Mindconnection eNL, 2026-06-21

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1.  More progress in stopping crime: "This week, USDA Secretary Rollins announced that they had uncovered almost 700,000 criminals fraudulently benefiting from SNAP across the country, including nearly 200,000 fraudsters using dead people’s Social Security numbers and nearly 500,000 fraudsters collecting benefits in multiple states. " [Senator Roger Marshall, 12JUN2026]
    
2. Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. Good for him. He's brought a lot of people along with him, creating good-paying jobs. Elizabeth Moron claims that's immoral. She's immoral. And a moron.
    
3. The USA is the world's largest oil exporter, now for three months in a row. This gives us a huge advantage on the world stage.
   "The U.S. exported approximately 10.5 million barrels of crude oil and refined petroleum products per day in May, surpassing both Russia and Saudi Arabia for the third consecutive month. Russia exported roughly 7 million barrels per day, while Saudi Arabia shipped about 5.9 million barrels daily." [Big League Politics].
    
4. Good summary of the Iran War outcome: https://x.com/Jaredhowe/status/2067403139410547128
    
5. The oil is flowing. With no tolls from Iran, and with no funding of terrorists.
    
6. Speaking of terrorists, "Doctor" Anthony Mengele Fauci, is being officially exposed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JAAF0VbQI. Perhaps this psychopath will be extradited to Nuremberg to stand trial and subsequently hang from a rope--just as his predecessors were in the mid-1940s. And perhaps his co-criminals will also be brought to justice.
    
7. The legacy ("lamestream") media are not covering what may be the "crime of the century"--what Fauci and his fellow psychopaths unleashed on the world. Totally silent. I think that's great, as it will prove their uselessness as the actual story rolls out. And this will shift thousands, if not millions of legacy media subscribers away from legacy media. Advertisers will drop them, and they will circle the drain for a while and then go dark. The legacy media will defund themselves. It will be the only useful thing they have done in decades.

Commie Viewpoints, Then and Now

• My body, my choice: Acceptable defense for late-term abortions. But not acceptable for refusing illegal mandates to undergo medical experimentation without informed consent.
• If a man wears blackface to present himself as black, it's OK to beat him into unconsciousness and break a few of his bones. But if a man puts on lipstick and a dress, he is to be adored (and allowed into girls' locker rooms and restrooms).
• It was not long ago that if you chose not to cover your face, they imposed hefty fines and personally attacked you. Now they claim that ICE agents are "terrorists" for wearing masks. But ICE agents have already been personally identified and their families threatened. When they go on raids, they wear badges and blazers that clearly identify them as ICE. It isn't necessary to expose the individual ICE agents' identities. It is necessary to conceal those identities from the violent left-wing criminals who want to attack police officers for enforcing our laws.
  
  And it's still perfectly OK, in the commie view, for masked people to enter banks.
   
• Democrats are shocked to discover that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying people to join the KKK or renew their membership in the KKK. "It makes us look racist!" Well, yeah, the Democrat Party has always been racist. They will never forgive us for taking their slaves away, and they will never forgive the slaves for leaving. They still claim that black people are too stupid to get a job on their own or to obtain a government ID.
• They say things like "Save our Democracy" when we have a republic, not a democracy, and when they go to extremes to defeat election integrity measures and when they engage in blatant and obvious undermining of democracy.
• Now they claim "Donald Trump is cognitively impaired". All evidence points in the opposite direction. But let's also consider who is making this false claim. It's the party of Elizabeth Moron, Airhead OC, Kamala Harris, and Joe "walking vegetable" Biden. They do not have a single prominent member who is not utterly stupid. If they have anyone with an IQ as high as average, that person is hiding from the public.
   
• Commies such as Elizabeth  Moron have been mindlessly repeating the term "Trump's disastrous economic policies" while fighting viciously against removing millions of dead people from the SNAP program. They also fail to explain how injecting $14 trillion (4.5X the GDP of Japan) of foreign investment into our manufacturing sector is "disastrous".
• During the Communist Occupation, millions of Americans lost their jobs and the commies called this "great economic performance". Under the Trump administration, employment has risen dramatically and the commies call that an affordability crisis for Americans.
• During the Communist Occupation, Medicare fraud grew exponentially. This theft put the system in jeopardy for those who are legally entitled to the benefits and depend upon them. The commies saw no problem with this. But when the Trump administration cracked down on the theft and thus protected those benefits for the entitled, the commies declared Trump was "depriving people of their Medicare".
   
• The commies correctly claim that the Trump administration kicked millions of people off of Social Security and Medicare. They neglect to mention those are all dead people, people who never existed, people who collect multiple times under multiple aliases, and people who are not legally entitled by collected anyhow through fraud.
• The commies complain that the SCOTUS "does the bidding of Trump", when in fact no serious analysis of SCOTUS decisions since Trump first took office supports the claim. The commies fail to note that of their three captive Justices, one is severely demented, one is profoundly stupid and often confused, and the other is a DEI hire who lacks the basic qualifications for the job and whose dissents are textbook examples of "crazy".
• The commies warn about "white nationalists" and claim this mystery group is a threat to "minorities". Yet, no such group has ever staged a protest much less a "mostly peaceful" one involving violence. By contrast, "white liberals" and paid Antifa thugs regularly engage in violence against ordinary civilians, police just doing their job, and businesses that had the bad luck of being in the target location.

The idiocy of these idiots would make a good basis for a television comedy. Unfortunately, it's the basis for the "news" that millions of Americans foolishly tune into, essentially lobotomizing them. We never needed to defund the police. We desperately need to defund the legacy media.

Solving Our Core Problem

"According to the Elon University/YouGov America 250 National Survey, 55 percent of Democrats answered “yes” when asked whether there is another country on Earth where they would rather live than America today. By comparison, just 10 percent of Republicans said they would prefer living elsewhere, while 38 percent of independents agreed with the sentiment.

The survey, conducted from April 30 through May 4 among 1,000 U.S. adults, carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3.95 percentage points." [Big League Politics, 09JUN2026]

There you have it. If those communists would move to some other country, our core problems as a nation would be solved. No more treason or sedition disguised as "Congressional inquiry" by communist members of the House (e.g.. Airhead Obnoxious Communist) or Senate (e.g., Elizabeth Moron). Free and honest elections. No disinformation by the lamestream media (its patrons would be gone). No more assassinations, racist programs, perversion forced on school kids, violent "protests", or other insanity. Our country would be orders of magnitude better off, with more freedom and more prosperity.

Given the huge benefits, I firmly believe it is a good investment to give each of these commies a $75,000 stipend to renounce their USA citizenship and permanently relocate outside the USA. Of course, the commies are known for being drama queens so the number of them who are actually serious about leaving the USA is small. Remember all the celebrity libtards who said if Trump beat Hillary they would flee the USA? They never left! Maybe there are 10,000 commies who would take the $75,000 and improve our country by no longer being here. Among them, there are likely to be a dozen or so whose absence would really matter in the overall scheme; commies with influence and some radical commies who do the dirty work that so damages us.

Using Euphemisms

People are so mean, these days. Especially those on the left. With them, it's not just the violence--the shooting at conservative leaders, the tossing of firebombs into police cars, or the severely beating of people who don't agree with them. It's also their word choices. They use the worst possible words, magnifying something way beyond what it is--when referring to conservatives. A conservative who jaywalks is "a threat to our democracy", not just a jaywalker. They use euphemisms also, for example if a mob of anti-Semites chases a half a dozen Jewish students into a library but can't get past the doors so they yell "Death to Jews" then they are "peacefully protesting".

We should follow their euphemism example. If a house is a total dump, a Realtor will say it's "rustic". Sometimes people will say a compulsive liar "stretches the truth". See the pattern? The idea is to soften what would otherwise be insulting and inflammatory language.

So instead of saying how you really feel about libtards, just say they are stupid and useless. That really softens the truth. Be nice out there!

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• Case tools
• CAT tools
• CPS tools
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• Rigid Tools work lights and related
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• Wiha tools
• Williams tools

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• American Hard Bag aftermarket sound system parts for Harley Davidson motorcycles
• Centerpoint Archery devices
• Cold Steel knives
• Dead Downwind hunting products
• G5 hunting products
• Flexilla hose connectors
• Funko collectibles
• Liberty Monitors hidden camera gadgets
• Mike Holt Electrical Exam Preparation products
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• Paraben Consumer data recovery sticks, porn detection sticks, and similar diagnostic/ IT tools
• ROK straps
• Rostra universal cruise control kits
• Swhacker archery products

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Radios:

• Anytone 10 meter radios
• Connex 10 meter radios
• Dosy meters
• General (brand) radios
• Galaxy 10 meter and 11 meter (CB) radios
• President 10 and 11 meter radios
• Ranger 10 meter radios
• Texas Ranger radios (Chuck Norris not included, sorry)
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Most of us get this mostly right. And most of us can do better. Before going down a rabbit hole, ask yourself if the issue is even worth your time. Asking these questions can help you determine that:

• Do I have other things that I should worry about first?
• What's the worst that can happen if I ignore this?
• What's the actual benefit of addressing this?
• What do I have to NOT DO so that I can do this?
• What resources would be needed to address this?
• Is an actionable solution possible?

An MBA looking at the list would say it's a basic cost/benefit analysis combined with a quick risk analysis, and that's correct. You might think these steps would just reflexively be done by everyone. And you would be mostly correct.

I see two big exceptions:

1. Health care. The vast majority of people do not take care of their health. They eat processed food and do other health-damaging things because they have been gaslighted with the idiocy that medical insurance is "health care" and medical treatments can fix poor health choices. You need to make your health care a priority; go over those six bullets above.
2. Fear porn. Fear porn triggers the fight or flight response, part of which is shutting down the cerebral cortex to permit the faster parts of the brain to take over. Which is another way of saying that fear porn addicts are physically incapable of thinking (much less critical thinking). Fear porn is "Botox for the brain".

Basic health care starts with your food purchases. Never from a fast-food joint and never any highly processed food. Buy 90% of it in the produce department. That'll get you 75% of the way to health, because it eliminates the worst sources of health damage.

Solving for fear porn uses a similar strategy. Disconnect from the toxic "fast food" offered by lamestream media. Cancel your newsfeeds, don't watch television, and don't read anything published by known pron fear offenders such as the New York Times.

Many people are reluctant to replace fake food with real food, believing that they are "giving up" something. They have it backwards; by eating those processed foods, they are giving up their health. By eliminating those processed foods, they are regaining their health.

Similarly, many people are reluctant to end their addiction to fear porn. They feel they might "miss something" or fail to be informed. They have it backwards; by intaking the fear porn, they are giving up cognitive abilities. By eliminating fear porn, they are regaining their intelligence.

You don't need to suffer from a full-blown addiction to be partially or mostly disable by fear porn. For example, the guy who listens to the morning news on the way to work and doesn't do news at any other time isn't addicted. He just has a behavioral pattern (aka, habit). But each morning, he subjects himself to Botox for the brain and then starts his work day. He certainly is not helping his career, this way.

I am not saying to bury your head in the sand. I am saying to get information, even if it's bad and leads to stress, from reputable sources that try to be objective rather than sensational. The sensational ones, all of those in the lamestream world, are  pushing a clearly bad ideology (Marxism) and using Botox for the brain so people will not use their BS filters at all.

4. Finance tip

A leftie told me he was cutting his food bill by 15% due to the high cost of gasoline. Why 15% and how exactly is that implemented? He can't say. But he is retired and probably drives less than 2,500 miles a year. He hardly needs to cut back on groceries to accommodate fuel prices that are still lower than their peak during the Communist Occupation.

He owns two vehicles, both of which have heavily oxidized paint and absolutely zero shine. One is a Toyota Forerunner he has ready as his "emergency evacuation car". It's packed with various kinds of survival gear and bottled water. Despite its being such a large vehicle with a capacious cargo area, there's hardly any room inside it. Think of the money he has tied up, and the money he keeps burning on licensing, insuring, maintaining, and stocking the vehicle.

I asked him what kind of emergency event would he expect to drive away from, and how likely he thought that the same aggressive idiots who cause our severe traffic jams every afternoon will drive out on the interstate in a competent and civil manner if they thought they were fleeing for their lives?

He lives close to the geographic center of the USA. No chance of hurricanes, and for tornadoes you shelter in place. He lives on a hill and the storm water runoff system around his property is way overbuilt; there is zero chance he will get flooded, but if he does there is zero way to drive away from it. He's fixated on addressing something that has no chance of occurring, while at the same time increasing his stress, anxiety, and cost of living.

He's an extreme example of misplaced priorities. And they are misplaced because he's delusional. He's delusional, because he lives in constant fear of catastrophe. He is so fearful because he has a fear porn habit.

Fear and insurance

I read recently that millions of Americans have stopped living in fear of zero-chance medical problems and no longer carry medical insurance. I made that decision decades ago. When I told people they just could not believe I would "have such a high tolerance for risk". The same people eat processed food, barely exercise, use fancy cleaning products (all are very toxic), spray Roundup on their lawn, have never taken a defensive driving course, look to their doctor for health advice, and arrange for expensive packages to be delivered to their porch. And they think that I am the one who takes excessive risk? Wow, that is either arrogance or an intellectual blind spot big enough to drive a Toyota Roadrunner through.

The good development is that millions of Americans have decided to stop giving in to the fear porn that promotes bloated medical insurance policies. They have decided to stop shelling out $1800/month for insurance they will never use. And if they do need injury attention, being uninsured will in most cases get them a cost that is less than their co-pay cost. Many carry catastrophic or hospital insurance only, and because the monthly premium is usually under $50 the math is acceptable even though the likelihood of using it is low--that is exactly the basis for all other forms of insurance. Just not for medical insurance.

There's no fear porn behind my auto insurance policy, only actual risk assessment. The same goes for my homeowner's insurance. Neither of these policies covers anything idiotic. Neither of them covers unnecessary testing, chemicals, or unnecessary procedures. Medical insurance is the exact opposite.

The Forerunner guy also started talking about installing an emergency generator. We do have a power outage a couple of times each year. It usually lasts less than an hour. The longest ever was something like six hours. Now, an emergency generator is a very big investment and it must be serviced by a qualified technician. I used to work on these systems at a nuclear power plant. Unless you go with gas, you also must maintain the (usually diesel) fuel tanks. Why spend all that money to avoid a little inconvenience? He was afraid we might someday go without power for several weeks. But that fear had no basis in reality. Not only that, if anything could hurt our power delivery system that badly then loss of electricity would be the least of our problems.

Insurance vs. protection

Insurance isn't really protection, in the normal sense of the word. It does not stop the problem from happening. It is there to protect you from financial ruin, should the problem occur. If you don't run or own a business (or have an expensive hobby) and you don't have some extremely bad medical condition, the only insurance you need are home and auto. Maybe also plane and boat, if you are rich enough to have those toys.

You protect your home by doing things such as keeping its appearance neat. And by making friends with your neighbors, so you can look out for each other. Another way to protect your home, if you have any tall trees. If a storm is forecasted, water your trees the day before or even just a few hours before.

You protect your health by foregoing vaccines and processed food, and also doing the positive things that contribute to health. There's no insurance product that can do this. It's all up to you. But carry it only so far. People who obsess over their FitBits, BMI, calories, macros, or other aspects raise their cortisol rather than improve their health. Obsessing over non-existent dangers will often result in a preventable illness or fatality. I knew a guy who would drink only distilled water. Consequently, he was chronically dehydrated and thus had high blood pressure. He died from heart failure.

Keep it real

You have only so many resources and only so much emotional energy. Don't waste it stressing out about doomsday scenarios that might be good for a movie script but don't reflect real life.

Take home security, for example. To make my home "really secure," I would have a dozen loaded firearms hidden throughout my home. That would increase my chances of surviving if a cartel gang drove a truck up my steps and through the front wall of my home (no access on sides or back). But that event has zero chances of occurring. Why should I spend $25,000 to protect against it? And then there's the time wasted cleaning those guns every few months. My home is secure enough, with the weapons and defenses I have in place already. I don't deal drugs or live in a place where that goes on. But I do have security cameras, fiberglass doors, and burglar-resistant windows. I feel secure enough, and for good reason.

You also don't need to stock up on MREs or spend $50K to outfit an escape vehicle. Some people do such things because they are irrational. The danger has no chance of happening, and their solution means diverting resources away from things that are actually needed.

The Toyota Forerunner guy is in desperate need of house cleaning, but "can't afford" to have it done because his money has gone into his fear porn response. By "cleaning" I don't mean dusting and vacuuming. I mean hiring a company that will fill a dumpster with the tuff he has stacked from floor to ceiling. It would not surprise me if he had spent >$100K stocking up on things. An eight year supply of pet kibble, a 50 year supply of tea, and pretty much four of everything that a normal person would have one of. And a lot of stuff almost nobody would have. His big fear is the item might not be in stock at a store if he ever needs a replacement. What else could he have done with his $150,000 fear porn consumption habit?

Risk assessment

For the sane among us, you start by conducing a risk assessment. And you come up with a very short list of events that might require protective measures, coping measures, or insurance coverage.

Make a list of realistically possible events, and then assign a likelihood score to them. Sort by that score. Then address the ones with the highest score. In most cases, you can reduce the risk factors to zero by investing in preventive steps or a little protection (e.g., a firearm or two versus an arsenal).

Examples include house burns down, car gets stolen, tree falls on house, hail damages roof, washing machine goes out, water heater goes out.

Now look at that list. Some items do not need insurance. The last two in the list will happen. But insuring against them is stupid, you will pay more in insurance than simply replacing the failed appliance when the time comes. You can't reduce the chance that hail will hit your roof, but you can reduce the chance that a tree will fall on your house (get it pruned or cut down). You can't necessarily prevent your house from burning down or your car from being stolen, but you can greatly reduce the chances of either outcome.

You can both reduce the risk and insure against financial loss. Ask your home and auto insurer about both. They don't want to pay claims, so they will be happy to share their extensice knowledge of risk reduction and they may even provide financial assistance or contractor recommendations. Don't forget, these insurance people are not government "experts" like Anthony "Fool" Fauci. Unlike Fauci, they are better off when you are not injured than if you are. So they will provide good guidance.

With realistic risks reduced, you buy insurance based the risks that could not be reduced or eliminated.

You are now at the point where you just do not have to worry. You've done what you can to prevent risks that are real, and have insured yourself against financial ruin (not financial loss) should one of those events actually happen. You also have more money with which to enjoy life.

5. Security tip

From American Century Investors: https://www.americancentury.com/

Vulnerable Adults – Financial Exploitation Awareness In 2024, one in five Americans over 65 experienced financial exploitation, with reported losses of $2.9 billion with estimated fraud loss costs approaching $62 billion. 1 As generative artificial intelligence (AI) heightens fraud risks, collaboration between financial institutions and consumers, along with robust education and awareness, is vital to protect vulnerable adults from scams.

The Department of Justice defines a “Vulnerable adult” as an individual aged 18 or older who, because of incapacity, mental illness, cognitive impairment, physical illness or disability, advanced age fraud, or other life changes or impairments that affect decision-making abilities, is unable to adequately meet their own needs or seek assistance independently.

During significant changes to a person’s health or life circumstances, individuals may become more vulnerable to financial exploitation. For seniors or adults with disabilities, this often takes the form of:

• Misusing, mishandling or exploiting their property, belongings or financial assets.
• Using someone else's assets without permission, often by lying, exerting undue influence or engaging in coercion or manipulation. How to protect yourself or loved ones from financial exploitation:

Awareness of Scams Targeting Seniors and/or Vulnerable Adults:

• Government Imposters: Scammers pose as officials from agencies like Social Security, Medicare or the IRS and threaten victims with arrest or benefit suspension.
• Tech Support Scam: Fraudsters pretend to be IT professionals from well-known companies or display bogus pop-up alerts about problems that don't actually exist on the victim’s computer.
• Lottery Scam: Fraudsters contact individuals to inform them that they have purportedly won a lottery or sweepstakes. Victims are then instructed to make an upfront payment, such as covering taxes, before they can receive their alleged winnings.
• Romance Scam: Scammers create fake profiles or impersonate real people online to form relationships or friendships, then persuade victims to send money under the pretense of love.
• Grandparent Scam: In this scam, fraudsters pose as a grandchild who claims to be in trouble—such as being jailed or hospitalized—and desperately ask for money, often warning the victim not to tell their parents.

Indicators of Financial Exploitation in Individuals:

• Showing confusion or becoming unusually secretive about finances
• Bills left unpaid or receiving collection notices • Strange or unexplained withdrawals and payments
• Suddenly opening or closing bank accounts with no apparent justification
• Missing expected checks or checks that were never deposited
• Relationships that appear to sway financial decision-making
• Altering or refusing to talk about financial or estate plans
• Interacting with new people via social media or messaging apps
• Making investments that don’t match retirement goals, such as cryptocurrency or offering promising unrealistic returns

Proactive Steps to Protect Yourself and/or Loved Ones from Financial Exploitation:

• Power of Attorney (POA) – Consult with your attorney to determine the appropriate type of POA, ensuring that the designated agent holds the necessary authority to interact with financial and banking institutions. Please note that a POA cannot be established after diminished cognitive capacity has been identified.
• Trusted Contact (TC) – Submit the name of a trusted contact to your financial or banking institution. This individual may be reached if concerns arise regarding the account holder. While this designation does not authorize the trusted contact to act on the account or access details, it ensures there is a reliable resource available should issues such as fraud, cognitive decline or an inability to contact you occur.

Additional Resources and Steps to Protect Your Accounts:

• Complete American Century Investments Trusted Contact Designation Form
• Update other financial institutions with Trusted Contact details
• Stay alert of common fraud and scam tactics

 Victim of Fraud and/or Scams:

• Change passwords
• Alert credit bureaus and all financial/banking accounts
• Request copies of credit reports
• Change account numbers
• Close fraudulent accounts

File necessary reports:

• Identity Theft Report with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Internet Crime Complaint (IC3) with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Police Report with your local law enforcement agency

 As a best practice, review your credit reports annually. You can do this by visiting the government site: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/free-credit-reports

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

	There's a principle called "muscle confusion". The idea behind it is you need to vary your workouts so that your muscles don't adapt and you stop building new muscle. Arnold Schwarzenegger has repeatedly claimed this was one of his "secrets" to building his impressive physique. And of course he would say that, as it deflects attention away from the steroids he used to get that impressive physique. To perform a good workout, you need to learn how to do it. This takes time. You have to dial in those movements so that you do them with correct form and that takes practice. You must also figure out the correct weight, figure out which exercises to pair with each other (if you superset), determine the optimum rest period between sets, and figure out a few other things. Such as, importantly, whether you can push just past your limit on this next rep. All based on the experience, on trial and error and feedback from your body. If you are changing things around every time, you will never have an optimal workout because each session is a guessing game. That is not to say you should never change. Changing is often good, but remember it comes at a cost. Proponents of "muscle confusion" are quick to point out examples of people in a rut, doing the same routine and not progressing. What often happens is the trainee starts off with good form, but soon drifts into doing the exercises poorly. This is always due to not focusing on what you are doing, a situation that is inevitable when you are spiked up on caffeine, listening to music, or otherwise distracted. So progress stops, and the blame goes on the muscles for refusing to be trained. A muscle cannot tell what form of external force is being applied to it. It has no way of "knowing" that you are again performing a supine biceps curl. All it "knows" is tension on, tension off. Arnold's portrayal of the muscle being stubborn and needing to be tricked or surprised is based in BS, not in science. If you aren't making progress, the most likely cause is you are cheating on your form. Or you've already made all the muscle gains you are genetically capable of. But it's not because you failed to confuse your muscles. If you do change your workout, change only one or two elements at a time so you can gage the results of making those particular changes. There may be some exceptions in which this is not the best method, use good judgment rather than grasp at straws. The most important thing you can do is pay attention to what you are doing. You are not there to move weight, you are there to stimulate the adaptive response via time under tension, cellular damage, and metabolic stress. How much weight you can bench or curl is not relevant to that.
	Here are some reasons to change your workout: You're just bored with what you're doing. Simply changing the order of exercises can fix that. Or maybe you replace one-legged bench squats with step-ups. You've got chronic pain or an injury. This situation demands a change. Don't "work through it" when you have inflamed tendons. This can be a one-time change, just for this issue, and you can go back to your previous plan. Similar thing with surgery. You need to change your emphasis. Maybe your shoulder workout emphasizes rear delts. If you see your median delts are lagging the rear delts, you alter your plan to shift the focus a little.   You acquired new equipment. Maybe you finally put up a chinning bar or bought a French curling bar. Or you replaced your cheap flat bench with a nice one that includes a squat rack. This would call for a major redesign, IMO. A friend shows you an exercise variation that allows you to gain the same muscular tension with less weight. You pick up ideas from Athlean-X or Ryan Humiston on YouTube.   Your situation has changed. A full-blown Leg Day was great when you lived in the apartment complex. But now you live on a six-acre farm with hills, and you have bees and livestock to care for. Or you took up climbing. Or you got a job delivering stoves and refrigerators. Your Leg Day has to be adjusted. You have a muscle imbalance. This is a very common problem. It usually comes from training what you see in the mirror and neglecting the posterior. Stop doing bench presses and start doing rear delt work and upper back work. Your skeleton is out of balance. If you get regular chiropractic care, ask your chiropractor to examine you for this. If you don't get regular chiropractic care, how do you expect to have injury-free workouts when your joints are misaligned? Take a look at the guy in the next cubicle or at other people when you shop; is anybody showing good posture? Head forward and shoulders rounded is normal.

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.

Elizabeth Moron and other communists call for forced "income equality" as if that is somehow a good thing. It is simply armed robbery, with the government holding the gun.