They are training their agents to come after you. They want to eliminate you.
Presidency
Florida is the Key to the Presidency
Florida became a state in 1845. Since that time, the voters of Florida have voted in 43 Presidential elections (they only missed voting in the 1864 election). The candidate who won in Florida became the President 75 percent of the time. In those elections, Floridians selected a Democrat 25 times, a Republican 17 times, and once selected a Whig.
Out of those elections, only 10 men became President without winning Florida (McKinley did it twice). Interestingly enough, the eight times when the person who became President after losing in Florida from 1848 to 1924 were Republicans. Since 1924, the President has been selected by Florida in all but three contests, with two of those three being Republicans who won Florida, but lost the election.
It breaks down like this:
- In 1860, Lincoln was not even on Florida’s ballot.
- Florida was not part of the Union in 1864 and did not send electors to the college.
- In 1880, the Democrat won Florida but was defeated in the election when Garfield was elected to the Presidency.
- Republican Harrison in 1888 won the electoral college while losing the popular vote. That would not happen again until Al Gore lost to GW Bush in 2000. Florida had 4 of the 401 electoral votes at the time.
- In 1896, Republican McKinley defeated Bryan to win Florida’s 4 votes in the electoral college.
- In a rematch of the 1896 election, in 1900 McKinley again won the election after losing in Florida to Bryan.
- When Teddy Roosevelt beat the Democrat to become President in 1904.
- In 1908 when Taft, the Republican nominee, defeated Bryan.
- Then in 1924, Coolidge beat out Davis to become President after winning Florida’s 6 electoral votes.
- In 1960, Florida voters selected Richard Nixon, but JFK won the election.
- In 1992, Bush won Florida’s 25 electoral votes but still lost the election to Bill Clinton.
- Trump won Florida in 2020, but lost to Joe Biden.
Since 1952, Florida has been a pretty reliable vote for the Republicans, going red in 14 of the last 21 elections. From 1880 to 1948, Florida voters were reliably Democrat, having voted Blue in 17 out of the 18 Presidential elections during that period. I find that interesting, and I wonder if that has anything to do with the fundamental change of the Democrats becoming leftist.
Tranny Insanity
Not a Choice?
So Demi Lovado has decided to change her pronouns again– for the third time in a year. These delusional people keep telling us that they are born like this and it isn’t a choice. If you refuse to use the pronouns that they select for themselves, YOU are the intolerant bigot.
Then they go out and change it, seemingly on a weekly basis.
Uncategorized
Don’t Do Business with Californians
A rich guy in California ordered a custom, hand made car from a manufacturer in Indiana. He made partial payment on the $200,000 car, but then missed one of his payments before finally paying in full 8 months later. The manufacturer told him that due to the payment delay, his car would be at the end of the queue.
The rich guy got angry and called police. The DA refused to prosecute, saying it was a civil matter. So he sued in California. The court dismissed it, saying that the case would have to be filed in Indiana.
So rich guy called his friend, who happened to be the Sheriff of San Mateo County, California. The sheriff sent 4 cops to Indiana with a search warrant, and they raided the car maker’s business. Then they froze his bank accounts and seized his electronic records. Now the car maker is being charged with two felonies.
In 19 years of business, Racop has never failed to deliver an order of his 1966 Batmobile replica. Given the current charges and other supply issues due to the pandemic, he doesn’t plan to continue his work for much longer. He only intends to complete his current orders before retirement.
The lesson I take from this? Don’t do business with anyone in California. Ever. What scares me even more is this: How long will it be before California cops cross state lines to go after gun and ammo dealers?
Race baiting
Next for SCOTUS
SCOTUS will be hearing two huge affirmative action cases on October 31: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. At issue are two main questions:
- Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions
- whether a university can reject a race-neutral alternative because it would change the composition of the student body without proving that the alternative would cause a dramatic sacrifice in academic quality or the educational benefits of overall student-body diversity.
Grutter v. Bollinger was a SCOTUS case on affirmative action in student admissions. The Court held that a student admissions process that favors “underrepresented minority groups” does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause so long as it takes into account other factors evaluated on an individual basis for every applicant.
In other words, this allows colleges to reject more qualified Asian and white candidates in favor of less qualified black candidates. It’s about time that we get rid of racial preferences in college admissions.
economics
Lost Workforce
This is why the US won’t ever surpass China and other nations in manufacturing or most other fields ever again. How can any manager think that they can compete with a business with actual work ethics if all of their employees work a 24 hour workweek with unlimited paid time off working from home?
American workers have become lazy, unproductive losers that won’t get anything done, but demand high wages and lavish benefits.
You aren’t feeling okay today & need a mental health day? We gotchu. Out of PTO but need an extra day? Not an issue. Soon the boomers are outta here & it’s our turn to set the standard.
What are you going to do when all of the dead wood is costing you tons in expenses, killing your margins, and your Chinese competitor is producing your product at half the cost?
“Bring on the 4-day workweeks and 6-hour days,” one commenter said. “I currently do nothing half the day.”
To me, this isn’t an argument for giving you more time off, this is an argument for firing two employees and outsourcing their job to some Indian call center that will do twice the work at half the cost. We all know that, should you get a 24 hour workweek, you aren’t going to magically become more productive. Instead of your current 20 hours of work in a 40 hour workweek, you will be at work for 24 hours a week, being paid like you are there for 40 hours, but only producing about 8 hours of real work. That is a recipe for being replaced.
The US is doomed. We are headed for the new Dark Ages and the rise of the new Chinese dynasty.
Maybe we deserve it.
Power Grab
Florida: Home of the Resistance
The Capitol Police work for Nancy Pelosi. Now they are hiring their own prosecutor. Don’t forget that the Capitol Police have a field office in Tampa. The fact that Pelosi is setting up her own secret police force that will enforce her edicts using her own prosecutors has nothing whatsoever to do with Florida residents leading the nation in J6 arrests and prosecutions.
DeSantis needs to stay Florida governor. We need him to lead the resistance. Of course, that turncoat asshole Charlie Christ is demanding an investigation into why Florida is so resistant to the left’s shenanigans. The left’s hate for Florida has been high because of two events: Al Gore lost Florida and the Presidency to George Bush by 537 votes in 2000, and Trump beat Hillary in Florida by 113,000 votes to become President in 2016.
Military
Paper Eagle
China is about to invade Taiwan. I know that Taiwan’s intelligence chief says it won’t happen this year, but hear me out. I would say it will happen before the end of October. Let’s look at why I think so:
Weather
The weather in that area of the world becomes too treacherous for an amphibious invasion from the end of October through the end of March. Once fall sets in, the water around Taiwan is too rough for an invasion force. That means putting things off until at least April. Why won’t they do that?
Preparations
China has mobilized large portions of the PLA, moving a large number of forces to the area, I think we are looking at an invasion within the next 90 days. No country mobilizes a large military force only to call it back.
Those air incursions into Taiwanese airspace haven’t just been saber rattling. Nor was the model of American carrier battlegroups they were using as target practice. These point to a country practicing for war. They are ready to fight and win. Our military is busy learning to put on drag shows and recognizing each other’s pronouns.
Every simulation run by the US military shows China defeating the US in detail. While China has carriers in the area, they won’t need them. The order of battle is impressive:
Military Situation Overwhelmingly Favors China:
The US carriers in the area are the USS Ronald Reagan with Carrier Airwing 5, which has less than 60 F/A-18E Super Hornets embarked. The USS Tripoli with its 20 embarked F-35B‘s is there, as is the USS America, but only carries aircraft for transporting its embarked marine battalion. Taiwan themselves have several hundred first line fighters, but the combined Taiwanese and American aircraft would quickly be overwhelmed by the sheer number of aircraft China has in the area (over 1,000).
There are some airbases on Okinawa (400 miles or so away) where there are a couple of squadrons of F-15s, F-35s, some AWACS, aerial tanker support, and there are a few strategic bombers there (I think B-1s). The rest of the US forces in Okinawa are marines, some spec ops people, support units, and some air defense units. I don’t know if Okinawa based units can get involved, since Japan would have a say and would not want to get drawn into the conflict. If these units DO get involved, expect Japan to get hit with some missile strikes, which would be HUGELY unpopular with the Japanese people, who overwhelmingly don’t want US forces there anyway.
The US is likely to put a dent in an invasion force, if they decide to intervene. A US submarine is likely lurking in the area, and China would lose some amphibious ships to it, that is almost a certainty. If the US becomes involved, there is a better than 50-50 chance that we would lose at least one of those carriers, and a near certainty that we will lose several ships. All of this means thousands of US casualties, perhaps 10,000 or more, within days of the onset of hostilities. Is the US ready for that?
In the end, there is only one possible outcome: Taiwan will fall. The only possible answer for the US would be to accept the loss of Taiwan, or go nuclear. Biden doesn’t have the stomach for nukes, and even if he DID use them, Taiwan will eventually be lost.
So what will happen?
Joe Biden has said that the US is committed to defending Taiwan. South Korea is fully expecting the US to honor that commitment. This puts him in a bind. If we refuse to defend Taiwan, the US looks weak, and we lose more influence in the region. If Biden tries to defend Taiwan then loses anyway, the US looks even weaker and loses influence worldwide. Then we also know that China owns Biden’s greedy, crooked ass.
The US has never been weaker, with a weak leader, weak economy, and a failing military. American political and military leadership is a joke.
In short, we have already lost. China knows it. The US military knows it. So does Foggy Bottom. I’m not sure Joe Biden knows it, but he is a senile old man. The only reason that China hasn’t invaded yet is that they don’t want to lose the US as a trading partner, but the US is quickly failing as an economic powerhouse and is no longer the profit center it once was.
For all of the above reasons, I think China invades Taiwan before Halloween. I think the US does nothing but whine and complain to the UN. I also think that this does severe damage to our influence in the Far East.
This is strangely reminiscent of Japan’s actions a century ago. Japan’s big failure then was that they didn’t have raw materials and depended on imports. China learned from that. They have access to all of the raw materials they need. We are looking at China becoming THE dominate world power for the foreseeable future.
The US, on the other hand, is staring at economic collapse and political instability. The peak of the American empire has come and gone.
EDITED TO ADD:
Okinawa also has a squadron of F-22 Raptors, but China has them outnumbered ten to one with their own advanced fighters. Even if the Raptor is a better airplane, quantity has a quality all its own.
Crime
Change My Mind
Last week, I said “Stay away from large numbers of black people- where they congregate is always accompanied by crime and violence.” This is why the cities with the highest murders per capita so far in 2022 are New Orleans, Baltimore, Birmingham, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. All cities with a high percentage of their population being black.
So it comes as no surprise that one black man shot another because the victim worked at a McDonald’s and the shooter was angry because his mother’s French fries were cold.
So change my mind: On average, the black race is broken to the point that wherever blacks congregate, crime, violence, and poverty are more likely than places where they are not found. It isn’t that America is a racist country, because this remains true wherever blacks are found: Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the US. This is why they had to invent Wakanda- because such a country could never exist- you can’t name one single nation that is run by blacks that is successful in the arts, science, mathematics, economically, not in any single metric. Not one.
In fact, the nation in the world that has led more blacks out of poverty than any other is the USA.
Change my mind.
Antigun
Mayor Wants Gun Free Zone
Buddy Dyer, the Mayor of Orlando, wants to declare all of downtown Orlando to be a “gun free zone” but is upset that he cannot do so, thanks to the state’s preemption law.
Dyer said there will be access checkpoints on Friday and Saturday evenings downtown to limit how people can enter the downtown area. The city said patrons will have to go through metal detectors and a weapons check at these checkpoints before walking into the access areas.
I believe that this zone is a clear violation of Florida’s preemption law. What’s more is that violating this law places Orlando and any of its officials at risk of a lawsuit. Even more, since the quote in this news article shows that the mayor knew it was illegal to do so, he becomes liable to any taxpayer whose rights are violated.
If any county, city, town, or other local government violates this section, the court shall declare the improper ordinance, regulation, or rule invalid and issue a permanent injunction against the local government prohibiting it from enforcing such ordinance, regulation, or rule. It is no defense that in enacting the ordinance, regulation, or rule the local government was acting in good faith or upon advice of counsel.
If the court determines that a violation was knowing and willful, the court shall assess a civil fine of up to $5,000 against the elected or appointed local government official or officials or administrative agency head under whose jurisdiction the violation occurred.
So my question here is this: Are there any pro gun organizations who are willing to take this on?