No One Listens to Rachel Maddow

 Rachel Maddow proves the theory: Anything negative, whether it is rational or not, counters the entire sensible, truthful narrative, because it is the last thing one hears on the matter. Some people run away from the truth because the truth is inconvenient for them. Those shallow people are the lemmings and Rachel Maddow is their Pied Piper.

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CNN Tebasco

 CNN is planning to make plans to reorganize the chairs... Just like on the Titanic. This is one of the easiest events to predict of the century. Watch Anderson Cooper and Blitzer. And Maddow and  the Scarborough twins? I am enjoying this! 

   Let this be a lesson: News organizations are failing when their business models present more opinion and predictions...and less news. 

   Also, news is relatively limited. There's not much of it. However, there are many high paid news casters who are forever lacking in "quantity with quality". They end up presenting "quantity without quality".  It's a situation pregnant with probabilities of failure. It's like 12 horses pulling a one horse wagon. Think about it. That's our Media. 

   Can you imagine Walter Cronkite putting his notes down and telling us what he thought about us being in the Vietnam War? The Media has become something entirely different than what it was in our younger years. 

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Why Is accomplishment a Bad Thing To the Youth and Good Thing for Older People

   Without a working and accurate knowledge of history, as young people are, the young tend to listen to those who are speaking. And those who are speaking to them, activists, know how to trigger and convince them to react according to their narrative. From the Internet they are pummeled by destructive ideas and confusing values from activists who disguise themselves as above average intellectuals. And the young people believe them and repeat their designs online disguised as more intellectuals. 

   You know, there comes a point in the process of maturity where we must dispense or reject  the values of our parents and establish our own, persona. If that happens at the same time political or radical activists are in the same proverbial room that we are in it is easy to see how we can leave conservative tracks into radicalism. 

   We are not as smart as we think we are, especially when we are young adults. Through lessons learned about productive habits and engagement in the American Dream as we work and educate our way there, we grow into Western Liberalism minded adults, desirous of values like personal liberty, success orientation and small government. Online abuse of these values has, of course, brought more disagreement from young people about these ideas and there is little we can do about that. We, as always, hope they grow up before some terrible event damages them or worse. 

   The difference between 1954 and now is the internet. Young people are reading and listening to truly bad ideas and one of the consequences of this is big government with bad ideas that get votes, like heroin and cocaine and fentanyl legalization and entitlements for everyone...equality of  outcomes instead of opportunities.

    Equality of outcomes is the working population giving part of their income to provide a basic income for everyone else. Those of us who are knowledgeable about this understand that is Socialism leading to Communism...and economic collapse...things like worldwide famine and revolution for the leftovers.

   Some young people cannot see success as a good thing. Instead they buy the narrative that this is a few taking wealth from the many, the standard narrative that refuses the notion that necessity is the mother if invention. Humans are able to predict outcomes. Unfortunately some only see the inconvenience of denying the benefit of the obvious. 

   

   Clear to us older citizens of the world, that cannot have a good ending. Still it is being called for by activists. In 1954 it would have been tantamount to advising young people to play Russian Roulette with a loaded gun. No editor would have allowed a news reader to say such things. Now there is no editor between bad ideas and publication. 

   One should observe radicals with the question: How much of this narrative comes from their desire for convenience? In this "modern" era people appear to be moving left as a result of convenience...backed up by their "friends" online...people they have never met...listening to them instead of their parents and family. It's the same as when I was young and my parents worried about who I associated with after school time.  As adults we all know how bad things can happen to or children when we are not watching out for them. Now the internet is bringing those bad actors right into their bedrooms 24 hour a day, 7 days a week,  telling them the quick, easy way is the best way. 

Jim Self  2024

Kelly Ann Conway on Current Concerns

   Says the two dominant issues that Americans are concerned with this year are the millions of illegals and deadly drugs freely flowing into the US over our open Southern Border, and bringing inflation under control. Two issues, by the way, that the leftist Media organizations fantasize about... Gaslighting that they are insignificant. 

   If you ask a parent of one of the 70,000 people who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2022, I'll wager they wouldn't say that, but Media types can say anything and not be challenged for it. 

   I can see Shift and Bernie and Schumer and Hillary and Pelosi laughing at the turmoil. Laughing at us. 

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Visit To The FED

 A VISIT TO THE FED 

Jim Self

12/15/2021

I saw a fella in the FED office the other day behind a desk with a phone and a computer and a cardboard box. Fred was his name. He received a phone call apparently from the treasurer and he was told the government had some bills to pay but no money in the checking account and they needed to write out about 40 billion dollars in checks this week. So Fred pulled out a blank bond, wrote 40 billion dollars on it, and put it in the box with a bunch more of them. Then he typed in $40 billion in his computer on the place that said, “Deposit”. Under “Balance”, the number changed from $0 to $40 billion. Then under “IOU” the number changed from “$28 trillion” to “28 trillion, 40 billion.

   

He said,” When we need money we tell the market on this phone. Anybody who wants a bond just calls me and tells me how much they want in interest. If it's too high we just say sorry, No can do. Then we write out our own bond. They are like IOUs. If we didn't do that we would have to pay 6 or 7 percent on the bonds. Way too much. Listen. If we had to pay 7% on these bonds we would owe...well....7% of 28 trillion dollars is $1.96 trillion. But let's keep that to ourselves. OK? Don't want everyone to know that. As long as we can keep writing and buying our own bonds we can keep the interest rate down around 1%".

I asked him how many of those bonds he has. He opened a back door to the office and there were racks lining both sides of the hall 200 feet long and about two thirds of them were stacked to the ceiling like books in a library. Hundreds of them. He pointed at them and said, “All of those boxes were full”.

We all know that borrowing too much money is a bad thing. “Well, what happens if you owe it to yourself? Do you still have to pay interest on the bonds? I asked. He said,” Sure! No problem! We just write out another bond to cover the checks!”

When I walked out of there I didn't feel very good about things and I still don't.

I don't think I can leave this alone. So there will be more to come. Just remember...how much 1.96 trillion dollars is. Compare it to the 700 billion Defense Bill we just passed. 

And then consider the 1.75 trillion dollar budget Build Back Better that Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and their Progressive followers are fighting for...and what they will fight for next time...and next time...and next time.