https://www.commanderzero.com/?p=12029
“The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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RANT: When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up to the world around us?
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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RANT: End “Unemployment Insurance” — it’s a scam
Sunday, April 13, 2025WHOA! DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times”
by Cullen Linebarger Apr. 10, 2025 9:30 am
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An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:
– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits
– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits
– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits
In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.
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Time to end that program.
Or at least reduce eligibility. Why should “everyone” be eligible? Maybe a “poor” person with a low paying job should get some “help”. But that’s NOT what’s happening.
If someone filed a tax return in the past year, then they should be planning on their own.
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RANT: It’s only fair that “women’s sports” is for women
Wednesday, April 9, 2025USA Fencing Defends Punishing Female Athlete for Refusing to Face Trans Opponent
Warner Todd Huston — 4 Apr 2025
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USA Fencing is deending itself over its policy of including transgender fencers in the women’s category and for punishing a female athlete for refusing to face a trans opponent.
The fencing organization is defending itself after fencer Stephanie Turner took a knee and refused to compete during a match with transgender opponent Redmond Sullivan last weekend.
USA Fencing immediately disqualified Turner, who had kicked her out of the tournament.
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I wonder who funds USA funding? If it gets any from my taxes, then I hope it gets “DOGE-ed”.
It seems like the woke LGBTQ mafia has infiltrated all sorts of organizations.
Argh! Sigh!
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RANT: Lotto tries to welch on a winning ticket
Saturday, March 29, 2025https://nypost.com/2025/03/25/us-news/mystery-winner-of-83-5m-lottery-may-never-see-her-money/
Mystery winner of whopping $83.5M lottery may never see her money — due to a sudden technicality
By Isabel Keane — Published March 25, 2025, 9:53 a.m. ET
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A Texas woman with a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket may never get her mega payout because officials are investigating the app she used.
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, bought $20 worth of Texas Lotto tickets for the Feb. 17 drawing on the app Jackpocket — a lottery courier service state lawmakers are now trying to ban.
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Why is the Gooferment involved in gambling in the first place?
And, if the “courier service” is a legal business now, what’s the problem?
Will the State refund all the tickets purchased thru the app?
I don’t think so.
And, economics experts have all pointed out that these State run games are a tax on the poor. As well as provide lucrative “jobs” for Gooferment bureaucrats.
Like so many other things run by the Gooferment, the private sector could do it better and give the players a better prompter payout.
Argh!
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RANT: “Climate change” is a ruse for Communist revolution
Sunday, March 23, 2025FROM TOM WOODS’ EMAIL LETTER
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Here’s an insight you get as you grow older:
When revolutionary lunatics demand this or that crazy thing, they’re rarely motivated by this or that crazy thing. They’re motivated by a much bigger goal, and these lesser things are simply how they get there.
For instance:
The “climate change” people, who inanely blame every weather-related development on “climate change” (even when we have the charts showing that weather phenomenon X has actually been on the decline) and who demand radical changes to human life that will mean the decimation of the developing world and the impoverishment of the middle classes in the developed world, are not in fact motivated by climate change.
If they were, they’d say: we don’t care for the politics of Elon Musk, but his company is doing so much to help us reach our goal. So his good deeds in the private sector must in our calculus vastly outweigh the costs of what he does in government.
And yet, what a surprise: that isn’t what they say.
Matt Walsh is absolutely right [warning for delicate eyes: there’s a bad word in this paragraph]:
Elon Musk has done more than any single human on Earth to promote and propagate “green” alternatives. He has one of the largest electric vehicle companies on the planet. By the Left’s climate change logic, he has saved millions of lives and prevented untold number of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other catastrophes. If they took their climate change bullshit seriously at all, they would celebrate him as an environmental hero. They would happily overlook the MAGA stuff because he is — again, by their logic — doing more than anyone else to save the globe. But of course they don’t actually believe in any of that climate stuff or care about it at all, which is why they’re in the process of trying to destroy one of the greenest companies in the world.
I was especially struck by this recent testimony by a former member of Extinction Rebellion, a lunatic group founded in the UK:
I was in Extinction Rebellion for several years. I produced over 60 videos for them and helped with several protests.
I can tell you directly: It was never about the climate. It was about controlling you.
Specifically, it was about mobilising 3.5% of the population into permanent revolutionary protest in order to trigger a Communist revolution. (Per Trotsky, Sharp, Hallam, Mao)
This was told to me directly by some of the leaders of the organisation. I tried to organise some programs to help businesses lower their carbon footprints without lowering profit margins or impacting the GDP, and I was told in no uncertain terms that *solutions* were counter to the goals of the movement and that I should stop.
It was then that I started to realise their true motives, and understand that perhaps I was being taken for a ride.
I learned that Communist countries have had some of the WORST environmental records in existence. What XR was proposing — degrowth, agitation, “decolonisation,” post-capitalism and every other agitprop buzzword — would effectively drop civilisation back to a pre-renewable era and force developing nations into a protracted industrial age, leading to ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more carbon emissions than the incremental improvements found by market innovations.
Population density is a critical function of renewable energy infrastructure. You don’t have a factory. You have a market ecosystem. That’s how technology works. It blew my mind that they didn’t understand this.
After years of pushing against fossil fuels, they were suddenly vehemently opposed to Elon Musk and his EVs. It was mind boggling to witness.
I realised that Musk had singlehandedly done more to reduce emissions than the entire climate activist movement combined. And it’s not close. Mentioning this, I was met with bewilderment and anger.
It was very hard to come away from that experience with much sympathy for the activist left movement. At their best they were devoid of ideas and completely incapable of making meaningful technological or engineering innovations. At their worst, they were actively working against their own stated goals in order to maximise agitation and mobilise discontent toward a destructive revolutionary movement that would ultimately lead to measurably worse outcomes.
Applying Occam’s Razor, it became apparent to me that the goal is Communist revolution, and all these random causes — climate, gender relativism, immigration, BLM, defunding police, Islamisation etc etc etc weren’t about triumphing over injustices, but about agitating blocs of useful idiots into a perpetual state of protest in order to seize power and control in the name of Marxist Revolution.
I thought they were creators and visionaries. I was wrong.
True change comes from the builders.
Yes there are problems on this earth, but they’ll only be solved by you tackling those problems, building useful things and helping to push the species forward.
If you’re smart enough to contribute, you belong amongst the builders.
Although the rest of it rings true, I’m skeptical of the “communist revolution” stuff. These are not the (equally idiotic) doctrines of Marx, which none of these alleged revolutionaries have read anyway. The causes these people champion would have been dismissed as bourgeois decadence by old-time communists. Try championing homosexuality within the US Communist Party during the Cold War, for example, and see what would have happened to you.
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I was stunned when I read this. “Climate change” is ruse to cover for the destruction of society, Always knew it was “Barbara Streisand” — bull <synonym for excrement> — but I thought, at first, it was just a bunch of folks who never studied history. Then, when the fudging and distortion of measurement became common knowledge, I suspect it was just a cash grab from the various public treasuries and rich idiots. This article made e believe that it is an organized communist rebellion to destroy society. Now, I’ll still be polite to the useful idiots, but not so much to the “leaders” of this subterfuge.
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RANT: If Germany’s foreign intelligence agency knew that COVID-19 was from a lab leak, then the USA knew it too
Friday, March 21, 2025March 13, 2025
Germany Knew About COVID Lab Leak Early in 2020 But Hid Evidence From Public
- Germany’s foreign intelligence agency determined with 80%-95% certainty in 2020 that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China — but successive governments kept the information “under lock and key,” according to a German investigative report published Wednesday.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
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Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, determined with 80%-95% certainty in 2020 that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China — but successive governments kept the information “under lock and key,” according to a German investigative report.
The report, published jointly on Wednesday by Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung, was the result of an 18-month investigation.
The investigation found that in 2020, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel commissioned a BND operation code-named “Project Saaremaa” that targeted Chinese agencies and research institutions.
When the BND’s investigation concluded that a Wuhan lab leak was the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Merkel government prohibited the spy agency from releasing its results to the public.
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If Germany’s foreign intelligence agency knew that COVID-19 was from a lab leak, then the USA knew it too!
If so, then how can we believe ANYTHING they said. And the whole “plandemic” with the “it’s not really a vaccine” by Big Pharma was a fraud.
Argh!
Some people and corporations should be held to account.
Argh!
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RANT: Still need to expose the facts around Fauci and the role of NIH in Wuhan
Sunday, February 2, 2025Why Joe Biden Had To Pardon Anthony Fauci – LewRockwell
By Connor O’Keeffe Mises.org
January 25, 2025
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A federal investigation would have all but forced the media to revisit many of Fauci’s unseemly actions, failures, and possible crimes. That would have been uncomfortable for a political establishment that has embraced and celebrated Fauci for decades.
But the real danger of a high-profile Fauci investigation, from the political class’s perspective, would come if the public started to ask themselves why a bureaucrat with such a long track record of failure was embraced and celebrated by those in power. And why he enjoyed so much professional success before retiring with a net worth of more than $11 million.
Such questions could lead people to consider that maybe the decades of mistakes that transferred hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to public health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and the crony healthcare system as a whole were not mistakes after all. That, perhaps, the federal public health apparatus is nothing more than a racket and that officials are professionally rewarded, not for keeping us safe, but for protecting and expanding that racket.
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I am for turning over all the “rocks” and see what scandals “crawl out into the sunshine”. I’d start by getting low-level aides and secretaries in front of grad juries, immunize them, and just ask questions. I don’t want “lawfare” on regular people who just were doing their jobs for bad people. I want “the truth”!
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson
I really do.
We need to understand what happened so as to prevent it from happening again.
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RANT: Seems just a tad hypocricial
Saturday, January 18, 2025https://www.amren.com/news/2025/01/vatican-cracks-down-on-illegal-entry-into-its-territory/
Posted on January 16, 2025
Vatican Cracks Down on Illegal Entry Into Its Territory
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú, Catholic News Agency, January 15, 2025
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The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to illegally enter its territory in areas where free access is not allowed.
In a decree issued last month by the Holy See, the monetary sanctions and prison sentences for those who violate the strict security regulations of Vatican City have been considerably increased.
The document, signed by Cardinal Fernando Vérguez Alzaga, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, provides for monetary fines ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 euros (about $10,200 to $25,700) and prison sentences ranging from one to four years.
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Are you kidding me?
Seems very “good for thee, but not for me”.
If the childmolesting clergy wasn’t enough of a turn off, then surely this is!
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RANT: And now we all know why Pfizer wanted the data hidden for 75 years!
Tuesday, January 14, 2025Pfizer’s secret documents reveal that their COVID vaccine actually made you 8.7% more likely to get COVID
- Buried in the documents that Pfizer wanted hidden from public view for 75 years there was a table that revealed that their vaccine actually had negative efficacy.
Steve Kirsch
Jan 08, 2025
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Pfizer tested all participants in their Phase 3 trial for N-antibodies. The results were kept hidden from the public. It was only through court order that we finally know what the results were.
Do you think they would have kept this data secret from the public if it showed good news? Heck no!
The table showed that Pfizer only had around 50% protection if you just take the table at face value. But if you interpret the table correctly, it shows Pfizer had negative efficacy.
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And now we all know why Pfizer wanted the data hidden for 75 years!
It ain’t because it showed why we needed their “vaccine”.
I’d like some heads on pikes! From Pfizer, the Gooferment bureaucrats, and the politicians. Pfizer has immunity from damage suits by Federal diktat. But DJT47 can make that go away FOREVER.
My biggest concern is what I call the “thalidomide effect” where side effects aren’t known for generations later. Argh!
I think it’s time for public trials. And, Pfizer should be give a corporate “death sentence”. Like Enron, their stock value should go to zero. If nothing else, 100% corporate tax on all past profits from this pseudo-vaccine.
Argh!
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RANT: Yet another heart attack?
Tuesday, December 31, 2024https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/sports/juan-jaime-former-braves-pitcher-dead-at-37-after-heart-attack/
Juan Jaime, former Braves pitcher, dead at 37 after heart attack
By Justin Tasch
Published Dec. 30, 2024, 2:50 p.m. ET
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Juan Jaime, a pitcher who made several appearances for the Atlanta Braves in 2014 and ’15, has died of a heart attack, according to MLB reporter Hector Gomez.
Jaime was 37.
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Sorry but what was his covid vax status.
Thirty year olds don’t have “heart attacks”.
Argh!
Is anyone paying attention?
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RANT: Amazon advertised a great price and then failed to deliver; that won’t be relevant to all customers
Friday, December 20, 2024EMAIL FROM AMAZON
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Please edit and resubmit your review
Hello Ferdinand J. Reinke,
We couldn’t post your review because it focuses on one or more of these topics:
Sellers
Delivery
Packaging
Pricing
Availability
Why isn’t that allowed?
These aspects vary by order and won’t be relevant to all customers. That said, we want your feedback about sellers and packaging, just not in product reviews.
Please edit and resubmit your review. Before you do, make sure it meets all of our community guidelines.
Your review
Apple AirPods Pro 2 Wireless Earbuds, Active Noise Cancellation, Hearing Aid Feature, Bluetooth Headphones, Transparency, Personalized Spatial Audio, High-Fidelity Sound, H2 Chip, USB-C Charging
I think the sale was a scam!
I took advantage of a Prime Day sale on the new AirPods. Funny that package NEVER gets delivered. All my other Amazon deliveries go off with no problem. I suspect that this was bait and switch. Advertise a great deal and then never deliver. I am…
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AMAZON sale was a scam!
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RANT: ‘Lie of the Year’?
Wednesday, December 18, 2024https://www.theblaze.com/news/politifact-lie-year-trump-biden
PolitiFact decimated on social media after awarding ‘Lie of the Year’ to Trump
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Has to be that Befuddled Joe wouldn’t pardon Hunter!
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RANT: Anyone want to argue that the non-profit NCAA is nothing more than the NFL “farm teams”?
Thursday, December 12, 2024FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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College Football Playoffs
The field for the inaugural 12-team college football playoff was revealed yesterday, with Big Ten champion Oregon capturing the top seed. The Ducks are followed by No. 2 Georgia, No. 3 Boise State, and No. 4 Arizona State, with each of the top four receiving a first-round bye.
Under the new system, the opening round will have the higher-seeded teams host games on campus: No. 5 Texas will host No. 12 Clemson; No. 6 Penn State will welcome No. 11 SMU; No. 7 Notre Dame faces No. 10 Indiana; and No. 8 Ohio State will take on No. 9 Tennessee. The biggest debate of selection day was SMU, which lost the ACC championship on a last-second field goal, nudging out Alabama.
A significant amount of money is at stake. Roughly $115M will be distributed across the conferences based on which teams advance (see details).
The first round will be held Friday, Dec. 20, and Saturday, Dec. 21. See the full schedule of bowl games here; see a playoff bracket here.
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Sorry but all this chatter about “non-profit”, “amateur athletes”, and “student athletes” is just a “Barbara Streisand” smoke screen for Gooferment Skrules to rake in big bucks from “We, The Sheeple”.
Time to divest “education” from “entertainment”.
Argh! Now that “amateur athletes” can make big bucks from “Name, Image, and Likeness”, lets cut the <synonym for excrement> and stop fooling everyone.
This is nothing more than gambling by Gooferment institutions using Taxpayer money and defrauding those same Taxpayers at the same time.
If you use my Tax dollars, then you can’t use them for anything but “education”! Privatize these “State Actors” away from the font of Taxpayer money.
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RANT: So if Hunter Biden can’t invoke the Fifth, then it means all his “co-conspitors” are in jeopardy
Wednesday, December 4, 2024https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3246790/pardon-fifth-amendment-trouble-hunter-biden/
Pardon means Fifth Amendment trouble for Hunter Biden
By Kaelan Deese
December 2, 2024 12:37 pm
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In the hours since the pardon, Republicans, along with legal experts, have elevated the significance of what the younger Biden’s pardon means for their long-standing investigations, contending that it opens up the playing field for lawmakers to question him on nearly everything he has now been pardoned from over the past 11 years.
Under the Fifth Amendment, people can refuse to answer questions if their responses might incriminate them in criminal cases. However, with all criminal liability now erased by the pardon, Hunter Biden could face contempt charges if he refuses to testify before congressional panels.
“Well, this now makes it much easier for a GOP Senate/House to call Hunter as a witness about his and his dad’s connections to Ukraine, etc. because the pardon prevents Hunter from asserting the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself,” Mark Smith, a constitutional attorney and host of the Four Boxes Diner legal analysis show, wrote on X.
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If I was at all connected to Hunter Biden, then I’d be worried.
See he has a BIG Get Out Of Jail Free card. Unless you have one, you’re screwed. He’ll have to testify against you.
(Don’t know what happens if he refuses?)
So, like when the authorities go after any organized crime, they flip the bottom run to testify against the next rung up. Until they reach the top.
I’ve often thought that in the cases of election fraud, get the underlings, arrest them, and threaten them with prison and watch how fast they will turn states evidence against their boss. Or bosses.
It should be very entertaining to see whose hands are “dirty”.
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RANT: If Hunter can get a pardon, why not Ian Freeman, Snowden, Assange, and all the J6-ers?
Monday, December 2, 2024If Hunter can get a pardon, why not Ian Freeman, Snowden, Assange, and all the J6-ers?
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RANT: Tell John Oliver that Illegals do comit crimes
Saturday, November 30, 2024Illegal Migrants Less Likely to Commit Crime? Guess Again.
By John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations
November 25, 2024
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In June, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was charged with the murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland. Police in Oklahoma tracked the accused repeat offender down with a sample of his DNA recovered from a Los Angeles home invasion in which a nine-year-old girl and her mother were assaulted. Police say he came to the U.S. illegally to escape prosecution for at least one other murder in his native El Salvador in December 2022.
“That should never have been allowed to happen,” said Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, referring to the numerous missed red flags the case presented. His office apprehended Hernandez in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsgzg3RyF0
RNC & ”Migrant Crime”: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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John Oliver discusses the wave of people claiming there’s a wave of “migrant crime,” where the term came from, and what we can do next.
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When I listened to John Oliver’s show, I was admonished that there was no such thing as “migrant crime” and the term came from the evil Republicans.
Well here is one specific example that counters that argument.
Any even the liberal media has reported a lot of “migrant crime”!
Surly, this deserves an “update” when he comes back from his end-of-season break?
I hope that all the bad guys can be deported and we can get back to some peace in our country,
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RANT: Someone needs some education about the “facts of life”
Friday, November 29, 2024https://wokespy.com/scottish-government-tells-high-court-men-can-too-get-pregnant/
Scottish Government Tells High Court Men Can Too Get Pregnant
By Josh Slocum / November 27, 2024
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Oh, Scotland. You were once a kingdom celebrated in legend and song for your marauding men and bonnie lasses scrapping it out on the border with England as you fought to maintain your culture. Your border reivers were the forerunners of the outlaws and cowboys in the American West. You gave the world James I (of England), who gave the world the most revered translation of the Bible.
Now, you’re in court making asses out of yourselves. And for what? “Pregnant men” and “male lesbians.”
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Are all politicians and bureaucrats just that stupid?
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RANT: Withdraw the USA from NATO NOW!!!
Wednesday, November 27, 2024NATO is saying it is planning targeted precision strikes on Russian territory; Britian and France saying they want to deploy troops; are these people insane? crazy? did they not hear Putin say if they hit Russian soil with western missiles etc. that this can activate a nuclear war? Who is doing this driving us to WW III? Who are the deranged crazy lunatics doing this?
Dr. Paul Alexander
Nov 27, 2024
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Withdraw the USA from NATO NOW!!!
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RANT: Our old “friend” shrinkflation is in the news; it’s this a deceptive trade practice
Tuesday, November 5, 2024Kellogg’s ridiculed for drastic efforts to hide shrinkflation: ‘Just laughing at us’
By Tilly Armstrong Assistant Consumer Editor For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:36 EDT, 28 October 2024 | Updated: 12:09 EDT, 28 October 2024
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Kellogg’s is resorting to ‘deceptive’ ways to distract shoppers from its shrinkflation tactics.
A photo shared on Reddit highlights how the brand has made its family-size Special K box taller – while actually reducing the amount of cereal inside.
Shrinkflation is when products shrink in size or quantity while the price remains the same or even increases.
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Unlike “price gouging” that I approve of, “shrinkflation” IMHO is a deceptive trade practice designed to fool “We, The Sheeple”. As such, it should be actionable. Companies should not be permitted to defraud the consumer this way. (Other ways may be permissible?)
At the very least, the FTC should force them to rebrand their packaging.
Maybe as punishment, they should be required to put a “shrinkflation” notice prominently.
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RANT: “Click to cancel” is a good rule
Tuesday, October 22, 2024https://www.androidauthority.com/ftc-click-to-cancel-rule-3491150/
FTC cracks down on subscription tricks with click-to-cancel rule
- From streaming services to gym memberships, the new rule will make it as easy to cancel as it was to sign up.
By Matt Horne
October 16, 2024
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TL;DR
- FTC’s new click-to-cancel rule will ensure canceling subscriptions is as easy as signing up.
- The rule targets deceptive subscription practices and applies to renewals, free trials, and continuity plans.
- Businesses will have 180 days to comply or face a fine.
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The broader rule goes on to address misleading advertising practices and provides other protections against deceptive negative option marketing. Most parts of the rule will go into effect 180 days after publication, giving businesses time to comply and avoid potential penalties.
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Why did it take them so long and why did the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah have to do it first?
What all does it cover?
Didn’t see that banks and credit cards were included.
Now what about “misleading advertising” by the media as well as politicians and bureaucrats?
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RANT: A tax on the poor
Friday, October 18, 2024https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/us-news/mega-millions-ticket-price-more-than-doubling-to-5/
Mega Millions ticket price more than doubling to $5 — with promise of bigger jackpots and higher odds
By Allie Griffin
Published Oct. 8, 2024, 2:50 a.m. ET
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Mega Millions tickets will more than double in cost next April from $2 to $5 a pop, lottery officials announced Monday, adding that the new price tag will come with higher cash prizes.
The price increase will come with greater odds of scoring bigger jackpots as part of a “mega overhaul” of the lottery launching in April 2025, Mega Millions said.
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Sorry, but this is just a tax on people’s hopes and dreams. And the tax collector is the biggest winner.
I’d like to see the Gooferment make some regulations to bring back “fair play”.
- No taxes on winnings.
- No repayment of welfare benefits on any “small” winnings.
- No unclaimed prizes should go the Gooferment; throw it in the next pot for drawing,
- Strict regulation on “employee compensation”.
- Strict privacy for big winners.
- And all numbers from 0 to 99.
Then, maybe it would be “fair”.
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RANT: Stolen license plate reported on Nextdoor
Sunday, October 13, 2024Some poor soul had his front plate stolen. While it might have been an (old) prank, it’s more likely a prelude to criminal acts.
The consensus was that the following actions should be taken immediately:
STOLEN PLATE REACTION
- Police — make a report & get a copy
- DMV — get some documentation & new plates
- Insurance — make a report and change plate number
- Ezpass — make a report & if you’re an expats holder change plate number
I, for one, will start checking my plates every day.
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RANT: Stephen A. Smith is right; Guess MLB doesn’t see all the gambling sites they advertise
Wednesday, October 9, 2024https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-13913071/pete-rose-mlb-ban-blasted-stephen-smith.html
Stephen A. Smith issues scathing verdict on Pete Rose’s MLB ban after baseball icon’s death aged 83
- Pete Rose is considered a baseball legend but is not in the Hall of Fame
By Jake Nisse and Oliver Salt
Published: 16:01 EDT, 1 October 2024 | Updated: 07:15 EDT, 2 October 2024
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Stephen A. Smith has blasted Pete Rose’s MLB ban following the baseball icon’s death at the age of 83, saying that ‘murderers have been let off quicker’ than he has.
Rose, MLB’s all-time hits leader, was handed a lifetime ban in 1989 after he was found to have bet on the Cincinnati Reds as both a player and manager of the team.
That meant that the baseball icon was never inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame before his death, and ESPN’s Smith raged against the treatment Rose was shown on Tuesday morning.
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MLB is a bunch of hypocrites.
All sports are now advertising gambling sites.
“Lifetime” is a long time. This was the sports equivalent of a death sentence,
I’m sure no MLB executive ever gambles on baseball.
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
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RANT: Funny how DOJ selects targets for its “rage”?
Saturday, September 28, 2024*** begin quote ***
The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched yet another blatant attack on state sovereignty and election integrity, this time setting its sights on Alabama.
In an outrageous move, the DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Alabama for daring to clean up its voter rolls by removing illegal noncitizens from the system ahead of the upcoming general election.
This lawsuit, spearheaded by Biden’s weaponized DOJ, accuses the state of violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), citing so-called “Quiet Period” provisions meant to prevent last-minute adjustments to voter registration lists.
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Jumped right on anything that removes illegal voters!
Interesting how they chose their targets.
Like the prosecution of NYC Mayor Adams, when he complained about the illegals getting dumped in his city.
Argh!
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RANT: Social Security Insurance is just a racist inter-generational Ponzi scheme that has zero chance of “success”
Wednesday, September 18, 2024Just saw you 8/11 reply to my “no tax on sosec” comment
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It’s a solid plan if they increase the current security tax on high earners, otherwise it’s an untenable solution. Seems to be some support to raise SS tax on earners above the $165k threshold and again at $250 which would keep SS solvent for a few more decades
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Raising taxes on “high earners” is just giving the Gooferment more money to waste.
Recognizing that Social Security “Insurance” is just a racist inter-generational Ponzi scheme that has zero chance of “success” like any Ponzi scheme.
Note that FDR chose the word “insurance” very carefully because at that time “insurance” was highly regarded as “safe”. He knew full well that this was a fraud because there was nothing “saved” to pay benefits. It should have been obvious to the rubes when the first (white) woman “retired” after making one tax payment into “social security insurance”.
I recently read an analysis of one case where the fellow paid in X$ (I can’t find the gripe) and received back about ½X$. That’s nominal dollars with no adjustment for inflation. He ran a simulation if the original X was invested in 50/50 Tbills and S&P500. That portfolio would be valued at about 6X at his retirement. He compared his Z$ monthly benefit with the 4Z$ monthly annuity he should have had.
I have also read many times that Social Security has a negative ROI of between 12 and 40+%.
It’s a national disaster. And, BTW it’s has about 70T$ in unfunded liabilities. No amount of tinkering will save it.
Argh!
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Wish I could find all the things I have read about Social Security.
One time, on a bored commute into NYC for work, I computed that I’d have to live to 132 in order to “steal” back what was “stolen” from me in SSI payroll taxes. And that was on a “nominal basis” with no adjustment for inflation.
Argh!
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RANT: Where was the predicted “heavy fog” this morning?
Friday, September 13, 2024Where was the predicted “heavy fog” this morning? I am always amazed that “they” can’t predict weather 12 hours ahead, but “climate change, global warming, global cooling” will wipe humanity out in five, ten, twenty, fifty years! Argh!
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