The ultimate Return guide to escaping the surveillance state | Blaze Media (plus a few of my own)

Editor’s note: Fair warning: This is a very thorough guide. However, we’re facing an unprecedented moment in American history. Our government and multinational tech monopolies are making it clear that we, the people, are the target of the monstrous surveillance state they’ve constructed. The deep state is attempting to jail people who share memes, Blaze journalists, and even the leading presidential candidate. It’s time we take back control over our privacy and digital communications, and this guide will provide you with the tools to do that. This is a serious guide for serious people. If you’re concerned about what’s coming but don’t know what to do, please consider adopting some or all of these tools.

Source: The ultimate Return guide to escaping the surveillance state | Blaze Media

Here is a summary of the article, plus a few of my own suggestions.

1. Own your own email. If you have a free service such as gmail, you are the product. I have paid for my own email service for over a decade. It is cheap. It works. For a few dollars a year I purchase my privacy.
2. Use secure texting. Apple may be an evil company, but iMessage is encrypted. Still, they track my texts. If you use text messaging as a primary form of private communication, this article recommends a good alternative to increase your privacy.
3. Use a VPN (virtual private network). The quality and performance of VPNs has dramatically improved from the days when they would lag in speed. Now they are fast and they mask your computer’s address.
4. Be your own password manager. Create strong passwords and keep them to yourself.
5. Do not connect your home to the internet. Devices like Siri, Alexa, or voice activated televisions listen to you all the time. So can your smart phone and computer if you enable those functions. Imagine how a ‘smart’ thermostat could be used against you. Even my oven is wifi capable and my dishwasher is a computer that updates by wifi.
6. Use a private browser and search engine. Google, Bing, and Yahoo record your searches and package your information. Startpage and duckduckgo claim they do not. With Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari, you remain the product. Firefox is the best and highly compatible with most web pages. Brave is also a good choice, but is based on Chrome and Google gives me the creeps. Also, be smart. Act like God is watching you when you are on the computer and your phone.
7. Do not store your documents online. There is a reason Apple and Google want you to store everything on their servers. If document sharing is a must, use a paid service like Dropbox. External hard drives are super cheap, so back up your computer safely in your own home.
8. Not only should you own your own documents, you should own your own media. 99% of all my music is on CDs. 100% of my books are printed, and I have a nice collection of my favorite DVDs, no corporate end user licensing agreement needed. If the world goes to hell, at least I can keep myself entertained.
9. Own your own contacts. Do not keep your contact information on a platform that could lock you out. It is also smart to actually to have a printed record of your most important contacts in your own home. The format of modern address books is up to date.
10. Build your own website. I use WordPress, but there are a lot of options to help avoid being beholden to Big Tech.
11. Secure your mobile devices. They are powerful computers and need secure VPNs, passwords, browsers, and search engines. Keep your wifi turned off unless it is needed. There are plenty of sites that will walk you through securing your phone.
12. Embrace digital minimalism. Besides my blog, I do not have any social media. I do not miss it. I rarely use my phone for anything beside talking and texting. If I am going to sit in a waiting room for an hour, I bring a book.
13. Search out the growing Parallel Economy, individuals, companies, and services that resist censorship and promote a free speech ecosystem. For instance, former Fox journalists, Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, and Steven Crowder, along with Big Tech’s new competitors, Rumble, Locals, The Blaze, and Substack, have all successfully escaped Big Tech censorship and give honest news, commentary, and comedy without neoliberal censorship.
14. Boycott all the bad actors you can. Nobody needs Disney or Target or tictoc or Facebook or the NBA. Support the good actors, whether they are parallel economy companies like Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-a, or your local mom and pop business owners.

Liberty Safe Gives Feds Backdoor Access To Customer’s Gun Safe

Liberty Safe willfully granted the FBI backdoor access to one of its customers’ gun safes because the federal law enforcement agency demanded it.

“The feds called the manufacturer of his Liberty Gun Safe and got the passcode to get into it too. All for protesting at the Capitol over 2 1/2 years ago,” conservative YouTubers the Hodge Twins alleged in a post on X on Monday.

Nathan Hughes, the 34-year-old owner of the compromised Liberty gun safe, was arrested at gunpoint and charged last week with one felony and three misdemeanors related to his presence in the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. During the raid on his home, the FBI ransacked his house and attempted to confiscate the firearms from his safe.

Source: Liberty Safe Gives Feds Backdoor Access To Customer’s Gun Safe

Welcome the the police state. The US Dept of Justice is a weapon the NeoLiberal left uses to prosecute their political enemies while handing get-out-of-jail-free passes to their bed fellows.

Of course, now you can contact Liberty Safe and have them supposedly delete your safe’s back door code… in exchange for your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address so they have a list of Liberty Safe owners, who just might be enemies of the state… like Catholics… who own guns, that they can give the government. That’s a deal, right?

Fidelity reveals how much money you need to retire for the lifestyle ‘you’re hoping for’ | Fox Business

By age 30, it’s recommended that you have saved at least 1x your annual salary. Then, it’s 3x your salary by 40, 6x by age 50, 8x by 60 and 10x by 67.

Source: Fidelity reveals how much money you need to retire for the lifestyle ‘you’re hoping for’ | Fox Business

I bring this up for people who take on massive student debt, like the current generation of pharmacists, in order to obtain expensive university degrees that are not commensurate with future income. Your student debt puts you decades behind your retirement savings goals. It inhibits your ability to purchase a home, your legacy investment. It forces you to choose between a Spartan adult life and poverty as a retiree.

Software VP Fired for Using ‘Assigned by God’ as Preferred Pronoun Sues Employer

The lawsuit alleges that Bitwarden violated Scharf’s Title VII rights against religious discrimination by allowing other employees to post preferred pronouns on their employee profiles, but prohibiting Scharf from using his preferred pronoun based on his religious beliefs.

“Had Chad set aside his religious beliefs and acquiesced to Bitwarden’s promotion of gender ideology, he would not have been fired,” Scharf’s attorney Jennifer Vasquez told The Epoch Times, “which means his religious beliefs were the cause of his termination.” Vasquez is with the Florida law firm Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda.

Source: Software VP Fired for Using ‘Assigned by God’ as Preferred Pronoun Sues Employer

Unfortunately, mass rebellion is likely the only way to stop this sort of corporate behavior. People of conscience are going to have to refuse to go along, get fired, and the sue. Not only are they going to have to sue, they are going to have to go after huge sums of money in order to hurt their employers with real financial losses. The penalties have to be huge so companies simply cannot afford to violate the rights of their religious employees.

LGBTQ activists complain companies are caving to backlash against Pride Month: ‘They’re scared to death’ – TheBlaze

LGBTQ activists and creators are complaining that companies are caving to conservative pressure and are “ghosting” them when it comes to lucrative collaboration deals they’re used to having.

A report from Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed several LGBTQ activists who said companies were shying away from supporting them this year.

“It’s just been a really stark contrast from years before,” said MI Leggett, a New York-based, non-binary designer behind a gender-fluid sustainable clothing company. “Every single year, my friends and I and my colleagues always get these additional jobs.”

The report goes on to cite the backlash against Bud Light’s marketing stunt with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney and the recent boycott against Target over its partnership with an LGBTQ creator who also promoted satanism.

Source: LGBTQ activists complain companies are caving to backlash against Pride Month: ‘They’re scared to death’ – TheBlaze

Standing up and fighting for our faith, our country, and our children is working. Make no mistake though, we all have to be in it for the long haul.

To the rest of you I say: do what the elders tell you, and all wrap yourselves in humility to be servants of each other, because God refuses the proud and will always favor the humble. Bow down, then, before the power of God now, and he will raise you up on the appointed day; unload all your worries on to him, since he is looking after you. Be calm but vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion, looking for someone to eat.

1 Peter 5:5-8

Instagram’s Algorithm Promotes and Connects ‘Vast’ Network of Pedophiles | PetaPixel

A new investigation has revealed that Instagram’s algorithm is actively connecting and promoting pedophiles who commission and sell illegal underage sexual content on the photo-sharing app.

According to an investigation published today by The Wall Street Journal in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Instagram’s recommendation algorithms have enabled a “vast” network of pedophiles seeking child sex abuse content and activity.“

Pedophiles have long used the internet, but unlike the forums and file-transfer services that cater to people who have interest in illicit content, Instagram doesn’t merely host these activities. Its algorithms promote them,” The Wall Street Journal reports.“

Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests.”

Source: Instagram’s Algorithm Promotes and Connects ‘Vast’ Network of Pedophiles | PetaPixel

These companies, Alphabet, Meta, Disney, etc. are all run by hardcore leftists who are actively supporting the hyper-sexualization of young children in the classroom, online, in entertainment, and in the media. The only way to stop them is to leave them for the parallel economy. Cancel your Facebook, leave Google, get off TikTok, boycott Disney. Anheuser-Busch and Target demonstrate that it can be done, but it is up to each one of us to stop being complacent.

LA Dodgers’ partnership with radical LGBT activists draws Catholic ire: ‘Perverted, sexual and disgusting’ | Fox News

Catholics are slamming the LA Dodgers for their “alarming and dangerous normalization of anti-Catholic bigotry” after the major league team plans to honor an activist group known for shocking protests.

The baseball team announced they will honor the LA-based branch of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an activist group of “queer and trans nuns,” with the “Community Hero Award” before their upcoming June 16th game to celebrate LGBTQ pride month.

Members of the group, formed on Easter Sunday in 1979, are known for attending left-wing protests dressed up in mock nun outfits to advocate for anti-Catholic messaging including on abortion.

“The Dodger’s choice to honor a blatantly perverted, sexual and disgusting anti-Catholic hate-group signals an alarming and dangerous normalization of anti-Catholic bigotry that should not be tolerated,” the Brian Burch, CatholicVote president, said in a statement Tuesday. “The ‘Sister’s’ evil and disturbing behavior makes a mockery of Catholic religious across the nation, the majority of whom have dedicated their lives to prayerfully and physically supporting, caring for and loving our nation’s most forgotten, unloved and desperate.”

CatholicVote called out the “blatantly anti-Catholic hate group” and said Americans “should be deeply concerned,” highlighting ongoing attacks on Catholic churches.

“All Americans, especially Catholics, should be deeply concerned that the Dodger’s feel comfortable platforming such a grotesque and blatantly anti-Catholic hate group at a time when Catholic Churches across our nation are already suffering a wave of violent attacks instigated by pro-abortion radicals,” Burch said, referring to recent attacks on the Catholic community in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Source: LA Dodgers’ partnership with radical LGBT activists draws Catholic ire: ‘Perverted, sexual and disgusting’ | Fox News

The continuing leftist politicization of professional sports is a fascinating study of human nature. Compare the lack of effective social backlash against professional sports for woke behavior to the complete evisceration of Anheuser-Busch for their brief partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. Switching the beer you drink is not a real sacrifice. Can anyone really tell the difference between Bud, Coors, Miller, Schlitz, and PBR? It is easy to boycott Bud because there are literally dozens of non-Anheusder-Busch beers within arms reach at the store. Giving up the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, PGA, and MLS seems to be a bit harder for some reason.

I really enjoyed professional football and basketball. I liked the entertainment value they provided. We all like to be entertained, and many of us to the point of addiction. When it comes time to give up our sports on principle, we struggle with it. The NBA is a very woke, pro-China sports league. The NFL took a knee during the National Anthem. The NHL tried cramming LGBTQISS2mapsilentP++Brony down the throats of their players and fans. Major league baseball has been pushing NeoLiberal leftism for years. ESPN is taking testosterone blockers. Everything they are doing is far worse than Anheuser-Busch’s foray into woke advertising. The question is why can’t red blooded, patriotic Americans walk away from sports the way they walked away from Budweiser? I did it.

Vermont State regulators: Pattern of closures, understaffing at Walgreens locations led to consumer hardship, errors | Business | reformer.com

MANCHESTER — A scathing 40-page complaint filed by state regulators seeks discipline against Walgreens Pharmacy, up to and including revoking the chain’s license to dispense medication in Vermont.

Source: State regulators: Pattern of closures, understaffing at Walgreens locations led to consumer hardship, errors | Business | reformer.com

The complaint alleges that the company unreasonably restricted consumer access to medication by closing stores without notice; that it failed to comply with federal and state professional standards; and that it engaged in “conduct of a character likely to deceive, defraud or harm the public.”

The complaint further alleges Walgreens “failed to comply on an egregious scale” with state law by operating stores without a pharmacist-manager present, including locations in Bellows Falls and on Canal Street in Brattleboro.

This needs to happen on a nationwide basis. Virtually everyone I worked with over my 13 years with the company have quit because of poor working conditions. Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer is compensated over 28 million dollars a year, enough to pay for over 150 pharmacists, and has done nothing to improve working conditions for her pharmacy staff. If anything, she is making it worse than it already was.

Do You Want a Search Engine That Does Not Track You and Censor Content?

Full disclosure – I do not generate any revenue from this blog. This is not an advertisement, it is a recommendation.

For those who stumble across this blog, I am confident you find it neither extreme or irrational. Even my politically incorrect content is well thought and grounded in reality. I simply refute the popular, neoliberal “woke” narratives with simple truths. Truths like:

• The severe decline of active, faithful Christians, especially among our younger generations, is a major contributor to the fraying of the moral fiber and disintegration of the rule of law in western society.
• Conservative, white men are not what’s wrong with America.
• Suicide is a mental health problem, not a gun problem.
• Traditionally over 60% of gun deaths occur in 12% (359 of 2922) of American counties, and each one of those counties supports the Democrat party and the neoliberal, SJW, BLM agenda. That number jumped to about 70% in 2020 as Democrat controlled counties and cities saw record increases in murder rates due to their political castration of law enforcement.
• America’s gun violence culture primarily exists within the black culture that exists in Democrat dominated, neoliberal cities like Baltimore and Chicago.
• The legalization of marijuana products is negatively impacting America, especially black America.
• Intact families with fathers are the basis of a stable, healthy society.
• We have a two tier judicial system based on political and religious ideologies.
• Besides nuclear energy, there is no green energy that can support the energy needs of 8,000,000,000 people.
• Communist China is an evil, genocidal, authoritarian government.
• Israel and Taiwan have the right to exist.
• There is not a single Muslim country on planet Earth that enjoys the western ideals of freedom and liberty.
• There are only two genders.
• By definition, abortion is murder, it is just that some people are okay with it.
• President Biden is clearly suffering age-onset cognitive impairment with significant memory loss.
• Legacy media outlets, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, BBC, NPR, et al, are neoliberal propaganda – fake news.
• Personal privacy really does matter.
• Big technology companies like Google are corporate theocracies that believe it is their sacred duty to control and censor the free exchange of legitimate ideas when those ideas challenge the theocracy’s preferred social narrative.

And Google hates me for it. Since 2016, my Google referrals have dropped 95%. A company, that if I used their products, would happily track me, package me, and sell the copyright of my life to any interested buyer, has done their utmost to bury my content in the deepest recesses of an abandoned coal mine then dynamite the entrance. If it were not for the DuckDuckGo search engine, I would be utterly invisible. Since 2014, my DuckDuckGo referrals have increased 25X. That’s right, not only does DuckDuckGo respect everyone’s privacy by not tracking and selling personal information, they do not censor internet searches or shadow-ban sites.

Google currently has about 90% of the search engine market. DuckDuckGo has about a 0.6% market share. I have been using DDG for some time and find their search results equal to or better than Google’s, and they do not steal from me or shadow-ban my content. It is a win-win. Give them a try.

Here are four things you can do to disentangle yourself from Google:

• Switch to DDG.
• Switch your browser to Firefox.
• Purchase a private email service – they are really cheap.
• Get a VPN – once again, they are cheap and do a lot to protect your privacy.

Facebook blocks ads for Five for Fighting’s new ‘Blood on My Hands’ song that blasts Biden White House for Afghanistan disaster – Politico Fire

Source: Facebook blocks ads for Five for Fighting’s new ‘Blood on My Hands’ song that blasts Biden White House for Afghanistan disaster – Politico Fire

America was built on the foundational freedom to criticize one’s leaders and hold them accountable. It is what separates us from our communist and dictatorship adversaries. How else can we as a nation learn from our mistakes and make better decisions moving forward without honest reflection on our actions? To date, I have not seen that accountability. – John Ondrasik, Five for Fighting

If you have not heard about John’s new song, Blood on My Hands, you are not alone. You are in the company of over 2.8 billion Facebook users. Facebook has made the unilateral decision to censor legitimate political dissent… legitimate criticism of the Biden administration… based solely on Emperor Zuckerberg’s personal ideology. If this disaster, this national embarrassment, this utter betrayal of the Afganis who put their lives on the line to help us, had occurred under President Trump’s watch, Facebook would be singing Ondrasik’s song from the mountain tops.

While I find it perfectly believable that most of our mainstream, Fake News media has disconnected the Biden administration from accountability from all the damage he has done to this country in just a short seven month period, it makes me heartsick that these journalists have refused to break from the steady drumbeat/lockstep of the cult of neoliberalism even in these days of national shame. The Afghanistan withdrawal disaster would have never occurred under Trump’s watch. If you have an active Facebook account, I hope you embed this video front and center for everyone to see.

Overworked, understaffed: Pharmacists say industry in crisis puts patient safety at risk

“We’re going to have a fatal error somewhere,” said a pharmacy technician in New York, “because we’re doing too many things at once.”

Source: Overworked, understaffed: Pharmacists say industry in crisis puts patient safety at risk

The only problem with this article is it is five years too late. Nationwide state boards of pharmacy, as well as professional organizations such as APHA have turned a blind eye to the horrid work conditions that evil-doers such as Walgreens and CVS force on the industry. I was a really good, efficient pharmacist and I made a difference in countless lives. For most of my career I practiced in the same neighborhood I grew up in and I always had time to listen to and take care of my patients, who were also my neighbors, friends, and family. With malice aforethought, Walgreens destroyed that just to make a buck.

Thinkin’ About Going to Pharmacy School? Don’t Do It!

I just wrapped up my thirty-year pharmacy career a few weeks ago. It is not that I did not have a little juice left in the tank to carry on a few more years, it is that working conditions in retail community pharmacy have become unbearable. I spent my last thirteen years working for Walgreens. In that time, they gradually cut pharmacy staff in half per prescription. The company stopped raises five years ago, and all newly hired pharmacists are taking substantial pay cuts. Benefits are a shell of what they were when I started with the company in 2007 and the demands the company makes on its pharmacists have become impossible to meet… even for the best of teams. It used to be hard work, and I sometimes enjoyed it. Today it is just an abusive relationship where pharmacists are treated like indentured servants. Do you recall the old saying, “The beatings will continue until morale improves!”? At Walgreens, it is just, “The beatings will continue.”

Why are they doing this, you ask? Simple answer, because they can. Here is pharmacy history 101.

Thirty years ago, as I was about to graduate, America had a lot of regional drug chains competing for new grads. Most of these chains were bent on organic growth, expanding operations to accommodate an aging population. Insurance plans still paid relatively well, and the work environment was relatively healthy. Then the industry had a convergence that created a shortage of pharmacists. At the same time when small and mid-sized chains were rapidly expanding, the industry lost an entire graduation class of pharmacists nationwide. Thousands. Before the 1990s, the standard pharmacy degree was a bachelor of science. In the early 1990s, every school across the nation began converting to doctoral programs producing the PharmD degree. This added an additional year to each program, thus the equivalent of losing an entire class.

The basic rules of supply and demand are, if something is in short supply, the price goes up. If the market has a glut, the price goes down. Easy idea, right? Well, from the early 1990s through about 2010, there was a relative shortage of pharmacists. Pharmacy chains were forced to do three unspeakable things.

• Treat their pharmacists with a modicum of respect.
• Give them regular raises to retain them as employees.
• Pay sign-on bonus’s to steal them from competitors.

You can imagine the amount of corporate resentment that built up over these years.

Nature abhors a vacuum. As a response to the shortage, universities all across the country began opening schools of pharmacy. I suspect major pharmacy chains, like Walgreens and CVS, donated significant funds to get these schools opened as a matter of self-interest. Students flooded these new schools, lured in by pharmacy’s reputation for high wages and job security. By the early 2010s pharmacy reached equilibrium, and since then there has been a growing glut of pharmacists to the tune of tens of thousands.

By 2015 a second convergence occurred. Chain pharmacy over-expanded in the 1990s. Organic growth, building shops from the ground up, is expensive. Add in the rising cost of hiring and retaining pharmacists, and it was a formula for financial trouble. Financial trouble is the root of mergers, acquisitions, and store closures. Out of school, I worked for Fred Meyer, a company involved in five mergers and acquisitions since 1980, ultimately becoming part of Kroger in 1998. I did not like Fred Meyer, so I signed on with an up-and-coming chain called Drug Emporium, who was then swallowed up by Longs Drugs, who was then swallowed up by CVS, who closed my store. I signed on with Walgreens, a company that gave up on organic growth a decade ago. Their expansion over the last ten years has been through mergers and acquisitions while closing underperforming locations.

The overall net result has been a contraction in community pharmacy by about two thousand shops nationwide over the past five years. Add to that the growing glut of new graduates, and job scarcity with lower wages are the results. All those students who took on enormous debt, hundreds of thousands of dollars for some, on the promise of good, stable, high wage jobs, are now scrambling to find any sort of work at all. They scour the nation for job openings and end relocating to Podunk, USA for a mercilessly high stress job at 70 cents on the dollar. For twenty-five years pharmacist wages beat the pants off of inflation. $20/hour in 1990, a typical pharmacist wage, adjusted for inflation, is $40/hour today. Pharmacy wages peaked in the $60/hour range in 2014. The industry, nationwide, plans on rolling all that back. By 2025 wages will likely drop to $35 to $40 per hour simply because of supply and demand. New grads need to readjust their expectations.

There are some healthcare careers worthy of passionate practitioners. Pharmacy is not one of them. Sure, there are a few clinical jobs where the pharmacist plays a key role in patient care, but the vast majority of jobs are retail jobs that combine elements of urgent care and fast food operations. Today’s pharmacists are the equivalent of the finest chefs from Europe stooping to manage a Denny’s to make ends meet. If you are thinking of applying to pharmacy school, don’t do it. Your student debt will effectively make you an indentured servant and you will be miserable.

With Google I am “There” and “Not There” at the Same Time

Quantum superposition. That’s the only answer. Schrödinger’s cat, both alive and dead at the same time. In this case, it is Google’s conservative blogger, both searchable and unsearchable at the same time.

If you search for:

Knight’s Dictionary of Real Definitions for Social Justice Vocabulary

I do not exist no matter how many pages you check. BUT…

If you search for:

“Knight’s Dictionary of Real Definitions for Social Justice Vocabulary”

I exist. Right off on page one. Front and center. All alone. Just 3 results.

If you use Google’s competitor, DuckDuckGo, and search for:

Knight’s Dictionary of Real Definitions for Social Justice Vocabulary

I exist at the top of page one, followed by hundreds of other results.

This is just another priceless example of Google, along with all the other big-tech players like Twitter and Facebook, engaging in censorship of conservative content. It explains why my Google referrals have dropped 90% and my readership has dropped 70% since 2016.

All I did was add quotation marks

 

No quotation marks needed at DuckDuckGo

Ten Anti-American Businesses to Boycott this Christmas Season

We live in a world filled with bad actors. As individuals, we can rarely affect their behavior. We are but a single vote… a single voice… a figurative grain of sand. I am voting anyway, and here is my list of companies I am singling out to never patronize and why.

Honorable Mention. Gillette – For engaging in blatant misandry. Proctor & Gamble is so large they are virtually impossible to boycott. They are everywhere, like an enormous, underground fungus. BUT you sure as hell should stop using all Gillette products. Click the link above. It will route you to an advertisement Gillette ran earlier this year. This ad is the definition of the hatred of men. If you think this sexist piece of trash is anything but a gross mischaracterization of manhood, you need to watch Cassie Jaye’s documentary, The Red Pill, then start your Gillette boycott.

10. Target – For continuing their fifteen-year ban on Salvation Army bell ringers during the Christmas season. During the holiday season of 2004, Target decided to ban one of the Salvation Army’s biggest charitable fundraisers, the Salvation Army bellringers and their red kettles. The Salvation Army is a charitable organization that helps the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of all teeming shores without thought of race, religion or status. If have you forgotten Target’s douchebaggery over the years, and stopped boycotting this soulless company and their odorous stores, it is time to start afresh. Oh Yeah, Target, I have not forgotten you took Christ out of Christmas.

9. Google’s YouTube – For demonetizing and outright banning content simply based on the publishers’ political viewpoints. This is a tough one. Rather than an outright boycott, I encourage everyone to search and watch as much conservative content on YouTube as possible, just to poke a stick in Google’s eye. You should still dump Gmail and all Google’s other products.

8. Pinterest – For blocking pro-life, anti-abortion publishers, calling them internet pornographers. If you are a Christian and/or a person of conscience, please quit using Pinterest and start using your own imagination. Seriously, do not sell out for “a million and one cute ideas.”

7. The NFL – For taking a knee during America’s National Anthem. Frankly, the NFL is so full of cheaters, thugs, and assholes, I stopped being a fan years ago. Now that, as an entity, the sum total of the NFL is catering to a few players who suffer from terminal Richard Head disease, the rest of America should follow by turning their backs to the NFL product. Go play with your children and grandchildren and teach them that America is a truly unique and great nation.

6. Facebook – For being rotten in every way. You (did not) read the amorphous terms of service and ever-shifting privacy notices, yet you know, deep in your heart, that Facebook is (an unnecessary) evil. It is time. DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT! I promise, you will not only survive, you will actually thrive.

5. Google – For stealing the copyrighted material of our lives and shadow-banning conservative voices. Boycotting Google is easier than you think. For pennies a day you can purchase your own private e-mail account where you are the customer instead of the product. You can also use privacy advocates such as startpage.com or duckduckgo.com as your search engine, and Firefox is a great browser. Absolutely painless. Fudge Google!

4. Comcast/MSNBC – For reasons very similar to boycotting AT&T/CNN. Americans should do their patriotic best to avoid using Comcast services and viewing Comcast subsidiary, MSNBC. MSNBC, especially the pathological Rachel Maddow and her oversized thumbs, have volunteered their time and talents to propagating the Deep State’s and the DNC’s gross misinformation campaign against the duly elected President of the United States. You can delete both enterprises from your life without consequence.

3. AT&T/CNN – For aiding and abetting the attempted soft coup against the duly elected POTUS and trading American values for those of the communist Chinese government. AT&T, the telecom/media giant, owns the failing Barony of Fake News, the alethephobic CNN, and therefore supports the Kingdom of the Deep State and a soft coup against the duly elected president of the United States of America. AT&T also owns Warner Bros Studios who, like Hollywood’s five other major movie studios, actively adhere to strict communist China censorship requirements when producing films for American consumption in order to profit off of Red China and its estimated 3,800,000 million slaves. SKIP THE THEATER THIS YEAR and read a book. George Orwell comes to mind.

2. Nike – For ignorantly disrespecting the Flag of the United States of America, and then willfully disrespecting the Flag of the United States of America. In a matter of a few short years, Nike went from being All-American to unapologetically un-American. Nike 86ed their planned release of a shoe featuring the Betsy Ross flag, not because placing our flag on a pair of sneakers disrespects the flag (it does, by the way. Only a profoundly ignorant person would place a flag where it will inevitably get left in the dark and dragged through the mud. Just saying), rather Nike pulled the plug on their ill-conceived attempt at patriotism because an overly indulged, failed athlete named Colin Kaepernick, gets triggered and melts down when he sees anything remotely pro-American. Kaepernick cried and Nike’s Betsy Ross flag shoe died. There is nothing Nike makes that you can’t purchase from their competitors. SHOP ELSEWHERE!

1. The NBA – For sacrificing freedom for profit. After Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey briefly tweeted support for Hong Kong’s efforts to remain free of Communist China, Lebron James, speaking for the entirety of the NBA organization, put the values of Communist China and its approximately 3.8 million slaves, above Truth, Justice and the American Way… for money. Welcome to Uncle NBA’s Cabin, where rich, pampered black men profit from one of the globe’s biggest slave plantations. With a little luck, one day the descendants of the people of Communist China will be free so they can sue for reparations from these people of (not yellow) color. If you want a basketball fix, go support your local high school.

Welcome to Social Government: How the Left Plans to Bypass Democracy – Spinquark.com

This is tampering with our electoral process in the most insidious fashion through suppression of the average American citizen’s access to conservative voices on the internet. I encourage you, the reader, to click through and read Spinquark’s research. It is the exposure of the reality of shadow banning and it is frightening.

“Progressive Democrats using big tech companies to stifle our free speech should be the most important discussion of this generation.”

#SocialGovernment

Source: Welcome to Social Government – Spinquark.com

Rumors of Shadow Banning

Left hand axis is the number of posts. Right hand axis is Google referrals. After four years of steadily improving traffic, the coincidence between the election of President Trump, Google executive Jen Gennai’s comments, and the decline in this blog’s visibility is hard to overlook.

Who knows if my blog is being shadow banned or not, as it is a just minor conservative endeavor, but my Google referrals have dropped over 70% in the last 18 months despite steady publication of quality, rational, well researched conservative articles. In light of Google Exec Jen Gennai’s comments about “Preventing the next Trump situation,” it may be more than a coincidence.

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10 Lies That Shape the Minds of Social Justice Warriors and NPCs

1. Conservative, White Men are the Source of “Toxic Masculinity,” Social Violence and Murder in America.

There are fifteen American communities, the bastion’s of America’s Progressive philosophies, that uniformly voted for Hillary Clinton and everything she represents. It is no surprise their cities are Hell on earth. There are seventy-six American communities that are uniformly rejected Hillary Clinton. Can you imagine living in a place where you really don’t need to lock your door?

Leave the Zuck and Facebook Alone!

I do not use Facebook. I dislike the company and would never agree to their terms of service. There is a long-standing rule on the internet that, if it is free to you, you are the product. It is the same with broadcast television and radio, and if you think the paltry sum you pay for your newspaper subscription cover the cost of production, you are mistaken. Advertisers pay for our eyes and ears, they target our demographics, and blast us with adverts in hopes of selling us everything imaginable. That is the game.

Here is the bottom line. We need air to breath, food, water and shelter. We need energy. We need transportation, whether it is our two feet, a horse, a car, or a bus. We need reliable means of communication. Telephones and internet access are necessary in our society. These are all things we “need.” NO ONE NEEDS FACEBOOK.

Facebook serves no real need or purpose. It is a toy. It is an insidious toy, but it remains a toy. It is not a public utility, an investment bank, or a drug manufacturer. Facebook does not manufacturer anything. It is just a public forum where people voluntarily sign away the copyright of the their lives in what amounts to a very public Christmas letter they update every day. Deep down inside, every adult user knows what Facebook is, and they accept the terms of service in exchange for the fancy toy. If you are suddenly having a crisis of conscience, delete your account. You might go through withdrawal, but that just means you are an internet junkie. Zuck is not to blame. He is just running a business, and you agreed to the terms of service.

Fake News!!

This video by Andrew Klavan is a brilliant, concise explanation of American and global journalism’s intellectual dishonesty. When fake journalist Mika Brzezinski mocked the size of genitalia of the duly elected President of the United States of America, equipment she has NEVER seen, the INTERNATIONAL, GLOBAL STORY was not about what a stupid, disrespectful bitch this vain, fake blond with brown eyebrows is, but about that the POTUS smacked her right back, calling her vain and old. Two real truths, since she is a FIFTY YEARS OLD WOMAN parading as a twenty-nine year old Marilyn Monroe clone. At least Trump’s tweet was truthful.

Does Raising the Minimum Wage Cause an Increase in Unemployment?

Between 1950 and 2012 America’s unemployment rate has been between a low of 2.9% in 1953 and a high of 10.4% in 1983, with a median of 5.7%. The Federal minimum wage, adjusted for inflation (2013 dollars), has ranged from a low of $5.95 in 2006 to a high of $10.70 in 1968, with a median of $7.47. The government has increased the minimum wage 14 times between 1950 and 2012. According to many right-wing, capitalist voices, such as radio journalist Lars Larson, every time we raise the minimum wage, unemployment rates will rise and businesses will fail as a result. Is it true?

The quick answer is no, but that is not necessarily a justification to raise the minimum wage beyond small adjustments for inflation.

Between 1950 and 2013 the government raised the minimum wage 14 times. Unemployment rates actually fell 8 out of 14 times.

Originally, our government enacted a minimum wage standard to stop wealthy industrialists from raping the American worker. Today the purpose of a minimum wage is to provide a young kid with no skills, or a disabled worker, a base wage that gives them a sliver of human dignity. It is a place to start, not a long-term survival strategy.

The national rate of unemployment does not seem to respond to raising or lowering the minimum wage.

Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is about the same as it was in 1950, the buying power of about $7.25/hour. Between 1950 and 1969 America’s full time, minimum wage was about 95% of the median wage. That means, for those two decades, almost 50% of jobs in America were essentially minimum wage jobs.

While it does not reflect increases in worker productivity, and has not kept pace with the raises the top 1% have afforded themselves, since 1980 the gap between minimum and median wage has steadily grown.

Today’s median American income is the same as a full-time, $13.00/hour job. That is $3.50/hour better than the nation’s highest minimum wage, Washington D.C.’s rate of $9.50/hour. Only 4.3% of American workers are paid the federal minimum. Once you factor in the cost of non-wage compensation, things like employer subsidized health insurance, today’s yearly wages and benefits are significantly better for 96% of Americans than in 1950. That is why America’s “poor” can usually afford lattes, smart-phones, high-speed internet, Xbox and Netflix, in addition to the traditional beer and cigarettes.

While wages certainly have not increased at the same rate as worker productivity, and the wealth gap between the top 1% and the rest of us has become vast chasm fueled by extreme greed, no one can rationally say that America’s working poor, as a group, are not better off today than 30 or 60 years ago. All that time, the minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, has essentially been flat.

Plenty of states with high minimum wages have low unemployment while plenty of states who use the federal minimum wage have high unemployment.

In today’s America, most minimum wage jobs are found in small, Mom & Pop operations run by your next-door neighbor, like restaurants, landscaping services, small retailers, family farms and the like. These businesses often run on very thin profit margins, and their owners are rarely fabulously wealthy. These are the businesses most affected by increases in the minimum wage. They can handle inflationary increases, but if you think a small, independent business can suddenly absorb the difference between $8.00/hour and $15.00/hour, think again. Unfortunately, when they go out of business, they hardly make a statistical ripple in the economy. While their existence is important to the spirit of America, they do not mean spit to our GDP.

Years with low unemployment rates have the same affective minimum wages as year with high unemployment.

And that is why raising the minimum wage does not now, nor has it in the past had a statistically significant impact on unemployment and business failures in America. No one in their right mind can pin any economic bust on the wages of the least among us. It is the captains of industry and banking, along with political spendthrifts, who are responsible for all our busts, not some kid stocking shelves at the local market.