to scare our "leaders" into enacting various useless mandates and eventually into mandating the experimental gene therapy jabs that killed millions of people around the world and injured 100s of millions more.

Other News

• The harsh economic effects of communism continue to ravage the country. As reported in Epoch Times earlier this month, "Job cuts in the United States accelerated in November, with employers announcing 57,727 layoffs, a 3.8 percent increase from October and 26.8 percent higher than the same month last year, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago, Illinois-based global outplacement and career transitioning firm." The 20th of January cannot come soon enough....
   
• Remember when "Trump lied" about the illegal immigrants from Haiti eating cats in Ohio? Watch this: https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1834415359933497460/video/1 . This was taken before he made that statement, funny how the "fact checkers" missed it....
   
• A survey of the electrical industry shows a hugely positive response to the end of the communist regime and the start of Trump's third term (second one in office): https://www.ecmweb.com/home/media-gallery/55245228/electrical-industry-reaction-to-presidential-election-results
   
• Jack Smith has dropped his fake case and fake charges against President Trump. He cited the DOJ's long-standing view that going after a sitting POTUS this way is unconstitutional. The real reason, however, is evident when you consider why Smith engaged in this foolishness in the first place. The reason was to prevent Trump from running for office, or at least hinder him so much he couldn't win election. That failed, so now Smith has no reason to continue with the charade. And he knows if he does, he risks not only losing dramatically but also going to prison himself for weaponizing the Justice Department against a political opponent.
   
• Right after Thanksgiving, Brainless came out and publicly said he hopes Trump will "reconsider" the tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Of course he would say that, the communists need to flood the USA with millions of illegal immigrants. The tariffs are intended to secure our borders, something Brainless and his cackling Border Czar badly failed to do. In fact, they exacerbated the problem via multiple actions. Then they made sure their lackey Majorcas lied to Congress about it. Fentanyl coming across the border from Canada devasted the youth population in Port Huron, MI. Of course, having no empathy and no conscience, Brainless and his fellow communists are not at all bothered by that.
   
• Under the communist regime, only dedicated communists were allowed to participate in decision-making. An example of this is when Comrade Cheney was on the J6 Kangaroo Court Committee. These are the same people who kept spewing the idiocy "Trump is a threat to our democracy" (translated into English, "Trump is a threat to our criminal cabal.") In the Trump administration, communists will be allowed to participate in the decision-making; for example, Comrade Jared Moskowitz will be in the House caucus supporting the extremely vital, swamp-draining, DOGE. Allowing democracy within Congress is a novel idea among communists, but Trump has long valued input from diverse people. This will produce the best ideas and also help build consensus. If Trump is trying to be Hitler, as Brainless, Kamala, Whoopie, and other communists have been asserting, he's doing a terrible job of it.
   
• Brainless pardoned his son Hunter, who already got preferential treatment under our two-tiered "justice" system. This is clearly an abuse of power and a conflict of interest, but my first reaction upon reading of this is it paves the way for President Trump to provide full pardons for all of the J6 defendants whether falsely accused or not. And most were falsely accused. Not long after I read the news, President Trump made this very point.
  
  The communists and libtards will, of course, howl about the J6 pardons but in doing so they will only further alienate the majority due to the injustice of pardoning Hunter Biden. Yet another bone-headed move by the Vegetable In Chief, it's a free pass for Trump versus his being hounded for the rest of his term and beyond for the J6 pardons that Biden should have granted but failed to. Trump can also pardon every other surviving victim of the communist lawfare that we have endured for the past 12+ years.
  
  Speaking of lawfare, that's how Brainless characterized the kid gloves treatment his criminal son got. This is yet another gift to Trump and those he will pardon. I am sure Trump is going to have the October 7 "prisoners" (Israeli kidnapping victims held hostage by Hamas) released, also--something Brainless actively undermined. Trump can't exactly pardon those Israeli kidnapping victims, but he can make Hamas well aware of what will happen if those people are not released by the time he takes office.
   
• As of 20 January, the Biden Crime Family will be out of the White House. It will be nice not having a crook for POTUS, something that since Reagan left office we have experienced only during Trump's first term. President Cheney wasn't the titular POTUS, but he may as well have been (I don't count GW as actually being the POTUS for this reason).  It's ironic that the communists put Trump through a show trial and convicted him as a felon on misdemeanor charges nobody yet understands. So they say HE is a criminal, yet the reality is the Biden Crime Family has been made 10s of millions of dollars via crime.

  People also need to be asking how Mr. and Mr. Obama are able to afford the two mansions they have, when neither one came into the White House with two nickels to rub together. The one Mr. Obama was newly "created", having emerged as an adult with no high school yearbook with "her" picture in it to be found on the planet. The other Mr. Obama was a "community organizer" (Marxist missionary) in Chicago, having graduated from not one but TWO Ivy League Universities with no student loan debts and no money from his parents. Of course, he did that on a foreign exchange scholarship due to being a foreigner.

  So much crime. And it's all "Democrats". I think Jimmy Carter was the last honest Democrat to be POTUS, however he may not have been exactly honest. Remember, he's the one who destroyed American literacy and numeracy by inflicting upon us the Department of (dis)Edcuation in 1979. Public schools went to sh** after that.
   

• Now the commies are talking about having Brainless pardon Trump. Unfortunately, the "low information" public would probably not see through this ruse and the lamestream media would gas light people about it. The problem is Trump has never been charged with any federal crimes. When the commies went after him, they made sure to do it a the state level so no non-commie POTUS could ever pardon him. He was falsely convicted of (at best) misdemeanor charges that were classified as state felonies. So a pardon would have to come from the Governor of the People's Republic of New York. Just as Brainless can't pardon Trump for bogus convictions handed down by a North Korean court, he can't pardon Trump for bogus convictions handed down by any other communist government including that of the PRNY.

  What would be meaningful is if Governor Kathy Hochul pardoned Trump. But you may recall, she is the same governor who wanted to put people into concentration camps for the "crime" of refusing to undergo medical experimentation. In other words, she's Governor Mengele (the Nazi doctor who conducted medical experiments on people without their consent). We should not expect someone so evil to do anything good. Even if the pardon would help the commies with their now shattered image, her hatred of humans (especially of Trump) will prevent her from offering to do this. The only way it will happen is if she is coerced into it. Given that the commies use coercion relentlessly, it is possible that the Nazi Governor will issue some kind of pardon.
   

• 54 communist members of CONgress (the opposite of progress) have signed a letter asking Brainless to plunge the economy further into the toilet before he leaves office. In particular, they want him to disburse the funds that would go to New Green Scam projects, most of which actually increase CO2 output and pollution in general. These people are either corrupt beyond measure or ignorant beyond belief. Brainless still has 35 days in which to wreak havoc. Once that money is gone, we aint gettin' it back.
   
• The City Council of Lost Angeles formally approved an anti-citizen ordinance that declares the city a sanctuary city for drug dealers, human traffickers, squatters, muggers, and rapists as long as said criminals are in the USA illegally. Similar criminals who are here legally do not get the same protection. And of course, law-abiding citizens get NO protection. Will the residents of LA raise a stink about this? They should! And they should circulate petitions to recall every City Council member who voted in favor of this insanity.
   
• Comrade AOC (Airhead and Outrageous Communist) is now vying for the position of Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. The slot is opening up because Jamie Raskin, who seems to be an actual Democrat, is vying for a position on the Judiciary Committee. If AOC lands that position, then Ranking Member will mean "a member who is rank with the stench of communism".
   
• This "health minister" alleges that more than 5 eggs a week is dangerous (I eat about 8 eggs per day): https://x.com/Sadie_NC/status/1864848959916642343

• American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles
• CAT tools
• Cold Steel knives
• Connex radios
   
• Dosy meters
• Flexilla hose connectors
• Funko collectibles
   
• Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios
• Hogue pistol grips
• iRV products for RVs

• Liberty Monitors security cameras
• Metra saddlebag lids
• Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products
• Minigadgets hidden camera CO detectors and receptacles
   
• Nagy's aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles
• Optoma projectors
• Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools
• Plantronics headsets
• RealSAM Pocket, which is a voice operated Galaxy smart phone for the blind
• Rigid Tools work lights and related
• ROK straps
• Rostra universal cruise control kits
   
• Sig Sauer pellet guns
• SmartPens4U Rocket Pen Reading Tutor Scanning Pen | Case Bundle
• Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)
• Uniden radar detection systems (hard-wired)
• Uniden radios and scanners
   
• Victron DC power modules and related
• Wera Tools
• WeWalk Smart Cane "Cane with a Brain" for the blind

Remember the "safe and effective" messaging? This was about an alleged vaccine, which was in fact a novel gene therapy. Vaccines are not tested for safety or efficacy, and neither was this novel gene therapy (although, in fairness, it did go through internal trials at Pfizer where it was shown to be extremely unsafe). This messaging should have immediately raised massive red flags and been a clear signal to NOT get the jab. But due to the message of fear of a relatively harmless virus and hatred of those who did not submit to the jab, many people abandoned any semblance of reasoning or analysis and got the jab.

Keep emotions out of analysis. Instead, ask basic questions.

Consider the scamdemic. Here are three questions everyone should have been asking:

1. How do you know it is safe? Please provide the study results or trial test data.
2. How do you know it is effective? What is your baseline? And effective compared to what?
3. How does a blood injection have any effect whatsoever on preventing a respiratory infection? Duh?

The absurd claim it stops transmission should have immediately had every adult saying "Not just no, but hell no." There was not a single documented case of any jab recipient being enveloped in a hermetic seal, which is the only way to stop transmission of a respiratory disease, by dint of getting the jab. Ergo, something terribly amiss is going on.

The good news for thinking people is messaging based on fear or hate does not require debunking. Same for messaging based on coercion, shaming, and other manipulative behaviors. Why is this? Such messaging is used when the bad guys don't have anything else. Gas lighting can confuse things, however, because it appears to be using facts.

For example, the false data showing C*O*V*I*D deaths made it appear that a deadly pandemic was a reality. But a smart person would take a look at the all cause mortality data. Logic would tell us that it must sharply spike UP during a deadly pandemic. However, gee, it actually went down during the "pandemic" because people stayed home and there were fewer car accidents.

Suddenly, a host of diseases appeared to be cured. Cancer rates were DOWN, heart attacks no longer happened, and even violent causes of death didn't happen any more. Wow! And yet, all cause mortality didn't really change, except to dip down a bit. Why was this? Through the use of an 80% false positive PCR test and the fake listing of C*O*V*I*D as the cause of death even when the deceased had Stage 4 bladder cancer (e.g., a friend of mine) or died from obviously violent causes.

Censorship means you're being lied to.

Not good for Big Pharma's multi-trillion dollar scam is the fact that all-cause mortality spiked UP once the "vaccines" were inflicted on people). Their solution? Censorship. This tells you all you need to know. For example, cackling Kamala nasally delivered a stupid speech in which she claimed over 220 million Americans "in the last several months" died from . This was "fact-checked" by the liberal fact-checkers who claimed she never said this. I did a search on the lamestream channels and could not find the video. But here it is on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v5cfx9x-kamala-harris-220-million-americans-have-died-from-covid.-the-spirit-of-jez.html and on X: https://x.com/i/status/1816611599521546287. Again, the censorship speaks volumes.

And there was all that other censorship of anything factual. Even this very newsletter was censored. At one point, Google even shut down our domain by submitting it to some kind of "spam" censorship system, and if you recall Russia recently slammed Google with a gigantic monetary penalty for censoring Russian citizens. No penalty for censoring Americans under our current communist regime.

Look around you. It's a cornucopia of information.

Even with the censorship, there are things they simply cannot hide. For example:

• I know a lot of people. I don't know anyone who died of C*O*V*I*D, though I did know some people who clearly died of other causes and were asymptomatic of C*O*V*I*D and that went on their death certificate anyhow. They were all over 70. What did you see?
• I did not see ambulances very much. You would expect that with all this reported death, ambulances would be running constantly. We DID see a huge increase in ambulance calls after people started dropping dead from the jab, having seizures from the jab, etc., but it was relatively quiet before that.
• During the height of "millions are dying!" I seldom noticed a funeral procession or funeral in progress and I drive past several cemeteries on my normal errand runs.
• I did not hear of reports from others that their family or circle of friends was being decimated.
   
• The "hand sanitizers" were, without exception, formulated with highly carcinogenic substances such as toluene. I know this, because rather than accept their word this stuff was safe I looked up the ingredients of every major brand and read the actual physical bottles when I could.
• The promotion of masking "showed their hand" that they were ignoring science. This particular bit of stupidity is what converted me from "not sure if they are right" to "certain there is a scam going on and it cannot be good."
• Many of the masks were made in China and strongly stunk of harsh chemicals; the smell was similar to mimeograph.
   
• The idiocy of "social distancing" with dots and arrows on store floors was an insult to the intelligence of anyone who is not officially retarded. For these schemes to work, air would have to be static rather than constantly moving. One upshot of this idiocy is it led to a spike in fart jokes, much to the amusement of those who are have a particular affection for this kind of humor. I personally did not like the other aspect of this, which was the passive aggressive fart food-loading prior to visiting grocery stores and standing in line. Or whatever it was that led to a massive increase in bathroom type odors in these lines. I think some people are still doing this to masktards. Personally, I prefer to tackle the idiocy directly because that has a chance of actually stopping the idiocy.
• The assertion that being socially isolated was somehow good for you is yet another verification this was a con.
• During the shutdowns, you could "peacefully protest" by lobbing Molotov cocktails into occupied police cars but if you met outdoors fully masked and 6 ft apart to sing praise to God with your church group they arrested you. THIS revealed much, none of it good.
   
• Hospitals were not full. I found this out by accident and second-hand, but confirmed with a drive-by that showed relatively empty parking lots even around the urgent care and similar places. People were staying home from hospitals, not being turned away by them (a crowded hospital or urgent care would have a crowded parking lot).

While I used the biggest, most deadly, most financially devastating scam in human history to illustrate how people allowed themselves to be deceived and what you can do to not be deceived, we are each day subjected to similar techniques based on fear and hate. Some good news here is that this scam taught most people to be skeptical and to not be so easily fooled by fear. The communists ran on a campaign of fear and hatred, those were their central themes. Not to mention blatant stupidity. The patriots, especially Donald J. Trump, ran on a message of love, hope, and common sense. And look who won.

• Massive spending that was funded by counterfeit money (the Frauderal Reserve "bought" the debt by creating money out of thin air). This has resulted in a massive debasement of our currency, a phenomenon called "inflation." We had over 100% inflation in the two years ending August of 2023. Inflation is a major contributor to the general increase in prices.
• Massive over-regulation. The compliance costs have to be borne by somebody, and that is ultimately the consumer.
• The DEI insanity. The communists promoted this as some kind of "social justice" when all it did was put downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on prices.
• Driving up demand by flooding the country with (per the most reliable estimates), over 30 million illegal aliens. That is a LOT of people chasing the same goods and services you are chasing.
• Constraining the energy supply. Energy is a major input into everything. A small bump up in energy costs will cause a correspondingly larger bump in food costs. Like eggs, for example.

Just a side note on illegal immigrants. Many people complain that the illegals get everything for free and do not work. This is true only in a minority of cases. Here are some jobs Illegals perform:

• Child sex slaves perform work for no pay. There are thousands of them. And contrary to Cackling Kamala's idiotic comments, Trump's border policies actually reduced the number of children separated from their parents (maybe in her family the parents willingly enroll their kids as child sex slaves, but I would say most families don't).
• Meat packing plants employ vast numbers of illegals. The conditions are awful, but the good news for illegals who work in these places is they generally can keep their job working at half the minimum wage until they lose a hand or arm on the job. When that happens, their employment is terminated. And there are no medical benefits.
• Fly by night roofing companies hire entire crews of illegals. They do not provide the proper safety equipment (I interviewed OSHA about this), so if someone falls off a roof and  breaks a leg or dies he's terminated. They also work in blazing heat without water provided by the roofing company. When OSHA fines the company (typically an LLC), the owners just close it down and don't pay the fines because the company is defunct. But at least these people aren't working for half of minimum wage. What happens is the company keeps stringing them along for a few weeks ("you don't get paid until after your two weeks," then there are delays and excuses) until enough roofing projects are done in that particular area. Then the company leaves town without paying the workers. They have no legal recourse, because they are here illegally.

Back to the main article. Your single largest cost is taxation. Whether that is through currency debasement, excess regulation, or (a minor portion of it for 90% of Americans) your 1040 filing, it eats up over half of your paycheck. Just look at your paystub and do the math, understanding that is only part of your total tax bill (currency debasement and excess regulation, while forms of taxation, are not overtly levied or looked at as line items).

Meanwhile, the Brainless administration is working feverishly to spend billions of dollars more of your money on grants. Go on Rumble and look for videos about wasteful federal grants. It's sickening. The fact the communists are ignoring the will of the beleaguered people (how we voted in the latest rigged election which we won anyhow) is also sickening.

The federal government is only one taxing body. You also pay taxes to your state, county, and city governments. Here is where you can make a slight difference. Pick one of these and sign up for notifications of spending plans that may be forming (you will have to ask your City Clerk, County Clerk, or State Rep about what specific newsletters or other notices are available to you). Or maybe attend council or board meetings for a year. Or run for office if you have time.

You can no doubt find some existing spending that should be cut and some future new spending that should be stopped. All you have to do lobby for the cut or against the spending. If you can form a group (word of mouth among neighbors, paper notices left on doors, etc., followed by a meeting at your local library or maybe in your home), you will do much better.

Some pointers:

• Learn about the subject. I worked in manufacturing for years, in maintenance manager / plant engineer roles. Maintenance is not a trivial endeavor, I had 63 people under me at one plant--including engineers, electricians, machinists, and carpenters. Back at corporate, they would sometimes hire some idiot from an unrelated industry. Said idiot knew nothing about maintenance and would "save money" by a 15% across the board budget cut. The results were invariably disastrous.
• Come at it with a learner's attitude rather than a crusader's attitude. Can someone explain to us residents why the city spent $500,000 last year paying out of town people to erect art sculptures that nobody here gets and which reflects nothing about our city? The first three answers will be complete BS. Keep pushing. You will likely find there was no justification.
• Always use inclusive terminology. "Our city" and "we residents" makes it sound like you are the majority rather than a lone complainer.
   
• Ask for the numbers. "I'm almost sure you are right. You seem very confident. So I am totally sure you would have no problem setting me straight by providing the data." (or the report, or whatever they failed to consider).
• Look for ways to consolidate or improve processes to save money. Typically, the people doing the work have plenty of ideas. Bob the dogcatcher might tell you that Animal Control doesn't need its own HR person, that function can be rolled into the county's general administration.
   
• In the case of a worthy goal, ask if the governing body can officially authorize an advisory panel to look into potentially more cost-effective ways to achieve this goal. For example, the city wants to provide shelter the homeless when the temperature drops below 20 DegrC. Note, this is an actual number used even though fingers are lost to frostbite at 32 DegrF. The city currently does this by renting poorly maintained apartments in the seedy part of town with no grocery store within walking distance. Among the other options your panel comes up with are these handsome inflatable tents (they are actually used) that can be located near places where the homeless might be able to do some odd jobs and find food. These cost 20% of what the apartment rent costs.
• When your opposition resorts to propaganda or bullying tactics, call them out on it. For example, some moron says the county needs to spend thousands of dollars per month on N95 masks and mandate county employees to wear them. You question what could possibly be gained by this, and he responds that if you are arguing against him you are arguing against the science. It's at that point you say, "Science is not dictated, it is the process of forming hypothesis and challenging them. So what you are really telling all of us is to argue with you is to argue for science. Because nothing you have said is the least bit reality-based."
   
• Never let them rattle your cage. Sit quietly and smile while they spew their lies and insinuate you are some kind of idiot. When it's your turn, come back calmly with the facts. For an example of how a master does this, go on Rumble or YouTube and search for "JD Vance interviews".
• Be persistent, but know when you are up against impossible odds. Some battles simply cannot be won. Pick ones that can. Small victories add up. This will also give you some gravitas going forward. Not of the "We beat Medicare" kind that Brainless asserted during his 2024 "debate" with Trump. But of the kind where people say of you that you get things done.

The other day as I was walking to my car from a grocery store, I counted ten cars parked in the same row as mine. Much to my astonishment, seven of these were parked correctly. By that, I mean they were parked nose out. In this particular parking lot, that is easily done because rows are back to back and you can just pull all the way through.

I wondered if the drivers of those three other cars understand how much safety they are giving up by parking backwards (nose-in)? I also wonder why some drivers who park backwards with an empty spot in front of them back out instead of pull through it to exit? They not only endanger pedestrians this way, they also waste fuel.

UPS absolutely prohibits its drivers from pulling in backwards. They must back into the safe area created by the parking lines when pulling in, rather than backing into vehicular and pedestrian traffic when leaving. Many people who park backwards say they do it so people don't have to wait on them when they are parking. But the reality is people are waiting even longer on them when they cautiously back out into vehicular and pedestrian traffic when leaving.

You have full visibility when pulling forward and limited visibility when backing up. Keep that in mind if you are ever tempted to park backwards.

People typically go to their cars with more valuables than when the arrived (especially when shopping). Parking backwards (nose-in) means you have to back up to get out. As you do that, it's an easy matter for some person to thump your quarter panel and feign injury from being "struck" by you. So you get out of your car and get robbed. This doesn't happen when you back into a space, because first they want to rob you when you have whatever you went inside to buy and second nobody is walking behind cars where there is single-row parking so the fake-out is obvious and stands little chance of fooling anyone. If you have double-row parking and pull through, then you have zero low-visibility vulnerability and again zero chance of fake hitting a fake pedestrian.

Where parking lots have angled spaces, that is done to save on parking lot space with no consideration for the safety of the drivers or those they might run over. I avoid such spaces and walk from a more safety-enabled parking area. Another factor there is many people park crooked in these spaces, meaning a lot more danger of door damage or worse.

Parking correctly is one aspect of being safe (and respecting the safety of others) when using parking lots. Here are some other tips:

• When you arrive, visually scan for a parking spot from as far out as you can rather than as you pull through the lot.

• Try to choose a spot that doesn't provide concealment for nefarious activities.

• When you have parked, visually scan the area between your car and where you need to go before unlocking your door.

• Finish any cell call before unlocking your door. Either leave your phone in your car or shut it off.

• When you leave, visually scan where you parked. If it doesn't look safe, turn right around and get a security person or just go back inside and wait a few minutes.

• As soon as you are in your car, lock your doors.

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  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder) Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6 Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10. Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

Since losing the election, the communists have gone on a spending spree to further ignore the will of the people, further inflate our money supply, and further damage our country. People need to remember this when communists are up for mid-term election. That includes 1/3 of the Senate, 100% of the House, and some governors. Make a note of the spendaholic transition period and bring this up in 2026 to your commie-leaning acquaintances but also to perfect strangers.