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As I do here from time to time, I want to talk about the general economic state of the USA. We as a nation are currently in debt to the tune of $30.448 trillion. Despite the fact that the entire budget deficit for FY2022 was supposed to be $1.0 trillion, we have far surpassed that. At the beginning of the fiscal year, we were $28.428 trillion in debt. The beginning of the fiscal year was two trillion dollars ago, and we still have 2 3 months left in the fiscal year. Not to mention that interest rates have skyrocketed.

The interest on our national debt is skyrocketing, and the CBO is underestimating the costs IMO. For the month of May, interest on that debt was nearly $25 billion. Still, we keep borrowing.

We have to. The only way to fix this disaster is to cut everything. The majority of government spending goes to so-called ‘mandatory spending’ and interest on the money that we have already borrowed. Mandatory spending includes entitlements like Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc. which are REQUIRED by law to be paid. Interest on the debt must also be paid. The money that must be paid totals about $5.2 trillion a year (ten years ago, it was $2.5 trillion). You get that? Social Security, interest on the debt, Medicare, and the like already total more than we take in through taxes.

So the only answer to the debt problem is to cut it all by 50 percent: Defense, Social Security, the VA, all of it. The problem is that is not politically possible. Any politician that advocates cutting Social Security in half can measure the remaining time in his career in milliseconds. Same with any other program.

Nope. We are riding this debt train all the way to the bottom.

Leftists all over the place are having a fit because the cops in Uvalde tackled the husband of a teacher who was trying to enter the school to save his wife, then took his gun away from him.

Hypocrisy. If those same leftists had their way, he would have been shot and killed by those same cops who were serving a red flag order on him for even having a gun in the first place.

I’m going to sound crazy here, but follow this line of thought from my comment over at GFZ.

In the years from 2006 to 2011, the ATF deliberately allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Known as Operation “Fast and Furious,” it was an apparent Machiavellian plan by the Obama Administration to make gun violence along the border to bad that the American people would demand more gun control. This single operation proved that the left generally, and the Obamas specifically, were willing to sacrifice US lives to further their goals and objectives.

• Then in the years leading up to 2015, we now know that Dr Fauci was funding viral research in China. In fact, that funding continues to this day.
• We also know the Dr Fauci predicted in 2017 that Trump would face a pandemic.
• That research eventually produced the COVID pandemic.
• The COVID pandemic was the excuse used to relax election security laws to allow ballot drop boxes.
• These drop boxes were at the heart of election irregularities. There is a certainty that the election was rigged. Don’t deny it. Even Time magazine knows it.

If you had predicted all of those things back in 2019, I myself would have called you a nutcase.

It certainly looks like the left will kill millions in order to get and retain power. Do I think that all of this was a planned series of events? No. Do I think that they took advantage of the events to their benefit? Yes.

So now we know just how far the left will go to pursue their goals. They will lie, cheat, steal, and kill. With that in mind, lets consider that during his election campaign, Joe Biden made a number of campaign promises. He promised to:

• End Fossil Fuels. We all know that is well underway.
• He continues to promise that he will get rid of “Assault Weapons”

Now take a look at today’s post from GFZ. How many headline grabbing mass shootings have there been in the past 90 days? How many happened in the preceding year?

Am I crazy? Or is this simply a continuation of the crazy that has been happening for the past 3 years? It is enough to make me feel like I have stepped through the looking glass into some alternate reality story written by a schizophrenic writer of bad pulp fiction novels.

Jesus, I am starting to sound like Alex Jones.

Uvalde is using every legal resource to keep what happened a secret. The people of Uvalde need to push city elected officials to demand answers from the police chief. If he doesn’t supply them, fire him and promote the assistant chief to interim chief. Make the sane demand. Fire him if he won’t cooperate. Sooner or later, someone will provide answers.

If elected officials won’t do the above, vote them out.

If the citizens of Uvalde don’t do this, then I lose sympathy for them. If your dead kids aren’t enough motivation to act, then you get the government you deserve.

Since it is turning out that monkey pox is an STD spread through infected semen and that the WHO wants to rename the disease, might I suggest a new name?

Let’s call it Fruity Pebbles.

In 1990, a man named William Cooper wrote a book called “On a Pale Horse.” In this book, he detailed many experiments that were being carried out by the CIA, including ones where mental patients were given drugs known to make them commit mass shootings, and where they supplied firearms and drugs to the public in order to foment civil unrest and increase government power. This book quickly became popular amongst the militia movement of the 1990s.

William Cooper claimed that he was being targeted by the government because they wanted to silence him, after claiming that the government was hiding everything from aliens to assassinating JFK. He was killed by police in November of 2001.

I will leave it to the readers of this blog to decide if he was crazy or not, and if his book was fiction or not. In any case, I am providing a PDF copy of it here on this site, mostly because I want to make it available.

I read this post from Miguel over at Gunfreezone. His words reminded me of the UPS standoff in South Florida, where the police shielded themselves with soccermoms and children when they took cover behind vehicles filled with families. For those who don’t remember the incident, you can read more about it here.

There were cops who actually defended this by saying

You’re demanding perfection in an imperfect world. Where should the cops have stood in that situation, right out in the open where they would have been shot? You’re confusing prudent behavior with suicide.

The behavior of the police at Uvalde seems to be a pattern. Every time a cop is faced with the choice of personal safety or the safety of the citizens in their community, they choose self preservation.

During my decades in the fire department, we regularly were forced to enter unsafe environments in order to rescue members of the public from that environment. Over decades, fire departments worked out tactics for accomplishing those rescues. The saying in the fire service has been “The procedures of today are written in the blood of dead firefighters.” Supervisors in the fire service spend quite a bit of time on safety, strategy, and tactics. The spend nearly as much time on communications and learning to maintain control of an incident, even when it is spiraling out of control. We learned from the loss of 343 firefighters on 9/11, and saw major policy changes as a result. No matter what, if there are saveable victims, you go get them.

The police, who are the ones in charge of violent incidents (after all, they have the guns) have not done the same. They obviously don’t feel the same way. Their focus is elsewhere. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that is how it is.

No matter what else you should take away from the cowardice and self preservation of Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, remember this: The people who are the intended victims of these killers have skin in the game. They don’t get to choose whether or not to engage the shooter. That choice has been made for them, by the shooter himself. If it turns out that you have been selected, make sure that you are armed. You are your own first responder. The shooter has already chosen the day, the time, the location, and the manner of the fight. Don’t give him the luxury of choosing an unarmed victim. Have the means for effective resistance, and don’t deny those means to others. No one is coming to save you. They are waiting outside the door while you bleed to death.

There is now a worldwide shortage of coffee beans. If you think people are cranky now, you haven’t seen anything, yet.

a global coffee shortage may be on the brink. Back in September of 2021, ABC reported that, “importers warned of a shortage that could last three years”. Coffee lovers can also expect prices hikes. Coffee retailer Starbucks has said that, “they are planning to hike its prices this year.” This was its third increase since October.

This shortage doesn’t only affect the economy, coffee lovers, and major food retailers. Small business owners are also expected to be impacted as well. These businesses struggle to gain access to grants and loans that the bigger companies do.

The future for coffee remains uncertain so for now, coffee lovers should savor every sip.

Seriously, though. The shortages of everything are going to get worse.

The left says that the AR-15 is a weapon of war. I certainly hope so, because that is the only tool we have as we head off to fight this war that we are supposedly in, but didn’t know about. A leftist insurgent group calling itself Jane’s Revenge has made plain its intentions when it vandalized a pro-life center in Hollywood, Florida and in a communique left behind, said more attacks will follow.

Jane’s Revenge
First Communiqué
This is not a declaration of war. War has been upon us for decades. A war which we did not want, and did not provoke. Too long have we been attacked for asking for basic medical care. Too long have we been shot, bombed, and forced into childbirth without consent.

This was only a warning. We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days. This is not a mere “difference of opinion” as some have framed it. We are literally fighting for our lives. We will not sit still while we are killed and forced into servitude. We have run thin on patience and mercy for those who seek to strip us of what little autonomy we have left. As you continue to bomb clinics and assassinate doctors with impunity, so too shall we adopt increasingly extreme tactics to maintain freedom over our own bodies.

We are forced to adopt the minimum military requirement for a political struggle. Again, this was only a warning. Next time the infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. Medical imperialism will not face a passive enemy. Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings.

And we will not stop, we will not back down, nor win we hesitate to strike until the inalienable right to manage our own health is returned to us.

We are not one group, but many. We are in your city. We are in every city. Your repression only strengthens our accomplice-ship and resolve.

—Jane’s Revenge

Also, Hollywood is now a Zone 1 location.

I can tell you from my years as a paramedic that this is common occurrence. I can’t tell you how many times someone hung himself from a tree before shooting themselves in the chest. The fact that they were a Clinton staffer and connected to Jeffery Epstein is just a coincidence.

Nothing to see here.