Invitation in hand, the young man approached the door. On the other side, it was the banquet to which he was invited. But as he neared the door, his expectations steadily dropped, until the moment that he pulled back on the handle, and upon crossing from the sunlit expanse to the florescent illumination of the liminal space, all speculation came to an end.

It was surreal. An expanse of tables. Empty tables. No food, no chairs, and no people at all in the noiseless hall. Not so much as the murmuring of a hypothetical event staff in another room, or the stirring of busy caterers. Just silence, and, eerily enough, not so much as a scent, save for the lingering scent of the surfactants used in the building’s maintenance.

The young man’s attention turned again to the flier in his hand, specifically, the date and time thereon. He then confirmed with his watch that he was there at the right time, and the right date. And the location was correct, this rural hall with only the subtlest signs that anyone had recently been there.

The young man’s attention was drawn towards the only movement in the room, the fans hanging from beams on the high ceiling, a scarce circuitous movement on the lowest setting.

The young man was very aware of the sound of his own footsteps as he turned back towards the door, for to peek his head outside. As it was upon his arrival, his was the only vehicle in the parking lot. Complete silence told him that there were no other vehicles around that might have been approaching.

Back inside again, the young man’s gaze rested on an empty table. He knew that it was a meaningless exercise to remain for a few minutes more, save for to cynically claim that he did. His mind drifted to the time that it took him to get to that very event. Precious time. Time he would not get back.

In another world, this might have been where the people were. Connections would be made, and the courses of lives would change. But there was none of that here.

He had no idea how he knew that he would be the only human being who would set foot in that building for the duration of the event, but somehow, he was certain of it. The young man had his hopes. But no one else cared, not even those who organized the event. Not even they bothered to come, or so much as set out some donuts or coffee.

This was no ordinary disappointment. The young man knew that he would remember this event for a long time.

He turned his attention to the invitation in his hand. It was printed on a single thin sheet of eight-by-eleven office paper. And it wasn’t worth that much.

So, he set the invitation on one of the many empty tables, turned around, and went right back out the door, to leave as he entered, completely alone. And as he did so, he made a determination.

If he wasn’t going to find what he was looking for there, he would go to those who have it.

There is a problem in the influencer sphere, and the launch of the Switch 2 has made it clear. I’m not putting a specific influencer on blast, considering that this is a problem that’s not limited to just one. Perhaps you can think of some examples. But what I’m getting at is that many influencers out there, perhaps most, aren’t even real.

If you’ve been following along with the Switch 2, it’s likely that you’ve seen a few influencers find one problem or another with the system. One of them in particular has gone on to say that they wouldn’t even purchase one.

But he did. And not just him, but numerous other influencers who likewise spoke of the hybrid console as though it were the worst console in their lifetime.

Obviously, these people didn’t believe what they said. These people are disingenuous. And the reason why these people act as disingenuously as they do is because they are incentivized by the algorithm.

The fact is that the algorithm tends to promote negativity in its many forms. Did you get recommended a short video of a fistfight that broke out in a bodega? Or a list of mistakes that were made by a multinational corporation? Or did you stare with indignation at a confrontation with an obvious imbalance of power?

That’s the algorithm pushing negativity onto you. But it doesn’t do so for no reason. In fact, the algorithm itself isn’t capable of malice on its own. Putting aside that the algorithm could be used as a tool to further an agenda (and, let’s be honest, we’ve seen plenty of that), the algorithm is like a mirror turned back at us, showing people content that is likely to hold their attention, considering not only the content that an individual has already engaged with, but also in consideration of the tendency of typical human psychology.

To get right down to it, humanity has a negativity problem, with the recommendations from algorithms being a second order effect of this problem. And because of this second order effect, influencers have an incentive to produce negative content, raking in ad revenue for having done so, and contributing to the problem.

There’s a strong chance that your favorite influencer is not real.

And it’s not just about the newest game console. Political streamers also know that there’s money involved, and they want some of it. And to this end, they’ll dehumanize their political opponents with the most pejorative adjectives, flavored with the buzz words that they know will get a response. Not because they believe it, but because they can make a few bucks, and they don’t give a shit who they turn against each other.

There are other kinds of influencers who game the system in this way, but political streamers are among the most notable offenders.

If you want a strong indicator of who’s sincere, it’s likely the people who are swimming against the stream of the algorithms, and against whatever is the prevailing zeitgeist of the agencies who manage online talent as a business. And speaking of, these corporate talent agencies have long been a source of self-censorship in social media. In the V-Tuber space, for example, indie V-Tubers are a better source of sincerety than the corporate ones that have been shackled with the golden handcuffs. Corporate influencers are the ones who have to look over their shoulders to be sure they’re not saying something against the values of their agency or its network of advertisers. And their respective agencies “reward” them by scraping away their revenue. Because who needs ethics when you can just legally steal money from people who actually produce value?

Considering all this, I’ve come to the point of finding forced negativity in social media cringy, especially when it’s obviously coming from a place of incentive rather than sincerety or just humor.

But it’s really only one of many ways that many, many social media personalities are fake.

End Holden Caulfield moment.

People need to stop getting cancer. A cure would be nice.

On Sunday, it was made public that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with cancer. It’s a prostate cancer which has metastatized to his bones, which isn’t great, but it’s the kind that responds to hormone therapy, so it’s manageable, and the outlook is generally positive.

As I would have it, he would make a full recovery immediately, and so to everyone who has cancer. I might not have agreed with everything he has ever said or done, but I don’t wish illness on him.

However, the diagnosis did raise some eyebrows, as the variety of prostate cancer that Biden has is the kind that takes years, often the better part of a decade, to metastatize, and can be detected early with a simple blood test.

This brings up two possibilities. The first being that the White House physicians that gave Biden his routine physicals are astoundingly incompetent for their position. After all, about one in eight men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, especially as they age, so it’s definitely reasonable to screen for the disease for a man in his eighties, such as Joe Biden, as part of a periodic blood test.

The other is that White House physicians were complicit in the plot to conceal Biden’s physical and mental state, which are highly relevant considering the position he was holding. And that was probably the case.

In light of this, people recalled a speech in which Biden admitted to having cancer. At the time, it was assumed that Biden was referring to a minor form of skin cancer which is usually not a huge threat. However, people are floating now that Biden may have been aware of his prostate cancer, but forgot to keep it under wraps.

What I find interesting is that, early on in the Biden presidency, shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, the propaganda arm of the establishment was pushing speculation that Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, had a secret cancer diagnosis, and was dying.

Naturally, nobody believed state media as they said this. But considering that an old strategem in disinformation is accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing, an old story has picked up some new optics.

But at this point, it’s already well-known that Biden has been carefully propped up over the course of nearly his entire administration, until the point that his health couldn’t be concealed any further, at which point leftists either pretended to be surprised, or that they weren’t party to the cover-up.

All this instead of, you know, just leaving a poor man to retire with cocktail in hand, after about five decades of accomplishing nothing on Capitol Hill (which is kinda preferable, things considered).

Regardless of the circumstances involved, I wish Biden well, and a speedy recovery.

I’m starting to get the idea that environmentalists don’t actually want us to take them seriously. That’s what I can come away with regarding their preparations for the COP30 climate summit.

Which involved paving over thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest in order to build a four-lane highway leading to the location of the summit.

If you were hoping that you read that wrong, your day may have just been ruined.

The so-called intellectuals, who wanted to virtue signal over the environment being destroyed, just had thousands of acres of delicate ecosystem destroyed because they didn’t want to be inconvenienced.

If it was about inconvenience, they could have just had their little summit over Zoom, rather than consuming fuel with their private jets.

But when it comes down to it, climate summits are largely just performances, and for there to be the performance that they want, they have to emit immense amounts of carbon and pave over whatever forests they have to in order to reach their arbitrary venue.

This whole matter has some troubling implications when you consider that the elites who bloviate about the environment are some of the same clowns who are running the circus. What other decisions are they making that are self-defeating and bad for the rest of us? Or do they even care?

If only there was an obvious way to know whether these guys actually believe what they say.

When I heard someone get called “world’s dumbest criminal”, that caught my attention. The person we’d be talking about today is a Georgia woman, 25-year-old Aleefah Sumpter, who allegedly pilfered a customer’s debit card information on her job at Whataburger. Which she then used to pay probation fines and court fees.

The victim later checked his account, noticed the fraudulent $400 charge, then proceeded to call the probation court that the payment was made to, as well as the police, and it didn’t take them long to figure out what was going on.

Let’s let this sink in: A fraudulent debit charge was used to pay probation fines and court fees.

It’s a crime that’s trivially simple to trace, and there’s no prize for guessing the prime suspect. Who, by the way, the victim was able to pick out of a lineup.

The suspect, Aleefah, agreed to turn herself in on Feb 21. But instead of doing so, she fled to Florida, and her family said that she had been planning the trip before she was charged. Whether she’d be safe from the big, mean felony charge in the land of gators and Mickey Mouse, I don’t know. But I suspect she gave them a flimsy excuse to pass on as she fled. Whatever her reasoning, she’s a wanted woman now, and some are even going as far as calling her the world’s dumbest criminal.

If you’re wondering what Aleefah was originally on probation for, it was a misdemeanor drug offense. That’s pretty much it.

So, is Aleefah Sumpter really the world’s dumbest criminal? Probably not. There are many contenders for that distinction. And maybe some of them are deliberately trying to earn it.

But what’s apparent to me is that Aleefah has a lot to learn about the digital age.

Disclaimer: This story is infuriating. If you’re prone to anger, you might want to give this story a skip.

Remember these guys? The Zulock couple were just sentenced for their crimes, which they committed against a couple boys which they adopted.

The story came to my attention after a Townhall series, though the story didn’t get much coverage from corporate media, for some reason.

The two men, a gay couple, adopted a couple boys, whom they then proceeded to abuse and exploit. The boys were adopted from a special-needs Christian adoption agency, and the two had to be adopted together, because they were emotionally dependent on one another.

A person would have to labor their imagination to picture people more vulnerable.

The Zulocks, one having been a banker and the other having been a low level government employee, proceeded to build a mansion with a shit-ton of money they somehow got. If I found out how, it would probably piss me off.

The couple fitted the house with oodles of surveillance equipment which they would use to film their abuse. After their arrest, something like 8 terabytes of abuse material was found in their possession.

I find it difficult to fathom that amount of data. That might exceed what all devices owned by the typical person today could store, combined.

The couple were arrested after another pedophile in their ring decided to turn them in. Which goes to show just how bad the Zulocks were, they were to the point that another pedophile decided that they were going too far.

The Zulocks were sentenced to 100 years in prison, with no possibility for parole. The two are in their thirties, so when they’re in prison in their seventies, and still looking over their shoulders to ensure that they don’t get shanked while chowing on their prison Wheaties, their sentences won’t be half over.

Because of the length of the sentence, the victims won’t have to contemplate their abusers being free, unless the Zulocks survive their sentences. Which I doubt.

Any guesses as to how long these guys will survive?

The above photograph was taken on June 14, 2024, at approximately 6:11pm, by Evan Vucci, a chief photographer for the Associated Press, at a campaign rally just outside of Butler, Pennsylvania.

The photograph depicts then-former president Donald Trump, surrounded by Secret Service agents ushering him off a stage while forming a protective shield, as he defiantly pumps his fist in the air, with a backdrop of a waving American flag and a clear, blue sky. Trump’s ear was bloodied, and some blood streaked onto his face, the result of a failed assassination attempt.

In the minutes leading up to the assassination attempt, the failed assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had climbed up to the roof of a nearby facility, intent on getting the former president in his direct line of sight. A moment prior, he had a close encounter with a patrolling officer, who had spotted Crooks. At that moment, Crooks acted hastily, knowing that the officer would call for assistance. Prior to this, Crooks had already been spotted by event attendees, who had pointed Crooks out as a suspicious person.

The motivation of Thomas Matthew Crooks is still a matter of discussion. But at this point, it is apparent from his social media history that he had a more favorable viewpoint of Democratic policy positions, which would have put him at odds with Trump, who was running for office for a third time as a likely Republican nominee. Days prior to the assassination attempt, the press had developed a less favorable opinion of Joe Biden, calling into question his cognitive ability to serve a second term, and Biden had given into pressure to withdraw from his pursuit of reelection.

It’s possible that Crooks, if he were enthusiastic about a second Biden term, was disappointed to hear that Biden had chosen to withdraw. In any case, it’s clear that he sought to deny the assembled Trump supporters their own candidate.

Thomas Matthew Crooks was a resident of Bethel Park, a community near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was at the age of 20. Prior to this, he had obtained an Associate’s Degree in engineering science at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh. After this, he would be employed as a member of cafeteria staff at a retirement home near his own residence. He lived with his parents, who were both behavioral psychologists.

Crooks had fired a total of eight shots towards the former president. As he began firing from his AR-15 style rifle, Trump had turned to face a chart, facing the direction of Crooks. As he did so, he leaned his head slightly to his left, denying Crooks what would have easily been a fatal shot, though a bullet did go through Trump’s right ear. A few attendees were struck during the shooting, killing one, named Corey Comperatore.

Trump put a hand to his ear, and upon seeing blood on it, he immediately ducked down. Secret Service members rushed over to the former president, forming a protective barrier with their own bodies.

A counter-sniper team, positioned on a rooftop behind the stage, had identified the sniper, and acted upon him, terminating the threat, in what has been referred to as a “one-in-a-million shot”. Crooks’ earthly experiences had come to an immediate end.

Upon notification that the threat had been neutralized, the Secret Service team had been given the clear to usher Trump from the scene. They and the former president stood up, though Trump had expressed an interest on putting his shoes back on, which had somehow been removed during the incident. According to a lip-reader, Trump had uttered, “Blood? On my face?”

On the way off the stage, Trump insisted upon stopping. Upon doing so, he turned toward the front of the stage to face the assembled crowd, and pumped his fist in the air, shouting “Fight! Fight! Fight!” As the crowd roared in approval, this was the moment that Evan Vucci had photographed, which can be seen above.

Two days later, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Donald Trump accepted the nomination to run for president representing the Republican party. He was not contested in the nomination. It was also at the RNC that Trump named his running mate, J.D. Vance.

A month after the failed assassination attempt, Trump returned to Butler, Pa, for another rally, insisting on finishing what he started, there. He was joined by Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and the owner of the social media platform known as X, who also spoke at the event.

Early in the morning of November 6th, 2024, Donald Trump won the presidency in what has been called a “landslide victory”. Trump had won all the swing states, securing the electoral college, and had become the first Republican candidate in decades to win the popular vote. His closest rival, Kamala Harris, represented the Democratic party.

The failed assassination against Trump, which was followed by the moment depicted by the photo above, was an important pivotal point, upon which if things had happened just a little differently, subsequent matters could have played out far differently. Trump’s election victory was the clear signal of where Americans stood on matters of cultural significance. If, for any reason, Trump had not survived to win the 2024 presidential election, it would have been likely that the culture would have continued along the trajectory that it was apparently going prior to his victory, even if a different Republican might have won.

Because, when it comes down to it, Donald Trump is the face of the will of the American people, who are aware that there is a problem with the establishment, and desires a restore of the greatness of American culture. Thus, the slogan, “Make America Great Again”.

Whatever the political views of Evan Vucci may be, it remains that he captured an image of a moment which will be historic in a manner comparable to the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima. History was made this year, and I’m looking forward to next year. We’ll see whether the image that I pick to describe it is an easy choice, again.

EDIT (16 Dec 2024): It’s a bit of an aside, but I wanted to bring attention to how amusing it is that the politics of Thomas Matthew Crooks appears unclear to anyone.

The main thing that seems to throw people off is the fact that he registered as a Republican in 2021. For many people, this appears to short-circuit their inquisitiveness, and they just stop at the assumption that he was a Republican.

Lest we forget, at around the year 2021, it was common for left-wing political influencers to suggest that left-leaning voters register as Republicans. In certain states, this would allow them to vote in Republican primaries, when they could select less favorable Republicans, increasing the likelihood that Democrats could overcome them in the general elections.

If Thomas Crooks was willing to commit an outrageous crime in an effort to deny the American public a candidate, such an underhanded political strategy certainly would not have been beneath him.

It’s also noteworthy that Paul Abbate, an FBI deputy director, has described Crooks’ social media activity as though it would “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes”. These are big claims, but Paul Abbate did not back them up with big evidence.

In any case, I think it’s reasonable to at least characterize Thomas Matthew Crooks as a “never-Trumper”. After all, he attempted (and failed) an assassination attempt against former president Trump.

For obvious reasons, Thomas Matthew Crooks cannot be reached to determine his motives. But his final failure will likely be remembered as the most famous failed assassination attempt in history.

A video from a few months prior to the assassination attempt against Trump had started trending because it shows a man, Brandon Biggs, predicting an attempted assassination against him.

And the similarities give pause for thought.

I can accept that it’s a miracle that Trump survived, because if the bullet that passed through his ear was just a centimeter closer to his head, this country could have easily broken into pandemonium.

Months prior, in a video discussing a total solar eclipse, Brandon Biggs was one of three hosts discussing Bible prophecy. In it, he discussed how he saw a vision of an assassination attempt against Trump. According to Biggs, a bullet narrowly missed his ear, but caused a sound wave that burst his eardrum, resulting in blood getting on his face. Afterwards, he got down and accepted Jesus with a passion. According to Biggs, Trump was a Christian before, but this incident ignited a special passion for Jesus.

The video is embedded below. Biggs’ prophecy begins at about 11 minutes in, if you want to get right to it.

There are many people out there who are accepting the prophecy as legitimate. But it’s not a bad idea to have some healthy skepticism. After having learned of this prophecy, I’ve decided to look into Brandon Biggs and his theology. For one thing, to see what other prophetic predictions he may have made, in the interest of determining how accurate he may have been with those. Also, to learn about his church, because I imagine that it’s getting an influx of interest.

The church Biggs pastors at is Discover Church. Rather than being a traditional church, Discover Church is an online ministry, which doesn’t consider itself a substitution for attending church in person. It nonetheless has multiple membership tiers with differing monthly fees.

Brandon Biggs does have his own YouTube channel, called Last Days. On this channel, he discusses prophecy, with a particular focus on the predictions that he makes.

According to critics, he has made multiple predictions that did not come to pass. For example, he predicted a sharp increase in the price of silver, which did not come to pass. He also predicted a market crash in the year 2013, which also did not come to pass. He also predicted a sharp increase in the value of the Iraqi Dinar; no prize for guessing that this also did not come to pass.

While I’ve heard these claims, I did not come across evidence that Biggs made them. One possibility is that he did not actually make them. Another more believable possibility is that Biggs recognized the optics in making bad prophetic financial predictions, and deleted them from his channel.

Nonetheless, the accuracy of Biggs’ prediction concerning Trump seems startling, even if it’s not precise. However, when examined critically, Biggs’ prediction becomes less impressive.

False prophets tend to do what I like to call, “throwing spaghetti at the wall”. When you throw spaghetti at a wall, the expectation is that most strands of pasta will fall to the floor, but a few strands might stick to the wall. When a toddler that throws spaghetti in such a manner brags about their own ability to make pasta stick to the wall, they’re hoping that you’ll ignore that most of the spaghetti is on the floor.

While a broken clock may be right twice a day, it helps to remember that it’s right for the wrong reason. The fact is, there are many, many people out there who make false prophecies and predictions. With so many people making so many guesses, some of them are bound to come close. And this becomes more likely considering that some of those guesses are guesses which, if they weren’t stated as prophecies, would be reasonable to make.

One prediction that would have been easy to make is an assassination attempt against Donald Trump. This is because political tensions in the United States is high, to the point that some Americans are actually killing each other over differences in political opinion. For example, just two days ago as of this posting, a 22-year-old Michigan man killed an 80-year-old with an ATV for putting up Trump signs, before ending his own life. That’s the point where things are. And, to make matters worse, the corporate media has been spending the better part of a decade propagandizing against Trump, making him out to be a fascist, a racist, a Russian asset, a threat to democracy, and much more.

While there are many criticisms that could be had about Russian society, at least the Russians were smart enough to know that the Pravda was lying to them. But propagandize the American public enough, and at least one lunatic is likely to act on the misinformation. There have been predictions of assassination attempts against Trump specifically going back at least as far as 2016. It’s amazing that one hasn’t been attempted until July of 2024.

Once some lunatic makes an attempt, of the many predictions that have been made, it’s the one that came the closest that would be most likely to stand out.

And Brandon Biggs’ prediction came close. But like the failed assassin, he would miss the mark.

Pay attention in the video above. Biggs stated that the bullet would narrowly miss Trump, but that the sound wave would cause an eardrum to break, resulting in bleeding. In reality, the bullet did hit Trump, but passed through his ear, leaving Trump otherwise uninjured. There are no reports of Trump’s eardrum being broken.

Biggs’ prediction was close, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Another component of Biggs’ prophecy is that, in that time window, Trump would get down and strengthen his commitment to Jesus, finding a passion for Jesus stronger than he had before. In reality, it seems that Trump ducked down out of self-preservation. Moments after getting up, Trump lifted his fist in the air, and shouted “Fight, fight, fight!” It’s true that Trump credited God with his survival. However, in the past, Trump stated that he never asked God for forgiveness. This would be a necessary step to becoming a Christian.

A person cannot renew their commitment to something that they weren’t committed to already. But hey, how was Biggs supposed to be aware of Trump’s spiritual state?

In a more recent video, Biggs addressed the discrepancy between his prophecy’s prediction concerning the miss that would have broke the eardrum with what really happened. He stated that the vision that he had was true, but that he merely assumed that the blood came from a broken eardrum.

Naturally, we cannot falsify a vision that Biggs alone saw. All we can reasonably do is discredit his prophecy when the words that he used are at variance with reality. Of course, it’s also reasonable to ask why his prophecies primarily concern speculation on the value of commodities and currencies, when we have no indication that Biblical prophets concerned themselves with such things. And why these predictions of his are usually wrong.

Like many similar cults, Discover Church has a business model that I like to call the Profitable Prophet Plan. Their variant of the Profitable Prophet Plan has a feature that can be called, Shotgun Spirituality, because it takes a spray-and-pray approach to prophecy, where many predictions are made over the course of time, and they pray that one of their bullets hits a target, upon which point they can declare victory for the one bullet that hit, hoping you’ll ignore the many that missed.

While I disagree with the idea that such poor accuracy is worth a dime of anyone’s money, Shotgun Spirituality does succeed in wowing enough people to keep many such an enterprise afloat.

At this time, I suspect that Brandon Biggs’ prophecy was not so much a prophecy as it was a guess, one of many like it, notable only for its accuracy, if not its precision. It seems sensible to view it as such, especially in light of his dubious prophetic investment advice, which he has apparently attempted to sweep under the rug.

But what do you think? Do you think that Biggs’ predictions are actually worth getting a membership package to his online ministry over? Or would you value it as less than an Iraqi Dinar? Please leave a comment to let me know whether you believe Biggs’ prophecy was a hit, or whether he was as inaccurate as Thomas Matthew Crooks.

We need to talk. This may end up being the most serious post I end up making on this blog, so let’s get our stern faces on.

Media personality Steven Crowder of Louder With Crowder just blew the lid on an enormous human trafficking operation that’s being run right here in the United States, where slavery is illegal.

It’s an hour-long documentary, and if you’re interested and have the time, here it is:

Say what you will about Steven Crowder, but remember when journalists actually engaged in investigative journalism? Because I sure don’t.

But here we are: there’s an enormous slavery and sex trafficking ring, right here in the United States, right in Colorado. And the one to step up to bat is none other than Steven Crowder.

Americans have a strange relationship with slavery. We pride ourselves on being among the first countries on earth to outlaw slavery, but we have little problem benefiting from it when we don’t have to see it happening, usually because it’s not happening within our own borders.

Perhaps chief of which being Jeff Bezos. The guy has a huge shipping operation going on which benefits massively from Chinese slavery, and he gets away with it because there’s a layer of plausible deniability between him and the slavery that made him one of the richest people alive.

And this brings up a difficult question: how does one propose fighting it? Americans benefit from slavery, too. If you own a smartphone, its components were likely made by slaves. If you don’t, you’re probably not competitive in the modern world. Most Americans need some form of computing in order to function in the connected world.

And it’s not just computing, it’s also agriculture. Much of what you could buy in supermarkets at least has ingredients that were produced by slaves. Not comfortable to think about.

And when it comes down to it, it’s more practical to spend less money on a comparable product to what you’ve been considering. Low income people tend towards cheaper alternatives, and it’s often slavery that makes certain products cheaper.

Even wealthier people like to virtue signal with their electric vehicles, not giving mind to the cobalt mines that resulted in their EV batteries.

For much of human history, slavery was a fact of life, and how business got done. And in much of the world today, it’s still that way.

Knowing that, how does it feel knowing you paid less for some off-brand product on Amazon, with a name consisting of a jumbling of search terms? Did you remember to leave a review for your FUNDILY Mug Cup With Handle Novelty Insulated Happy Magical Spacekitties Gift for Men Women? Your reviews make a difference, after all.

But there’s more to this issue, and that’s that the Chinese Communist Party also benefits from this. And Emperor Xi has got a chubby for his party becoming the world’s dominant power. I’m skeptical that it’s actually happening as quickly as some might think (the CCP is famously unreliable when it comes to anything that could make them look bad), it’s sobering that any faction as morally dubious as the CCP could become as prominent as they are.

Yes, I’m aware that ours is the same country that elected the Biden crime family.

But let’s stop and think about this: If the CCP is willing to look the other way when their own fellow Chinese are put to forced labor and sex slavery as long as the CCP stands to benefit, what do you suppose that they’d do to you if they’d have any power over you?

And considering that they’ve got land upon which they’re running illegal drug-growing and prostitution cartels in your very own country, it’s closer to happening than you might think.

And when you think on that, there’s an ugly thought that you might come to: it’s possible that the CCP might actually attain superpower status because they are willing to disregard any moral standards if it means getting ahead, they’re facing such little resistance in so doing, and because they’re willing to do what most others would not, sacrificing their own people in ways that most societies would not dare.

As sickening as it is to think of, those who wish to do America harm have found its weakness: it’s got millions of dumbasses who love getting high. And while these people have long been a problem for the rest of us, it looks like there’s a new way for society to pay the price for tolerating their bullshit.

So, here we are, ladies and gentlemen. Something’s gotta change. Because one way or another, it certainly will.