For those of you not from St. Louis there is a story that’s being ignored by the national news for… reasons.
This is Janae Edmonson… she’s 17 and until last week she was on her way to play volleyball in college.
You see… George Soros targeted St. Louis with millions of dollars to elect Kim Gardner. A highly racist, highly extremist, highly incompetent prosecutor who has spent her tenure prosecuting homeowners for the act of self defense & suing police.
Kim Gardner fought very hard for Daniel Riley. A 21 year old felon with 94 bond violations since September 2020. Riley was out on bond for FELONY robbery & violated the conditions of his release dozens of times.
But Kim fought hard to keep Riley out of jail.
Last week Riley was again violating his bond driving illegally and speeding near a high school volleyball tournament. He ran through an intersection and crashed into another car…
So today was kind of the end of an era for me. There are only a handful of yards anymore that will let you pick your own parts. And if the part you need isn’t over $100 they won’t bother with you. So the days of fixing or upgrading your car is kinda over…….
We were pretty poor growing up and some of my fondest memories are going to the yard to keep my dad’s Ford Pinto running. It was our only car and was more rust than car. But it’s where I learned wrench on cars for cheap.
One of the tricks us poors did was buy a 15-20 year old base model car and pull all the extras and accessories off higher trim cars from a breakers. You could turn a base model into the highest trim available for pennies on the dollar. Swap the engine, swap drums for disks, etc.
Let me explain to people who have never worked a concert venue before….
After Jack Black & his band Tenacious D celebrated the near assassination of Trump on Saturday they got about 10,000 calls and texts from all the concert venues they’d booked canceling their reservations. You see these places have to carry insurance to cover any mass casualty event. Some places it’s literally the law they have to have a certain level of coverage.
That insurance is very very expensive as you can imagine as you can be talking about 1000’s of people and potential liability. Insurance companies will even ask you to take out additional insurance for a specific event over and above the base insurance the venue carries
No… 125 meters is not a long shot. If you’re going to be a shooter that’s a free throw. Yes I’m aware a lot of gun owners couldn’t hit a 4” plate with 4 tries but I don’t care my point stands.
Yes the secret service looked like shit on a stick. Sure they worked hard to get hired. Sure they try. Sure they passed all the tests. Still had a massive failure and looked like hot butter shit and I’m ashamed we as a country look like THAT at a critical moment. And I’m going to rail them harder than Ginger Lynn for that embarrassment of a shit show. And I’m not going to pretend better, bigger more physically qualified people were probably not offered the job for “reasons”.
I have eyes.
We are for damn lucky a 20 year old used a garbage rod and choked on mom’s spaghetti because the chick in charge of the SS sucks and put the C-team on the biggest target in political history. Only to have body positive diversity hire DUCK OUT OF THE GOD DAMN WAY at the critical moment and then couldn’t holster her gun through her fat roll!!! And I’m supposed to be proud of this? I’m supposed to think this was a good and professional operation? This was well planned and organized by the one chick who’s one job it is to make sure this doesn’t happen?
That’s what I’m to accept? That’s where we are? That THIS is the best we can do? The best we have? The best protection we can give to the one guy the world all knows is the biggest target in 2024 in politics?
And the after action report we just got was fucking mission accomplished? Really? Everybody in charge just slaps each other on the back, says “good job” and we go back to hoping the next guy uses a Century Arms CETME???
Many many reasons all happening at the same time. First is that it’s been coming for a while. We’ve had a HC shortage since the 90’s. We held it together mostly with foreign HC workers immigrating to the U.S.
I can remember back in 2000 nurses being offered $20,000 sign on bonuses and not for vast experience, new grads. The next reason is that baby boomers are retiring & dying. That was a huge population mass and Gen X was not nearly big enough to cover the losses.
Gen X is a smaller population mass than Boomers, Millennials or Gen Z. What baby boomer nurses & doctors were left Covid mostly ran off. Those that could retire or go part time did. Most just quit and went to one income. It was a mass exodus.