"Entrepreneurism, for Fun and Profit."

I'd like you to think about something today you likely don't think about every day.

Or any day, for that matter.

That "thing" is "entrepreneurism."  A fancy French word for, "self-employed."  It means starting and trying to run one's own business.  All alone or in concert with others, those who engage in, these folks are all around you.  They are everywhere!  

There are 31,000,000 Americans who work for themselves.  That's 9.79% of our entire population.  18.6% of our entire workforce!  They're the ones operating that hot dog cart on the side of the road.  Or running that car detailing business.  Or offering you a nice steaming bowl of tasty chili at their restaurant.  Or perhaps selling you a new rug.  Or a new tractor.  Or fixing that tractor when it breaks.  These are the people in business of helping others.  

In one way or another, those who work for themselves, our Entrepreneurs, must give others more than they get, in absolute value, or they will fail in their efforts.  

And they do.  Often.

Let's go there.  Let's talk the restaurant business, as an example.  And we mere diners who visit such establishments don't often think of them as such, but they must make a profit to survive.  We know from available data that labor can consume as much as 38% of all income.  An average of 30% goes to rent and electricity and utilities and maintenance and repairs.  Around 20 - 25% will go to food and disposables.  Around 5% or so will go to phone and utilities and legal. Leaving no more than 3% or 4% for gross profit.  Before taxes and depreciation!

Consider that the average restaurant starts out on the morning of the first day of every month $50,000 or $100,000 or $200,000 upside down.  In desperate need of that 1st customer to open the door.  

Praying for that turnstyle to turn...  

And that presumes you actually can attract customers.  Owners must find the money to market their businesses or they'll fail.  In an inflationary economy dining out is becoming a luxury.  Because of the Internet, prospective diners are letting online info direct their culinary choices.  Forcing restaurants to now employ marketing professionals to wave their banners digitally.  In short, every restaurant is now in competition with each other for our dwindling discretionary dining $dollar.  

All while restaurants are failing right and left.  We diners might not think about it much, but opening a restaurant is quite like Russian Roulette.  You're going to go down in flames, the only question is, when?

Those statistics are alarming!  Here they are:

     -  Restaurant failure in first year:  40%

     -  Restaurant failure in second year:  60%

     -  Restaurant failure by the fifth year:  80%*

Why in the Hell would anyone open a restaurant when they cost so much and the profit opportunity is so low, and the odds against success are so enormous?  It's like playing blackjack where you only get one card!  Yet, people do.  Hundreds of thousands of them every year, in fact, do.  Why?  They believe they can do it better.  

There's always somebody who thinks he can do it better.  Thank God.

And that's the motivation for every entrepreneur.  I used to teach a class for Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Business.  I entitled it, "Entrepreneurism, for Fun and Profit."  I stood in front of a class of MBA candidates explaining to them that they're taught numbers and theories and examples upon which to base future decisions.  I taught them what it's like in the real world.  Where decisions must be made like a field general in the midst of a war.  Fast, on the fly, or go out of business.  

Entrepreneurs think differently.  They're driven.  They will not be deterred.

When I finally got out of college I went to work for a $Billion Dollar corporation.  Within a couple of years I turned that in for a job in a $Hundred Million Dollar corporation.  Within a couple of years more I gave it the boot for a management position in a $Few Million Dollar corporation.  And within a few years after that I quit them all and started my own $Hundred Dollar corporation.

As the owner.

I was going to sink or swim on my own abilities.  I thought I was smarter than anyone I'd ever worked for.  And I worked for a lot of smart leaders.  But I always, ALWAYS thought I was smarter.  And better.  And so, after finding a willing and trusting and supremely talented wife to go along with me on my quest, I (we) started my/our own business.

And never looked back.

We were self-employed Entrepreneurs for nearly 40 years.  And that was despite a daily fight to keep village, township, city, county, state and Federal hands out of our pockets.  To fight off every rule and regulation and policy and law other bureaucrats dreamed up to participate in our success.  For what we didn't know when we started our venture was that there were vultures everywhere.  Ready to separate me from any profit dollar I might possibly eke out.  To look at us as their "partners" who somehow owe them a slice of our success for "letting" us do business in their realm.  Sort of like Sheriff John in the Hamlet of Nottingham.   

We looked at them as leaches, embarked on a never-ending quest to drink our blood.  As any entrepreneur.  They'll tell you... 

More than 55% of our entire population punches a time clock.  You'd have to be a Captain or higher at your local police station to earn an actual salary.**  Another 24% of our population earns that weekly or bi-weekly paycheck.  Every two weeks that check arrives in their mailbox.  But whether by-the-hour or bi-weekly, Entrepreneurs know that paycheck is a drug used to keep you in line and coming back for more.  Just enough to keep you toiling away, but not enough to make you rich or to make you love them.  If it were, nobody would ever quit and start their own businesses.

Sorry, a bit harsh, I know.  But reality can often suck.

But the obverse is challenging as well.  All in all, I'd say that choosing to become an Entrepreneur is fraught with peril on every front.  You're far better off to take a job at the post office, or become a cop or firefighter, or run for office as a Democrat (a lifetime appointment), or become a teacher.  It would take a hand grenade to blow any of the aforementioned folks out of their jobs.  But along with job security, will they have job enjoyment and fulfillment with those careers?  

That's another question...

I'll close with some uplifting statistics.  Data from all sources indicate that fully 56% of the American People have started their own business at one time or another.  Another 30% have started two or more businesses.  Think about that!  That tells me more than 85% of the American People know that working for others sucks, and trying to break out of that mold is nearly everyone's goal.  Like trying to break out of a mental prison.  And they'll keep trying until they get it right! 

What does it tell you?  

*     National Association of Restaurants, 2022

**   I started and managed four businesses.  In none of them did I have any hourly employees.  Everybody was paid to accomplish an objective.  To do a task, as it presented itself.  Whether it took 5 hours a week, or 55 hours a week.  I didn't care.  And if they didn't wish to work under those conditions, they were free to leave.  I can't recall anyone ever leaving...

Black, Gay, and an Immigrant.

I've been to two county fairs, a state fair, a goat-roping contest and a buzzard fu*k, and I've never in my life seen anyone as sinfully, painfully, awkwardly dumb as Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP).

(NOTE:  Real journalism about to occur.  Prepare yourselves...)

So I feel compelled, Fellow Patriots, to finally purge my XXL spleen over this Major League burr under my figurative saddle blanket.

Those familiar with the best-selling book "The Peter Principle" know, simply stated, that "we all excel until we reach our own level of incompetence."  And then we tend to stay there until we're fired, retire, are voted out, or die.  I would offer up our own "Mumbler-in-Chief" as a sterling example proving this truism.  But I thought I'd feature another example fully worthy of my scathing retribution, who's reached that pinnacle earlier in life.  Here goes...

We all know that Rachel Maddow jumped ship directly from serving as O'Biden's Press Secretary to a one-night-a-week "talking head show" on his fave channel, MSPMS.  For the $20,000,000 (with an "M") they're paying her to show up for an hour on Friday evenings.  Must be a really shi*ty environment over there if you have to pay that kind of dough to get people to come to work.  But the woman they replaced her at the podium is why I'm offering up this particular rant.    

That burr under my saddle blanket is one Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP, as she's "affectionately/derisively" known).  She, as you most likely know, is Joe O'Biden's White House Press Secretary.  It's her job to report to the Press Corps what's happening in America's world.  Maybe somebody forgot to tell her that.  Because she's famous, as she said breathlessly upon mounting the podium for the very first time, for the following:

"I'm proud to say I'm the very first Black, Gay and illegal immigrant to ever become Press Secretary!"

I'd like to start my load of legendary vitriol by saying this woman (she is a woman, right?) understands the "Chuckmeister Rule of Leftoid Acceptance."  Check as many boxes on the  "Weird-a*s List" as humanly possible.  KJP could only be better for this job if she were also a Midget, a Gypsy, be part Indian (errr, Indigenous Personage?), or even a  real Indian, like our own Karmala Harris, claim Palestinian DNA, and be suffering from the Heartbreak of Psoriasis.  

You got to tick those boxes to keep the far-Left activists happy, ya' know?

And so she does.  She's married to some other female (she's a female, I think) Federal trough-slurper.  Don't know whether she's the husband or the wife, but I digress.  All this Black and gay and immigrant thing would be sort of both cute, and TMI, if this babe were just, how can I say it?  Also, ummm, well...  

                               SMART?

But she's not.  She's actually dumber than a bag of rocks.  Her thoughts, the scant few of them that there are, bang around in her dreds-quaffed noggin like BB's in a boxcar.  We know that's true because she reads all answers to all questions from a briefing binder.  Nothing original, all canned.  In fact, I believe she's callow, shallow and crude.  She is naive, uncouth and oblivious.  She's insensitive, obtuse, dense and birdbrained.  And also imbecilic, moronic, unwitting and confused.  Not to mention being tragically unaware, ridiculous and dare I say, stupid.

Oh, I'm sorry.  You're ignorant when you're unknowing.  You're stupid when you simply cannot learn.  Perhaps I'm being pejorative by saying she's "stupid" without knowing for sure whether she's unable to learn.  But I believe we can all say she sure as Hell hasn't shown any increased knowledge or ability to do the job she's been given in the two painful years she's had it!  In fact, I believe she was accurate when she outlined her only qualifications:  

She's a., Black; b., gay; and c., an immigrant.     

This woman perfectly represents the Joe O'Biden Administration.  She's pathetic and almost insufferably cringe-producing.  And one can rely on Mzzzzz. KJP to always screw it up.  She does not know how to say "I don't know."  She just makes up an answer, that includes accusing Trump of something.  Want an example?  Here's an example...

In a rambling speech the other day in his new home of Pennsylvania (without their votes he might go to jail), O'Biden happened to go off-script once again and stuff his platform tennis shoe into his mumbling mouth.  

He stated, unequivocally, that his uncle "Bosey" was a pilot in WW2.  And that he went down on an island in the pacific, was chased down and eaten by cannibals!  Which the Department of the Army quickly, ummm, "corrected."  As in, he told us another lie.  Like so many other lies O'Biden tells (he told us last weekend he also used to drive an 18-wheeler!).  

The DofA stated the plane "Bosey" was in ran out of fuel and ditched in the Ocean.  Only 1 of the crew of 4 survived.  The others drowned.  Including Uncle Bosey.  And there were no cannibals roasting and consuming flyboys at that time in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  Something about fire and water, doncha' know...

But what sounds better if you're a crochety old coot who just loves to make everything about him and his?  Run out of gas, ditch and drown, or be eaten by cannibals on some far off island?  To O'Biden, 

              it's cannibals every day...    

So Fox News' reporter Peter Doocy asked KJP the question no other reporter would dare ask: "Why did O'Biden say his uncle had been eaten by cannibals," he asked, "when it was so obviously untrue?"  

KJP proceeded to take more than two cringe-worthy minutes dodging the question and explaining why Trump hates veterans.  

Doocy then repeated his question.  KJP once again deflected, neither directly addressing the subject matter nor providing any useful information whatsoever.  Except to slam Trump.  The very opposite of what a Press Secretary is there to do.  A complete and total waste of time, effort, energy and loads and loads of money.   

So the only question is, where will MSPMS put KJP on their schedule?  Before, or after Mzzzzzz. Maddow?   

Thank God KJP is cute, has perfect teeth and a nice hairdo, or she'd have no redeeming virtues at all.  Except, as I mentioned, for being Black, gay and an immigrant... 

P.S.  If any of this offends you, you're part of the problem...  

The Quiet Emergency!

The major reason I chose this subject for today's rant (although I never really need a reason!) is that I just got back from my favorite discount grocery store.

So discount they only take cash.  No credit cards allowed.  That much discount.    

So I loaded up, like usual, except this time management was waiting near the entrance to so I could arrange for a 2nd Mortgage on my house.  But I convinced them to take an arm instead.  I had a nice long convo with the checkout babe about their prices, even though theirs are the lowest around.  I held up an 11 oz. bag of shredded, mixed-green lettuce, for an example.  I commented to her that it was $0.89 a couple of years ago, and had been for as long as I could remember.  And it's now $2.59.  That, I said, is INFLATION!*  

She agreed, and shared some of her own war stories, most particularly about customers having to take stuff back 'cause they couldn't afford to pay for everything in their carts.  Sad.

So I did a little research on the subject.  I checked out the prices of various staples back in 2022, and what they cost now in 2024:

     -  Coffee:  Up 47%

     -  Eggs:  Up 101%

     -  Bread:  Up 39%

     -  Cereal:  Up 48%

     -  Orange Juice:  Up 87%

     -  Bacon:  Up 76%

     -  Hamburger:  Up 49%

     -  Home Insurance:  Up 29%  

     -  Gasoline:  Up 67%

     -  Electricity:  Up 123%

And I remind those of my fellow citizens who chose the current Administration, you voted for this... 

This caused me to ask myself, I wonder how many folks are living on Social Security and having to decide what not to eat these days?  So I checked.  And here's the answer...

About half our population aged 65 and above live in households that receive at least 50% of their family's income solely from Social Security.  That's 62 Million Citizens!  Or, 18% of our population is hyper-subject to inflationary pressures.  With no way at their age to counteract the negative effects.

Consider also that the average Social Security monthly paycheck is only 1,717,49!  How in the Holy Hell is somebody supposed to live on $1,700 a month?  Or a family, in many cases?  And this is for people who worked all their lives, and paid into the SSA Fund every payday for their entire lives.  And yet, there are those who want to talk about lowering their payments.  Or letting their Fund go broke entirely.

As they're slowing down, the cost of everything is running away from them!

Add this to $5.89 a gallon near me, and up to $7.59 near San Franpoopco, and you can now understand why more than 1.2 Million citizens have fled California in the past two years.  And more will be leaving as soon as their kid graduates from high school, or they retire, or they can sell their $500,000 house that's now priced at $1.200,000!  Not "worth" $1.2 Million, just "priced" at that figure.  Showing the enormous discrepancy between asking price and value. 

But finding someone to buy their house is the key!  In Joe O'Biden's America home mortgage rates are 8% and more.  Making home ownership out of the question for most Americans for the first time since Jimmy Carter's Recession! 

Oh yeah, and car insurance has doubled in the past three years.  And auto maintenance is up 38%.  Making automobile ownership no longer possible for an alarming percentage of our older folks.  Those who have already paid their dues, and just wish to live a quiet, comfortable retirement.  

But they no longer can.  The O'Biden Administration's rabid socialist ideology has seen to that.  

Retired folks who can no longer afford their homes, and can no longer afford their cars, and can no longer afford to eat, is our Quiet Emergency!  

These 62 Million of your fellow citizens have no voice.  Almost one in five of your neighbors are in real trouble!  They have no way of getting out the message; they can no longer afford to live in O'Biden's America!  So I'm lending what voice I have in an effort to help.  By asking that you pass along this message, or its essense, to your friends and neighbors.  It's important.  

And Hey, Washington!  Hey, Sacrascrewyou!  Get with it!  People are gonna' die if you don't get off your ass and do what we're paying you for!

*    Once again, the definition of inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.  With the O'Biden Administration having spent $9,000,000,000,000 (with a "T") more than we took in since being immaculated just 3 short years ago, the Country's awash in money!  So goods and services are being bid up from raw materials, through manufacturing, and distribution, through sales.  Only the Federal Gubmint reigning in its Gargantuan spending habit by a change of Administrations will return us to de-inflated prices.  Otherwise, the $15.00 hamburger will be the norm.  And our Senior Citizens will be starving...

Alexis de Toqueville.

One of my favorite people ever was a guy named Alexis de Toqueville.  That's because he loved America.  And so do I.

de Toqueville (1805 - 1859) was a French historian, philosopher, author, economist and statesman.  Plus, a great friend of America.  The then-world's newest nascent democracy.

And since I studied economics, I studied de Toqueville.  This man grew to love America as it was just evolving into the world's foremost (small "d") democracy.  Before it was created as a Representative Republic.  And if you'll recall, France was unseating its monarchy at about that same time, upending 1,000 years of serfdom for its people, so issues of freedom and democracy were uppermost in his thinking.

After studying our Constitution, de Toqueville offered his opinion that America would become so strong that it could only fail if its politicians learned how to buy votes with other voters' money.  And Fellow Patriots... 

...we're there.

Joe O'Biden attempted last year to take $430,000,000,000 of student loan debt off the backs of 43 Million of the folks who borrowed it, and on to the backs of Taxpayers.   

He tried to give $10,000 in debt relief to those making $125,000 or less.  In other words, giving $10k in cash to those who didn't earn it.  He was sued, and the Supreme Court smacked him down.

SCOTUS said O'Biden couldn't just give away money, as that's the purview of our Legislative Branch.  Only the Congress, SCOTUS said, could spend our Taxpayers' cash.  "Separation of Powers" and all that.

Look it up if your education didn't include it...  

But he didn't stop with that illegal, immoral and unconstitutional effort to circumvent the Supreme Court...and our Constitution.  He just authorized the giveaway of $430 Billion (that's with a "B") to 30 million doctors and lawyers and college professors.  Those who promised contractually to pay back the loans they took out to go to med school.  And to law school.  And to journalism school, fergodssake!  While a majority of our taxpayers  didn't.  

They either couldn't afford it, or chose not to afford it.  But now our cranky old POTUS who's yet to find a law he cannot violate, is trying to buy the votes of 30 million elites by saddling other Taxpayers with the $20,000 they had agreed to pay!  

That's not debt forgiveness, that's debt transference!

And, O'Biden also stated he's not through yet!   He says he plans to give away all the rest of it!

The Federal Gubmint, YOUR Federal Gubmint, currently guarantees some $1,600,000,000,000 (that's with a "T") in student loan debt.  One Point Six Trillion Dollars!  And the Mumbler-in-Chief plans to make you and me pay it back.

de Toqueville was right.  He warned us more than two centuries ago, and yet we somehow permitted these thieves to rip us off.  Right here in front of God and everybody.  While our "State Media" refuses to report it.  The very same "Media" our Constitution imbued with special powers.  So they could make sure "We the People" stayed informed.  And to be forewarned against highway robbers stealing money from some of us to give to others of us.  They were chosen to protect us against an abuses such as this.  And yet, they've thrown in with the abusers.  

It just makes me want to puke.

And de Toqueville would want to puke right alongside me.  We've just had our pockets picked, in public.  Rome lasted a long time.  We've lasted even longer.  But how much longer we last, if we last, remains to be seen...

Looking for Some Jews, With BALLS...

Has anyone stopped to think what would happen if the Jews fought back?

I'd like to start by saying the Nationwide marches and protests and sign-waving and flag burning against the Jews and in support of HAMASSSS and the quote-unquote "Palestinians"* is pissing me off!  As in,  

        REALLY PISSING ME OFF!

It seems the rich in this Country have sent their kids off to pricey institutions of higher learning, to learn...to hate the Jews?  Did they know that when they wrote those Big Checks to Haaavid, and Yale, and Princeton, and Dartmouth?  And especially, Columbia?  $90,000 a year?  Really?  For what?  For this?

As one of the more than 1.7 Million Veterans who's worn the uniform and carried a gun in defense of this Country and its citizens, I can tell you that if I were near someone who tried to burn our Flag I would smack the sh*t out of them!  However old and crochety I may be, I wield a pretty fair cane!  And trust me, you don't want a caning from The Chuckmeister!

What these ritzy colleges and universities are permitting could unravel America.  It could literally cause a civil war.  A civil war these ignorant fools can never win.  Because we true Americans own all the guns.  Another thing they haven't thought through.  And I'm going to try and prevent that from happening, right here, right now...

According to my research, there are approximately 7.5 Million Jews in America.

Of those, 5.8 Million are adults, and 1.7 Million are children.

We can assume, therefore, that about half that 5.8 Million adults are men, and half are women.  Roughly 2.9 Million Jewish men, unencumbered by a law or M.D. degree, are therefore roaming around the U. S. of A.  Working just like normal folks doing normal things.  And getting royally pissed off just like I am...  

Now then, I don't have the time, effort or energy to count up all the Jewish doctors, and lawyers, and college/university professors there are out there, but I'm guessing it's a big number.  Let's say fully half that 2.9 Million Jewish men are emasculated by virtue of their profession.  Jewish doctors and lawyers probably wouldn't fight all that well or make good snipers, for example.

(My buddy Sam is a Veteran, so I'm excluding him).

I'm wondering whether there's a few hundred thousand Jewish men out there with enough BALLS to defend their faith, their race, their God-given spiritual Fatherland and the concept of America itself?  I know Jewish truck drivers.  I know Jewish electricians.  I know a number of Jewish entrepreneurs.  I even know a Jewish farrier (horseshoer).  They exist.  But I'm wondering whether there's enough Jewish men to take up arms and defend their faith?  Men with real, honest-to-God... 

...balls? 

Annnnd, I might mention there's a few of us other Veterans who'd be willing to Stand Up with our Jewish friends and neighbors.  A few hundred thousand of us, at the very least.  Because they're Americans.  And we're Americans.  And that's what Americans do.

Can you imagine what 500,000 pro-Israeli, pro-Jewish counter-protesters would do to these pantywaist Ivy League students?  

We need these Jews to step up and fight, and protest, to march, to wave signs and banners, and to burn "Palestinian" flags!  To get pissed off!  And to show up in such formidable numbers that you scare the crap out of them!  They're just a bunch of bullies anyway, and we can rub their noses in it!  We'll scare them off the battlefield.  And back into their classrooms.  Where they can learn some more pricey stuff that obviously doesn't matter.  And the same with their Anti-American and Anti-Jewish professors.  Before it becomes a battlefield.    

And BTW, that situation is not far away...

I see the privileged youth of all the very rich out on the streets yelling vile slogans against their former friends.  "From the river to the sea," calls for the extermination of Israel.  That's the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.  That's like the "N" Word to our Black friends!  Did you know that?  These students have been urged on by TikTok to hate the Jews.  With the strings being pulled by China, no less.  Teaching those who view TikTok that the Jews are the oppressors and the "Palestinians" are the oppressed.  Why?  Because Jews are "White?"  Are our privileged students really that simple?  Yes, it appears they are.

Do they remember when Israel gave the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the "Palestinians" 25 years ago so that the violence would stop?  To finally buy some peace?  After 50 years of constant war?

The "Palestinians" were given this land so they could build their own state.  Did they teach them that in school?  And so that the "Palestinians" would stop blowing up their pizza parlors and knifing citizens standing at bus stops?  Did they teach them that in school?  And then these same "Palestinians" took the hundreds of $Millions of dollars given them by the countries of the world, including America, and dug tunnels.  And bought rockets.  And hand grenades.  And prepared for war. 

Hey Ivy League students, did they teach you that in school? 

HAMASSSSS says they say they will ultimately win this war.  No matter how long it takes.  And if given the opportunity, they say they'll repeat their atrocities of October 7th over and over again.  Forever.  For they do not want a two-state solution.  They want a "one-state" solution.  They want to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea.  That same "Sea" our students are now chanting about.  And our students are their willing stooges.  

Nice.

The Jews need to learn RIGHT NOW that the war has started, whether they like it or not, and that they are in it.  And that our most prestigious colleges and universities have been co-opted; they've so indoctrinated their students, our children, that we cannot count on them to defend our Jewish friends in the future.  And they'd better start fighting it before it becomes the next Pogrom.  Or even worse, another Holocaust.  And with our current Administration bowing from the ankles to its hard-Left "Progressives," it could happen.  

They could allow it to happen, just to try and win the upcoming Election.

Such is the price of having 500,000 "Palestinians" and  Somalians in Dearborn, Michigan.  Maybe we should have thought about that before we flew Rashita Tlaib and Illhan Omar out of their squalor in the Middle East and into Dearborn.  And then bought them a college education.  With taxpayer money.  So they could be elected to Congress and ruin all our lives.  

I'm sorry to say that one of the reasons the Jews have suffered such horrible treatment down through the eons is because they're such good victims.  They don't fight back much.  Like my best friend told me after October 7th, "It's just another chapter in a 5,000 year old book."  Maybe it's time they write the final chapter in that book.  Maybe it's time their enemies learned the meaning of fear...   

Take up arms!  Teach these ignorant as*holes a lesson!  Make them know there's a price for marching and protesting and hating the Jews.  And burning my FLAG!  And that price should be dear.

This can only happen if the Jews have big enough balls to Stand and Deliver.  And I for one will do anything I can to help them succeed.**

*   There are no "Palestinians."  God gave the land called Judea to the Jews in Genesis 1:13.  He did not give any land to the "Palestinians."  In fact, the "Palestinians" were simply Jordanian Hashemite Arabs that King Hussein kicked out following the partition by the United Nations back in 1948.  The partition that gave Israel back to the Jews.  And immediately ignited a war.  One that's never stopped.  And you know the rest...

**  I'll be happy to train a soldier, a squad, a company, a battalion or a regiment.  If you need to know how to wage a war, call somebody who's helped wage one. Call upon the Chuckmeister... 

The Cybertruck "Pipedream."

As a self-described near-expert on all things automotive,* I just had to write to you, my Fellow Patriots, about this new rolling outrage called the "Cybertruck."

Perhaps I should start by reminding you about P. T. Barnum's famous quote, "There's a sucker born every minute."  And I would offer that 3,818 of them, so far, have bought a Cybertruck from "Elon the Rich."

I've heard Mr. Musk designed the Cybertruck on the back of a napkin.  Most likely whilst engaged in a drug-induced pipedream.  It looks like it, doncha' think?  A comic book caricature of what a pickup truck should look like.  And be.  And in sheet stainless steel, no less!  Almost impossible to form, as sheet stainless steel has innate memory.  It wants to "spring back" into its original shape.  Unless it's smashed by a 120 ton press, that is!  And there's only three of them in all of North America, as it turns out.  A time-consuming, expensive process.

And here's a question: why is it necessarily made out of stainless steel, again?  Unless just to be different for the sake of being different?  Oh, because it needs to be bulletproof.  Ummm, okay!  

And bulletproof glass windows?  Really?  What farmer or rancher or builder or carpenter or welder or working man who heads on down to his truck dealer for a new pickup needs bulletproof glass?  Didn't we already incarcerate El Chapo?  Who needs that?  Maybe only a smoked-up $Multi-Zillionaire?  Sorta' makes one lust for a nice, simple F-150, now don't it? 

And however toy-like it looks from a distance, this thing is YUUUGE!  It is almost 19 feet long, almost 6' tall, and nearly 7 and 1/2 feet  wide!  And it weighs more than 6,600 pounds in its cheapest guise!  And well over 7,000 pounds in the two-motor model!  That is the weight of TWO modern compact gas powered sedans!  Saving the planet?  Pullleeeeezzz!

Oh yeah, it accelerates from 0 - 60 in...ready for it?  2.6 seconds!  That's quicker than a Corvette Z-06!  That's wonderful, for a sports car!  But for a...truck?  It will make your gums bleed in a drag race, but how about bringing some hay bales out to the calves in the back 40?  Ummm, not so much...

And did I mention this beast will chew up a set of $1,200 tires every 6,000 miles?  Did I mention that?  Because it weighs more than 3 Tons!  Oh yeah, I did.  It also plays hell with your highways and byways, for the very same reason.  Buuut, because it doesn't need gas, no gas taxes are paid to rebuild the highways it chews up.  Hmmmm...

Yeah, and seeing out of a vehicle is usually very important.  Nice to see what's coming and going, doncha' think?  Not in a Cybertruck, it seems.  Looking out the front windshield is nearly impossible due to its seating position and the windshield's rake.  And it has no rearview mirrors, just cameras.  Forcing one to look down and to the right to see what's happening out the side window and to the left.  Counterintuitive, much?  So in driving this tank I guess its owners assume that everyone else will just get the Hell out of the way...

And they just recalled every one of them every built, including hundreds of those already made and sold but not shipped, because its accelerator pedal cover can fall off and cause it to go FULL THROTTLE!  And you could be at 60 mph and buy the local convenience store before you could say, "Oh Helllll No!!!"

And then there's the proud new owner who decided to go through the local car wash.  And even though there's a "Car Wash Mode" button on the screen, his now-shiny new Cybertruck didn't like it much.  It decided to shut down entirely and turn its control screen black.  For five hours.  And since that screen controls every feature in the vehicle, his doors were locked and he couldn't get out.  For five hours.  Yeah.

And then let's talk "range."  As in, how far will this sucker go after a full charge?  Well, Fellow Patriots, the answer is 224 miles!  Only!  Want to take a trip from L.A. to Vegas?  Yeah, on that 275 miles trip you'd make it just past Baker, and then you'd be toast.  Dead on the side of the freeway.  Clearly, this thing is nothing but a plaything for rich commuters.  Who don't have far to go, or much to do when they get there...

This thing is a flat-out abomination.  And it costs more than $80,000!  Well over $100k with all the bells and whistles.  And they've been traded at auctions so far for more than $150 Large!!!  Because some of our richer "must have now" folks just cannot wait for Elon to build them one. 

Barnum should have been sainted!  And may I say it's a real shame $money can sometimes attach itself to the simplest, most ignorant, dumbest, most foolish and...may I say stupid buttholes in the neighborhood.  The ones who can sing and dance and act, and maybe trade stocks and hit baseballs better than average, for it's likely they are the only folks buying this rolling joke...

Yes I may.    

*   I'm a car nut.  I've read every word I could find about them since I was about 15.  And I've owned 127 of them.  Including Porsches and Corvettes and Mercedes-Benzes and Cadillacs and 5 VW Beetles and a Rolls-Royce.  I even raced AHRA and SCCA for many years, and even spent a summer on the Alfa-Romeo Formula 1 pit crew.  So I form my opinion about one car or truck over another advisedly.  And my opinion about the Cybertruck is carefully formed.  In short, it's an overpriced joke, doodled up by an eccentric $Billionaire to answer a question nobody is asking, and pushed out the door to an over-monied audience before it was ready for Prime Time... 

"Peace In Our Time"

It was the Fall of 1938.  

Hitler was banging the war drums and the world was getting nervous.  Especially England.  It knew war could be on the horizon.  And it was not ready for that war...

Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the "Sudentenland" to Germany.  The Sudentenland had belonged to Germany but was taken by the United Nations as reparations in the aftermath of World War One.  And Germany, although flattened by the War, had been required to pay back all the costs incurred by England and America and all the Allied Powers from prosecuting that War.  It was demanded they reimburse us and all the other Allies, when their economy was in tatters.  Their inflation rate at the time was over 100%.  They were dead broke, shamed on the world stage, distrusted by everyone, and rightfully so, and looking for a leader to rescue them from the results of their own excesses.

Enter Adolph Hitler.

Hitler gave Germany hope in WW1's aftermath.  And the feeling that when they got on their feet there'd be Hell to pay by us for so mistreating the Fatherland.  And he was just the guy to handle that task.  To deliver retribution.  So behind the scenes Hitler began building up his military (Germany was prohibited from doing that, but just like with Iran today, no one was paying attention).  He started building war planes.  And submarines.  Hundreds of them.  And war ships.  Chief among them, the world's largest battleship, the Bismarck.  All done in secret (no satellites in those days).  So Germany was just about ready to exact its revenge.  On a world that had pressed them just a little bit too hard...

So Winston Churchill, England's Prime Minister, sent Neville Chamberlain, his diplomatic envoy, to visit Hitler.  To convince him to play nice with his neighbors and stop rattling sabers.  It was September 19, 1938, and Chamberlain went to Berchtesgaden.  To the foot of the Alps.  And then up the winding road to "Eagles Nest," as it was called.*  Hitler had the top of a mountain chopped off so he could build his meeting place away from prying eyes and ears.   

In fact, Churchill sent Chamberlain to visit Hitler 3 times that September, trying to stem the tide of war.  After numerous meetings, Chamberlain believed he had hammered out a deal with Hitler.  Hitler would not invade, he said.  And Chamberlain believed him.

So Chamberlain flew back to England, briefed Churchill, and called a press conference.  He spoke of his meetings will Hitler and did his best to calm the nervous Brits.  And he ended that conference with these fateful words:

         "We will have peace in our time."

As the German philosopher George Santayana once said, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."  And it appears from a look back at history that we are repeating Chamberlain's errors.  Our Secretary of State Blinken has flitted back and forth to the Middle East a dozen times since HAMMASSS killed 1,200 Israelis.  O'Biden was behind Israel all the way at first.  Until he learned that somebody had let 500,000 Palestinian and Somalian Muslims into Dearborn, Michigan.  And that these America haters were going to vote against O'Biden come November unless he stops supporting our oldest and dearest ally.  And that there's a bunch of these same Palestinian lovers in Wisconsin.  So now O'Biden's new "Two State Solution" is Michigan and Wisconsin...

Funny what happens when you don't think things through...

O'Biden's been trying to appease these murderous thugs for 6 months now.  Notice there's nary a mention of our American hostages currently held by HAMASSSS in any address he gives.  Nor the other 100 or so hostages, either.  Only that Bebe should capitulate.  Drop his trousers, and bend over and grab his ankles.  And let HAMMASSSSS break it off in his a*s.  

I somehow doubt that will happen.  Israel just proved last night it can and will exact a toll on Iran any time it wants, and with or without our help.  And I'll support him every step of the way.  Then, the only question will be, "How big are Iran's balls?"

Our POTUS has been trying to convince us that the Jews should just roll over and except the outrage visited upon them.  And it seems a very loud chunk of the Democrat Party is now overtly antisemitic.  And the explosion of Jewish hatred on our elite college and university campuses is dramatic!  And alarming!  Maybe these $90,000 a year institutes of "higher learning" always were antisemitic, and have just been doing their best to hide it.  I'm frankly shocked that they are, but more importantly, that they're dumb enough to publicly exhibit it.

And now that the Iranians have directly attacked Israel, from Iranian territory, O'Biden and his mouthpieces are declaring that we, America, will not support Israel when they respond.  So they responded all by themselves.  Proving that they can and will take care of business, thankyou.  

And proving something else:  If you have a friend like O'Biden, you don't need any enemies...  

*  BTW, I was stationed in Germany, and I visited "Eagles Nest" before they declared it off limits (rock slides, they say).  It's a 2,300 square foot house with no bedrooms, perched atop the tallest Alp in the area, and designed and used entirely for political and military get togethers.  There's an elevator right in the middle of the building, it's only access.  And that elevator is lined in sheet copper and leather and golden light fixtures.   And the 110' tunnel to the elevator was made of curved and polished granite.  I was told they did this so they could spray machine gun fire from the elevator all over in the event the Allies breached their security and tried to invade the tunnel.  Shame it's no longer available to visit.  It's a piece of history, and a reminder that despots should be kept in check.  Like the Ahh-ha-tollah of Iran.  And our own budding despot, one Mr. O'Biden...