Your readership/viewership is aware that all three of you burn your candles at both ends. It is a labor of love and we APPRECIATE it! I pray for you all (and your families) for health, happiness and peace of mind. Thank you.
I'm glad RFK Jr finally got his win in the octagon. I was waiting for him to pull out a copy of his book "The Real Anthony Fauci", read the published date, and then hit her with it.
Trump and Iran -- and it's not even Tuesday. Can we have TACO's on the weekend? 😂🤣
RFK Jr -- parents should make their own choices regarding vaccinations. Parents in the 60's and 70's routinely put their children in the same room with other children who had chicken pox. (some probably encouraged touching the pox.) This is so they would get it. And in time, we all had herd immunity. Sometimes the old ways can be the right or best ways. Pharmaceuticals are not always the answer. As far as MSM -- how are they still on the air? Oh yea - money laundering through advertising. Because it sure ain't from viewership.
"And therein began my disillusionment with the liberal worldview, with the Obama PsyOp I had bought into in 2008, and with the 'white collar' promise I had been sold, but which failed to deliver for the tail end of my generation, and certainly the ones that followed it."
This is why a man started a show called Dirty Jobs which created a scholarship program called MikeRoweworks. We desperately need blue collar workers. Electricians, plumbers, construction workers, etc. I see it in my little slice of Americana. And if it is evident in very small town MN, it is even more evident elsewhere.
Election integrity based on pinkie promises. Astounding.
"The mission is to liberate those minds so that America can be liberated from our foreign masters." So continues the disentanglement.
Thank you for your concise commentary on the issues. It all takes time and I, for one, am thankful. Hug your families for me and thank them for giving you the time to do this. Seriously - hug your families.
It seems to me that Ashe’s disillusionment came from a missing piece of important information. The true question concerns supply and demand for a particular profession, not from acquiring a college degree. The wrong degree plus $6.00 will get you a large coffee at Starbucks. It surely will not make you salable to a business. Well, maybe as a coffee maker at a Starbucks. But, does that require a diploma?
What our education system needs to supply to our youth is some reality. In truth, you cannot become anything you want to be. That is a blatant lie. So getting a degree in gender studies is not going to make you a desirable commodity in the workforce.
Kids need to be taught about how our system actually works and why it has worked so well for well over 250 years. Each person is a living business walking around making money. Your success in America depends on how much you can add to the system which means you must learn how to be the most productive human possible based on your skills. The skills you perfect are up to you to find for yourself because only you know your strengths and weaknesses.
In my time, it was called “The School of Hard Knocks”. I learned pretty early that I was not going to be a professional Baseball player and my artistic talents were not going to make much money unless I was “Discovered”. I learned to be practical and to build on the technical skills that I knew were in demand.
I think our system has lost this driving force and it was not lost naturally. I think it was purposely built into our heads by just making the answer “Go to college, that will make you a success.”
What was missing was the business thing. As a business you know how dangerous debt is. Debt kills a business because it has to be eliminated before you can produce a profit. So, if you ever consider a college loan, is it making you a profit in the long run? To actually hold a dollar in profit, you must earn two dollars! One to buy back a dollar of debt plus the one you can count as a gain!
This ain’t hard math. But it is a very hard truth. Why isn’t it taught?
Because......communism. Keep them poor and they will thank us.
It took me to almost 50 before I found what I really loved. And now I am close to ending my career. People are afraid when kids say they don't know what they want to do. This is why in previous generations kids followed what their dad did (as dads were primarily the breadwinner). And every so often, the kid decided he didn't like what dad did and he found something else he liked. We just need to let kids explore what is out there. Let them work at a grocery store for a year to decide whether they like retail or not. Or work with a construction crew. There are plumbers and electricians who will take on apprentices - while the kids takes classes at night. At the end of the day -- it is a combination of fear and "we want you to do better than we did". I pray my kids are happy more than wealthy.
So true. When I was 14 and 15 I was a bag boy at a grocery store. The trick was to be very good at bagging so the heavy goods were low down in the bag and bread and crackers were on top. Also, the total weight had to be easily manageable. Plus, the customer had to know you weren’t “Getting over on them”.
After bagging, the bag boys took the bags to the customer’s car. It was customary for a tip of about a nickel per bag to be offered. So, the customer knew if the bag boys used more bags than necessary. In that case there was no tip! They felt the bagger was getting over on them. So, optimizing the bagging process became a fun game for me. And, by really hustling I could handle 5 customers per hour and net $1.25 in tips in addition to the $.35 per hour the store paid me.
When I turned 16 the store manager tried to promote me to cashier. It paid $.75/ hour. I refused. Being a really great bag boy was the highest paying job in the store! But, I knew I wanted more than that!
All of my jobs taught me what I didn’t want to do long term.
When I was 14-15 I was mowing lawns for $2 per hour, cash. And building loudspeaker enclosures for the local rock bands -- the Electro-Voice 'Eliminator' folded horn was a bit too complex for the average guy to build in his garage, but my dad had a nicely equipped woodshop with the tools needed for the precise angle cuts and complex intersections. So for $30 in materials and maybe 5 hours each total work, I'd sell them for $60 - that $6 an hour profit being more than twice the minimum wage, which I couldn't earn anyway since state laws required me to be 16 to work legally.
Most kids these days don't have the motive or the means to do such things. Getting away from the British free-trade system where cheap imported goods replace local labor might restore that.
Tradesmen take on apprentices when they figure out that there is only so much money they can make themselves -- hourly rates are set by local competition, and hours worked limited by other commitments to family, sleep, etc.
So they can take on an apprentice, pay them maybe 1/2 of the journeyman rate, and mark that rate up as profit when billing the customer -- because they are responsible for the apprentice's work. Over time the apprentice learns the skills of the trade and moves up. A good deal for both.
And, I should point out, an excellent selling point for capitalism. Under communism nobody works very hard because they do not benefit from it. Everyone is paid the same, so why work harder or improve yourself?
And, quite frankly, that is why Communism always fails. It drives the individual toward the lowest common denominator. Capitalism drives the individual to the highest denominator.
It is just math! And, it is quite simple math. But, why is it absent in our education system? And, why does NYC elect an idiot as their mayor? I am fascinated by how screwed up America has gotten by the design of the Socialists.
I’m an artist, but always knew it required more (unless supporting money laundering via ‘modern’ art), so got a degree in interior architecture that eventually led to a career path as a kind of problem solver, project manager and eventually contingency planning, using the creativity God gave.
“While measles is a contagious viral illness, its mortality rates had already declined by 98% before the introduction of the measles vaccine. This decline was largely due to improvements in sanitation, clean water, hygiene, and nutrition.”
“A key distinction is that natural infection provides lifelong immunity, while vaccine-induced immunity wanes over time—about 10% per year, leaving individuals vulnerable within a decade.”
Isn't it amazing the grandparents out there survived the epidemics of measles, mumps and chicken pox? And parents actually had play dates for the kids to visit their friends who had those illnesses so their kids could get them and everyone could get on with life?
70s/80s here. When I got chicken pox I had to stay home from school. I was proud of myself for not touching a single bump. I resisted itching. Alas... i have one pock mark. Apparently my hair got stuck in one right in the middle of my forehead, almost exactly where India marks themselves with ashe/dyes. She tried to pull my hair out of the thing and it pulled the scab off. Lol!!
Anywho, real point is: by the late 70s early 80s, I didn't hear about pox parties. 1 decade of difference.
50s/60s. Had chickenpox & measles. Don’t remember any thing about deliberate exposure, but ran 105 temp with the measles and has some wild hallucinations!😊
I think it became a realization for him after the fact. I didn't realize I wrote as that is why he did Dirty Jobs. He saw the blue collar worker and wanted to recognize the very work they do keep society civilized. Something like that in the intro. The scholarship grew out of what he was seeing and hearing.
He also disliked the binary idea that was being promoted that working smarter was somehow 'better' than working hard. You can do both and be a success.
Mike Rowe is an American hero. Not for doing crazy things that are good, but for recognizing things that are done as good. He's also declined to politicize his message, which is simple: "work is inherently worthwhile and should be promoted."
He's also increasingly highlighted the USA's shortfall in trained, blue-collar professionals; at this point, he's finding a bit of purchase due to the fact that the elite's desire to spent trillions on energy/data infrastructure runs hard into the lack of people who can build said infrastructure. And, right when hiring a million foreigners to do the job is not politically safe.
Now, I agree that trades and hard work are where net money (income minus debt) and self-actualization lies for the future, however there is a fly in the punchbowl and that is status. Blue-collar work was demeaned in order to push the university mantra after the GI Bill enabled so many to educate themselves professionally: the universities liked the subsidized money, and the communists discovered they could get another bite of the education apple for generations of yet-impressionable youth. So along with demeaning blue-collar work, white-collar education and jobs have been promoted with as many examples as possible of the super-rich who come from finance or MBA-mills.
Status message + riches = attraction. So during the past many decades the ladies have been pointed at the rare, successful white-collar male while mostly ignoring lower-status-yet-solid blue-collar workers. Obviously this doesn't apply universally, but my message is simple: if you want tradespeople in any serious number, Make Trades Sexy Again.
With electricians making over a quarter million a year in many places, I believe Mike Rowe was on to something. He just realized it earlier than others, and has turned it into a very successful enterprise.
Elections? Tina Peters anyone? They put a Gold Star mom with cancer(I think) in jail - solitary confinement - for TWO years without due process for doing her job. That should tell the whole story. In every state.
Concerning the Bash/Kennedy thing consider the five rules of propaganda:
The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Enjoyed your take, BB, on the promise of creativity in the blue collar trend. One of Trump’s undervalued achievements has been shifting the Mindscape from problems to solutions, to belief in humanity’s creative energy.
Something you have focused on ahead of the curve 🙏❤️🌟
And it's wonderful how the world survived the epidemics of measles, mumps and chicken pox when I was a child! Parents had play parties to let all their kids get inoculated at once.
Appreciate the stats on the cable news ratings, Ashe. A positive trend!
(referring to CNN and MSNBC) “Why are the cabinet members still giving them the time of day?”
I suspect the answer has to do with throwing a wrench in the mind gears of the population who still cling to such reporting, notably the left leaning teachers who comprise a significant portion of the seriously brainwashed segment of our society…reinforced by the echo chamber of the teachers lounge. I personally know teachers (grade and high school) who only watch CNN.
CATHOLICS! There is a brand spanking new vocational school attached to Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH called St Joseph the Worker. Check it out!
Father and son team just delivered our cordwood. The son is 21 yr old and just got his license for the big tractor trailers and working on his electrical license. He was proud of starting out in life without the college debt!
Don't forget that these days truckers make good money. Money which will soon increase as Trump gets all the foreigners who can't even read road signs off the road.
Hell, even being able to read road signs, sometimes I have a hard time figuring out the best way to get from A to B. GPS I suppose makes it easier, but it seems like cheating -- what do you do if the thing craps out on you?
Being able to tell which way you're going by knowing the time of day and direction of the Sun is a useful skill, that kids today who let their phones run their entire life will never get to learn.
That happened to my husband and I. Traveling East on the NY thruway, we missed the lane to keep going East. Traveled about half a mile when I realized the late afternoon sun was on our right, and not behind us, indicating we were not where we wanted to be!
Yes, and my folks taught us to read maps, giving us the responsibility on our summer camping vacations across the nation. STILL use maps on our trips, augmented by gps sir specific addressed (especially in cities).
Best wishes to GBPH on his new position, happy you are still contributing to the Badlands Brief. Is another feature of the Iranian War the discombobulation of the Zionist end time biblical interpretation?
The take by Ashe on NJ voter story, I inserted "sold" in place of "told". The defenders of "safe" elections and the deniers of widespread fraud in elections is the selling of a lie told by people who can provide no basis of trust. People need to develop discernment skills to reject the sale of lies by the tellers of lies, half truths and twisted fact.
BB your time spent with your dad on the reconstruction project was beneficial for your personal relationship as well as an appreciation for the need of the trades in the building of the golden age. A wonderful mix of both of your skill sets, working with your hands and deploying a reasonable and well thought narrative in the war of stories.
GPBH your concluding brief hits the nail square on the head, the Biblical truth Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Trump is just playing games. His own JCS Chairman told him the our munitions supply isn't large enough to "bomb the shit out of Iran." The plan is, I think, to get the Arab nations together to defend themselves (with some help from us), just as he's doing with NATO. We are no longer capable of defending the US, Israel, and the Middle East, and check China re Taiwan.. I think Trump recognizes this and is playing a strategic game to get our troops out of the Middle East altogether. Let's use those troops to fight the Cartel War in our own hemisphere and get the drugs out of our cities.
I agree with you. Just the old excess is now gone. All the WW2, Vietnam, Iraq weaponry has been exhausted now. Now countries need to make their own munitions. Thank you for clearing out our old junk though.
That does not stop the MIC from generating endless propaganda. I just saw an ad on Newsmax for some special 'warning' us that the USA has lost military dominance and Russia, China and even a bunch of 'bit players' now threaten us.
Sorry, but in most of the imperial wars of recent (last ~200 years), Russia, China and the US have been (or been defending) the victims of British imperialism.
True, we have enough to defend CONUS but the point is, do we have anough surplus to keep bombing the crap out of Iran? Frankly, I have no verification that we have ever dropped anything on Iran, other than the missiles that killed those little girls. Or was that propaganda as well? I'm just glad Trump is pres for the next two years.
The major goal (at least one of them) of the Sovereign Alliance is for the Sovereigns to mostly mind their own knitting. We don't need to be in Asia or Europe -- they can take care of themselves. Of course the EU is about to implode as a result of the awakening caused by the Ceuta mess, but once they realize that Vladimir Putin has no intention of invading them (when has Russia ever started an imperial war? -- they've always been the victims), they'll understand that all they need is enough strength to mind the home front.
I grew up in a working class family, and took the college bait. I grew increasingly cynical of the educated class and even more cynical about the professional class. How I spent all this money? For what? Only to find out that experts are chosen, not made. I was proven right when information started coming out about Facebook and Lifelog; that Zuckerberg was chosen and not some bright young Ivy League student who invented Facebook in a weekend. (Note: my personal opinion is that MZ may very well be smart enough to invent FB, but I saw it as another rigged game-chosen not earned).
With more digging, my cynicism of the educated, credentialed class turned from mere cynicism to outright disdain. When I started hearing about AI, my interest was merely trading bots (as in stock market trading). However, I started gloating when the very paper pushers who siloed me out of the expert system and some experts were being replaced by AI and in some domains (like arthroscopic surgery) replaced by robotics. While I understand people's skepticism about doctors (specifically M.D.'s) being replaced by telebot doctors using AI to dispense drugs based upon a set of symptoms that conform to a standard of care pattern, but think about it. Much to the chagrin of conscientious doctors, they have been relegated to drug pushers, requiring some clinical skill but no real pattern matching. The conscientious ones who really want to see people get better either left the profession or are taking a more functional medicine approach in their treatment of patients.
Yes, AI can dispense drugs; yes AI can sell you real estate and if the bot is programmed by a law firm who has closed real estate deals before with a broker, can close the deal. AI can read medical (including veterinary) imaging; AI can do SEO; AI can code, but not design a computer program and in the realm of science fiction, AI can repair major trauma and run Starships, although AI can't determine a strategy should the starship encounter something nor design a JIT vaccine (just in time). This tells you what AI will be used for: nothing hands on, or blue collar type work, just desk work done by paper pushers, some necessary to keep a process going and some superfluous, invented by a college grad with a degree in nothing useful. Those will go by the way of the dodo bird. And some like the generalist MD (the old fashioned Family Doctor) will interact with AI as a specialist helper. Or you doing a real estate deal or your business doing SEO to bring traffic to your site. So while we do have to pay attention to who is programming the AI, it will over time render the gatekeepers irrelevant (not all experts) and allow you to transact directly with a service provider without the reams of paperwork that does nothing but enrich the parasites. I am a chiropractor, so I don't see me personally being replaced by AI, but I can see AI taking care of the things that the 4th year student had to put up with learning about because of siloing. AI will dissolve silos and while it may be the Wild West as gatekeepers fall, like all systems of awakened people scammers will go away as people begin to think for themselves.
The question to ask regarding whether someone can be replaced by AI: is the work hands on? If so then no, it can't be done by AI.
It might be able to be done by a robotic device, and AI-powered robotics may even be able to do some physical work requiring judgment. Perhaps even some chiropractic things.
However I suspect that work requiring significant creativity can never be fully replaced by AI nor automation. Nor can jobs benefitting from compassion easily be automated -- teaching and nursing, for example. Despite that school for Native kids in PA (IIRC) that was given a modified sex robot as a teacher. That anyone even thought that was thinkable is hard to understand.
I got married after a semester of college at 18. Went back to college at 32 at a western Kansas university that wasn’t woke. Learned a lot of skills needed in my design career, but the real education was once I went to work for the military. Got to make my own ‘job’ as I was the first and learned another ‘degree’ from the craftsmen that constructed my renovation designs. It was such a great time. Changed career paths several times, but it was a great foundation!
I am here for it too ASHE: "If RFK gives us any indication, it’s a humiliation ritual. These seem to be happening a lot lately. Here for it."
BB our Education System is FUBAR. Trade School is all I would be willing to pay for and BTW my wife & I would have to home school if we had school aged kids.
Re: “ The US military exists to serve America, not a foreign country. Israel is a foreign country—despite what some Americans will tell you.”. Amen to that, and I think we can blame wrong Bible interpretation and the false teaching of dispensationalism for much of the confusion about Israel. I found an excellent summary on a website called forthegospel.org and the article is titled “Is Modern Israel the Biblical Israel?” NOTE: I know nothing about the author, Costi Hinn, but his analysis of this issue is solid. Sorry I don’t know how to supply a direct link. The date on the article is March 25
I guess that depends on which version of "American" history you believe, e.g. either the "we won" the American Revolution and civil war, WW 1 & 2 or that we were sucked into all as means for future subjugation to the "ruling families" via (U.S.) Corporation indebtness and it's plantation of taxation. If "we won"......why have WE been protecting Europeans interests since...?
If the latter, 3 centers of world rule were established, all sovereign entities within a "sovereign" entity.
1. Religion - Vatican City (Rome) within the original "Leonine Walls" est 1929.
2. Finance - City of London Corporation (London) within the original Roman built walls. Est. 1,189 AD
3. Military - District of Columia a.k.a. Washington D.C. - June 11, 1878: In The Organic Act of 1878, Congress approves the establishment of the District of Columbia government as a MUNICIPAL CORPORATION governed by three presidentially (Commander in Chief) appointed commissioners _ two civilian commissioners and a commissioner from the MILITARY corps of engineers.
All "OUR" wars after 1878.....were outside the continental United States of America and involved the European Lordships internal wars......England, Spain, France, Prussia and Khazaria. And we always had to be "atacked" to be drawn in....
Late 19th and Early 20th Century Conflicts
1. Spanish-American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898): Fought AFTER the SINKING of the USS MAINE in HAVANA HARBOR, resulting in a U.S. victory and control over territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The Philippine-American War (1899–1902): was act 2 of the Spanish American war and was a conflict to suppress the Philippine independence movement following the U.S. (Corp) acquisition of the islands from Spain.
WORLD WARS
2. World War I (1917–1918): U.S. intervention alongside Allied powers in Europe after years of neutrality. ATACK ON LUCITANIA....
3. World War II (1941–1945): Global war triggered by the ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR.
COLD WAR
4. Korean War (1950–1953): UNITED NATIONS BACKED INTERVENTION to DEFEND SOUTH KOREA. This one is a little trickier to define the attack. Since Roosevelt signed the YALTA agreement, making the U.S. Corp and U.S.S.R. protectors of the once Japaneese contolled peninsula e.g. think East/West Germany. The N. KOREA INVASION WAS THE ATTACK and first test to see how far we could be used without a "direct" attack.
5. Vietnam War (1955–1975): Prolonged Cold War military engagement in Southeast Asia. "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.
Then focus shifted to the "middle east" when on June 8th, 1967 the USS Liberty was ....well, whatever that was.
And then in 1968, The Israel Corporation was founded by the Government of Israel and investor Shaul Eisenberg under the initiative of Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir with major backing from Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who served as its first chairman.
WHO IS EISENERG......? Per this Times Article 2008
"EISENBERG HAS BEEN SELLING ISRAELI DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY TO THE CHINESE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.
Purpose of Israel Corp: To attract strategic foreign investment for economic development. 50% of its manufacturing activities (Weapons) and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations (sale of stolen technology and weapons).
And then....
7. Gulf War (1990–1991): Coalition operation to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait. This was an attack by Iraq on "Kuwait’s colonial-era borders set by Britain and occasionally claimed the territory as its 19th province." Still hard to explain GHW Bush's "attacks our oil supplies".
WAR(s) on TERROR
8. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021): U.S. retaliation and nation-building following the 9/11 attack....
9. Iraq War (2003–2011): Invasion and subsequent occupation to depose Saddam Hussein.
You see Israel is just another Eurocentric-proxy and eventually Jerusalem is to be the 3 cities in 1...ruling the world, not by Jews, but the 13 families.
For Teresa Dunn and GregoryPravda: I'm thinking that the "Z" word is what triggered the censoring...
I'll be curious to see about my post now. If my post goes through, perhaps the "Z" word will be our vehicle. If it gets flagged, perhaps a non-capitalized letter will go through. Let's all pay attention...
I see my post went through. So try just using the first letter from now on. We are all getting an education, eh?
Your readership/viewership is aware that all three of you burn your candles at both ends. It is a labor of love and we APPRECIATE it! I pray for you all (and your families) for health, happiness and peace of mind. Thank you.
We appreciate the appreciation, Kelly. Sincerely.
I agree, Kelly. Amen and amen to your prayers.
Well noted, Kelly!! So thankful for Badlands Media and your comment 🙏❤️🌟
I'm glad RFK Jr finally got his win in the octagon. I was waiting for him to pull out a copy of his book "The Real Anthony Fauci", read the published date, and then hit her with it.
Trump and Iran -- and it's not even Tuesday. Can we have TACO's on the weekend? 😂🤣
RFK Jr -- parents should make their own choices regarding vaccinations. Parents in the 60's and 70's routinely put their children in the same room with other children who had chicken pox. (some probably encouraged touching the pox.) This is so they would get it. And in time, we all had herd immunity. Sometimes the old ways can be the right or best ways. Pharmaceuticals are not always the answer. As far as MSM -- how are they still on the air? Oh yea - money laundering through advertising. Because it sure ain't from viewership.
"And therein began my disillusionment with the liberal worldview, with the Obama PsyOp I had bought into in 2008, and with the 'white collar' promise I had been sold, but which failed to deliver for the tail end of my generation, and certainly the ones that followed it."
This is why a man started a show called Dirty Jobs which created a scholarship program called MikeRoweworks. We desperately need blue collar workers. Electricians, plumbers, construction workers, etc. I see it in my little slice of Americana. And if it is evident in very small town MN, it is even more evident elsewhere.
Election integrity based on pinkie promises. Astounding.
"The mission is to liberate those minds so that America can be liberated from our foreign masters." So continues the disentanglement.
Thank you for your concise commentary on the issues. It all takes time and I, for one, am thankful. Hug your families for me and thank them for giving you the time to do this. Seriously - hug your families.
It seems to me that Ashe’s disillusionment came from a missing piece of important information. The true question concerns supply and demand for a particular profession, not from acquiring a college degree. The wrong degree plus $6.00 will get you a large coffee at Starbucks. It surely will not make you salable to a business. Well, maybe as a coffee maker at a Starbucks. But, does that require a diploma?
What our education system needs to supply to our youth is some reality. In truth, you cannot become anything you want to be. That is a blatant lie. So getting a degree in gender studies is not going to make you a desirable commodity in the workforce.
Kids need to be taught about how our system actually works and why it has worked so well for well over 250 years. Each person is a living business walking around making money. Your success in America depends on how much you can add to the system which means you must learn how to be the most productive human possible based on your skills. The skills you perfect are up to you to find for yourself because only you know your strengths and weaknesses.
In my time, it was called “The School of Hard Knocks”. I learned pretty early that I was not going to be a professional Baseball player and my artistic talents were not going to make much money unless I was “Discovered”. I learned to be practical and to build on the technical skills that I knew were in demand.
I think our system has lost this driving force and it was not lost naturally. I think it was purposely built into our heads by just making the answer “Go to college, that will make you a success.”
What was missing was the business thing. As a business you know how dangerous debt is. Debt kills a business because it has to be eliminated before you can produce a profit. So, if you ever consider a college loan, is it making you a profit in the long run? To actually hold a dollar in profit, you must earn two dollars! One to buy back a dollar of debt plus the one you can count as a gain!
This ain’t hard math. But it is a very hard truth. Why isn’t it taught?
Because......communism. Keep them poor and they will thank us.
It took me to almost 50 before I found what I really loved. And now I am close to ending my career. People are afraid when kids say they don't know what they want to do. This is why in previous generations kids followed what their dad did (as dads were primarily the breadwinner). And every so often, the kid decided he didn't like what dad did and he found something else he liked. We just need to let kids explore what is out there. Let them work at a grocery store for a year to decide whether they like retail or not. Or work with a construction crew. There are plumbers and electricians who will take on apprentices - while the kids takes classes at night. At the end of the day -- it is a combination of fear and "we want you to do better than we did". I pray my kids are happy more than wealthy.
So true. When I was 14 and 15 I was a bag boy at a grocery store. The trick was to be very good at bagging so the heavy goods were low down in the bag and bread and crackers were on top. Also, the total weight had to be easily manageable. Plus, the customer had to know you weren’t “Getting over on them”.
After bagging, the bag boys took the bags to the customer’s car. It was customary for a tip of about a nickel per bag to be offered. So, the customer knew if the bag boys used more bags than necessary. In that case there was no tip! They felt the bagger was getting over on them. So, optimizing the bagging process became a fun game for me. And, by really hustling I could handle 5 customers per hour and net $1.25 in tips in addition to the $.35 per hour the store paid me.
When I turned 16 the store manager tried to promote me to cashier. It paid $.75/ hour. I refused. Being a really great bag boy was the highest paying job in the store! But, I knew I wanted more than that!
All of my jobs taught me what I didn’t want to do long term.
When I was 14-15 I was mowing lawns for $2 per hour, cash. And building loudspeaker enclosures for the local rock bands -- the Electro-Voice 'Eliminator' folded horn was a bit too complex for the average guy to build in his garage, but my dad had a nicely equipped woodshop with the tools needed for the precise angle cuts and complex intersections. So for $30 in materials and maybe 5 hours each total work, I'd sell them for $60 - that $6 an hour profit being more than twice the minimum wage, which I couldn't earn anyway since state laws required me to be 16 to work legally.
Most kids these days don't have the motive or the means to do such things. Getting away from the British free-trade system where cheap imported goods replace local labor might restore that.
Tradesmen take on apprentices when they figure out that there is only so much money they can make themselves -- hourly rates are set by local competition, and hours worked limited by other commitments to family, sleep, etc.
So they can take on an apprentice, pay them maybe 1/2 of the journeyman rate, and mark that rate up as profit when billing the customer -- because they are responsible for the apprentice's work. Over time the apprentice learns the skills of the trade and moves up. A good deal for both.
And, I should point out, an excellent selling point for capitalism. Under communism nobody works very hard because they do not benefit from it. Everyone is paid the same, so why work harder or improve yourself?
And, quite frankly, that is why Communism always fails. It drives the individual toward the lowest common denominator. Capitalism drives the individual to the highest denominator.
It is just math! And, it is quite simple math. But, why is it absent in our education system? And, why does NYC elect an idiot as their mayor? I am fascinated by how screwed up America has gotten by the design of the Socialists.
They soft sell it. Then when they get control, the hard reality sets in.
Sort of like letting islam into your community. Once they have control the rest of us will regret it.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/islam-goes-to-war-against-gay-race
Concur 💯
I’m an artist, but always knew it required more (unless supporting money laundering via ‘modern’ art), so got a degree in interior architecture that eventually led to a career path as a kind of problem solver, project manager and eventually contingency planning, using the creativity God gave.
Great point about the measles, Bleighv.
“While measles is a contagious viral illness, its mortality rates had already declined by 98% before the introduction of the measles vaccine. This decline was largely due to improvements in sanitation, clean water, hygiene, and nutrition.”
“A key distinction is that natural infection provides lifelong immunity, while vaccine-induced immunity wanes over time—about 10% per year, leaving individuals vulnerable within a decade.”
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/the-truth-about-measles-what-really-reduced-mortality/
Isn't it amazing the grandparents out there survived the epidemics of measles, mumps and chicken pox? And parents actually had play dates for the kids to visit their friends who had those illnesses so their kids could get them and everyone could get on with life?
I knew about measles parties but i didn't know anyone doing pox parties. That had apparently totally died out by the 80s?
Measles, Mumps and chicken pox. I am a 60's and 70's era kid. My mom always took us to friends who were sick so that we would get it.
70s/80s here. When I got chicken pox I had to stay home from school. I was proud of myself for not touching a single bump. I resisted itching. Alas... i have one pock mark. Apparently my hair got stuck in one right in the middle of my forehead, almost exactly where India marks themselves with ashe/dyes. She tried to pull my hair out of the thing and it pulled the scab off. Lol!!
Anywho, real point is: by the late 70s early 80s, I didn't hear about pox parties. 1 decade of difference.
50s/60s. Had chickenpox & measles. Don’t remember any thing about deliberate exposure, but ran 105 temp with the measles and has some wild hallucinations!😊
I didn't realize that was why Mike started DirtyJobs.
I think it became a realization for him after the fact. I didn't realize I wrote as that is why he did Dirty Jobs. He saw the blue collar worker and wanted to recognize the very work they do keep society civilized. Something like that in the intro. The scholarship grew out of what he was seeing and hearing.
He also disliked the binary idea that was being promoted that working smarter was somehow 'better' than working hard. You can do both and be a success.
Mike Rowe is an American hero. Not for doing crazy things that are good, but for recognizing things that are done as good. He's also declined to politicize his message, which is simple: "work is inherently worthwhile and should be promoted."
He's also increasingly highlighted the USA's shortfall in trained, blue-collar professionals; at this point, he's finding a bit of purchase due to the fact that the elite's desire to spent trillions on energy/data infrastructure runs hard into the lack of people who can build said infrastructure. And, right when hiring a million foreigners to do the job is not politically safe.
Now, I agree that trades and hard work are where net money (income minus debt) and self-actualization lies for the future, however there is a fly in the punchbowl and that is status. Blue-collar work was demeaned in order to push the university mantra after the GI Bill enabled so many to educate themselves professionally: the universities liked the subsidized money, and the communists discovered they could get another bite of the education apple for generations of yet-impressionable youth. So along with demeaning blue-collar work, white-collar education and jobs have been promoted with as many examples as possible of the super-rich who come from finance or MBA-mills.
Status message + riches = attraction. So during the past many decades the ladies have been pointed at the rare, successful white-collar male while mostly ignoring lower-status-yet-solid blue-collar workers. Obviously this doesn't apply universally, but my message is simple: if you want tradespeople in any serious number, Make Trades Sexy Again.
With electricians making over a quarter million a year in many places, I believe Mike Rowe was on to something. He just realized it earlier than others, and has turned it into a very successful enterprise.
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Elections? Tina Peters anyone? They put a Gold Star mom with cancer(I think) in jail - solitary confinement - for TWO years without due process for doing her job. That should tell the whole story. In every state.
Hell hath no fury like conspiring election officials exposed...
Concerning the Bash/Kennedy thing consider the five rules of propaganda:
The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Quite often the same rules of marketing.
No doubt.
Enjoyed your take, BB, on the promise of creativity in the blue collar trend. One of Trump’s undervalued achievements has been shifting the Mindscape from problems to solutions, to belief in humanity’s creative energy.
Something you have focused on ahead of the curve 🙏❤️🌟
Leave Israel to their own defenses.
And it's wonderful how the world survived the epidemics of measles, mumps and chicken pox when I was a child! Parents had play parties to let all their kids get inoculated at once.
And natural immunity is far stronger and lasts many more years than fakeccine immunity.
“Obviously, I've managed to make something of myself in the interim”
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Appreciate the stats on the cable news ratings, Ashe. A positive trend!
(referring to CNN and MSNBC) “Why are the cabinet members still giving them the time of day?”
I suspect the answer has to do with throwing a wrench in the mind gears of the population who still cling to such reporting, notably the left leaning teachers who comprise a significant portion of the seriously brainwashed segment of our society…reinforced by the echo chamber of the teachers lounge. I personally know teachers (grade and high school) who only watch CNN.
CATHOLICS! There is a brand spanking new vocational school attached to Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH called St Joseph the Worker. Check it out!
https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/
Carpentry, HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical 👍
Father and son team just delivered our cordwood. The son is 21 yr old and just got his license for the big tractor trailers and working on his electrical license. He was proud of starting out in life without the college debt!
Don't forget that these days truckers make good money. Money which will soon increase as Trump gets all the foreigners who can't even read road signs off the road.
Hell, even being able to read road signs, sometimes I have a hard time figuring out the best way to get from A to B. GPS I suppose makes it easier, but it seems like cheating -- what do you do if the thing craps out on you?
Being able to tell which way you're going by knowing the time of day and direction of the Sun is a useful skill, that kids today who let their phones run their entire life will never get to learn.
That happened to my husband and I. Traveling East on the NY thruway, we missed the lane to keep going East. Traveled about half a mile when I realized the late afternoon sun was on our right, and not behind us, indicating we were not where we wanted to be!
Yes, and my folks taught us to read maps, giving us the responsibility on our summer camping vacations across the nation. STILL use maps on our trips, augmented by gps sir specific addressed (especially in cities).
What a blessing!
Best wishes to GBPH on his new position, happy you are still contributing to the Badlands Brief. Is another feature of the Iranian War the discombobulation of the Zionist end time biblical interpretation?
The take by Ashe on NJ voter story, I inserted "sold" in place of "told". The defenders of "safe" elections and the deniers of widespread fraud in elections is the selling of a lie told by people who can provide no basis of trust. People need to develop discernment skills to reject the sale of lies by the tellers of lies, half truths and twisted fact.
BB your time spent with your dad on the reconstruction project was beneficial for your personal relationship as well as an appreciation for the need of the trades in the building of the golden age. A wonderful mix of both of your skill sets, working with your hands and deploying a reasonable and well thought narrative in the war of stories.
GPBH your concluding brief hits the nail square on the head, the Biblical truth Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Trump is just playing games. His own JCS Chairman told him the our munitions supply isn't large enough to "bomb the shit out of Iran." The plan is, I think, to get the Arab nations together to defend themselves (with some help from us), just as he's doing with NATO. We are no longer capable of defending the US, Israel, and the Middle East, and check China re Taiwan.. I think Trump recognizes this and is playing a strategic game to get our troops out of the Middle East altogether. Let's use those troops to fight the Cartel War in our own hemisphere and get the drugs out of our cities.
I very highly doubt there's any material lack of munitions in the USA. Nothing that we know wasn't approved to be known.
I agree with you. Just the old excess is now gone. All the WW2, Vietnam, Iraq weaponry has been exhausted now. Now countries need to make their own munitions. Thank you for clearing out our old junk though.
That does not stop the MIC from generating endless propaganda. I just saw an ad on Newsmax for some special 'warning' us that the USA has lost military dominance and Russia, China and even a bunch of 'bit players' now threaten us.
Sorry, but in most of the imperial wars of recent (last ~200 years), Russia, China and the US have been (or been defending) the victims of British imperialism.
True, we have enough to defend CONUS but the point is, do we have anough surplus to keep bombing the crap out of Iran? Frankly, I have no verification that we have ever dropped anything on Iran, other than the missiles that killed those little girls. Or was that propaganda as well? I'm just glad Trump is pres for the next two years.
The major goal (at least one of them) of the Sovereign Alliance is for the Sovereigns to mostly mind their own knitting. We don't need to be in Asia or Europe -- they can take care of themselves. Of course the EU is about to implode as a result of the awakening caused by the Ceuta mess, but once they realize that Vladimir Putin has no intention of invading them (when has Russia ever started an imperial war? -- they've always been the victims), they'll understand that all they need is enough strength to mind the home front.
I grew up in a working class family, and took the college bait. I grew increasingly cynical of the educated class and even more cynical about the professional class. How I spent all this money? For what? Only to find out that experts are chosen, not made. I was proven right when information started coming out about Facebook and Lifelog; that Zuckerberg was chosen and not some bright young Ivy League student who invented Facebook in a weekend. (Note: my personal opinion is that MZ may very well be smart enough to invent FB, but I saw it as another rigged game-chosen not earned).
With more digging, my cynicism of the educated, credentialed class turned from mere cynicism to outright disdain. When I started hearing about AI, my interest was merely trading bots (as in stock market trading). However, I started gloating when the very paper pushers who siloed me out of the expert system and some experts were being replaced by AI and in some domains (like arthroscopic surgery) replaced by robotics. While I understand people's skepticism about doctors (specifically M.D.'s) being replaced by telebot doctors using AI to dispense drugs based upon a set of symptoms that conform to a standard of care pattern, but think about it. Much to the chagrin of conscientious doctors, they have been relegated to drug pushers, requiring some clinical skill but no real pattern matching. The conscientious ones who really want to see people get better either left the profession or are taking a more functional medicine approach in their treatment of patients.
Yes, AI can dispense drugs; yes AI can sell you real estate and if the bot is programmed by a law firm who has closed real estate deals before with a broker, can close the deal. AI can read medical (including veterinary) imaging; AI can do SEO; AI can code, but not design a computer program and in the realm of science fiction, AI can repair major trauma and run Starships, although AI can't determine a strategy should the starship encounter something nor design a JIT vaccine (just in time). This tells you what AI will be used for: nothing hands on, or blue collar type work, just desk work done by paper pushers, some necessary to keep a process going and some superfluous, invented by a college grad with a degree in nothing useful. Those will go by the way of the dodo bird. And some like the generalist MD (the old fashioned Family Doctor) will interact with AI as a specialist helper. Or you doing a real estate deal or your business doing SEO to bring traffic to your site. So while we do have to pay attention to who is programming the AI, it will over time render the gatekeepers irrelevant (not all experts) and allow you to transact directly with a service provider without the reams of paperwork that does nothing but enrich the parasites. I am a chiropractor, so I don't see me personally being replaced by AI, but I can see AI taking care of the things that the 4th year student had to put up with learning about because of siloing. AI will dissolve silos and while it may be the Wild West as gatekeepers fall, like all systems of awakened people scammers will go away as people begin to think for themselves.
The question to ask regarding whether someone can be replaced by AI: is the work hands on? If so then no, it can't be done by AI.
It might be able to be done by a robotic device, and AI-powered robotics may even be able to do some physical work requiring judgment. Perhaps even some chiropractic things.
However I suspect that work requiring significant creativity can never be fully replaced by AI nor automation. Nor can jobs benefitting from compassion easily be automated -- teaching and nursing, for example. Despite that school for Native kids in PA (IIRC) that was given a modified sex robot as a teacher. That anyone even thought that was thinkable is hard to understand.
I got married after a semester of college at 18. Went back to college at 32 at a western Kansas university that wasn’t woke. Learned a lot of skills needed in my design career, but the real education was once I went to work for the military. Got to make my own ‘job’ as I was the first and learned another ‘degree’ from the craftsmen that constructed my renovation designs. It was such a great time. Changed career paths several times, but it was a great foundation!
Welcome back, I missed y'all:-)
I am here for it too ASHE: "If RFK gives us any indication, it’s a humiliation ritual. These seem to be happening a lot lately. Here for it."
BB our Education System is FUBAR. Trade School is all I would be willing to pay for and BTW my wife & I would have to home school if we had school aged kids.
Great start to my week, Thanks!
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
Re: “ The US military exists to serve America, not a foreign country. Israel is a foreign country—despite what some Americans will tell you.”. Amen to that, and I think we can blame wrong Bible interpretation and the false teaching of dispensationalism for much of the confusion about Israel. I found an excellent summary on a website called forthegospel.org and the article is titled “Is Modern Israel the Biblical Israel?” NOTE: I know nothing about the author, Costi Hinn, but his analysis of this issue is solid. Sorry I don’t know how to supply a direct link. The date on the article is March 25
I guess that depends on which version of "American" history you believe, e.g. either the "we won" the American Revolution and civil war, WW 1 & 2 or that we were sucked into all as means for future subjugation to the "ruling families" via (U.S.) Corporation indebtness and it's plantation of taxation. If "we won"......why have WE been protecting Europeans interests since...?
If the latter, 3 centers of world rule were established, all sovereign entities within a "sovereign" entity.
1. Religion - Vatican City (Rome) within the original "Leonine Walls" est 1929.
2. Finance - City of London Corporation (London) within the original Roman built walls. Est. 1,189 AD
3. Military - District of Columia a.k.a. Washington D.C. - June 11, 1878: In The Organic Act of 1878, Congress approves the establishment of the District of Columbia government as a MUNICIPAL CORPORATION governed by three presidentially (Commander in Chief) appointed commissioners _ two civilian commissioners and a commissioner from the MILITARY corps of engineers.
All "OUR" wars after 1878.....were outside the continental United States of America and involved the European Lordships internal wars......England, Spain, France, Prussia and Khazaria. And we always had to be "atacked" to be drawn in....
Late 19th and Early 20th Century Conflicts
1. Spanish-American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898): Fought AFTER the SINKING of the USS MAINE in HAVANA HARBOR, resulting in a U.S. victory and control over territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The Philippine-American War (1899–1902): was act 2 of the Spanish American war and was a conflict to suppress the Philippine independence movement following the U.S. (Corp) acquisition of the islands from Spain.
WORLD WARS
2. World War I (1917–1918): U.S. intervention alongside Allied powers in Europe after years of neutrality. ATACK ON LUCITANIA....
3. World War II (1941–1945): Global war triggered by the ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR.
COLD WAR
4. Korean War (1950–1953): UNITED NATIONS BACKED INTERVENTION to DEFEND SOUTH KOREA. This one is a little trickier to define the attack. Since Roosevelt signed the YALTA agreement, making the U.S. Corp and U.S.S.R. protectors of the once Japaneese contolled peninsula e.g. think East/West Germany. The N. KOREA INVASION WAS THE ATTACK and first test to see how far we could be used without a "direct" attack.
5. Vietnam War (1955–1975): Prolonged Cold War military engagement in Southeast Asia. "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.
Then focus shifted to the "middle east" when on June 8th, 1967 the USS Liberty was ....well, whatever that was.
And then in 1968, The Israel Corporation was founded by the Government of Israel and investor Shaul Eisenberg under the initiative of Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir with major backing from Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who served as its first chairman.
WHO IS EISENERG......? Per this Times Article 2008
"EISENBERG HAS BEEN SELLING ISRAELI DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY TO THE CHINESE FOR MORE THAN A DECADE.
https://time.com/archive/6685593/israels-secret-weapon/
Purpose of Israel Corp: To attract strategic foreign investment for economic development. 50% of its manufacturing activities (Weapons) and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations (sale of stolen technology and weapons).
And then....
7. Gulf War (1990–1991): Coalition operation to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait. This was an attack by Iraq on "Kuwait’s colonial-era borders set by Britain and occasionally claimed the territory as its 19th province." Still hard to explain GHW Bush's "attacks our oil supplies".
WAR(s) on TERROR
8. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021): U.S. retaliation and nation-building following the 9/11 attack....
9. Iraq War (2003–2011): Invasion and subsequent occupation to depose Saddam Hussein.
You see Israel is just another Eurocentric-proxy and eventually Jerusalem is to be the 3 cities in 1...ruling the world, not by Jews, but the 13 families.
It’s not the Biblical Israel. Judaism has been the cover story trying to fool folks into thinking it is. Until recently, that worked, too.
For Teresa Dunn and GregoryPravda: I'm thinking that the "Z" word is what triggered the censoring...
I'll be curious to see about my post now. If my post goes through, perhaps the "Z" word will be our vehicle. If it gets flagged, perhaps a non-capitalized letter will go through. Let's all pay attention...
I see my post went through. So try just using the first letter from now on. We are all getting an education, eh?