Government

Condescension

I’m sitting in the waiting room at the car wash, waiting for my wife’s car to get waxed, and Fox News has a State Department press conference on. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was being asked questions after talking more about herself and how hard she was working than about the situation at hand.

One of the reporters, who stated that he had known her professionally for quite some time, remarked that calling her “Madame Deputy Secretary” was quite a mouthful.

This government bureaucrat responded with “You’ll get used to it.”

That struck me as one of the most conceited, condescending remarks I’ve ever heard. The first response I had is probably why I can’t be a politician: “Fuck you, lady. Who the fuck do you think you are? We are sitting here discussing YOUR failures. Why don’t we worry more about that than we do about whatever title you want to be called?”

Edited to add:

Here is the video of the exchange.

By Divemedic, ago

NFAC has a body count

The terrorist organization called the “Not Fucking Around Coalition” or NFAC, now has a body count. A police officer who was shot by one of its members on June 23 has died of his injuries. The member who did the shooting has a long, violent criminal history. He was fairly well indoctrinated by the black community justice industry.

The criminal charges for this critter have been increased to first degree murder. I’m usually against the death penalty because I don’t believe that we can trust the government to prosecute a case honestly and without shenanigans. In this case, however, it looks pretty cut and dried. Looking at his extensive history, I don’t think he is redeemable. Fry his ass. Better yet, let Biden send his ass to Afghanistan.

By Divemedic, ago

War for our kids

As many in the press try to downplay the Taliban’s atrocities, some stories of the horrors that are being carried out are leaking out of Afghanistan.

Americans on the left began showing their stupidity almost immediately:

Meanwhile, stories of forced marriages and executions continue to come out of the country. Those who live in the Capitol are facing searches, checkpoints, and beatings.

This is what happens when a war becomes not just about power, but involves tribal and religious implications. This could easily be our future here in the US: A victorious left, taking your children to be a part of their sexual fantasy. Don’t think that’s possible?

As a teacher, I was often provided with pro-homosexuality teaching materials with instructions to “push” this on children. I refused. Here is one of the handouts I was given, with instructions to deliver lessons on homosexuality to kids. Note that there are resources on there for K-5 children. They are trying to sex up your kids, even at 6 years old!

We are in the middle of a war, a revolution. This is just one of the things that the victors want.

I know that this makes me sound like a raving lunatic. You don’t have to take my word for it- click on the links above. Read the handout that I embedded above. Visit the websites on it.

We are in a fight, not only for the survival of this nation, but for the very souls of our children.

By Divemedic, ago

I already knew

I read about a school shooting in a New Mexico middle school. One 13 year old student shot another. As soon as the name of the school was mentioned, I knew what I would find. I also knew that an NRA member as unlikely to be involved.

The middle school was Washington Middle School. That school has 442 students enrolled, with 410 of them receiving free lunch. Eighty seven percent of the student body is reading below their grade level. Ninety percent of US schools are better than this one in reading and math. One in eight households are single parent households.

To get those absolutely horrid results, taxpayers are paying more than $11,300 per student each year. I would say that this money is being wasted.

By Divemedic, ago

On second thought

In an earlier post, I thought that counterfeit vaccine cards were the way to go. It turns out that I was wrong.

The FBI is going after counterfeit cards using 18 USC 1017. Here is what the law says:

Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

18USC1017

If you use an appropriated card that has the CDC seal on it before you get it, it seems to me that you are not the one who affixed or impressed the seal on the document. It doesn’t matter, of course. They will try to chuck you in prison. It is up to each person to decide for themselves if it is better to let them inject you, be a pariah, or risk prison.

By Divemedic, ago

No savings

This editorial talks about the costs of a miles driven tax versus a fuel tax. If I have learned anything about taxes and government in my time on Earth, it is this: A miles driven tax will not be *instead* of a fuel tax, it will be *in addition* to a fuel tax.

So using the writer’s numbers, a truck driver will go from paying $1,582 a year to $2,685a year, a cost that will be passed on in other ways.

Likewise, your average car owner will see their tax burden go from $306 to $1,359.

Like Reagan said: tax and spend.

By Divemedic, ago

We aren’t the violent ones

The Department of Homeland Security says if you don’t agree with the government’s response to COVID, you are a Domestic Violent Extremist.

I disagree. Those of us who disagree with the government and its response to COVID haven’t even BEGUN to get violent, yet. So far, the only violence has been on the part of the government, BLM, Antifa, and other left wing groups. Yes, you read that right- the government itself is a left wing group.

If even one in a thousand of the United States’ one hundred million or more gun owners decide to get their violence on, that would be somewhere around 100,000 armed, pissed off people to deal with. The people who look like everyone else, and can blend into their surroundings fairly easily. Many of these shooters are extraordinary marksmen, capable of shooting a paper plate from 200 or more yards away.

Keep in mind that the Taliban managed to occupy a significant fraction of the US military for two decades before the US became disinterested and finally got their asses handed to them. That is with a military whose supply lines, home bases, and manufacturing base was 10,000 miles away, safe from goatherders without the means to bring that violence to the home front.

Don’t tell me how easy it would be to find and destroy such a force. The US government can’t even control weapons and other contraband in its Federal Prisons, much less inside of an entire nation. For them to try would likely increase the numbers of pissed off resistance members 100 fold.

By Divemedic, ago

F*ck Maxine Waters

Why? Let me quote her:

“Yes, the small landlords are at a disadvantage, but guess what, they know how to go to the bank, they know how to get a loan”

Maxine Waters, on the eviction moratorium impact on small business

The Democrats claim to be for the little guy, but that is bullshit. They care about their rich friends, and that’s it.

By Divemedic, ago