Category: Society

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.

337 Million People In The United States…

Are Harris And Trump The Best We Got?

Republican Party candidate Donald J. Trump and Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris. Photo courtesy of cnn.com

We should be embarrassed!

As Election Day is upon us, I cannot fathom the idea of having to choose between Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to be our next president.

As we only have a two-party system, it seems Americans are happy to accept whatever these two parties have to offer, without question and without a challenge.

It is true that under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris regime the country has fallen into social and financial chaos. Everything is more expensive, and our national security is a disaster as a result of an “Open Borders” policy.

It is also true; under the Trump presidency the country was in great shape. We had an economic and energy revival the country has not seen in decades. But we also witness a president who was a bad judge of character, appointing people to positions who did not have the country’s best interest at heart.

Donald Trump’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic was one of the most un-American episodes in American history. It began with “14 Days” to contain the spread, and the rest is history. Donald Trump left the door open for the Biden administration to impose unconstitutional lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Millions of lives were lost and millions more were destroyed by the government.

Turned brother against brother, and family members were instructed, by the government, to turn on each other. It was a dark period in our nation’s history.

Unfortunately, today, Donald Trump continues to brag about operation Warp Speed.

So, here we are, in another one of our country’s crossroads. We are, in what appears to be, one election cycle away from becoming Venezuela under a Harris administration or survive one more election cycle under a Trump administration.

Yes, I mean when I say survive. A Trump presidency may be able to pause the inevitable, but as long as people continue to vote for the same people into Congress, nothing is going to change. The United States Congress has become a career, instead of the public service the Founding Fathers had in mind.

We are faced with the choice of electing the best of two evils. We have nobody but ourselves to blame for this political travesty. American society has become so morally weak, it has forgotten that it has the power to change the country’s trajectory.

Facebook, Tik-Tok, Instagram, X, and the likes, are the equivalent of what the Roman poet Juvenal referred to as “Bread and circuses.” Keep the population superficially appeased instead of giving them honest public service or legislation. The Romans knew how to do it, but even the Roman Empire could not stop their demise.

Why do we have to settle for garbage? That is a question that will haunt me.

Finally “Axed” The X

Elon Musk. Photo courtesy of archcide.com

Let us be honest, social media is a cesspool. Nothing but bad news, keyboard warriors, and full of people who think, for whatever reason, their views are more important than yours.

If you have a conservative view, most of your posts are shadow banned, or worse, they will suspend your account because it does not fit the sick liberal narrative imposed upon the users by the mommy’s basement dwellers in charge of monitoring content.

Yesterday, I made a comment on X, after watching a clip of a man imposing himself in a women’s bathroom, while calling those women racists because they wanted him gone. I said, “those women should kick his ass,” that is right, they should have kicked his ass to get him out of that bathroom.

Elon’s mommy’s basement dwellers deemed the comment as hateful speech and suspended my “paid for” account for 6 days.

This is not the first time Elon’s goons have suspended my account over comments they do not approve of, but it is definitely the last.

I did not pay $11.00 a month to be censored over ridiculous stuff. I can do that for free.

It is funny, they do not suspend accounts that are obviously going after children with their mentally disturbed transgender ideas, but they suspend my account for siding with a group of women who were been sexually harassed by a man in their own bathroom.

I finally had it with X. The platform is so toxic, I noticed my own views have been clouded by a bunch of people that I did not know. If I dare to challenge their views, I was the one who was wrong, regardless of if I was right.

The rift between the left and the right is such, one cannot have a normal conversation without drifting into the gutter along with them.

I decided it was time to go. I took this “suspension” to close my account and ditch the X for good.

I got tired of reading garbage day in and day out. Everybody hates each other, and because they hide behind a screen, they feel free to lob insults and lies without any sense of accountability or responsibility.

I never hid my identity. I used my real name, and my face was in my profile picture because I did not have an agenda. All I wanted was to engage with likeminded people, but in the end, all it did was make me a less trusting person.

We live in a world that is at the brink of physical destruction, and if I am going to go down, at least I am going to do it on my own terms, and not under those of a mob.

I do not want to live with hate in my heart, and platforms like X are a breeding room for hate.

Axe the X, you will feel much better afterwards.

The Unfriendly Skies

Where Are The Air Marshals?

Are there any Air Marshals on board?

On October 3, 2023, Senator Ted Cruz, ranking member of the committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter to the TSA Administrator David Pekoske, requesting information about the Federal Air Marshal Service deployment of air marshals to the Southern border.

In this letter, Senator Cruz questioned why hundreds of air marshals have been used at the border and why they were “administering aid to illegal aliens”.

The letter goes on to highlight several incidents on flights within the past year and how the presence of air marshals could have had prevented the incidents from escalating.

It poses several interesting questions to the administrator, and I am looking forward to seeing how the administrator responds.

As a retired air marshal, I can’t stress enough how invaluable the presence of air marshals onboard an aircraft is. I know when I fly, I would feel more safe knowing that I have brothers and sisters covering my six while on vacation travel.

Air marshals are not trained to do what the Transportation Security Administration is making them do at the Southern border.

As indicated in the letter to the administrator, air marshals have been used to perform “administrative functions, conducting welfare checks, and escorting aliens to processing centers.”

Air marshals are highly skilled trained operators. The agency spends thousands of dollars training air marshals to deal with real time stressful situations.

This is your tax dollars at work, and you should demand better from your government.

As air marshals continue to be deployed to the Southern border, our skies continue to be vulnerable to another 9/11 style attack.

With an open border, the government is only inviting more trouble and our transportation system is at the weakest position I have seen it since I joined the service back in 2002.

This should be of concern to any American citizen who steps on an aircraft. This is you and your family’s safety. With an open border we bring new security challenges and air marshals should be deployed where they belong: the skies.

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The Feckless Republican Party

The Two Faces of the Republican Party Photo courtesy of genius.com

After a long wait, the Republicans in the House of Representatives finally got the majority, a razor thin, but still a majority.

It took days of dealing and whining for the Republicans to finally select the “heir apparent” to the Speakership, Kevin McCarthy. The House of Representatives made history by holding the most rounds of voting in 100 years.

This is probably the most amount of time I have dedicated to watch CSPAN in my entire life, but it was entertaining. Also, I have never seen members of Congress actually working for a change. This is probably the most they have worked since the Covid-19 shutdowns.

Let us fast forward a few weeks. Republicans in the House are preparing all kind of bills, going on Twitter and other social media platforms to brag about how much they are doing for the American people. They are also creating committees to investigate several things, from investigating the FBI, Covid-19, and the United States relationship with China.

I am sure people are cheering these investigations, but as every other investigation conducted by Republicans have shown, this will end up the same way, a lot of nothing and millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted.

Who can forget when then congressman, Trey Gowdy, got humiliated on national television by Hillary Clinton while investigating the attack on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. Several Americans were killed, including Ambassador John Christopher Stevens.

The reality is without the Senate, the Republicans have close to zero chance of passing any meaningful legislation without getting stomped by Senator Chuck Schumer the minute it hits his desk.

This is typical of the Republicans. I cannot remember the Republicans getting anything done since Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” and later on during the Trump presidency.

Republicans should be concentrating on things they can actually do. For example, there is plenty of evidence pointing to President Biden’s alleged corruption. There is also the failure of the Biden administration in protecting the Southern border from illegal aliens.

These two along are strong enough to begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden. Sure, they do not have the Senate, and the chances of obtaining a conviction are nonexistent, but one thing it will do is expose President Biden to the American people and the failure of his administration.

It may not sound like much, but it will show the Republicans are not afraid of holding a sitting president accountable.

When President Trump was elected in 2016, the Democrats in the House wasted no time working and putting together so-called evidence to draft articles of impeachment, and by 2019, he was impeached.

The Democrats were clear about what they were going to do to President Trump, and they did it, not once, but twice in his four-year presidency.

Have you heard the Republicans even bringing the subject up? No, they continue promoting pieces of legislation that will never become law and only gets them airtime on Fox News and Hannity.

The Republicans have a little under two years to get things done and to have any chance of holding the House in 2024.

Right now, all they are doing is being histrionic because they think we are that kind of stupid. They think we are not smart enough to understand how our system of government works and they are banking on that stupidity to just get by until the next election cycle.

When it comes to the fighting spirit, I wish the Republicans were like the Democrats. The Democrats know how to win, even when in the minority.

In the meantime, we can expect from the Republicans and their leadership more of the same, the “Potomac Two Step.”