Today I made the mistake of turning on the radio; Mango Mussolini is talking about using the US military to take the Panama Canal and Greenland.
Again, this is following the Hitler playbook to the letter. Hitler was voted in because he was considered anti-war, a "deal maker" who got Germany back the Sudetenland by making a deal etc. Then of course through a few complicated dance steps, he declared war on pretty much everyone and eventually lost.
Where do you find dictators like this? In banana republics. Or in the case of the US, wheat, peanut, rice, beef, republics. Places that have natural resources and just lean on those, never becoming tech powers.
Being a tech power requires an educated workforce and the US is just plain not about that. We import smart people as needed. We produce tons of raw materials, and I forecast back in 2003 that we'd become a nation that lives a low standard of living on average, on our raw materials. These raw materials also include impoverished Americans joining the military to not be starving and homeless, as I myself did. In fact, the best shot in life a working-class American will have is to, if they can, join the military and stay in for life if possible. Sure you might got shot or maimed, but you're probably safer than you'd be in American civilian life (no one shot at me in the Army while I have been shot at as a civvie).
I forecast that the average American would have some non-tech job, making maybe as little as $10 a day in cash money. They might work some 2nd job for the privilege of sleeping on-site. As I do. Any tech they have will be developed in Japan or Europe, manufactured in China or Africa, and something they save up a long while to get.
Notice I don't mention Canada or Central/South America in this, or Mexico. What goes for the US seems to be going for the Americas overall. In other words, taking the long view, Europe and Asia are not finished with the Americas, for 100s of years sources of raw materials and slaves. Likewise Africa.
"Work hard" not "Work smart" nations.
Silicon Valley is dying. Layoffs are huge now, and as the US further isolates itself the death of tech in this country will only accelerate. Tech is not even a big employer here in "Silicon Valley", it's places like Safeway and public transit and health care organizations. This was a tech-y place 50 years ago, not now.
I packed 9 things and cleaned up and got out of here, dropped the things off at the post office downtown, ate some chicken and broccoli and stuff at Whole Foods, then rode over to tonight's class. I was very early, thinking I'll stop and study somewhere and Lo and behold there was a nice Starbucks right at the point where I'd done most of the ride and only had to go one more major block. I went in there and studied, then when it was time rode over to the place and it was class time.
The Hebrew part of the class is getting more involved, as we learn more letters and vowels and rules. Interesting stuff! The rest of the class was a big discussion of different "streams" of Judaism, then the stated purpose of the class, good old kashrut. That was fun. We didn't even get to hechsers which we'll get into at the same place, same rabbi/teacher next week. It turns out the Safeway nearby is supposed to have a large Kosher section so I plan to check that out before the next class.
The ride back was very calm, not nearly as windy as I thought it might be, and it felt very calm and quiet, and dry. Once I got back here I learned that Southern California, the Los Angeles area, is having tons of fires due to the Santa Ana winds and that's what it felt like even up here. It feels like Santa Ana conditions.
Tomorrow I'm supposed to get paid, and I rode by my bank to look for a notice that they'd be, like the post office, closed on the 9th (Thursday) in honor of the passing of Jimmy Carter. I didn't see one. As for Jimmy Carter, well, here's an article: https://aish.com/jimmy-carter-and-the-jews-10-facts/ basically he did a good thing or two but he was a standard Christian: Not any friend of the Jews and always seething with Jew-hatred just below the surface.
I found that article because I was listening to NPR and between their "We for one welcome our new orange overlord" BS and the occasional good piece on science or something, they never miss a chance to instigate Jew-hatred, and to them, Jimmy was a great guy because he did some good ol' Jew-hatred and if NPR has their way, everyone will be looking it up and thinking, "Why, Jimmy Carter was a great person and Jimmy Carter hated Jews, therefore if I hate Jews I'll be a great person".
This is still weird-feeling to me, that the Left hates Jews just as much as your unrepentant Nazi types do. I'd thought it was kind of one-sided, OK, these Nazis and Klan types over here, yeah they hate Jews, we always knew that, but the Left, of which so many Jews were an essential part at least many decades ago, has far more people within it, who hate Jews just as much or more. This is why the Left can't win elections. The Right in the US is a loony-toon show but they're not the ones keeping Jewish students and professors (!) out of our elite colleges, staging pogroms, etc. Trump's a blithering wingnut but he goes off about "hell to pay" if Hamas doesn't clear out of "Gaza" and a lot of Americans like to hear it because the truth is that Hamas is a gang of terrorists, they started the war, every time Israel lets up for a second they attack again, etc. Meanwhile our loony Left is talking about how the Hamas favored pastime of killing Jews is A-OK and justified.
Now, Harris was and is not loony-Left. She would not have even paused US aid to Israel because as a country it's what we do. But a lot of people saw her as a lot more Left than she actually is, and the Left being a bunch of rubber room candidates, **and Harris being silent about this, sending the message that the antics of the Left are OK with her** may alone be what lost her the election.
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