Winning the Internet

This comment wins the Internet today:

So @ATFHQ, do I have to actually cut my dick off to get supplies like this, or can I fake it? Just talk with a gay lisp for a little bit and casually mention I’m on SSRI’s? How does this work?

We Will Learn on the Fly

The left thinks people who don’t live in cities are stupid, uneducated hicks. Therefore, farming is an easy task undertaken by morons. Anyone can do it, therefore:

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.

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.

Holy Cow

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

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.

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.

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?