Damn, dunno, and “I shouldn’t be surfin’ ” Veterans Day
Before I even get a’goin’ on my thoughts, I want you to give this dood a watch/listen (he has a great voice for this stuff) Yes, You’ll have to click over to Utooby to watch,,, Embed not allowed.
OHbeeKaybee,,, ya Back? Good. Do I Fisk this apart, or do I just toss in my two cents? I don’t really like fisking: it pisses people off (and sometimes deservedly) BUT, I do have an opinion here. (and despite what you may think along the read, The Gentleman in the vid and I hit the exact same point at the end,,,,)
Some of the parts I agree completely, but I had to resist the black pill feelings I was getting. Yes, NeoFeudalism with a (crappy)customer service plan sums up this modern world. BUT THERE IS A WAY OUT,,,, Follow along,,,,,
First up, TINVOWOOT,,,, There is No voting our way out of this. Point being something I saw this AM about Repugnicans re-instating all the DOGE removed FedEmps in order to get the Gov Unshuttered. Wait, WHAT?!?!?! IF TRUE, oh for FUCKS SAKE ,,, They just pissed all over MAGA,,,, PISSED!! with battery acid added.
Why do we even have Political Parties?
Don’t answer that,,,, I know, its ALL ILLUSION,,, Virtual Opium for the masses to make them feel better about their miserable narcissistic lives,,,,
Ok, I will fisk some of his missive above. He starts off saying there was no meteor strike you can point at to show “here is where it all began”,,, I have to disagree there, I can point to a a couple possible points there. Back in 1865 for one, when the Federal Government shifted roles and became “THE” were before it was “these”,,, That’s one. The other was in 1913 with the adoption of the Federal Reserve act, and national income tax. When the Money was ‘farmed out’ to a private corporation, culpability was shifted off the shoulders of Big Brother. When any group can righteously do the pointing of fingers instead of taking the blame,,,, I don’t think I need to say anymore about that though, do I? Just remember, It ain’t FEDERAL, and it most definitively AIN’T a Reserve anymore. (has anyone actually laid eyes on the stolen gold in Fort Knox? Asking for a friend.)
At the 11 minute mark (or so) he states “We’re all raised to believe that Success equals Happiness, that failure is an unforgivable flaw. If you are struggling, you didn’t want it bad enough, as if Poverty is a personality trait.”. This only reinforces what I have to say next. But I want to say this about that. IF YOU DEPEND ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF OTHERS, TO VALUE YOURSELF, YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE!!! Happiness is so fleeting as to be a drug. Learn to be CONTENT,,, a baseline, not the peak of a sinewave, because that peak has a negative side coming at you, just as fast. Definitely enjoy your wins, but don’t base your world on them,,, Find your baseline: work up!
I’m not gonna lie, the above missive is one that I have often had in me own head. PROBLEM: I have been in several other countries, and, well, NO,,, just NO! There are NO greener Pastures,,,, Thats illusion too!
Wanna know how to be TRULY free? It’s not hard,,, well, not true,,, there’s a lot of hard work involved,,, And thats what scares most modern Peeps off. That “Work” word,,, We are a people that have bought the ‘Freedom TM” product for so long, most of us have no clue what the word even means anymore. (and yes, I used his point there,,, it worked for what I want to say.).
Freedom is knowing that there is NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME BUT YOURSELF, and accepting that fact with the same zeal that a born again Christian accepts Jesus,,, THATS IT
THATS IT,,, nothing more but obviously the most difficult action for most people.
Gonna shift directions, but it applies,,,,
I want to point out a little viral vid making its rounds.
Look at the boys face,,, I say ‘boy’ as if he were immature, but he was much more mature than the POS that he K.O.ed. That face is screaming,” I want to be somewhere VERY far from here right now”, but he stood, he RESPONDED (not reacted) and didn’t take it past that point,,, He was still at the ready when POS hit the floor: restrained but ready. THATS Warrior Mentality there,,, This man (the boy, he earned his manhood here)is an example of how we should teach ALL OF OUR CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY,,, The problem being, the family was broken up and shattered by TAXES and INDOCTRINATION,,, Women were pulled out of the homes to do jobs to cover the gaps created by taxes, inflation and other aspects of the money supply that have nothing to do with TRUE CAPITALISM,,,, (its always government,,, ALWAYS). The family was broken by promise of continuing care after a certain age, further breaking up the Family ways, where the Grands would help raise/educate the kids while the parents did the things to keep the roof overhead and food on the table. Oft-times, the kids themselves would have some responsiblities towards those goals as well. Generational education AT HOME,,, Right and wrong were handled by the FAMILY
not some indoctrinated over educated moron with a degree and a paycheck, out of sight of the family,,,, We lost a lot of that with the Communist additions of the FDR years after the Great Depression. Guaranteed Social Retirement became a drug that helped further break the American Family into our current nuclear mess (MY OPINION OF COURSE,,,) (and I could go on about other social downfalls from that ‘GSR’, this isn’t the post for that though.)
BUT, I’m not going to stop there,,,
There is also a SERIOUS problem with our food supply,,, And I think this has a lot to do with our current situation in this country. There are some voices out there in the wild that are on the soapboxes about it, RFKjr for one,,, And you’ll note, there is a louder form of heckling in his direction,,, Wonder why that is? Maybe the fact that he is RIGHT?
I think he is. And while I hate lecturing, I can tell you the results of my own personal experience the last 6 weeks. Yes, I have been on this diet since September,,, I’m sitting at 180# currently, I DO need to start working on rebuilding the muscle areas,,, So that weight will start to go back up,,, in a way I have more control over, and not around me middle section.
BUT,,, WHAT HAD THE BIGGEST EFFECT? I eliminated HFCS, everything that had Modified Corn starch or Modified”food” starches. I eliminated ALL seed oils, or seed based processes,,, Especially getting away from CORN products in general. I threw out $100 or more worth of ‘food’ stuff because it wasnt really FOOD,,,. All of this stuff wasn’t for sale in the late 70’s, it started becoming a thing late in the 80’s and really took off as the Corporate Profits made many ‘look the other way’.
Yes, some of the meats I eat are likely raised on corn products,,,, I don’t know if that makes a difference: some ‘experts’ will say yes,,, I don’t know. If in doubt, go grass fed/finished. It does taste different, not as much fat on it and that says something too, doesn’t it?
And I had one day where I ‘slipped’ because I just didn’t want to deal with a meal prep. The next day, the way I felt, just 24 hours later,,, OhGawd,,, EVERYTHING hurt,,, knees, back, shoulders, wrist, elbow, my neck, MY HEAD,,,, I have been slowly detoxing, and that one day put it all right back,,,, It was akin to the worst hangover EVER,,,
Are you wondering what’s got my ire up this AM? Not just that video,,, I REMEMBER,,,, I remember what a day at the beach was like in the early 80’s. (the image says 1960, but those are late 70’s haircuts and styles) I see people struggling with weight, and making excuses (“I’m just genetically dispositioned like this.”) or all of the Ozempic commercials flyin’around. A drug that EU has banned in contrast to our banning things, like steriods, that they sell over the counter,,,, I REMEMBER
Yah, it might be cherry picked,,,, Ask yourself though: did they have to reach very far to get the cherry?
WE have been fed a diet of lies, between the Bullshit promises of Poly-tickians, whom were bought and paid for by Big Agra and Big Pharma. To the NOT FOOD that is sold to us as FOOD on our store shelves and every damned fast food joint on every corner of this country, supplied by that Big Agra, with ‘treatments’ for the illnesses, provided at HIGH COST by Big PHarma.
Spit it out,,, its poison,
all of it.
It takes some work, but you can eat HEALTHY, and for not much more than you already do. You WILL have to prepare it yourself,,, because no one else cares,,,,
and the healthier your diet, the clearer your head gets. Believe me, it DOES,,,, You start seeing things differently; you’ll find your mind is running at break neck speeds, clearer, more focused. Not scattered over the horizons of distraction, dopamine hits and depression.
You can break free from the rat race, without pursuing the dreams of Elon. It’s called SELF-DISCIPLINE,,, Don’t buy that crap you don’t need,, it’s that simple. Look at it like you look at prepping,,,, Does this serve more than one purpose? How many functions does it provide to my end goal? (like me and Twuck. How many purposes does she fill? I can’t even count them all. Bare assed Guess; at least 5 broad brushed ones. The benefits far outweigh the expenditure.) I am not saying you need to play into the hustle culture. You just need to stay focused on what YOUR goals are, not compromise because the bosses say so. YOU,,,,,
And stop beating yourself up everyday because you didn’t quite make ‘the list’. YOU and you alone spend the most amount of time in your head: no one else. Stop being abusive about it.
Don’t treat mistakes as failures,,, use them as learning tools to keep climbing.

In counter to that thought, ask yourself this question: IS this purely entertainment factor? or more specifically, ‘is this to distract me from my miserable existance?’
If you answer yes to that last, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Fantasizing about moving your ass afar is RUNNING AWAY,,,, and guess what, You can run, but you can’t hide: you will always catch up to yourself. I ran away for years and even now, there are times where I want to run again. I know better now.
Don’t like the way you live? Ok, whats eating at you about that? If its that you aren’t where you think you deserve to be? Maybe you need to shut off the propaganda machines for a while and get in touch with YOUR priorities. Not that “Dream” bullshit that you have to be hyponotized into believing anyway. Take a vakay, but not the usual way. Take that money you were gonna spend to fly somewhere and spend mad money on 5star hotels, to make yourself feel like a rockstar or something; take that money, and start driving,,, stop at the little greasy spoons, listen to people, ask questions, have a beer with someone you would never have met otherwise. Eat something that aint’ on the menu where you normally eat. Take a risk and do something out of the ordinary for you.
And ACCEPT the fact that the ‘blanks’ you are filling in, are YOUR FAULT, not those of the media liars. YOU chose to listen to that bullshit: the Sirens song is all they have,,, you choose to listen or not. Stop accepting that bullshit as YOURS, It ain’t! It was programming, applied from day one, and continually reinforced over the years. YOU CHOOSE to accept the programming,
or not,,,
Take the baby steps, Accept your self ownership, take the blame for your own fuck ups, be ready to stand your ground and KO that asshat that needs it.
If we all do that, We WILL be free again. and we won’t need to run away anymore. We might be scared shit-less, wanting to be far away, somewhere other than here,
But We WILL stand our ground.

and this might mean something again
Live
Learn
LOVE
Laugh
LOAD!

The TL: DR,,, You can’t fix ANYONE, excepting yourself. AND, Until you want to change with every fiber of your being, You’ll fuck off, procrastinate, and make excuses. THERE ARE NO SILVER BULLET PILLS TO MAKE LIFE ALL SWEETNESS AND LIGHT,,, Humans are not built for comfort, we are built to strive. Reduce us to creature comforts and we fall the fuck apart: look around and see if that doesn’t explain a thing or two.





Yeah, Bro….. Mikee remembers, too! A most excellent post for Veterans Day. Don’t see 1 dam thing to argue about in it, either. I’m not one of those finger pointers, meself. Do have a tendency to point at the mirror, however. And that part about only YOU can change YOU – not someone else, is right on the $.
Don’t even remember how many jobs that I’ve been sent packing from – just because (me being me) some dum ass foreskin told me to do sumthin that wuz flat out wrong, and/or dangerous – I haz a tendency to be mouthy like that.
Way too many peeplz just accept – whatever – is easiest, and not – at least attempt – to do anything to make it right. Yeah, I realize that I haz a tendency to have some difficulty making the werdz match the thinks, but it’s whut I got. Sorry – NOT – sorry ’bout others feelz if’n I’m offensive. Nor do I really give a flyin’ f**k ’bout whut others think ’bout me – ‘ceptin fer a VERY dam few, anyway. Nuff said.
5 L’s!
Y’all take care,
Mike in FLA.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:46 am
”IF YOU DEPEND ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF OTHERS, TO VALUE YOURSELF, YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE!!!”. No truer words have been spoken. Something I have been struggling with. Something I have been working on. Basing my worth on what others think of me. Your words struck home and hopefully now I can be free.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:26 am
part of the problem is in the programming you rcvd as a child; that your ‘worth’ was your value to others, to not be selfish, etc. It was wired in us as if ‘self worth’ was narcissistic. turn it around, if you can’t help YOU first, how can you help others? If your own self worth is crap, others will crap all over you, in other words.
I write from the hip, but there are times what I write, I can tell, ‘someone needs to hear this’, though I rarely know who. I hope it does help you break free.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:46 am