Confiscation

This child tries to explain socialism and claims socialism is where workers seize the means of production, but the young commies in this country blame us for not understanding the difference between socialism and communism.

This is exactly what I was talking about when I said children don’t understand economics, business, or anything else. Your communists believe that a worker who made a pen is entitled to an equal share of the profits. Note that she just brushes by the part where “subtracting out all the costs and everything.” All the “costs and everything” is the most important part of the business.

A person putting pieces of plastic together to make the finished pen is doing almost nothing. They aren’t the ones who created that profit, they were just a small link in the chain. They are simply brushing aside the procurement of materials, a facility to manufacture pens, transportation, marketing, sales, accounting, and the hundreds of other things that have to be taken care of to manufacture those pens as being “costs and everything.”

Proving that she has no grasp of business, she claims that a worker assembling 50 pens per hour at a profit of one pound each is creating 50 pounds per hour of wealth, but is only earning 15 pounds per hour and is therefore being cheated out of the “other 25 pounds,” which is an illustration of your average communist’s grasp of both business and mathematics.

This child has the same grasp of economics and business as my niece, who thinks tampons should be free, and to accomplish this, she is going to pay her factory workers in free tampons. That conversation happened four years ago, when she was only 14 years old. Now that same child is 18 and just graduated from high school. She will be voting for the first time this November, and even though she has no idea how the world works and only just now has secured her first job (working at a fast food restaurant) will tell you to your face that she is a committed Socialist.

Did I mention that she is living at home with her mother, her 21 year old sister, and the 21 year old sister’s boyfriend? That’s the flaw with Democracy- it grants decision making authority to a person that can’t manage their own life or affairs, yet somehow assumes that a lot of people who can’t manage anything somehow gains wisdom, insight, and the knowledge of economics and business to a point where they can make decisions that affect the world.

ID Isn’t Always Racist

My wife sometimes asks me why I debate lefties online. Here is an example. I made that post about Mamdani’s commie grocery store. Then I got sucked into an online debate. Someone picked up my idea about reselling the stuff from his store, and the left responded with this:

It really tickles me when they set up such easy T-ball shots.

Business Plan

Mamdani says that NYC is going to open a city owned grocery store in each borough and sell products 30% less than retail stores do. Here is my plan.

  1. Buy all of the stock that the NYC owned stores have at the steep discount they are offering.
  2. Mark it up to full retail
  3. Resell it.

That’s it. That’s my plan. My store’s name will be Nalyevo*

* In Russian and Polish, the use of the term nalyevo (na lewo in Polish) means ‘on the left’, but can also connote taking bribes or “sneaky” behavior.

Scary, Indeed

Going back to the DSA manifesto I posted about the other day: I want to talk about the changes to our Constitution that the Democrat party wants to enact. I don’t want to talk about the socialist “give me free shit” they always use to entice the useful idiots, because that’s the same old stuff they have been pushing for a decade. No, its their desired changes to our government that scare me. All quotes taken directly from the new DSA website.

  • Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

This is the scariest of the proposals. Making the supreme court and the executive subordinate to Congress would require that we either rewrite or completely ignore the Constitution. We would go from three co-equal branches of government to a politburo that can literally do whatever it wants. There are absolutely no checks or balances to this system.

  • Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy.
  • Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.

Expanding the House and eliminating the Senate was already partially done when we switched to the direct election of Senators, but doing it the way that the DSA wants to do it would take us from a bicameral legislature.

The framers of the Constitution designed a bicameral system during the 1787 Constitutional Convention to achieve three primary goals:

  • Checks and Balances: Dividing legislative power to ensure that no single house can dominate the government. All bills must be passed by both chambers in identical form before becoming law.
  • Fair Representation: The system, born out of the Connecticut Compromise, balances the interests of highly populated states (represented proportionally in the House) with smaller states (given equal representation in the Senate). This is also why they want to get rid of the electoral college.
  • Deliberation: The requirement of a “concurrent majority” promotes thorough debate and prevents hasty, emotionally driven legislation.

The next thing they want is: Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries to ensure democratic control and accountability to the people. What they mean is that their new expanded House will have control.

Of course, they can’t simply hand that much power over to a potential Trump, so they need to make sure this absolute power lies only in their hands. To that end, they are going to:

  • Legalize migration,
  • grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status,
  • provide a path to citizenship for all permanent residents,
  • end visa caps and quotas.
  • Extend full voting rights to all permanent U.S. residents
  • restore the right to vote for incarcerated people and people with criminal convictions. 

This is full on communism. There is no other way to put it. It’s coming, and I have been warning of this since 2020. I have already heard people telling me “that will never happen. They will never get the votes.”

The fact is, most people vote party, or likeability, race, or some other factor. Most voters don’t understand or keep up with the issues. They want sound bites, and the Democrat party is promising them free shit. That’s why the socialists are slowing taking over the Democratic party, which is moving more and more to the left with every passing day. Hundreds of socialists are in political office all over the nation. They are making far more inroads to power than are the Libertarians. Even St Petersburg, Florida has a socialist in office, and more coming, as they run as Democrats.

In all, 28 socialist candidates have won Democratic primaries this cycle. NYC has an openly communist mayor, and is about to get two communist congressional representatives. Wisconsin is likely to get a communist governor this election cycle. The entire country is shifting to communism.

There are two outcomes, well, three:

  • Civil War
  • Communist dictatorship
  • Both

Make fun of me, refuse to believe me, whatever. It’s coming.

Communism

For years, the only platform the Democrats have had is “we aren’t Donald Trump” and it’s cost them. The Socialists are changing that, and are positioned to push the Democatic party even further to the left.

This morning, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) wing of the Democratic party issued their new “workers deserve more” platform, stealing the idea from 90s Republicans and their “contract with America.”

This platform’s points:

  • Free healthcare
  • Legalize all drugs
  • Eliminate minimum prison sentences
  • Eliminate cash bail
  • Free college
  • Nationwide rent control
  • Free lawyers for all tenants in rental disputes
  • More government housing
  • Paid family leave
  • Free childcare
  • 32 hour workweek with no change in weekly pay
  • Nationwide right for unions and to strike
  • Green New Deal
  • Raise taxes on the richest earners, for-profit corporations, large inheritances, and private colleges and universities.
  • Establish a wealth tax
  • Free Palestine
  • Cut military
  • Close overseas military bases, bring all troops home
  • Open borders
  • Complete amnesty
  • Cancel all economic sanctions against all nations
  • Voting rights to all residents, including felons and illegal immigrants
  • DC statehood
  • Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy through proportional representation elections.
  • Expand the number of seats in the House of Representatives
  • end the Senate filibuster.
  • Limit the Court’s power of judicial review which it uses to effectively create and abolish laws outside the legislative process.
  • eliminate the Electoral College

This is serious. The promise of free shit will mean the DSA will take over the Democratic party. As this new party gains power, more and more of the above platform will come to fruition.

in particular, allowing illegals and criminals to vote while expanding the house and making SCOTUS powerless will grant them power and push this country into communism.

Tye left has been so upset by Trump, they honestly believe we are a fascist dictatorship. That’s false, since Trump and his supporters will eventually step down.

Still, the left is screaming to ensure that no one like him will ever again win an election. It’s this reaction that will usher in the new communist state that’s coming.

The Left

A couple of days ago, DMLD made a comment that was very thought provoking. So much so that I was going to reply to him, but my comment kept growing until it was long enough to become its own post. This is that post, and it went into the queue. So here we go:

Two things I’ve noticed about the communists/libtard left: 1, any physical action such as confiscation, mass incarceration into camps and etc, will be done by “others” like the police or military – not them, and 2, any theft of assets like money, 401K and etc, will also be done by “others” while, and I’m guessing here, they sit in their ivory towers being waited upon in lavish style because they are so smart. At age 23. They hate successful people because they know they do not have the backbone to struggle their way to success.

I have put quite a bit of thought into understanding those who oppose me. There are two groups of people who form the left:

First, there are the power hungry tyrants who want to run the world. These people are truly evil, they are the Stalins, Pol Pots, and the Hitlers of the world. They want absolute power with which to run the world. These people use the “useful” idiots in the other group as foot soldiers that they use to attain power. This group wants power- they aren’t interested in actually taking on the danger and labor it would take to be in charge- after all, what’s the point of being in charge if you have to do the work yourself? No, they are going to have others do it.

That brings us to the second, most numerous group: the spoiled rich kids who want to continue living the life that their parents allowed them to live, but don’t want to struggle for years to attain the wealth required in order to live that life. These are the people who demand free stuff while dreaming of a life where they can play video games and smoke weed while writing shitty poetry called “rap” and sit around the house all day.

This is the group that hates on “boomers” (a stand in for their parents) for not selling them large luxury houses at starter home prices. It’s why they rebel against restrictive rules, and it’s why they turn into little Prince(ss) Stampy Feet when they don’t get their way. They are just fine with violence and danger, just as long as others are the ones taking chances. The ones who ARE willing to commit violence are only doing so because they think they won’t be facing any resistance. This group is just a large collection of children who haven’t been forced by their parents to take any responsibility or take any action. They want government to take over where their parents left off, giving them free food, free housing, and free whatever. It’s the result of decades of everyone gets a trophy, helicopter parenting. Parents are so afraid of letting their children fail that they have never given them the opportunity to learn how to succeed.

Case Study

The issue is she is a moron, a welfare queen, and a Democrat. I think the first two are preconditions for the other. She grew up virtually as an only child and as Daddy’s little girl. By the time she was in her formative years, har brothers had moved out of the house and Dad was in his 40s and 50s and consequently wealthy, so as a result she was quite spoiled and privileged, the stereotypical spoiled rich white girl. She is a well meaning person, but she doesn’t have the capacity to understand the deeper issues involved in politics.

Anyhow, she worked as a waitress until her child support for her oldest daughter came to a halt. She never got child support for her second daughter because that dude is a complete deadbeat who is being supported by his mother. Once the welfare benefits went way down because she only had a single child, she had to get her first adult job and became an elementary school teacher (third grade). About that time, she also married her third husband and they had another child. So yeah, three children with three different fathers and spent most of her adult life living off the government. So here are her politics:

A few years ago, she told me that she didn’t like Ron DeSantis because he was against teachers, pushed through the “don’t say gay” law, and wanted to outlaw women having abortions. I pointed out to her that DeSantis pushed through funding to provide large raises for teachers in 2019, again in 2020, again in 2021, and yet again in 2022. The so-called “don’t say gay law” says nothing of the sort and merely prevents teachers from discussing sex with 8 year old children, and asked her why abortions are so important to her, seeing as how she is in her 40s and isn’t likely to get pregnant again anyhow.

Her reply was that her pay hadn’t gone up. I said, “But he provided the funding, so isn’t the fact that you didn’t get a raise your school board and union’s fault?” She replied: “Well, that isn’t what the union tells me.”

To sum it up, this woman has two grown girls (and although they are 24 and 18 years old, they are still immature girls) who still live at home and are showing absolutely no motivation to do anything but live at home (both of them have also invited their loser boyfriends to live in the house with them). The living situation is pretty odd- it’s this woman and her husband, their small child, the two older daughters, and the daughters’ boyfriends. Six adults and a small child living in a four bedroom house. It’s a great case study. Let’s talk about the situation.

First, the older daughter.

She is 24 years old and was left a trust fund by her grandfather to pay for her college. It was a good amount- about $300,000. She was his favorite grandchild. She turned 16 and said it was too scary to drive and didn’t get a driver’s license until she was 22 years old. When she turned 18 and graduated high school, she went off to college. She didn’t even finish the first semester before dropping out. She also tried cosmetology school, but dropped out of that as well. (Beauty school dropout…) Since then, she has had a string of jobs that she works for a short time before quitting or getting fired, mostly waiting tables. I once ate at the Chili’s where she worked and found out that the other servers thought of her as lazy- so lazy that the was relegated to working the take out counter. Even that didn’t work out and she lost that job. After a couple of years, she met a boyfriend and tried moving in with him, but they couldn’t manage to pay the bills with her periodic employment, so now they both live with her mother.

She went through all sorts of leftie phases. She was a vegan, then began liking meat. After that, she was a lesbian, then began liking meat. She was goth for a time. She was a college student for a semester, then in hairdressing school for a month. Now she is in her mid 20s, lives with mom, barely has a job, and bought a car using the trust fund money so her boyfriend could drive her around. Her mother thinks she should use the trust fund to pay for her sister’s college, telling her that her grandfather died before her sister was born and deserves the same opportunity for college she had. She still refuses. Instead, she uses the money as a slush fund. She refuses to help with rent, food, or any other expenses or chores around the house. She expects mommy to cook, clean, and do her laundry for her. No surprise: she is a hard core left wing Democrat and dresses like a walking freak show with purple hair and corsets. Her days off are spent smoking weed in the room she shares with her live in boyfriend in her mom’s house, as near as I can tell. Her mother gave her an ultimatum that she had to move out by a certain date. That date was October 1, 2022. To encourage them to leave, her mother pressured her husband to give the boyfriend a good job. He did so, and hired the kid without experience as a kitchen manager of a restaurant that the husband oversees.

The daughter is still living there, having her mother cook, clean, and do laundry for the both of them. The boyfriend AND the husband both lost their jobs. The husband got another one, albeit at lower pay, the boyfriend did not.

Then there is the younger of the two. I thought she had a future. I had been mentoring her because she told me she wanted to be a nurse. It turns out that she wants to make the money a nurse makes, but isn’t willing to put forth the effort to get there. She is the one who at age 14 had a conversation about economics with me. It started because she made the statement that people should get things that are necessary for free, because we all have a right to the necessities of life. She used feminine hygiene products as an example.

I told her that I wasn’t picking on her, but pointed out to her that, since no one was paying for tampons, there would be no money to pay the people who worked in the tampon factory, so why would anyone work there for free? Her first reply was, “Wait! There is a tampon factory?”

I said, “Well just where do you think tampons come from? Is there a tampon tree somewhere?”

She replied, “Well, in that case, I suppose you could get women to work there and pay them with free tampons.”

I said, “What would that be worth? If everyone gets tampons for free in your plan anyway, why would they want to work there to get the free tampons everyone else gets? How are the women working there going to eat, buy gas, or buy a house?”

She said, “That’s my point. Money is stupid. Why can’t everyone just trade and barter for stuff? Why should we all have to go to work just to be able to afford the things we need to live? The government can just print all of the money we need.”

So now she is a voting adult. The election of 2026 will be her first time voting. She still thinks we don’t need money and should just be given whatever we need. She hasn’t worked a real job yet, and likely won’t for awhile.

She graduated from high school and was actually on the honor roll, but is still struggling to pass the necessary exams to get into COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Those exams are just there to make sure you can read and perform basic math, which an honor roll student should be able to do, but that’s a different conversation. It looks like she is going to have to take remedial courses to even start community college. Oh, and her boyfriend that she’s been dating for the past month is moving in. With the rest of the family. Did I mention that she is also a Democrat and once told me she was a lesbian?

This is the voting base for the Democrats. Uninformed people who want free stuff. This is the reason why Democrats are slipping towards communism. The young people all think that communism means the government will take care of you while you sit around and do nothing, but they never make the leap to asking themselves where the government will get the food, iPhones, Internet service, and all of the material goods with which to care for them.

My next post in this series will be on how the Democrats are slipping further to the left.

New York Insurrection

It’s time to declare New York City to be in a state of rebellion.

Trump should:

  • Demand the Governor of New York bring her wayward city under control
  • If she fails to do so, declare the entire state of New York to be in a state of rebellion
  • Declare all New York congressional seats to therefore be vacant
  • Declare martial law in the states under rebellion and suspend habias corpus.
  • Ask the other sanctuary states if they would like to continue on their path

It won’t be the first time a Republican President did so.

Either that, or once the 2026 election has been lost (as it likely will be) states like Florida should simply declare Federal law to not be enforceable within their borders. Machine guns and missiles for everyone.

Whiny Commie Kids

These kids today are bitching because they claim we of the older generations had it easy. They claim since rent is $2800/month, things are harder now than they were.

When I first got out of the military I moved to Arkansas. My entire family wound up living in the storeroom of the business I was trying to start. My kids were bathing in a 4 quart ice chest. It sucked. The only job I could find was working for a plant that made aluminum BBQ bits. Not as a maintenance worker or as an electrician, but filing the burrs off of metal castings for $5 per hour.

I decided we couldn’t make a living there, so we moved to Florida. When I got here, the only job I could get was as an electrician for $7.25 an hour. I was working for a company called Palmer electric, and two of us would be tasked with wiring a house (rough in) each day. That’s a lot of work for two people. The company charged the contractor $400 for the job. There was no real profit to be made. That’s why they started using illegals- the companies who were doing that could charge even less and still make money. This was 30+ years ago.

I was making $1000 per month and using that to support a family of four. The rent on our two bedroom apartment was $550 a month. That left us $450 per month for food, utilities, clothes, all of the other expenses. WalMart sold hotdogs $1 per pack, and Mac&Cheese $4 for 4 boxes. Slice 2 hot dogs up and mix with the pasta, and you have 4 dinners for $5. WalMart sold blue jeans for $8. I washed them in Borax to get the oil stains out. That’s how we made the money last.

I managed to get a job as an electrician at the airport, repairing boarding bridges, conveyor belts, and car washes. The pay was better- I was getting $9 an hour. We still struggled, so I got a second job as a part time firefighter.

This extreme poverty was what led me to asking my wife to get a job while the kids were in school. I just couldn’t take being poor and working two jobs while she sat home all day and the kids were in school. She refused, telling me that she married me so she wouldn’t have to work, and we wound up separating. Less than three months after that, I was homeless.

That’s not struggling, according to them. This generation thinks that no one else can possibly know what it’s like to struggle, as they complain about high rent. I can find a dozen apartments for less than $2k. Looking in my old neighborhood, I see a 2BR going for $1600. When you take into account the difference in pay from then, and housing is about the same cost as it was 30 years ago.

The poverty level for a family of 4 was $15,600 per year when all of that happened. I made $15,100 that year with a wife and two kids. The poverty level today for a single person is $15,300 per year and $32,150 for a family of 4. The difference is that Florida’s minimum wage is now $31,200. In other words, it’s EXACTLY the same as it was then. Nothing ever changes.

These people bitch over and over again about how they are poor. Then people who used to be poor come forward and give them perfectly reasonable advice on how to change. Instead of accepting that, they say “things are totally different now, you had it easy” then go back to bitching about how they are poor and it’s all Elon and “capitalism” that has caused it.

Arguing with Idiots, Part 2

Then we moved on to landlords. The left claims that, if landlords were prohibited, they would have to sell their homes, and housing prices would fall. Therefore, eliminate landlords, and everyone can afford a house.

My reply? OK, that’s the first year. What happens next year when no homes are built because prices are too low to make it profitable to build? This is no different than the “tax all billionaires out of existence, give their money away, and we can all be rich.”

If you taxed every billionaire, just confiscated 100% of their wealth over $1 billion, here is the math:

~900 billionaires, who have a combined net worth of about $8.2 trillion. So we take everything over $999 million. That’s about $7.3 trillion we can distribute. Each person in the US would now get $20,000 plus or minus.

Only now all of those companies are gone- Domino Sugar, Tesla, Facebook, Amazon, Meta, WalMart, Nike, M&M Mars, Hershey Co., Redbull, Keurig, ChikFilA, Subway, Tyson Foods, Archer Daniels Midway, thousands of companies. Essentially all of the large and mid cap businesses will be wiped out. All out of business because they needed to be liquidated to pay for the confiscation.

In all, about 60 million people just lost their jobs as billionaires liquidated to settle their tax bills.

Now what do you do next year?

Taxing billionaires, destroying landlords, killing your economic engine is the equivalent to eating all of your egg laying chickens, making flour out of your seed corn. Sure you eat well today, but your tomorrows will be lean and hungry.

Your leftist is a child-like moron with little concept of economics or money. To them, someone with money is someone to be robbed without regard for what disruptions the robbery will actually cause.