Divemedic

SCOTUS and the Revolution

News broke yesterday that Jane Roberts, wife of the Chief Justice, was soliciting large sums of money from powerful law firms in exchange for recruiting lawyers. More than $10 million in eight years. There was a lot of speculation during those years about Roberts being compromised. Theories were bandied about, some involving blackmail. Turns out it was good old fashioned grift.

Now that is going to cost SCOTUS. The left is involved in a political coup against the conservative justices. I don’t think that there is enough there for an impeachment, but after the 2024 elections, who knows?

By Divemedic, ago

Trend That Explains Everything

I had lunch with a bank executive friend of mine this week. This particular executive is in charge of commercial lending, and was telling me about some interesting trends in banking. The current trendy investment for real estate is- storage rentals. This explains why companies are buying up all of the storage properties, cutting service, and raising rates. He said that building a storage facility with 250 units costs in the neighborhood of $12 million, but can be sold for double that after only two years in operation. Operating expenses are minimal, but such a facility brings in net receipts of $40,000 a month or more.

Why are they so lucrative? Well, that is being caused by current trends in Generation Z, the tranny generation. What he said to me ties together so many data points that it feels like a lightbulb just came on over my head. This is a generation that is refusing to work, yet they want all of the luxuries that their parents have without having to work for it. They still want to feel independent, so they are moving into cheap shacks built on trailers and calling them “tiny homes.”

They store their stuff in these storage facilities, and are free to live the good life, in their own “home” while still being a short walk from mom and dad’s house, where they can do laundry, grab some food, and still have access to things like free electric, free Internet, and still have time to earn a bit of extra money while out protesting for Soros cash or attending Antifa meetings.

I’ve wondered for years how they can afford to pay for the things they need without working, and now I know. Housing? Food? Utilities? It all ties in perfectly. Their only housing expense is the initial cost of the trailer house, $20K to $30K. Food and utilities are largely paid for by their parents, and their only real remaining expenses are Starbucks (most of them have a $20 a day addiction to shitty, candy flavored coffee), their cell phones, and these storage facilities. A large chunk of this generation doesn’t drive, they Uber everywhere.

Then, refusing to work, they go and protest to demand that we adopt a Socialist paradise, because Capitalist society is depriving them of all the things that they want to have.

By Divemedic, ago

I’m Laughing

When I was in the military, I did my six years. I did three deployments, two of them were combat deployments. I made it to the rank of E-5. With that being said, I hated the military and how it does business. Our commanding officers were largely ass kissing opportunists who would willingly kill the men in their commands for no other reason than to get promoted.

I hated the military system. I once had to move an electric motor, and it weighed quite a bit. The padeye on the overhead had a label on it saying that its working limit was 1200 pounds. The motor and its lifting rig weighed 1700 pounds. I pointed out that we would have to get a new padeye installed to do the work. Instead, the officer in charge had the label plate replaced to read 1800 pounds. He ordered me to do the move anyway, and when the rig fell apart one of my guys lost three fingers on his left hand. That’s the kind of shit I saw officers do. They give orders, but enlisted and junior NCOs pay the bill. I can count the number of officers that I actually respected on the fingers of that guy’s hand.

I had a lieutenant once tell me that he could order me to do whatever he wanted, and I would have to obey, because as far as I was concerned, he was god. The guy was a real dick.

I could tell you a hundred stories, but let’s just say that I have no love for officers. They often throw around their authority like only immature idiots can do when given some real power, taking every opportunity to abuse that power because they can. So hearing that a bunch of them are getting fucked over by the military reinterpreting regulations to their own advantage made me laugh.

By Divemedic, ago

Idiotic

To the people who think that the Walt Disney Company is going to move out of Florida, I want you to realize just how large the Disney World complex in Central Florida is:

  • 25 resort hotels
  • 4 theme parks
  • 2 full sized water parks
  • The Walt Disney World Resort complex encompasses 30,500 acres, making it approximately the same size as San Francisco.
  • 25 years ago, it cost over $800 million to build Animal Kingdom, one of the 4 parks
  • The Orlando airport has 4 runways, with three of them being over 10,000 feet long.
  • The area is served by three interstate highways and two major airports (Tampa and Orlando)

Some of the attractions in the parks, and what they cost to build (adjusted to 2023 dollars)

  • (Expedition Everest) cost $150 million and took three years to build
  • The Tower of Terror cost $280 million
  • Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure — $120 Million
  • Test Track $300 million

It’s safe to say that the Disney complex would cost a couple of hundred billion dollars. Explain to me how a company is going to build all of that and its infrastructure. They would have to find vacant land encompassing nearly 50 square miles, near major highways and airports, and with a sufficiently large city in the area that would allow for a large enough labor pool to be able to staff this park. Then they would have to come up with $200 or $300 billion in funding, then wait the five or six years it would take to build this park.

Not happening.

By Divemedic, ago

Another Country Abandons the Dollar

Argentina is no longer buying foreign goods using US Petrodollars. They will be using the Chinese reminabi. The US Dollar is losing its position as the world’s reserve currency. The US economy is built on the Dollar being the world’s reserve currency. Our way of life, our nation, is in very serious trouble.

It is time to get rid of dollar denominated assets. Buy physical things.

  • Real estate.
  • Metals.
  • Guns
  • Ammo, food, consumables.

When the dollar falls, its purchasing power will disappear. Stocks, bonds, and bank accounts will become worthless.

By Divemedic, ago

Antifa Intel: Getting Spicier

From Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man, we see the latest tactics being used attacks from Antifa. They are running their operations like a military ambush. Watch the video below:

They have an assault element, consisting of two members with umbrellas and one with pepper spray. The assault element engages the peaceful protesters by coordinating to spray them in the face with pepper spray.

They also have a fire support element, consisting of two members armed with AR-pattern rifles carried at the low ready as they approach the ambush location to make sure that no one defends themselves from the assault elements. Note that all have on helmets, masks, and communication devices (probably Baofeng) radios.

Note that when the cops go to arrest the guy who actually used the pepper spray, other Antifa members attempted to actively interfere in the arrest. They do this knowing full well that they will be bailed out and have their lawyers paid for. Note that arrestee #3 claims to be a medic coming to help.

With all of this, the left still claims that Antifa doesn’t exist.

Arrestee #1

Samuel Fowlkes, 20, a tranny terrorist that is a member of Antifa, was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a peace officer, four counts of assault causing bodily injury, evading arrest & resisting arrest.

Arrestee # 2

Note the plate carrier

Christopher Guillott, 33, is a leader of the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club. He was arrested outside a drag show in Fort Worth, Texas on April 23 and charged with assault on a peace officer & interfering with public duties.

Arrestee #3

Meghan Grant, 37, of Dallas, is a communist tranny Antifa member who claims to be nonbinary. She (he? it’s confusing) was arrested on April 23 in Fort Worth and charged with resisting an arrest and interfering with public duties. Grant is member of the North Texas cell of the John Brown Gun Club.

Why is she purple and shaped like a butt plug? Wait, that may not be her. It’s hard to tell.

All of the Antifa suspects were bailed out within hours by the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club they are a part of used CashApp to facilitate cash donations. The campaign was promoted on Twitter by far-left extremists.

These guys are becoming more and more dangerous, and are displaying a level of organization and C3 that is impossible to understate. They have a communications plan, they are motivated, and appear to be standardizing their loadouts. This is a real threat to everyone, unless you are organized and operating in mutually supporting groups. This is the sort of language being posted by arrestee #1:

They are mentally unstable, delusional, and ready to commit suicide. Any person willing to take their own life is willing to take yours without a second thought. Let’s not give them the opportunity. These people are getting more and more dangerous as time goes on. Don’t assume that you live in a totally safe area. Still, some areas are more dangerous than others. See the ‘zones’ link at the top of the page for more details. I just added Fort Worth to zone 1, and Austin has been recently upgraded to a zone 3.

So, how do you counter this?

First, intel. We need to have anyone in the area monitoring the local frequencies with radio scanners. I would suggest beginning with the FRS, MURS, and GMRS frequencies. If those come up empty, HAM 2 meter band. Looking at the antennas on their radios, I think they are using one of those. We need to be able to monitor (and record) their radio traffic. Figure out their comm plan. We desperately need more intel, and I think SIGINT will pay off.

Then, when things begin to get spicy:

I would suggest that the best way to defeat them is to use the same tactics, just better executed. Anyone protesting needs to have an overwatch position for recon, and a fire support element. When the fire support fags come out of hiding to prance across the street like they own the place and begin threatening others, the opposing fire support element needs to be prepared to light their asses up. (In self defense, of course. I would never suggest breaking the law.) Overwhelm them with incoming fire. They are wearing varying amounts of body armor, so aiming for the belt buckle is probably more effective. A couple of casualties will teach them that sometimes waving guns around isn’t enough to get the OPFOR to back down.

By Divemedic, ago

US is Unreliable Ally

The US has a history of being an unreliable ally. Just ask Afghanistan. Or Vietnam. So it’s no surprise that South Korea is having some doubts about the commitment that the US has made to defend them. So when Biden announces that US nuclear armed submarines will be docking in South Korea is a sign that the US will extend its nuclear umbrella to that country, I’m sure they are taking it with a HUGE grain of salt.

It’s the same reason why the Philippines says that US bases in their nation can’t be used for offensive operations.

By Divemedic, ago