As America goes from bad to worse, you have no doubt considered packing up and getting the hell out. You may want to sell what you can and hightail it to another country— you, your belongings, your family, and your money. Perhaps Costa Rica crossed your mind, or maybe the Caribbean or some backwater European country. Odds are you did not give it much serious thought. After all, such a move would be monumental and life-changing. Would your family rebel or play along? Can what you do to earn a living be transferred to St. John island or Romania? What about the kids, their friends, and their schools?
Have you considered how and if you can move your assets legally out of the United States? There are laws aplenty that prohibit all sorts of transfers. Understanding the laws is a priority. It’s probably not a good idea to convert everything to gold coins and hide them in your sock drawer. Government agents and moving companies know that trick, and they know about hiding currency in framed family portraits.
There are consultants who specialize in moving people out of the country, but they are rather expensive. And you best not try this on your own. But if you feel that America has NO future, then you should at least investigate alternatives. It’s easier to move to one of the red states such as the Dakotas, Montana, Texas, or Florida as I did. Laws are better there, but the feds still exert a lot of control. Whatever you decide, it will take a gargantuan amount of planning. But remember, in the final analysis, there is no alternative to America.
P.S. I have a friend who hordes beer, gold, food, guns and ammo. He feels he is prepared for what may come. And yes, I have considered paying him a long visit.
The Current State of Things
The current state of things—well, I can just say it sucks and be done with it. But I suspect you would like a bit more color.
The current state of things is depressing. I long for how things used to be . . . not so long ago. I think back to America under President Donald Trump. We had low, low inflation. Mortgages were about 3 percent, sometimes a tick more, sometimes a bit less. Food inflation was virtually nonexistent. Government regulations were on the decline. The world was at relative peace.
Russia and China knew not to mess with America while Trump was in charge. Immigration was under control, and the Southern wall was being built. The price of oil and gas were insanely lower than they are today. DEI and CRT were not making daily headlines. Schools were not overrun with transgender activists demanding access to girls’ sports teams and girls’ locker rooms and bathrooms.
Today things are worse than they have been in years. Prices are through the roof. Government printing of money knows no end—$35 trillion in debt and climbing. The annual interest on our debt now exceeds the defense budget. The entitlement mindset of liberal Democrats is putting an end to work ethic. Illegals are enjoying money thrown in their direction by every level of government for free hotel stays, stipends, cell phones, and more.
Consider these—mortgage rates over 7 percent, oil at $80 per barrel, gas at $3.50 per gallon, crime out of control, daily news stories of transgender rights splashed across the front page, parents given no opportunity to opt their kids out of LGBTQ+ indoctrination and lesson plans. It seems as if half of all news stories are about one branch of the government suing another branch. The idea of working together for a common good has been lost on left-leaning Democrats. Their thirst for power would make our country’s founders gag at what the government has become—a cesspool of special interests jammed down our throats. The federal government and the executive branch have overreached their authority. This November, Americans will have the opportunity to VOTE OUT the administrative state.
Joe Biden: Trouble Knows My Name
You know, it occurred to me that if Joe Biden is competent enough to debate Donald Trump, he just may be competent enough to stand trial. I think Special Counsel Robert Hur of the Justice Department erred in his judgment. The 388-page report didn’t seem to support the conclusion that President Biden is competent enough to debate and lead the nation. It will be interesting to see if Mr. Biden is jacked up on medication as he was during his State of the Union address.
Ordinarily, he just slips, falls, slurs his words, reads off the teleprompter, lies, makes up shit, and sniffs small kids. If he is able to string together an intelligent sentence during the presidential debate, I suspect his physician will have given him a little pick-me-up. After all, the only thing Joe Biden can do unassisted is fall and get in trouble.
Extinguishing Capitalism from America Will Only Benefit the Socialists
Karl Marx is often quoted as saying, “Socialism is the road to communism.” The more regulatory powers that executive branch departments wield at the expense of entrepreneurial capitalism, and the more they choke off innovation so all outcomes are equal, the faster will be the destruction of capitalism.
If Democrats had their way, there would be NO small businesses. Why? They’re too hard to manage. The autocratic state prefers a limited number of BIG businesses it can keep under its thumb and control. If the autocrats had their way, ALL prices would be controlled and all production centralized and controlled by those inside the Capital Beltway. It kind of sounds like North Korea. The government directs all production and distribution. Lord help you if you are an enemy of the state.
Chaos at the Southern Border vs. Chaos at a House of Representatives Committee Hearing
When AOC and MTG get into a cat fight—screaming and yelling at each other at a House committee meeting—at least they are not given debit cards and free cell phones like all the illegal aliens pouring across our Southern border. Instead, it just makes worldwide news! Go online, and look at the two congressional ass-hats going at it.
A Really BIG Day
Come November 5, 2024, there will be 33 Senate seats and 100 percent of all House seats (435) up for grabs. It should be quite a show! Be sure to watch how corporate mass media spin conservatives as out to destroy democracy and how liberal socialists are out to save us.
Harken back to the days when Donald Trump was President. According to the Pew Research Center, in the early days of his presidency, they discovered that 62 percent of media coverage was negative, and 5 percent was positive. I may be a simple fellow, but that doesn’t sound like happenstance. Just like Joe Biden’s cluster f**k at the Southern border, it was premeditated.
Studying Non-Binary Poetry at an Ivy League University Prepares Students for NOTHING in Today’s Job Market
I read a lot. It helps me write as I do. And in all my readings, I have run across no shortages of non-binary poetry scholars, comparative lesbian history as portrayed in modern novels, diversity coaches, inclusion counselors, and the like. At the same time, I have noticed numerous help wanted ads for electricians, carpenters, construction workers, plumbers, welders, and home builders. I suspect that as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and a host of other liberal elite universities churn out more and more BAs and MAs in the woke arts, the only job openings for these graduates will be in colleges and universities that teach those courses.
Imagine your son or daughter coming home with a master’s in diversity studies, only to be offered one job as a teaching aide at a liberal college in New Hampshire with a starting salary of
$45,000 per year. It would be better to send your offspring to trade school to learn underwater welding. The starting salary on an oil rig is $140,000 per year.
From patriotic American actor James Woods: “Imagine if there were a Constitutional amendment that made election day a federal holiday and paper ballots may only be cast in person by American citizens, registered voters who present a government issued voter ID.”
DEI Is Not Spoken Here
I don’t respond well to pronouns. In fact, I don’t respond at all. Should you insist that I refer to you as they, them, it, or cabbage, I simply don’t engage and walk away. No power on earth will make me buy into your delusion. ’Nuff said.
Overachievement Can Be Found in the History Books
Gone are the days of multi-tasking overachievers taking their Blackberries or i-Phones into the bathroom to send one more e-mail while they sit on the toilet. Gone are the days of working for 12 hours in hopes to get ahead and succeed. Mind you, the jackass Senator from Vermont, Bernie the SOCIALIST Sanders, is calling for a 32-hour workweek because Americans work too hard and need more family time and down time to enjoy themselves. All the while the federal government is providing more and more entitlements so rich people’s money is redistributed and everybody can enjoy equal economic outcomes. My guess is that the only folks who are still making a difference and WORKING are the hated entrepreneurs who take risks and build what others are unwilling or unable to do. When you come across the word ACHIEVEMENT in a history book, you will likely find a picture of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.
Maryland Parents Are Told Their Children MUST Be Indoctrinated in DEI and LGBTQ+ Culture in Public Schools – You Have ZERO Choice in the Matter
I recently read of a federal appeals court ruling that ruined my otherwise tranquil Saturday morning. It seems that Maryland’s largest school district does not have to allow parents the opportunity to opt out their young elementary school-age kids from LGBTQ+ class lessons. In a 2–1 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Montgomery County parents cannot opt their kids out of the county’s gay, lesbian, and transgender class lessons on religious grounds.
Parents and a parents’ rights group sued Montgomery County Public Schools after learning they could no longer opt their children out of reading LGBTQ+-inclusive books or having similar type of in-class instruction. Trump-appointed Circuit Court Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. wrote a dissenting opinion. He stated, “The board’s refusal to grant the parents’ requests for religious opt-outs to instruction with the books the board required be used to promote diversity and inclusivity to the LGBTQ+ community forces the parents to make a choice—either adhere to their faith or receive a free public education for their children. They cannot do both.”
Commercial Corner
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1. This is an exceptionally written book and a fast read in which the author, Rodger Friedman, uses just enough humor and wittiness to describe the current state of our country and concern that we are moving in the wrong direction. His compilation of factual content, political events, and excerpts from various articles, historical documents, newspapers, speeches, and books sited in this piece are well researched, enlightening, and informative, but often leaves you stunned and surprised that people in positions of authority in our country could support such absurd ideas and policies and blatantly ignore many basic common sense principles. This book is a must read for conservative thinkers, the misinformed, and/or uncommitted population, and those who have been living in a bubble and need a quick education of what is truly happening in our country.
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3. An honest attempt to inform Americans of what is occurring in our country in a way that is at times entertaining and lighthearted. It is easy to read and understand. It is, however, due to the subject matter, a book that after reading 2 or 3 chapters, you need to put it down to reflect on what is being told; only to rush back to read more.
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