Time to put prohibition to bed

 I've wished for YEARS both democrats and republicans would DROP prohibition off their platforms entirely. An example for democrats would be gun control. Yes, that does include so called "reasonable" gun laws that aren't reasonable at all. Try applying those same rules to drinking. You have to go down to the police station and beg the chief for a license to drink. No hard liquor allowed, you are regulated to one bottle of wine or a six pack per week, you have to wait one to two weeks to pick it up after order, you have to pass a background check every time you go to buy booze. You need to provide 2 or more references, not related to you that are residents of the state you are living in(just moved in, don't have any local friends, NO LICENSE 4 U!). You have to take a drinking safety course as well.
 Considering how many people have died from alcohol related incidents, none of this is unreasonable, right? After all, no one NEEDS to drink booze.
 As for republicans, give up the war on drugs. It's none of your damn business what people ingest. Same for other "sin" laws, like prostitution and gambling. If someone wants to have a card game for money in their home or roll some dice, it is NONE of the governments business. Outlawing prostitution just leaves the women involved in that business with no where to go if they are abused.The world would be a much better place if Mr. and Ms. Morality, both left AND right stopped being busybodies and left others alone.

The big, NOT so beautiful bill...

  Trump’s big beautiful bill passed and is going to his desk on the 4th when he will sign it. Hoopty fuckin do. The original bill had language in it that stripped short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and suppressors off of the NFA list. But the Senate Parliamentarian, a woman appointed by Harry Reid, a democrat, apparently has the power of Jesus H. Christ when it comes to what can and can’t be in the bill. So this democrat appointed hack of fucking COURSE decided to strip out the pro 2a part of the bill.
  Republicans had options. The bill goes to the house, where the original pro 2a section could have been added back in. John Thune, so called republican Senate majority leader, had the authority to fire the Senate Parliamentarian, and should have done so.
  Instead of doing this, the House republicans replaced the original wording with a balless reduction in the tax to $0, but leaving all the registration(the part that fucking matters) aspects of SBRs, SBS, and suppressors in place. So the current BBB does NOTHING for gun owners, but cuts food stamp benefits, an attempt to balance the budget off the backs of the poor. This is a stupid move that will cost them votes in urban neighborhoods.
  It’s so fucking aggravating how aggressive the democrats are when it comes to gun control, and how weak the republicans are when it comes to standing behind 2a.

To all the whiners about Trump's tariifs, STFU

 I've been hearing a lot of bitching from the media and democrats about Trump's tariffs. The one word you NEVER hear from any of them is "reciprocal". In other words, Trump is tariffing all the countries which have had unfair, one way trade tariffs against the U.S. for decades.

If any of these countries don't like the tariffs, all they have to do is remove their own. Instead, many, like China, are doubling down and acting insulted, as if receiving the same treatment they have been giving the U.S. for years is an insult. It's like a long time bully acting outraged after his long time victim finally gets sick of it and punches him in the eye. Trump is the first president in memory to stand up to the Euros and Asians when it comes to trade.

  I was wondering why that was so and started thinking about an old saying "follow the money". I wonder just how much money both the democrats and republican politicians got paid to sell out the working man for all those years they did nothing as terrible trade deals and one way tariffs caused U.S. manufacturing to crumble while an unsympathetic media and those same politicians told all the laid off workers to "learn to code".

Trump got all this shit dumped onto his lap, and is actually attempting to do something about it rather than ignoring the problem, as all the previous administrations, both republican and democrat have.

So I'd like to say to the media, democrats, and republicans who have ignored this issue for decades and are now complaining about the ONE person in office who is attempting to deal with this, fuck you and fuck off.

  Yes, there will probably be inflation as these shithole countries(including many of our so called "friends") fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo, which is them fucking over the U.S., but that will eventually end when a taste of their own medicine becomes too painful for them, or manufacturing returns to the U.S.

Don't blame Trump for the pain, blame all the assholes in politics and the media who sold you out.

Dying U.S. comics industry getting thrashed by Manga

  There is a reason why manga is crushing it while U.S. comics are dying. It's more diverse. If you like gay characters, manga has that for you. If you like soap opera slice of life drama, manga has that for you. If you like straight relationships and heroes punching bad guys, manga has that too. What manga generally does NOT do is race/gender/sexual preference swap long time established characters. There was never any attempt to "change the fan base", unlike U.S. comics where everyone is now gay or swapped out, the latest example being Moon Knight.
The objective of manga publishers is to sell books, and they do that well. The objective of big comics in the U.S. is to push an obnoxious, woke agenda that is unwanted by people who actually buy comics.
Someone on JDA's show made a point that comics should be trying to interest kids into reading comics. Manga has been doing that for years, while the U.S. industry post comics code authority has made most books inappropriate for kids. While liberals will disagree, I don't think some pink haired twink drooling over Superman's ass is appropriate for children.
I'd say close to 100% of the 40+ comic audience started reading them as kids. Instead of trying to REPLACE the current comic audience with zoomer twots, it should work on keeping that audience and ADDING kids to the mix.

Maine shooting - lack of mental health care

Maine shooting

This is a result of bi-partisanship in the 80's. I've never seen bi-partisinship be anything other than a screwjob from the politicians on both sides to you, and this was no exception. During the 80's many of the mental health institutions were becoming dilapidated and were in need of either extensive repairs or replacement. The "solution" both federal and state politicians came up with was smirkily referred to as "mainstreaming". Instead of increasing funding for mental health it was cut. The politicians closed down most of the mental health institutions and released the patients onto the street. Not coincidentally the homeless population exploded as the crazies failed to adapt to a life they were not prepared for and wound up on the street. The situation now is that with most of the nuthouses closed down it is almost impossible to get in patient mental health care, and even then it is short term, as was the case with the Maine shooter.

"Card recently reported experiencing mental health issues, including hearing voices, and threatened to shoot up a military base in Saco, the law enforcement bulletin said. He was also reported to have been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks over this past summer, according to the bulletin."

So they only gave this nutter 2 weeks after he threatened to shoot up a military base. The ball was dropped. But the ball got dropped in the 80's when the politicians closed almost all the mental health facilities.
Gun control is the cheap band aid the politicians used to replace the nuthouses with. It has failed over and over and over and over again, but neither side to this day wants to pony up the money to build mental health facilities and house the nutters, not even the violent ones. Endless billions for Ukraine, the same for Israel, but not one penny spent to house violent nutters. They just want to take YOUR guns away so you can't protect yourself.
I give a huge FUCK YOU to both parties, but a bigger one to the democrats for not only assisting in creating the situation, but for pushing gun control too.

Wellness check, no 4th 4 U

I was reading about welfare/wellness checks conducted by the police. Some of these have resulted in death. Police conduct those on people if someone calls them stating they think that person has mental health issues. The cops don't need a warrant to force entry into your home for a wellness check. This is do gooderism gone horribly wrong.
A cop is neither a psychiatrist or psychologist, and is in no way fit to determine anyone's mental health. Anyone can call a wellness check on anyone. So it could be a relative who is legitimately concerned, but it could just as easily be some asshole out to get you hassled by the cops. When a cop shows up you have no right to silence. If you refuse to talk to the cop they can drag you by force to a psych hospital. If you resist they will beat or kill you. From what I read the smartest thing is to go outside, close your door behind you and tell the cop you are fine. See, if you let the cop in, they can and will use that excuse to snoop around looking for anything illegal. Even if you meet them outside, a particularly nasty cop can still insist on entry to your domicile.
Now if someone does legitimately have mental problems, or is just really upset because they got some bad news, the last person they want to see is a cop. Unless you are actively being mugged no one likes forced encounters with the police.

Naturally someone who is upset or mentally unstable will get more so after encountering a cop. And naturally the cop will escalate that situation till it becomes violent. Police should not be allowed to force contact with people who are not crime suspects just because some nervous ninny relative or spiteful asshole makes a phone call. During a wellness check you have no rights, you can only tell the cop you are ok in a polite, calm tone of voice and hope he goes away.

Inflation, Damage Control, and the Big Lie

 Inflation has gotten ugly, and it looks like it is only going to get worse.
A friend, who drives an 18 wheeler for a living, says that in some places diesel is up to $6.00 gallon.
The democrats are trying to deny responsibility for any of this by telling the big lie which the press and big tech is dutifully parroting. They are claiming that Biden has absolutely no responsibility for rising gas prices or inflation.
The best lies are filled with half truths and there are a lot of those in the democrats talking points. Their claim that Biden did not ban domestic oil production is true. BUT Biden did ban fracking on public lands. Fracking is the only reason the U.S. regained energy independence. So no fracking, it's back to dependence on foreign oil. The second partially true claim is that oil companies can do fracking but are refusing to do so. Well this is kind of true, but what they leave out is this is due to a court challenge. So the oil companies challenged Biden's executive order and got a lower federal court to rule in their favor. But oil prospecting and drilling is an incredibly expensive operation. It is unlikely the oil companies will resume fracking on any federal lands until the appeals process is over. They are not going to risk setting up all that equipment only to be told they have to pull it all out again a year later.
Trying to claim Biden had nothing at all to do with any of this just isn't true. The other big claim is that it is all Putin's fault. This is fucking outrageous and only the dumbest people would buy into that, but some people are pretty fucking stupid. See, like an old Colombo detective show, the timeline just doesn't match. Putin invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022. Gas prices rose and inflation soon followed when Biden assumed office on January 20, 2021.
To sum it up, the democrats are blaming everything on greedy oil companies and Putin. But in both cases the timeline does not support them. Oil companies were ALWAYS greedy, so it is implausible that they suddenly decided all by themselves to pinch off domestic oil production just as Biden and the democrats took over.
There is a third, and overlooked piece of evidence that the democrats are lying. The green new deal. The green new deal is the Mein Kampf of the democrat party. It spells out exactly what they want to do. One of the main parts of it is to get America off of oil. Not as a long term goal, but as in NOW, ignoring the negative consequences.
Almost everything in the U.S. is delivered by truck. Electric trucks don't work. The batteries take a long time to recharge and they don't go as far as the diesel trucks.

Even if they forced people to buy electric cars, the diesel prices won't drop and food prices won't either. Welcome to inflation eternus.
This is why I despise the "greater good" philosophy the democrats operate under. They would literally force me and every other working schmuck into abject poverty if they thought it would benefit their idea of what the greater good is. To some of the most radical, like AOC, the extinction of humanity may serve the greater good of the planet. While that may actually be true, I don't want to volunteer to die or live in poverty for her agenda. Do you?