Mindconnection eNL, 2025-03-23

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Celebrating Freedom

• Marvin Peavy of Florida is celebrating freedom: https://twitter.com/i/status/1898543824995274767
   
• During the communist occupation of the USA, the previous (Trump) administration's aggressive program to stop human trafficking was replaced with things like "use the wrong pronouns" programs, indoctrinating children to be racist, and an aggressive program to stop Title IX protection for female athletes. Since Liberation Day, we are back to stopping human trafficking. And recently, federal authorities busted one of the biggest rings ever. This ring had smuggled at least 20,000 illegal aliens from Guatemala since 2019.
   
• Had it not been for the coup that put Brainless in the White House, the aforementioned ring would have been smashed four years ago. That coup was accomplished through egregious election fraud, and mail-in voting of fake ballots was what put Brainless over the top in each of the battleground states. When 83% of the mail-in ballots that come in after the polls closed are for the mentally retarded candidate who couldn't articulate a complete sentence, you'd have to be a moron to think there wasn't any cheating.
  
  The lamestream media has insisted that "election" was fair, claiming mail-in voting may have some minor irregularities but is pretty much immune to cheating. Just this month, three men in Pennsylvania (a 2020 battleground state that Brainless "won") were indicted on 16 counts of election fraud in an effort to steal the 2021 election for the Mayor of Millbourne, PA. Mail-in voting fraud was core to their scheme and yes, they were "Democrats".
   
• The Millbourne case is irrefutable proof that the "Democrats" (commies) use election fraud at both ends of the political spectrum (federal at one end, municipal at the other). You'd have to be a moron to think they aren't stealing elections at all of the levels in between. In fact, we have proof of stealing for House seats in The People's Republic of California (they claim a bomb scare, then go in and tamper with the votes while the polls are temporarily closed). If we had election integrity, the federal legislature would have a far smaller commie component. State legislatures, ditto. How many state governors would be some party other than communist? It seems obvious to me that someone as odious and destructive as Gruesome Newsome is in office only due to fraud. Same thing with Wretched Gretchen.
   
• You can bet that some powerful people are connecting these same dots. Election integrity reforms are going to accelerate. And the commies will protest that these are "a threat to our democracy." We have seen what THEIR democracy is like, and it's awful. The four years of communist occupation, with its censorship, lawfare, intolerance of dissent, and extreme gas lighting showed use that THEIR democracy excludes the average person. The economic, social, public safety, and other consequences of that were horrific. So there is very strong incentive to "stop the steal" and restore free, honest elections in the USA.
   
• DOGE update from my Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene: https://greene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=938
   
• This is heartwarming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXH2vXsAnRg
   
• The Department of Diseducation, which took the USA from having the highest literacy rate in the world to being dead last among industrialized nations (and behind even some third-world countries, is laying off about half of its employee base. This Department has had the same effect on education as the tobacco companies have had on lung cancer. I can hardly wait for the other half to be laid off. And that wait may not be long. On 20 March, President Trump signed and Executive Order to begin the orderly dismantling of this stupidity-producing federal department.
   
• It seems that Jew-hating stopped being our official government policy after Liberation Day. Columbia University, which failed to follow up on a rash of anti-Semitism, has just lost $400 million of federal funding. They have a total of $5 billion in federal funding commitments, and those are at risk also. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said, “Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding. For too long, Columbia has abandoned that obligation to Jewish students studying on its campus. Today, we demonstrate to Columbia and other universities that we will not tolerate their appalling inaction any longer."
   
• Sylvester Turner, a communist who misrepresented the 18th Congressional District of Texas, died at age 70 earlier this month. Governor Greg Abbott will decide when a special election takes place. The outcome of that election may be consequential for the balance of power in the House. There are currently 214 commies, 218 Republicans, and 3 vacant seats. Disgust with the communist party is at an all-time high, and their nefarious deeds have gotten massive exposure lately. So there is a strong chance Turner's seat will be filled by someone other than an America-hating communist. The other two vacancies were left by Republicans in Florida, and those seats will almost certainly go to  Republicans if the right candidates are selected to run for them. That would give the Republicans 221 seats.
  
  There are five actual Democrats left in the communist party, and if they leave the communist party that will leave the commies with 209 seats. That is far from giving the Republicans a super majority, but they can pick up three more in The People's Republic of California if even basic election integrity measures are either enacted by law or made to happen buy volunteer poll watchers. The President's address to Congress was masterful, and the responses of the commies underlined just how bad those people are. Aside from a few cesspool centers, Republicans will win in any House election where basic election integrity measures are enforced and fewer than half the voters are completely stupid. That would mean a supermajority for the Republicans.
  
  Places like Trans Francisco will always vote stupidly, but places like Brooklyn and south Chicago are turning red as the victims of commie policies are realizing they have been duped and are speaking out about it. All of which means places like Trans Francisco will soon be irrelevant to national politics. We won't have another America-hating Nutcase Nancy coming from there to bulldoze our economy, provide protection for violent offenders, advocate for child mutilation, and undermine Title IX.

• It looks like Iowa is banning gene-based "vaccines". Since the history of these is that they essentially infect you with the pathogen, this makes sense. We know that Vitamin D is safe and effective, we know these "vaccines" are neither.
   
• We now have a total of 9 states banning the fake "vaccine" that got emergency authorization via fraud. If not for the censorship during the Brainless regime, we would have been at this point
• by early 2021 and spared millions of Americans the severe harms (including death) caused by what has turned out to be a population control product.

Public Health

• We recently engaged in the population control measure known as the twice-annual clock change. It would be more humane to control the USA population by ending illegal immigration. Ending this barbaric sleep-deprivation method has the backing of President Trump and lawmakers in the House and Senate. Ending it will boost American productivity and save a few thousand lives per year while also eliminating a few hundred thousand severe injuries and mutilations. It is time to stop treating American citizens as if we are POWs in WWII-era Japanese prisoner camps.
   
• Utah is set to be the first state to ban fluoridating water. Fluoride is a toxic byproduct of making aluminum, and selling it to municipalities as somehow battling tooth decay was a great boon to the aluminum industry. With the new tariffs balancing things out against foreign competitors, poisoning our population this way is no longer needed by this vital industry.
   
• Arkansas is now the first state to require schools to provide age-appropriate firearms safety training. This applies to public schools and open-enrollment public charter schools. The NRA already has the Eddie Eagle Program that is doing the same thing. The NRA has been doing this as a public service, it is the only organization (until now) that has done anything about firearm safety for children. For youngsters who encounter an unsecured firearm (perhaps in a friend's home), the theme is "Don't touch, tell an adult." Several prominent communists have vowed to "end the NRA," maybe it's really the little kids they hate.
   
• During the communist occupation, the HHS website had text that basically said you were mentally ill if you chose to defend yourself against violent criminals but perfectly sane if you chose to defend violent criminals against their intended victims. This great lie has been removed from the HHS website, thanks to President Trump. It is a big gain for the Second Amendment but even more of a big gain for public safety.

Looming Recession?

A recession is a "receding" of the economy. It is defined as two consecutive quarters in which GDP growth is negative.

It is a meaningless term on that basis alone, but also because GDP can easily be manipulated. For example, let's say GDP growth in Q1 was 1%. So on the books you move 2% of the Q1 output to Q2, giving Q1 a negative growth but starting Q2 at 2%. Even if you have a negative growth of 2% in Q2, you're good because you're at zero not below it. If you don't hit your numbers, you can slide some Q3 growth projections into Q2 and claim them as actual while in Q2.

Making this number even less meaningful is government spending is counted as GDP. But it's not actually output. Think about how DOGE is strengthening the economy by reducing federal waste, but GDP counts this as a negative. GDP has long been a ginned-up number, which is yet another reason a recession is a non-event. It's a fiction based on other fictions.

Now the commies are trying to scare us  by saying Trump will cause a non-event (a recession). This is a laugh, considering that the commies put us in an economic depression more than three years ago and kept it going all that time. By definition, a depression lasts longer than three years or includes a GDP drop of at least 10%. This depression meets BOTH criteria (if you exclude from the GDP stats government spending and sandwich-making--yes, back during the Obama era they started counting fast food burgers as "manufacturing") . This depression also meets the other criteria (e.g., massive unemployment, sharp drop in production, increased poverty), and it included a two year period in which inflation exceeded 100%.

But because the communist-controlled media wanted to hide what the commies were doing to our economy, they pretended the Depression does not exist. So even though 80% of people know our economy is in trouble, very few understand just how much trouble and how bad it is. Which is good for business, because people carry on with their lives and buy things. But the Depression is headed for a cliff, and we need to fix it while we can still pay the ever-growing interest on our ever-growing national debt.

Don't worry about a recession, as it is a non-event. Instead, show support for fixing our economic depression. That depression is a huge event, and it's one that Brainless and his commie cohorts caused. It is an event that Trump and his A-Team are fixing.

Don't worry about a drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, aka "the markets". The Dow is just an index of only 30 stocks. These 30 are picked by newspaper people, a cohort not exactly known for being smart. Especially when it comes to math. Those are 30 stocks out of the 2301 listed on the NYSE.  And the NYSE is just one of 21 stock exchanges in the world. To draw any meaning from the Dow is to engage in Ouija board guesswork. This is a number that is best ignored. It's as meaningless as "recession", except for its ability to strike fear into the hearts of those who have no clue what it means.

Need more assurance this recession hocus pocus has no relation to reality? Manufacturing output last month was triple what the government predicted. So there. And it was Trump's first full month in office. Wait until you see what the other months bring!

Job Creation?

The commies also like to parade their "employment" numbers. During the communist occupation, more jobs were destroyed than were created. The commies kept creating  BS jobs to inflate the jobs report, but 85% of the new jobs during the occupation where tied directly to government spending. Small businesses have always been the real engine of job growth, but small business owners are overwhelmingly conservative so we were targeted for elimination. Something like 63% of small businesses went under during the occupation. Some of these were suppliers to my company, and I knew them personally. Good, well-run businesses that had been around for decades. Gone.

Don't worry about a negative "jobs" report, since the commies have been flat-out lying about unemployment, employment, and job creation for many years. Laying off thousands of parasites whose pointless jobs have no function that serves taxpayers in any way will cause the jobs report to appear as if we are losing ground when we are really not.

Inflation

When you hear politicians and the media talk about "inflation", you have to translate that into English. They do not mean inflation at all. What the mean is a general rise in prices, something that economists call "price inflation" to distinguish it from actual inflation. Economists now call actual inflation "monetary inflation" to further prevent confusion.

The commies said the tariffs would:

1. Cause a recession. Wrong, that is caused only by not cooking the books. And it means nothing (see above).
2. Increase inflation. By this, they meant "cause prices to generally rise". The opposite has happened.

Tax Cuts for the Wealthy?

The commies continue to amaze me with this idiotic claim. The main feature of the 2017 Tax Cut Act (it actually has a longer name) is the huge standard deduction. Which is indexed to "inflation" (the general increase in prices, more accurately called price inflation). What it means is your taxable income is reduced by that amount (or put another way, that amount is excluded from taxation). Someone making a very low income would see a very large benefit from this in terms of how much their tax bill is reduced. The top 10% of income earners would would see a tiny benefit relative to their income.

The same commies who keep spewing this lie had no qualms about a massive tax INCREASE for everyone, something that fell very heavily on the poor. To pay for their Green New Scam and other spending binges, the Fed counterfeited trillions of dollars. That is, they inflated the money supply dramatically thus debauching the currency dramatically. What hypocrites and liars. Just one more reason to dissuade people from voting Democrat; doing so is costly and has zero benefit except to the criminal class.

2026 Mid-term Elections

1. The Democrat Party has had a strong socialist element for the past 120 years. But it went completely communist, with no diversity or dissension, when it put an illegal alien into the Oval Office via massive election cheating in the 2008 election. We may as well call it the American Communist Party (ACP). Its primary mission, as stated by the illegal alien, is to "fundamentally transform America". That turned out to be an eight year long attack on our civil liberties, our economy, and the safety of our cities. It relied on racism, coercion, deception, division, and blatant propaganda. Then along came the 2016 election, which Hillary lost to Trump despite massive cheating by her side. A new mission was added, "Hate Trump". These two core principles of the ACP are now the basis for everything they say and do.
    
2. Consequently, the ACP members who are governors, members of Congress, and prominent unelected officials are behaving in ways that are repugnant and disgusting to ordinary people. Their behavior during Trump's address to Congress showed them to be petulant, American citizen-hating, negative, heartless sociopaths. Anecdote after anecdote showcases this behavior, such as the recent instance of an American citizen being burned to death on the subway by a repeat offender illegal alien they should have already deported. Their defiance of the federal orders (under the common sense administration of President Trump) to deport violent illegal aliens instead of release them into society has terrible costs that real people pay for with their lives. And we all know this now.
    
3. Such a horrible death for that woman on the subway, yet Governor Hochul continues to follow Hate Trump instead of "govern New York". She will lose in 2026, because her many acts of hatred against New Yorkers will be widely publicized on "alternative" media (which now has a far larger audience than the untrusted legacy media). There is nowhere for her to hide, and nothing she can say will save her in her election bid. But aren't New Yorkers so stupid they will always choose a commie? No. NYC itself has had several Republican mayors in my time, and when Nutcase Nancy appeared on stage at some event in NYC, she was soundly booed. Trump held an election rally in Brooklyn last year, and was warmly received by a huge audience. New York City could turn red in 2026, and if the commies continue to operate based solely on their hatred of Americans, that city and the whole state will turn red (absent enough election fraud to disenfranchise the voters).
    
4. Another election killer for the commies is the Senate killed a bill that would ban men from women's sports. The vote was along party lines, with the commies 100% against Title IX protections and Republicans 100% for those protections. By election season next year, the anecdotes of female athletes suffering from severe injury, being denied athletic scholarships, and having to share locker rooms with naked men will have added up to a huge body of evidence (even more so than now). No sane person can support a politician who has such low regard for women, and many of those politicians are women! This one issue by itself is enough to tilt an otherwise close election.
    
5. As the commies continue to communicate that Americans have no value and America itself is a blemish on human history, they will set the stage for a massive loss of existing seats at all levels of government. Since they no longer have the power of censorship (thank you, Elon Musk!), they cannot control the narrative. Their attempts to start their own alternative media have failed, and a big reason for that is they value ideological conformity over competence. Anyone stupid enough to embrace their ideology isn't very competent. This fact is why they are so fearful of meritocracy.
    
6. Many commies are abandoning ship, not wanting to waste time running again next year. For example, Comrade Jeanne Shaheen is one of the two Senators from New Hampshire. This leaves Comrade Margaret “Maggie” Hassan plus an open seat that will likely be filled by a Republican. New Hampshire also has two commie House Representatives.
    
7. Tim Walz, the hapless communist who ran the disastrous commie campaign with Kackling Kamala, has decided to go on tour to "get our message out." This is wonderful news for the Republicans, because Walz is embarrassingly stupid, patently delusional, and grossly dishonest. Voters heard this message earlier, and soundly rejected it. Walz is going to remind people of why voting for a Democrat is a terribly bad idea. Thanks, Tim, for your unintentional support of MAGA. We could easily do without you, but we do appreciate all you do for us through your own ineptness and stupidity.
    
8. The Communist News Network's Data Chief delivers "shocking" news about just how low the communist party's approval rating is: https://twitter.com/i/status/1902058792960885068. It is probably a lot worse than this, since CNN is so sycophantic to the communists. As they continue their campaign of hatred against America and anyone who actually cares about it, they will continue to lose ground with voters. Burning people's Teslas isn't the answer, but they are trying that too.
    
9. We now know the Tesla burnings are organized. By someone. Elon Musk asks about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03-FBV1T1Lc
    
10. The Lincoln Project, part of the communist echo chamber propaganda machine, has offered yet another paid subscription (the commies are desperate for campaign funds). Rather than raise money, it has raised ire. The same commie fan club members that were fine with ripping us off trillions of dollars at a time are now balking at being required to fork over a few dollars a month for their  propaganda fix. Words like "grift" are being used, especially by the elderly supporters who are keenly feeling the effects of the four year communist occupation. They aren't blaming Trump this time, and that is progress! Yet another demographic waking up to reality, and that does not bode well for the commies in the 2026 elections. Their only choice now is to amp up the cheating so badly they grossly overplay their hand and make election reform a hot topic that even the legacy media won't be able to downplay.
     

Waste, Fraud, and Corruption

1. Check out this chart: https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/6-charts-that-explain-doge-related-cuts-so-far-5817345
    
2. Millions of people allegedly over the age of 120 have been receiving Social Security checks. And one of them is over the age of 150! The commies now claim those people are on the rolls but not necessarily receiving benefits.
    
3. Congressman Brandon Gill on downsizing the bloated federal bureacracy: https://twitter.com/i/status/1898110405437735058
    
4. Gill has also initiated a petition calling for the deportation of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who has been advising illegal aliens from Somalia on how to evade detection by ICE. Omar has been strongly anti-America since winning her seat in the House (no doubt via election fraud) and has even said publicly she is Somalian first and American second.
    

The Communist Party

1. The communists call themselves "Democrats", though democracy is something they vigorously oppose. A "centrist" group of Democrats recently met at a retreat (the "Comeback Retreat) and they decided that the party comes across as judgmental and elitist. One clue they have no clue is they produced a 5-page document of take-aways. In other words, they obfuscated anything useful instead of focusing on a few actionable items.
    
2. Another clue they have no clue is they want to "reduce the influence of far-left factions." The whole communist party one massive far-left faction. The purity tests, radical opposition to any kind of diversity, and brutal punishment for not being 100% within the ideological narrative have made it that way. And those things have made the communist party repugnant to working class people, small business owners, and even the tech moguls. These so-called centrists are delusional, because they are such a tiny minority within the communist party. They can make all the noise they want, but like others who can't stand the stupidity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, and inhumanity of the communist party their best bet is to join the Republican Party.
    
3. The communist party will continue to foment for social destruction (e.g., men competing in women's sports, the genital mutilation of children, racism), economic destruction (tax dollar waste, idiotic regulations, massive spending boonddoggles), environmental damage (so-called green energy instead of clean gas, diverting water to the ocean so it can't be used to fight raging fires), anti-science (the nonsense they spewed during the C*O*V*I*D scam), expansion of harmful federal agencies (IRS, CDC,. FDA, BATF, FEMA), pointless wars, the neutralization of our military, abetting an invasion of violent criminals via open borders, pro violent criminal policies ("gun control", anti-police, and refusal to prosecute offenders), the destruction of Israel, and perfidious attacks on Christians among many other things that sane people soundly reject.
    
4. Yet they will not push forward a single idea or policy that is helpful. In other words, they are 100% bad. And much of that bad is really, really bad.
    
5. Political parties are supposed to present acceptable alternative options, where you choose between collections of good and bad. For example, you might not like the Libertarian Party's stance on drugs but you prefer its stance on regulations to that of the Republican Party. You wouldn't embrace either party 100% because each has its downsides. But you wouldn't outright reject either party because each has its upsides. For a thinking person, it would be a hard choice except for the fact that only a Republican can defeat a communist in an election (due to the communist election fraud). But in this analysis and comparison scenario, the communists offer only bad policy with not even one tiny upside.
    
6. There's no saving the communist party, it is rotten to its core. What we can do to hasten its demise is red pill its adherents. A powerful way to do that is to point out instances of where their gas lighting sources (e.g., CNN, NYT) are flat-out lying to them. If we destroy the lamestream media, we take the legs out from the communist party.

The Ukraine Proxy War That the Commies Love

• I read a "news" item stating that Senator Lisa Murkowski "joined Democrats" in criticizing President Trump for his handling of USA-Ukrainian relations after the Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy. It would be news if Murkowski joined Republicans in something. Anything. It's not news that she sides with the Democrats, she should just declare herself a Democrat just as her voting record already does.
   
• The communists' beloved three-year war has left more than a million combatants dead or wounded and has displaced more than ten million civilians. The UN estimates rebuilding Ukraine will cost more than $500B over a decade. The UN always underestimates these things, and it has not commented on the cost to Russia. The drone strikes alone have severely damaged refineries, railways, and other vital infrastructure. And it will take several generations to replace the numbers of people killed on both sides. The total cost is in the trillions of dollars, and then there's the sheer terror and misery of living in a war zone.

Stopping the bird flu

The current policy is to kill any potential victims. This is idiotic on its face. Using this illogic, we should kill all the children in a given zip code if one of them catches a flu. How about using this as a military strategy? Kill your own soldiers so they don't die in combat. OK, it's stupid beyond belief. So maybe we can take a cue from the CDC, what do you say?

Based on how the CDC handled one particular flu:

• Keep the chickens six feet apart.
• Make them wear masks.
• Subject them to psychological stress, all the time.
• Discourage any kind of social interaction.
• Give them an experimental medication multiple times to desensitize their immune system against the virus.
• Trick them into subsisting on junk food, instead of eating what they need to stay well.

Hmm. That didn't work so well, did it?

Here is how to stop all avian flus:

• Give them Ivermectin. This seems to cure about 50,000 different ailments.
• Beef up the nutrient density of their food. Give them fruits and vegetables that are high in vitamin C. This can be subsidized by the same government that is paying scandalous amounts to simply kill them all and let God sort them out.
• Make social interaction easy for the chickens, they are social creatures.
• Give homeless people jobs helping to care for the chickens, including cleaning chores. In return, they get a shower, new clothes, a clean place to sleep, five meals a day, and a work history. City and  county governments can pay for this instead of wasting money in other ways on the homeless. Set some boundaries so these people are treated with dignity instead of being exploited.
• Quarantine any sick birds, and release them into the general population once the illness has run its course. They will have natural immunity.

How do I know the above works? It's based on science, unlike the flim-flam peddled by the CDC. I have used the same principles (nutrition and cleanliness) to live illness-free for over half a century.

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The NEC has a very logical arrangement, and understanding that arrangement is the key to understanding the NEC. There are nine Chapters, and inside each Chapter is a series of Articles. These always have three digits, with the first digit being the same as the Chapter. For example, Article 430 (motors) is in Chapter 4. Chapter 1 begins with Article 100.

The funny thing about Article 100 is people tend to skip right past it. This is a colossal mistake, because Article 100 contains the definitions of words as they are used in the NEC. Not as you might assume them to be defined, but defined as they are used in the NEC. Thus, a "conductor" has a very specific meaning rather than what it means in the general lexicon of society. One reason I know that many NEC users skip past Article 100 is they misuse the word "conduit". That's another story, I guess.

Why do I bring this up?

Because people who adhere to libtard ideologies misuse words when spreading those ideologies. They adhere to those ideologies because they never asked the other spreaders what they meant by this or that word.

An example of this is "assault weapon". We don't want to take away your guns, we just want to eliminate assault weapons. Whew! What a relief, I'm totally behind eliminating something that sounds so dangerous! Except, what is an assault weapon? They have never defined it. Which means they just want to take away our guns.

Another example is "green energy". There's no technically-based definition. Oh, but we mean renewable energy. Hmm. So those wind turbine blades are renewable? No, those go into landfills. OK, so the concrete used to build the wind tower base (and it's a lot of concrete for obvious reasons) is renewable, along with the CO2 required to make the concrete? No, it just has to stay in the ground. So what is renewable? Wait, I've got it. The gasoline used to power the maintenance trucks!

Do you know what is our greenest energy source that's even modestly scalable? Natural gas. Remember when Brainless killed the Keystone Pipeline?

People who fail to understand the definitions of the words being used cannot intelligently participate in a discussion. So insist on those definitions. "You used the word insurrection to describe the January 6 guided tours of unarmed citizens through the Capital. Can you please clarify what you mean by insurrection and then explain how this term does not apply to the Democrats who bombed occupied police cars, drove SUVs through store windows, and tossed bombs into occupied apartments?"

During the four years of communist occupation, I heard a lot of communist propaganda. Not once did I come across a single assertion in which the words were used in a way that commonly understood definitions would apply. And yet, there was no Communist Glossary to guide us as to what they actually were saying or meant. Which means that in an argument with a commie, you just need to force a definition or two from them to collapse their entire position.

1. What inflation is.
2. The effect of inflation.
3. Why "fighting inflation" by increasing the Prime Rate actually makes inflation worse.
4. What causes inflation.
5. ow to fight inflation.

1. So let's begin with what inflation is. Inflation occurs when the money supply grows faster than the basket of goods and services grows. For example, during the two years ending in August of 2023, the money supply grew by 83% while the basket of goods and services contracted sharply (as evidenced by bare shelves everywhere). That is all inflation is.

2. The effect of inflation is it reduces the value of each dollar in circulation and the value of each dollar-based asset (such as your home) relative to the dollars in circulation. It is a taking of wealth, and thus it is a tax. For the vast majority of Americans, it is the single largest tax they pay.

3. The Federal Reserve, aka The Fed, claims to fight inflation by cooling the economy which they do by raising the Prime Rate and making capital more expensive. Now, let's go back to the definition of inflation. This act by The Fed contracts the size of the basket of goods and services. Even if the supply of money doesn't increase under this scenario, inflation does increase.

Now, the remaining two are more than bullet point answers.

4. What causes the money supply to grow? All kinds of things contribute to tiny increases. For example, if you take out a $10,000 loan the bank lends you $9500 it does not have and provides the other $500 from its "fractional reserve". Businesses borrow all the time, creating money out of thin air this way but they invest it into things that make the basket of goods and services grow.

But "the big gorilla", the one that causes the money supply to make giant step changes in size, is the Federal Reserve. When the Federal Government (not states, counties, municipalities, businesses, or people) spends money it does not have, this creates a debt. The Fed "buys" the debt by creating money out of thin are in the exact amount of the debt. If the total money supply had been $100 and the Federal Government spent $20 it could not cover from discreet taxes (excise tax, income tax, etc.), the Fed creates $20 out of thin air to pay for this. The economy then sees 20% inflation.

The ONLY source of real inflation is the Federal Reserve. The root cause of its inflationary behavior is excess spending by the Federal Government.

5. To fight inflation, you can't simply instruct the Federal Reserve to stop counterfieting money to cover deficit spending by the Federal Government. Because if it did, Federal Government payments would bounce (except for Social Security and Medicare, which are self-funded rather than funded from the general Treasury).

a. Based on #3 above, you probably surmised that reducing the Prime Rate will increase investment and thus heat up the economy and thus increase the basket of goods and services and thus reduce inflation without decreasing the money supply. That is one way, but it hits a point of zero effect as the interest rates drop to X (the point where further drops are either not possible or do not provide sufficient stimulus).

b. You could levy a deficit spending tax on the citizens, and then instruct the Fed not to cover the deficit spending because this tax will do that. But inflation is a tax on deficit spending so this amounts to soldiers swapping underpants with each other (an old joke).

c. You could streamline regulations, abolish the IRS (compliance costs to the economy are 15X what IRS collects), and do other things to help businesses grow the basket of goods and services. But that's only one side of the formula.

z. Skipping to the end, we find the way to permanently prevent more inflation and to reduce the inflation that has already occurred (inflation tax slowly refunded to the people). What is this solution?

End deficit spending.

Why? If there's no deficit spending, then The Fed won't buy the resulting debt which means The Fed won't inflate the money supply. One major effect of DOGE is by rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal payments system (for starters) and then doing the same in agency after agency, you can dramatically shrink Federal Government spending. And you can shrink it to the point that the Federal Government has not a "budget surplus" (a meaningless number) but a cash flow surplus. If it is taking in more than it is spending, then cash flow is positive--exactly what every business does to prosper.

What do you do with the old one, when you upgrade by replacing a hard drive, .M2 card, phone, camera, portable GPS, USB memory card, tablet, or other device? Most people toss the old one in the trash, some take it to an electronics recycler. But these devices may contain sensitive information.

For hard drives, do this:

• Erase all data.

• Use a wiping utility to actually remove the data.

• Do a full format.

• Then remove the drive, and drill several holes into it. Soak it overnight in vinegar. Then you can dispose of it.

For old laptops, tablets, and other devices with removable drives: Remove the drive and wipe it per the above.

For old laptops, tablets, and other devices without removable drives: Do all of the above, except the last step. Same applies to USB memory cards.

For .M2 cards, you do all of the above except you cut the card into separate pieces and dispose of the pieces in different places at different times. For example, one piece goes in your regular home trash and another piece goes into the trash bin that's at the entrance to a grocery store you don't usually go to, and another piece goes into the trash bin outside an auto parts store.

Don't ruin all this security by giving sensitive data to some alleged sales person, bank rep, or IRS agent over the phone. Keep information private and on a "need to know" basis.

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.

There is not a single documented case of even one person being prevented from requiring hospitalization by dint of undergoing the experimental mRNA injection. In fact, many who did undergo it either died of a heart attack on the soccer field, basketball court, etc., or died in the hospital from the effects of the injection. These two sets of facts are why state bans on this poison are being enacted.