Category: Lifestyle

Hit Them With Your Wallet

How To Reject Woke Culture With Your Personal Wealth

Very much so!
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Since the Obama years, this country has been peppered with woke culture left and right. From companies adopting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies to government agencies lowering standards of employment in the name of “equality.”

Companies like Meineke, Safelite, and Vrbo, to name a few, want you to think masculinity is a thing of the past as they continue to feminize males in their television commercials.  

Financial services companies like Chime and SoFi encourage financial irresponsibility by offering their customers the ability to access money they haven’t earned.

Advertising companies continue to use people in their television commercials who are not representative of the overall make up of American society. Omitting those with the purchasing power is not a winning strategy, but companies continue to fall down that rabbit hole. They think this omission is the right thing to do because of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies.

I decided a long time ago that I was not going to cater to these companies and institutions. They have the right to conduct their business and aimed their advertising to certain segments of the population, but I also have the right to choose who I will give my business to.

During Covid, I refused to patronized businesses who wanted me to wear a mask. Despite the fact our government said masks were useless, these businesses insisted on enforcing it. I have adopted the same approach towards the DEI culture and any company who pushes this nonsense down our throats.

My first victim was XM satellite radio. I got a 3-month freebie from my car dealership after a service, but after those three months I decided XM was not for me.  The service is expensive, and the programming is poor. Any broadcasting service who excludes a race of people should not be allowed to exist.

For example, why do they have to have Black channels only? If any other outlet would offer White only channels that would be deemed racists, but for some reason XM gets away with it. So, when they called me to subscribe to the service, I told them no thanks.

The best part was when the customer service representative asked me why. I told him I was not going to patronize a business who excluded a group of people based on their skin color. I added their programming was not geared towards people like me, and I was not going to pay for a service that was not inclusive.

I have to say that it felt really good, very refreshing knowing the power of my personal purse is a powerful one. Unlike our Congress, I do understand the power my money has over my everyday life decisions.

XM is not the only company I have rejected in my everyday life, but I think you understand where I am coming from.

You do not have to settle for less.  You have the power to tell these companies, no. Money moves the world, and as a consumer you have the power to reject companies who do not share your values.

Your hard-earned money means something, use it wisely.

Time For The United States To Implement Mandatory Military Service

Korean Boy Band BTS Members To Serve Their Country

Time To Grow Up and Serve! K-pop stars BTS Photo courtesy of allure.com

As a former member of the United States Army who had the honor and privilege to serve my country during peace and war time, I have always believed mandatory military service should be implemented in the United States.

Every American of age should serve their country and be willing to defend it if necessary. Serving in the military not only was a great personal experience, but it taught me how to be a self-sufficient individual at a time in my life when I needed it the most.

Growing up in a single parent household, I understood there were things my mother was not going to be able to teach me and it was up to me to learn them on my own, and the military was there for me.

I understand today’s United States Armed Forces are different from when I joined in 1987. The military has become a social woke experiment in which using proper pronouns to identify men who feel like women are more important than be combat ready.

Nevertheless, the military is a great way to earn a living, earn money for an education, and give back to the country that has given many so much.

This week it was announced K-pop stars and members of Korean boy band BTS are going to serve 2 years of mandatory military service as it is the policy in South Korea.

After several arguments between BTS and the Military Manpower Administration, in addition to rumors and accusations of favoritism, the band members are on their way to serve their country.

In a time when tensions with North Korea are on the rise, it is time for these individuals to fulfil their duties.

South Korea’s mandatory draft requires all males between the age of 18 and 35 to serve in the armed forces for a term of 18 to 21 months. The oldest member of BTS, Jin, is 29 years old.

Seriously, when does a boy stop been a boy and becomes a man? At 29 years old I had already served in combat and was enjoying a new career at the Department of Justice.

As much as I would like for this type of mandatory draft to be implemented in the United States, I also understand today’s American society is one of fragility and touchy feelings.

Our military institutions have become a cesspool of social justice psychobabble and political engineering incapable of facing a worthy adversary.

Hopefully, we will never have to engage in a global war because I really doubt our military is ready to face the realities of war.

Can you imagine the Jonas Brothers serving in the military? Neither can I, but they ought to.

Let The “Plandemic” Before The Mid-Term Elections Begin

White House Declares Monkeypox A “Public Health Emergency”

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It was just a matter of time before the Biden administration would use something like Monkeypox to fix the next election cycle.

They cannot win on the issues, so they have to come up with something to fix the mid-term elections.

It is unfortunate the Biden administration have chosen to politicize Monkeypox instead of addressing the issue head on.

Everyone who has been reading about Monkeypox knows this is not a national emergency, but an emergency limited to certain states and cities in the United States. It is also limited to a specific sector of our population.

Keep in mind, as of today, the number of infected people in the United States is around 6,600 out of a population of over 330 million people.

You do the math and try to rationalize how this is a “public health emergency.”

Like the government did with HIV/AIDS, they have, once again, neglected to address the issue and instead made Monkeypox a political one.

Shameful!

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-officials-plan-declare-monkeypox-public-health-emergency-rcna40504

The American Circus Continues

‘Do As I Say, Not As I Do’

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https://www.rt.com/news/544550-fauci-new-year-party-warning/

I am going to assume the Biden administration either loves to look incompetent or is completely out of touch. Otherwise why would they continue to have Anthony Fauci as the face of the Covid-19 response.

The man is a liar who the American people no longer respect or trust.

Here he is, once again, with his doom and gloom scenarios and Ouija board predictions. More of his ‘do as I say, not as I do.’

Of course, this bureaucrat doesn’t follow his own advise and while he wants you to live inside a cave, he’s doing his thing and enjoying the things he’s telling you not to do.

There’s nothing serious about this man. Live your life because he’s definitely living his.

Mandates, Mandates, and More Mandates

The Tale of Four Cities

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I am amazed as how quickly Americans are willing to surrender their rights so they can go inside a restaurant, a theater, or a local coffee shop.

To me, nothing can be more humiliating than being asked for ‘your papers’ before I enter an establishment of any sort. It also comes with negative historical connotations going all the way back to the days of slavery.

Thankfully for me, I do not live in such a place, and if I did, I would never patronize an establishment who wishes to treat its customers like third class citizens.

There are four cities in America that I will never visit or spend my money to promote their tourism or any other enterprise. Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C. have chosen to become bastions of all out communism with their ‘proof of vaccination’ mandates and mandatory vaccination requirements.

In these cities, if a person does not have proof of vaccination, they will not be able to enter restaurants, bars, nightclubs, entertainment venues, and gyms, among other things.

Some of these new rules are already in place like in New York City, with some going into effect at the beginning of the new year in places like Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston.

The reality is businesses are already hurting and here comes the government placing more draconian restrictions that do little to combat the virus and everything to bankrupt private industries.

Many people already have chosen not to visit these cities due to their high crime, diminished law enforcement, and socialist policies. Others have chosen to move out of the city and in some cases the state all together.

Requiring people to show vaccination papers is probably the last straw most Americans with an ounce of dignity are going to be willing to go along with for the sake of access to entertainment. Places with such requirements are not going to prosper and they will become financial and social cemeteries.

I do not understand how the people in these cities are willing to go along with this nonsense. These mandates have been implemented without public hearings or any input from the community, but they strictly affect them.

These rules have been drafted with little science behind them and ‘best guess’ scenarios. It is obvious the Biden administration was not ready for the Omicron variant, but it has also been proven the variant is not as deadly as the prior Delta variant.

So why are these cities placing more restrictions on their citizens with a variant that is less than lethal than the prior one? Power and control.

In government, once they give, they will not take, and once they take, they will never give it back.

What is next for the United States? Internment camps for the unvaccinated? These are scary times in the United States and with the Democratic Party in power, nobody knows what is going to happen. The Democratic Party is about power, not about the well-being of the American citizen.

Next time someone asks you for ‘your papers,’ turn around and do not spend your hard-earned money there. History is full of examples of places where showing ‘your papers’ lead to death and indoctrination camps.

The Nazis used to have a phrase they would use to justify all the abuses by the state: “Fur Ihre Sicherheit.” Translation? “For your safety.”

We must not allow history to repeat itself.