The Blue Wave

  The blue wave hit, and drowned republicans in the mid terms. The big media talking point is people were angry with Trump's war in Iran. Well, not really. That they were, and are, angry about is the result, not the war itself. Iran retaliated for U.S. bombings by blocking up the straight of Hormuz.
     This is a single point of failure choke point that middle east oil tankers have to go through. So it made the U.S. oil supply more scarce, resulting in higher and higher gas prices. This resulted in jackrabbit inflation because, herp derp, transportation cost. This is most noticeable at the supermarket, as most people buy food on a weekly basis. So as food prices went up and up and up, people got angrier and angrier and angrier.
     People are sick of rapid inflation. They suffered 8 years of it under GW Bush, another 4 years under Biden, and now they are hit with it AGAIN under Trump's 2nd term. This type of inflation almost ALWAYS outpaces pay increases, so jackrabbit inflation really is a pay cut. If you work for a cheapskate employer that doesn't give cost of living raises(I DID!) it's REALLY painful.
     If Trump had bombed Iran and there was no resulting inflation most people in the U.S. wouldn't have given a single fuck. If he hadn't bombed Iran but did something else that caused jackrabbit inflation people would have been just as pissed off.
     While jackrabbit inflation is the main cause for the blue wave, it's not the only one. Part of Trump's so called big beautiful bill cut off a lot of black people from food stamps, and the under 64 aged elderly from health care.
     The reason for the overall bill was understandable. In Minnesota there was a massive $250 million fraud, where a private organization took government money to distribute food to poor children. Instead they pocketed the money and no food ever got distributed to the needy.
     It's not unreasonable to want to crack down on fraud like this, but the big beautiful bill also punished people who committed no fraud and did nothing wrong. It reminded me of gun control, which punishes law abiding gun owners for the acts of criminals.
     The timing couldn't have been worse. Trump bragged about the bill's passage right before the mid terms. The result was many blacks who would have stayed home on election day came out in droves to vote democrat. Elderly republicans who were told "get a job or lose your health care, fuck you if you aren't healthy", stayed home. I don't think there are any polls on the numbers, but I think it's fair to hypothesize that the combination of angry blacks and disenfranchised elderly republicans amounted to a lot of people.
     I don't feel bad for the republicans. They stabbed themselves in the foot repeatedly. That big beautiful bill they pushed through with Vance casting the tie breaker vote garnered them no votes, but cost them plenty. I didn't see much sympathy or effort from them to deal with inflation. That "what me worry kid" attitude from politicians never fails to piss people off, no matter which side it comes from.
I see a lot of smirky, smarmy posts from democrats about how wonderful the blue wave was. Is it? Remember dementia Joe Biden and HIS inflation?
     First, what we are going to have for now is gridlock. The democrats don't have enough votes to override either the filibuster or Trump's veto. As long as the Iran debacle goes on, inflation won't decrease.
     Next race is 2028, with the presidency on the line. I can't predict who will win, but I can say if some shithead like Newsom, who ruined the state of California he is the governor of, gets in, the economy will tank even worse.
     I have no idea if 2028 will result in another blue wave or if people will quickly sour of the democrats and vote red. I guess a lot of it will depend on the republicans not stabbing themselves in the foot again.

Where's the Beef?

 Do you ever let food prices dictate what groceries you buy?
For example I stopped buying eggs completely when the stupid chicken shortage(caused by Biden) resulted in prices skyrocketing to $8 dollars and above for a dozen eggs. I've started buying eggs again now that the price is down to around $2.20 a dozen. What I stopped buying now is beef.
They can fuck right off with $8 dollar a pound prices.
The supermarket near me has 70% ground beef at $4.00 a pound, which is fucking ALWAYS sold out. I'll buy that on the rare occasions it isn't.
Apparently there is a "cow shortage" and if you look up reasons you get a litany of bullshit.
I think the real reason is right out of the TV series Yellowstone. In it there is a rancher in Montana who is CONSTANTLY being hassled by assholes trying to use eminent domain to force him to sell off parcels of his land so they can build condos or resorts on it. So he has to spend a fuckton of money in court to fight them off.
Now this is a fictional tv show, but I think there is an element of truth to that story. Ranching is expensive, so I suspect greedhead developers buy off their land and build on it.
The problem with that is condos/apartments/resorts don't provide the country with beef. So less cows, higher prices. The developers gain is everyone else's loss. I think this is one instance where Trump or his successor should just drop all tariffs on imported beef. U.S. ranchers aren't even producing enough beef to feed the U.S. population, so it doesn't matter if other countries tariff it. A fucking hamburger should not become a luxury item because the developers gobbled up a large portion of U.S. ranch land. Third world countries produce a LOT of beef. If the U.S. can't produce enough, time to ditch the tariffs and import it. 

E-beggars Suck

 

"If you like what I do, buy me a coffee. Subscribe to my Patreon! Gimme super chats!" Subscribe to my channel, only $x bucks a month! Buy me stuff! Buy my stuff! GIMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE, I do it all FOR YOU!!!"

  No, get a job you e-beggin shitbum. Stop grifting. Youtube is NOT a job, neither is FB. A job is where you are forced to get up Mon-Fri EARLY in the morning then lump your tired ass to an office or work site.

Jackbooters Fuck Off

  Today's fuck you is to all the jackbooters out there. You know who you are. You are the people who'll SCREECH about the government taking away your rights when it involves something you WANT, like abortion and the right to smoke weed. But when it's something you HATE, like guns, you push and push and push for ever more restrictive gun laws, advocating the very same police you complain about when they hassle YOU while enforcing a law you don't like, to put all the gun control scofflaws in a cage.

  A pro 2a advocate pushing the war on drugs and advocating locking up the pot heads is just as bad.

Advocates of prohibition of what they don't like are too fucking stupid to realize they are really advocating government be granted ever more power, which can easily be turned around and used against them. 

  Jackbooterism is a disease. The only cure is to accept the things you don't like, so you can keep the things you do.

 

 

New Tech Sucks Big Balls

   I never thought I'd turn into a Luddite. I used to LOVE tech. Bigger hard drives, higher capacity ram, faster CPUs, larger and higher res monitors, FUUUCK YEAH!!
  I haven't changed, but tech did. It has gone through an enshitification process where making money went from making better products for customers to milking them. It's gone from bigger hard drives to renting cloud space, renting apps, and companies selling your data to advertisers and insurance companies. Own nothing, be happy. Fuck that shit.
  Companies have made it hard for independent repair shops and DIYers too. They use digital locks and abuse the DCMA to threaten anyone sharing info on how to break them.Then you have the latest greatest from the tech bros, ai. They are building massive data centers which gobble up both power and water at prodigious rates. I'm sure the increased costs to the water and power companies to feed these pigs will no doubt be passed on to the ordinary mom and pop customers.
  As I stated in an earlier post the tech bros building the ai data centers want to use them to replace all the white collar workers. So we went from tech helping people and providing more jobs via personal computers to stealing ALL the jobs with AI. New tech is cancer.
  To the perpetrators, fuck you and fuck off.

 

 

When it comes to the courts, the gun control side never loses

 Sadly when it comes to court cases, the gun grabbers might not win, but they NEVER lose. The court appeals process is long and expensive, so they drain pro gun groups of money, while the taxpayers are on the hook for the anti gun sides legal bills. The anti constitutional law remains in place the whole time, so at the very LEAST gun owners get screwed out of their rights for YEARS. Then IF(and it's a big if) SCOTUS even looks at the case it usually GVR's it back to the original, anti gun court for "reconsideration". 

Thus begins the 2a circle jerk where the case has to go back through the entire appeals process to get back to SCOTUS. More time the anti constitutional law remains in place, more money drained out of pro gun groups. FINALLY SCOTUS rules said law unconstitutional, YAY, victory, right? Not so fast. The democrats who passed the unconstitutional law in the first place will just weasel word it and pass it AGAIN. An example of that is from Massachusetts. They simply replaced "may issue"(declared unconstitutional) with "good character". What is "good character"? Anything the police chief tells you it is. Good character = may issue. So now it's round robin back through the court system AGAIN. I believe a few other states now have "good character" provisions on ccw applications, but have not heard that any challenges to that have reached SCOTUS for consideration. 

So via weasel wording "may issue" into "good character", may issue is back on some states ccw license applications and will remain so for many years to come. Sadly there is no electoral solution in rock solid blue states like Massachusetts, where the majority of people there HATE guns and even many of the gun owners are Fudds, but for people who live in purple and red states, NEVER VOTE DEMOCRAT, EVER. Primary out squishy anti gun republicans as well. With SCOTUS extremely reluctant to hear gun cases the courts are an expensive dice roll at best.

Yes, sling shots ARE legal(to possess) in Massachusetts

Sling shots are commonly considered to be illegal to possess in Massachusetts. The law commonly cited is section 12 https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter269/Section12

“Whoever manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or sells or exposes for sale, an instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a [long list, not going to post it all here] slung shot, sling shot [list continues],shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months; provided, however, that sling shots may be manufactured and sold to clubs or associations conducting sporting events where such sling shots are used.”

Note the word “possess” is missing from this.
A listing of weapons where possession are specifically banned is listed on Section 10
https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter269/section10

“(b) Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his person, or carries on his person or under his control in a vehicle, any stiletto, dagger or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade, or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches, or a slung shot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles or knuckles of any substance which could be put to the same use with the same or similar effect as metallic knuckles, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown, or any armband, made with leather which has metallic spikes, points or studs or any similar device made from any other substance or a cestus or similar material weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand, or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted ends”

This part of the law DOES mention “slung shot” which causes confusion for many. A slung shot is NOT a sling shot.
From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slungshot

“A slungshot is a maritime tool consisting of a weight, or "shot", affixed to the end of a long cord often by being wound into the center of a knot called a "monkey's fist". It is used to cast line from one location to another, often mooring line. The cord end is tied to the heavier line and the weighted end of the slungshot is thrown across the intervening space where a person picks it up and pulls the line across.

As a weapon
The slungshot was often used as a civilian or improvised weapon; however, the rope was much shorter for use as a weapon. The cord is tied around the wrist, and the weight is carried in the hand or the pocket of the user. A slungshot may be swung in a manner similar to that of a flail or a blackjack.”

This doesn’t mean that knocking over some tin cans in a back yard or woods comes with no risk. A cop could easily misinterpret a “slung shot” as meaning “sling shot” and it’s off you go to the liberal judge. Always remember, the law is whatever the judge tells you it is. So yes, you could still get jammed up, or at the very least get stuck paying out big money to lawyers due to a cop’s misinterpretation of this law.