It’s been almost a year since my retina detached and set this all in motion. It happened on October 26. I have another checkup on the 18th. But the doctor expects no problems.
Thanks for the support.
If Harris "wins" the election I will be unhappy and I will know there was massive cheating on a scale to hand her the office.
If Oliver "wins" I would be somewhat relieved and I would know I had left my current reality and slipped into a better one, but one still dumb enough to allow rulers to govern others. There's room for improvement.
For me, there's no acceptable outcome from an election.
All elections are rigged because "None of the above; abolish the office" isn't the default on every ballot.
I have no use for a president. I don't need to be governed and I don't need you to be governed to protect me, because I'm an adult, not a helpless child.
It's up to her. She needs to get on it.
When will she be abolishing all taxes, business regulations, and licensing? Before the "election" would be the obvious time.
That's the way you'd promote an opportunity economy. The only way.
Anything else means she's lying.
I would choose my flintlock pistol.
It wouldn't be my first choice, but if things got bad enough that I could only keep one, it is the most sustainable long-term. If I were a nomad without a home base, I might choose differently.
Ammunition is the main reason for my choice.
Black powder can be made at home, so there's less risk from the supply chain or the murderous BATFE's rules. Of course, in such a situation, the murderous BATFE wouldn't exist, so their empty opinions could be ignored.
Powder manufacturing is also why I would choose a different gun if I were nomadic with no place to set up to make black powder.
Lead can be found as trash. I find lead wheel weights on the street all the time, although the zinc ones are becoming more common. You can get a bullet mold the size you need and use it practically forever. In a pinch, you could probably find a way to make do even without a bullet mold.
Patches for sealing the bullet in the barrel can be made from old shirts or handkerchiefs, or can be skipped altogether if you don't mind a loss in accuracy.
Flint or chert can be found just about anywhere, and would be easy to pick up and carry to use later. No, I don't have any locally, but I pick it up whenever I do find it in my travels.
The gun is also simple to disassemble and work on. I think I could keep it running to be passed on to the next generation. If all else failed, someone could probably turn it into a matchlock without too much trouble.
Yes, for defense I would rather have a revolver or a modern semi-auto with a magazine. But unless you can get brass and primers, those won't keep being useful under post-apocalyptic conditions. And, I doubt anyone has enough ammo.
Feel free to explain why I'm wrong and what you'd keep.
Also, until the apocalypse happens, if you want to sign up for the ammo subscription service, AmmoSquared, you can use my link https://ammo2.me/dullhawk and help us both. I've also added the link to the sidebar.
If you sign up from my link, using the "join today" button, once you've spent $20 we each get an additional $25 in our ammo accounts. I put in very little every month, but it's adding up. I hope you'll try it. We both win!
My insider in the local PlastiCrap World told me that a woman got angry last week after being told she couldn't try on underwear. How stupid does someone have to be to think that would be OK? But there's more.
Then she decided to get back at the store by emptying her bladder and colon in the dressing room.
Then, around the time her mess was being discovered, she got caught shoplifting. She was taken away by cops and banned from the store.
Some people would say people like her are why "we need" government.
I say people like her are the ones who'll be v*ting and filling government "jobs". Maybe even running for office. People like her have political power over you.
People like her are why government is a bad idea and why it doesn't work.
They and their employees-- those not ignoring the orders of their employer-- need to be treated as such. At least by those they are victimizing.
If a government employee is threatening violence to stop you from delivering or receiving emergency help, they are worse than Al Qaida, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, Antifa, or the Chinese Communist Party. Combined. Yes, really.
Why are Americans so weak and useless that they allow these enemies to tell them what to do? To prevent them from helping? Oh, right-- because the enemy is armed and has a huge gang providing backup.
No government employee should be allowed to be armed while on the "job". None of them. If that means they can't do their "job", then that's a good thing. Let the people handle it. We can. Better, without violating anyone. Without pretending we have the authority to claim a monopoly of "assistance".
You probably still don't hate government nearly enough.
They like the idea of it but are scared of experiencing it in reality. "Terrified" might be more accurate.
They make bizarre excuses so they can keep advocating for political government. For Rulers and other political criminals. For slavery, theft, superstition, and the ruination of society.
They focus on "corruption" and deny that government is working exactly as it has been designed to work. They live in a state of denial and a state of enslavement; dual "citizenship" for the statist.
They carefully avoid anything which would give them a hunger for real liberty. That would upend their world.
So, "just a smidge" is all they want to taste. It's a sad way to exist, but it's their choice. It's not their choice to impose their cowardice on me.
Me? I want a heaping helping of liberty, and I'm going to eat and digest it all. It's good for the health and good for the soul. Quite unlike the poisonous dish of statism.
I saw it the very first time I saw him, and I still see it. I can't unsee it.
If only real-life political criminals like Walz were as harmless and humorous as fictional authoritarian monsters. We can still laugh at the similarities.
October is also turning out to be a rather busy month with tangled schedules, which is a bit of an issue, but it will work out.
I'll try to not miss any posts, but we'll see how it goes.
More good news is that my bank account is in the black-- I have $3. If you're someone who hasn't donated in a while, or ever before, and you'd like to help me get a little cushion, you can help in various ways. If not, that's fine, too. It's neither your responsibility nor your concern.
I have a lot to do, and some stuff to get, to be ready for the surgery and the month of limited activity afterward. But I have practice, now.
My computer is still dead in the water, but I'm adapting. I really wish I could access my files and pictures, though.
And that's the situation as of now.
If you try to implement this policy on your own organization, you are sabotaging yourself.
Maybe you're doing it because you think it's a good look. It's not.
Maybe you think it is necessary in order to help some people. It's not. You're hurting them.
If you want to sabotage something useless and harmful, like government, then by all means impose DEI-- sabotage-- on it.
But if you like something, keep sabotage far away from it. Hire the best people available, without regard to irrelevant surface characteristics and without worrying about checking certain boxes. Don't self-sabotage so you'll look good to those who want to destroy you.
The one thing that, once heard, either cures the hearer of their belief in statism, or forces them to purge the killshot from their mind as though they’d never heard it so they can keep believing in government.
I know there are many, but there's got to be one that's far more powerful than the others and fits every situation. I'd like to find it. And use it.
What is your best suggestion?
