Sunday • December 29 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
For all the deniers out there who insisted the US government, under Joe Biden, wasn’t running a human conveyor belt operation from Central America into the American heartland, this is for you. Not only are they doing it, but they admit it, have set up offices in foreign countries to make it easier, and they are bragging about it.
Related: The Invasion of America is Being Managed by the UN and the Biden Administration
I’m glad I have an otter box keeping my phone safe because after watching this video, MY PHONE WENT FLYING ACROSS THE ROOM! The best part about this fiasco is, YOU AND I ARE PAYING FOR THIS ! pic.twitter.com/CqdEop4Xas
— Bobby D (@robertdunlap947) July 8, 2024
Take note unhappy inner-city neighborhood and urban dwellers outraged by what is happening. It is not only not an accident; it is deliberate, and they are still doing it (on top of the millions of border invaders they aren’t escorting into the country).
Elections have consequences
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As most Americans with half a brain cell know, the United States’ modern-day banking and financial system is not what the founders envisioned—far from it. There are many truthful arguments to make. In a way, usury is the nucleus of its operation.
Usury is the loaning of money, usually at high interest rates. In fact, General George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, in my opinion, warned the most, at that time, against the dangers of central banks controlling the money system; an oligarchy of bankers was the most dangerous form of tyranny, perhaps worse than a monarchy.
Many of our founders were avid scholars in Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Maxims of Law, Natural Law, etc. believed in and understood the Bible very well using the language and meaning of words at the time of their writings. They feared the power of God and understood the importance of applying its principles not just in theory but living it out daily as well as discerning what type of government to establish.
Opposition to usury has Biblical roots. It is my belief many of the founders warned of the dangers of banking oligarchies because of their knowledge of the Bible and understanding how usury applied to various models of past government (which many also spent summers studying), which is always tied to how money is used for government purposes and its intended impact on the people.
Some examples from the King James Version on the evils of usury:
Exodus 22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Leviticus 25:36 – Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Ezekiel 22:12 – In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
A handful of other verses, especially in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, touch on usury.
Another verse that sticks out is Proverbs 22:7: The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Though I suspect this verse can be interpreted in different ways, I believe understanding the whole of chapter 22 is relevant to grasping the deeper context of the verse. I find that it acknowledges economic inequality exists (whether it is good or not is hard to tell) but this can potentially mean both, depending on how governments and rulers attain wealth and allow debt to be incurred. Economic inequality is not bad if it is a result of equality of opportunity and/or just rules. Though people are responsible for their own decisions, a government can exploit the ignorance of the common people in how to avoid making bad decisions and to make corrections to past behavior to become financially stable or free. A modern-day example is how big pharma and the WHO kept scientific information from being communicated about the experiments of the COVID-19 vaccines and alternative therapies such as HCQ and Ivermectin.
The founders realized the nature of man was fallen and thus needed a government. Hence, Madison’s quote in Federalist Paper 51, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” If this very same government were to compose of the same fallen man, there must be limits and restraints on that very same government. This is where the Laws of Nature come in. The Laws of Nature are never to be violated. If governments are not protecting them, they must be restrained or put in check by the same people who gave consent to the establishment of such a government.
Madison’s statement about men not being angels in Federalist Paper 51 has a parallel to the general truths of Proverbs 22 because it discusses in many ways the balance between rule and servant. In an analogous way, Federalist Paper 51 balances government versus the consent of the people. If men were such angels, and there was no sinful nature of men, there would be no evils to warn against, nor would the Bible warn against usury, nor would there need to be the need for a government and internal/external controls on that same government. This is not to say being rich is evil nor is it to say servitude is wrong. Some people work harder than others, are more ambitious, make wiser decisions than others, have more skills, etc. This is why the founders studied natural rights. From the founder’s eyes, the adherence to natural rights is a balance that must be preserved between a struggle for a just government and a right to alter and change the government via Constitutional measures. Whether poor or rich, we are all common under the fact we have inalienable rights, inherent with intelligent design.
Usury’s modern-day evil use is evident with the Department of Education’s system of loaning high-interest rate loans, deceptive and bureaucratic strings attached grant money to state budgets, predatory credit card practices, subprime mortgage lending to high-risk borrowers through faulty credit ratings, national debt created by creation of money supply from recurring cycles of illegally regurgitated debt, an IRS collection agency with no constitutional authority, now the emergence of many of these powers with the World Economic Forum and its subsidiary affiliates. Though people are responsible for paying back what they borrow, it is also the government’s job to not economically, psychologically, and morally take advantage of the same people they are supposed to serve through deceptive, uninformed consent and willful ignorance of the masses.
Just as Proverbs 22:7 mentions the rich ruling over the servants, the verses before and after hint at meaningful insights into wealth and poverty. In the same capacity, the founders believed in a just government that would protect virtue and punish evil. The struggle between good and evil has always existed. Right now, in my opinion, besides elections, understanding the nature of usury, the history of our banking system, and knowing what our natural rights are and tying them together are the most important things Americans can learn right now, besides their faith and the Bible.
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Hurricane Beryl came on strong, degraded to a tropical storm, and then managed to get back to CAT 1 before it hugged the Texas Coast. Landfall Hurricane! The Climate Cult can’t help itself. Global Warming, Global Warming. Really? Global? Let’s take a look at that.
Tropical Storm Beryls path as of 7-8-24As a reminder, everyone, including us, expects a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this year. Accumulated cyclonic energy, hurricane landfalls, it’s all been on the down low in the Atlantic for too long and we are due. No matter. Everything proves the unimpeachable hypothesis. Beryl was their popular blonde from day one. Formed Early and reached Cat 4 (Wait, 5!). It’s that super-heated Atlantic basin! Quick aside about that, if interested, but trigger warning: the correlation has nothing to do with CO2 or why India can burn coal while we can’t). Global Something!
Global. Global, you say: reformatted, emphasis mine.
The Pacific Basin is much larger than the Atlantic and has almost 4 times the Accumulated Cyclonic Energy Index of the Atlantic. ( 432). The Atlantic Basin averages 122. So, if you want to use tropical cyclones as a barometer of how bad it is getting, how come the last 4 years have found the Pacific so far below normal ( last year did reach an average ACE in the west Pac, but a near record low number of storms).
After all, the water is so warm, So why is the western Pacific 25% of the average, the eastern Pacific 0%, and perhaps on the way to breaking the record for the latest development? ( The West Pac was a top 5 late development this year).
And why aren’t we hearing about this?
Globally, we are at 75% of average, and even tho I expect the hyper-Atlantic season, I don’t think it will be enough to take the global Ace above average. There has been no increase in this, and the lowering overall is to be expected. Tropical cyclones are nature’s way of taking heat off to the tropics and redistributing it to the temperate regions.
I have been arguing for 2 decades that a warming world is not the harbinger of an orgy of attacks, as only one basin is liable to be active. What is the need for hyperactivity if the heat is already distributed? The warmer north waters change the global wind oscillation, sea level pressure, and vertical velocity patterns, arguing for less, not more, activity. T
he Atlantic, a much smaller basin, can take up some of the slack. The configuration of the cold La Nina, the very warm Main Development region, and the colder water off the US southeast coast will cause the focus to create the storms (and, of course, the hysteria) in our part of the world. Meanwhile, the largest source of tropical activity is likely to be well below normal and offset it. But what will you hear about? Why is no one bringing up that the warming is working AGAINST storms in the largest basin?
Global?
It looks local to me. Speaking of Local, here’s a random late June 2024 temp map for no particular reason.
Nice, but wait. There’s more. Northern and Central California have had costal water temperature warnings. It is dangerously cold. It’s so cold you could get hypothermia and die (even in July).
A recent temperature reading off the coast of Crescent City revealed that water temperatures were 47.3 degrees Fahrenheit, more than 3 degrees below normal for this time of year and 4 degrees below winter water temperatures in January.
Meteorologists and weather experts are blaming the temperature plunge on an “intense marine cold spell.”
Another odd admission that isn’t getting the attention it deserves. The fragile Gulf of Maine—not too fragile for massive mechanized implants or the process required to install and maintain them—has been so warm lately. We’ve written about it. But scientists are baffled by how unusually cold the water is deeper down in the Gulf. Imagine that. The deeper you go, the colder it gets, but for some reason, this is still colder. Global Warming! They’re looking into it but not very loudly since it’s not on rotation at CNN like Hurricane Beryl!
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Front exterior doors the correct measuring plays a great role in ordering the right door size for your opening.
Keep in mind the standard sizes, which are:
28 x 80 exterior door
30 x 80 exterior door
32 x 80 exterior door
34 x 80 exterior door
36 x 80 exterior door
All other sizes are considered to be custom.
External Door Measuring GuideMeasuring for an exterior door is a big step to ensure a proper fit and installation. Here is a comprehensive guide to help you measure accurately. To determine your door size, you need to measure:
Usually, you take an exact measurement of a door from the inside.
Keep in mind that thresholds and sills may alter the total height measurement when taking measurements for an exterior door replacement. Accurate measurement is essential to guarantee a good fit and prevent problems during installation.
Do You Measure the Door or the FrameWhen measuring for a new door, it’s essential to measure both the door and the frame to ensure a proper fit.
Door frame measuring tips:
It is possible to replace an exterior door without having to change the frame or to replace just a slab. But you must make sure the new door fits the current frame correctly. It can be less expensive and easier to replace the door alone without the frame than to replace the entire unit, but precise measurements and fitting are necessary to guarantee a good fit.
It is highly suggested to replace a whole door unit.
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What is Woke? What is Equity? I can tell you for certain that neither of those terms includes the traditional American ideals of meritocracy, equality before the Law, and equal opportunity—YOU get to decide how far in Life you can go and what you can achieve. Woke and Equity are Marxist foundational concepts that are antithetical to our norms.
And while Equity has a lot of nuance beyond what one might think in coming across “equity” for the first time, it’s a head fake. Quick – equality and equity – the same? Nope, not at all. But that’s EXACTLY the Left’s intent. That you won’t even bother to think, “What, there’s a difference? Aren’t they the same”? If you DON’T think, they win. And, if it has to be said, they’ve wrapped a bunch of other words around it to support THEIR definitions so as to get you to ingrain THEIR concepts with THEIR verbiage so as to dislodge YOUR beliefs without you knowing it.
Is this the end-all be-all discussion of this issue? Absolutely not – while I know some, James Lindsay is the expert. We’ve covered Lindsay before. What I’m trying to do here is go from his short form to his long-form on the topic.
Let’s get started with the short coverage by Dave Rubin at Blaze Media (Reformatted, emphasis mine):
Ever wondered where the word ‘equity’ comes from? Well, here’s your answer. The left loves nothing more than to throw the word “equity” around, especially when addressing the ever-growing list of alleged inequalities in our society. But where does the word equity actually come from? American author James Lindsay — who Dave Rubin calls one of the best explainers of “the connection between [woke ideology] and Marxism” — told the European Parliament about the history of the word:
So, here’s the definition of equity, and see if it sounds like a definition of anything else you’ve ever heard of. The definition of equity comes from the Public Administration Literature. It was written by a man named George Frederickson, and the definition is:
an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal.
Does that sound like anything you’ve heard of before? Like socialism? They are going to administer an economy to make shares equal. The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property that they redistribute; the type of shares. They’re going to redistribute social and cultural capital in addition to economic and material capital.
And so this is my thesis when we say, ‘What is woke?’: Woke is Maoism with American characteristics.
Ok, so the idea is that Marxism was really an economic way of redistributing everything that “everyone would be equal. But “everyone’s not equal. There’s always the layer [of people] that has all of the stuff, and everyone else gets sort of nothing, and that creates ‘equity’ amongst the people.
The reason why I wanted you to see that clip is because now what we have seen out of the Democrats is not only that want to redistribute money” — we’ll take from them and give to them and giant government programs that create the cycles of poverty and all that. But they want redistribution when it comes to health. They want redistribution to virtually every part of your life, that they want equity at the end. So we want health equity, we want education equity, all of these things but you’re going to have to kill a lot of people to accomplish all of that.
We’ve already seen that in the Biden Administration by installing race quotas or priorities in different areas. Remember when Gov Sununu started the prioritization of COVID vaccine shots for Blacks over others? In fealty to Critical Race Theory, resources will not be earned but “managed,” and that management, in no small measure, will be in terms of your membership in a given DEI group as determined by “them.” We see schools that are dumbing down their curriculum as they know that certain “marginalized groups” (as a cover) aren’t achieving at the same student achievement levels as Whites and Asians, so they are getting rid of Advanced Placement Classes and erasing the idea of (and I’m dating myself here) Basic, Standard, Honors, and Advanced classes that stress academic rigor and the pace of coverage of materials (e.g., math, history, physics, English, et al).
Here as well (this sophomore Engineering student should be an an SJW concentration instead). Equity once again rears its ugly visage:
A second-year engineering student at Princeton University recently argued that since everyone’s high school experience is not the same, the Ivy must implement “equity-oriented solutions” to correct the situation. Yushra Guffer’s Daily Princetonian op-ed opens by stating an obvious truth: “[W]hile the University’s high standards of excellence and fast-paced environment may be valid goals to strive for, not all students are able to keep up with the pace.”
If you can’t keep up but demand that others “give you” an equal outcome, that should instantly be a message that you aren’t cut out to be an engineer. But this mid-wit can’t cast off her SJW outlook.
But her solution isn’t that students should buckle down and work harder if they want to continue with an Ivy League science-centered education. No, Princeton must accommodate those who can’t hack it.
The author has it exactly right – the newest generation has been so pampered and coddled that they EXPECT everyone to cater to their needs, thoughts, and whims.
“Princeton needs to re-evaluate the difficulty of the STEM introductory courses and implement equity-oriented solutions that directly address the different levels of student preparation,” Guffer writes. “After all, the level of academic rigor at Princeton can only be truly effective if all students are first able to work on a level playing field.”
And there you go – everyone MUST be evaluated and assumed to be at the same level – no matter how low that must be. So, you want this Engineering class to be designing your next plane?
Equity – everyone must be equal. That includes, for our kids anyway, making them all stupid at the same level. They are erasing meritocracy; they are erasing ability; they are erasing motivation, persistence, and everything else that makes us what our Declaration of Independence says is true:
…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
All of that adds up to Individuals having a Government—these American Maoists are attempting, like the Regressives before them, to reinstitute Rulers from the top so that we would be mere subjects and serfs. This is their process of recreating Feudalism (as in “a rose by any other name is still a rose”).
Here is another Lindsay intro to this topic:
And a long form intensive dive into it:
And remember, the MAIN idea of Communism is this: from “The Squatters’ Rights Concept Is a Marxist Attack on Property Rights.”
“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” – Manifesto of the Communist Party
And the modern version of this, thanks to “the Davos People”?
You will own nothing but be happy. Steve summarizes that up wonderfully:
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One of the many questions following Joe Biden’s “poor” performance in the presidential debate has been with whom the Democrats shall replace him. Or how about, who is fighting to keep Biden in the race, what donors are doing, what the base thinks (will this fracture the party or get independents off the fence), and, most importantly, who is playing as Chief Executive?
It is not Joe.
They are probably going through the motions, but someone in the West Wing is making decisions and convincing our sockpuppet president that whatever IT is, is the right thing to do. Rule by committee. A positional oligarchy undermining Democracy (admit it, Dems, that’s what this is). The guy you claim to have elected isn’t the guy running the joint, which, arguably, you could use as an excuse to claim he isn’t responsible for the shit we’re in. But someone is. Democrat someone’s or their appointees.
There’s really no escape from the Sock Puppet Presidency. Either Joe did it, or the people who picked to “advise” him did.
And who among us is surprised? Joe’s entire career has been as a placeholder. He’s a gaffe machine and always has been. Joe is a serial liar and plagiarist who hung out with career racists. He’s not an inspiring speaker or commanding presence and never was, and he didn’t get more votes than Obama. But the elites led by the Dem party picked him as the most likely not-Trump guy (talk about a sign of intellectual and political weakness), installed him, and told us it was for unity, the good of the people, the nation, and the safety and security of the world.
None of that was true, and none of it happened. We got the opposite, and we got it hard and fast.
Joe Biden, like COVID, was a bunch of Bureaucrats hiding the truth for as long as possible without any regard for the damage done, only admitting to anything suspicious when the truth had become so impossible to ignore that prevarication in service to limiting one’s complicity is only overshadowed by the deafening silence of many who were all in on mandates, passports, and censorship and would rather if we just forgot their part and just moved along.
Post-COVID watercooler etiquette has transitioned to a point where you’d be safer talking about abortion.
And the Left was fine with treating Biden’s decline like that until the first Presidential Debate of the 2024 season when the rhetorical red-headed stepchild didn’t just come out of the basement; he danced a gig on the national dinner table. The secrets are out. There’s no putting this demented genie back in the bottle, and the Democrat response proves it.
The only thing holding them back from change even they can believe in is Tribe Biden and whichever other treasonous actors have been undermining democracy for the past three-plus years with their hand up our sock puppet president. A multi-layered problem for the so-called defenders of democracy. To fix it, they have to uninstall the guy they put there. This requires them to ignore the base that voted for him in the 2024 Democratic primaries (including the complicit dopes in New Hampshire who wrote his name on a ballot on which he did not even appear).
Bernie Sanders has to be laughing his ass off, having been denied Democracy twice by the same lot. Elites will once again be asked to name a successor by any means necessary and drag them across a finish line that will keep moving until January 20th, 2025.
And the only ones who can conceivably stop them are Americans who may have voted for Joe Biden (or at least against Trump) and who choose not to be fooled again in numbers so significant that trying to game the results would be too blatant even for the American ruling class to dare.
And still, I suspect they will. They can’t do it with Joe Biden, and that has them out of whatever passes for their minds.
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Leaf-eating, beta-male Rep Heath Howard (Democrat – Strafford/Barrington) believes that the founding principle of America was “we did not want a king.” This beta male has either never read the Declaration of Independence or is rewriting it.
The Declaration says that we people have a natural right to overthrow ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT that no longer serves the purpose of government, which is to preserve our natural rights.
What the Declaration actually says:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
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Libraries in Utah are responding to a new law that would fine staff for allowing kids to access inappropriate material by banning children. “Legislation passed by conservative lawmakers allows parents to sue libraries for books they deem obscene or otherwise inappropriate.” Rather than remove any inappropriate content, they are banning children instead.
Here’s the Library line.
Public and school libraries had 60 days to remove the book or move it to an adults-only area closely monitored by staff, or face lawsuits from parents.
However, many libraries were too small to create a special section, or lacked the resources or appetite for risk, and instead banned kids entirely.
A sign in the Idaho Falls Public Library, with a huge stop symbol, informed patrons they would need to show photo ID if they were under 30.
Children could only enter if they had an unrestricted library card signifying their parents were happy with them browsing alone, or be accompanied by a parent who ‘must sign an affidavit every time you come to the library’.
The sign sparked outrage online, and many critics contrasted it with abortions being banned under almost all circumstances, including rape and incest.
I have not read the law, which may be too subjective, but I sense this is a familiar problem we’ve covered. Every library has a fixed footprint not unlimited shelf space. They cannot have every book. Smaller libraries, even more so. But in each instance, someone decides what books will be available in print. They choose them, buy them, and shelve them, so these gatekeepers, if we play by Progressive rules, are banning books. Whether the library staff, its board, or trustees, someone assigns a value judgment for the community and includes or excludes titles.
In smaller libraries, this is amplified.
Library officials acknowledged the policy would affect homeschooled children in a ‘dramatic’ way but said it was necessary to protect staff, the library, and taxpayers’ funds.
According to Rep. Megan Egbert, keeping libraries like Donnelly open would be impossible if adult-only sections could not be fully monitored.
How did they do it before the sexually explicit material directed at children became a necessary part of any collections?
Maybe these towns need to replace staff with those who prioritize the library’s value to children over an ideological obsession with grooming that is dangerous to them. Or perhaps it is time to ban the library culture that allows this abuse to continue and invest those resources in internet access. It’s not as if we even need partisan child-banning librarians – and think how much better losing that carbon footprint would be for the environment.
Whatever you do, don’t let the Feds fund your broadband infrastructure expansions. They spend billions, but no one who needs it ever seems to get connected.
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The left made it clear that anyone could claim to be anything they wanted! You made these rules—we’re just following them.
Remember what Saul said:
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.).
Again, the Left has said we can be whatever we want to be (except their code phrase is “what I identify as,” which is REALLY meant to shut down any conversations they don’t want to happen). This kid gives these self-important “fatphilic-body positives” a Master Class in language and Social Justice (and turns it against them):
This video is entertaining, and it tends to confirm what we have long suspected about the sincerity of those who purport to believe in “identifying.” I think a lot of people on the left are happy to dismiss reality until they are dealing with something that matters to them. Enjoy:
Give this guy a medal! pic.twitter.com/6FArsDSLZY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2024
“Fat-bodied People”…hilarious!
Yep, he learned their Rule and proclaimed it for himself. Or is that to play along as “he/they”? “They”?
Well played.
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It is open season on BidenX after a radio host who “interviewed” him two days ago leaked to CNN that the entire interview was a sham.
As some of us have said repeatedly, this has been going on since 2020. Yeah, it has gotten worse, but the real “news” is that you do NOT get news from the corporate media. You get Party (as in Democrat Party) propaganda. But … go, Free Press!
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Lloyd Alter at Carbon Upfront (heh! The “new” Treehugger”) is NOT a fan of the “Gigacasting” method that is overtaking the auto industry led by Tesla. That manufacturing technique involves high-pressure form/mold pressing of larger and larger parts for Teslas instead of press stamping lots of little pieces and then having to weld, rivet, or screw them all together.
Not only does it eliminate a lot of inventory of those parts, but it also lessens the number of steps in the manufacturing process and the hourly costs of many line workers who would be needed to do it.
The result is a much lower cost of manufacturing. Lloyd’s lament, however, is that it makes it harder and much costlier for someone to fix stuff that goes wrong.
I have to admit that when the entire gigacasted underside of a car is bent, even if only slightly after a fender-bender, the cost to repair is not just a few small pieces but most of a car’s cost. A dd in the cost of the battery bank (since we’re talking EVs) and it may well be totaled.
Like the Japanese cars coming over to the US starting in the 1950s and 1960s, EVs just happen to be getting that same bad rap – quality is cruddy, especially when compared to their gas-driven brethren. EVs are giving new owners more headaches, and Tesla is a big reason why: J.D. Power study:
J.D. Power’s study tracks responses from nearly 100,000 purchasers and lessees of 2024 vehicles within the first 90 days of ownership, and for the first time in the study’s 38-year history, it incorporates repair visit data. Overall, internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles averaged 180 PP100 (or 180 problems per 100 vehicles), while battery electric vehicles (BEVs) averaged a whopping 266 PP100, 86 points higher than ICE vehicles.
Automakers have typically said that EVs are generally less problematic and require fewer repairs than ICE vehicles because they have a smaller number of parts and systems. However, J.D. Power’s study with newly incorporated repair data shows EVs, as well as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), require more repairs than gas-powered vehicles in all repair categories.
“Owners of cutting edge, tech-filled BEVs and PHEVs are experiencing problems that are of a severity level high enough for them to take their new vehicle into the dealership at a rate three times higher than that of gas-powered vehicle owners,” wrote Frank Hanley, senior director of auto benchmarking at J.D. Power, in the study.
As Steve Green at Instapundit noted, “I’m so old, I remember when TCO was supposed to be EV’s big advantage.” And it is true! TCO, or Total Cost of Ownership, looks well beyond just the sticker price of getting the vehicle off the lot. That’s just the start of it. Two things were always hammered at us as to why we should go electric and ditch ‘Ole Faithful sitting in the garage because of fossil fuel usage:
Yeah, well, see the quoted part about repairs; most of the needed repairs have nothing to do with the motors – it’s all of the other stuff in a car. Sure, I might give Tesla a pass on that due to “not much time in grade” with larger-scale design and manufacturing, but what about all of the other mainstay auto manufacturers getting into the EV space? Sure, they are dealing with the same issues with batteries, power distribution, and electric motors like Tesla but they’ve had a century of experience with getting all of the “other stuff” that makes up a car, right? So what’s their excuse for all this?
Part of that TCO is finding out that instead of getting 30-40 thousand miles on a set of tires, it’s more like 10-15 thousand—and much more expensive to boot due to larger sizes having to support all that weight of the battery bank. And the specter of replacing that bank far sooner than most have to replace an ICE engine.
This results in almost half of all EV owners starting to regret their choice to move away from internal combustion engine-based cars—they wish to rekindle that flame by ditching the EV.
We are starting to look at going back to being a two-car family again as TMEW won’t drive the F-150 crew cab (“too big!”) – it’s more like a RAV4 (and after seeing one yesterday, she’s willing to look at the new and much smaller Ford Maverick pickup). I asked her about getting an electric car. While she doesn’t read as much about them as I do, she has rejected that idea outright even as her driving will be REAL local. But what she’s read of the problems (lately, getting locked in a Tesla and unable to get out due to a malfunction), she decided she’ll stick with the known issues.
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This is the company that Terry Red-Flag Roy keeps. Specifically, Manchester State Rep (in name only) Alissandra Murray, whose reelection Red-Flag Roy essentially endorsed. Alissandra apparently believes that we should celebrate Juneteenth as Independence Day:
And NOT the Fourth of July because there is NO mention of the 4th on her X (Twitter) in contrast to the tweets above regarding Juneteenth. (Note: I am writing this on the AM of the 5th.)
Needless to say, this reflects the mindset of America’s Woke-Communists. They believe that America is evil … founded primarily for the slavery of African-Americans. Therefore, America’s founding on July 4th is NOT something to be celebrated.
The company that Red-Flag Roy keeps.
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After Biden’s meltdown in the debate, support from many Democratic politicians, big-money donors, and the mainstream media is falling off the proverbial cliff and looking for Joe to throw in the towel. Joe says “NO”! Some attribute this stubborn refusal more to Jill Biden, the President’s wife, and her love of power than to Joe himself. Regardless, they say they are in it until the finish.
That’s fine by me. Joe’s support has fallen behind Trump’s even more since the debate and contributions are drying up. Anyone thinking the 25th Amendment will be applied to remove Joe might be disappointed because I don’t think Kamala has the guts to initiate the action as required. It also seems unlikely she can get a two-thirds vote from both houses of Congress to carry the motion. Again, how long would that take?
I may be wrong, but it does seem to be a real uphill climb plus a huge distraction for the Democratic party with only four months left until the election to build up a new candidate. Even if it did happen, that would throw open the Democratic National Committee’s Convention, and several new names may compete to be the Presidential nominee.
So if Joe is ousted or dies between now and then, who’s on deck?
Well, Kamala, as VP, would be in charge (in case of death) until the new President is inaugurated. The Presidential vote would not likely favor her. She is not liked by Democrats to begin with, and her being the force behind Joe being dumped would not sit well with many other Dems.
Gavin Newsom’s name is well known but the damage he has done in California plays very strongly against him.
How about JFK Jr.? He’s blessed with name recognition but is currently only drawing about 6 percent support. He might be the Democrats’ best shot, but how much time, again, would it take the DNC to come together, go through the process of removing Biden, inserting Kennedy Jr., and then start all that’s needed to build a new challenger’s campaign?
It’s a lot to think about, it seems to me, but would desperation power such a process?
Politically, we could be in store for anything. but the lazy, crazy days of summer?
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Vermonters who don’t pay close attention to politics may have been surprised this month (July 2024) to find their paychecks a little lighter than expected, the result of a new payroll tax passed into law last year (Act 76). According to the Joint Fiscal Office, this 0.44 percent tax (0.11 percent for the self-employed) applies to everyone who earns a paycheck and will collect a total of around $100 million per year in new revenue for the legislature to spend. Of course, that’s (another) $100 million less for the roughly 350,000 Vermonters participating in the labor force to spend on whatever our priorities might be. Is this fair?
The proponents of the payroll tax think so, or at least want you to think so. Their argument is, “It’s less than half a percent tax. A mere pittance! You can afford it!” As always, they’re “just asking” you to pay a little more. But try politely declining to pay up and find out what “just asking” really means!
According to MIT’s state-by-state calculation of what someone needs to earn to cover their basic needs, a single Vermonter with no children must earn $47,892 before taxes. So, this new payroll tax would cost such a person $211 a year, bringing them that far below the level necessary to meet their own basic needs.
What is $211 for a person at this income level? In concrete terms, again, according to MIT, it’s more than two weeks’ worth of groceries. Or two months’ worth of internet connectivity. Or four tanks of gas to get to and from work, etc. In other words, real, important stuff.
A family of four (two adults and two kids) needs to earn $91,507 to cover their basic needs. This new payroll tax impacts such as family to the tune of $403 a year. Again, the state kicked the chair out from under people working hard to keep their noses above the financial waterline.
Now, according to the US Census, the median nonfamily household income in Vermont is $46,022 – or already below the basic needs income before the implementation of this payroll tax. The median household income is $96,345. According to the Vermont Tax Department, over 150,000 tax returns filed in Vermont for all households (family and nonfamily) reported income of $49,000 or less. These are the people getting genuinely hammered by this tax.
But here’s where the injury meets insult. Act 76 creates a dynamic in which you can have a single mother (or many such single parents) of adolescent children working a minimum wage job paying this tax on her wages – on top of her regular income taxes – in order to subsidize the childcare of a family earning $202,055 (or 575 percent of federal poverty levels)! And that’s just obscene.
More injury, Act 76 states, “In fiscal year 2024, the amount of $4,200,000.00 is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Taxes to be used for the implementation of the Child Care Contribution.” This is for “The establishment of the following 15 new permanent classified positions authorized in the Department of Taxes in fiscal year 2024.” Over $4 million of the taxes collected on this tax go toward paying over two dozen new bureaucrats to collect the tax. That’s $280,000 per new hire! How is that possible? But it is indicative of the real goal here: creating a well-paid class of government-employed elites funded, for the most part, by lower and middle-income, working-class people. (Suggested Reading: The Coming of Neo-Feudalism by Joel Kotkin.)
A final warning…. This 0.44 percent payroll tax raises only a fraction of the amount necessary to cover the long-term plans for this program. According to the Rand Study that formed the basis of this legislation, it will require three and a half to five times as much revenue. Childcare subsidies are not the only program our legislators have targeted the payroll tax to pay for. They are also eyeing the payroll tax to pay for a universal paid family leave program (H.66). So, this “little bit” is just about getting the camel’s nose under the tent.
And a last point…. this latest upping of “your fair share” via a new payroll tax is just one of many such cuts inflicted by this legislature in this last biennium alone. There’s also the unprecedented property tax increase (Act 183), the Renewable Energy Standard mandates that will jack up electric bills (Act 179), the 20 percent increases in DMV fees (Act 62), and the coming estimated 70 cents per gallon carbon tax on home heating fuel (Act 18). And those are just the biggest hits. The total, on top of what was already one of the highest state tax burdens in the nation, is not small. It’s not fair.
But, as Senator Mark MacDonald admitted in a moment of candor about he and his colleagues under the Golden Dome, “We don’t do things based on helping poor people.” No, they certainly don’t.
Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.
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I’ve been listening to these dire predictions for LITERALLY 50 years from mid-wits who don’t have the science chops to make such predictions. These bureaucrats use this tactic to wind up and create severe doom-and-gloom anxiety among actual nitwits.
I don’t know which is worse—the meaningless yammering or the fact that I’ve reached the age where I’ve had to listen to 50 years of EVERY. SINGLE. STUPID. SOOTHSAYING message from our Climate Betters (or Climate Con-Artists trying to justify their jobs; pick one or the other).
United Nations Climate Chief: ‘We Have Two Years to Save the Planet.’
…others are leveraging the warming weather to decry the supposedly warming planet. The United Nations (UN), which never saw a socialist pry-bar it didn’t try to apply to the free world, is no exception to that.
Simon Stiell is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Did you know they had one of those? Nor did I, but it’s not too surprising. The UN has a plethora of offices designed to hector us to behave in the ways that the UN wants us to; we are fortunate indeed that, unlike our government, the UN can only nag, not compel.
In another example of the UN’s nagging, on Wednesday, Simon Stiell took to X/Twitter to claim that we have two years left to save the planet.
We have two years to save the world.
Starting now, we need:
A quantum leap in climate finance
Bold new national climate plans by all nations that protect people, boost jobs and drive inclusive economic growth
More https://t.co/LmM3rX8fpc pic.twitter.com/zJjIdh0VEK
— Simon Stiell (@simonstiell) April 10, 2024
See here as well: https://t.co/LmM3rX8fpc
Smug sorta guy, like all the rest of them involved in this grift.
Except for Al Gore – he’s in panic mode all the time despite none of his predictions of “climate disasters” coming true. And yet, there are followers paying good money to these prophets of doom (just like Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo are for “anti-racism” and “white fragility”). Think of these paying fools who have never realized that climate ALWAYS changes incrementally every year and tremendously over various Epochs. But a buck is a buck, and Stiell is no different in guilting people.
In his case, however, he wants governments to be the guilty “people” and cave to the UN. After all, THEIR grift is to become the “over-country” in which all other countries give up their sovereignty to the UN and tax their people to death to make the UN feel good about themselves.
See what I just did there? Anyway, two years is all we’ve got left. So, given that it’s been 50 years, can I wish that “Party like it’s 1999” also meant I’d have the young body I had back then?
However, let me be kind to ClimateBat (instead of Moonbat) as he looks “long term” compared to a couple of the predictions from the post:
Yeah, the Climate Catastrophe Credibility has worn a bit thin and is highly tattered, but that won’t stop them at all. As with all things of the Left, it’s all about the intent and never the results. They know it—they just depend on everyone else to NOT know it.
And sadly, because it’s been 50 years, too few haven’t fallen for this.
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Ugh. Monday. Again.
Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, definitely a few off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
And the closer we get to November, the worser it will get. Here, and globally.
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I’ve seen the pic of teenager Jill. She looks like a cute, nice girl. Just how corrosively corrupt are the Bidens (and DC in general) that she’d do this now?
In the name of safety and saving your life from the Dread Pirate Bird Flu, they’ll starve you to death.
The new State Religion.
Look how long that number’s been dropping… decades and decades. Wonder how this works out to children per couple.
OK, I’ll be nasty and opine that, clearly, not only does she “need” another raping, but have it be brutal and permanently crippling and sterilizing too. Then, and just then… maybe… she might understand what she and others have done to her homeland.
Yes, IIRC she actually said something like that. Reminds me of a UK pol who said that ensuring that their subjects were disarmed would then appeal to a criminal’s “sense of fair play” and they, too, would not feel the need to have guns.
Quoting Reagan: The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
I’d add another layer – not just that they know so much that isn’t so, but that what they “know” makes them feel important and educated and superior.
Agree with the sentiment, but… it’s not Trump’s home. It’s his workplace. NOBODY has that White House being their permanent home.
I’ve posted this multiple times, but this is an in-depth take down of the whole “You couldn’t possibly win against the US military” argument:
The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke Omaha | Monster Hunter Nation
From where this thought originates:
And related:
Belling the cat | The Zelman Partisans
Belling the Cat, Revisited | The Zelman Partisans
A little dated, but remember – this is who the enemedia is. Both above and below:
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
OK, specifically Israel-related, but understand something about Pallywood / Gazawood.
First, they lie. Like the Viet Cong, they know they can’t win on the battlefield.
Second, so many eat it up because it rationalizes what they want to believe.
Third, others eat it up because they’re so racist they think “little brown people” can’t deceive their uber-educated selves.
There is no starvation in Gaza.
Remember, in Islam, to advance jihad and conquer there are so many layers and flavors of deceit they have different names.
Deception in Islam: Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman and Muruna – Trevor Loudon’s New Zeal Blog
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
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Which is why this is so worrying:
It took a video by an open racist/white supremacist for me to grasp that white people are, actually, very diverse. It was an interesting shift in perspective.
Funny how fast that switch happened.
After the election, or even before…
My bet? The Potato gets fully baked by the end of the summer.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Randy Weaver and Ruby Ridge… in case you’re wondering.
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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):
The Jab / Vaccines / Medical:
JUST IN: Mainstream Media 7News Australia Airs Groundbreaking Segment highlighting COVID Vaccine Reactions (aussie17.com)
And there are others. More and more other exposures of the harms the Jab does. Word is getting out.
The Lies We Were Told About Covid And The ‘Vaccines’ | Principia Scientific Intl. (principia-scientific.com)
Evidence existed to us in the research & medical field as far back as 2,500 years ago with the Athenian Plague (PELOPONNESIAN WAR) that natural immunity was robust, life-long, bullet-proof; far super- (substack.com)
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/merck-misled-participants-in-gardasil
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23078778/
Being pushed hard on my daughter right now.
Recent study we completed e.g. Risch, McCullough, myself, Hulscher, Hodkinson etc. titled “A Systematic REVIEW of Autopsy findings in deaths after covid-19 vaccination” has been published (substack.com)
Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer’s Depopulation Agenda, as Evidenced by Its Own Documents – DailyClout
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Moonbattery Coeur d’Alene Shows How to Respond to Tyranny – Moonbattery
I would cheerfully and enthusiastically carry a cross here to support Christians.
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Muslim Brotherhood Plan Exposed! | Erick Stakelbeck | It’s Supernatural with Sid Roth (youtube.com)
Echoes Brigitte’s video:
Muslim Brotherhood Plan Exposed! | Erick Stakelbeck | It’s Supernatural with Sid Roth (youtube.com)
Over and over and over, their own words outline what they plan. And nobody believes them.
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Tyranny / Globalism:
Sounds Right | NC Renegades
SHEEEESH! One of the best anti-Islamization “Xers” – Radio Genoa – is being targeted by Rome prosecutors for alleged “hate speech” (barenakedislam.com)
PURE EVIL. Kamala Warns that President Trump Will Jail His Political Oppenents – She Actually Said This! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
They always project.
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Prepping:
The Other Things to Prep – Tactical Wisdom (tactical-wisdom.com)
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WW3 Watch:
‘She eats Russians for breakfast’: Who is Kaja Kallas, the EU’s next foreign policy chief? — RT World News
Wants NATO troops in Ukraine.
How Biden’s debate performance could lead to WORLD WAR III as China and Russia are emboldened by his ‘message of incompetence’ | Daily Mail Online
If they’re going to do something “big” it’ll be soon.
Chinese Fighter Jets Breach Taiwan’s Air Defense Zone (legalinsurrection.com)
Transfer of Dutch F-16s to Ukraine imminent – defense minister — RT World News
I repeat: We’re going to tit-for-tat our way into WW3.
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A popular AI chatbot has been caught lying, saying it’s human (nypost.com)
Fill me with wonder at the new miracle of AI.
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Border / migration / invasion:
Biden Regime Bringing Back Migrants Deported by Trump. (thenationalpulse.com)
The devastating effects of ‘Islamic multiculturalism’ on the women of France (barenakedislam.com)
House Democrats are “Bringing Out the Big Guns” to Allow Illegal Aliens to Vote in 2024 Presidential Election | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
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Bill Gates owns synthetic fruit coating — what’s in It? – Nexus Newsfeed
I trust nothing – NOTHING – he has his fingers in.
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Pick of the post:
They LIED to you to get you to take the Jab. Pull this into the core of your being. They LIED to you. Just like the LIED about Ivermectin and HCQ.
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Palate Cleansers:
I have to wonder. Not that I’m in a courthouse much, but if I’m there, I will look.
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The most important election in 2022 was in Wisconsin. The Left went all out, pouring millions into the race, while the Right, as usual, sat on its hands. The liberal, activist, Democrat candidate won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which flipped the court from majority Republican to majority Democrat.
The corrupt Democrat (now that’s a redundancy) majority just (I’m writing this on 7/5) gave the okay to use drop boxes in the 2024 election. It is impossible to verify ballots deposited in drop boxes. No matter how many legitimate votes Trump gets … it won’t be enough. You are going to see a repeat of 2020. The voting will be “paused” and then resumed and the drop boxes will produce obviously incredible margins for Biden, just like 2020.
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A 2015 McKinsey report promised real growth and opportunity for corporations that embraced Diversity, Equity, and inclusion (DEI), but in the nine years since, no one has been able to duplicate those results – not on paper or in practice, because it wasn’t true.
The [2015] study gave corporations air cover to promote ideologically motivated diversity programs while saying that it was simply “good for business.” It wasn’t. What it was good for was transforming the world of Big Business into an outpost of academia.
In that sense, it worked.
But the original pro-business justification has turned out to be a scam.
According to The Wall Street Journal, “academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity.”
There is not, however, a missing link between DEI and a loss of sales or brand value. Companies suffering from Diversity dysphoria can speak to this truth. Go woke, go broke is a common refrain following the diversification of executives, including activists interested in political agendas and not profits (despite the enormous salaries they often command to do their dirty work). Disney, Bud Light, Target, and others have felt the sting of business decisions that undermined corporate success and their brands.
But not all of them got mugged. Tractor Supply put its toes on the ledge earlier this year only to quickly take the hint as customers informed them that this wasn’t the way to gain custom or continued loyalty.
You’d think titans of industry or at least competent boards of directors would know from essential business school texts that the demographics of leadership matter less as your reach gets broader. A local business might benefit from looking like the neighborhood, but does anyone know or care if the people in charge of making sure the product pages at Amazon work (or the planes at Boeing stay in the air) represent the local, regional, or national racial or sexual demographics?
If 2% of the population is Wiccan, does P&G have an obligation to their shareholders to ensure they are seen? The entire idea is ludicrous, but after McKinsey released its “study” …
BlackRock, according to the Journal, cited the study as evidence that diversity created financial benefits when it created an exchange-traded fund that tracked a diversity index. That index has done quite poorly, “returning about 55% against more than 70% for the global index without diversity conditions.”
BlackRock has gotten into hot water over its corporate practices and has announced that it is stepping away from environmental, social, and governance investing.
The not-so-amusing reality is that DEI and ESG are academic partisan political world views that discriminate by design. You can’t embrace them and anything else, which is probably why the wheel has been coming off the bus. If you run your business like some intractable bureaucracy, even the best intentions will bloat your non-productive expenses and slowly sink your ship. It will impact the culture and the customer base, which affects actual diversity and the revenue stream you need to pay to pander to it.
Besides, no one wants to work in that environment for long except those who poisoned it. All that constant tension is bad for your bottom line. The fact that smart business people bought it tells you something about how smart they are—DEI and ESG are just social taxes paid by investors and consumers on top of all the others that produce nothing of value. But it’s not a total loss. DEI may not be proven to create growth, but like rising CO2 follows warming, it appears that diversity follows business growth and success.
The only thing that the study found was that profitable companies ended up with more diversity—after they had succeeded, not before.
If this does not sound familiar, it should. Almost everything the left espouses does the opposite of what it advertises, and DEI is no different.
You’d have thought all these “experts” would have figured that out by now.
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed many aspects of our lives forever. Masks and social distancing were suspended as the Pandemic lifted. I bet most people purged their cars and homes of masks, hoping never to have to wear one again. Other changes are not so easily defined, and one of these would be the workplace environment.
People either lost their jobs until COVID ended, had their workplace modified so they could continue to work, or their job was changed to remote, meaning they could work anywhere they had an internet connection. These remote jobs were the slowest to respond after the Pandemic. Many workers became accustomed to “working” from home and were resistant to returning to a brick-and-mortar office. This new thinking did not sit well with traditional and more conservative leadership/ownership teams and set up a line of demarcation to be negotiated. I put “working” in quotes because most people are not disciplined enough to work unsupervised at home; therefore, productivity suffered, as did any team environment.
The other side of the equation, and possibly a weaker argument, is that workers are happier, healthier, and more productive for the time working when they are remote. They find the work/home balance beneficial to their professional efforts. The time saved by not commuting was advantageous to both sides of their life balance, and the reduced stress allowed them to focus more on their tasks. These points may sound good, but who is actually setting the criteria, the company or the employee?
At some point, many companies took a stand, and the employees returned to the office or forfeited their jobs. Dell, one of the country’s leading tech companies, is offering an option. If an employee chooses to work remotely, they pass on future COLA increases and job advancements. In the case of older workers, neither of these is enough to return to the office. Younger workers who may need the COLA increase yearly, and advancement opportunities are leaving home for the workplace. Dave Ramsey, one of the leaders in money-handling plans, employs a team of 1,100 people, all required to work in-house. Ramsey feels that the team approach is essential to serving the customer, and his team is under one roof or can find employment elsewhere.
This conundrum was forced on us by a Pandemic with little thought to how it would impact worker relations down the road. Remote was necessary for businesses to remain viable during a once-in-a-lifetime medical emergency. Now that COVID is fading in the rearview mirror, it is time to assess what works best for the business. After all, if the company does not succeed, there is no need for discussion and a policy.
Unlike education, where the impact of remote learning was seen in lower test scores and reduced graduation rates, the business world does not have specific data on how remote workers impact the company. One of the other factors in remote education and business is the continued deterioration of social and interactive skills. We are creating a generation of children and adults who are satisfied to be alone rather than amongst others. There is just something that does not seem healthy about the impact of choosing remote.
This question of which side of the remote argument the government favors is unclear, and it is probably good that it stays out of the discussion. They would probably side with the remote worker, as it promotes fewer people/cars on the road and less carbon into our air. But this government favors a six-hour workday, three days a week, with a nap included for our president. We know how inefficient the government is. Let’s let the companies and their workers duke this one out.
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This is pathetic and insulting, pretending that the desiccated husk of BidenX is running the Executive Branch. Yet, that is how low this country has sunk. Here’s BidenX on July 4th rehabbing his rep … by confusing Christmas and the 4th of July.
Who is the real Commander-in-Chief? Who will be calling the shots if China moves on Taiwan? If Russia retaliates for the joint American/Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil? If a general war breaks out in the Middle East? We have NO idea, EXCEPT that it’s not Joe BidenX. Some “democracy” we live in.
Biden: “Ho, ho, ho! Happy Independence Day!”
The rehab tour is not going at all well.
pic.twitter.com/VDUAtFgFyQ
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 5, 2024
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