A very interesting day.\u00a0 We got about a foot of snow and the wind has been pretty wild so I decided to wait until Tuesday to move the white stuff.\u00a0 Wednesday I\u2019ve got to bring Camera Girl\u2019s car to a new mechanic and then go to work so it\u2019ll be a quiet day on the site.\u00a0 The price reduction on the e-book of \u201cThe Sniper\u201d is starting to have an effect.\u00a0 I reached 500 on the techno-thriller list and got below 100,000 on the Amazon overall book sales list.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s not something to write home about but it was a big jump.<\/p>\n
Hans G. Schantz, a science fiction author I correspond with kindly reposted my announcement on X about the e-book price drop on his X feed.\u00a0 And since he has orders of magnitude more readers that I do I got hundreds of people looking in and one fellow not only reposted but also bought a copy of the book.\u00a0 So that was fun.<\/p>\n
I was looking around on YouTube and my feed included a video from someone called Sophia Miller entitled \u201cMayor Mamdani ERUPTS After BlackRock OFFICIALLY Exits New York For Good!\u201d\u00a0 Well, I watched that video and then I watched one about Chicago and then one about Illinois and two about California.<\/p>\n
And you know, it occurred to me that the blue states are getting ready to either implode financially or confiscate the value of the homes of their citizens to pay off the public sector pension plans they\u2019ve underfunded.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a remarkable situation.\u00a0 The blue states have driven away all of the corporations that used to pay the taxes that allowed them to buy the votes of municipal and state employees who now are ready to retire on gold-plated pension plans.\u00a0 Things are about to get very, very ugly.\u00a0 Chicago doubled the property taxes on some working-class Chicagoans.\u00a0 Mamdani is talking about raiding the New York City workers pension plans and raising property taxes by 10%.\u00a0 But along with that increase will come extremely frightening revaluations of homes.\u00a0 Couple this with the flight out of the city of many of the Wall Street banks and financial companies like Black Rock and JP Morgan and what is coming up is a New York City budget gap in the billions of dollars.\u00a0 And that will begin the death spiral for New York as the financial capitol of the world.\u00a0 Without Wall Street, New York is a basket case with eight million people living in a crime ridden environment that suffers from expensive, crumbling infrastructure that it can no longer afford to maintain.<\/p>\n
Well, maybe that\u2019s why Mamdani is mayor.\u00a0 Maybe they needed a stooge to absorb the punishment.\u00a0 This will be an awful crash for the people living there and horrible for the people who didn\u2019t vote for this idiot.\u00a0 But it has to be done.\u00a0 My only worry is that Trump will try to step in and save the idiots from themselves.\u00a0 This needs to be allowed to play out to the final iteration.\u00a0 Because the sinking of New York City will also sink New York State, Kathy Hochul needs to be destroyed in this disaster too.\u00a0 All of them deserve it and their downfall will provide a powerful lesson for idiots all across the country.\u00a0 Stupid kills.<\/p>\n