According to some of the early comments, text messages, and emails I received today it was clear you guys wanted this guy booted.
But here's the deal.
You all know I can't block him. My only option is to go back to approving every comment as they come in.
During the day I might not get to them for a while and if they come in much later than 7:00 at night It'll be the next morning before your comment is posted.
The ball's in your court...
Kevin McGinty
Before we get started today I'd like to thank my good friend and partner for stepping up to the plate when I asked him for a little help.
Ya done good, Safe.
Anyway, I'm back and I have plenty to say.
I know a lot of people who think America's best days are behind us and that we've fallen so far that it's near impossible to ever get things right again.
Maybe they're right. I just don't know.
What I do know though is that last night was a huge step toward taking our country back.
In one huge, collective voice American patriots came together and told the radical left to shove their bullshit up their asses.
They rejected the idea of turning our kids into raging racists.
They rejected the dangerous and insane transgender policies of the left-wing lunatics.
They rejected the wide open border strategy of this administration.
They rejected more and continuing forced lock down policies.
They rejected the forced vaccination mandates just to be able to work.
They said no to the skyrocketing crime rates of every major American city.
They made it perfectly clear they'll be the one's deciding things when it comes to their kid's education.
They said no to the global warming, inflation, depending on and begging OPEC for our fuel needs when just a year ago we were the biggest producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
There's no doubt the last year has been a nightmare. But there has been one thing positive to come out of it.
Today's democrats have been completely and forever exposed for what they really are.
Hard core communists and power hungry dictators who want to control every aspect of our lives.
It also woke up a sleeping giant who sometimes needs a good, hard kick in the gut in order to finally pay attention.
So, for that, troll, I thank you and your bottom feeding friends.
But most of the thanks goes to one very special individual.
LET'S GO BRANDON...
Kevin McGinty
Bernie the commie is outraged. Outraged that according to him, 52 Senators should not be allowed to stop 48 Senators from passing a giant Socialist dream spending bill. He says it's too important of stuff for that to happen.
So from the communist point of view, the legislative process is flawed. The people of the United States shouldn't be allowed to have their wishes carried out by their elected representatives, as spelled out in the Constitution.
They always make the same weak lame arguments. That the Senators from the smaller states represent a smaller percentage of the population than the Senators from the communist states. And that is true. And that was exactly the intent of the writers of the Constitution.
The House is the legislative body based on population. They are now overrun with communists, Marxist, radicals and muslims. People who hate America and wish it destroyed. At least one party, the democrat/communist party.
The Senate on the other hand is represented by two Senators from each state regardless of the population. Unfair? Nope. It's the only thing that keeps our legislative process functioning.
The founders when they created the Constitution did not create a democracy. A democracy is two lions and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. They knew, that given the opportunity the large states would run roughshod over the small states. They would always have their way. It's called the tyranny of the majority. So the created the Senate.
The House has always been the branch filled with radicals and wild crazy ideas. They pass things that are outright stupid on a regular basis, because they are a democracy, and democracies are the road to tyranny. George Washington is said to have told Jefferson that the framers had created the Senate to "cool" House legislation just as a saucer was used to cool hot tea. It's worked pretty well for over 200 years in keeping the radicals at bay,
But suddenly, when the Senate is slowing down the advance of communism it's no good. Bernie the commie declares that his agenda is so important that votes shouldn't even matter. It just needs to be implemented. All about phony global warming and Marxist financial ideas and raising taxes and giving away stuff to buy votes.
So if these people were allowed to have their way, we would see the end of America. Let's hope there are just enough sane people left in the Senate to hold them off. Our president sure won't. He's one of them. The House doesn't even have enough votes to pass this Marxist crap. But things can change. Votes get bought.
Our only hope to save this country now lies in the upcoming midterms. We need the House and Senate back. The good news is the commies are doing stuff so crazy and outrageous that we very likely will win them both. So hang on, friends. It going to be bumpy year ahead.
The anti-Semitic democrat/communist party has removed funding for the iron dome for Israel from the spending bill. These people have long tried to destroy Israel along with our country. They hate us both, because of our roots. We are a nation founded in Christianity, and a belief in God. Israel has a much longer relationship with God, with them being our spiritual ancestors. Our close ties to God and to Christianity infuriates the communist left, because of their close ties with Satan. Communism cannot prevail in a people that follow God's laws, because communism is directly opposed to God and everything He teaches us.
Always remember, the democrat/communist party hates God and His people. They have always openly opposed Him. At one of their national conventions a few years ago, they booed loudly at the very mention of his name. Satan is the head of the democrat/communist party. You only need to look at their actions to see that is true. The hatred, anger, the lies they tell. Their attacks on God and his people. Constant and out in the open. The constant never relenting push to advance Satan's agenda of murdering God's creation in the womb.
So no surprise they hate Israel. Donald Trump was the best friend Israel ever had in the White House. And the dem/coms constantly tried to portray him as an anti-Semite. That's how compulsive they lie. They never stop. These people are evil.
Will they bring the wrath of God on America? Does God punish an entire country because a few heretics hate Him and do Satan's work opposing him?
Well, my belief is no. God may or may not deal with these people in this world. And he may withdraw his hand of protection to try to bring America back to her senses and return to the God loving country we were when we were born.
He has given America the gifts He has for a reason. The fact that Satan and his lackeys, the democrat/communist party work to oppose him is no surprise to Him. It's been happening since that serpent tempted Eve in the garden.
These people will one day stand in judgement before Him and have to give an account for the harm they have done to His people. And that won't be a happy day for them, believe me.
Anyway, that's what I believe. And I'll stand by it.
As Joshua said in Joshua 24;14-15:
“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
The democrat/communists think that newsom beating his recall means something. They're even talking about him running for president. Good luck. There was no chance of it going any other way. Never. California is too far gone to save. Trust me. I live here. The last normals living in California are squeezed into Central California and we don't have enough votes to do anything.
Outside of California the democrat/communists are about as popular as dog shit on your shoe. Their radical commie base loves them, but that's a small minority. They just make a lot of noise. The polls show that lyin biden is sinking like a rock, as he should. He's the single worst president in American history. He has personally done more damage to America than any president before him. And it's getting worse. And his party is worse. People are feeling the effects. Even people who supported him are waking up to the fact that the party is run by Marxists and they are actively seeking to destroy our country.
Ruining our economy. Raising taxes to shut down job growth and investment. Crushing businesses that don't toe the commie line. Propping up the media and social media allies who support their goals.
Spreading the chinese flu by promoting bad prevention methods and pretending they work, and by importing tens of thousands of unvaxed untested illegal aliens and spreading them all over the country. Flooding our country with unvetted Afghans who we know were taliban supporters planted in the crowd to get shipped here. Meanwhile leaving thousands of actual loyal Afghans and Americans behind.
Destroying our military by putting treasonous traitors in charge. Generals who side with our enemies. Destroying morale by forcing woke commie bullshit down their throats. And giving our worst enemies billions of dollars of our best weapons and piles of cash.
Fighting voter integrity wherever a state tries to implement it. Wherever a state tries to make it harder to cheat and steal elections, which is how commies have always won elections, they create a national firestorm to try to stop it. Using all their media and corporate lapdogs to control the narrative.
Ruining our schools by teaching outright racist ideas to our children, and planting Marxist theories that they will manipulate for the rest of their lives. Our universities should all be renamed School of Marxism because that's pretty much what they are.
But Americans are seeing it. They're seeing their paychecks not growing like they were under Trump. They're paying more for essentials of life than they ever have, with it going up every day. And they're seeing that they are being lied to by these commie rat bastards every day. They are told what a great job biden is doing but everything in their lives tells them otherwise.
So don't let California get you down. Venezuela elected a Marxist to run their country for the same reasons Americans think Marxists are great. And look how that turned out. The difference is Americans have caught on and will fix their mistakes.
The dem/coms have a while yet to do a lot of damage, and they will. But next year, we take back the House and Senate and put a stop to this bullshit. Assuming the Republicans do the right thing which is never a sure thing.
So have heart friends. It's not over. It's just getting started.
So, altogether now.....FUCK JOE BIDEN!!!!
I'm not saying we are fast approaching the end times spoken of in the Bible, but we might be. My question is, has God abandoned us? Has he abandoned America? And why would he do that?
Look around you. Fires. Plagues. Earthquakes. Drought. Devastating storms followed by triple digit heat for the folks wiped out with no power or water.
A government ruling over us that is obviously under the influence of Satan. Godless, hate filled people who want to destroy one of God's great creations, the United States of America. We've survived revolutions, invasions, wars, rebellions. And we've always been the greatest nation on earth. More people risen out of poverty here than anywhere in the world. This is the only country where if you want to work hard and persevere you can succeed to whatever degree you wish at whatever you want to succeed at. America has created more millionaires and billionaires than any country on earth. And maybe you want to serve God and be a missionary. You can do that as well.
And we've had the longest lasting constitution in history. Written in 1781, and it still stands, with a few amendments.
We've always had free and fair elections. We settled our differences as great Republics do. By electing our representatives. Until now.
The best education system in the world. The best heathcare system in the world. Until now.
But something changed. Just in the past 20 or 30 years. A new menace spread like a cancer on this great country. The democrat/communist party. Dragging us down. Working to destroy the civil society we worked so hard to keep alive. Teaching our children hatred and greed and envy. Slowly but steadily integrating communist theories into our very souls.
So where does God figure into all this?
God blessed this country at it's birth. We won the fight and survived because God provided for us. Our founders knew that. They knew this was a Christian nation blessed by God. So what happened? We turned our backs on Him. Democrats pushed him out of the public square. They cursed his name often and openly. They denied his laws and rejected his leadings. So, maybe he lifted his hand of protection.
This isn't a theological debate. This is just thinking out loud. But it seems like a lot is happening. The commies tell us it's global warming. But that's just pagan worship of the earth, of Satan. They tell us communism is taking over because the rich are greedy. When it's them who are greedy, demanding they be given the rewards of the hard working who earned them.
So what makes me think this might be true? This...
3 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 2 Chronicles 7:13-15.
Feel free to tell me what you think. Just something to think about. And offering some hope that things can be turned around.
What a bizarre turn of events. First lyin biden screws the pooch and pulls out of Afghanistan leaving our entire war machine in the hands of the Taliban, and leaving thousands of Americans behind, telling them to "hide" because they can't help them. No planning, no strategy. All his idea.
Now, with the crisis unfolding he's nowhere to be seen. He's on vacation. No communication. No leadership. No plan. Just silence. No communicating with other foreign leaders. No reassuring the American people that he has a plan. Nothing. Juist a short little rambling nonsensical speech where he blamed the whole thing on Trump, then left without answering a single question. One big lie after another, then gone again. Back to eating ice cream and watching Teletubby videos.
What the hell? Somethings wrong. Seriously wrong.
Either he's just hiding and hoping it all goes away, or he's had a complete breakdown. Maybe the consequences of what he did finally occurred to him and he couldn't take it. That would happen to a mentally healthy person. The weight of the damage he has done to this country in seven short months should cause he to feel bad. So my next best guess is he is too far gone to know what he did. And his handlers know bringing him out now will destroy him and their entire plan.
But something has to happen. This can't continue. These people are destroying our country, every opportunity they get they make things worse.
Even the democrat media is turning on him. Wanting answers.
But this Afghan thing is the worst so far. He just armed the worlds most dangerous terrorists with weapons beyond their wildest dreams. Now they are more dangerous than they have ever been.
It's only a matter of time until someone in the world pays a price for this. He just gave them the weapons and the launching base to begin their dream of an islamic caliphate. It will start regionally, but it will grow.
And it's all thanks to the most dangerous president America has ever known. Lyin Joe Biden. I hope the people that elected this demented old pervert are happy with themselves.
No more mean tweets, right? Was that worth it, you commie rat bastards?
Well, you all know my story. We packed up and moved to California a little over two years ago to be near our family. Daughter and grandson live here, in a suburb of LA, in the San Fernando Valley. It was a great hardship for us, cost us a lot and significantly lowered our standard of living because, well, it's California.
It was great though, we got to spend a lot more time with them until....the chinese flu was unleashed by the Chicoms and the demcoms. Since then, it's been rough.
On top of that, our dogs became ill and couldn't really travel. They were old dogs, and so old age took them. We lost our first dog in October, and lost our second dog a couple days ago after months of treament and trying to help her. So my wife went down to visit and I stayed home to take care of the dogs. That's been hard, but we thought we would at least now be able for both of us to go down to spend time with the family.
But then the new plague rises up. The new plague created by hysteria and fear cranked up by the democrat/communists because the original plague was winding down, thanks to President Trump getting us the vaccine so quickly. But that wasn't in the plan. The demcoms needed the leverage longer so they could keep the fear alive and justify imposing Marxist totalitarian soul crushing regulations on the country.
But this isn't really about that, not for me. See, my daughter, who is a smart, wonderful person who is very successful in her career and a great mom to our grandson has bought the demcom sales job hook line and sinker. So now that we're free to go visit, she is freaked out because we don't wear masks anytime we leave the house.
Where we live never had much chines flu. Very low numbers. And the people here hardly wore masks most of the time, and a lot of them never got the jab. We did follow the rules, for the last year. We masked up. We stayed out of church for almost a year. We got the shots. But we're done with it. We don't wear masks. We go to church and bible studies. We eat out. We go to the city and Costco and Walmart unmasked. Everybody up where we live does. And there are almost no cases still.
But our poor fear filled daughter is afraid if we visit with the new fake pandemic happening we'll carry the virus. So we are trying to figure out how to handle this one. We want to go see them, our granson's birthday is next month, and we've never missed a birthday even when we had to fly out for them. What a mess. Heated discussions. Angry people.
And this is just what these goddamn Marxists want. People turned against each other. Families divided. Anger. Division. This is all part of the plan. Always was.
She is angry that people aren't taking this seriously as she does, not masking and such. And she says the people she knows are, and they're all really angry that other people aren't, and believes it's Trump supporters primarily doing it. But then we see this:
Obama's birthday party. Hundreds of celebrities cheek to cheek, dancing, drinking and eating. No masks. No social distancing. So. The question begs. Is it safe or not?
Or this:
Lolapalooza in Chicago. Some 30 thousand people gather. But they're young hip folks, so it's OK. No masks. No distancing.
I guess my point is the same people who are spreading fear and demanding we obey the rules make exceptions for some people, Probably based on how they typically vote.
So let's just get real here. It's all bullshit. It's over. Don't call one group murderers because they don't wear masks and ignore another group when they don't. It's all political. It's all happening to advance the destruction of America. Don't buy it. It's all driven by Marxist democrat/communists reaching for more and more power.
And finally, we have resolved our visits. We've agreed before we go down to see the grandson, we'll mask up if we go anywhere and we'll take tests. You can buy home tests now and have the results in 15 minutes. Does it chaff my ass a little? Yup. But my grandson is worth it. He doesn't know anything about all this nonsense. He just wants to see Nan and Pop. And we'll do what it takes. That's what we do, right?
Well friends, trolls are a peculiar breed of human being. They've been around for years, ever since blogs and comments first appeared. Now normal people, like the readers of this fine blog make comments about blogs, or respond to someone else's comments, typically in a positive way, or if they disagree they try to do so without starting a war. That's what healthy mentally stable people do. That's because they have lives and friends and family and they learned early in life how to interact with people.
Trolls are a whole different story. Typically trolls are people who have miserable lives, who have no friends. Nobody likes them. People avoid them. If you see them at a group function, they will be the guy in the corner all by himself stuffing his fat face with the appetizers. Nobody will be talking to him, because they know what will happen. He will go on bizarre rants, or say something wildly inappropriate.
But they love blogs. They can say anything, hiding behind a keyboard, never seen. They can insult, be rude, nasty whatever. But what they really like to do is start shit. They never actually add to the conversation. They don't express opinions, dispute facts or present alternative views. They say things with the sole intention of pissing people off, hoping to get a response and start a war. That's what they live for.
We have one of those that lurks on America's Blog. We moderate his comments so they never get seen. He still posts them. Sometimes a dozen a day or more. When Kevin sees them, he deletes them so I never see them. Same with me. But still he posts. He reads every word of every blog and every comment every day.
The fact that nobody ever sees his nasty posts doesn't stop him at all. He continues.
If I mention him in a comment, it seems to make him happy and he posts a little less. If we ignore him, it makes him mad and he posts like crazy.
He always warns us that he flags our posts all the time. He imagines I guess somebody out there cares. Here's the truth. Google host a lot of blogs. A lot. Estimates are in the tens of millions. So you can only imagine how many flags and complaints they get from the Karens of the world about people saying things they don't like. And you can imagine how much time they spend actually worrying about it. So I imagine our troll's posts just go straight to a spam folder. Cause after all those thousands of complaints, not a word from Google. Never a blog deleted or blocked. Not a post deleted. Not a word of warning or a caution. So on we go.
Anyway, this was just to let you know, as far as I'm concerned the troll doesn't exist any longer. No more comments, no more kicking his ass on the blog. No mention of him again. That just makes him happy. So, he is persona non grata as far as I am concerned. He can post all he wants, we'll do what we always do. Select all, delete. He can flag and complain and screen shot all he wants. I don't care. He's a POS and isn't worth the trouble. So goodbye troll. You will disappear as fast as you post, just like always. Enjoy you pathetic life. And keep reading every word we post. Maybe you'll learn something.
With all respect to Kevin and Linda's situation, I thought we might get back to what we do. While constantly continuing in prayer and support for them, I thought I would put up a blog. If I'm wrong, please let me know. It can come down. But this blog has always stayed in the fight, so here we go.
Let's talk about minimum wage. The democrat/communist party is fighting hard for a $15/hr minimum wage. And that would just be the start. It would over time go up, we all know that. So what's wrong with that idea? Don't untrained unskilled unmotivated workers deserve to get paid more than they are worth just because? Simple answer, no.
Labor is a commodity on the free market. Your labor is worth what an employer decides it is worth. In the free market system we are currently under, that's the price of everything. Mostly. I have something I make. Some gadget. I want to sell it. You want to buy it. I name my price, you decide if my gadget is worth the price. If you think it is, then you buy it. We're both happy. I have money now, you have the gadget. That's called free trade. Everything sold operates under that idea, including labor.
Any employer decides how much you add to his profit and pays wages accordingly. If you are being paid less than your skills are worth on the open market, get another job. If you don't think you are making enough money, acquire new skills. I learned computer skills when I wanted a better job. Excel, Word, Access. And I got a better job because my skills were of use to my boss. But when the government gets involved and fixes market prices, the market system gets damaged.
Now, why is that important today? Because the children running this country are Marxists. Marxism is based on the idea that there are oppressors and oppressed. If you work for a company, they are oppressing you. You wage is based on your skills. But Marxism says it should be based on how much money the owner makes and you are entitled to a share. Marxism exists based on the worst human qualities. Greed and envy. You have more than me. I am entitled to my share of what you have just because. Doesn't matter how hard you worked to achieve success. Or how little I worked. Greed and envy says you have to share the wealth with me.
How often do you hear these days "we just want the wealthy or the corporations to pay their fair share"? Well, what's your fair share of what I earn? But that's a pretty easy sell to a nation that has been slowly converted to beggars dependent on taxpayers handing over their wealth to them so they can live without working.
The Marxists believe employers are obligated to follow their rules, even if it bankrupts them. Which is usually does. But our system, the best system ever invented works pretty well. The market controls the flow of goods. Prices are controlled by supply and demand. Demand being the magic word. Make a poor product, or charge too much and it won't sell. Make good stuff and it will.
It's not anybody's job to supply you with goods without making money. If they don't make money, they have no incentive to produce and sell goods. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations said this:
I'm sure you all saw Kevin's news on the blog. I know I speak for everybody when I say our prayers are with Kevin and his wife, and we will continue to pray for them. God can handle this.
I'm not going to go into some long theological diatribe here. Not the time or place. But I will say this. God loves us. And God wants the best for us in everything. I believe if God does something, he has a reason. We can't always understand. But God will make this work for his purposes.
Kevin has always been the leader of this little pack of malcontents, going back to the CJ Urinal days. He had a blog back then, and he still does. We have all followed him for many many years, most of us. And we all consider him a friend. And friends stand together through good times and tough times.
So speaking for me and my house, we'll be standing with you. Not much we can do from here, but we will stand fast on God's word. We will pray.
And Kevin, I want you to know we're all there for you.
That's all I got. That's all I can really say. But old friends are rare, and I feel like you are all my old friends. And I know you'll all be there for him back in Topeka, because that's who you are. You even have a pastor among the ranks who can give Kevin a lot more comfort than I can.
So start the fight, brother. We'll all do what we can.
Well, all kinds of things. As you all know, I moved out here two years ago to be near the family. Daughter, her hubby and our charming now six year old grandson. We love that, no regrets. The Chinese flu fouled things up for a year, we haven't seen them as much as we would have liked, but overall it's good.
It's a beautiful place, no doubt. Mountains. The ocean with the many beaches. Deserts. Everything you want. Great restaurants. Lots of fun stuff. But the politics. Oh my God, the politics.
California was once a great state. Ronald Reagan was President. They were prosperous. A working person could afford a house. Taxes were reasonable. California was one of the great success stories of America.
During the dust bowl, thousands of okies and others who were wiped out migrated here to work picking crops. Central California, where I live was home to them. Their influence here is still strong. Merle Haggard wrote songs about it. But somewhere it all changed.
Today, the democrat/communists have total control. Taxes are the highest in the nation. Gas taxes are the highest in the nation. And just went up six cents yesterday. The poverty level is the highest in the nation. We have more homeless and illegal aliens than any other state. They pass laws constantly that are insane. Examples:
You can steal up to $950 at any given time without being arrested. Just a minor offense. So, shoplifting and theft is out of control. Stores in San Francisco are closing because they can't absorb the cost of theft. And they can't stop them when they catch them, because the crime is so minor.
No bail. You just walk out of jail on a promise.
And they've released thousands of violent criminals from prison for no apparent reason, so the streets are filled with these people.
But, things change sometimes. The Supreme Court just reversed on of the laws the commies passed. It required non profits to release the names of their donors. This was obviously aimed at Conservatives, and the democrat/communist party had plans to expose the names of donors to prevent people in the future from donating out of fear of the same.
The commies didn't count on a whole bunch of right and left organizations suing, and winning. So that got shut down.
But this state truly is a mess. They claim to be prosperous. But the liabilities are hidden. They owe trillions in unfunded liabilities, primarily government pensions. See, if you work for the state of California, say a teacher, when you retire you get your full salary for life. So that adds up.
Anyway, that's just a little look at what it's like to live here. Crime, theft, poverty, high taxes, gas at $4.39 a gallon. Highest electric rates in the country, with occasional blackouts because they can't produce enough power to keep the lights on. No water, because the greenies refused since the sixties to build reservoirs to store water, and they let the water flowing from the north flow to the ocean, for the fish. Starve thousand of farmers and farm workers, but the fish are happy.
It's something else. If it wasn't for the family I never would have come. But they make it all worth it. So I'll stay. We're about to recall the commie governor so maybe that will change things. I doubt it.
We are all feeling the pinch from the current inflationary cycle. It's higher than it's been since Jimmy Carter, and in reality if you measure it the way they did back then, it's way higher. So what is it, and how bad is it?
Well, inflation is obvious. Prices going up. Simple, right? But what's the cause and what do we do about it?
The cause is too much money chasing too few goods. People want to buy things and there's no supply. The chinese flu shutdown is the primary cause, in my opinion. When the whole country shut down at the same time, supply lines shut down. Remember the toilet paper/paper towel shortage? That was just the beginning. Lumber mills shut down. Car makers shut down. Meat processing plants shut down. Food processing plants shut down. Factories everywhere shut down. So the supply line stopped.
Demand was still there, so the basic law of Economics 101 kicked in. Supply and Demand.
When there is demand and not enough supply, prices rise. It pretty much always happens, for a number of reasons, but the main one is that's how the market controls itself. Prices go up, demand drops and lets the supply side catch up. Same works in reverse. Too much supply and not much demand causes prices to lower, raising demand until the supply catches up.
A classic example of this is Harley Davidson. About 2000 everybody wanted a Harley. They had limited production based on historic sales, so Harleys were hard to get. You had to get on a waiting list and wait a year or more, then take whatever they got at whatever price they wanted, if you wanted a Harley. And they still sold out every year to the last bike. Supply and demand. So they responded by ramping up production, building more plants like the one by KCI in KC. And they produced more bikes. Then demand slowed about 2004 and Harley was overproduced. They finished the year with unsold inventory. They started offering incentives, free accessories with the purchase of a bike. But their stock crashed, they had to slow production, lay off workers and close plants. Supply and demand took them from the catbird seat to near bankruptcy, because they didn't read the future very well.
So what we are seeing right now is partly to blame on the global shutdowns, and part on the Fed keeping interest rates too low, and part on biden's crazy spending.
Now the bulk of biden's spending hasn't happened yet, he has to get it through congress so as much as I would love to blame him that's a fairly small part, right now. Low interest hurts. But the supply issue is the real culprit.
Lumber is a great example. Lumber prices are crazy, as you know if you have bought any. The lumber mills shut down for almost a year and supply ran out without much drop in demand. That drove up lumber prices to crazy levels. Supply and demand. Way too much demand, no supply. Not just low supply, almost none.
So the good new. Lumber futures for July delivery have fallen 41%, from a record high of $1,711 to $1,009. Futures are what investors are prepaying for July delivery of a commodity. If you think prices are going up, you buy at today's price and sell it at the July price. As futures go, prices follow. The framing composite index which tracks daily sales has fallen dramatically. So the lumber hoarders will be selling fast or be eating a lot of product as the mills outproduce demand. Look for lumber prices to fall, maybe close back to normal.
So hopefully this is temporary. I've talked to my financial advisor and we've agreed to treat this as temporary. If I thought inflation was back at this rate, I would be repositioning in the market. I moved to a more risky position when Trump was President and it paid off. I haven't backed off at this point and I'm holding so far.
But remember, this is one opinion. And I could be wrong. I'm just having a conversation here. Feel free to let me know what you think.
So apparently opposing arson during riots is not allowed. At least not for celebrities. Some composer who I never heard of got attacked for saying he thought arson was bad. The commie left fired up the hate machine and went after him. Now he's had to come groveling back licking their boots and apologizing for having the right opinion.
How the hell did we reach this point? Where a bunch of goddamn communist terrorists, and a small minority of the population at that has the power to cancel people's free speech? Where they can destroy people's lives for speaking the truth.
Because we are deep in the grip of a totalitarian fascist movement. These people, the woke mob, label the rest of us as fascists without having a clue what a fascist is. It's just a word they heard that sounds really nasty so they picked it up and they used it. The fact is they are fascists in the extreme.
This country was built on free speech. But no more. We got groups with power way beyond what they should have doing untold damage to our country. And corporations and government officials are giving in to them out of fear of retribution. That's classic fascism.
We got fascists trolling America's Blog. Posting dozens of comments every day filled with the most vile hate filled things. Trying to cancel us. Completely without success, I might add. He's tried for years to shut us down, and here we are. And here he isn't. Every comment he posts disappears into the void, never read, never to be seen. But fascists rarely give up. They are driven by a hatred so deep they can't give up. Hatred for us. Hatred for Trump. Hatred for America. Hatred for freedom. Hate for everything good in this world. And they won't rest until everyone in the world is as miserable as they are.
As for this unknown composer who got cancelled and came back and groveled, fuck him too. If you let them win, if you don't tell them to go fuck themselves, you are just as bad. Weak and afraid. And exactly what they want.
And that's where America's Blog stands. Fuck a bunch of trolls. Fascists, commies and general pain in the ass. But harmless to us. So do your best you cowards.
The people we have running our government for the most part appear to at best hate America, and at worst want to see her destroyed. This goes way beyond partisan politics, or disagreement on policy. America used to be divided on issues, the liberals tended to want to see a bigger safety net, and spend more on domestic policies like welfare and such. Conservatives wanted more fiscal responsibility, to help people rise out of poverty instead of paying them to remain in it. But both sides were people who loved America. JFK was the first supply side economics president. Cutting capital gains. Cutting the top tax rates. But he was a patriot. Fought in the war. Truman leaned liberal, but was as patriotic as they come.
That all changed, somewhere around LBJ. He ushered in the great welfare state, with the intention of getting blacks to vote democrat, and he succeeded. The sixties also brought us the communist invasion, with people like the Frankfurt School packing our education system with communists. And the young people grew their hair long and thought they were fighting against the war, but were actually supporting people who were stooges of Soviet Russian Communism and they began this country's shift toward accepting what has always been a dangerous and failed system of government.
Now we have actual communists in leadership in the democrat party. Bernie Sanders is nothing but an old street Bolshevik. He even took his honeymoon in Soviet Russia. He has sold a whole generation on the idea of communism as a practical idea instead of the aberration it is. And we have muslim/communists serving in our congress, comparing America to Hamas and the Taliban. These aren't people who love our country, they are people who want our country destroyed.
We have a party in charge that is so filled with hate for Donald Trump and his supporters they are devoting all their resources to reversing all the good things he did.
Donald Trump created an economy that was stronger than any we have seen in modern times. Record low unemployment, especially for minorities. Wage growth. Jobs created. Wealth growth for everybody. They have put the brakes on that.
They opened the borders, flooding the country with illegal aliens, drug cartels, fentanyl, human traffickers. Our system is overwhelmed.
They are emptying the prisons, putting violent felons back on the street to continue their rampage. And all the while they are fighting hard to disarm us lawful citizens so we can't defend ourselves.
The create a narrative of an "insurrection" out of a peaceful protest that was hijacked by their workers. They murdered an innocent person, shooting her in the back with no fear of retribution.
They allowed and supported a year of rolling riots, costing America over 2 billion dollars in damages, untold jobs lost and businesses destroyed, thousands injured and murdered. They refuse to make any effort to stop it and our vice president actually helped raise funds to bail out violent terrorists from jail, on the rare occasions any of them were put in jail.
They are demoralizing and destroying our civilian police force, and our military.
They aided the Chinese Communists in creating a deadly virus to unleash on the world just so they could have a tool to defeat Donald Trump and grow their authoritarian control. And they are refusing to hold China accountable, in fact giving them even more inroads into America.
Who are these people and why do they hate us so bad? How did we get a president who obviously is controlled by dark forces that have the destruction of our country as their goal? And a vice president who is completely useless and non functioning, who couldn't get more than 1% of the vote of her own party in the presidential primary? Those same people who control biden placed her in that position.
So our country stands on the brink. We are looking into the abyss. We need to restore our country. And we better do it damn quick.
Guys, I really hate doing this but today's edition of Room 235 will be the last one I publish for the foreseeable future.
Things I'm not ready to talk about yet have taken place within my family that will require my full and undivided attention.
They say God will never give us more than we can handle.
I'm not so sure about that anymore.
We'll see.
I'm calling on my longtime partner, Safe, to take over ( I think it's important to keep this thing going) until I can get back.
Safe, I know you're more than up to it.
Hell, every one of the comments you've ever posted are blog worthy and deserve to be front and center.
And just maybe another author I signed up quite a while back can even get into the mix.
I would like to let each and every one of you to know how much I appreciate you sticking around this little blog of ours for all these years.
Don't give up the fight.
Keep your heads up.
I don't know what the other side of this thing is going to look like but I'll see you again once I arrive there.
Your friend and fellow patriot
Kevin McGinty
Well guys, Memorial Day is upon us.
It's the one day of the year we've set aside to honor those who fought and died in order to keep this country safe.
Make no mistake, we owe them a debt that can never be repaid.
Not properly anyway.
We did try.
For years we tried to honor their sacrifices by being the best we could be.
Being an American was something you could truly be proud of.
Today?
Not so much.
We've more or less allowed the so-called leaders of this country to shit on the legacy of those who fought and died for.
We've allowed communists and every kind of degenerate out there to infiltrate our government.
We did have a good run though.
I can't help but wonder if the all those young men and women who willingly lined up to fight on our behalf all those years ago had known how this country would eventually end up would have even bothered.
Kevin McGinty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unleashed in an exclusive Breitbart News interview a blistering critique of what he views as President Joe Biden’s failed leadership of the United States, whereby the president has caused myriad domestic and international crises that threaten American leadership in the world and ordinary American families.
From the Middle-East to Russia, and from China to the U.S. border with Mexico, across the board internationally Pompeo says the Biden administration has harmed the United States and Americans are feeling the costs of these overseas crises right now. What’s more, Pompeo says Biden-created domestic crises with the U.S. economy–inflation on the rise, jobs concerns, and an unclear plan on how to fully reopen the United States complete with mixed messaging on public health measures and energy policy–are demonstrating failed leadership from President Biden just over a hundred days into his administration.
“We have seen this, you just went through at least a partial list of the last hundred something days and how fast it has turned,” Pompeo told Breitbart News. “On the international stage, it is very clear the Biden administration’s inability to demonstrate resolve—resolve delivers deterrence—has broken down some of the things that the Trump administration had established. You now see $6 gas or $5 gas, you can point to problems in the Middle-East that we didn’t have for four years and problems with the pipeline where we’ve now paid ransom money to a bad actor that they think came from Russia but they say didn’t have any Russian connection. This matters to the American people. If you get Middle-Eastern policy wrong, you end up with precisely what you’re seeing in our energy markets today. You close the pipeline, like the Keystone XL pipeline, and you have another pipeline sabotaged and hacked into and then you have rockets being fired from Gaza by an Iranian proxy and it shouldn’t surprise the average American it costs more money to get gasoline if you can even get it.”
Specifically, with regard to the instability in Israel where Hamas terrorists have been firing thousands of rockets and missiles into Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and elsewhere–the worst hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis in nearly a decade–Pompeo puts the blame first with the Hamas terrorists but also with their Iranian backers and the Biden administration’s weak Iran policy.
“The first interest is this has to be hung on the terrorists themselves, the Palestinian Islamic jihadists and Hamas,” Pompeo said. “That’s absolutely the case. The second interest, the money, the military, and economic power that the terrorists have to launch these now thousands of missiles comes from the Islamic Republic of Iran. But make no mistake about it: The Biden administration is sitting even yet today in Vienna negotiating with the very regime that is underwriting terror against America’s ally Israel. How crazy is that to say ‘we’re going to make a deal with you where you can have billions of dollars and you can now have the money that you need to buy replacement missiles and replacement rockets for those that are being flown in from Gaza into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.’ You should note, too, Hezbollah is watching as well. The Shia militias in Iraq that are underwritten by the Iranians are watching as well. If you can attack Israel, why not the American embassy in Baghdad? If you can attack from the west why not from the north—from Hezbollah—attack Israel? If the administration doesn’t make clear that the Iranians will pay a price for this terror, then you’re going to green light their willingness to do so. Real costs—real costs—need to be imposed on the Iranian regime for these attacks coming out of Gaza. If not, the Iranians will feel like they are free to move about the cabin and that will end badly—and it will end badly for the United States of America, too, not only in higher energy prices, but by ultimately if this really comes off the rails, incredible demands for young American men and women to go and fight in these far-off places. We said we weren’t going to let that happen. We didn’t and we established real deterrents against these adversaries.”
The Biden administration’s energy policies—from shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, to banning oil drilling and natural gas exploration on federal lands, to the administration’s mishandling of the Colonial Pipeline hack—have caused real pains for Americans nationwide, too, Pompeo said.
“I was in North Dakota last week with a big gathering of folks who were producing American energy in the Bakken basin, in the Williston basin; these are real Americans busting their tail to produce real American energy that is affordable,” Pompeo said. “They talked about their families, their jobs, their churches, and the fact they had a pipeline shutdown and they have a Green New Deal that is going to regulate their ability to do this in a way that will make prohibitively expensive the work that they do and thereby threatening their jobs and their livelihoods. This matters to real Americans. You mentioned the ban in getting American energy off federal lands—a significant amount of this energy comes from federal lands. By the way, when it is done, it is done in a way that is environmentally friendly and clean. This is enormously costly. Certainly, for those workers and those who are the suppliers to those workers but also to every one of us who has to drive a car, who has to heat and cool our home, and uses electricity for ordinary purposes. Manufacturers in the United States of America who are operating in a highly energy-intensive environment, so the cost to produce manufactured goods in America goes up. But most of this has domestic, real ramifications for Americans.”
Pompeo said that while the negative domestic implications of the Biden energy policies are clear, there are also major national security concerns with what the president is doing. The former secretary of state said specifically the Chinese Communist Party loves what Biden is doing to undermine American energy interests.
“But as a national security matter, this is also devastating,” Pompeo said. “The Chinese Communist Party would love nothing better than to have the United States of America stop exporting energy. This is an enormous wealth creation opportunity for the United States and if we deny ourselves the opportunity to do it on some theory of a Green New Deal, the Chinese Communist Party will just simply give us the golf clap. They’ll applaud. When we reentered the Paris Climate Accords, who cheered the most loudly? Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping cheered because he has no intention of reducing their carbon footprint. They pop out a new coal-fired power plant once a month. They are going to grow on the backs—the Chinese Communist Party is going to grow their economy on the backs of the American worker, and that is a devastating indictment of the Biden administration’s weak foreign policy and reckless disregard for the American economy.”
Generally speaking, Pompeo also said the Chinese Communist Party senses weakness from the Biden administration as evidenced by the first summit between his successor, current Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and Chinese officials in Alaska a couple months ago. Pompeo said the Chinese Communist Party officials took a “jab” at Blinken to see if his actions would match his rhetoric.
“We can all identify weak spots in our adversaries,” Pompeo said. “The Chinese Communist Party has heard the rhetoric from the Biden administration on China. Frankly, the language from Secretary Blinken has been pretty good. But like any fight, your plan—your strategy—only lasts until you get hit in the face at which point you got to make a decision. Are you prepared to fight or are you going to cower in the corner? I assure you, the Chinese Communist Party is going to come hit America in the face because they’re going to want to see if the Biden administration is prepared to respond. That initial meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, was the shot across the bow. It was the first—it wasn’t even a punch, it was a jab measuring, it was a jab from the Chinese Communist Party to see if President Biden is going to return to the weak foreign policy that doesn’t protect Americans, that doesn’t protect jobs, that Obama-Biden had for eight years.”
The weakness and lack of resolve from the Biden administration has also, Pompeo said, unleashed a wave of migrants surging across the United States’ southern border. Pompeo explained that Biden’s decision—for which there was no logic other than purely political undoing of Trump successes—to end “Remain in Mexico” and bring back “catch and release” on the southern border has created historic surges of migration from central America.
“Weakness begets war and strength deters. You could certainly say that on our border as well,” Pompeo said. “We have weak enforcement of our laws. We have an immigration system that is made up of laws. When you refuse to enforce them—or even worse, signal to people in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, that you are welcome here to come up and violate our laws and this is what you’re going to get, you’re going to get chaos. You’re going to get an enormous humanitarian crisis. You’re going to get a very real national security crisis. You’re going to see unprecedented levels of chemicals—fentanyl, drugs—coming across our border as well, destroying the lives and families of Americans all across our country.”
The Trump administration, on the other hand, was according to Pompeo committed to a vision of sovereignty along the border and protecting American workers first when it came to immigration policy. The Biden administration, he said, ripped that up for unknown reasons—the consequences of Biden’s policies have barely begun revealing themselves to American citizens.
“We in the Trump administration understood that President Trump’s commitment to ‘build the wall’ was about broadly defining American sovereignty to protect the American people and make sure American workers got jobs in the first instance, those well-paying jobs,” Pompeo said. “This administration undid that. I don’t know why they chose to undo that. It’s almost like it was a reckless indifference or an intention to just undo anything that Trump or Pompeo had done. We had negotiated—I had negotiated along with Pat Cipollone—we had negotiated with the Mexicans to deliver a policy to turn the magnet off. It was called ‘Remain in Mexico.’ That policy mattered. It told people: ‘Don’t travel through Mexico and put your life and the life of your children at risk because you’re not going to get to stay here in the United States unless you have a valid asylum claim.’ When we did that, everyone could see we were serious about enforcing the policy. It worked. It secured our southern border. Then the Biden administration came in and just ripped it up. There was a real sense that the Biden administration would be weak on the border and when he put Vice President Harris in charge of that, I think that we reinforced. That was the president saying ‘hey, it’s not my problem and I’m just going to hand it off to the Vice President.’ I think that the border crisis that the people of Texas and Arizona and California are feeling today and that we will all feel here in the United States before too long is a direct result of their refusal to simply stay the course and enforce the very same policy the Trump administration put in place.”
Pompeo also ripped Vice President Kamala Harris for failure to step up and do the job that Biden delegated to her—which was to solve the border crisis.
“I was asked the other day about how Vice President Harris said the other day something to the effect of ‘this is going to take real time for us to get this right,’ and my response was ‘you can do it in two seconds,” Pompeo said. “Simply restore the policies we had in place at noon on Jan. 20 and the magnet will be shut off just like that.’ Allow ICE and CBP to do their jobs, this won’t take long. We could get back to that place in a matter of days if not hours.”
When asked what he thinks of Harris refusing to go to the border—she has not for months and has no plans to do so—Pompeo said she is demonstrating a refusal to lead.
“My sense is she doesn’t want to own this crisis,” Pompeo said. “But that’s not how leaders lead. Leaders lead by accepting responsibility and fixing problems. The first step in that every time is to understand the problems and listening to those who are most directly impacted. The only way to do that is to get down there and hear from the people who are both working on the problem—our CBP officials and our ICE officials and the State Department people who are responsible for consular activity in the area as well. These are the people having to deal with this—and then there are the human beings who are affected by it as well, the ordinary citizens. So, yeah, if you don’t listen to them and understand it, I don’t understand how it is you get your head around it. I wish she would do that. But I would say one more thing. In the end, presidents are responsible. So you can’t delegate your responsibility. You can give authority to someone else to deal with it, but your responsibility sits in one place. It sits on the desk of the president of the United States and it’s his responsibility to address this crisis on our southern border.”
To top it all off, Pompeo said that the United States has serious economic woes brewing thanks to Biden’s policies. April’s jobs numbers came in much lower than expected, and inflation is on the rise, signaling concerns over the strengthening economy that Trump left Biden being squandered this early into the Biden administration. Biden’s unwillingness to admit enhanced unemployment benefits from the federal government—which were unprecedented before the pandemic—have added to businesses’ hardship in seeking employees. Pompeo also said “mixed messaging” from the Biden administration on public health measures is complicating reopening processes, and frustrating Americans coast-to-coast. Voters in Pennsylvania, for instance, just stripped Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf—a top Biden ally—of his emergency authorities at the ballot box this week, a sign of that growing unease with Democrats and Biden in particular.
“Let me add one more to this: The Biden administration’s mixed messaging when the science clearly indicates the country can reopen puts an incredible damper on travel where people aren’t going to see their family members and people aren’t headed back to movie theaters and restaurants all because you have the Biden administration wearing a mask in a room when it’s empty and signaling a very anti-science position with regard to this Wuhan virus,” Pompeo said. “Your point is well-taken with regard to this policy on unemployment. That which you subsidize you get more of. You subsidize people staying at home and not working, you give huge checks to people, the incentive system is skewed and people make rational decisions about whether they’re going to spend more time on leisure or more time at work. We need to go, and I hope every governor will go, and undo those unemployment policies that are denying businesses the opportunity to get back—both the opportunity to get back to work because it’s safe and people have been vaccinated and second require people to come back and no longer have the American taxpayer underwrite people staying at home when they are able-bodied and able to work.”
Pompeo advised Republicans in Congress, state legislatures nationwide, and governors around the country to fight as hard as they can against the Democrats and “never give an inch” on anything, period.
“Never give an inch,” Pompeo said when asked for his advice to Republicans. “This is a fight about the soul of America and what our nation is going to look like as it moves forward. You talked about a honeymoon of a hundred days. That makes no sense. I think the Trump administration got about a hundred hours. They came after us hard. This isn’t about being vindictive. This isn’t about being mean. This is about preserving our republic and protecting the United States from the liberal, progressive onslaught whether it’s as you mentioned the $6 trillion they intend to spend—that’s crazy money—you mentioned inflation which will undermine the poorest among us, people without means spend much more of their money on basics like food and energy and things that they need like buying paper and pencils and things they need for their kids to go to school. Inflation will gut their paychecks. The Republicans at every level—not just at the federal level in the Senate and the House, but state legislatures and governors across America—need to defend American workers. They need to support working class Americans all across this country. They need to get their states and their people back to work and back to school and when they do that we need to go fix our school system and make sure it is teaching the greatness of America not the idea that we were fundamentally racist when we were founded. It is untrue and to allow those kinds of ideas—the ideas at the center of critical race theory—into our schools undermines even further the ideas of hard work and family that we know have made this country so special.”
The good news, Pompeo said, is that the future is bright for the right. Republicans are five seats away from a U.S. House majority, and one seat away from a U.S. Senate majority. They also have a path right back into the White House in November 2024, especially if the left continues down the road Biden is taking the country. Pompeo is out campaigning with Republican candidates coast-to-coast in their quest to retake majorities in both chambers of Congress in the midterms, and said he believes conservative ideas will win the day in the end.
“I’m long on America. I believe that the conservative ideas I’ve been out fighting for for an awfully long time—it predates my time as a member of Congress, since I was a young soldier I don’t even want to tell you how long ago—our ideas are right,” Pompeo said. “They’re right for America. I think great swaths of the American people get it. I hear this all the time. They love the policies that we put forward from the four years we had the ability to push them. They truly do. They were things that gave them an opportunity. So, yes, I have been out campaigning for a bunch of candidates. I am going to keep doing that. We need to make sure that President Biden and their runway is as short as humanly possible so that conservatives get elected all across America. I am confident that is going to happen. This nation is not in decline. But we have to choose that. We have to execute that. We have to deliver that. So we need people who are fighting to never give an inch and who are acting in a way that will deliver good outcomes for ordinary Americans all across this country. I believe it will happen, we just need to all—those of us who are principled conservatives—do so in a way that is fearless and bold and articulate.”
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he had been a member of the Republican Party “far longer than” former President Donald Trump and declared that wasn’t going to “let him come in and hijack my party.”
Anchor Chuck Todd said, “How long do you fight to stay a member of a club or reform a club that doesn’t want you? I’m referring to the Republican Party.”
Kinzinger said, “Look, I’ve been a Republican far longer than Donald Trump has, and I’m not going to let him come in and hijack my party and turn it into something that great people like Ronald Reagan and George W. and George H.W. Bush and all the great leaders back didn’t want it to be. I’m not going to let Donald Trump win at that. That’s what the fight is about. I believe in what we used to believe in with 21st-century solutions, though.”
He added, “I think a lot of it is just an overload of information for people. So instead of kind of working through that information, a lot of people have just chosen when venue, what people, what personalities they trust and put their faith in it, I think similar to Donald Trump. I think people have to take responsibility for their own ability to work through misinformation, to remember what the Constitution is about, to be okay with losing power for a little bit, and let that actually reaffirm that you have to go out and win a next generation of conservatives. Right now, again, we’re sitting here with Donald Trump throwing up all the smokescreen of four months ago. We want to move on. It’s hard to do when he keeps bringing it back to a stolen election which, of course, wasn’t true.”
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First and foremost, Little Adam, it's not your party.
The American people have finally had their fill of sniveling, weak-ass people like you.
Time and time again we've sat by watching as you and your fellow rinos sit there on your asses and do nothing.
You're more than happy to just let the democrats roll over you as long as you still get the perks that come with being an elected official in the cesspool known as DC.
No more.
But you go right ahead and make a fool of yourself.
Book yourself on as many communist supporting media shows that hate your guts that'll have you.
Pound your podium.
Let the spittle fly!
By God, I won't allow it!
Here's the deal, Little Adam.
It's not your party. And you're in no position to stop Trump from doing anything.
And just to be clear, it's really not Trump you're going up against.
It's the 80 million American patriots who voted for and still support him.
Get it?
Got it?
Good...
Kevin McGinty
I came across this post this morning and thought it was too good not to share with you guys.
Especially as the communists war on cops escalates to the point of insanity...
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