27/05/2024
This is the only political post I’ll be making this year.
We went to a ramen place on Pewaukee for dinner. The costs of the meals were already surprisingly high, but most other places were closed early since it’s Memorial Day weekend. I was already shocked when I saw the total, but what actually annoyed me was a sign saying there would be an extra 15% “service fee” for dine ins. No, I didn’t tip.
I was upset because the food took half an hour to come out. It was the two of us and a family of three. The owner had his son running between the dining room and the kitchen. I noticed he couldn’t speak English conversationally but the woman who appeared to be his wife did.
We got our food, it was fine, but I knew it was nowhere near the cost we paid. I told my wife we wouldn’t be coming here again, we simply couldn’t afford it.
As we walked out she noticed this sign on the board near the entrance, take a moment to read it.
I walked over to the man and offered him my business card, I offered to provide help and basic marketing assistance for free because what they were offering people was incredibly kind and self-sacrificial. They were trying the best they could and still wanted to help others. The least I could do was offer to help them.
He told me he didn’t know too much English, his wife came over and I spoke to her instead.
In 2021, I moved to Wisconsin to work for a policy nonprofit. By the Fall it was no longer acceptable to discuss federal or state violations of medical freedom, HIPAA laws, and employment vaccination statuses— essentially anything related to the lockdowns and pandemic of 2020.
They wanted to move on because it wasn’t politically conducive for them or their large pocket donors who felt this wasn’t an issue that impacted them.
I have not voted since 2020. I felt Republicans failed to rectify anything from the lockdowns. They failed to do anything federally to help businesses.
Democrats flooded cash into pet projects such as HBCs, the Kennedy Center, jets for congressmen, and office upgrades to name a few and stripped landlords of property rights through extensions of non-eviction (or whatever it was called) mandates, they killed the freedom to make your own medical choices (GOP didn’t do any better), and they killed hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country through pandemic measures based on fear and not science; they called some jobs “essential” and said other people simply would have to starve or resort to lining up in a backlogged system which took upwards of 90 days for some people to obtain unemployment benefits.
The biggest scam that has taken place in my lifetime has been this effort by elected officials, the media, and Hollywood, to make us all believe the biggest trouncing of civil rights in the 21st century south of the PATRIOT Act didn’t happen.
They didn’t close schools, they didn’t force businesses to close, they didn’t keep people separated at funerals, they didn’t arrest people for violating bu****it “social distancing” mandates— none of it, none of it happened.
The biggest injustice is that the people who did this ruined our lives, and somehow have barely felt any political repercussion.
This November I’ll be voting against everyone who inflated our dollar’s buying power away, sent our tax dollars to money laundering foreign meat grinders we have no business being involved in, and every person who lived in a mansion and told us we were exaggerating while having our jobs and livelihoods threatened because we chose not to partake in an experimental medical procedure that has harmed people, something that only leaves us with the repucussions if it did in fact cause harm.
This November I just ask you that you ask yourself whether your life is better now than it was four years ago, and whether you trust these people to act responsibly when, not if, the next state of emergency comes and this time targets you directly if it didn’t before.
The government has never given back freedoms it has taken. It never holds itself accountable for its own harmful actions.
This isn’t me telling you who to vote for, this is me asking you to consider how much longer you can tolerate things going the way they are.
