The lesser known history:

Gordy was moved up to an assistant to the upper echelons in 1958. This was right at the time Henry Moyle almost bankrupted the cult with massively overspending on building construction. Combined with the Baseball Baptism scandal they need somebody for damage control.

Gordy was a journalist by training who excelled at propaganda. He was a master of the craft. He buried the baseball baptism scandal and hid the financial records. For this in 1962 he was promoted up.

He was likely heavily involved in hiding the rampant sexual abuse issues in the cult. Hiding and flat out lying about how how much money the cult had amassed and excelled at being the slimy smiling bastard distracting everyone from the facts.

Gordy was anextremely successful liar. He was responsible for the majority of the massive hoarding of wealth.

He’s a fucking amateur compared to the experts.

Mormons have hundreds of billions.

Assuming human intelligence naturally follows a normal distribution model plus add in confounding factors like: malnutrition, chemicals, abuse, etc. that are known to degrade human reasoning. Reasoning is further restricted by limiting access to education and extensive false propaganda. These factors flattens and shift the distribution curve to the left.

The millions of people who voted for him are morons what are easily manipulated by their ignorance and fear.

This has always been the Achilles heal of a democratic systems.

Once Pandora went in the shitter, I moved on to self-hosting. So I have never used Spotify. As long as you take a little time once in a while to discover some new bands and add them to you collection its great.

Human tribalism at its finest. We really only associate a few hundred people as fully human in our social group at one time.

Take of care of people in your group. People from other groups are less than human and should all be exterminated. It’s a highly selected for trait from human evolutionary history.

…“tribalism” is a hard-to-escape fact of human neurology simply because many human brains are not adapted to working with large populations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

So from a historical context:

A Nazi killing a Jew during WWII was not murder but a Jew killing a Nazi was.

A modern perspective:

A Israeli killing Palestinians is not murder, but a Palestinians killing Isrealis is.

Soybeans are overwhelming used to feed pigs. China has over 400 million of them. This is more than the rest of the world COMBINED.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263964/number-of-pigs-in-selected-countries/

I try to explain it people really carefully.

First ask them “what makes a country wealthy”. The idiots always reply with “it’s having lots of money”.

Me. “Money is just numbers or pieces of paper that governments say is worth something. Real wealth is having the use of and control of resources. Resources are things like goods, labor, materials, production facilities, etc. So in trade if one country gets more money and other country gets more resources, the one receiving more resources wins.”

I usually lose them at the first sentence, they are after all idiots.

The cause is 100% the orange morons tariffs on this one.

Beef prices are cyclical. This is because beef producers have a lag time between price increases and their ability to increase their herds (2-3 years).

Historically when beef prices go up, domestic producers sell down their herds to capitalize on the higher pricing. Then imports increase to meet the demand and prices slump. It’s usually only a year or two of high prices and 7-8 years of low prices. Producers are conditioned to sell down their herds when prices are high then slowly rebuild them when prices are low.

Enter the orange moron:

Prices were at a normal cyclical high when he started throwing his tantrum and shitting in his diaper. With all the tariffs, producers in other countries decreased their stocking levels… So prices are soaring.

Demand has remained stable because the largest market is fast food chains. Guess who has spent the past 5 years jacking up prices and making record corporate profits?

Now for more bad news.

Hay prices are beyond depressed. With the decrease in herd size this is normal as supply increases. Again the export market usually absorbs the supply readily with the cheaper pricing. Then as beef prices fall, hay prices climb as producers rebuild their herds. Except the orange moron stepped in and killed the export market. So prices are very low, and supply is very high. We are talking high enough that there will be a shit ton of “mysterious” hay stack fires this fall for insurance claims.

Beef producers and hay producers are often the same operation. Since hay is worthless right now they can not build up their herds and have to keep selling animals to make ends meet.

So the prices at the store are only going to climb higher. Meanwhile the producers are stuck facing diminishing returns as their herd size decreases.

In summary, beans are looking pretty affordable right now.

People don’t overstay their visas and live illegally in a country because they have good options. They do it because they are desperate and have no hope of gaining legal immigration status through the fucked up process the U.S.A. has.

This will kill more people as they attempt to cross the border through dangerous routes.

Increase crime as criminals move in to “assist” the desperate people and make a profit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(person)

It will also cause a decline in the tourism industry, well more than it already has.

Hey now, it’s not just kids. They also enjoy assaulting/raping adult women and occasionally men as well.

The problem is that as people age cognitive decline can be rapid. You elect somebody at 70 with no symptoms for a 6 year term. By 73 you get this type of issue.

A cognitive test would only work if it was administered yearly. If they show signs of cognitive decline they are immediately relieved of duties. You’d have to set up an independent body of physicians to administer the test and have the physician chosen at random to prevent shenanigans. The rich and powerful would still find a way to rig the system.

Or you can just set rules to prevent the issue.

64 is the oldest anyone can run for office and 70 is mandatory retirement age for all positions in government service. Yes some people still have a lot of life left in them at that age They can do something else.

As we’ve seen over and over again one dement old person in a position of power can cause pain and suffering or even the loss of life to millions.

I have a friend who retired from government service at 58 after 35 years. He then started his own business now at 79 it’s large and prosperous. Just because he “retired” doesn’t mean he stopped being of value to society. Hell his business has more impact now that he ever did in his government job.

Unfortunately old age is starting to catch up with him. He had a mild stroke last year and his brain isn’t what it used to be.

50%…

Quick math - minus inflation, I am getting around 90% off.

I got my license in the U.S. when I was 16. Then in my early 20’s I lived in England for few years. I was able to drive on my U.S. license for a year. During that year I had to go through the process to get an english license to drive in the country after that. I did the whole learners permit, driving lessons, etc that first year.

Let’s just say it was much, much, harder to get a driving license in England. I had driven over 100K miles in the U.S and 10K miles in the U.K by the time I took the test and I still barely passed it.

If they toss in health insurance for a they will get some people resigning. Those that were planning on retiring in less than 8 months.

Resign now and get 8 months of pay or retire in 4 months and get 4 months of pay… Hmmmmm…

I do love seeing that one mocked.

For those that don’t know the original painting is from a Mormon artist Del Parson. It’s part of his “Red Robe Scandinavian Jesus.” series.

Mormons were extremely racist theocratic socialist until the anti-communist era of the 1950’s and 60’s. Since then they have pivoted to being extremely anti-socialist as prosperity doctrine has risen, but the racist roots are still going strong.

Satire against a public figure has historically been ruled as free speech.

Until the corrupt billionaires pay the corrupt assholes on the supreme court enough to overturn it of course.

The denials are increasing the cost of billing for the providers administration and reducing the available time for healthcare providers to see patients.

The system is designed to make money off of people who don’t fight it and punish healthcare providers who do fight the rejections.

The 2020’s are looking to end like the 1920’s.

Not a recession, but a massive depression.