The Heisenberg Effect sounds a lot like Ring of Gyges in Plato’s Republic, where the ring allows the wearer to become invisible and when someone is invisible, they will do things they wouldn't otherwise do when people could see them doing something wrong.
Jeff, you are also totally confused the Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle with the observer effect. I think the latter fits your case as an analogy better. So leave Heisenberg completely alone :-)
Yes, as I recall Heisenberg's principle was that you could know *either* the position, *or* the velocity of a particle, but not both. Or else I'm confusing that with yet another quantum principle... the perils of a popular-level vague familiarity with a subject.
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving in a car. A police officer pulls them over for speeding and approaches Heisenberg in the driver's seat and asks, "do you know how fast your were going?" Heisenberg answers "No, but I can tell you exactly where I was at the time." The officer thinks this odd answer constitutes grounds for a search of the vehicle and demands the keys. After examining the car he comes up to Schrodinger in the passenger seat and says, "Did you know you have a dead cat in your trunk?" Schrodinger exclaims, "Well I do NOW!"
One of my all time favorite jokes. I can't take credit for it but it is interesting to gauge peoples' reactions. It seems to function as both a joke and a test.
Another favorite:
Argon walks into a bar. Pointing to the door, the bartender shouts angrily, "We don't serve noble gases in here!!"
"My firm is currently preparing a major case challenging the Constitutionality of the PREP Act — the federal statute that shields Pfizer and Moderna from liability for their defective vaccine products.".
YES!!!!! Thank you. I've been expecting a tsunami of suits for a couple years now...
More and more is coming out about the preventive cancer screenings! Most are fake and produce nothing but fear and rushing you into the cancer treatment death merry go round.
I’m done with those too. I’d have to have a pretty good reason. My mother in law died from ovarian cancer. Medical records showed the elderly doc removed the wrong ovary. The doc was dead by the time it was noted. I had a hip replacement last year. They marked the leg and asked me which one before they put me under.
I've read about people marking their own bodies before they go to the hospital, one in fact had written "NOT THIS ONE" when he was to have a kidney removed
Yup. Been on that path for years. Even the functional medicine doc has missed that. They are ALL about supplements in most cases. I’m not returning except for a blood snd thyroid panel in February. I’m on a pro—metabolic energy journey now. Done totally with IF, low carb, keto and the carnivore misrepresentations. We have been deceived. No surprise. 😑🤔
look up functional nutrition alliance, I am currently enrolled in that course and am excited about it! This would be something you probably could do and work with others!
I had almost given up on my blood pressure ever being brought under control when inept billing by my last physician caused me to find a wonderfully competent nurse practitioner that followed my lead into the successful application of a tiny dose of a loop diuretic, curing the problem with two office visits. Since Medicare insists on a paid annual wellness visit and my new prescription requires mild monitoring of my potassium level (which isn't likely to be a problem for a dedicated carnivore like me), I'll be happy to comply.
I've had BP that is somewhat too high since I was in my 20s (I'm 74 now), no real explanation for it except perhaps a familial thing as I am not at all overweight, normal to low normal for my height, and no other conditions to deal with. My doctor tried different things for the BP, all of which I rejected, but we finally ended up with a very modest combo pill that sounds like the loop diuretic you described called Triamterene, which is defined like this:
Triamterene is a potassium-sparing diuretic often used in combination with thiazide diuretics for the treatment of high blood pressure or swelling. The combination with hydrochlorothiazide, is known as hydrochlorothiazide/triamterene.
This has kept my slightly elevated (so they say) BP in line for at least the last 15 years. I get no side effects except if I miss 2 or 3 days taking it I get horrible dry mouth, and I'm thinking my electrolyte levels get off balance, and then when I resume taking the pills it takes several days sometimes to get rid of the dry mouth. So once you are taking the Triamterene, it's best to take it without missing a day. They're extremely cheap...between $3 and $10 for a 90 day supply.
Can you imagine the number TV commercials from Class Action Litigation Firms, we will bombarded with, once the legal floodgates are open. I will welcome it.
I’m not defending pharma here, but keep in mind that pharma is a business. What’s the goal of business?- to create a product or service that makes money. Some businesses do that ethically, some do it unethically.
The real failure is that of government to protect its citizens- which should be the goal of government. This is where great legal minds (like Jeff) need to harness the power of laser focused surgical exploration and excision of the cancerous socialism that created this debacle. If pharma experiences collateral damage in the process- so be it, but collusion with government and pharma needs to be blown apart and government retooled to do the job it was created to do.
Remember “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit?” Johnny Cochrane proved that nursery rhymes are persuasive. Vax-injury dream teams will remove all doubt from the minds of jurors with vapid lines like these. We’re going to need a lot of them.
They are an intl web register where you must legally include your mailing address and personal info when registering a domain name. I think to make sure you are a real human? Like a phone book of sorts 👀
Let's just hope Judges don't dismiss these cases on random 'standing' excuses as they have with the multiple voter fraud cases. The evidence will never be presented.
And what about the theory that the Dept of Defense was behind it all (Warp Speed), Pfizer and Moderna acting as the frontmen/distributor. In fact, I think at some point Pfizer actually said that they could not be sued because everything they did was approved and at the behest of the Government. If the government knew and approved then it was OK.
I've heard Attny John Barnes talk about this vis a vis his lawsuit.
Hahaha 😂 😆 😂 to NYC and all its dumb libbies and normies. Cuts in services. Library reduction - which means less drag queen story time! Oh the horror. Also, adams wants the parents to volunteer to provide security for the children at school
Hahaha 😂😂 Just some of the great things that happen when you vote dem. Reap what you sow!
Less homeless in the libraries on sundays I’m a retired librarian. Our old library was near the last stop on the commuter rail to snd from Chicago. We would get homeless all week except Sunday of course. Closed. We built a new one over a mile away and no homeless came then that we could reckon at anytime. .
Worked in a suburban Chicago library for a few years.. big homeless problem because of their mental health issues - creepy men would try to watch porn on the computers - the poor reference librarians had to keep dealing with that, chasing them off the computers. Had a bag lady who would just pee all over herself and then sit on the upholstered chairs. Would not use our brand new, spotlessly clean restrooms. Had to escort her out when we closed at 9 pm every night. The stench made your eyes water. It took an entire year but eventually the library got her permanently banned - she had been given a years worth of chances and all kinds of social services and money and whatnot. And the absolute crap we got when the wokesters found out she was banned - oh the threats we got - it was unbelievable. She really needed psychiatric care and they were taking up a collection to give her restaurant gift cards. She started hanging out at the bus shelter across from the library and then we really started to get complaints about how terrible we were. Our tax dollars at work. Not to mention the garbage that passes for literature these days. I feel sorry for kids.
Ugh I love how these pretend virtuous people are all up in arms about things like this and “care” when it isn’t something they have to deal with personally 🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬
Big E, seems we Oregonians lost you to Idaho. I just subscribed to your substack and based on what I'm reading, it's Oregons loss and Idaho's gain. At leat I can follow you here and on your substack.
I was recently in NYC for a work trip. I couldn't help but wonder who is paying for all the homeless and dregs of society standing around on the sidewalks in the middle of the day wearing sweats or pajamas and smoking weed. Obviously, those individuals are not paying for their constant stream of weed themselves. Yet, they're all going to town on weed all day long. No wonder the city is broke. It's become a hostel operator and drug dealer who doesn't understand the basic economics of costs/revenue.
It really is. It's always been gross, but that's been ratcheted up a few notches since I was last there a decade or so ago. The crime, litter, urine, trash, poop, vomit, homelessness, and drug use is all on display constantly. Not just weed, but guys doing meth on the sidewalk as well. Looking out at it from 30 floors up you can see what must have been an incredible feat of engineering at one time. Now, it's just dead and decaying. The streets and sidewalks are crap, the subway is disgusting and barely functional, there are construction vehicles and signs everywhere...but seemingly no actual construction being done. All while a bunch of zombies walk around acting like none of that decay is happening. Very depressing place to be. Very out of touch with healthy living and values, but also just out of sync with human nature itself.
Wonder if all this has tempered the arrogance of my NYC friends, acquaintances now. We parted ways over politics of course, and I’m in Texas now, which to New Yorkers is nowhere. They voted for this s*it show. Who’s smarter now? Sung to the tune of....
I doubt it. Zombies don't know they're zombies. Delusional people don't know they're delusional. I hate to sound overly judgmental, but I really do believe it's a form of delusion to ignore the crime, violence, excessive costs, unnaturalness, and decay of the physical reality surrounding oneself in order to have access to "stuff." Which really just means having lots of overpriced restaurants and music venues to go to. Venues that can be found in any city, only without all the extra cost and physical assault. It's as if they pay 3x more and put up with 100x times more nonsense to be near what their peers consider "cool" "stuff." Which just seems incredibly superficial, ego-driven, and delusional to me.
Like when the dem mayors go to Biden to 'complain' .....not pressuring him to close the border, but to GIVE THEM MORE money to spend on the invasion force:-)
yes, more Fake $$$$ for processing, housing, services, and oh they want to work to pay back for the hospitality shown... do the bug-food processing plants need new wave of workers that can be unionized?
When you reduce services, HR will work to reduce staff since there not enough work for the staff. It is not good for either the staff and those who receive benefits.
Provide security with what?? The guns Adams and his ilk don’t want regular citizens to have? Maybe they could get a social worker to provide security by talking any potential perpetrators out of their violence 🙄
Isn’t it interesting that when the illegals drain your bank account, taxes dry up because you drove out small and large businesses, and you try to recover by making the children suffer, take away security measures, and cut education. 🤨 How about cut off the illegals living in 5 star hotels and getting free everything! How about you start there! The goal? Make the peasants suffer for govt stupidity and make it hurt as much as possible. They hate the American people. How much more proof do brain dead people need. 🤦🏼♀️
I still pay into S/S retirement because I have a sole proprietorship - but it does concern me a great deal that most of my income is my S/S retirement benefits. I pray about re-entering the workforce (which I did for about 10 years in my late 60's, early 70's...but I know I don't have the physical stamina to stand for even 4 hours a day anymore! I'm just now looking for a REMOTE customer service position that I can do for under 30 hours a week (that's the sticking point--all of the ones I've been approached for interviews want a FULL TIME worker--I just cannot sit OR stand for more than 2 hours at a pop!!
You should start selling things online. I’m in my 60’s, have been selling on EBay for 25 years. On average I make $2000-$3000 a month with very little effort. There are other platforms as well, it may be the answer for you. Start with items in your own house/closet.
I DO sell things--that's what my sole proprietorship is all about. I had a B2B website for over 19 years and in 2019 everything just dried up (due to Amazon mostly getting into 3rd party Sellers buying into using their platform). I would have to stock what I sell (maintenance products for industrial applications) and I did stock the rivets that my #1 client bought from me for many years. I lost that biz in 2014....so I mostly "drop ship" what I sell. I have friends who sell on Ebay and it is mostly "pin money" for them. You're doing very well, Gigi--what items do you sell on Ebay?
Yes, I notice that NYC's worse than useless, truly toxic Department of Health and Mental Hygiene isn't on the list for cuts. Why am I not surprised?
If I had won my campaign for City Council, defunding that agency and taking the pharma shill of a Health Commissioner to task would have been high on my agenda, even if the city's budget had been overflowing with money.
I agree. So they come here for a better life away from political oppression or something and by their sheer numbers they are turning our economy into poverty. What I have wondered about, besides the 5 star accommodations, when they are supplied with a cell phone who pays for the monthly service??
Exactly the question I’ve asked watching them “walk” up through Mexico hundreds of miles 🙄 in their designer clothes and shoes 🙄 talking on cell phones. 🤔 Who is paying for those cell phones? I want to know who gave them rides and dropped them off before the cameras started rolling….
As the article stated, they actually passed a law that *mandates* providing things to "undocumented immigrants". They are screwed until they wake up and repeal that law.
NY citizens should take notes from Jeff and start hassling their legislators (but I doubt they read C&C).
They will need a lot of fraud to overcome the supposed red wave. In 2016, Trump led none of these polls, yet won many of the contested states. For 2024 for the first time he's literally leading all of the pols by +4 and more.
They felt they had the fix in in 2016 but vastly under estimated his support and failed to hold him off.
In 2020 they felt they had the fix in but again, his numbers were overwhelming so much so that they stopped the counting in 6 states at the exact same time and took weeks to print up fake ballots to successfuly put Biden in office.
In 2022 they repeated their success. Election rigging by Dems has been active since 1985, possibly earlier than that but 1985 is the earliest year that records were still available in any quantity.
Will they do it again in 2024? Of course. For crime that pays is crime that stays as Catherine Austin Fitts has observed. Should you vote, absolutely, no question make it as difficult as possible for them. Will they get away with it, probably. Who do you see stopping them? History teaches us, coups are not voted out.
I agree with what you say until the end. You say to vote anyway, but then give an argument for not voting. Don't give up before there's an actual loss.
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – VADM James Stockdale, USN
I understand your reasoning, my goal was to state what I see as the right thing to do and the plausible outcome. I wasn't giving up nor would I encourage others to. :)
@BFM I love your optimism, but we KNOW there was massive fraud in 2020, and not nearly enough has been done to rectify it. Oh sure, a few states have repaired the ridiculous laws they passed in the name of “safety” during the pandemic (spit), but until elections are severed from electronics, we will get the leaders “they” select. And if you complain you can just wait for the knock on your door to go join the J6ers in the gulag. How do you see it turning out any other way?
Yes! Phantom ballots/dirty rolls, which could be eliminated if we had in-person, voter ID, paper ballots, counted on-site the day of voting, and no absentee ballots allowed without a verifiable reason, like military or handicapped/ill voters. Without those safeguards, legitimate elections are a distant memory, unfortunately.
ERRATA
— Schroedinger's cat properly attributed (thanks smart C&Cers)
Wass gonna say...but you could have made a Breaking Bad reference !
I immediately thought of Breaking Bad, too!
Heisenberg!
Right?! “Blown up bigger than a....” That kinda thing...
Isn’t that Hindenburg? 🎈
....oh and I was thinking Lab Explosion....but yeah The Hindenburg Principle might be a new win!!
Or is it 99 RedBalloons?!
99 Luftballoons I think
The Heisenberg Effect sounds a lot like Ring of Gyges in Plato’s Republic, where the ring allows the wearer to become invisible and when someone is invisible, they will do things they wouldn't otherwise do when people could see them doing something wrong.
I thought that was the Gollum Effect.
It's called the "Precious Postulate" in the language of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
Jeff, you are also totally confused the Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle with the observer effect. I think the latter fits your case as an analogy better. So leave Heisenberg completely alone :-)
Yes, as I recall Heisenberg's principle was that you could know *either* the position, *or* the velocity of a particle, but not both. Or else I'm confusing that with yet another quantum principle... the perils of a popular-level vague familiarity with a subject.
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving in a car. A police officer pulls them over for speeding and approaches Heisenberg in the driver's seat and asks, "do you know how fast your were going?" Heisenberg answers "No, but I can tell you exactly where I was at the time." The officer thinks this odd answer constitutes grounds for a search of the vehicle and demands the keys. After examining the car he comes up to Schrodinger in the passenger seat and says, "Did you know you have a dead cat in your trunk?" Schrodinger exclaims, "Well I do NOW!"
That's actually quite a neat explanation of those quantum principles!
One of my all time favorite jokes. I can't take credit for it but it is interesting to gauge peoples' reactions. It seems to function as both a joke and a test.
Another favorite:
Argon walks into a bar. Pointing to the door, the bartender shouts angrily, "We don't serve noble gases in here!!"
Argon...doesn't react.
Phew! Thought I was missing something...
"My firm is currently preparing a major case challenging the Constitutionality of the PREP Act — the federal statute that shields Pfizer and Moderna from liability for their defective vaccine products.".
YES!!!!! Thank you. I've been expecting a tsunami of suits for a couple years now...
Big pharma needs to go broke and be prosecuted to the fullest. Crimes against humanity.
What is needed is to have the courage to remove all immunities of all corporate and governmental actors.
After all , they are not curing anything. Period.
More and more is coming out about the preventive cancer screenings! Most are fake and produce nothing but fear and rushing you into the cancer treatment death merry go round.
All greed!
And they expose you to toxic radiation, which, unsurprisingly, can cause cancer.
I’m done with those too. I’d have to have a pretty good reason. My mother in law died from ovarian cancer. Medical records showed the elderly doc removed the wrong ovary. The doc was dead by the time it was noted. I had a hip replacement last year. They marked the leg and asked me which one before they put me under.
I've read about people marking their own bodies before they go to the hospital, one in fact had written "NOT THIS ONE" when he was to have a kidney removed
I joked I would do the same and add/-“F* this up and I’ll find you”
omg. Hilarious. (Sorta.) What next? Write "THIS SIDE UP" on one's stomach pre-op?
Agree 💯
Nutrition is the only thing that cures disease caused by nutritional deficiencies.
Yup. Been on that path for years. Even the functional medicine doc has missed that. They are ALL about supplements in most cases. I’m not returning except for a blood snd thyroid panel in February. I’m on a pro—metabolic energy journey now. Done totally with IF, low carb, keto and the carnivore misrepresentations. We have been deceived. No surprise. 😑🤔
look up functional nutrition alliance, I am currently enrolled in that course and am excited about it! This would be something you probably could do and work with others!
Thank you. I will.
I had almost given up on my blood pressure ever being brought under control when inept billing by my last physician caused me to find a wonderfully competent nurse practitioner that followed my lead into the successful application of a tiny dose of a loop diuretic, curing the problem with two office visits. Since Medicare insists on a paid annual wellness visit and my new prescription requires mild monitoring of my potassium level (which isn't likely to be a problem for a dedicated carnivore like me), I'll be happy to comply.
I've had BP that is somewhat too high since I was in my 20s (I'm 74 now), no real explanation for it except perhaps a familial thing as I am not at all overweight, normal to low normal for my height, and no other conditions to deal with. My doctor tried different things for the BP, all of which I rejected, but we finally ended up with a very modest combo pill that sounds like the loop diuretic you described called Triamterene, which is defined like this:
Triamterene is a potassium-sparing diuretic often used in combination with thiazide diuretics for the treatment of high blood pressure or swelling. The combination with hydrochlorothiazide, is known as hydrochlorothiazide/triamterene.
This has kept my slightly elevated (so they say) BP in line for at least the last 15 years. I get no side effects except if I miss 2 or 3 days taking it I get horrible dry mouth, and I'm thinking my electrolyte levels get off balance, and then when I resume taking the pills it takes several days sometimes to get rid of the dry mouth. So once you are taking the Triamterene, it's best to take it without missing a day. They're extremely cheap...between $3 and $10 for a 90 day supply.
Which Loop diuretic?
There is no money in a cure.
Can you imagine the number TV commercials from Class Action Litigation Firms, we will bombarded with, once the legal floodgates are open. I will welcome it.
🤣😑
I’m not defending pharma here, but keep in mind that pharma is a business. What’s the goal of business?- to create a product or service that makes money. Some businesses do that ethically, some do it unethically.
The real failure is that of government to protect its citizens- which should be the goal of government. This is where great legal minds (like Jeff) need to harness the power of laser focused surgical exploration and excision of the cancerous socialism that created this debacle. If pharma experiences collateral damage in the process- so be it, but collusion with government and pharma needs to be blown apart and government retooled to do the job it was created to do.
Please
Annie - we’ll... at least the Bigg P”HARM”us Quackcene Industry.
There are some drugs in the Pharmaceutical industry that are necessary.
Probably less than you think.
I think most people would find they can do without all of Big Pharma's wares.
sp. correction; Quackcine or Quackccine
With Jeff and ICAN's attorney, Aaron Siri, both working on this, the feds don't stand a chance! It's the attorney dream team!
Remember “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit?” Johnny Cochrane proved that nursery rhymes are persuasive. Vax-injury dream teams will remove all doubt from the minds of jurors with vapid lines like these. We’re going to need a lot of them.
Their vax has failed; they must be jailed.
Schills of Big Pharma now must reap Karma.
Cohorts of Fauci each earned an ouchie.
Health taker, meet rainmaker.
Damage our communities and you get no immunities.
Good ones!
Those are awesome 😁
Yes. Just ask Siri!
And what is ICANN??
Informed Consent Action Network. One 'N'
https://icandecide.org/
See “thehighwire.com”.
They are an intl web register where you must legally include your mailing address and personal info when registering a domain name. I think to make sure you are a real human? Like a phone book of sorts 👀
I was wondering if that was the organization he was referring to, but it doesn’t make much sense to me for them to be bringing a lawsuit.
Do you know what the second "N" stands for in Jeff's reference to ICANN?
It's a mistake. Maybe Jeff was thinking about our friend, Benjamin Two NNs. 😁
Let's just hope Judges don't dismiss these cases on random 'standing' excuses as they have with the multiple voter fraud cases. The evidence will never be presented.
And what about the theory that the Dept of Defense was behind it all (Warp Speed), Pfizer and Moderna acting as the frontmen/distributor. In fact, I think at some point Pfizer actually said that they could not be sued because everything they did was approved and at the behest of the Government. If the government knew and approved then it was OK.
I've heard Attny John Barnes talk about this vis a vis his lawsuit.
Lots of good news, as if our patience and pressure is paying off.
-Sanctuary cities are backsliding on their failed policies.
-Ukraine war is drying up now that the West moves on.
-Trump is leading all polls, indicating a MAGA 2024 blowout.
Hahaha 😂 😆 😂 to NYC and all its dumb libbies and normies. Cuts in services. Library reduction - which means less drag queen story time! Oh the horror. Also, adams wants the parents to volunteer to provide security for the children at school
Hahaha 😂😂 Just some of the great things that happen when you vote dem. Reap what you sow!
Less homeless in the libraries on sundays I’m a retired librarian. Our old library was near the last stop on the commuter rail to snd from Chicago. We would get homeless all week except Sunday of course. Closed. We built a new one over a mile away and no homeless came then that we could reckon at anytime. .
In my experience, having the homeless in libraries might be better than having more staff members than patrons...
Having homeless in libraries is precisely why THIS patron stopped visiting a local library in Oregon.
Worked in a suburban Chicago library for a few years.. big homeless problem because of their mental health issues - creepy men would try to watch porn on the computers - the poor reference librarians had to keep dealing with that, chasing them off the computers. Had a bag lady who would just pee all over herself and then sit on the upholstered chairs. Would not use our brand new, spotlessly clean restrooms. Had to escort her out when we closed at 9 pm every night. The stench made your eyes water. It took an entire year but eventually the library got her permanently banned - she had been given a years worth of chances and all kinds of social services and money and whatnot. And the absolute crap we got when the wokesters found out she was banned - oh the threats we got - it was unbelievable. She really needed psychiatric care and they were taking up a collection to give her restaurant gift cards. She started hanging out at the bus shelter across from the library and then we really started to get complaints about how terrible we were. Our tax dollars at work. Not to mention the garbage that passes for literature these days. I feel sorry for kids.
Ugh I love how these pretend virtuous people are all up in arms about things like this and “care” when it isn’t something they have to deal with personally 🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬
I know, the children! Mostly, all They offer them these days is electronic devices, not even books!
Big E, seems we Oregonians lost you to Idaho. I just subscribed to your substack and based on what I'm reading, it's Oregons loss and Idaho's gain. At leat I can follow you here and on your substack.
Just subscribed to your Substack Big E!
Having been legally homeless since 1985, I have never been denied access to a library or any business desiring my patronage.
I was recently in NYC for a work trip. I couldn't help but wonder who is paying for all the homeless and dregs of society standing around on the sidewalks in the middle of the day wearing sweats or pajamas and smoking weed. Obviously, those individuals are not paying for their constant stream of weed themselves. Yet, they're all going to town on weed all day long. No wonder the city is broke. It's become a hostel operator and drug dealer who doesn't understand the basic economics of costs/revenue.
Also a sh*thole.
It really is. It's always been gross, but that's been ratcheted up a few notches since I was last there a decade or so ago. The crime, litter, urine, trash, poop, vomit, homelessness, and drug use is all on display constantly. Not just weed, but guys doing meth on the sidewalk as well. Looking out at it from 30 floors up you can see what must have been an incredible feat of engineering at one time. Now, it's just dead and decaying. The streets and sidewalks are crap, the subway is disgusting and barely functional, there are construction vehicles and signs everywhere...but seemingly no actual construction being done. All while a bunch of zombies walk around acting like none of that decay is happening. Very depressing place to be. Very out of touch with healthy living and values, but also just out of sync with human nature itself.
Wonder if all this has tempered the arrogance of my NYC friends, acquaintances now. We parted ways over politics of course, and I’m in Texas now, which to New Yorkers is nowhere. They voted for this s*it show. Who’s smarter now? Sung to the tune of....
I doubt it. Zombies don't know they're zombies. Delusional people don't know they're delusional. I hate to sound overly judgmental, but I really do believe it's a form of delusion to ignore the crime, violence, excessive costs, unnaturalness, and decay of the physical reality surrounding oneself in order to have access to "stuff." Which really just means having lots of overpriced restaurants and music venues to go to. Venues that can be found in any city, only without all the extra cost and physical assault. It's as if they pay 3x more and put up with 100x times more nonsense to be near what their peers consider "cool" "stuff." Which just seems incredibly superficial, ego-driven, and delusional to me.
We had a saying growing up in Lancaster PA - when a couple of new Yorkers move in, their goes the neighborhood.
Cuts in services.... does that mean city employees will be fired or will it be just a reduction in services to the legal residents of the city?
My guess is they keep the same amount of staff... lower workload, same pay. What’s not to like?? SMH
Like when the dem mayors go to Biden to 'complain' .....not pressuring him to close the border, but to GIVE THEM MORE money to spend on the invasion force:-)
better them than the penis-piano-playing "democratic" president of Ukraine - or is he "dictator"
Because HE canceled the election he is a dictator. No if ands or buts (butts)
yes, more Fake $$$$ for processing, housing, services, and oh they want to work to pay back for the hospitality shown... do the bug-food processing plants need new wave of workers that can be unionized?
Cuts like trans-surgeries may be painful and perhaps lasting
When you reduce services, HR will work to reduce staff since there not enough work for the staff. It is not good for either the staff and those who receive benefits.
probably just a reduction in services: the legal residents are not unionized, whereas the city employees have a strong union
Could be both.
I guess it's time for DeSantis and Abbot to send more busses of illegals to NYC. NYC is lovely at the holidays.
they can enjoy the Rockefeller Plaza Tree and all the window-shopping
And their luxury 5-star hotel
Plus they pay enormous taxes and now they're getting even less for their money!
Provide security with what?? The guns Adams and his ilk don’t want regular citizens to have? Maybe they could get a social worker to provide security by talking any potential perpetrators out of their violence 🙄
Isn’t it interesting that when the illegals drain your bank account, taxes dry up because you drove out small and large businesses, and you try to recover by making the children suffer, take away security measures, and cut education. 🤨 How about cut off the illegals living in 5 star hotels and getting free everything! How about you start there! The goal? Make the peasants suffer for govt stupidity and make it hurt as much as possible. They hate the American people. How much more proof do brain dead people need. 🤦🏼♀️
I think its important to remember what is really draining our bank accounts: the military industrial complex.
And big pharma
That budget is dwarfed by Social Security and Medicare.
I still pay into S/S retirement because I have a sole proprietorship - but it does concern me a great deal that most of my income is my S/S retirement benefits. I pray about re-entering the workforce (which I did for about 10 years in my late 60's, early 70's...but I know I don't have the physical stamina to stand for even 4 hours a day anymore! I'm just now looking for a REMOTE customer service position that I can do for under 30 hours a week (that's the sticking point--all of the ones I've been approached for interviews want a FULL TIME worker--I just cannot sit OR stand for more than 2 hours at a pop!!
You should start selling things online. I’m in my 60’s, have been selling on EBay for 25 years. On average I make $2000-$3000 a month with very little effort. There are other platforms as well, it may be the answer for you. Start with items in your own house/closet.
I DO sell things--that's what my sole proprietorship is all about. I had a B2B website for over 19 years and in 2019 everything just dried up (due to Amazon mostly getting into 3rd party Sellers buying into using their platform). I would have to stock what I sell (maintenance products for industrial applications) and I did stock the rivets that my #1 client bought from me for many years. I lost that biz in 2014....so I mostly "drop ship" what I sell. I have friends who sell on Ebay and it is mostly "pin money" for them. You're doing very well, Gigi--what items do you sell on Ebay?
The budget is dwarfed by the military.
At least we have paid into Social Security and Medicare.
Social Security + Medicare + 'Health' + other social services = 57% (excluding 'commerce and housing credit)
Defense = 19%
The Constitution doesn't authorize the federal government to do any of the 57%.
It specifically authorizes the 19% (but that's only that high because of the corrupt relationship between defense contractors and politicians)
Source (scroll down to 'spending categories, by percent):
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
The details:
Soc Sec 25%
Defense 19%
Net interest 16%
'Health' 15%
Income security 7%
Medicare 5%
Education, training, employment, social services 5%
Commerce and housing credit 4%
Veterans benefits and services 3%
Transportation 2%
Other <1%
Notice they will cut all sorts of things, but never their own salaries and benefits!
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Yes, I notice that NYC's worse than useless, truly toxic Department of Health and Mental Hygiene isn't on the list for cuts. Why am I not surprised?
If I had won my campaign for City Council, defunding that agency and taking the pharma shill of a Health Commissioner to task would have been high on my agenda, even if the city's budget had been overflowing with money.
I sooooo wish you would have won. Thank you for being courageous and running. I hope you try again!
In Portland they are holding Black Friday sales in Empty WalMart buildings this year?
You have to call it African American Friday there though 😑
I agree. So they come here for a better life away from political oppression or something and by their sheer numbers they are turning our economy into poverty. What I have wondered about, besides the 5 star accommodations, when they are supplied with a cell phone who pays for the monthly service??
Exactly the question I’ve asked watching them “walk” up through Mexico hundreds of miles 🙄 in their designer clothes and shoes 🙄 talking on cell phones. 🤔 Who is paying for those cell phones? I want to know who gave them rides and dropped them off before the cameras started rolling….
As the article stated, they actually passed a law that *mandates* providing things to "undocumented immigrants". They are screwed until they wake up and repeal that law.
NY citizens should take notes from Jeff and start hassling their legislators (but I doubt they read C&C).
Or major upcoming voter fraud. Please check on me if that happens. I will not b ok and will need backup lol.
They will need a lot of fraud to overcome the supposed red wave. In 2016, Trump led none of these polls, yet won many of the contested states. For 2024 for the first time he's literally leading all of the pols by +4 and more.
And on top of that, polls cannot be trusted. I would assume that the actual support for Trump is much greater than what the "polls" indicate.
Thinking we can COUNT on that being true!
They felt they had the fix in in 2016 but vastly under estimated his support and failed to hold him off.
In 2020 they felt they had the fix in but again, his numbers were overwhelming so much so that they stopped the counting in 6 states at the exact same time and took weeks to print up fake ballots to successfuly put Biden in office.
In 2022 they repeated their success. Election rigging by Dems has been active since 1985, possibly earlier than that but 1985 is the earliest year that records were still available in any quantity.
Will they do it again in 2024? Of course. For crime that pays is crime that stays as Catherine Austin Fitts has observed. Should you vote, absolutely, no question make it as difficult as possible for them. Will they get away with it, probably. Who do you see stopping them? History teaches us, coups are not voted out.
I agree with what you say until the end. You say to vote anyway, but then give an argument for not voting. Don't give up before there's an actual loss.
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – VADM James Stockdale, USN
I understand your reasoning, my goal was to state what I see as the right thing to do and the plausible outcome. I wasn't giving up nor would I encourage others to. :)
Maybe it was Jeff, not sure who wrote recently that Trump and Republicans are working on the election rigging problem in a big way.
Arizona
https://rumble.com/v3d32ta-maricopa-malfeasance-two.html
@BFM I love your optimism, but we KNOW there was massive fraud in 2020, and not nearly enough has been done to rectify it. Oh sure, a few states have repaired the ridiculous laws they passed in the name of “safety” during the pandemic (spit), but until elections are severed from electronics, we will get the leaders “they” select. And if you complain you can just wait for the knock on your door to go join the J6ers in the gulag. How do you see it turning out any other way?
"until elections are severed from electronics"
I like that! Punchy and it's exactly what we need.
Electronic voting is only half of it. The other half is mail in ballots and "dirty" voting rolls.
Yes! Phantom ballots/dirty rolls, which could be eliminated if we had in-person, voter ID, paper ballots, counted on-site the day of voting, and no absentee ballots allowed without a verifiable reason, like military or handicapped/ill voters. Without those safeguards, legitimate elections are a distant memory, unfortunately.