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If You Told Me Mexico Would Do This Just A Few Years Ago I wouldn’t have bought it…

Posted: July 20, 2023 by datechguy in culture
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…but it’s 2023 and leftists are all in bed together…

…and they’d like your kids to join them.

Don Surber, You’re wrong on This

Posted: July 19, 2023 by datechguy in election 2024
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I like Don Surber, he is one of the best writers on the net and his substack site is one of the first places I go to when I wake up in the morning or get back from Mass if I wake early enough to go and I recommend you read him every day too, but I think that his statement that we have no choice but Trump in order to fight the false prosecutions against him is not only incorrect but the wrong way of looking at things.

Basically his argument is we have to embrace Trump because of the Democrat attacks, I reject this because it’s the same argument that took place when Rushtie was attacked, you HAVE to buy the book because he was attacked by terrorists or you don’t support him.

I reject that argument because it’s still subsuming my decision making to someone else rather than deciding for myself. Furthermore I reject throwing away folks like Kurt Schlichter because you don’t win by shrinking the voter pool.

There are many good arguments for Trump, primarily his record and there are arguments against him, his sticking with Facui and others and electability due to irrational Trump hatred. It doesn’t matter if the irrational hatred is unfounded or wrong, it exists and has to be considered.

I have no problem with him as the nominee but my primary concern and the primary concern of all those who see the political prosecutions of Trump for what they are should be one thing: WINNING!

If we win we have a shot at stopping this, if we don’t then we won’t.

Some say we owe Trump the presidency because the last one was stolen from him, which it was. I say we owe it to ourselves to defeat the Democrats so that this doesn’t happen again and if Trump is the best vehicle to do so fine, but if we have a candidate who is better choice what happened in 2020 should not prevent anyone from voting for him.

We need to look at this election the way Lincoln looked at emancipation and let me close by paraphrasing him on the subject of this election

My purpose is to defeat the Democrat agenda by electing a republican to the white house in 2024 and it is not to re-elect and avenge or defeat and humiliate President Donald J Trump.

  • If I can defeat the Democrat Agenda by embracing and nominating Donald Trump as the GOP candidate in 2024 I will do it.
  • If I can defeat the Democrat Agenda by rejecting Donald Trump and nominating someone as the GOP candidate else I will do it.
  • and if I can defeat the Democrat Agenda by having a long primary with a drag out fight between Trump and DeSantis or another candidate and then standing by the winner who survives the test for the nomination whoever he or she is I will do that too.

That is how this election should be looked at by any person who wants the Democrats stopped, any conservative who decides to sit out the election if Trump is the nominee or decides to sit out the election if Trump is NOT the nominee is going to end up with the Democrat agenda that they rightly deserve and will have the added pleasure of knowing that they inflicted it upon themselves.

You have been warned.

FYI WQPH 89.3 FM Shirley Fitchburg only available as stream for the next week or so.

Posted: July 18, 2023 by datechguy in catholic

Apparently the storms that went though the area knocked out a critical piece of equipment on the tower.

The good news is we had a spare.

The bad news is the spare isn’t working.

So we will have to order a replacement (and hopefully an extra spare that works) and so until that part comes in our station will be streaming only.

So if you want some excellent catholic radio but can’t get the signal feel free to listen to the stream here. We will continue to produce original programing during this time so it’s well worth your while.

And feel free to throw a prayer our way, it is much appreciated.

The Subsidies Don’t Cover Repair Bills

Posted: July 17, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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About three or four years ago as I was about to get onto Route 2 East to head for work a young lady hit the back bumper of my 1999 Buick LeSabre (not the 1999 LeSabre I currently drive, the 1999 LeSabre that’s currently in my son’s back yard as my parts car). Since she was going maybe 2 mph all it did was drop some rust onto the pavement so I told her not to worry about it to her immense relief.

At Not the Bee we see how lucky she was that I decided to drive a car made before Tom Brady was drafted instead of taking advantage of all the subsidies and buying an electric pickup like this one:

Apparently EV’s as a whole cost more to repair and insure:

Last year, a study from CCC Intelligent Solutions found that on average EV repairs cost more than repairs for gas-powered cars. Another report from Mitchell that was cited by the Times found that last year EV repairs cost about $2,400 more than fixes for traditional combustion-engine vehicles. 

Similarly, Insider’s Alexa St. John previously reported that EVs are more expensive to insure. For example, the national average cost of car insurance is about $2,148 per year, while a Tesla Model S costs about $4,066 to insure, according to the Insider report.

And of course if your bumper is full of sensors all of that has to be handed even if your car isn’t electric and remember while all those tax breaks, which are really tax payer giveaways to the carmakers, might make those child slave dependent electric cars easier to get, they don’t apply to the repair bills or the insurance bills.

You have been warned.

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