How old are you?
I'm assuming the people reading this are adults.
How certain, when you're old, are you that you will need exactly nothing from anyone. No money, no personal care, nobody to wipe your ass when you can't? Nobody (or damn few) people paying taxes to cover things that you might need but no longer can go out and earn on your own.
How sure?
Because that's the bet in this election.
You see, one view is that wide-open borders, "nobody is illegal", everyone who comes gets $2,000+/mo without working a single day for any of it, skills are immaterial, desire is immaterial (other than to consume the $2,000) and more. This position, in larger and larger amounts, starting with "your strawberries will go up 25 cents a pint if you don't let them in" then "you won't be able to get your roof done" and now "any Haitian can come" has driven a collapse in women willing to give birth and raise another generation.
You think not?
How many 18 year old young women see their grandma getting $1,500 a month from Social Security, $300 is deducted from that for Medicare (in its various parts including "D") so they get $1,200 a month to spend in total -- and its taxable -- while every illegal immigrant that comes in gets $2,000 a month tax free and then contemplate their future if they decide to have a kid with their boyfriend (hopefully future husband)?
Oh to be sure that's not the whole reason but its part of it, and the left is responsible for most -- but not all -- of the rest too.
Contemplate Harris' incessant bleating about abortion. OK, right to choose. I get it. But then HARRIS let rapists into the nation from Venezuela and Haiti and rape they did, including raping CHILDREN. Tell me ladies, would you rather have access to all the abortions you want all the way up until the baby takes it first breath or not be raped in the first place and thus not have the need for one? How many women want to bring a child into the world that has a 50% chance, because said kid is a girl, of having to deal with the risk of those animals raping her? How many women say "fuck that shit!" and as a result decided not to have kids at all?
And let's cut the crap about the abortion issue in the first place: 90+% of the nation is somewhere in the middle, myself included. The "extreme ends" are "no abortions ever" and "you can abort while in active labor with the head sticking out of the vagina." And yes, that IS the legal structure in a handful of states today, including VP candidate Walz's Minnesota which had that change in law passed WHILE WALZ WAS GOVERNOR and he signed the legislation. To quote specifically from the AG's page:
- Minnesota’s Standard: Minnesota statute guarantees Minnesotans’ right to make decisions regarding their reproductive health care free from interference by the state. This includes the right to terminate a pregnancy. A patient’s decision about whether and when to terminate a pregnancy is between the patient and their provider. (Minn. Stat. § 145.409, subd. 3.)
In other words there is no cut-off of any sort under any circumstances, period.
Harris' position is precisely this when it comes to legal structure and no, Trump's is not the former ("no abortions ever") despite attempts to claim otherwise; he has explicitly disavowed that, never attempted to enact it in his first term and in fact acted on and put his actual view into practice when Roe was kicked back to the States by the USSC -- and his VP candidate has said he respected his State's voters who said "no, that's not our position either." Thus the only plausible read on Trump (and his VP's) position is that it is somewhere in the middle, exactly as is 90+% of the American population and further Trump has explicitly stated he will not seek to stop States that adopt the Harris and Walz view even though he personally (as does his VP candidate) disagrees with it.
How about all this trans shit? If you cut your dick or tits off and either chemically or physically destroy your reproductive organs you can't make any kids, ever, and you can't ever change your mind because you intentionally destroyed your biological capacity to reproduce. This is even more extreme than, for example, a man getting a vasectomy as at least in theory that might be reversible where removal of the testicles is never reversible. The entire trans thing is in fact, at its core, the destruction of reproductive capacity. You may not admit that it is this way but its true whether you like it or not.
The excuse is "well I was told Johnny might kill himself if we don't do that." Well, he might, although there's now study work the NIH funded -- and then pulled the funding on -- because it showed that puberty blockers did not improve outcomes. When that signal appeared suddenly the government didn't want to fund it anymore and nobody wants to publish it either. But whether that's the last word on it or not doesn't matter because while Johnny might kill himself if he doesn't get the pills if he does get the pills with high probability, and ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE TIME if he cuts his penis and testicles off, he will NEVER make a child.
EVER.
How do you know that ten years later he won't want one - or three?
How many children do you know who were utterly certain of something at age 10 or 15 and ten years later still were of the precise same opinion? How many kids go to college and change majors? How many people get married and then divorce? How many marry and stay with for life their first boyfriend or girlfriend? I have known hundreds of kids both in my own youth and as an adult and every single one of them changed their mind between the age of 10 and somewhere in adulthood on something of serious importance in their life.
Who in their right mind pushes a speculative thing at the cost of an absolutely biologically certain one in a population that has a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT probability that one or more seriously-held positions by that individual will change over time?
How about the "need" for a two-income home to be able to afford to live? What happens if you have a kid and then one of you loses your job? Can you really have it all? No, but you can live on the edge of disaster all the time and guess who advanced THAT shit in American Society? Obama, Biden and HARRIS. Think not? How does your grocery bill, rent and car insurance over the last three and a half years compare with the raises you've received?
The entire budget deficit and thus the inflation in the economy is all, right now, in CMS. That's Medicare and Medicaid. Obamacare was an attempt to bail out the medical system on your back and you bought it. So a drug-addled individual shooting up heroin could have "free" medical care you got screwed with a 500% cost increase for shittier coverage and don't tell me you didn't because I used to buy it both for my employees and then when I sold the company I had to buy it personally for myself and my daughter when she was a child. Let me put HARD NUMBERS to this for you: There was not a single college-age adult working for my firm that had a rated cost (yes, every single person was individually rated) over $100/month, most were well below that, and it was pretty darn good health insurance. That wasn't the employee's cost, it was THE TOTAL COST and I know what it was for every individual employee because I wrote the checks. Go find and ask one of the people who worked for me what the payroll deduction was for individual health insurance -- it was $15/pay period. Why? Because ERISA mandates I cannot take more than half nor can I discriminate and deduct different amounts per-person or I lose above the line tax deductibility so there is your proof right on the check stub; most of those young people's all-in cost was under $75/mo. In exchange for being "compassionate", which you were sold, the price you pay quadrupled, the coverage went to shit with most plans now requiring a several thousand dollar a year deductible and at the same time we added 20 million illegal immigrants that are also have THEIR medical costs in your bill because they pay ZERO. What's worse is that what you got was more grift and scam -- not better health. Look at the size of Americans over the last 25 years and tell me it got better! It has gotten much worse!
The same thing happened after Obama federalized all student loans. College costs skyrocketed in the 15 years since continuing the pattern of the previous two decades and now Harris' plan is not to punish the colleges who sold your kid a worthless degree for $200,000, an act of abject fraud, but to try to shove the cost up your ass as a taxpayer. This, if she was to succeed (the USSC has blocked it but Harris and Biden have ignored the decision) would simply make college even more expensive since they would still have zero accountability for screwing your kid.
Why do you think all those colleges and professors endorse Harris when she is all-in on them being able to continue to rape your wallet AND THAT OF YOUR CHILDREN?
How about the unbridled fear being run about throwing out all the illegal aliens and dispatching all the government waste, which is likely at least a third and maybe half or more of all government spending and jobs?
Well, do you like higher prices or lower prices? Do you want to be able to afford a house and are you a citizen? Do you like higher or lower grocery bills, car prices and everything else?
Supply and demand is not a suggestion and every government dollar spent is in fact a tax whether its directly leveled on you or it is indirectly leveled through inflation when the government spends more than it taxes. If you get rid of a large part of demand prices go down and not a little. If you remove taxes by deleting government spending for which there is no benefit other than a government employee getting paid to do nothing of value then once again prices will go down -- and again, not a little.
Will doing that (presuming a candidate was to actually do it) result in a short-term dislocation in the economy? Of course it will. But the wild-eyed improvement and opportunity that will be created by doing so will also flood business back to the US where it formerly made sense to offshore and those lower costs across the board will very-rapidly result in a huge economic boom. If you think not look at 1920/21 when all sorts of insane inefficient crap happened in the years right after the war and rather than bail anyone out or force taxpayers to eat it Coolidge and The Fed said "nuts!" There was a huge economic dislocation but within 18 months all the lost jobs were regained and the largest economic growth EVER RECORDED in American history occurred.
Of course if you don't care about your kids or any future kids -- and you clearly don't if you intend to or already have voted for Harris -- then how about you?
The future has no kids except those born to people who can't think and don't care (thus will not be taxpayers on net), no tax base, no money and if the government keeps emitting credit in their vote-buying handout schemes to millions of illegal immigrants and their cronies in industry, particularly the health industry, inflation will destroy you and ruin the value of your assets, interest rates will skyrocket and there will be no health care available at all or anyone to wipe your ass since there will be no children and thus nobody to do it.
And let me be clear: There is no solution to the problem of falling child-bearing rates other than to change the incentives for higher-intelligence, more-discerning men and women. That means we had better stop demonizing those in that category AND we had better, right now and permanently, restore merit-only consideration for all things, stop putting American citizens BEHIND others and stop forcing Americans to pay other people's bills -- including those who make poor personal decisions, and not on a political lark either -- as a durable, demonstrably and legally enforceable change in how we conduct not just business but government right here in the US. That means dismantling ALL "DIE" policies nationally under pain of prosecution and imprisonment as the unlawful discrimination that it is right here, right now with ZERO exceptions whether in government or private industry.
Oh by the way if you think that's really not necessary how many kids were poisoned in Flint and what color were most of them? Why weren't the lead water lines which had been there for a hundred years poisoning people until recently? Simple: They're not unsafe if you have competent people running the water plant, and Flint did -- the people running it knew what would happen if they didn't do their jobs with competence, the city hired competent people and they lived there, so they'd be poisoning themselves.
Then the city decides to change their water supply but in the meantime has forced out or simply hired incompetent people to replace those who retired who did not have the intellectual chops to understand the requirements. The system was made unsafe by stupidity; rather than keep and hire people who had the intellectual firepower to monitor and balance the water chemistry properly they hired people who couldn't and didn't. The result was a bunch of black kids being poisoned.
If you think this is an isolated incident you're wrong. Its everywhere and you need look no further than Western NC for a prime example. This is also why health has gone completely to shit -- rather than hire people who have the intellectual chops and will report honestly on what is going on we instead hire people who care only about money and either don't understand or don't give a shit. The result of all of this, economy-wide, is the slow destruction of standard of living along with radically higher costs that make having children and building families uneconomic and literally physically dangerous.
You cannot force people to build families, you can only incentivize them to do so. You threaten to and do screw kids down the road because of their race or sex -- specifically because they're white, male or worse both -- and thinking adults will refuse to have children.
They are doing exactly that.
In test after test for the last 3-1/2 years Harris and Biden have gone even further and put non-citizens ahead of Americans. They have done it repeatedly, maliciously and without a care in the world. Tens of billions have been spent housing "migrants" who broke the law to enter the United States at $300+ a night while zero has been spent housing American citizens displaced by natural disasters. Billions have gone to Ukraine and Israel while the people in NC who got trashed by a storm are left with literally nothing and in fact have been stonewalled in their attempts to merely survive and rebuild their lives. Rather than send in the ACOE and Seabees to get roads and makeshift bridges back in place on an immediate basis so recovery supplies can reach these people coal miners from West Virginia showed up with their own equipment and fuel and did what the government said would take six months to a year in three days, several other groups of "hillbillies" with their own equipment took the wreckage and fashioned multiple makeshift but serviceable bridges so relief supplies can flow into the impacted areas and thousands of ordinary Americans in fact did and still are buying and delivering said supplies on their own despite the government actively discouraging and in a few cases attempting to prohibit same. This is a continued pattern of deliberate "fuck you" toward Americans by Harris' administration and her personally while at the same time we are feeding supplies and money to a war their party was involved in starting all the way back to Maidan when Obama was in office along with millions of illegal aliens they have unlawfully allowed to enter and remain in the United States.
I don't know that Trump -- and perhaps Vance after him -- will fix any of this. I remind you that he did promise to neuter the medical monster in the 2016 campaign, I didn't believe him, I said so before the election in my column and literally on election night all three platform planks in which he made said promises disappeared. I watched it happen in a bar in Pensacola at an election night watch party with my laptop on the table.
To be crystal-clear: I do not like Trump, I wrote dozens of articles during the 2016 campaign and over his four years as President critical of him and his administration and I'm unconvinced on Vance. Trump bears full responsibility (and he has refused to address or take responsibility for any of it) for the catastrophe of the first year of Covid and his bullshit literally killed people -- and a lot of them too, specifically with the bonus structure he put into CMS, ventilators and Remdesivir. He also failed to prosecute any of the states that shoved sick older people with Covid into nursing homes and thus slaughtered the other old and frail residents in said places. That absolutely was a federal offense on several levels including, because most of those people were on either Medicare or Medicaid, federal fraud in the context of those programs. He had every ability to throw thousands of people in prison for that crap and didn't so much as lift a finger, never mind "Warp Speed" which we now know was a disastrously bad policy that Biden and Harris turned around and demanded you be needle-raped with after, during the 2020 campaign, stating they believed it was dogshit.
But what I do know is that Harris has vowed to make every bit of public health, energy stability, immigration, and the economy worse never mind deliberately fucking over Americans while providing "help" to illegals along with other nations and over the last 3-1/2 years along with Biden SHE'S DONE IT so its not empty rhetoric or a campaign slogan -- its a realized and clearly stated goal she has been executing on, WITH MALICE, for nearly four years already. And Harris has presided over record deficits -- and climbing, along with record inefficiency; Harris and Biden did not send in the Seabees and ACOE after Helene to put up temporary bridges and roads into the trashed areas, claimed it would take until next spring or later to make progress and a bunch of hillbillies reconnected Bat Cave and Chimney Rock using their own equipment and fuel in three days. You paid for ALL of FEMA, the Seabees and ACOE in the form of HIGHER PRICES for everything while a handful of unpaid hillbillies with their own gear got done in three days what the government didn't even try to begin and thus demonstrated conclusively that in this regard government wasted the money and didn't do the job.
If America votes to fuck itself by electing Harris do not complain for the next four years because all you will get from me is a middle finger in response since you will be receiving exactly what you voted for and the record is clear and on the table for anyone with a room-temperature IQ who cares to look.
Ed: This shouldn't have to go on the -NAD side. It does, however, because both political party activists will try to report it as "arguing for violence" even though it does no such thing. The root of that problem is that current law permits entities like Facebook and Google to have back-door APIs and take reports they have no duty to disclose to you as to who filed them, they can and do act on same via either robotic or simply "oh its from a trusted source thus its true" basis and they have no duty to disclose specifically what they object to in the complained-about work. Any such refusal or obfuscation should void Section 230 immunity; if you're going to grant publisher and provider immunity then they should be required to be "pass through" entities when it comes to complaints much as is the case for a DMCA complaint, and if they don't -- not on subpoena, but originally -- they lose their protection entirely. But that's not the world we live in.
A politician's job isn't simply to win.
It is to win by a sufficient margin that the inevitable cheating, which occurs in every election, is insufficient and if the losing side tries to cheat by enough to actually change the outcome it will exceed the level of plausible deniability among the general population.
Claims that we have "secure" elections and that "every vote counts and none do that are invalid" are always false. That has never been true -- not here in the United States or anywhere else. Simply put there is always an incentive to cheat and people always will because people respond to incentives.
But there is also a margin of plausible deniability. If you win by enough to overcome that then cheating in a sufficient amount to change the outcome runs the risk of an immediate uprising by the losing side.
If your "win" is within that margin then the outcome can be changed and while many will say something like "Not my President" because they believe you cheated, whether you did or not, you still lost from a standpoint of the opposing party supporters because you failed to do the essential job of exceeding that margin even though you gained the office.
You may not like this fact but it is a fact.
The reason you can't cheat in an unbounded amount is that there is a level of cheating at which people will revolt.
I'm not talking about a few lone crazies deciding to do crazy things either -- I'm talking about revolt in the real sense of the word. Despite the bluster and bullshit by law enforcement and people like our current AG they know damn well there is exactly nothing they can about it other than submit if it happens.
Its simply math -- there are about 1 million sworn officers of all sorts in the United States but some 240 million adult Americans. If 10% of half (the losing side) decide they're not going to put up with that shit that's 20:1 or worse odds against the cops and they either stand down or every one of their families, they themselves and everything they own is destroyed.
Nobody goes to war at a 20:1 manpower deficit and survives it when your side is embedded in their homes and property among those you're trying to defeat. If you try that you lose everything including your life and everyone in every law enforcement position from the lowly meter maid on up damn well knows it.
Now there are nations where such acts (e.g. 10% swings by cheating) do happen and people get away with it. They are places where the people have been formerly disarmed as one key element, or there simply really isn't more than one person on the ballot even though there might be (e.g. where there's no such thing as a secret ballot.)
But America is not such a place and incidentally the 2nd Amendment is the reason we're not such a place -- and why we had damn well better never do anything to get rid of it. That implicit threat must always exist as it is the "hard stop" on corruption of the franchise and thus is essential to the continuation of a peaceable society. If it falls then civil war in some form or fashion becomes inevitable and we must never allow that.
So here's reality coming into the last week before the election: Both side's job, if they wish to claim not just victory but legitimacy, is to win by enough that nobody can reasonably question the margin of victory as it is outside the boundary of any reasonable claim of cheating.
Because yes, there will be cheating just as there always has been in every single election.
You're supposed to make the case well enough, as a candidate, that your margin is outside the realm of plausible deniability.
That is a political candidate's actual job.
We'll see if either of the two on the ballot pull that off.
Well Harris voters, if you fall for it (or already did) you deserve it up the ass so when you get it you cannot say it's unfair.
You were promised -- more than once now during this campaign -- a concert by some star showing up to a political rally. That's why you came, and what you got -- instead of a performance -- was a few-minute abortion speech. Zero music, zero performance, all scam.
You didn't show up to see lying sack of shit Harris. Nope, you showed up to see Beyonce. Well, you saw her -- talking about her uterus. That's not what you thought you would get, right, and it wasn't what you were sold -- nor why you stood in line for hours.
Everything you're sold by the left is a lie and y'all just had it shoved in your face so if you fall for any of that crap from this day forward you deserve every bad thing that happens to you and your family as a result of those lies and actual policies up to and including slow, painful death.
We're not killing the planet with oil, coal and gas consumption: We in fact have made the air so clean over the last 30-40 years compared with the one hundred years prior that more energy from that huge flaming fusion reactor in the sky reaches the ground and thus it is warmer, and in the winter its colder because more of the absorbed energy radiates into space without being reflected back downward. I presume you'd prefer not to choke on the fumes of chemical plants and car exhausts like I did when I was a child, right? You've never experienced it but not only did I experience it so did both Obama and Harris and they are both lying to you about how it was and how we changed it., all for the better.
If you're all so-worried about the planet and carbon why don't you drag out of their tony mansions and summarily execute all the executives of the firms running their "AI" schemes, never mind places like Facesucker itself? Those "data centers" use more power and expel an enormous amount of heat into the atmosphere for what purpose, exactly, other than your celebration of pronouns? At least when I burn natural gas I get some actual, tangible benefit: I warm my house or cook food with the heat.
Oh by the way all that Gaia shit directed at us is in fact promoting and enhancing those who really are emitting all the pollutants into the environment today, from air pollution to tons of crap, mostly plastic, into the oceans. No, your straw is not the problem as you almost-certainly throw it in the trash; theirs is thrown in the ocean on purpose to save a fraction of a penny: China and India, to be specific, and they're not slowing down. In fact their rate of pollution is accelerating and you are deliberately promoting your own impoverishment for their benefit. That's right, you're committing slow suicide at the behest of these scam peddlers all of whom love actual no-bullshit Communism (since they'd be the ones with the boot on your neck) and would be perfectly happy to have you shitting in the street because you live in a fucking straw hut!
Oh, the gun thing? Yeah, their "gun control" scam is run on you so if you ever wake up to their scam you can't shoot them when they refuse to stop raping both your wallet and body. The gang-bangers are exempt of course because they don't give a shit about any law and have you noticed they don't throw those assholes in prison even when they're brandishing or shooting people with their weapons on video? What's Chicago's murder clearance rate again? Oh yeah, that statistic is gamed too -- if prosecutors don't bring charges that counts as "clearance" even though your kid is still dead.
Further, if you're black (you know, for real) you have to be a special brand of stupid to vote for the jackasses currently in charge and wanting to be in charge for the next four years, along with all the black mayors considering that in said cities the huge majority of those both doing the shooting and getting shot are black so spare me about how I'm supposed to put up with some sort of "white guilt" struggle session. In fact, you can go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw for that suggestion. Since you vote for your own death and that of your children you're welcome to experience it. Hard pass on that here.
You're told its "so great" to allow all these "poor people" to come into America. What you're not told is that since they're so poor and have no skills the extra demand forces up the price of everything you need, like a rental apartment and food, and oh by the way they have few or no skills even in common life acts such as driving a car so they either rape and rob to take whatever they want or, if they've stolen it from you via the government they just smash into your car, further increasing your pain level personally on top of the financial rape they served up courtesy of your Democrat friends in power.
You think you're so "compassionate" in "helping all those poor people" including in YoooKraine but in fact all you're helping is a bunch of thieves who don't give a wet shit about anything but their bank account balance. Witness the fact that for the last four years they all lied about masks, shots that don't work and in fact tried to needle rape you by force and we now know those shots were contaminated with DNA fragments that can be integrated into your cells and incidentally, that causes CANCER so now if you took them you may well be fucked at any time for the rest of your life with exactly NOTHING you can do about it. Over in YooooKraine something like one dollar in five actually winds up doing something to assist fighting the war (which we instigated when Obama was President) with the rest being siphoned off by various grifts and scams -- some, the evidence shows, by Biden's own family.
Meanwhile after the dickhead governor of NC sat and played with himself along with FEMA (run by Harris and Biden, I remind you) a bunch of toxic white men showed up in NC out of West Virginia with their own fuel and heavy earth-moving equipment, all unpaid, and restored a road into Chimney Rock that the governor said would take a year to fix. They did it in one week and yeah, its temporary -- but now supplies can get in there where prior the town was entirely cut off. Multiple bridges have also been constructed by more toxic white men in both Tennessee and North Carolina out of debris (including wrecked flatbed trailers) with said toxic white men's own heavy earth-moving equipment and fuel to restore access to cut-off areas. Yeah, they're temporary in nature as they were made out of whatever materials could be salvaged from the flooding and won't take heavy loads but they're better than fording a river on foot. Even more toxic white men have run thousands of trips with self-purchased supplies into the impacted areas and even more toxic white people have worked the loading, unloading and distribution of same at churches in particular -- you know, toxic Christian places of faith? Would you like some more toxic white masculinity and toxic Christian faith when something has to get done because people are fucked to the point of dying or are you going to bitch about DIEEEEEVERSITY instead?
You think Harris will be a good President because she has a vagina and is "black" when in point of fact she cackled for years about arresting parents and threatening to throw them in jail because their kids skipped school even when the reason the kids weren't in school is that they were in the fucking hospital, and she thinks it was awesome that she could and did stoke a pen and fuck your life irrevocably even when it was later proved she was wrong. Screwing people without a scintilla of remorse is the stuff of laughs for her and you want that douchebag to be President?
Are you really so fucking stupid you'll vote to fuck yourself when just a couple of weeks before the election she scams you into showing up at a political rally by falsely promising you a free concert? You now have, in your face, a demonstration of every fraud the left has foisted off on you for the last two fucking decades and she did it just before the election so nobody can claim "they don't remember" either.
I guess in about a week we'll find out.