Thursday, June 11, 2020

Why You No Longer Recognize Your Country

Mass looting throughout the nation. Police precincts burned to the ground. Murdered cops. A historic church in Lafayette Park set on fire. Video after horrifying video of innocent Americans being beaten senseless by gangs of thugs, as one political party demands: “DEFUND THE POLICE!”

Everyone is saying it: I no longer recognize my country.

You don’t recognize your country because it’s not the same country. What you’re seeing is the third-world hellhole the left has been quietly assembling for us since 1970.

Minnesota, the crucible of the riots, has gone from having 2.6% foreign-born in 1990 to nearly 10% foreign-born today — and that’s not including their children or illegals.

Instead of liberal but non-rioting Scandinavians and Germans, the new immigrants are overwhelmingly African, Asian and Hispanic. In fact, Minnesota now has a much larger proportion of Asian and African immigrants than the nation as a whole.

Although the state has always leaned Democratic, thanks to its German and Scandinavian immigrants (Ben Franklin was right about them), the Norsemen elected Walter Mondale. Recent immigrants elected Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Hey, Republicans! Tell me again that immigration is just a “single issue.”

America’s first encounter with anarchist mobs trying to wreck our country came with the last wave of immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. Back then, most Americans liked America. So we had no trouble cracking down on the people who would destroy us. Seven of the eight anarchists behind the Haymarket riot in 1886 were sentenced to death (two of those sentences were commuted to life in prison by the governor), one to 15 years in prison.

A few decades later, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer put an end to the nonsense by arresting and deporting more than 500 leftist immigrants.

For the next century, these satanic meddlers were out in the cold. It’s not in the Anglo-Saxon character either to give or take orders. The anarchist agitating was wasted on us. Even the most hard-luck Americans had no patience with communists.

America was unusual that way. Everywhere else in the world, the backbone of the Communist Party — at least at first — is the working class. But to its eternal embarrassment, the American left was bereft of working-class members. Luckily for them, our post-1965 immigration policies gave them a major infusion of the third world’s working class.

Communist and anarchist groups are still — as always — top-heavy with recent immigrants, community college professors, unbalanced women and fatherless soy boys. But it used to be that voters were repelled by these freaks.

Not anymore! California went from being the state that gave us Ronald Reagan (smashed the Berkeley riots) and Richard Nixon (president during Kent State) to the state of Gov. Gavin Newsom (celebrated Black Lives Matter mural on the mall outside the capitol) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (took a knee at a BLM protest).

How did that devolution happen?

Answer: immigration. When Reagan was elected governor of California, the state was 77% white. Today, whites are a minority at 37%.

You wonder why Democrats are always crowing about how the “blacks and the browns” are voting for them? Another way of putting it is: White voters are the only ones who will ever, in a million years, give a majority of their votes to a Republican.

But the immigration of vast numbers of non-whites from dysfunctional cultures is just a “single issue.”

Yes, Newsom and Garcetti are white Americans — and they’re very sorry about that. But who elected them? The same ethnic groups that elected Hugo Chavez, Evita Peron, fought for Mao and wept fake bitter tears over Kim Jong Il’s death. (You can watch here.)

They’re the same ethnic groups that elected Omar, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and New York City Mayor Bill Di Blasio — mostly Asians and Hispanics brought in since the 1970s for the purpose of voting for Democrats (and also cleaning their homes and doing computer programming for less!).

Di Blasio, who distinguished himself during the riots, won 96% of the black vote, 87% of the Hispanic vote, 70% of the Asian vote and only 54% of the white vote.

Tell me immigration is a “single issue,” again, Republicans.

Becoming more third world is going to mean a lot more protests. It’s how third worlders express themselves — along with Molotov cocktails, as New York City police found out last week.

When Congress proposed cracking down on illegal immigration in 2006, half a million illegals lined the streets of L.A. to protest. During the L.A. riots after the Rodney King verdict, more than half of those arrested were Hispanic.

We don’t have the figures for the current, ongoing nationwide riots, but a Loyola-Marymount professor recently gushed to The New York Times that compared to the Rodney King riots, these have been “truly multicultural.” If we ever find out, I’ll lay even odds that a lot of the looters standing by with empty suitcases outside the luxury stores were our immigrant fraudsters, otherwise employed stealing billions of dollars from Medicare, Social Security and food stamp programs.

Conservatives think they’re so clever to point out that all of the cities being turned into war zones are run by Democrats. Yes, that’s true.

On the other hand, your country is burning. Might you want to give 10 seconds of thought to how to prevent even more cities — and states — from falling under these pernicious leaders?

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Great Depression 2 continued

There is a lot of people going broke trying to look rich. You should get your debts paid down like me. When hyperinflation hits, the 401ks, the money markets will be almost worthless. Maybe the federal government is keeping this on life support until they no longer can. It’s like spiritual warfare coming to America. Somewhere on the Internet, I found that pensions will run out in 2028! The federal government was lying to us for decades. The politicians have made promises they can’t keep. This is the broadest global collapse since 1870 despite unprecedented government support. The world economy is supposed to contract 5.2%. It will drive 70 – 100 million to extreme poverty. NBER says there is a recession. The V shaped recovery has happened for stocks but not for the economy. Landlords are sending 1000s of default notices to tenets that could get retailers into bankruptcy. The amount of companies going under is escalating. CBMS will become worthless as people move out of the malls. There's too much retail in general. May saw the most bankruptcies since 2009. Government started QE4 in September 2019. The markets love it. The federal reserve is doing QE5 right now. Are they seeing the same problems right now as back in September. During QE5, the federal reserve is buying less and less treasuries. They take 4 billion. The federal reserve requirements are zero. The financial establishments can do anything they want. Hyperinflation in the future. The whole world is doing the exact same thing as the federal reserve doing QE5. It started in late may, companies sent 1000s of default notices. Department stores, restaurants, specialty chains and apparel merchants haven’t paid their rent for the last 3 months and have received notices from their landlords. There is this fear that the businesses that haven’t paid their rent are either bankrupt or filling for bankruptcy. There is a lot of worrying like terminating leases and locking up stores. 7.4 billion dollars of rent has to be paid for April. There was 733 businesses that declared bankruptcy. Only 487 businesses filled bankruptcy in 2019. There are 27 companies that have $50 million dollars in liabilities. Almost all businesses weren’t ready for this kind of economic meltdown. Congress is pressured to increase the number of bankruptcy judges. It’ll take months if not years for things to return to normal. Almost all sectors of the economy will suffer long term effects. Bankruptcies include airlines, energy, real estate, automotive suppliers, retail, hospitality. Most of these companies that declared bankruptcy were caught borrowing heavily. The federal reserve opened its stores for companies to take more debt. Most of the money the businesses make were to pay dividends, not employees. There will be a slowdown in cash flows and decrease in revenues so more companies will go bankrupt in the coming months. There is a history wave of insolvencies in the united states. Most investment grade companies have borrowed $1 trillion in the first 5 months of 2020. This amount of debt will negatively affect the economy. In the coming months there will be bankruptcy levels never recorded in American history. Declaring personal bankruptcy will discharge many forms of debt and stop re processions and foreclosures.

Saturday, June 06, 2020

Great Depression 2 continued

Residential debt is non-recourse. The lender can get collateral, but can’t seek out on any further compensation even if the collateral doesn’t match the defaulted amount in full. Commercial debt is recourse so the lender can seize other assets from the debtor. Now after countless small and midrange commercial enterprises have tumbled into financial ruin, with bankruptcy filings in the thousands. This pillar of capitalism may fall changing how loan defaults are handled. This results in senate bill 939. This would allow small businesses change lease deals if they been affected by the lockdowns and economic tultant from the global health crisis. Landlords couldn’t do rent increases. It would allow businesses to put more money toward employees rather then rent. The widespred shuttering of small businesses and nonprofit would be a loss of goods and services that they provide. One these businesses close, they would be unable to get on their feet. If small businesses have lost 40% of their revenue or if social distancing affected it , then small businesses can renegotiate their least agreements. If two parties can’t negotiate after 30 days, the tenets can back out of the lease. That means no liability for future rent, fees or other costs would be mandatory under the lease. That would shift commercial loans into non-recourse debt. People argue that commercial non-recourse debt is not constitutional. They argue that landlords would be completely vulnerable when the tenants can abandon their leases under less dire circumstances. 80% of California apartment owners are independent. Landlords cover upkeep, mortgage payments, and other projects. After travel came to a halt, bill 939 has been targeting the hospitality sector or hotels. Bill 939 will expire at the end of 2021. The California business properties association said Bill 939 could cause a financial collapse. When land lords become unstable, lenders can put out cash calls. Because real estate runs on carefully networked relationships, a clear advantage to one side a deep distrust and sense of injustice. Renters need a full decade to make good on their rent payments without added interest while landlords receive tax credits with the value of unpaid rent. They said receiving rent payments as usual is not possible in 2020. The grocery store has increased the most in 50 years. 5 trillion has been spent by the Federal Reserve this year and by the end of the year 10 trillion will be spent. One indicator of a great depression 2 is drop in consumer spending. Second is a economic plunge caused by a pandemic that is causing a financial crisis, Third is shuttered businesses and corporate greed like buybacks of corporate stock, investor overconfidence. No growth in the GDP, in a couple of years, a spike in unemployment rate. The great depression of 1930s caused 27.8% plunge in GDP. The 2020 depression may cause 50% plunge in GDP. Many households refusing to spend on anything other then groceries and healthcare. The economy should open sooner so its not crippled by the healthcare crisis, Only 7% of American would like to go to a movie theater. 4% would like to go to Concerts, amusement parks or theater performance. The third indicator is social inequality for keeping businesses running and employees employed.

Friday, June 05, 2020

It Looks Like the 180-Degree Turn on COVID Lockdowns Just Became a Huge In-Kind Contribution to Trump's Re-election

Is this the end of the ‘expert’? If not, we’re on that trajectory with the medical community’s transparent shift regarding the lockdowns over the coronavirus outbreak. Businesses couldn’t reopen because we needed to control the spread, flatten the curve, and ensure the hospitals were not overrun. Venturing out made you a selfish bastard. And then, a couple of weeks prior, though some of you were already poking holes through the narrative, there was a great reversal. Some were grounded in good news. New York City, the mecca of the US-based outbreak, saw deaths decline and hospitalizations stabilize. Hooray! Then, the CDC study showed that the mortality rate was around .04 percent, which makes this virus less deadly than the flu. Then, the CDC said that this virus doesn’t spread as easily on surfaces—this was one of the main reasons for the stay-at-home order. Asymptomatic people touching stuff and passing on the pathogen. The curve was flattened. States not heavily impacted were set to reopen and the liberal media went haywire. Florida was supposed to be awash with bodies. That was over eight weeks ago—and we still have no mountains of dead bodies. Some of us, myself included, overreacted. Initially, I think most were fine with the quarantine over the health care system overload and stopping the spread reasons, but some Democrats, in typical fashion, decided to move the goalposts to stay inside until we have a vaccine. 

No. That was never possible. We would all be out of work. The overreach seen in some states is horrific but hardly a shock given the political leadership at the helm. Are we shocked New Jersey, deep-blue and insufferably liberal New Jersey, went off the rails in enforcing its lockdown measures? Measures that Gov. Phil Murphy admitted to drawing up without giving a thought to constitutional rights—no. It is time to reopen. And now, the liberal media and the health experts agree, but only because riots have sparked across the country that could be weaponized to make the Trump administration look bad. 

George Floyd died under police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. It’s all on video. It’s heinous. It’s an atrocity. Floyd died when arresting officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on the back of his neck. He kept it there for nearly ten minutes. Floyd can be heard crying out that he was having trouble breathing. He was killed. Period. Chauvin was fired and charged with second-degree murder. The three other officers involved were also fired and charged with aiding and abetting murder. 

Protests were held across the country, and many have devolved into full-blown riots. There should be outrage. In fact, the country was united in anger, but that breaks down when looting, vandalism, and mayhem become rampant, and that has happened in our cities. Oh right, the lockdowns, yes—they’re over. Given how the medical community now says that racism is just as much a pandemic as COVID, the expert class has been exposed as true pod people. We’ve gone from stay home and be a hero and help medical staff to get out there and protest or you’re supporting white supremacy. That’s quite the 180-degree turn. Academia is infested with liberal bias, but as the woke legions graduate and continue to spread their cancer into other institutions, this is what you get. Pseudo-scientific nonsense and decisions based on bashing Trump. 

It’s outright madness. The chair of the NYC health committee actually said if there is a spike in COVID cases in the Big Apple, blame racism, not the rioters. If anything, it shows that being “woke” and politically correct probably exacerbated the outbreak when it first arrived in the city, as Trump was bashing China at the time. Chinese New Year was in full swing, come on down to show Trump what for—and get exposed to a virus that was out of control at the time.  

It’s gone off the rails. The real danger is down the line. How can we trust these clowns again when a real deadly pathogen bubbles up—and it will. As long as there is life on Earth, the virus will stick around. It’s scary, but Trump-derangement from the professional Left, which dominates these fields of study, will be to blame. 

You have to admit, this lockdown narrative was a well-executed strategy. The liberal media keeps up the doom and gloom news, which tanks the markets. The political class seeing this chooses the ‘better safe than sorry’ approach and enacts stay-at-home order, and then the pinch on businesses begins. The hope was to keep fear alive and let this eat into Trump’s re-election chances. Those who deviate are shamed. Rinse and repeat until the data started to show this was an overreaction. And now, with a new issue that can be used to attack Trump, get on out and riot.

Liberal reporter Michael Tracey, who has gone after other lefties for their insanity over Trump-Russia collusion, has been on a tear. First, he rightfully slammed the left-wing activist-media complex for being coddled babies who are totally insane. Now, he’s set his sights on the medical folks who now say put COVID on pause, as if this is a video game, and smash racism. 

Tracey kicked a hornet's nest, and a whole lot of insanity came pouring out. 

Take a look at this tweet from a Johns Hopkins epidemiology professor who wrote, “We should always evaluate the risks and benefits of efforts to control the virus. In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

I mean, even Politico is highlighting the odd turnaround here [emphasis mine]:

“The injustice that’s evident to everyone right now needs to be addressed,” Abraar Karan, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital physician who’s exhorted coronavirus experts to amplify the protests' anti-racist message, told me. "While I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks, the status quo wasn’t going to stop #covid19 either," he wrote on Twitter this week.

It’s a message echoed by media outlets and some of the most prominent public health experts in America, like former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden, who loudly warned against efforts to rush reopening but is now supportive of mass protests. Their claim: If we don’t address racial inequality, it’ll be that much harder to fight Covid-19. There’s also evidence that the virus doesn’t spread easily outdoors, especially if people wear masks.

The experts maintain that their messages are consistent—that they were always flexible on Americans going outside, that they want protesters to take precautions and that they're prioritizing public health by demanding an urgent fix to systemic racism.

But their messages are also confounding to many who spent the spring strictly isolated on the advice of health officials, only to hear that the need might not be so absolute after all. It’s particularly nettlesome to conservative skeptics of the all-or-nothing approach to lockdown, who point out that many of those same public health experts—a group that tends to skew liberal—widely criticized activists who held largely outdoor protests against lockdowns in April and May, accusing demonstrators of posing a public health danger. Conservatives, who felt their own concerns about long-term economic damage or even mental health costs of lockdown were brushed aside just days or weeks ago, are increasingly asking whether these public health experts are letting their politics sway their health care recommendations.

[…]

Conservatives also have seized on a Twitter thread by Drew Holden, a commentary writer and former GOP Hill staffer, comparing how politicians and pundits criticized earlier protests but have been silent on the new ones or even championed them.

I think what’s lost on people is that there have been real sacrifices made during lockdown,” Holden told me. “People who couldn’t bury loved ones. Small businesses destroyed. How can a health expert look those people in the eye and say it was worth it now?”

[…]

…many say the protests are worth the risk of a possible Covid-19 surge, including hundreds of public health workers who signed an open letter this week that sought to distinguish the new anti-racist protests “from the response to white protesters resisting stay-home orders.”

Those protests against stay-at-home orders “not only oppose public health interventions, but are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives,” according to the letter’s nearly 1,300 signatories. “Protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported.”

And this is how you turn a colossal event that possibly could have hurt Trump in 2020 and morph it into a massive in-kind contribution to his re-election effort. Why? Because liberals are stupid. Yes, their allies in the media did a swell job selling panic and trashing the market. And then thinking this reversal after everything that’s been said—it’s just…you cannot make it up. The liberal bias is explicitly clear and be prepared to defend every suggestion you make from here going out because the default position should be to look on these clowns with contempt and skepticism. 

Sorry, small business owners protesting over these Democratic governors arbitrarily extending the lockdowns are not grounded in white supremacy. Also, do these “experts” thinks that black small business owners weren’t impacted by this quarantine? If anything, these people telling folks it’s ok to go outside and protest have done more to harm their communities than COVID ever could with the violent turn that has occurred. Minneapolis burned. The Big Apple descended into chaos. Cops are being targeted by mobs. It’s mayhem out there, but it’s fine because “orange man…bad,” right. The lockdowns are over. Ignore their advice from here going forward. They’re finished

The Third Worlding of America

The death of George Floyd was something out of the Third World. Anyone can empathize with the plight of another human being, hands cuffed behind his back, prostrate on the ground, with the knee of another person pressing into their neck for nearly nine minutes. A horrific scene.

But now the knee of the mob is crushing the neck of prostrate, civilized America, as we descend into a Third World cesspit with astonishing rapidity.

The images every night for the past week have been surreal. Hordes of Americans, black and white, burning, ransacking and pillaging with near impunity in cities across America, smashing windows and looting high fashion outlets and mom-and-pop stores alike. Police officers being thrown to the ground like ragdolls. Police officers being shot in the head or stabbed in the neck while trying to maintain order. Ivy League-educated corporate lawyers throwing a Molotov cocktail into a police car filled with officers. An old woman being beaten with a viciousness reminiscent of a beating delivered upon Jews by SS guards in the Warsaw ghetto. Her husband meets the same fate as he tries to defend her with a golf club.

A heroic 77-year-old retired black police captain shot to death trying to prevent looting. Shot to death for some televisions. Shot to death as he tried to protect the property at a friend’s pawn shop, after he’d spent a career defending the people of St. Louis.

God bless David Dorn. His final moments of life, captured by someone on a cell phone camera, were surely as painful to watch as those of George Floyd. And while no one should die as either man did, Mr. Dorn’s life exemplified what all Americans should aspire to, serving his fellow man. The same cannot be said of Mr. Floyd.


The brilliant conservative commentator, Candace Owens, did research into Mr. Floyd’s background. Her findings were very illuminating and can be seen here in a must-watch video. How many people know that Mr. Floyd, who many are holding up as a pillar of the community, was found by the medical examiner to have methamphetamine and fentanyl in his system? Or that he had served five separate stints in prison for various crimes? Or that one of those crimes was a home invasion, in which he stuck a pistol in the belly of a pregnant woman, while four cohorts ransacked her home looking for drugs and money? They settled with stealing her wallet and cell phone. Fortunately, the woman’s neighbor, suspicious of the activity at the home, caught the license plate of the men’s vehicle and called police. When caught, Mr. Floyd was driving the getaway car.

Yes, I understand that none of the foregoing excuses the actions of police officer Derek Chauvin in subduing Mr. Floyd while he was being arrested, yet again. No police officer I’ve ever met would condone kneeling on any detainee’s neck.

But if nationwide wilding and mayhem are to occur, with all the attendant deaths and destruction we have witnessed, how paradoxical it seems that the Great Rage should result from the unjustified death of home invader George Floyd, while David Dorn’s life was so casually forfeited by those claiming to be outraged at police brutality visited upon blacks. David Dorn was a police officer too, defending fellow blacks, and Missourians of every other stripe, for nearly four decades. His death has produced no similar outrage.

Kneeling into the neck of George Floyd only began our descent into national madness. Kneeling continues to be a theme in this continuing societal trauma as we witness the creepy spectacle of a crowd of “progressive” white automatons kneeling, with hands raised, before black activists demanding penitence. It appears to be some sort of ritualistic obeisance to blacks as atonement for the supplicants’ sin of having enjoyed “white privilege.”

The psychic damage evident in so many Americans today in the form of ideologically-based self-loathing has become shockingly apparent. No society whose members evince such self-hatred can be long for this world. Others with self-confidence will see opportunity and eventually seek to displace them, just as a lioness on the African plain can smell weakness among her prey.

Those who do the displacing may take the form of Islamic militants or anarcho-communists who call themselves Antifa, officially labeled a domestic terrorist organization recently, that is well-known and long-studied by those in the national security establishment. (For an excellent discussion of Antifa’s history, methodology and threat profile, see this Washington Times piece.)


The current anarchy is just the latest symptom in the Third Worlding that has been going on in America in recent times. Flashing warning signs have abounded for years.

Barack Obama weaponized the entire national security establishment of our country to remove his party’s political opponent in a fraudulently predicated counter-intelligence operation worthy of a tinpot South American dictator. Of course, even before he launched that seditious campaign, he had sicced the IRS on conservative Tea Party groups, which effectively crippled them before the 2018 elections, helping his party retake the House of Representatives that year.

And of course, we’ve had a pandemic virus, whose origin (whether in a lab or in a wet market) is still to be definitively ascertained, sweep the land. This resulted in the mandating of face mask-wearing for most Americans, like equatorial tribespeople in sub-Saharan Africa. This policy proved oh-so-helpful as the aforementioned Antifa destroyers could blend so seamlessly into crowds of similarly masked protesters as they went about their ransacking ways.

And finally, we’ve had most of the country’s population under virtual house arrest for nearly three months.

The total picture in America today – between virus, Visigoth-like mayhem, and economic shutdown - is so shocking as to be almost incomprehensible. It will be the responsibility of the current president and the one elected, or re-elected, in November, to restore sanity. Let us hope a return to the First World awaits.