Bread and Circuses

By John P. Smith
Independent Journalist

 

Here’s a nugget to ruminate on: Big Tech -- including Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube, Reddit -- are now censoring the government. Not just the President. They’re actively suppressing the Senate as they try to pass on information via the Senate website. They are literally blocking Senate links to public, published information. These tech giants collaborated and colluded to keep all of us from seeing published, publicly available information on Joe Biden’s family corruption.
 
The Techligarcy is all-in for Biden and the left. And they do not care if you know.
 
More disturbing, former bastions of real journalism such as the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN, cheered and applauded this censorship, going so far as to say it was too little, too late. How can people who call themselves “Journalists” get in that lane and drive? Those people are despicable. Also, they can clearly no longer be trusted to tell the truth or report the news without political bias. Of course, we all already knew this, but this current turn of events really seals the deal. These former institutions of journalistic standards have become parodies of themselves. It's disgusting, and kinda sad, because they still believe they're relevant.

We know better.
 
I’m personally, deeply offended, that Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and the rest of the Social Media Techligarcy believe I’m too stupid to make up my own mind about a news story. These self-appointed censors, fact checkers and editors seem to believe they can limit what I hear, see and read based on their political, ideological and religious views.
 
The bitch of it is, at this moment in history, they appear to be correct.
 
Which reminds me of something. Here’s where I see a parallel to this social information  malfunction. About a thousand years ago, the church and nobility of Europe brought about a period in Western history called The Dark Ages. They were dark because the church decreed that only clergy and nobility needed education and to know how to read, write and communicate. This single power play to control the peasants preceded about half a millenia of stagnation, war, starvation and plague. If the clergy told you the Bible said a person was damned to go straight to hell if you weren’t polishing a pew every Sunday, then with no way to prove otherwise, a peasant had little choice but to believe. The Church and the nobility controlled the narrative and the flow of information. It made controlling people easier if those people couldn’t argue from a position of knowledge and reason.
 
It is an old story, an old game.

My aim is not to tell someone else what to do. I'm simply giving advice based on what helped me. I got to this point because it really pisses me off when some talking head tells me, "Here's what you need to to take away from this ..."

The Techligarcy is controlling the flow of information. We peasants will like it or we can take our plows and shovels and go home. Which is exactly what we should all do. Want to reduce stress in your life? Dump Facebook, dump Twitter, dump Instagram, delete your Reddit shortcuts, dump all your social media. Then, stop watching the news, get off the internet, stay out of Reddit, ignore your news feeds. Watch a movie, listen to music, read a book, visit your family, exercise.

Dump it all...you’ll feel better.
 
(But, it’s ok to read my blog, because I’m on your side. I'll also admit to a bit of backsliding, as I recently joined Parler. On a positive note, Parler has not censored me and kicked me off the platform for making fun of CNN.)

More Questions than Answers

By John P. Smith
Independent Journalist
 

I've said many times, I won't vote against someone; I will cast my vote for what I believe; a positive voice, small as it may be. I didn't vote for Trump in the last election; I voted Libertarian, I voted what I believe. However, the media shitstorm that erupted after he won the election is like nothing that's ever been seen outside a communist regime. I took a step back, and I looked at Trump like I'd evaluate a boss, or an employee: He's gruff, off the cuff and sometimes politically incorrect. On the other hand, he does what he says he'll do, he gets things done, he genuinely cares about this country and the people, he works hard to do the job despite being constantly under attack, and his actions speak for themselves, regardless of what the media tells you.

 

The media is lying to you. But, you already know that. Anyone who doesn’t believe it is part of the problem.

 

For example, how many times are average people going to be misled by the knee-jerk, rabble-rousing, deliberately lying liberal media on how these police shooting events took place? We know they’ve lied to us in practically every instance of so-called police malfeasance. Michael Brown -- Lies. Jusse Smollett -- Lies. Jacob Blake -- Lies. Breonna Taylor -- Lies. Raychard Brooks -- Lies. Trevon Martin -- Lies. Do I need to list more? I’m not saying these people deserved their fates (except Smollett, he deserves everything he gets), I’m saying that the lying media ran these stories with the full knowledge that they were NOT TELLING US all the pertinent facts. Lying by omission is still lying. Or, even worse, lying when they know the facts, but lying nonetheless to push the liberal narrative, should be a crime.

 

To these liberal media hacks, the truth, the facts, do not matter; only the narrative matters. And when the narrative fits, they spew it with radical fervor. Their disciples wait, with signs and molotov cocktails already loaded and ready, to go as soon as the lying media gives them an excuse. Who are “they?” Antifa, BLM and, apparently, quite a few school teachers. 

I watched both sides of this political conflict for almost three years before picking a side. I believe I've chosen the right side because the Democrats, and the liberal left, have gone on the record in support of Burn, Loot, and Murder. I refuse to support a racist organization. And they are racist. As soon as a group of people put "Black" in front of "Lives Matter," they segregated themselves from the rest of us. We didn't do it; they did. They've subsequently turned into a racial hate group. The Democrats have become the party of Hate. The Democrats hate Trump so much, they will, and have, used every means necessary, with the media backing them, to try to remove him from office. The Democrats don't care about anything else; not you, not me, not people with businesses shut down for no good reason.

I am not affiliated with either major party. For the past 20 years, I've voted Libertarian, because that platform best fit my ideals of how the government should work. Unfortunately, the Libertarian party has been usurped by the radical left. They are now woke; making them a party of separately labeled, crazed, virulent, fist-shaking, fire-bomb-throwing, local-business-looting antagonistic assholes. Just like the Democratic party. 

 

The Democrats want the power back. And they will do almost anything to get it. Remember: They lied about the election projections, right up until they lost. They lied about Russian Collusion, with full knowledge that they were working with bogus information (and that quagmire is about to open up and swallow a lot of bad people.) They lied to, and about, General Michael Flynn to get him out of the administration. They lied about the bogus impeachment. (I read the transcript of the phone call.) And, they've flip-flopped and lied about the COVID crisis so much, we don't know where they actually stand, other than wanting to keep the economy shut down. Now, after more than three years of unrelenting attacks and disinformation from a horribly biased, dishonorable, despicable media, these lying, manipulative assholes expect people to believe them. The frightening thing is, a lot of people do.

 

The Republicans, when they show up, tip-toe into the fight, spineless rubes who don't know which way to turn. They appear to be caught up in an unending game of blind man's bluff. They're stumbling around trying to pin something on someone, but they just keep tripping over their own feet and falling down a lot. It’s disheartening to see so many of them genuflect to the rage mob. We have a few who are holding ground, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz...I want to say Lindsey Graham, but he says a lot and does little. 

 

I know I’m asking a lot of questions and not giving a lot of answers. If I had the answers, I would write them down and mail them to the President. But I don't. I just have more questions.

 

How do we go on the offensive and not stoop to the level of our adversaries? We’re not protected by liberal prosecutors or mayors. We go on the offensive, the way we’d like to, we can go to jail or maybe we really would ignite a civil war. Nobody on the Trump, conservative, side of the divide wants civil war. I think most of us fear that’s our path. The radical left would welcome it, probably, right up to the point where they had to actually fight. Then they’d leave their wounded and run. And we’d let them go and care for their wounded along with ours, because, afterall, we’re the good guys...right?

 

Good guys put bad guys in jail.

 

Here’s what I can’t get a good handle on: Why isn’t someone being prosecuted? We have incontrovertible proof that the FBI colluded with the Clinton Campaign to destroy, cover-up and ignore incriminating evidence. Why aren’t these people in jail awaiting trial? Any one of us peasants caught doing these things would already be serving time at Leavenworth. All we’ve seen is one former FBI lawyer who admitted to “accidentally” forwarding bogus information on Michael Flynn. He got a slap on the hand and, best as I can tell, and everyone’s ok with that?

 

Well, I’m not.

 

But, maybe, it’s because the Department of Justice is compromised.  The Mueller Team wiped their phones, destroying evidence, and now it comes to light that Obama’s Ambassador to the Ukraine had a “Hit List” to spy on Conservatives.  Is any of this corruption being investigated?  Why aren’t these people in jail or out on bail instead of still running investigations for the country?  What the hell?

 

The judiciary is clearly compromised and in bed with the liberal left. If we learned nothing from the General Michael Flynn ordeal, we learned that the judges appointed by Obama are still loyal to Obama and are willing to commit career suicide for his agenda. What is being done, and, what can be done to remove DC District Judge Emmet Sullivan? What this tyrant has done is clearly unconstitutional and does not follow any standard law procedure. He is clearly biased and unethical in the Michael Flynn case, yet, he’s still the judge. Surely, at a minimum, he should have recused himself because he is so clearly filled with hate.  Yet, he’s still the judge. Why? And how do we get him out of there? Why is he still on the Bench? Why don’t the mechanisms in place in the Constitution work? He can be impeached and removed. Why hasn’t anyone tried this? Why isn’t anyone doing anything?

 

The answer, hard as it is to believe, may be they’re not doing anything because there’s nowhere to go that isn’t already in the hands of the deep state establishment. 

 

However, we see a light at the end of the tunnel.

 

Finally, President Trump has told the CIA and FBI to declassify and send out their unredacted documentation on the #Obamagate scandal.  Maybe that will get some traction.  Because special counsel John Durham, who is supposed to be investigating #Obamagate, isn’t doing anything. He’s not going to issue a report before the election because, “It would appear to be politically motivated.”  Well, here’s a thought: Who gives a flying fartcicle! The opposition is throwing every dirty trick in the book at Trump right now and the best Durham can do is...wait? How is that helpful? Or, maybe Durham is in the same category as Chief Justice John Roberts: Someone is holding his family hostage. Maybe Emmet Sullivan is having a similar problem...

 

More to come...

By John P. Smith

Independent Journalist

 

It can’t just be me feeling impotent to do anything in the current political quagmire. The demonic left is on the attack on multiple fronts and all we can do is...meme? But, we're good at it! They may be winning all the battles; but we have all cool memes!

Somehow, that’s just not enough. It is cold fare that doesn’t even take the edge off the rumbling hunger for action; the need to actually DO SOMETHING. What else can we do? What can we prepare to do, once we’ve had enough and the memes don’t work any more?

The liberals are planning to reject the election results if Trump wins. They have made this clear.  See my previous article for details. (Speculation and Preparation)

Since we know this to be the case, here’s my plan: If Donald Trump wins or loses on Nov. 4, I will accept those results. I will not accept any other result based on late-counted, mail-in ballots. I can only speak for myself.  However, I believe many like-minded men and women will feel the same way. Summary: Trump wins Nov. 4; Trump wins. Biden wins Nov. 4; Harris wins.

 

If leftist agitators, looters and criminals wish to contest the results of a Trump victory by taking to the streets; this will be the line in the sand. I will gather with like-minded men and women and we will take decisive action to keep our President in his rightfully won office. We will take whatever actions are necessary to remove those criminals from the streets in our cities, counties and states. 

 

I’m thinking we need to take this a step further. We’ve been playing defense for too long. If we want to stop the tyranny of the Democrats, then we have to stop it before it builds a full head of steam. It’s pretty clear that no one in Washington DC can do anything about it. They can’t even prosecute criminals for documented crimes.

When it is clear Trump has won the election; we take those streets. We all march out onto our blocks with our equipment ready. We dare those wanna-be badass anarchists to try and take it from us. If we see a bus load of them coming down our street, we use whatever force is necessary to march them right back where they came from. We do it with guns, knives, staves, sticks or our bare hands. We keep our street safe. And, if we’re a little too weary to get up and go to work the next day, then by god, we can take one day off.

 

I understand that this could turn into a complete slaughter of Americans on both sides. It will turn out that way if we are pushed to the limit. That limit, the line in the sand as noted earlier, is the Presidency -- we will not have it stolen. This is a lot like trying to burn my property or steal my stuff; if you think it’s worth your life, come try and take it.

 

Speculation and Preparation

How to Prepare

By John P. Smith
Independent Journalist

I am not an expert on civil war survival.

The information below is some of how I have been getting ready.

This article is, of course, a lot of speculation. What is NOT speculation is that the Demoblivots are already laying plans and making changes to cheat and steal the coming election. Moreover, they’ve formulated plans to violently contest the results when Trump wins anyway. This is not speculation: But you have to see this for yourself to believe it. Use a non-biased search engine such as DuckDuckGo. 

• Look up Hillary Clinton telling Joe Biden not to concede the election no matter what.

• Look up the “Transition Integrity Project.” Integrity has nothing to do with it. This group is a liberal think tank looking for ways to usurp the results in the coming election. They’ve already started in Pennsylvania and Michigan with Democrat-controlled state supreme court rulings on how to count election ballots AFTER the election. 

• Look up, “Liberal plans to fight election results” and read some of the articles on how militant groups intend to dispute the results with violence. 

• Look up how mainstream and social media has already announced that they WILL NOT announce a winner on election night, even if Trump wins in a landslide. The intention is to refute the results. 

This isn’t a joke. It’s a real situation that you have to see for yourself to understand what’s coming.  Find the information above and read it. Look at it. Understand it. These are their words and their plans.

In the short term, if you’re not ready now, you may not have enough time to fully prepare. At a minimum, have food and water for a month for everyone. WWW.FEMA.GOV has an emergency supply checklist that will help jog your memory when you shop.

Their list doesn’t include firearms and ammunition. Having those will be helpful if things really go wrong. Know how to use and care for your weapons: If the fight comes to your door, leave it outside the door if you can. If the fight comes in your door; shoot until you run out of ammunition. Then you fight with whatever you have left.

My thought is that if you don’t have the following, you are already way behind:

1 rifle

1 shotgun

1 handgun

A couple hundred rounds of ammunition for each of the above.

A dozen hours of practice using each of the above.

Next: If you don’t have a month of food and a source of clean water for every person in your household right now, you’re way behind.  Why do you need this?  If the shit hits the fan and we actually break down into civil war, we will do several things immediately:  We will stop the food shipments into the liberal-run cities. We will cut their water supplies and we will take their electricity away from them. My belief is that they’ll run out of food in less than two weeks and then they’ll start eating each other. Those who don’t want to be food, will try to go to where the food is -- which is where we are. So, to keep that influx of needy bodies out of our food supply, we blow and/or barricade and guard all the bridges and patrol the rivers. We turn back, or eliminate, anybody coming across the water armed. Non-combatants will be treated as refugees. If they have a place to go that will take them (family, friends, ect.) then we’ll do our best to help them reach that destination. 

Now, while all this is going on and we’re in the process of killing each other, and the idiots in the formerly liberal-run cities are busy eating each other, it’s a good bet some of our enemies (I’m looking at you China) will consider that they may never get a better opportunity for a military incursion. It’s the whole Red Dawn scenario, but with a real possibility of it actually happening.  Imagine, if you will, that Mexico suddenly looked up at California and saw every bit of the southern part of that state in shambles with populations fleeing by the thousands.  Maybe they’d think, “Now’s the time to take some territory.” They might also look at Texas, but they know better. And Canada...just kidding...Canada...really? I guess they could take the upper peninsula of Michigan but no one would notice until the Michigan militia kick them right back up north and put out a news release.

As noted above, this is not a definitive list and I am not an expert. Much of what I’ve said here is what I have done myself. (I didn’t actually use the FEMA checklist, but everybody’s gotta start somewhere. Also, their advice on chlorine bleach is spot on.)

I've made a lot of speculation and assumption. Consider your preparations like insurance or a spare tire for your vehicle. Even if you haven't used it before; it's there when when you need it. If you're prepared to defend yourself and your family and you have a month of food and water set aside: Even if nothing happens, you still have all that insurance.

Be ready. Be prepared. Be vigilant.

    

By John P. Smith

Independent Journalist

    Be ready. Be prepared. Be vigilant.

    We’ve started calling the Democrats and their militant sycophants the Intolerant Left. That’s accurate. They hate us. The irony is palpable. They’re so open-minded and welcoming of nontraditional lifestyles and ideas, that they will physically beat anyone who doesn’t see things their way. Anyone who shows patriotism or support for President Donald Trump is labeled as the enemy.

    Democrat mayors and governors, either too stupid or too afraid to do their duty, have allowed their militant cohorts to act like spoiled children. They’re breaking their own toys and blaming us. I mean us. The single focal point of their hate is President Donald Trump. But they hate us, too. Because we disagree with their hate, we don’t believe it’s deserved, therefore we are also targeted.  

    The democrat lapdog media gives them all the support they can muster. It is all about repeating the narrative until everyone believes it. This is the reason Hillary Clinton lost the last presidential election. These media idiots bought into their own bullshit narrative. They started to believe it. Until the truth was revealed in the election apocalypse of 2016. Then, it turned out that no matter how often you tell yourself that lie -- it’s still a lie. And the media does nothing but lie. They don’t give a flying fart-cicle about the truth. The recent "hit piece" in The Atlantic about how the President disrespected fallen soldiers is only the latest example of outright lying. It's a lie; but it fits the narrative. Only the narrative matters because it pushes the agenda.

    What is the agenda?

    The immediate agenda is to get Donald Trump out of the White House. Once that’s accomplished, it’s on to globalism and state socialism. Their big problem is that Trump is about to win in a historically huge landslide. The Democrats know it and they’re already working to soften us up to disavow the results. Their plan is to never concede the re-election to Donald Trump. They will see this country burn first. 

     Aren’t they already doing that?

    And how do Democrat mayors or governors who are under actual physical attack by Burn, Loot and Murder still refuse to call them out for what they are: Terrorists? There’s an old saying that people would rather be wrong than admit they’ve been fooled. In this case, they’re doubling down, because they’ve certainly been fooled and they were wrong in the first place. Burn, Loot and Murder is attacking them IN THEIR HOMES and they still won’t make a move to stop them? At some point, we have to just call them stupid. They are not being held hostage; they are willingly complying with the demands of terrorists and thugs. And now that they have let it go on so long, it has metastasized into a malignant, festering cancer that will be really hard to excise.

    One positive in this whole fiasco: The Burn, Loot and Murder mob is only destroying their own cities. They have, so far, only looted cities run by democrat mayors and councils. Is it because they don’t have bus fare to get to a Republican city? Or because they know that’s a bad plan? I can’t see where burning your own home is a good plan. Especially when President Trump just canceled your Federal insurance. Idiots.

    So, let me be clear:  The ammo is completely bought up. The shelves are empty of guns. We Second Amendment supporters are welcoming a huge number of new gun owners. While you Burn, Loot and Murder thugs and Antifa Asshats were out destroying your own neighborhoods, we were busy, too: Combat boots pulled out of the back of the closet. Rifles, shotguns and handguns cleaned and polished -- after practice. Backpacks kitted and stored by the ammunition. Yeah, we’ve been quiet; but we’ve been busy.

    Post election day, when the police are told to “Stand Down” and let the losers have the streets, that’s when WE STAND UP and clear them ourselves.

    Patriots, be ready.

    

    The “Silent Majority” better stop being so silent.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, the old adage says.

Never has that been more true than today.

    As I write this: 31 AUG 2020: A militant, vocal, dangerous and violent insurrectionist movement, led by BLM (Burn, Loot and Murder) and Antifa, but constituting a very small percentage of population, have bullied and extorted government leaders and major businesses to bow to their outrageous and unconstitutional demands:

• Major political parties: The Democrats
• State Governors: Washington, Oregon, New York, California
• Mayors of major cities: Seattle, Portland, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Kenosha
• Congressmen and congresswomen: Nancy Pelosi, her low-IQ squad, and others
• Senators: Chuck Schumer and his band of bigots
• Big businesses: Amazon, Google, Pepsi Co., Square Enix, Toms, UbiSoft, and dozens more have donated to and “stand with” the BLM and Antifa movements.

• Major sports leagues have “taken a knee” and bowed to this movement.

    My problem: I disagree with discrimination to the core of my being. Make no mistake; this is discrimination. The race-baiting and division comes from the protesters and their supporters. And the people and organizations listed here have jumped into that cesspool of hate and divisiveness with both feet. We can't be silent any more. Tell them what we think and how we're going to deal with this problem if it doesn't stop.

    I’ve made it easy to tell these organizations exactly how we feel about it:  Feel free to cut and paste this into your social media feeds.

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    Just so that we’re clear, the following organizations will no longer receive any of my time, money, attention or patronage:

• The National Basketball Association (NBA): I will not watch another game, in person, or on television, until this organization publicly states, “All Lives Matter.”

• Major League Baseball (MLB): I will not watch another game, in person, or on television, until this organization publicly states, “All Lives Matter.”

• The National Football Association (NFL): I will not watch another game, in person, or on television, until this organization publicly states, “All Lives Matter.”

• NASCAR: I will not watch another race, in person, or on television, until this organization publicly states, “All Lives Matter.” 

• The National Hockey Association (NHL): I will not watch another game, in person, or on television, until this organization publicly states, “All Lives Matter.” 

• News organizations: CNN, MSDNC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Politico, Buzzfeed, the Washington Post, the New York Times, etc.  Any news organization that has gone to bed with BLM and Antifa, and/or shown outright political, racial and cultural bias and bigotry, doesn’t deserve my time, money, attention or patronage. These are disgusting, evil people who refuse to tell the truth. If you listen to what they say and you believe it; you’re part of the problem.

• Politicians who bow and pander to the BLM and Antifa movements: Not a penny, not a minute, will I devote to you or your cause. Because you cannot be impartial and you practice discrimination and bigotry, you will be replaced.

• The Democratic Party: These people, in league with the media, are running their election platform on hate and divisiveness. They are bullies and malcontents. Their message is if you don’t support their platform, they will beat you up, take your job and ruin your life. They hate anybody who supports the president and who doesn’t bow to their strong-arm tactics. 

• Businesses: I will do my best to use the products and services of local businesses that do not discriminate rather than global conglomerates (such as Google and Amazon) which have proven that they are politically and racially bigoted and biased.

Well spoken.

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    YES: BOTH AMAZON and GOOGLE, I use every day...until I find alternatives. The problem being, WE let it get to the point where we DO NOT have alternate options...Sometimes there’s only one place to shop. This is my problem until I fix it.  We gotta start somewhere.

• Alternatives to YouTube:  BitChute, Brighteon, Twitch

• Alternatives to Twitter: Parler

• Alternatives to Facebook: Dump Facebook. Just get off it. It will suck your soul out of your body.  

• Alternatives to Google Search:  DuckDuckGo (non-tracking, unbiased search engine) 

    Also of note, I’ve never been a hockey fan and this group almost had me since all my other sports got the political, pandering knee bug. But, not wanting to be left out; the NHL also took a knee.  And lost a potential fan. Probably a lot of them.

    In conclusion: I’m tired of hearing about the silent majority but not hearing anything from them. (pun intended)

    Saying nothing, solves nothing. Actions speak louder than words; but loud words get everyone’s attention.  Let’s tell them what’s going to happen if they don’t fix it, before we start firing shots.

    The title of the recent Keanu Reeves movie, John Wick Chapter 3, Parabellum, sums up my philosophy quite succinctly: If you want peace; prepare for war.

Pandemic or "Plandemic?"

“No need for you to miss a minute of the holocaust!”

Opinion and Speculation

By John P. Smith

Is what we're seeing with the extraordinary precautions being taken to, ostentatiously, stem the growth of the COVID-19 strain an over-reaching, knee-jerk over-reaction?

Or, is it a real, be afraid, be very afraid, virulent pandemic?

I think it’s a lot of both. People are dying. It is super contagious. Most depressing is that everyone who can weaponize this crisis is doing so. Specifically, the liberal, deep-state news media, their Democrat overseers and governments at all levels, in every country.

I’m not saying this is a false flag. Whatever is happening is real. There sure is a lot of money being lost and people being put out of work for this to be a manufactured crisis. At least, it hasn't been manufactured by the U.S. government.

I never expect the news media, government officials or even corporate leadership to tell the truth when a lie will better serve their agenda. (My theory is that if their lips are moving, they’re lying.) Yet, with so much money being lost -- just the NCAA Basketball tournament probably lost a billion dollars -- this crisis must be taken seriously. Money talks. And if those people are willing to lose that much money; maybe they know something we don’t.

Then again, maybe it’s all part of a power grab. We know the Demotards are using it as a springboard to try to salvage the 2020 election. Meanwhile, New York, Illinois and California -- all freedom-loving, liberal bastions of personal choice and individual rights -- have governors “ordering” the populations to “stay home.” 

Meanwhile, here in Arkansas: I just heard that one of the small factories in this rural town where I live is going to shut down for two weeks. This is in response to Fiat Chrysler Automotive and Tesla shutting down operations because of union and government pressure. Meanwhile, that little factory here in rural Arkansas is 100-percent automotive. And, now, 5-percent of this small town is out of work.

Others, here in my part of Arkansas, are still at work. Siemens is offering 2-weeks paid leave if the employees of that company have to jump ship. Believe me, plenty of the folks working in that small factory are looking forward to an outbreak! (But, obviously, without all the sickness, death, misery and misfortune that usually accompanies a virulent pandemic.) Meanwhile, some of the other small manufacturing concerns nearby have shut down, mostly because their customers have shut down. No one, as of this writing, at any of these facilities, has tested positive for the COVID-19 strain.

Maybe that’s because we are taking preventive actions. Where I work, we have strict visitation and travel requirements from corporate leadership; up to, and including, that no outside visitors can use our restroom facilities. We’ve got a porta-potty outside for truckers and delivery drivers. No visitors into the facility without Manger-level permissions and enforced “social distancing” in the break room.

We’re seeing all this activity. All the precautions. Social Distancing! Toilet paper hoarding and panic buying at the grocery stores, mostly thanks to media scare tactics. We’re hearing all the doom and gloom, seeing all the “preventive actions.” Yet, this whole thing has the same smell as the North Korean Missile Crisis? Remember? When the North Korean Military was test firing missiles out to sea, over Japan, and threatening our neighbors in the North Pacific? Does anybody recall ever actually seeing a missile? The point being, we only know what we’re being told. We don’t have access to the truth; we only have access to the liars in the news media.

---Warning: Anti-Asshat Media Rant!---

Why should we believe the media now? Who among us will suddenly believe a class of people who have lied to us over and over for years? Especially the liberal assholes like CNN, MSNBC and Politico? Haven’t they lied to us enough that we can finally decide not to trust them? They don’t give a crap about us! They’re puppets for the deep state Democrats. I’ve listened to their reports: They have weaponized the Corona-virus crisis as another avenue to take down the President. They have made a deliberate, conscious decision to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution. They care less about news and helpful, honest information and more about how many ways they can use this crisis to take potshots at the Trump Administration. That’s all they’re concerned about: Can we use this crisis to remove this President? They don’t give a single flying fart-cicle about mortality rates, infection vectors or vaccinations unless they can be used as weapons against the President. These same news agencies have played this same game for years. (Who remembers the Second Gulf War and the Weapons of Mass Destruction?) If you’re one of the idiots who still believes them; then you’re part of the problem. The bald-face, lying rhetoric went into overdrive when Trump ascended to the Oval Office. With these political activists (not news reporters) truth is no longer a requirement for reporting.

---End of Rant!---

Other media, independent media -- such as it is -- can’t get to the truth. So we have media we know will lie to us. We have media that would like to tell the truth but don't have access to it. And we have social media, which is hacked, hi-jacked, over-run by foreign activists and fear-mongers, censored by Artificial Intelligence and moderated by stupid liberals. If you believe anything you read on social media, you’re asking to be used, abused and disappointed. And, since you’ve been warned, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Now that I’ve told you that I don’t believe anything I’m being told by the lying media, government, religious institutions or corporations -- then what, exactly, do I believe?

I believe what I can see and/or figure out for myself.

What is the first rule of journalism after the basic questions?  Follow the money. There’s way too much money being lost for this to be a hoax or a false flag. Something is happening. Something big. I can't say what, exactly.

We’re already seeing dangerous signs of government, and even corporate, overreach, infringing individual rights, all in the name of “safety and security.” We all know where that road leads. And when the powers-that-be get away with it, then they start looking for the next opportunity to take more. Watch for it; it’s coming.

What do I expect?  Hoarding will become a criminal offense. Stores will start to limit purchases. Banks will limit withdrawals. Service stations will limit your fuel. I expect to see the national guard deployed to enforce “social distancing,” rationing, and travel control. I expect to see interstate traffic monitored and, eventually, stopped, at the least, at bridges and tunnels. And, consider, if the spread is bad enough, that when interstate commerce is halted: Then, everything stops. If the trucks stop moving; nothing gets delivered, so there’s nothing to buy.

(I didn’t even get to publish before this new one came out! The governor of Illinois put the state on lock down. The news release says, ”Residents in Illinois will be able to go to grocery stores, gas stations and pharmacies, and they will also be able to take walks. Officials said that local roads, the interstate highways and tollways will stay open to traffic.”  Which means, of course, that they’re keeping on the table the option of closing the highways to traffic and putting a stop to people taking walks.)

Finally, I expect to see the national guard used to suppress rioting when the vaccine is released and there’s not enough for everybody. And then, rioting again, when it is discovered that the vaccine doesn’t actually work. (Do a little research into the Salk versus Sabin polio vaccinations if you don’t think that kind of thing can happen.) 

 But, maybe I’m a skeptic. Maybe it’ll all blow over and in a couple of weeks we’ll pick up where we left off and have a great summer!