Whenever I say that we should get rid of government giveaways and welfare programs, I get to hear people tell me how I am heartless and want people to starve, as if the economy is a binary choice between the government doing it, or no one doing it. Read this, and see how kind people can be:
The problem here is that commies aren’t generous. They want the government to take from those who have more than they do, and give it to them. That’s what communism is.
Venezuela, having used up all of its own resources, is planning to invade neighboring Guyana so they can use up that nation’s oil resources.
Most people have never heard of the Ludlow Amendment. In December of 1937, the amendment gained popular support thanks to the Panay Incident. This proposed amendment to the Constitution read:
SEC. 1. Except in the event of an invasion of the United States or its Territorial possessions and attack upon its citizens residing therein, the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of all votes cast thereon in a nationwide referendum. Congress, when it deems a national crisis to exist, may by concurrent resolution refer the question of war or peace to the citizens of the States, the question to be voted on being, Shall the United States declare war on __? Congress may otherwise by law provide for the enforcement of this section.
SEC. 2. Whenever war is declared the President shall immediately conscript and take for use by the Government all the public and private war properties, yards, factories, and supplies, together with employees necessary for their operation, fixing the compensation for private properties temporarily employed for the war period at a rate not in excess of 4 percent per annum based on tax values assessed in the year preceding the war.
I would add a third section:
SEC. 3. Anyone who voted in favor of declaring war shall therefore be deemed as having volunteered to serve in the Armed Forces in support of the war effort, being conscripted in service of the Government in whatever capacity the Department of Defense deems appropriate for the duration of the war and up to six months after. Compensation shall be made to such persons at the rates of pay set by Congress for members of the Armed Forces.
Now you have skin in the game. Vote accordingly. This will make war as personal as a punch in the nose. Want to defend Ukraine? Hamas? Israel? Sure, vote yes. Thanks for volunteering, now report to Basic Training.
If you don’t believe in a cause enough to fight for it, then you shouldn’t get to vote and send others to fight in your stead.
A town in Michigan is forming its own militia to resist Whitmer’s new gun laws. If they are serious and this catches on, it is alarming as a precursor to CW2.
Democrats are introducing another assault weapons ban, this time by going after weapons that use expanding gases from a fired round to cycle the action. In other words, outlawing every semiautomatic weapon.
It also:
No weapon would be approved for manufacture or sale if it accepts or can be modified to accept any magazine or other ammunition feeding device that holds, or is capable of holding, more than 10 rounds. Magazines that are permanently fixed to the weapon and cannot be changed out and hold less than 15 rounds in handguns, and 10 rounds in long guns, would be exempt.
I am getting this from Lefty press releases. I am looking for the text of the bill as I write this.
I am looking at getting a 3D printer and/or a Ghost Gunner.
Someone bought 5700 ImmunoGen $21 calls yesterday.
This morning, AbbVie announced that they are buying out of $IMGN.
Whoever that is turned a $500k investment into $3.5 million in less than 24 hours.
This is how insider trading works.
Holy shit. Do you want an example of how the people running our nation don’t know or understand anything about economics? Take a look:
Alright, I know that Biden isn’t the one writing this, but it’s still incredible that they equate “inflation coming down” with a reduction in prices. The left is actually clueless on anything. They are fucking idiots.
Say inflation is 8%. Last year’s $100 item now costs $108.
Inflation drops to 2%. Now that item will cost about $110.
The price can’t “go back” to $100 unless inflation is negative.
That isn’t price gouging, it’s math.
This is why we are doomed. Our nation is being run by idiots.
I have been tracking the cost of breakfast at Denny’s over the past 25 years. Not just any Denny’s. The same location- located right near my old fire station. I used to get food there regularly, so it’s a great way to make a valid comparison.
At that Denny’s: 2 strips of bacon, two link sausages, two eggs, and two pancakes is the breakfast that Denny’s calls the “Original Grand Slam.” That breakfast sold for $1.99 in 1997. By 2021, that same breakfast cost $9.49, which works out to an annual inflation rate of 6.7%.
In September of 2023 that same breakfast was $11.99, or a 26.3% increase in the past two and a half years. That’s a 10.5% annual increase.
Just two months later, and that Original Grand Slam is up to $12.99. That is an 8.34% increase in just two months. That corresponds to an annual inflation rate of more than 60 percent. If that were to continue, in a year that same breakfast will cost $19.35.
According to U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), there were “at least 200” undercover federal agents among the crowd on January 6. The lawmaker further stated that some of the operatives were “dressed as Trump supporters” and were inside the Capitol prior to the breach.
If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know that periodically, we get people here in comments that excoriate the readers here, and specifically take me to task for not doing anything but talking. I’ve long said that the person urging you to take illegal actions is the Federal informant. Why? Because that’s what the FBI does.
“Beyond that, the FBI had embedded themselves and infiltrated online chat groups and websites and social media accounts across the country with any group that was discussing objections to COVID oppression,” Higgins continued. “The FBI effectively infiltrated those groups, and when you track the text threads and the communications within those groups and find the origins of suggestions of potential violence or an act of occupation of the Capitol on January 6th, you’ll find that those messages were led by members of the groups that ended up to be the FBI agents who had infiltrated the groups.
The mouthpieces of the Communist party MSM continues to deny that this was happening. We have long known that this was a false flag operation. This was their Reichstag fire- the incident that allows them to take emergency powers upon themselves. Proving that Ayn Rand wasn’t paranoid enough, they have taken one of her lines and pushed it to the next step:
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them.
In closing, let me give you another Ayn Rand quote, one which I think is even more to the point:
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
A woman on an airplane performed an oral sex act on the man in the seat next to her, who was a stranger to her, at least at first. The man resisted at first, but then eventually stopped fighting. The flight crew then did him a solid and waited until she had completed her mission, and separated the two. The woman then smoked a cigarette before being arrested when the plane landed. She isn’t even horrible looking.
The jokes write themselves: