Mindconnection eNL, 2026-05-03

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• Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic for $250 million. Given how egregious their offense was, they will likely lose. Between that and the legal bills, this communist propaganda outlet will likely die. One more harmful parasite gone.
   
• President Trump signed the DHS funding bill that came to him via budget reconciliation rather than the normal process. The communists' 76 day shutdown of DHS finally ended. Their extortion attempt was costly in many ways, and the lesson that the Republicans should have learned is you cannot reason with insane people. As soon as the commies dug their heels in, the Republicans should have taken a drastic countermeasure such as ending the silent filibuster.
  
  The commies have been quite clear that they are conducting a war against America. Comrade Jeffries even used the phrase, "All out war, all the time" to rally the retards against conservatives. Why do Republicans act so stupidly all the time and pretend these America haters are reasonable when they say things like that--which they do all the time? Let us hope they thought long and hard about this problem during those 79 days.
   
• The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) exists to further black poverty by defrauding donors and using the funds for things such as secretly paying hate group leaders. This evil organization got indicted with 11 counts by a Federal Grand Jury, recently. One more parasite bites the dust.
   
• Anthony Fauci is now under federal investigation. His fake pre-emptive pardon from the Autopen "might" protect this psychopath from a conviction in federal criminal court, but the process of getting him there will open him  to civil suits, non-federal criminal suits, and criminal prosecution by the governments of other countries. I said several years ago he should have been hung in Nuremberg, so obvious and so blatant were his crimes that a conviction was a slam dunk. Here's an interesting video from a few years back (thanks to Steve Kirsch for sharing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pHjIbLf3k. The ordeal that is likely coming for Fauci will be warning to other criminally insane people that arrogance and criminal cartel connections will not protect you from the consequences of your bad behavior.
   
• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently struck down the requirement that members of the military get the (useless and harmful) flu shot. As noted in previous editions of this newsletter, the flu shot for the USA is developed each year against the flu strain experienced in Australia's flu season (their winter is the opposite time of year of ours, due to our being on opposite sides of the equator). In other words, it is guaranteed to not work! Mandating it has always been stupid, costly, and injurious. Ending this mandate was the only sensible choice.
   
• SCOTUS struck down a racist interpretation of the Voting Rights Act that the communist have relied upon for decades. And according to multiple analysts, this could cost the commies FORTY seats in the House. We sane people currently have a 3 seat majority. The commies vote in a block against anything good for American citizens and try to devise ways to harm us. They constantly spew vicious lies in an effort to undermine the legislative process, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. With a shift of 40 commies being replaced by 40 sane people, the balance changes by 80 in our favor. They have 40 fewer saboteurs, we have 40 additional representatives.
  
  However, this will have no effect on the Senate races in most states because those are a simple majority not won district by district. To fix the Senate problem, we need to take away the commies' sources of campaign funding. Much of that happened when we shut down various money-laundering operations that ran through USAID. And much of it has happened with the help of the commies themselves, when they decided to punish billionaires and high-end millionaires--their primary source of donations of both money and campaign fraud tools (see Zuckerberg's 2024 antics). They don't have the middle class, which they loathe, at all. The poor don't have money to donate, and they have alienated many of the wealthy.
  
  The Communist Party (aka "Democrat Party"), which has long been the Party of the Stupid, does not appear to have anyone of average or higher intelligence involved in it. We see morons like Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Cackling Kamala, Adam Schiff, and Gruesome Newsom in the headlines, and they always say profoundly STUPID things. One of the downsides of stupidity as a membership requirement is you lack the brains to do anything useful. And that is where the commies are today.

Protecting the Young and Middle-aged in the UK

The UK was among the first to ban the deadly mRNA jab that was dishonestly hyped as a "vaccine" against Covid. The initial ban limited this toxic shot to only those under 65, recognizing that it was experimental and dangerous with zero proven efficacy. The thinking was if you're mentally ill enough to take it and already old and dying of something anyhow, why not? So the UK protected its youth and the middle-aged.

The UK recently did something similar with a tobacco ban. As reported in 1440 Digest on 23 April, "The United Kingdom passed a bill this week to phase out the sale of tobacco nationwide. Anyone born after 2008 will be permanently barred from purchasing cigarettes, vapes, or heated tobacco when the bill becomes law next week, pending royal assent. Roughly 64,000 people die each year in England alone from tobacco-related causes. The cost to the UK healthcare system of smoking-related illnesses, including cancer and heart disease, amounts to around $4B annually. In addition to prohibiting vendors from selling tobacco to future generations, the bill requires smoke-free premises—including playgrounds, hospitals, and outside schools—to also become vape-free. A study found the new bill could reduce smoking prevalence in young people to below 5% by the late 2040s."

This goes against libertarianist views (let adults choose) and the individualist mindset in the USA. But what those with the libertarianist views tend to forget is the high cost is not borne just by the individual drug addict. If people signed a legally binding contract that barred them from taking sick days at work and from obtaining any sort of medical services, a draconion measure, they would still leave the rest of us holding a rather heavy bag. The same thing applies to highly processed foods, though HPF addicts are clearly in the majority while tobacco addicts are merely a very stinky sub group.

Passing laws protecting people from tobacco vis a vis the UK method is palatable. Passing laws protecting them from ingesting poison that is dishonestly marketed as "food" is not. So the solution is to change the marketing message, much as was done with cigarettes decades ago. You still get addicts, but at least people stand a fighting chance of saying no. Informed adults should have the right to choose, the problem is the adults are typically disinformed, gas lighted, and manipulated into making self-harming choices that also harm others.

Here in the USA, we already have Truth in Advertising Laws. Omitting the primary effect of a poison from your marketing message is not lawful (or moral). Merely enforcing existing laws would go a long way toward protecting the young and middle-aged, without sacrificing freedom of choice. Currently, we have only the illusion of the freedom of choice due to the aforementioned disinformation, gas lighting, and manipulation.

We should extend these consumer protection laws into voter protection laws. Require communists to fully disclose their ideological framework. Instead of being able to euphemize (lie) about their "economic" plans, they would need to disclose that they are trying the same failed policies that have impoverished 100s of millions of people ever since Marx had his brain fart episode.

Commie Stupidity

• Maxine "Ultra low IQ" Waters gets her idiocy challenged in public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cR1kK8Q_g. It may be hard to believe, but Stupid Maxine is even dumber than the ever-shrill ignoramus and moron Elizabeth Warren. You can see episode after episode from Politibrawl where she demonstrates what it means to be incredibly dumb. She never has facts, brings up discredited rumors, and talks over her opponent. Like Maxine, she's a bully who relies on theatrics instead of rational discourse.
   
• At the Communist Party's Michigan nominating convention, the commies chose Amir Makled over incumbent regent Jordan Acker for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Makled has been a very outspoken antisemitic and very outspoken supporter of Hezbollah. This is a particularly stupid move at a time when the Communist Party is short on funds and can't afford to alienate even more demographic sectors. Rich Jewish liberals, for example. There are no rich Muslim terrorists, and that's the side they have taken.
   
• Anti-Semite Graham Platner, who is challenging Republican incumbent Susan Coins in Maine for her Senate seat, called for closer ties with Communist China with furthering the Green New Scam as justification for that.
  
  Now, I don't know if all commies and commie sympathizers are ignorant enough to believe the absurdities underlying the Green New Scam, and if they are that is really sad. But here is a candidate who checks some big boxes for "not acceptable" and many retards will vote for him simply because he calls himself a "Democrat" and they have been gas lighted and brainwashed by lamestream media into believing that Republicans are evil and communists are awesome regardless of mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Commie Lies, Part 555,926,382 x 10 to the Quadrillionth Power

The lamestream media seem allergic to telling the truth. They referred to the recent assassination attempt as "a security incident". There was no security incident, there was man running past a check point with a loaded shotgun. He was there to attempt to assassinate the President (not speculation, he was sprinting toward the ballroom where the President and others were dining).

Commie Rule Ending?

On 21 April, the Senate moved a $78 billion plan ahead without communist consent to fund ICE and border Patrol. They used the budget reconciliation process to do it.

This doesn't just mean the Senate finally passed this one bill after months of being frustrated by treasonous morons. It also means they should no longer pretend the commies are sane or care about America and will eventually come around. It also means they should assume from the outset that to get anything done, they must take a path that bypasses the communists.

They can get a lot done between now and the midterms, and they should focus on passing legislation--without commie consent--that will help them increase their majority of seats. They can pass bits and pieces through the budget reconciliation process, and they can find other means (such as banning the silent filibuster) to pass the SAVE Act. When the 2027 Congress convenes, the remaining communists can oppose good legislation to score points with the Stupiderati, but they will not be able to stop it through sheer obstinacy.

This situation will open doors for Democrats to join the Communist Party and remodel it into something far less harmful. Such as the Democrat Party. But they will have their work cut out for them, since the Democrat Party went Marxist over 100 years ago (and gave us the IRS among other ills).

Commies Handed Yet Another Election Cheating Defeat

This time, it was in the blue state of Virginia. That alone portends doom for the communist election-rigging machine.

"The Tazewell County Circuit Court ruled the referendum unconstitutional, preventing the state from moving forward with the newly proposed congressional map. The decision also blocks certification of the election results, dealing an immediate blow to Democrats who had pushed the measure as a “fairness” reform ahead of the midterms." [Big League Politics, 2026-04-23].

The election cheating measure does indeed violate State Law 30-19.10. That law requires "neutral language" but the commies used the laughably dishonest phrase "restoring fairness" as if disenfranchising thousands of voters is somehow "fair". And that's not all. It violates six other laws as well!

In his 23APR edition of Coffee & Covid, Jeff described this negated "election" as "a race that would have handed Democrats over 90% of Virginia’s congressional seats even though nearly 40% of the state’s residents are registered with the GOP." It was the judge, not the communists, who promoted fairness.

• My question for the "Democrat" voters in Virginia is this. If your party is this blatantly criminal and dishonest, why do you vote for them? Are you off your freaking meds?
   
• My comment to sane people everywhere is this. If such a ruling can be obtained in Virginia, it can be obtained in all but the worst communist-run states. The "hopeless cause" states of CA, IL, MN, NY, and NJ immediately come to mind. Those states, however, are experiencing severe pain from the consequences of communist rule and unless the citizens are completely stupid and/or spineless, reform is coming.

Flights from Communist Countries

Americans have been fleeing the "communist countries" such as the People's Republic of Commiefornia and relocating to the free states in massive numbers. This has tongues wagging about the 2030 census, and how places like Commiefornia will lose Congressional seats and places like Texas and Florida will gain them. Since each Congressional District votes independently instead of a state bloc, this factor has little or no consequence.

What does matter is these Americans are also leaving the brainwashing, gas lighting, and appearance that communism is normal (if it's all you experience, it's all you know) behind them. So they change from becoming OK with voting for commie candidates and policies to being against that.

There is a real danger that these people will bring their commie ideas with them and contaminate the free states with this ideological virus. This is exactly what happened to the Third District of Kansas, which got flooded with refugees from New York and (to a lesser extent) Commiefornia in the early 1990s. During the economic crunch that cost George Bush his second term (Clinton ran on "it's the economy, stupid") many East Coast and West Coast companies relocated some operations, divisions, or offices to "the affordable center of the country". People openly read the New York Times at the office, even having it delivered there. The Third District has, by far, the highest overall taxes compared to the other three Districts. It's one of the reasons that the State of Kansas is #16 overall in high taxes.

Sharice Davids, a Nancy Pelosi clone wannabe and dogged devotee of Marxism easily retains her seat as the Congressional Misrepresentative of the Third District of Kansas. She can rely on commie imports from New York to keep putting her in office. These people held on to their communist customs instead of acclimating to their new home. They heavily influenced local school boards and city councils to go commie, thus perpetuating the sickness.

Citizens of the free states must proactively prevent communism from being transplanted along with the people who are fleeing it. Once it takes root, it's hard to get rid of.

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• Is the reason I get this particular feedback because AI stumbled upon a superior being? Nope.
• Am I applying some highly developed super skills? Nope.
• Does working in such a way that this kind of feedback is given have great benefit? Yep.

I was working this way long before there was AI. My background is in engineering and business. The difference between success and "fustercluck" usually is a matter of sufficient application of clear thinking, attention to detail, and insistence on accuracy. They just take a little discipline. They do not require a degree in engineering or business, or in any quant area. A good friend of mine has a degree in journalism, and yet embodies all three. Note that J schools are infamous for suppressing logical thought, ignoring the elephant in the room along with all relevant details, and insisting on inaccuracy. My friend was able to overcome that, simply by deciding to do so and then following through.

• Clear thinking begins with accurately framing the question or problem. You ask questions such as, "What am I trying to achieve, what's the real goal here?" You also weigh whether that goal is realistic or even the right goal.
• Attention to detail is just that. Have you ever cringed after noticing spelling errors in something you already sent? The reason you didn't see those is you were scanning in the normal direction. Instead, carefully read starting from the end and going backwards. You will catch every error. Many times, people do not know what details to pay attention to, and that is another problem. You solve it by looking at the problem, as identified in the previous step, and asking yourself what information will support your proposed solution or what details must be solved or addressed.
• Insistence on accuracy isn't just rhetorical. I sometimes have to deal with an unhappy customer who is claiming I said this or that. Before refuting, I go back through the e-mails and find exactly what was said. Then I can make an accurate response. I can also refer to the exact statements by the paragraph of that message if I need to substantiate. One way to boost accuracy is to go back to a primary source or at least a very reliable source, rather than "wing it from memory.

I write articles about the National Electrical Code. This Code is extremely complicated, because the safe application of electricity is extremely complicated. Sometimes I have been attacked by people who believe the Code should say X or Y, even though it does not, and they claim the Code says X or Y. Their source is they asked a few other people they work with, and got consensus. My source is the Code itself. I pretty much know where everything is and know dozens of requirements by heart, so it is not hard for me to find what I am looking for. This will change with the next revision, which will be completely reorganized. But I will have an "attention to structure" mentality that will allow me to quickly find things and train myself on the radically reorganized Code. Yes, structure is one of those details you need to pay attention to!

The more consistently you make an effort to engage in clear thinking, attention to detail, and insistence on accuracy, the more second nature such behavior will become. You will think much more efficiently and spend far less time going down rabbit holes.

1. The more of it you have on hand, the faster you use it. And the more you waste it.
2. Compare the savings to the cost of the capital. Most people are borrowing money and paying credit card interest rates on it. If you save 15% due to buying bulk but that money costs you 22%, you are losing 7% not saving 15%.
3. You have to store it, and storage is not free. If you fill your garage or a spare bedroom with bulk purchases, you have essentially downsized your home while still paying for the mortgage, property taxes, heating, cooling, and maintenance of the much larger home you would otherwise have.
    
4. Food spoils, goes stale, goes rancid. Large bags of anything means a lot of not so good [whatever was in there].
5. Boxes and bins of stuff will draw rodents and insects, whether these are foodstuffs or paper goods.
6. You cannot store whole fresh foods for very long. You can store highly processed food for a long time, but it ceased being food when it was highly processed. So it has already gone bad.
7. Having large stores of paper towels and other flammables brings risk without reward.

There's also the time you spend managing the stockpile. If your bulk buying saves you $200 a year (after accounting for those six costs above) and it takes you one hour a month to manage the stockpile, you are making less than $2 per hour. Do you pay others to cut your hair, mow your lawn, or change your oil? What do you pay them?

Some people believe they need to keep six weeks' worth of food on hand. One person I know has over 50 100-ct boxes of tea, I suppose on the theory that all tea production could suddenly stop. Preparing for the statistically impossible means taking an unnecessary loss in the real world.

Bulk buying can save you money, if you are really smart about it and if your circumstances are amenable to it. For example, you live 60 miles outside of town so a trip to buy anything is a big deal. Perhaps you have a shed or barn for storing things. Maybe you learned a lot about what can be stored under given conditions for how long, and have created a system where no spoilage occurs. But absent the factors that make it a net financial gain, bulk buying doesn't make sense.

5. Security tip

Contributed by Mike: https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/woodland-hills-girl-scout-creates-a-game-for-seniors-to-teach-about-trending-scams

Amazingly, it was covered by a lamestream outlet. Perhaps if they are rewarded for posting something useful instead of their usual toxic nonsense, they will shift toward publishing truthful items as more the rule than the extremely rare exception.

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

	In a recent conversation, I remarked that I engage in functional training. The other person's response showed he didn't know what I meant. Once I explained, he couldn't see the value of it. I guess my explanation wasn't properly framed, because after some more conversation he totally got it. A common misconception as to the meaning of functional training is it involves weird yoga moves that work muscles nobody sees and it's a cop-out for those who want to pretend they are doing real training. The reality is functional training is the best form of physical training if you wish to optimize disease resistance, aesthetics, mobility, longevity, injury resistance, tendon health, and similar areas--and be mobile well past age 90. Functional training involves lifting things off the ground, with hard exercises such as squats or deadlifts. A climbing gym owner in Tennessee recently told me if she could eliminate one piece of exercise equipment from the face of the earth, it would be the leg press. She observed that it in no way prepares you for any kind of movement you would do. Here are some drawbacks to other kinds of training: Lift heavy. This is where you keep adding more weight while your muscles adapt and you get stronger. When you start getting into serious poundages, you start getting into serious injuries because you did not "earn" that weight. It takes time for the tendons and ligaments to catch up to the muscles. At some point, they will tear right off the bone if you keep overloading them. Other kinds of injuries, such as the destruction of cartilage, also result from this kind of training. The bench press is the favorite of this type of trainee, followed by incorrectly performed back squats.   Train for the mirror. This is the most common kind of training. People who do this have poor posture, poor functional strength, and unbalanced aesthetics. The primary exercises are leg press, leg extension, bench press, overhead press machine, and biceps curl. They also tend to "do cardio" and do tons of sit-ups. The posterior is neglected. The trademark skinny calves readily identify this type of trainee.   Train with no structure. Train when the mood strikes, and do something different every time. Maybe the gym this Saturday followed by a 5K run on Tuesday. While at the gym, hop on whatever machine is free and work up a sweat. This kind of trainee is "active" but not building function or muscle.
	Competitive Bodybuilders? Let's talk about competitive bodybuilders, for a moment. The stereotype is a muscle-bound moron who is not nearly as strong has he looks (those are "show muscles"). The reality is competitive bodybuilders have balanced, symmetrical physiques with their extensive back development being a notable feature. Big calves, too. And they are not typically morons or "meat heads". The need to have perfect form (as much as is practical) means a high degree of exercise for the nervous system, also. They develop amazing coordination and muscle control, two things that are essential for functional strength. Pretty much everything in a bodybuilder's program improves functional strength. Pretty much. But not all. You can start with the basic program for a competitive bodybuilder and make it the basis for a functional strength program. The difference is you will do fewer isolation exercises and more muscle group exercises. You will also spend more time on "full extension" work (for example, doing decline curls with your arms almost straight and 15 degrees of motion), which will change the way the muscle belly looks (not in the direction the body builder wants it to go). In both cases, the focus is on contracting the muscle not on moving the weight. And ironically, this focus is the best way to improve how much weight you can (safely) lift. That's your functionality that you were training for, and it's what functional training is all about. Being able to squat so your butt is an inch of the ground is a very useful thing to be able to do (weeding, feeding the cat, cleaning the floor, pulling weeds, etc.). Being able to leg press 250lbs is not useful in the slightest, because any useful movement will involve the neglected posterior chain. If you are out to design a functional training program for yourself and don't want to start with the competitive bodybuilder workout as a basis, then just think in terms of moving things from the ground, carrying things, and lifting overhead--you can do all of these things without any iron weights. Just apply some thought and come up with something you can do in a structured way on a scheduled basis. Important note: Regarding competitive bodybuilders, I am taking one aspect of their system to hold up as a model. Their program on the whole is not good, as they do many things that are not healthy. The average life expectancy of a professional bodybuilder is only 35 years. It's not just the steroids and other Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs), it's the extremely limited diet, the extreme dehydration for days at at time prior to a competition, the lifting heavy, and other behavior that degrades health.

At www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

President Trump has dramatically reduced the high cost of government. He's done that mainly by ferreting out waste, fraud, and corruption (plus reducing its bloated payroll). There is more to come.