Month: July 2024

Tighten Your Belt

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I was having a discussion with a younger family member.  Someone of my children’s generation.  And we were talking about how children need to be brought up at this point.  Now this guy is a very impressive individual.  He actually embodies all the of the characteristics that people make believe they have when they describe themselves in their resumes.

What he says he’s doing with his sons is making them ready to survive in a very bad economic environment.  He’s a strong believer in the, “Hard times leads to hard men leads to easy times leads to soft men leads to hard times” theory.  He wants his sons prepared to face adversity because he is of the opinion we haven’t even begun to see the bottom.  And I think he’s right.  Even in the challenging environment we are experiencing we haven’t seen anything like what’s to come.  The powers that be are working to pull the supports out from what used to be the American way of life.

The “great contraction” seems to be the plan to produce a step change in the number of people in the world.  I’m guessing they’d like to go from billions of people down to hundreds or maybe even just tens of millions.  And the way to get there is to remove the ability of average people to be gainfully employed and able to raise a family.  Essentially, they only want their class to continue forward.  And I think they’re succeeding.  Young people no longer believe it is possible to provide a middle-class existence for themselves, never mind for a family.

A family-based strategy seems to be the only way to overcome the reduction in opportunities and resources that is going on.  If kids can’t afford a house, then they’ll have to be housed by their families with their wives and kids in the family home.  Building an addition or trading in the family home for a multi-family building will once again become the way to allow the kids to afford family life.

Now, to some people this seems unacceptable.  Well, then maybe seeing your family end with your kids unmarried and without children of their own is the acceptable solution.  That’s a personal choice.  I guess if you are exceptionally wealthy you can buy them houses.  But then you probably already belong to the class that is supposed to emerge from the contraction; the elite.

For everyone else, surviving the new normal will involve tightening our belts and working twice as hard for half as much.  And maybe this is something that really has to happen.  Maybe the elites really are right and the good times are permanently over.  Personally, I don’t believe that.  Human ingenuity is an enormously powerful force.  Technological solutions exist for all of the “end of affluence” factors; energy limits, Malthusian population predictions, climate change panic.  I think that hard times are not a permanent situation for us today.  Rather I think a mindset by the global elites fosters the idea that Gaia needs our grandchildren to be sacrificed on the altar of depopulation.

I think we are headed for hard times.  Regardless of who wins the election in 2024, prepare to do what you can to help your loved ones to make it in very hard times.  It’s on the way.

Trump is a Point Ahead of Biden in New Jersey

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New Jersey is a blue state.  If Trump is currently polling slightly ahead of Biden (41 – 40) I think that should be a blinking red danger signal for the Democrats.  We may be witnessing a major shift in the American public’s political calculus.  Maybe it’s as simple as “It’s the economy stupid.”

Update:

TomD replied,

I thing the major headline should be Trump is only a point ahead, indicating the major league accumulation of negatives he has as ballast. I think that 80%+ of this ballast is the result of the unceasing histrionic media wide attack he has been undergoing since 2016. Repeat a lie often enough——

But the fact is that his image has been largely and permanently poisoned for close to 50% of the population. I know several people who just hate Trump. Question them as to why and you get nothing substantial, just blanket statements like, “Trump lies”. Push deeper about the specific lies and they don’t have anything. If they do have a specific “lie”, it typically an example of hyperbole, or exaggeration for effect. There is a huge and substantial difference in a fundamental lie like hiding Biden’s inability to perform the functions of his office and “I had the greatest economy in history”.

Chemist replied to TomD:

Tom, I have had this discussion with too many people. None of them can give a specific example of a “Trump lie”. So I went a different way. I point out some of Biden’s more egregious lies and actions. If the conversation is in person, I will stop at one or two. If an email, they get the whole list. Here is the list. Feel free to pile on:

Biden avowed that no one is above the law.
Biden then bought votes by ignoring the supreme court and “Forgiving” billions of dollars in student loans – but Trump lies.
 
Biden used the power of the vice presidency to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired (thereby protecting his corrupt son Hunter) – but Trump lies.

Joe Biden had an affair with a married woman (Jill Stevenson) and destroyed their marriage – but Trump lies.
 
The latest “brilliant” appointment to the Supreme Court doesn’t know what a woman is – but Trump lies.

Children are sexually groomed by teachers and if you object they’ll take your child from you – but Trump lies.
 
Biden showered with his teenage daughter – but Trump lies.

 

Order in the Court

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The Supreme Court has been on a tear lately.  But their decision to provide absolute immunity to a president while acting in an official capacity is a bold move.  It has the Left calling for the impeachment of the Justices.  Dementia Joe popped a couple of Adderall and gave a five-minute teleprompter speech to the White House press gang.  And AOC has sworn vengeance against the conservative majority with a threat to bring up impeachment proceedings against them.  Of course, the Democrats don’t have a majority in the House so that motion will never see the light of day.  But she wants everyone to know she’s really, really mad.  And we can tell because she went through one of her TikTok routines where she flipped her hair a bunch of times, jostled her breasts and wagged her head and index finger in opposite direction and said “Don’t go there!” several times.

So, the question is does anyone in the real-world care?  Well, actually no.  How is anyone supposed to take anything in Washington seriously anymore?  Apparently, the leader of the free world has to be led around by a nurse to keep from falling over and breaking a hip.  And whoever writes his teleprompter text is running the country that day.  And when Doctor Jill is resting that’s probably delegated to one of the White House interns named Madison.

But I’ll have to say that I am pleasantly surprised to see how many helpful rulings they’ve put out in the last couple of years.  College Affirmative Action, the Chevron Deference, Roe v. Wade, Freedom of Religion have all been adjudicated in helpful ways.  Granted their record hasn’t been spotless but their batting average is very respectable.  The biggest decision I’m waiting for is an outright ban on Affirmative Action by the federal government.  That would have far-reaching effects and would neutralize much of the harm that the Deep State causes in this country.

But there is one thing that shouldn’t be forgotten.  The Supreme Court conservative majority is a temporary artifact of the Trump presidency and some random occurrences like the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  If the Democrats keep the White House in November, it won’t be long before that majority is reduced or even lost.  Both Alito and Thomas are older and one day will have to be replaced.  For that reason, it’s important to make provisions for living in a post Constitutional order.  When constitutional rights have ceased to exist, planning and protective measures will be needed to prevent life from becoming degraded.

But in the short term it has been refreshing to hear the Left squealing like stuck pigs every time a Supreme Court decision is announced.  I chuckled when AOC went to her go-to term, “fascism” when describing the inevitable result if Donald Trump regains the White House and “absolute immunity” is at his disposal.  Now I sympathize with her.  I believe AOC claims she was almost murdered during the January 6th “insurrection.”  And I’m sure that was rough.  But I think she’s safe from murder.  Maybe not mockery, but murder doesn’t seem likely.  And with his absolute immunity I can imagine Trump mocking her mercilessly.  Fascism!  But funny fascism.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 01JUL2024 – Hive of Infamy

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San Fran Nan is not used to answering tough questions from the press. She is used to softballs like: “How do you deal with the stress and isolation of the pandemic?” To which she can reply by showing off a $20,000 refrigerator stuffed with high end ice cream. And the press just oooos like trained seals.
Actually answering questions is beneath her. How dare you!

And yes, any biological male in the military wearing a dress is fired.
Anyone wearing bondage gear or puppy play garb is fired.
IMHO – shut the FBI down. The rot is too deep. Save the crime lab and pink slip everyone else.
Take a page out of Clinton’s book and fire every lawyer in the DOJ. He did it. The press loved it. When the press gets upset at Trump, he just reminds them that they were OK when Bubba did it.

Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 01JUL2024 – Trump Unplugged

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The funniest thing about the debate and all the fallout from it is listening to the talking skulls yammer on about how Trump is showing decline and is unfit, but Joe is capable to continue for “the good of the the country” while trying their best not to believe their lying eyes.
The debate looked like a cross between weekend at Bernie’s, Madame Tussauds’ Wax Museum, and Disney’s Hall of Presidents with a glitch in the soundtrack and this was after a week of preparation for the 1.5 hour farce. Trump was able to keep his mouth shut enough to avoid alienating or distracting the viewers from the spectacle of the emperor’s new clothes. The biggest service they did him was muting his microphone so he was only visual when not answering. This demonstrated the level of connection each candidate possessed to the reality around them. If Trump had been able to blurt out stream of conciseness thought he would have been off-putting to a large portion of the audience, but by keeping him quiet it exposed the depth to which Joe is out of touch with everything around him.