Summary of the 2016 Election

Why Steve Bannon is Being Attacked

The mainstream media is desperate. They can see their power slowly but surely waning and they don’t like it. People in power tend to want to stay that way. Steve Bannon represents a definitive end to all of that.

Is Steve Bannon a white nationalist? At this point, it doesn’t even matter. They’ve thrown around racist, sexist, whateveristrendy-ist so much that the phrases are meaningless now.

The reason they are attacking him is that he runs breitbart news. Why do they care about breitbart news? It’s simple. Now breitbart will have first access to all things Trump. Within the next 4 years you will see breitbart launch a TV station and its online viewership will slowly but surely surpass most of the major networks, if not all of them. That’s why they have to push the fake news narrative. Instead of actually being a legitimate news source, they have decided to be the lazy people that they are and try to discredit breitbart and anything that is counter to their narrative before it gets out of hand.

The downfall of breitbart will be because of its own success, not because the Communist News Network said it was fake. In the next 20 years breitbart will be so big that it will be the mainstream media and thus suspect by definition.

If you’re still suspect of Bannon, I get it, but try reading this: Righteous Indoctrination: How Steve Bannon’s Economic Nationalism Can Save The Country

Boycott PepsiCo

This is from yahoo.

“Our employees were all crying,” she said. “And the question that they’re asking, especially those who are not white, ‘Are we safe?’ Women are asking, ‘Are we safe?’ LGBT people are asking, ‘Are we safe?’ I never thought I would have to answer those questions.”

We need to stop catering to these people. Here is a list of everything PepsiCo makes. Don’t but their shit.

PepsiCo Companies and Products list

PepsiCo companies

* Pepsi-Cola
* Gatorade
* Quaker
* Frito Lay
* Tropicana

Pepsi-Cola Brands

* Pepsi
* Caffeine Free Pepsi
* Diet Pepsi
* Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi
* Diet Pepsi Max
* Jazz Diet Pepsi
* Diet Pepsi Lime
* Diet Pepsi Vanilla
* Pepsi Wild Cherry
* Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry
* Pepsi ONE
* Mountain Dew
* Diet Mountain Dew
* Caffeine Free Mountain Dew
* Mountain Dew Code Red
* Diet Mountain Dew Code Red
* Mountain Dew LiveWire
* Manzanita Sol
* Mirinda
* Mug Root Beer
* Diet Mug Root Beer
* Mug Cream Soda
* Diet Mug Cream Soda
* Sierra Mist
* Sierra Mist Free
* Slice
* AMP energy drink
* Aquafina
* Aquafina Alive
* Aquafina FlavorSplash
* Aquafina Sparkling
* Dole juices and juice drinks (License)
* Dole Plus fortified juices (License)
* Ethos Water (License)
* FruitWorks juice drinks
* Lipton Brisk (Partnership)
* Lipton Iced Tea (Partnership)
* Lipton Pure Leaf (Partnership)
* No Fear
* Sugar Free No Fear
* Ocean Spray juices and juice drinks (License)
* Frappuccino ready-to-drink coffee (Partnership)
* Starbucks DoubleShot (Partnership)
* Starbucks DoubleShot Energy (Partnership)
* Starbucks Iced Coffee (Partnership)
* SoBe juice drinks, dairy, and teas
* SoBe Lean diet juice drinks, dairy, and teas
* SoBe Life Water
* SoBe Synergy
* SoBe Adrenaline Rush
* TAVA
* Tropicana lemonade and punches
* Tropicana Light lemonade and punches
* Tropicana Twister sodas

Frito Lay Brands

* Lay’s potato chips
* Lays Kettle Cooked potato chips
* Wavy Lay’s potato chips
* Baked Lay’s potato crisps
* Maui Style potato chips
* Ruffles potato chips
* Baked Ruffles potato crisps
* Ruffles Flavor Rush potato chips
* Doritos tortilla chips
* Baked Doritos tortilla chips
* 3D’s snacks
* Tostitos tortilla chips
* Baked Tostitos tortilla chips
* Santitas tortilla chips
* Fritos corn chips
* Cheetos cheese flavored snacks
* Rold Gold pretzels & snack mix
* Funyuns onion flavored rings
* Go Snacks
* Sunchips multigrain snacks

* Sabritones puffed wheat snacks
* Cracker Jack candy coated popcorn
* Chester’s popcorn
* Grandma’s cookies
* Munchos potato crisps
* Smartfood popcorn
* Baken-ets fried pork skins
* Oberto meat snacks
* Rustler’s meat snacks
* Churrumais fried corn strips
* Frito-Lay nuts
* Frito-Lay, Ruffles, Fritos and Tostitos dips & salsas
* Frito-Lay, Doritos and Cheetos snack crackers
* Fritos, Tostitos, Ruffles and Doritos snack kits
* Hickory Sticks
* Hostess Potato
* Lay’s Stax potato crisps
* Doritos Rollitos
* Lay’s Fries
* Natural Lays
* Natural Ruffles
* Natural Cheetos
* Natural Tostitos
* Miss Vickie’s potato chips
* Munchies snack mix

Gatorade Brands

* Gatorade Thirst Quencher
* Gatorade Frost Thirst Quencher
* Gatorade Ice Thirst Quencher
* Gatorade Xtremo Thirst Quencher
* Gatorade X-Factor Thirst Quencher
* Gatorade Fierce Thirst Quencher
* Propel Fitness Water

Tropicana Brands

* Tropicana Pure Premium juices
* Tropicana Twister juice drinks
* Tropicana Smoothies
* Tropicana Pure Tropics juices
* Dole juices (License)
* Tropicana 100 juices
* Naked Juice

Quaker Brands

* Quaker Oatmeal
* Quaker Instant Oatmeal
* Quaker Oatmeal Breakfast Squares
* Cap’n Crunch cereal
* Life cereal
* Quaker Oatmeal Brown Sugar Bliss
* Quaker Oatmeal Honey Nut Heaven
* Quaker 100% Natural cereal
* Quaker Squares cereal
* Quisp cereal
* King…

Luckily this is a very easy boycott because they only make poison. If you really need to eat chips here’s a good video showing you how easy it is to do. And plus you get the added benefit of not eating all the preservatives and hormones Pepsi puts into their food. Really a win/win!

We Can Kill Liberalism Once and For All

 

The left is almost dead. While watching their reaction to the Trump presidency it is easy to sit back and think it’s over and that we won. But it’s not. This is only the beginning. More and more people are being exposed to what these people really are right now. The biggest mistake the right and conservatives can make is to let off the gas and allow them to regain power. The right needs to take these steps to squash this for the foreseeable future.

1. Repeatedly call the left what they are.

In the same way that Eric Holder said that we need to brainwash people about guns, the right needs to always call out the left for being immoral. Yes, the left is deeply immoral. The fundamental beliefs of the left are murder and theft. They believe in the murder of children and the theft of money. This needs to be brought up CONSTANTLY. Watching Mike Pence have to grovel to Bill O’Reilly about defending his pro life views is ridiculous. Wow, sound the alarms! Mike Pence believes that unborn children should have a shot at life and doesn’t believe that you should vacuum them out because you were too irresponsible to use birth control. This makes him a bigot? No, THEY are the immoral ones. They are the ones who want to kill babies. Here is an example of how to deal with them:

Immoral leftist: “It’s technically just a bunch of cells. It’s not a person.”

You: “Technically you’re a bunch of cells and you’re annoying me. Can we kill you?”

Repeatedly do this. Constantly remind them and everyone you know that these are deeply immoral people. They think that if you have a problem you can just kill it and make it go away. It’s amazing that I have to write this but that is wrong. And if you don’t believe me, they repeatedly cite the book Freakonomics which said after abortion was made legal 18 years later crime dropped. This is their justification for wanting to kill people. Because when abortion was made legal crime was reduced. That is a deeply immoral worldview and the funny thing is that book has been proven wrong repeatedly. But leftists always double down on their insane worldviews.

2. Defund Universities 

The only reason liberalism and marxism still exist is because of the university system. So our tax dollars are being used to fund views that directly threaten us and breed immoral brainwashed zombies. Why exactly are we doing this? If your university cannot survive without federal funding it doesn’t deserve to exist. It seems to me that Hillsdale College does just fine without receiving any federal money. When you tell anything or anyone that they cannot fail no matter what you do, then you breed incompetence. This happened most famously with banking. “Too big to fail” they said. Well, look what happened. Rampant incompetency. Why wouldn’t this apply to our universities? Defund them immediately. If you can’t make it without the government, you don’t deserve to exist.

3. Have kids and actually raise them

A child has no chance without a father. Yeah, you can point to anecdotal evidence and we all know a guy who made it without ever meeting his dad. But it’s rare and why take that chance? The left’s goal is to destabilize the home and replace the family unit with the government. How’s that working out for the black community? 72% and rising of their children are born out of wedlock. And when they aren’t aborting them, 1/4 end up in prison at some point in their lives. Do not follow this misguided lie.

4. It’s dead, they just don’t know it yet

Leftists have very few children, if they have them at all. Who knew that fat chicks with blue hair would have trouble finding a mate? A good bit of news is that Generation Z is the most conservative since WW2. Generation Z is anyone born after 2000. That means that the teenagers right now think liberals are pretty stupid. They think tattoos are lame, they don’t care about transgender shit or gay rights. They think drugs are lame. It’s over. 59% have conservative views on all of this stuff. And that number will only rise as more of them get older. We have a real shot of never having to deal with these immoral leftists ever again if we follow the two steps above.

These people have been led to believe that they have the moral high ground. It’s simply not true and we should take that back from them for calling them out as what they are repeatedly. You have nothing to fear by way of violent reaction either. Have you seen these people? If you go to the gym once a week you are on a different level then they are. Do not fear retaliation for speaking the truth. There’s probably more people around you then you know willing to stand up for what’s right too.

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Trump’s Supreme Court

Current makeup of the SCOTUS and their political leanings:

Clarence Thomas (age 68): originalist. him and Alito are viewed as the most conservative members of the court
John Roberts (age 61): conservative
Anthony Kennedy (age 80): libertarian, often the deciding vote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (age 83): liberal
Sonia Sotomayor (age 62): most liberal member of court
Stephen Breyer (age 78): liberal. but least liberal member of court
Samuel Alito (age 66): conservative with some libertarian ideals
Elena Kagan (age 56): liberal
1 vacancy

Trump is at least replacing one SC justice. Possibly 3, and even a chance at 4 so let’s look at who he released as potential nominations and what they mean for the future of the country.

Trump’s List:

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
Neil Gorsuch, a judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Margaret Ryan, a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Edward Mansfield, a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Keith Blackwell, a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
Charles Canady, a justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Timothy Tymkovich, chief judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Amul Thapar, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Frederico Moreno, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Robert Young, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
Steven Colloton of Iowa
Allison Eid of Colorado
Raymond Gruender of Missouri
Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania
Raymond Kethledge of Michigan
Joan Larsen of Michigan
Thomas Lee of Utah
William Pryor of Alabama
David Stras of Minnesota
Diane Sykes of Wisconsin
Don Willett of Texas

We can all agree that Mike Lee is getting nowhere near the SC. That was just a virtue pick in September when it looked like the CIA plant Evan McMullin might take Utah so I won’t discuss him here.

Neil Gorsuch is 49 years old and is on the 10th Circuit court of appeals in Denver, CO and was nominated by George W. Bush. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (cum laude) and holds a Doctorate in Legal Philosophy from Oxford University. He seems to be an originalist and in one of his most famous rulings, The United States v. Ackerman, he ruled that opening an email that the providers did not themselves open was a violation of the 4th Amendment.

Margaret Ryan is 52 years old and is a Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. She had a JD from the University of Notre Dame. She served active duty in the United States Marine Corps from 1985 to 1999. She has clerked for Judge Michael Luttig and Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas. In November 2006, Ryan was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace Judge Herman F. Gierke on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. She is a conservative.

I cannot find Edward Mansfield’s age online but he graduated from Harvard in 1978 so it’s safe to assume that he is 59-61 years old. He went on to Yale Law School after Harvard and graduated in 1982. In 2010, he was one of the justices that unanimously legalized same sex marriage in Iowa. His interpretation of the law is that it is what it is and not what it should be. There’s strong hints that he is an originalist with libertarian leanings.

 

Keith Blackwell’s age is also not online but he graduated The University of Georgia in 1996 making him roughly 42 years old. He then stayed at University of Georgia School of Law and finished in 1999. He self describes himself as a conservative judge and has been on the Georgia Supreme Court since 2014. He clerked for J.L. Edmondson who was nominated by Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

Charles Canady is 62 years old and is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. He is a registered republican and was a member of the House from 1993 to 2001. He coined the term “partial birth abortion” and developed the partial birth abortion ban act of 1995. In 2016 he was the only judge to dissent from the opinion that a death sentence must be issued by an unanimous jury.

Timothy Tymkovich is 60 years old and serves with Neil Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit court of appeals in Denver, CO and was also nominated by George W. Bush. He received his JD from the University of Colorado College of Law in 1982. He has worked to end federal funding of abortions. He believes in states rights and is a strong backer of the constitution. Possible originalist with strong conservative views.

Amul Thapar is 47 years old and received his JD from UC Berkeley in 1994. He is an Article III Federal Judge for the United States Disctrict Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky where he was nominated by George W. Bush in 2007. He is America’s first federal district judge of South Asian descent. He is a registered republican.

Frederico Moreno is 64 years old and is a district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He graduated from the University of Miami with his JD in 1978. He was nominated by George H.W. Bush in 1990 to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In 2006, Moreno ruled that the government should not have returned 15 Cuban immigrants that were found “standing on the pilings of an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys.”

Robert Young is 65 years old and is the  chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. He is a self desribed traditionalist aka an originalist. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1977 and is a registered republican.

Steven Colloton of Iowa is a federal judge who has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit since 2003 and was nominated by George W. Bush. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1988. He is conservative.

Allison Eid of Coloradois the 95th Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and is 50 years old. She received her JD from The University of Chicago in 1991. She has served as a law clerk for Jerry Edwin Smith and Clarence Thomas. Eid has consistently stood up for school choice reform, small government and taxpayers against fellow justices who are known for their political activism.

Raymond Gruender is 53 years old and is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was nominated by George W. Bush. He received his AB, JD and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is for small government and holds conservative viewpoints.

Thomas Hardiman is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit where he was appointed by George W. Bush in 2006. He is 51 years old and he received his JD from Georgetown University in 1990. Hardiman held that a jail policy of strip searching all arrestees does not violate the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. In 2014 he dissented from the Third Circuit’s holding that two Delaware prison officials could be sued for failing to provide adequate suicide prevention protocols after a mentally ill inmate committed suicide. The Supreme Court agreed and unanimously reversed.

Raymond Kethledge is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is 49 years old and received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1993. He has served as Counsel to then-Senator Spencer Abraham, handling matters related to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Ralph Guy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Joan Larsen is 48 years old and is on the Michigan Supreme Court. She graduated from Northwestern University School of Law where she was first in her class. She was appointed to the SC of Michigan by republican Rick Snyder. She is a registered republican.

Thomas Lee is the Associate Chief Justice on the Utah Supreme Court and was elected to the position unanimously. He is 51 years old and studied at Brigham Young University and received his JD from The University of Chicago. He is the brother of Mike Lee, the senator from Utah. He is an originalist.

William Pryor is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. He is 54 years old and a registered republican. He received his JD from Tulane University in 1987. He holds that the Fourth Amendment permits the police to conduct a search incident to arrest based on a civil writ of bodily attachment for unpaid child support. He believes in religious freedom. He is not strong on immigration.

David Stras is 42 years old and an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He earned his JD from The University of Kansas in 1999. He clerked with Clarence Thomas and is a conservative.

Diane Sykes is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was appointed to this position by George W. Bush. She is 58 years old and she received her JD from Marquette University in 1984. She is a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment and has ruled that that firing ranges are protected under the Second Amendment and granting preliminary injunction against Chicago’s ban on firing ranges. She is considered one of the frontrunners for Justice Scalia’s seat.

Don Willett is a Justice on the Supreme Court of Texas and was appointed by Rick Perry in 2005. He is 50 years old and received his JD from Duke University in 1992. He is a religious man and is an originalist.

Some good choices, one or two don’t make sense to me. Some are too old in my opinion. Anyone in their 60’s should be disqualified.

I Read So You Don’t Have To #2: End The Fed by Ron Paul

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TL;DR: The Federal Reserve is bad and we should feel bad.

Hans Sennholz has called the creation of the Fed “the most tragic blunder ever committed by Congress. The day it was passed, old America died and a new era began. A new institution was born that was to cause, or greatly contribute to, the unprecedented economic instability in the decades to come.”

Ron Paul’s End the Fed is a scathing takedown on an institution he believes to be morally corrupt and a danger to liberty not just in America, but worldwide. He argues that because the federal reserve is basically a counterfeiting operation with no oversight and no regulation it can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants. Paul argues that because they print money out of nothing that it leads to endless war as we don’t have to deal with the economic fallout of paying back our debts. He dispels the myth that the depression was ended by war as well:

“From personal memory and historic records, I know the Depression was not ended by the beginning of the war, as many still claim. War’s mass death and property confiscation and destruction are never a benefit to the economy, yet the warning that bad economic times frequently lead to war—when a country can least afford it—is appropriate for today. War distracts from economic problems, a benefit to bad politicians. Unemployment rates go down when millions are engaged in the war effort, even forced into it. All too often these politically convenient wars are not at all necessary.”

And on funding wars:

“Following the creation of the Fed, the government would discover other uses for an elastic money supply aside from keeping the banking system from defaulting on its obligations. It would prove useful in funding war. It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. When governments had to fund their own wars without a paper money machine to rely upon, they economized on resources. They found diplomatic solutions to prevent war, and after they started a war they ended it as soon as possible.”

On unnecessary wars:
“It has been said that no war has been fought without inflation. If we could ever devise a monetary system where inflation was absolutely prohibited, the chance of war breaking out would be greatly reduced. If we had to immediately pay for our foreign entanglements, people would not tolerate paying the bill with higher taxation. It’s the meddling in the internal affairs of other nations that brings about the conditions that result in armed conflict. Not initially financing foreign intervention would make us much less likely to get involved in no-win, totally unnecessary wars.”

We have to understand the history of banking in this country to understand how this entity came to be. Alexander Hamilton was the first person to advocate for the creation of a central bank. It eventually got passed in 1791 but when its charter expired 20 years later it was not renewed. Madison then came along and started the Second Bank of the United States. This bank was ended by Andrew Jackson in 1833. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that they tried to kill Jackson after this. After Jackson disbanded the bank, we had a long period without a central bank in the United States until fear eventually got the best of people during the Panic of 1907. So who was behind the creation of the Federal Reserve? Ron Paul tells us: “we had two Rockefellers, two Morgans, one Kuhn, Loeb person, and one economist. In this group, we find the essence of the Fed: powerful bankers with powerful government officials working together to have the nation’s money system serve their interests, justified by economists there to provide the scientific gloss. It has been pretty much the same ever since.”

The bank benefits the elite and hurts the poor and the middle class. What has happened to the dollar since the Fed took over the money supply? “One only needs to reflect on the dramatic decline in the value of the dollar that has taken place since the Fed was established in 1913. The goods and services you could buy for $1.00 in 1913 now cost nearly $21.00. Another way to look at this is from the perspective of the purchasing power of the dollar itself. It has fallen to less than $0.05 of its 1913 value. We might say that the government and its banking cartel have together stolen $0.95 of every dollar as they have pursued a relentlessly inflationary policy.” And what has this money producing done for our politicians: “What the Fed and paper money have done for Congress is lead legislators to believe that there are no limits on what they can spend, on what they can propose, and what they can accomplish. They really do behave like college students on spring break who are using their parents’ credit cards with no limit. They don’t think about the money. They don’t think about who or what is paying the bills. The ability to do what they want is just taken for granted. They aren’t even interested in looking at the accounting books. But they would hit the roof if the card were ever declined.”

Paul publishes his interviews with both Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernake. I’m guessing you can imagine what he had to say but this was the general consensus: “Most of his testimony was designed as an attempt to protect his reputation and to explain away his shortcomings as Federal Reserve Board chairman. His testimony was pathetic. He made the point that the computer programs that they were using to anticipate these problems were not well designed. The only reason there was an expansion of debt is there was an excessive demand for our debt; it was not a consequence of Federal Reserve Board policy. And to climax his arguments, he said that he did make a mistake, that indeed we did not have enough regulations on the market. In other words, create the conditions for malinvestment and compensate for them by having more government regulations. As the hearings were coming to a close, I could only conclude: Greenspan is not John Galt.” And “There is something fishy about the head of the world’s most powerful government bureaucracy, one that is involved in a full-time counterfeiting operation to sustain monopolistic financial cartels, and the world’s most powerful central planner who sets the price of money worldwide, proclaiming the glories of capitalism. Even when faced with the dreadful consequences of the hazards created by his own institution, he refused to face reality, or at least refused to admit it. I recall seeing Bernanke with a bit of a smile on his face when I suggested my solution would not be listened to since that would make all the important players involved in spending trillions of dollars irrelevant. That is one thing they are not interested in: irrelevancy. Politicians must justify their existence in managing the affairs of state. They first create the problems and then they are delighted with all the activity in expanding government and solving the very problems they created.” “Bernanke may be serious and believe he can prevent the consequences of the Fed’s mistakes of the past several decades. But he is wrong. He may dampen the market’s enthusiasm for deflation, but the pain and suffering from the “unlimited expansion of credit” that a much younger Greenspan warned us about will still come. Emphatically, Greenspan said there was “no way” to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.”

But why is the FED permitted to act this way? Simple. They do the same thing they always do when they want to push more government programs and steal more liberties: they hide under the guise of safety. Is it a good thing that banks won’t fail? Paul doesn’t think so: ”
The one aspect of the great promise that has been kept, not entirely but generally, is the promise that banks will not fail in the way they used to. But consider whether this is really a good thing. What if we had a law against business failure? It raises an obvious question: if businesses are not allowed to fail, what guarantee is in place that will give them incentive to succeed with soundness and productivity to the common good? In a capitalist economy, the prospect of failure imposes discipline and consumer service. It is an essential aspect of the competitive marketplace, whereas a promise against failure only entrenches inefficiency and in-competency.”

The book gets a little muddled towards the end where Paul starts to basically push others ideology like Ayn Rand and Ludwig Von Mises and gets off the central theme of the book. However, Paul ends the book strong and tells us what would happen if we got rid of the fed and what benefits it will afford us. I’ll end this with some quotes from the ending of the book:

As long as there is wealth available, the people will not complain about the takeover of the monetary system.

The most serious mistake made by some “progressives,” who are allied with us on restraining the Fed, opposing corporatism, militarism, and the social Machiavellians, is that they make an exception for personal economic decisions. They recognize the right to decide for ourselves what our social and religious values are to be, though they do not understand that it is the same as the right to decide how to spend our money, enter into any voluntary economic contract, and reject any economic association we please.

It’s bewildering to see some people strongly and correctly wanting to keep the government out of all social, religious, and intellectual decisions, yet also assuming for some reason that the average citizen cannot exist without central economic planning regulating our every move. It’s this inconsistency that allows institutions like the Federal Reserve to gain power over money and credit and, unfortunately, the entire economy.

Inflating is never a benefit to freedom-loving people. It destroys prosperity and feeds the fires of war. It is responsible for recessions and depressions. It’s deceptive, addictive, and causes delusions of grandeur with regards to wealth and knowledge. Wealth cannot be achieved by creating money by fiat, which instead destroys wealth and rewards the special interests, but more importantly, simply is not real.
The Federal Reserve should be abolished because it is immoral, unconstitutional, impractical, promotes bad economics, and undermines liberty. Its destructive nature makes it a tool of tyrannical government. Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

By manipulating the supply of money and setting interest rates, the Fed has practiced backdoor economic planning. The Fed essentially keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be. In a free market, low rates would indicate adequate savings and signal the businessperson that it’s an opportune time to invest in capital projects. But the system the Fed operates discourages savings, and the credit created out of thin air serves as the signal for investors to spend, invest, and borrow excessively, compared to a system where interest rates are set by the market.

People worry what would happen in a world without the Federal Reserve. My answer is that you would enjoy all the privileges of modern economic life without the downside of business cycles, bubbles, inflation, unsustainable trade imbalances, and the explosive growth of government that the Fed has fostered. You would also disempower the secretive cartel of powerful money managers who exercise disproportionate influence over the conduct of public policy. Without the Fed, Keynesian-style macroeconomic planning that has done so much harm would be no more.

When we unplug the Fed, the dollar will stop its long depreciating trend, international currency values will stop fluctuating wildly, banking will no longer be a dice game, and financial power will cease to gravitate toward a small circle of government-connected insiders. The entire banking industry would undoubtedly go through an upheaval of sorts as sound banks thrive and unsound banks go the way of the investment banking industry of last year: out of business as they should be. Those who are dependent on Fed welfare would have to clean up their act or shut down. Depositors would become intensely aware of which banks are sound and which are not.

End the Fed!

 

I Read So You Don’t Have To #1: The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein

“Energy is a life and death issue—it is not one where we can afford to be sloppy in our thinking and seize upon statistics that seem to confirm our worldview.”

The quote above is a good summary of the book. People are emotional about this because the government is masterful at propaganda and it feeds their interests to have you think climate change is the most terrifying threat to modern society when in reality it isn’t. Eric Holder famously in 1995 said that we “have to brainwash” people about guns. Keep repeating it over and over until everyone believes guns are bad. It’s failed miserably obviously but this is what governments do.

The book’s standard for morality is human life. And since if we were to get off fossil fuels tomorrow billions of people would die, it’s an easy argument to make.

“It is an undeniable truth that, in providing the fuel that makes modern, industrialized, globalized, fertilized agriculture possible, the oil industry has sustained and improved billions and billions of lives. If we rate achievements by their contribution to human well-being, surely this must rank as one of the great achievements of our time, and when we consider the problems with that industry, shouldn’t we take into account that it fed and feeds the world? And yet have you ever—and I mean ever—heard any major public or private figure give the oil industry credit for it? I see Bono and other celebrity activists get credit for caring but not the oil and energy industries for doing.”

Epstein points out the hypocrisy of the arguments made by bureaucrats, celebrities and environmentalists constantly and to the point where it’s hard to argue against him. He debunks the “97% of scientists agree” argument easily. This is a very well researched and thoughtful book. In the most damning takedown in the book, he talks about nuclear fusion and how it’s considered the “ultimate energy fantasy.” In the 1980s their were some reports that said fusion was close to becoming a reality. Great news, right? Not for the environmentalists who were warning us all about global warming. Jeremy Rifkin, a leading environmentalist said this: “It’s the worst thing that could happen to our planet.” Paul Ehrlich said this: it would be “like giving a machine gun to an idiot child.” Amory Lovins said this: “Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.”

These people don’t care about improving anyone’s life. I like that Epstein calls them “anti-humanists” because it is an apt description and you have to wonder if these people secretly wish humans were never born so they wouldn’t change anything that was here before us. And in response to the “what we might do with it” claim Epstein counters with this: “Well, we’ve seen what we do with energy—we make our lives amazing. We go from physically helpless to physical supermen. We build skyscrapers and hospitals. We take vacations and go on honeymoons. We visit our families and tour the world. We relieve drought and vanquish disease. We transform the planet for the better.”

So these people turn to inefficient forms of energy, mainly solar and wind, to push a less effective system in order to control people further. Personally, I like that drilling into the ground is considered bad to these people but for some reason when you’re mining for precious minerals to create solar panels and wind turbines that is somehow a clean and pure process. Epstein has this to say about wind: “We think of wind as “clean” because there is no smoke coming out of the windmill. But in looking at any energy technology, we must remember that it’s a process, starting with mining the materials necessary for the machines all the way to disposing of them. And wind turbines require far more toxic materials than fossil fuels do—materials called rare-earth elements. These elements are “rare,” not in the sense that there are few of them, but in the sense that they exist in low concentrations in the Earth: it takes a lot of mining and a lot of separating of the desired metals from other elements using hazardous substances like hydrofluoric acid in order to get usable rare earth elements.”

He ends the book talking about the benefits of nuclear energy and how nuclear never really took off because it has the name nuclear in it and got massively boycotted by idiotic clebrities like Jane Fonda in the 1970’s.

Epstein goes on to explain a very basic fact about nuclear energy: “The no-threshold fallacy was used particularly insidiously in opposing nuclear power. People said we should have zero tolerance for radiation—not knowing, apparently, that the potassium in their bone tissue emits radiation, enough so that sleeping with a spouse gives you almost as much radiation as standing right outside a nuclear power plant.”

It’s a great book and it’s a light, quick read that can arm you with facts to counter the braindead people who constantly talk about global warming, fracking, and whatever new trendy scare tactic they are going to use on the next day to push their agenda.

Buy a copy here: The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels

I Am Wrath (2016)

Destined to be endlessly compared to John Wick but it’s more of a Death Wish-esque film. You know the type: bad guys are so over the top it’s comical, older lead, killing minorities. What’s not to love?

You can’t help but feel that I Am Wrath would’ve been way better if the director was better. His directing credits are nothing special but it’s not a terrible career:

It’s a short movie but feels much longer than it is…which is always a terrible thing. And just like everything else Russell has made, with the exception of The Mask, this has pacing issues. Travolta does his best but Christopher Meloni steals every scene he’s in. Travolta’s face is so botoxed out that when he had to cry in a few scenes it looked so freakin weird man. And I’m not sure if Travolta was wearing a wig or if they just painted a better hairline on him or what but honestly it was distracting me the entire time.

Entertaining and not a bad way to spend 90 minutes but this is a far from perfect movie. Just turn your brain off and enjoy the ride.

6/10

Prediction: Trump Won’t be Assassinated…But Clinton Will

I’m tired of reading that Trump is going to be assassinated. I’ve read it countless times on internet forums and even seen some articles written about it on some reputable news outlets. Killing Trump is too obvious. You’ve thought it, haven’t you? You’re not thinking like these Illuminati shitheads. If they kill Trump, it’s unpredictable what will happen. And these people need control. They need power. Killing Trump could cause complete mayhem. People would vote for whatever republican they put in his place out of spite. And maybe that’s what they want. But why pick a republican when you already have the most corrupt politician in American history in your pocket? Why disrupt a sure thing in Hillary Clinton? Why take a chance on someone like Paul Ryan when you already know Hillary Clinton will do whatever you tell her to and not bat an eye?

Oh no, they won’t be killing Hillary. She’s too important. But Bill is as good as dead assuming Hillary can stay in the race and avoid indictment. They’ve already set it up perfectly. If you’ve seen Bill Clinton give a speech recently, it’s obvious that he’s not all there. He sold his soul to the devil a long time ago and the devil has come to collect. It makes no sense to me to let him speak when he’s in this state. He gets rattled easily and some of the tangents he’s gone off on recently are not apart of the Clinton Script. They are setting him up as frail right now so when they kill him later you will believe it.

This is what I think will happen: sometime in August or September Bill Clinton will be hospitalized. Then a few days later we will hear a news report that he’s getting better. Hillary will give some bullshit emotional speech about how he’s so important to her or some shit like that and even possibly cry. Then another report will come out in the beginning of October that Bill has taken a turn for the worse. About a week or 2 before the election Bill Clinton will be announced as dead. Sympathy will flow in for Hillary. People will spend the next week saying everything they loved about Bill and Hillary will waltz her way into the presidency off the backs of people who voted for her because of sympathy.
Yes, that’s how dumb people are. They will forget all the crimes she’s committed and because of feels will ignore everything just to make her feel better.

We’re a nation of emotional pussies and you better believe they are going to play into that.

Deadpool (2016)

It’s difficult to know what to expect anymore when it comes to Marvel. If something isn’t complete shit, it’s overly praised. If it’s just average, it’s bashed unfairly (Iron Man 3). Deadpool has fallen into the first category despite being a subpar film in the end.

Deadpool has a schtick. He cusses and says inappropriate things! That’s about how low the bar is for these movies. The humor isn’t even clever or interesting and seems to really hate cliches while being one of the most cliched superhero films of all time. And the sad part is that it never acknowledges how cliched it is which would’ve actually worked since they reference how low the budget is by alluding to the fact that they could only get 2 of the X-Men actors.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet but Ryan Reynolds is not a compelling or interesting actor in any way at all. Nothing changes here. And when the script is so dependent on him being likable and charismatic, it equals a major fail. Didn’t we already see he was wrong for this role 7 years ago in the Wolverine origins movie? Lazy, lazy casting.

This wasn’t a good film but mark my words Deadpool 2 will be even worse. The movie does some interesting things with its low budget and everything that worked was because they weren’t wasting money on crap. When they get a massive increase next time around, you’ll see the quality suffer and people will look at this with new eyes.

The movie is made for 9 year olds. But the problem is no responsible parent would ever let a 9 year old see this film. So you’re left with a forgettable movie that misses big time with the jokes and has the most cliche cookie cutter bullshit ending I’ve seen in a long time. Avoid.

2/10