John Deere vs The Pressure People

There is a lot of whining going on over the movement of a large slice JD production to Mexico. The Daily Mail has an extensive write-up detailing all of the hurt this brings to middle America. There is much crying and gnashing of teeth.

First two lines in the article: 
–John Deere is sparking outrage by laying off American workers and moving more of its agricultural equipment manufacturing to Mexico.
–Since October 2023, more than 1,000 John Deere workers have either been laid off or pushed into an early retirement across several plants in Iowa and Illinois.

Then there is this at around the 55th paragraph mark:
–The layoffs began after 10,000 unionized John Deere workers went on strike for five weeks in October 2021.

Well shit folks, you didn’t think that John Deere became a 187 year old king of jungle by rolling over every time the natives became restless did you? In this instance the natives were all upset about the company making good profit and the CEO making his millions. Consider this:

The CEO managed to triple the value of the company stock and improve the quarterly dividend it pays to all stockholders. Given that level of wealth creation I think the CEO was worthy of his pay.

When the union made the employee-employer all about the money and promoted a we vs they mentality among their members they also promoted that same mentality in the leadership of JD. If it’s all about the money then there is a much greater value proposition to be found in dozens of far flung locales on this planet.

Congrats to the union and the union employees, you’ve proven that Adam Smith’s invisible hand was correctly extrapolated by Samuelson:
—–Free markets are self-regulating systems that create economically optimal outcomes, which can’t be improved upon by government intervention.
—-The idea of trade and market exchange perfectly channeling self-interest toward socially desirable ends is a central justification for newer versions of the laissez-faire economic philosophy which lie behind neoclassical economics.

Unfortunately for the those in Iowa and Illinois the ‘economically optimal outcome’ favored the folk in Mexico. Had the legal tender, the value proposition, been based on mutually favorable outcomes then this would never had happened.

Staggering

On June 6th it will have been 80 years since the landings of D Day In 1944. The undertaking was enormous and the number of lives lost in the liberation of Europe was staggering.

Operation Market Garden was the largest military operation mankind has ever conceived. On the side of the Allies three nations with completely different geopolitical views: Russia, the US and England somehow bridged their differences and nursed a very difficult alliance to challenge and then collapse the tyranny that gripped the world.

Millions of families across our nation had family that traveled to war in those foreign lands. Both of my uncles on my fathers side fought in that war. They left the family home in Ozark, Mo., fought in a world war and, upon returning, both married patriotic women they found along train stops as they went to war. One became a milk delivery driver in Detroit and the other delivered ice and coal. An uncle on my mothers side left his home in Ottumwa Iowa and gave his life on some distant and obscure battlefield.

As you enjoy this great Memorial Day weekend, take time to lift a glass to those that gave that last greatest measure of devotion and count the blessings in your life that came at such a dear cost.

Big Big Balls and Sheep Shit Placebos

I don’t know how this man kept such a uplifting attitude with all of the death and despair that confronted him. I do know that if it were me that was reunited with my unit after the suffering on the hill there would have been one sergeant that would never hear the one that ended it for him.

Numb

I guess we’ve grown numb to this national crisis. For more than 40 years our wonderful congresscritters have pontificated on both the foreign causes and the appropriate domestic response: and yet here we are.

I guess (also) that I’m of two minds on this entire ‘immigration’ conundrum. The nationalist* in me demands they use ‘the broken system’ while my humanitarian side would like to bomb the fuck out of the governing bodies in multiple Latin American nations for the hopelessness they’ve created for their own populations.

I’m concerned about the tremendous cost to support these multi-millions of new Americans, it’s apparent to me that it is now impossible to ship them back to their nation of origin. It’s bad, bad, bad right now and about to get a whole lot worse.

*Somehow ‘nationalism’ has fallen from favor: how long can such a sentiment continue before the nation itself falls?

Pathetic

The handlers for Shit for Brains should have known better than to give the public an opportunity to compare and contrast the present asshole and an asshole that once bull-shitted his way into office.

It’s a terrible look made worse by a media event where all of the enthusiasm was focused on Obama. Joe kept trying to get his attention and was ignored by both the former president and the gaggle surrounding him. He went so far as to tug on his shoulder several time before Obama gave him a hint of recognition.

There is a level of incompetence among this group of clowns that transcends hilarity and stinks of stupidity.

And, while I’m pointing out stupidity, what fucking idiot thought it was a good idea to have Camel Toe stand between these two looking as if she was at a job interview?

I can remember when Slow Joe was hilariously called Plugs Biden. Looks like that Hair Club for Men shit has completely worn off. He would have been better served, and looked more distinctive, by having a rabbit tattoo plastered on his head.

It’s a much more dangerous world today than yesterday. Y’all be careful out there.

All Part of The Plan | An American Stands Tall

So this guy in Florida decides that he’s had about enough and wants to act out a little bit. He dawns his LGB T shirt, spends a couple of buck on a plane ticket, and then places a pink thong over his head instead of the diaper that Fauci recommends. The result? Instant national attention as he insults the Plugs Biden and the ridiculous mask mandates.

Gorilla marketing at its finest!

Like No Other

June 6, 1944 was a day like no other. It was ‘D Day’, the first day of Operation Overlord.

The invasion of Normandy’s beaches consisted of 5,333 Allied ships and landing craft embarking nearly 175,000 men.  

The U.S. VII Corps sustained 22,119 casualties from 6 June to 1 July, including 2,811 killed, 13,564 wounded, 5,665 missing, and seventy-nine captured.

American personnel in Britain included 1,931,885 land, 659,554 air, and 285,000 naval—a total of 2,876,439 officers and men. While in Britain they were housed in 1,108 bases and camps.

The Allied forces for Operation Overlord comprised twenty-three infantry divisions (thirteen U.S., eight British, two Canadian); twelve armored (five U.S., four British, one each Canadian, French, and Polish); and four airborne (two each U.S. and British)—for a total of twenty American divisions, fourteen British, three Canadian, and one each French and Polish.

Air assets included 3,958 heavy bombers (3,455 operational), 1,234 medium and light bombers (989 operational), and 4,709 fighters (3,824 operational), for 9,901 total and 8,268 operational. Allowing for aircrews, 7,774 U.S. and British Commonwealth planes were available for operations on 6 June, but these figures do not include transports and gliders.

But planes and boats didn’t fight and win the war in Europe; the mean sons-of-bitches from America did.

Being just a little crazy helped with the butterflies, and it damn sure scared the crap out of the Germans. They called the troopers of 504 Infantry Regiment of the 82nd “devils in baggy pants”. They called (and still call) themselves ‘The Devils Brigade”

Think that these folk aren’t bad-ass? When they finished up in Europe, the Mediterranean, and island hopping in the Pacific, they returned home and built the greatest nation the world has ever seen.

Those that seek to destroy the nation from within might do well to note that the same grit and determination that won the second war to end all wars still lives on in the heartland of this country. Tread lightly.

It Is So Not Over

Regardless of where you come down on the innocence/guilt of Chauvin and/or/if the judicial system treated the accused fairly, there is one certainty:  the big city streets will continue to host the Wildings in their quest for retribution for past wrongs—real and imagined. There are a whole butt-load of folk on the left that work to keep the heat turned up on this crowd.

Every race-baiting hustler has their hustle on and will do all they can to both keep their name and the game in play. God forbid the cash generating race cow should cease production.

It’s all about the game. It has nothing to do with inequality, race, justice, wealth, poverty, education, immigration, or queer/tranny rights. It’s about the game of keeping the idiots in the street in the street. Rioting in the streets by racists, faggots, anarchists, communists, and socialists will intensify over the summer.  The hustlers are on a roll and won’t back away from the game while things are breaking their way.

Worse yet, a group of absolute idiots are at the helm of our nation and are flooding the mush brained, under educated, indoctrinated, manipulated, and overly privileged snowflakes with so much cash and freebies that we’ll not see a conservative recurrence/resurgence in several lifetimes.  There is a strong chance that should this crowd damage the nation enough then China will move to put a quick end to it.  We are, after all, a damn sharp stick in their eye and he only thing that keeps them from their quest for world domination. 

So all of these assholes working in their own self interest will eventually weaken the nation to the point where we become a very attractive target.

You cannot stop it. You cannot group together with like minded patriots and stop it. Soon, if you’ll lift your patriotic head and make a little noise, you’ll find yourself in the same difficulties that those good folk in the nations capital did on January 6.

So, what the hell should be done? If the old sag about the best revenge being a life well lived holds true, then lead a good life and thank God for granting you the wisdom to see what can and cannot be changed.

Of Two Minds

Breitbart ran a story about how the British government is “flying blind” on immigration and have found that they have an extra 1.25 million folk materialize without any explanation. “We don’t know who’s arriving or leaving, who’s here, or where they are,” .

I think that knowing who is in your neighborhood is generally a good idea. In troubled times it’s more important than in calm, but I have that sneaky feeling that governments are all about creating troubling times so that they might exercise power that otherwise would have been unwarranted.

When the border went wacko, so did our society. There was a time in Merica when the border was strong and there was no profit in tracking a man from year to year, month to month, birth to death (and then register the plot where he was buried). Your comings and going, like your life, were your own business.

Those days are over and will remain a footnote in history unless nationalism once again becomes a welcomed term and we become a nation capable of constraining the onslaught of migrating hoards. I personally think that we’ve passed the point where we could turn things around. That’s a GD shame. I really loved this country and it appears as if it is gone; gobbled up by the Landoleeres.

Perhaps God has a great reset planned a little further down the slip-stream of time. If he does I hope some future manly-men crank up a new nation that has some semblance to what our fore fathers tried to whip up, seems to me that was a pretty good idea.

From Whole Cloth

I guess the run that the moral majority enjoyed here in Am Murica is well over, now comes the days of the Orcs. It wasn’t that long ago when headlining an article captioned as below would have been unthinkable. Now the dark side has become so emboldened that they don’t even pretend to conceal the hatred they have for Christians.

It’s a neat trick the author/publisher is playing with the words and image. They would have the weak minded believe that the ‘Christian Nationalist’ (those folk who believe that God shines his light on America) are barbarians, anti-democratic, and are subverting (‘working quietly to take America’) the government to satisfy their own wants. It really is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Lies made from whole cloth.

Heading For Third World Nation Status

By the time these asshats finish our nation will be in tatters. Swing wide the gates and let all those who appear at the threshold pass. And, because we be doling out free shit by the shovel full, not only will the treasury be drained, but we’ll have a population that demands a sacrifice of the future for the wants of today.

This from Breitbart (less graphic):

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, tasked with enforcing federal immigration law, are being instructed to free all detainees in their custody, as President Joe Biden’s administration halts deportations.

An internal January 21 ICE memo, independently reviewed by Breitbart News and first reported by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, orders agents to “stop all removals,” including land and air deportations.

In addition, the memo tells agents that “all cases” of detainees in ICE custody are now to be considered “no significant likelihood of removal in foreseeable future” — suggesting all detainees will need to be released.

“Release them all, immediately,” the ICE official wrote to staff in the memo. Typically, if detainees do not have sponsors in the United States, agents can hold an individual in their custody. The memo, though, states that is no longer the case and that even detainees without sponsors must be released.

Where We Were

A little review seems to appropriate.

We were in a hot war with Great Britain long before we inked the Declaration of Independence. It’s been 244 years since it’s adoption and one burning question remains: do American patriots still have the character/will to defend their God given rights.

Voices

Looks to me that 2021 will be more ‘interesting’ than 2020.

Increasingly fervent voices are pushing for a hot civil war and all indications are that those narratives have found a home in the minds of folk on both side of the societal divide.

Prep up, Spicy Time in 3……2……1…..

Is It Me?

I can’t shake the feeling of impending doom. So many ill’s waiting for their moment.

Will the border walls fall and the nation flood? How many, where will they stay, how will they eat? It seems to me that were the rush great and sustained it could sink the nation. Capitalism could not exist, at least not for all. A free society could not prevail in the free for all that surely follows such a great great migration.

What restrains the United Nations (and the EU for that matter) other than the US. What will keep them from their ‘Great Reset’ once our national will fails? China will let them travel down the path of globalization until the world can be subsumed under their tyrannical hand. Even societies exist in a food-chain of sorts.

Despite all of the downside that are sure to manifest in the immediate future, I know that after things go south that a great revolution will follow. There is a future where hard men engage in epic battles and perform heroic deeds. Great men yet unborn will chart the course of a future you and I can’t even imagine.

Here They Come Again

It’s hard for me to believe that the national awakening we experienced over the last 4 years is being so quickly shitcanned. The ‘Old Guard’ has reassembled and are eager to again be at the levers. Their cause is globalism and I suppose they will need to quickly make an example of those who would dare protest.

The dark winter is at hand; not the one Biden would attribute to Kung Flu, rather the darkness that arises from a tyranny unarrested.

Oh, bye the way, you may want to round out your armory and top off on expendables. The group that is rolling into town is bound to tap down on the 2nd Amendment.

The Well Laid Plans for a Brave New World

U.N. Secretary-General Guterres called on all countries to reject coal and join together in seeking other alternatives. To that end he demanded efforts be made to “use the COVID-19 recovery effort to build green climate-resilient economies and work towards carbon neutrality by 2050.”

“This will, incidentally, also drive the job creation that will reduce inequality and address the air pollution that is choking many Asian cities. I commend the recent decisions of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea committing to net zero emissions,” the veteran Portugese socialist added.

“Countries also need to put a price on carbon and end subsidies for fossil fuels. Our response to the COVID-19 crisis must be aligned with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals. In all these efforts, you can count on the support of the United Nations system.”

Meanwhile WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab said the coronavirus crisis presents an opportunity for a “new kind of capitalism” and “great reset” of global economies, politics, and societies.

Sunset in America?

Breitbart is reporting on a new scheme by the globalists to wack at the populations in developed countries. The logic is that remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits. We need to tax them more in order to have them heft their fair share of the infrastructure.

Analysts say “That is a big problem for the economy,” he complained — as if spending much of one’s pay on commuting, dry-cleaning work clothes, and so on to boost the GDP is something of a civic duty — and proposed a 5 per cent “privilege tax” to recoup the economy’s imagined “loss”.

“Working from home will be part of the ‘new normal’ well after the pandemic has passed,” explained Jim Reid, Global Head of Fundamental Credit Strategy and Thematic Research at the German banking corporation.

“Our calculations suggest the amounts raised [from taxing home workers] could fund material income subsidies for low-income earners who are unable to work remotely and thus assume more ‘old economy’ and health risks,” he suggested.

Their estimated tax take from the scheme in Britain stands is £7 billion, with the potential to grab €20 billion (£17.8 billion) in Germany and  $49 billion (£37 billion) in America.

Read that last sentence again. The sentences that says ‘America’.

Once foreign entities are given a free pass at squeezing the US population, our downfall cannot be far off.

It’s Working | Down 30 Percent

I guess the folk who own major sport franchises, along with the players union that conspire with them, are beginning to take note. The words “shut up and dribble” were not an idle threat from a powerless few, but rather a stern warning from ‘the unwashed masses’.

The Patriots’ narrow Monday Night Football win over the Jets averaged 9.83 million viewers on ESPN, down 30% from last year (Cowboys-Giants: 13.98M) and the network’s least-watched Week 9 contest since 2004 (Browns-Ravens: 7.71M).

Spread the word. Let’s bring them to their bony knees.

They’ve Got My Dander Up

More than 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying he had the character and judgment to serve as commander-in-chief instead of President Donald Trump, who has failed “to meet challenges large or small.”

I’ve only a couple of questions for this august group:

  1. Where were your holier than thou politically tainted mouths when Benghazi went down. Not a fuckin peep from you or your high station. You could not have cared less about those hero’s on the roof top. You hid behind your stars and bars and said absolutely nothing in order to preserve or advance your career. Friggin cowards
  2. With wars blazing in the Middle East for almost your entire career the only advice you offered was to throw more troops and more arms into that sand lot. What the hell, it wasn’t your life on the line and the best way to ensure advancement was to be on the war bandwagon.
  3. When Obuthole slashed defense spending and hollowed out the military; weakened our nation while our enemies armed up, where was your outrage? Not a sound.

So now you feel it your duty to stab at the back of man who is guiding the nation to recovering from the mess you’ve left. Kiss my ass. And, oh by the way, don’t invoke McCain, Americans can see for themselves what a useless weasel of a man he was.

Mob Rule (When In The Course Of Human Events)

The Second Amendment has no value if a man can be separated from his weapons because someone else objects to him defending himself. Whenever the government enforces the will of the mob over the rights of its citizens it has outlived it’s utility. The words “When in the course of human events……” may be the wisest in all of our founding documents.

Bringing Them To Their Privileged Knees

Sunday Night Football was supposed to halt the ratings crash the NFL has experienced so far in the 2020 season. It did not.

According to DEADLINE Hollywood, ratings for NBC’s only weekly NFL game, were down 28%.

These results are disastrous for the NFL because the teams that played were the Cowboys (largest national fan following in the country) and the Rams (second largest media market in the country).

Time to reel them in, no audience means no advertising, means no money, means these over compensated constantly complaining privileged group of whiners might begin to realize we enjoy their play but not their more holy than thou proclamations.

Let them eat cake.

Blue Light

Some folk will recognize the term ‘Blue Light’ as the name of Delta before it was Delta. A much smaller group of folk could tell you of what it takes to enter the assessment program. Perhaps 1 in several million Americans know what its like to serve in this unit.

Unlike SEALS, these folk walk quietly on God’s earth. Rarely will we know where they’ve been and what they’ve done. So now Sergeant Major Payne’s deeds have come to light and America is again reminded of what a badassery is, what a hero’s deeds are composed of.

I can’t help but wonder which is the greater honor for SGM Payne, being accepted into Delta or being awarded the MOH? Given Payne’s comments, I believe it to be the former. He said: “I look forward to serving as a guardian of this medal,” Payne said. “I just want to be a man who wears it well.”