You Can't Silence Us

Iceberg

The Titanic was doomed before its construction was even complete. Design flaws combined with low quality steel and poor piloting decisions doomed that ship. The only question was when.

The nation founded in 1788 lasted 73 years before being replaced in a Federalist coup. The Civil War destroyed the premise of United States when the Confederate states were taken by military force and returned to the “union” by dictate. I remain convinced that Lincoln was the first Ruler of the American Empire. The golden age was in the 1950s, and by the time it completed its crowning achievement of landing on the moon, it was already in decline.

Under the Feudal system, people living under a rulers “protection” had to spend 2 days each week working for their “lord” and pay a bit to him from the other days, so that a peasant paid his lord about a third of his productive labor in what we would call taxes. They got off easy. Our effective tax rate approaches 50%.

Even that will soon end as we are crushed under the weight of illegal immigrants and their offspring. The Supreme Court just ruled that every pregnant third world refugee who squirts out a child is entitled to stay here and feed from the public trough.

As I have been saying, Trump was nothing more than a bump in the road. The Democrats are soon to win the midterms. The nation I was born in, as flawed as it was, is over.

Poor design combined with bad decisions and crooked politicians have doomed the dream of our founding fathers even before any of us were even born.

Call this black pilled, call it doom saying. I call it math. No nation can survive unending handouts and unlimited spending. As the money runs out, the law becomes more desperate to maintain control, more despotic.

It’s going to get worse. Much worse. It’s inevitable- the rest is rearranging deck chairs. We have a front row seat to observe the end.

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By Divemedic, ago

DEI Hire

Remember the woman who was fired by Chase bank after stealing a trash can? Her resume was posted online, and I managed to secure a copy of it. It appears to be an older resume from before her time at The Infatuation and then Chase, but I’m posting it here to show all of you what DEI does to get people positions they are nowhere near qualified for.

This woman has an associate’s degree from a community college in Broward County, Florida, but is sitting there in an executive position for Chase bank while pulling down $250,000 or more per year. She most recently held the title of Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce, a bullshit role that does little except give jobs to uneducated people based upon race. She assumed that job after working on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at companies including The Infatuation (which Chase acquired), and Squarespace.

As a manager who has read many resumes, this one is pure fluff. No direct examples of anything, just vague over arching nonsense. Her resume is mostly a string of stupid buzzwords, yet her resume shows 5 dots for “communication.”

This is pure DEI bullshit, where people get jobs they are totally unqualified for, except for the color of their skin.

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By Divemedic, ago

Holy Cow

This is how NOT to train with firearms. What live fire range is dumb enough to allow this?

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By Divemedic, ago

You’ve Heard of Free Speech?

I guess the cops that read here will call this “more anti cop bullshit” but I still call them like I see them, and this is unconstitutional as hell:

Saying someone will be arrested for calling a tranny “sir” is a violation of the First Amendment. End. Full stop.

EDITED TO ADD: This isnt one Ft Worth cop. Its apparently department policy.

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By Divemedic, ago

My Solution

Make an announcement:

Return to your cells immediately. In 5 minutes’ time, any inmate found outside of their cell will be shot for attempting escape.

Then sweep through the jail and shoot every single inmate found out of their cells. You could stream the body cam on pay per view and allow betting on which inmates would be shot. Relieve overcrowding, make money for the jail, end the riot all in one afternoon.

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By Divemedic, ago

Cost

A comment to my post on cashing in:

Very enlightening. Up to now, I assumed it was big pharma and greedy insurance companies that caused health care costs to skyrocket. The correct answer, as it turns out, is all of the above; everything connected to healthcare.

No offence to oldvet, this post isn’t an attack upon him, but is a classic case of supply and demand. The ED wants to open, but there is a shortage of qualified nurses. They have no choice if they want to stay in business- by law, an emergency room has to be open 24/7. So they have to:

  • do whatever it takes to get qualified people to come in: that means paying enough to entice them or
  • lower standards and risk medical errors

Since the US has a climate of legal liability, medical care is a field that has zero room for errors. People who can treat patients without making a single error are rare and in high demand. That means there is a bidding war for their time.

Skilled people cost money, which is why it costs $165 to have a plumber snake a drain. No one wants to look up while having a medical emergency and see the cheapest nurse caring for them- they want the best, or at least someone who is good at what they do.

It takes 3-4 years to train a basic nurse. More than 3/4 of those who begin the education don’t make it.

Then it takes another year to train for the ED specialty. Two more years before they reach a point of proficiency without needing guidance and supervision.

Of the nurses here who manage that seven year slog, just over ten percent are good enough to be board certified in emergency medicine. Only a quarter of those have two board certifications.

In other words, of the 257,000 actively licensed RNs in Florida, 17,000 are Emergency Room nurses. Of ED nurses, only about 2500 of them are board certified. Only about 800 of them have two certifications.

Are two specialties really needed? Certified Emergency Nurse, sure. How about a nurse certified in stroke care? Pediatrics? Trauma? Vascular access? Critical care? Each of those is a subspecialty that is needed in the ED on a daily basis.

Now consider that there are 477 licensed emergency departments in Florida, all competing for those nurses. Everyone wants the best, so those who have multiple certificates and degrees demand (and get) top dollar. My last employer had 162 ED nurses and still didnt have enough for their patient load. That drives up costs.

They only way to eliminate the nursing shortage is to either lower demand or increase supply. Lowering demand isn’t going to happen. Raising supply can be done in two ways:

  • Raise pay
  • Lower standards

In today’s legal climate, lowering standards would actually cost more in increased litigation caused by more medical errors. In the ED, 95% of patient care is performed by nurses. We write orders for imaging, lab work, and treatment. What kind of provider do YOU want at your side during your next medical emergency?

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By Divemedic, ago

Tax and Spend

A recent post looked at the out of control spending of Cape Canaveral. Both parties are busy screaming about how the proposed elimination of homestead property taxes are going to cause police, fire, and schools to be shut down.

That’s a lie.

The problem isn’t police, fire, and schools, although I think we spend too much on those services. Cities and counties are busy spending money like a 16 year old who just found his dad’s credit cards. I want to give another example: Orlando.

In 2015, the city of Orlando has a population of 270,000 and a budget of $1.1 billion. That’s bad enough at $4,200 per resident, but let’s fast forward to 2025. In the year 2025, Orlando’s population had increased by 22% to 330,000, but the budget had increased by 63% to $1.8 billion, or $5,300 per resident.

The median household income in Orlando is $72,336. Median individual income is $43,312. The median property tax bill in Orlando is $3,413, or about 5% of annual household income. Too high.

This is the out of control spending that needs to be brought under control. For years, we have asked cities to control spending, but they have told us there is no room for cuts. Well, I am going to do my best to get this passed and force cities to make the cuts they should have made years ago.

The time of people who vote for a living stealing money from people who work for a living is going to come to an end in Florida if I have anything to say about it.

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By Divemedic, ago

Sucked In

In the ED where I work, I am one of only 18 nurses who work there. Two of those 18 nurses are PRN (I am one of them). Of those 18, two of them just got transferred to a different location, one just took a job in another department, and two quit. Doing the math, we just lost a quarter of our nursing staff. That tends to happen with nursing- it’s difficult to find good nurses, and competitors try to hire them away.

They are trying to hire more and have had a few interviews, but no one who has been offered the job has accepted. I’m guessing it’s because nursing pay in the area has climbed again and my employer is offering less than the candidates are being offered elsewhere. They will be forced to raise starting pay again, which is the only way to get a raise- about every two years, change jobs for more money.

At any rate, we still need to staff the place, and to do that, management has declared a critical need. When they do that, the bonuses come out. For the months of July and August, any shift you pick up in addition to your contract gets you a bonus: $33.33 per hour ($400 for a shift) on weekdays, $41.67 per hour ($500 for a shift) on weekends. Since I am PRN, I am only contracted to work one day per week, meaning that I get that bonus for every day that I work in a week beyond that first one. Even if I only work full time hours, I get $800-$1000 per week in bonuses.

The best part is that it is the slow season for emergency departments around the state, so our workload is low. High pay and low work? Of course I jumped on it. I am working a bunch this July, but I am going to make about $20,000 this month alone. When the August schedule gets done, I will try to do the same.

That just adds to the retirement fund. I will be busy, but still working less and making more than I would if I were full time.

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By Divemedic, ago