Mindconnection eNL, 2026-07-19

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1. There's help for those afflicted with TDS! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uaO9rDFg0
    
2. Germany no longer requires the Covid jab for health people under 75. It looks like they want to maim and kill only those 75 and older, now. Progress!
    
3. Vivek Ramaswamy, a patriot and capitalist, is having great success in fund-raising in his campaign for Governor of Ohio. I used to live in Ohio, and there is much to like about the state. But it has had a strong communist element for a very long time. The commies want it to be a blue state for the Presidential elections, and it has been an effort to keep it red. One reason is the election integrity laws there are not as solid as they should be. If Vivek becomes governor, Ohioan voters can be protected from election fraud to a much larger extent. And that would be good for the whole country.

You can help by:

1. Cancelling all subscriptions to any lamestream media newsfeeds, newspapers, podcasts, etc.
2. Encouraging others to do the same.
3. Make wisecracks about how lame and dishonest CNN is. Or pick any other communist propaganda outlet. For example, "What kind of moron even watches CNN?"
   
    

The Communists

Just a reminder to readers, I don't use euphemisms or other misleading language tricks. Thus, I call the "Democrats" exactly what they are: communists. Not as a pejorative (another language trick) but as a result of comparing their ideology to that of Karl Marx. No difference.

1. When the commies defeated the SAVE Act in the Senate (thanks to John "Leftwinger" Thune), Comrade Elissa Slotkin (Senator from MI) said that if it had passed, "It would be hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election." The Comrade is correct. The commies cannot win in a fair and open election, despite owning the zombie brains of the academics and the lamestream media. What they offer is so profoundly toxic (and abjectly stupid) that nobody sane would vote for a commie candidate. Negating the democratic process is the ONLY way they can win, and that is why (as the comrade from MI pointed out) they need the ability to cheat.
    
2. The City Council of NYC recently gave themselves a $27,000 raise. They now make as much as US Congressmen.
    
3. The commies are yet again calling for yet another impeachment of President Trump. His "crime" this time? He declassified documents that showed how vulnerable our elections are. If there is one thing the commies absolutely, positively do not want, it is democracy. They loathe the very concept, as their actions prove time and time again.
    
4. "When anyone can register to vote without ever proving they’re a citizen, the system isn’t “accessible.” It’s compromised. And every fraudulent ballot cast doesn’t just bend the rules — it effectively silences a lawful American voter. Most functioning democracies on earth require identification to vote. The fact that suggesting the same thing here launches one entire political party into a full-scale meltdown? That alone should raise every red flag in the book." [American Journal Daily]
    
5. "Every Senate Democrat skipped the main questioning at Chairman Rand Paul's fraud hearing, "Exposing Fraud in America," where witnesses including James O'Keefe detailed alleged ballot-signature and government-funding schemes. Republicans accused the minority of ducking a politically uncomfortable subject." [FreedomAndLibertyReport.com]

Medical Care

Americans spent an average of $9,717 per person on medical care in 2024, but the figure varies widely by state, from $7,233 in Utah to $14,044 in Alaska, according to new Bureau of Economic Analysis data. In any given year, I typically spend $0 on medical care. That's because I practice health care. So the solution to runaway medical care costs is pretty obvious, is it not?

I have had some atypical years, garnering some medical care costs. This year, for example, I spent something like $400 for a steroid shot to counteract some kind of nasty insect sting. That cost could have been a lot less if I'd simply had access to 2.5% hydrocortizone and a few capsules of Prednisone.

Big Excerpt from Coffee & Covid

If you do not subscribe to C&C, perhaps this list that appeared in the 15JUL edition will incentivize you to do so. Jeff, its author, frequently publishes some amazing stuff. Like this list of Trump accomplishments since Trump 2.0 began:

🔥 Trump 2.0 Accomplishments (as of mid-July 2026) 🔥

·         USAID and the “Institute for Peace” closed

·         Negative net migration for the first time in 50 years

·         2.6 million+ illegal aliens removed (including 650,000 arrests and 400,000 convicted criminals) + 2 million self-deportations induced by ending incentives

·         Fentanyl trafficking crushed 56%+; overdose deaths down 21% monthly since inauguration

·         Laken Riley Act signed and aggressively enforced

·         Catch-and-release ended (99.9% drop); zero releases into the U.S. for eight straight months

·         Record-low border encounters; Darién Gap migration cut 99%

·         Largest one-year homicide drop in U.S. history; violent crime (rapes, robberies, assaults) down significantly

·         Targeted crime operations in major blue cities delivering record-low murders in several metros

·         Law enforcement officer deaths down 25%

·         Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other cartels dismantled; international drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations

·         Antifa designated a domestic terrorist organization

·         Gas under $3/gallon in 43 states; record U.S. energy production and exports at all-time highs

·         654,000+ new private-sector jobs (all net gains to native-born Americans); 671,000+ jobs added since January 2025

·         4.3% GDP growth in Q3 2025; largest blue-collar wage growth in 60 years; real earnings up ~$1,100 annually

·         Inflation tamed to ~2.4% core CPI (down ~70% from Biden peak)

·         One Big Beautiful Bill passed (July 2025) — making 2017 tax cuts permanent, No Tax on Tips, Trump Accounts for newborns, senior deductions

·         $5T+ in deregulation savings + $215 billion in government efficiency cuts ($1,335 per taxpayer)

·         $10T+ in reshored/domestic investments secured

·         Trade deficit at lowest level since 2009; $300 billion+ in tariff revenues collected; Predatory global tariffs shifted in the US’s favor for the first time in modern history

·         Stock market record highs

·         Gaza ceasefire + hostage release secured; 12-Day War (Israel-Iran) ended; multiple additional peace deals/accords (Armenia-Azerbaijan, India-Pakistan, DRC-Rwanda, Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Egypt-Ethiopia)

·         Iran’s nuclear capability destroyed + maximum pressure campaign (450+ sanctions designations)

·         NATO allies leaping toward 5% GDP defense spending

·         OPEC dismantling

·         85+ detained Americans released; Abraham Accords expanded

·         Strikes on Houthis, Iranian assets, and narcoterrorist vessels; Nicolás Maduro captured

·         South America shifts rightwards; Europe shifts rightwards

·         Record military recruitment goals met; largest military investment in decades with AI integration; F-47 sixth-generation fighter unveiled

·         VA backlog reduced 60%; 3 million disability claims processed; 51,936 homeless veterans housed; benefits restored for vaccine-mandate discharges

·         Transgender enlistment barred; DEI eliminated across military and federal agencies

·         Over 269 executive orders signed in the term (230 in first year alone — highest first-year total since FDR); 81 memoranda + 158 proclamations

·         DOGE-driven bureaucracy cuts; IRS IT budget savings of $2B; wasteful contracts eliminated; federal retirement system automated and brought out of a literal coal mine

·         DEI discrimination banned in federal contracting and agencies; race-based hiring ended

·         DEI outlawed for college admissions; colleges’ patent revenue shared with taxpayers who funded it

·         Federal ‘boards’ and ‘commissions’ fired and replaced with conservatives

·         Washington, DC beautified; reflecting pool refinished

·         Gender ideology extremism curbed in schools, medicine, and government (minors protected from chemical/surgical procedures); girls’ sports protected from creeps

·         MAHA reforms launched: Presidential Commission established; Most Favored Nation drug pricing with 16+ major pharma companies; 8 artificial food dyes phased out (40%+ industry compliance); Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act; marijuana reclassified to Schedule III; childhood vaccine schedule revised from 72 to 11 consensus shots; expanded IVF access; $50M autism initiative; new whole-foods dietary guidelines

·         Massive firings at CDC, FDA, NIH of sold-out scientists; Ralph Baric and EcoHealth debarred; even some arrests

·         Withdrew from WHO

·         Crypto regulatory framework via GENIUS Act; Strategic Bitcoin Reserve created; Operation Choke Point 2.0 ended

·         Sanctuary city funding cuts implemented

·         Election integrity and citizenship verification measures expanded nationwide; USPS program pending; SAVE Act drafted and run at Congress several times now

·         Energy dominance unleashed: National Energy Emergency declared; 6,000+ drilling permits approved (55% increase); 13.1 million acres opened for coal leasing; record LNG exports (>100 million tons); nuclear projects advancing toward online status; major energy export deals ($100B South Korea, $200B Japan); Paris Agreement withdrawal

·         US becomes a net oil exporter for the first time in history.

·         Trump Accounts launched for newborns with federal seed funding + corporate matching

·         Farmer aid secured; skilled trades and domestic manufacturing (semiconductors, autos, heavy equipment) expanded

·         Over 100,000 fraudulent visas revoked; 275,000 illegal aliens removed from Social Security rolls; benefits terminated for 1.4 million illegal aliens; H1-B crackdowns and $100,000 application fees

·         62,000+ missing migrant children rescued; Alien Enemies Act invoked against gangs

·         Vice-president-led welfare fraud task force recovering billions and making mass arrests

·         $2B sent to rebuild Western North Carolina

·         Massive AI, space, and nuclear investment projects

·         John Bolton convicted. James Comey arrested. John Brennan under investigation (probably facing a grand jury).

·         RussiaGate grand jury set up and running in Florida.

·         DOJ/ODNI seized Fulton County 2020 ballots. Trump is still working on Plans B, C, D, etc, with a ‘new’ integrity announcement scheduled as soon as tomorrow night.

To see the rest of that edition (and more): https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-list-wednesday-july-15-2026-c?r=11unpl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

But wait, isn't such a big excerpt violating Jeff's intellectual property? Ordinarily, it probably would. But Jeff wrote this: "Anyway, now that I’ve got it started, we can all, myself included, bookmark today’s post and save it to answer the trendy social media complaints like the one above. Just paste the whole list as an instant reply to complainers, if you like. Let’s shut down this narrative, hard." If you read that entire edition, you will get the context and Jeff's rationale.

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After sending him a reply, I thought a bit more on the subject. Nowhere in our highly regarded Declaration of Independence is there a single F-bomb. And that was a  pretty important subject, with people's lives on the line and a need to motivate the colonists to unite.

I can't find any profanity in the Gettysburg Address, either. Can you?

The crazy people who call themselves "Trans activists" use F-bombs and other profanity at a very high rate. They claim it's justified and helpful, because (they claim) their civil rights are being violated. But they are not a protected class or even a natural class of people. They are simply people who ignore basic biology to foment an absurd and delusional ideology that offers zero benefit and a multitude of harms. What about the American negro, who endured 100 years of civil rights violations after the Emancipation Act was signed? From Frederick Douglas to Martin Luther King, not a single use of profanity among the leaders of that movement.

I am not saying profanity is totally unacceptable in society. I am saying you might pause before using it, and opt for something that communicates an actual fact or idea.

I have heard profanity used like a condiment (hot sauce, namely) to drive home a point. A CEO, after presenting a rational overview of a problem might drop one F-bomb. What you do not hear is a string of F-bombs used in lieu of making a rational statement or argument. It is intended to show shock or disbelief. If it is done rarely and with the right timing, it's acceptable (except where children might be exposed to it).

But "acceptable" does not mean optimal. Let me use an example for the electrical geeks out there.

I have written about surge protection several times in my long technical writing career. Non-geeks are familiar with surge strips and other point of use surge protective devices (SPDs). Those are what we geeks call Type 3. If used without Type 1 and Type 2, they are almost useless. Type 1 SPDs use one of two technologies to divert really high energy (such as lightning) to ground--at the power source, such as the service entrance equipment. Type 2 SPDs handle a lower energy level, and they are used at the "feeder" panels (you don't have these in your home, but they are extremely important in commercial and industrial premises wiring).

I could use an F-bomb to emphasize the importance of staged surge protection (e.g., the T-1+T2+T3 approach) and maybe get more attention. But I won't get more clarity or understanding. Acceptable, but not very helpful. Straining one's noodle a bit more to come up with precise wording is, in my view, much better.

"The transient will jump right across the f**ing leads of a Type 3 SPD" is catchy, but it doesn't convey the same technical authority as "Lightning can jump more than a mile, because it is millions of volts. This is why you must divert high-energy surges to ground at the entrance. Even a few thousand volts will easily jump the few inches between the leads of a Type 3 SPD".

Or take the F-bomb heavy rants by "Social warriors for justice". These communicate unthinking rage instead of an idea. In their case, they really have no choice because their ideas are just plain stupid and not worth articulating anyhow.

One danger of the profanity-first approach is you train your brain to skip past the reasoning and simply spew your view without substantiating it. Which also means you probably have not thought things through to arrive at a view that is actually correct.

In my own view: When someone curses instead of articulates, he is demonstrating that he doesn't consider what he has to say as worthy of much thought. So I am much more convinced by a thoughtful, reasoned argument than a mere stipulation decorated with obscenities.

In a broader view: Cursing is like bolding text or putting it in all caps. If you emphasize too much, you emphasize nothing. A little salt improves the flavor, but if the salt shaker cap comes off you ruin the food.

4. Finance tip

I am amazed at the money people throw away. Consider these examples from my own neighborhood:

• Bagging up grass clippings, then paying Tru Green to spray chemical fertilizers onto the lawn.

• Spraying "weed killer" to get rid of the native plants in your yard, but constantly reseeding because non-native grasses obviously don't belong in your lawn else they'd already be native to the area.

• Standing with the door open and the AC running to talk with yet another siding salesman.

• Owning two vehicles "in case I have to take the other one to the shop". Tally up the insurance, maintenance, etc., and renting a car for "shop time" is a lot cheaper.
   

And these:

• Paying a gym membership so you can walk the track and run the treadmill, but telling your kids to go outside and play when you could stay home from the gym and chase them around.

• Standing with your refrigerator door open while staring inside and deciding what to eat.

• Baking pies for a picnic in the afternoon, instead of in the morning.
   

• Paying for a newspaper subscription (other than the Epoch Times), when you don't even have a bird with a cage to line.

• Buying more perishables than you need, because they are on sale. Well, when they perish you don't save any money.

• Paying for "nitrogen" to inflate your tires. The air you breathe is about 78% nitrogen, so you already have nitrogen in your tires. If you replace the air in your tires with the 93% nitrogen in the bottle used for filling your tires, you will still have the regular air (at 1 atm pressure) in those tires unless somehow the tire tech is able to mount the tire in a vacuum chamber. It's a complete waste of money.
   

Here are some bad ways to "save money":

• Keeping the screwdriver with the chipped blade, just noting to "be careful with it".

• Buying a $29 DMM (aka "voltmeter") on Amazon. I used professional equipment for years, and have an array of it. The cheap stuff is not safe for general use around home and auto. It is OK for electronic circuit boards, but not built to withstand what it might be exposed to on 120V home circuits or high-amp automotive ones.

• Buying cheap particleboard furniture. Not only does it emit carcinogens into your home, it doesn't last long and you have to replace it.

5. Security tip

Communism is an idiotic ideology that promotes the idiocy that everyone is equal and should be paid equally despite making vastly unequal contributions. Young people tend to latch onto this as somehow being a good thing, but most eventually grow up and reject this idiocy. Partly because it is profoundly unfair, and partly because it's just plain stupid.

Unless they are terminally stupid like Elizabeth Moron or profiting from it like Bernie Sanders, nobody likes the results of this ideology.

What's left out of the propaganda is some people are more equal than others and get rewarded for stealing instead of contributing, living well above those who work. Orwell's Animal Farm is a great novel that exposes communism for what it is.

If you have kids, make sure they read Animal Farm and discuss it with you. If you have a young commie at your workplace, take that person out to lunch and say, "I have a gift for you. Take this book home and read it. Twice. If you want to discuss it with me, that's OK. And it's OK if you don't."

Some other things you can do to teach your kids about how insane and ugly communism is:

• Ask your son, "So if I offered to pay little Jimmy down the street $100 if you cleaned up all the dog crap in every backyard on the block for a week, would you clean it up? Unless your boy really, really likes little Jimmy, the answer will be a resounding no. Then tell your kid, "That's not communism, son. Communism is where I force you to clean it up and then I  pay little Jimmy instead of you."
   
• Have your daughter identify her six prized possessions. Then tell her, "Under communism, nobody has any property rights. If we were communists, all six of those would be gone. Now, I want you to put them in this box and experience some communism for three weeks. After which I will give these back, but under communism you'd never see them again.
   
• Explain to them that communism came from a mentally ill, very angry man named Karl Marx. Marx said socialism is a temporary phase between capitalism and communism. And then explain the Holocaust to them (show videos and still images, too). Point out that the Nazis did this. Ask them if they know what Nazi means, and if not tell them it is the National Socialist Party of Germany. Then talk about the 12 million Jews murdered by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at about that time. Talk about Pol Pot. Talk about organ harvesting in China. None of these atrocities happen in capitalist countries, they always happen in socialist ones. And the reason is that socialism dehumanizes people.

Marxism is a threat to any civilized society. It must be prevented. And we must ensure that children see it as the malignancy that it is, and reject it. Don't wait until they are old enough to vote and already deeply brainwashed.

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

	A person I have known for a very long time, let's call her Glenda, used to ridicule me for refusing to eat junk food. Her attitude was it doesn't make any difference. It does, however, make a huge difference. As she got older and recognized that weighing 50lbs more than she did in high school meant she was too fat, she began changing how she ate. She doesn't have definition in her arms or anywhere else, but she's not what you'd call especially fat either. She looks better and feels better. Glenda still does not understand the importance of meal frequency, and ridicules me for eating six small meals a day. When I have tried to explain the science, she has often scoffed, "That's your opinion". Actually, this concept is baked into our labor laws and with good reason. If you're curious about the science, just ask an AI such as Gemini, Chat GPT, or Copilot to explain it to you. Ask about endocrine balance, kidney strain from too much protein at once, and how the body deals with a meal every three hours versus only three times per day. That brings me to another issue, and I will get back to Glenda. Some people who eat processed food instead of real food and skip a lot of meals decide to get a bariatric bypass operation or a similar surgery. This forces them to, drum roll please, eat six to eight small meals per day. As my sister has repeatedly pointed out, the smart move here is to go to the "small meals" plan and skip the surgery. Duh. Glenda hates gyms and has characterized my training regimen as "exercise". She says she's got that covered just as well as I have, because she takes the stairs instead of the elevator. And she "parks way out" so that she walks farther to get into a store. But training and exercise are two entirely different concepts. One obvious thing about her stairs "workout"  is she is not getting the full range of motion. I do a variety of squats that complement each other, hitting the muscles (and not just my quads) in different ways. My Leg Day is designed to stimulate the adaptive response by pushing my limits. Time under tension, cellular damage, and metabolic stress are all taken to high levels. It takes almost a week to recover from that, a very different thing from the demands of going up or down a few flights of stairs. Then there are the upper body workouts, similar thing and well-deserved attention to the posterior chain. Just "getting exercise" isn't enough to produce the aesthetics and functional strength you can have if you are consistent with a well-designed training program. It's not rocket science to develop one, but you have to do your research and pick exercises (for a given joint or muscle group) that each make up for some deficiency in the others. And then you need to do them correctly and in the proper order.
	Here are some common mistakes: Starting with isolation exercises. You end with these, you start with the large compound movements. Piling on the weights. This is how you strain your tendons, cause your body to compensate (e.g., recruit the wrong muscles), and lose the mind-body connection. If you do this with large compound movements, you risk serious injury and death because you can't control the weight. Taking large compound movements to failure. This is how you get hurt.   Not taking isolation movements to failure. The last one to three reps will give you 80% of your growth stimulus. Why? Because you can barely do them, and your body gets the signal that growth is needed. Lifting in the comfort range instead of at the full extension. Use less weight, change angles, and work at the full extension. This is where the "functional" takes place, not at full contraction. Relying on machines. These often isolate muscles that naturally work together, which sacrifices the development of functional strength. Do squats instead of leg presses.   Ignoring bands and cables. Gravity usually confounds the use of free weights, because you usually move the weights in an arc in which the resistance is constantly changing. With bands or cables, this problem is eliminated. I do the bench press (in very strict form) and dumbbell presses (dropping way, way down to stretch those pecs) but I focus heavily on bands. If you look at my top photo, you can see what this does to the pecs. Constantly changing up the workout. You have to learn the movements. Not just how to do them correctly, but also what weight to use. You also need to see how your collection of exercise is working. Too much rear delt work or not enough? It takes weeks to sort this. Changing your workout all the time makes it a performance, not training, session. Never changing your workout. If you have an imbalance, it's time to adjust things. Or if you find yourself cheating too much on a given exercise, try a variation or a different one that is more conducive to good form. Elbow pain, shoulder issues, a glute not firing, and other issues can mean it's time to change what you are doing.

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.

Stupidity in the Democratic Party is not new, it is a long-held core value. Here is a clip from 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PInhXkfvs.