Covidiots

When turds rain down they rain down in threes.

Earlier this week I received a lovely little email from my cousin regarding their coming wedding.

They waited until the last minute to spring this shit on us. What joy. Needless to say, I will not be attending because I am not RNA-polluted and I KNOW they would make it a thing when it doesn’t need to be a thing. But that is beside the point. Let me explain with simple logic.

1. If neither of us has been injected, we can both give each other the coof.
2. If one of us has been injected, we can both give each other the coof.
3. If both of us have been injected, we can both give each other the coof.

These are simple, basic facts that EVERYONE can agree on because they are published by both sides of the propaganda machine AND the lunatic fringe.

THEREFORE… gatekeeping with a coof passport or proof of injection is 100% pointless, useless, choose your synonym for “not worth doing at all” and strictly becomes a dick move.

Depending on the motivation, or perhaps not, it then becomes pure virtue signal. Shame on you asshats for using your wedding as a fucking virtue signal, you arrogant fucks. And then you go on to say it’s FOR THE CHILDREN! The ones at literally the lowest risk factor. If you really cared, you’d refrain from having an event at all.

But no, it goes on. GIVEN OUR PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS (ahhh, yes, out comes the hubris and masturbatory self-congratulation and pathetic attempt to undermine any dissent before it starts– they are both lab people) WE FEEL RESPONSIBLE

Let me stop you right there. Get down off your high fucking horse, you saviors of humanity. Once again if you feel responsible DON’T FUCKING HAVE A BIG PARTY OF PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY.

Now I am not against the injection, on the whole. If you want it, that is your business. You do you, I do me, let us have a beer together and not give a fuck about our private personal medical choices. Personally, and medically, I do not want it. I have a hard enough time fighting kidneys that never worked right and blood pressure that would outright murder any of you weaksauce knuckledraggers. I’m one of those people who is too mean to die. But both I and my doctors are fairly certain that the shot would do it, and we both agree it is best to avoid. (personally I think it’s poison but hey I used to work with a famous rock star who once snorted a line of ants and we got along, so whatever floats your boat man)

I am not against masks either, on the whole. Personally I don’t bother with one, and why should I? Whether or not they actually help is irrelevant– the majority of people who wear them don’t wear them right, and the rest who are super into it fail to commit anything resembling hygiene otherwise. They touch their face and hair and everything else and go around acting like they are invincible, and this gives EVERYONE ELSE a harder time trying to stay safe. It’s called osmotic risk assessment, and it’s the same thing that causes kids wearing bicycle helmets to suffer from more fatal injuries than those who ride unprotected. Yes, it is a real thing, look it up. TLDR: people think a little piece of plastic makes them invincible and they act accordingly, endangering both themselves and others.

The mask is therefore theater. The shot is therefore theater. Vax passports are, as we established with our little 3 column proof above, absolutely theater. The way people act makes all of it 100% pointless. The best, and only, thing you can do is take impeccable care of yourself, wash your hands and everything else like a neurotic germophobe, avoid touching things like a neurotic germophobe, and generally try to live like Bubble Boy.

…but I digress.

So I contacted my cousin and told him we would not be attending. But like a true covidiot, he ignored context completely and took it as an insult to his Lord and Savior the Almighty Vaccine…

I rather like this one. It gives me a hearty guffaw. He did not reply. Good riddance.

It will fill me with so much mirth when I hear that people got the coof at his party. Just like the 74 and counting who caught it at Obama’s party of “sophisticated, vaccinated” A-listers.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9891873/63-people-Marthas-Vineyard-tested-positive-Covid-Obamas-60th-birthday-bash.html

The following day I got notice that a convention I was to attend next week would require proof of injection. Joyous occasion.

And then I got news that my aunt and godmother has succumbed to the last of her dementia and has stopped eating or drinking. She has been transferred to hospice care (in California) and having lost patience with my moron family (how in the fuck did I receive any IQ points from this gene puddle?) I made a snarky comment about “Will her funeral require fucking covid passports too?”

Which my asshole brother replied “I should hope so.” Bla bla droning on about some bullshit excuse why it is a good thing when all it accomplishes is theater. My uncle also took offense and went off the deep end, conflating me with “dumbass Bubba white power racist bastards” and wishing death to all Republicans. And added, “People who play Russian Roulette and threaten my grandchildren by doing so get no pity from me.” Then he gave some eugenicist George Takei quote, as if that will help matters.

Wait a second, who is the one playing Russian Roulette? How am I threatening your precious grandchildren? WTF planet have I landed on?

Covid has killed my family and replaced them with hostile, toxic assholes.

My honest assessment of all this (and I will likely be proven right eventually) is that all these people who got the shot and think they are bulletproof are now the heaving, shambling horde of plague bearing meatwalkers who are superspreading it to everyone else. The virus is not the problem; the global pandemic of osmotic risk assessment is.

Oh my god the hipocrisy!

I don’t know how it got this bad so fast.

In one breath, a Demographic A declares that Demographic B should basically cuck themselves at every turn because they are somehow benefitting from privilege built on the broken backs of Demographic A’s ancestors. Forget the fact that those who actually did benefit from this have been dead for hundreds of years, blaming the child for the sins of the parent is a pathetic strategy, and anyone descended from those people are so few, far removed, and diluted that how can you possibly even find them?

In the next breath, Dem-A refuses to hold accountable the party which they trendingly vote for, the Democrats, who are the ones responsible for Jim Crow, the Compromise of 1850 and its awful fugitive slave law, the continued repression of blacks in the south, segregation, etc.

If all white people are bad and we need to erase everything they have done, should we also erase their elimination of slavery? If they gotta pay for the crime, double jeopardy am I right?

There is a reason that every single one of the original black congressmen were Republicans. Look it up. Yet there is not a single school in the USA named after Hiram Rhodes Revels or any of the other 7 “original” elected black representatives.

Now Bidenflation said in yet another flub, commenting in an attempt against gun advocates who say they need assault weapons to fend off the government, “You need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”

The other breath whines that January 6th unarmed “insurrection” was the worst act on America since the civil war.

So, what is it then? Are you going to nonchalantly threaten the common people with nukes and fighter jets, but then hide behind police barricades for fear of rioting Village People cosplayers?

The pure hubris of the Democrats

So, where is Beijing Biden’s plan? He’s been talking about it for months. All his sycophants have been talking about it for months. Come on man, I’ve got a plan!

You know what is truly disgusting about all of this? If he was a true humanitarian, and gave a single fuck about anyone, he’d just have put forth his plan last year. Let’s hear it. It’s supposed to be for the good of the people, right? It’s supposed to save lives, right? If it’s so good, why don’t you just share it ? Think of all those starving children in the third world!!!

No, we only get to hear it if you win. If we vote for you. You’re going to hold it hostage because it’s more valuable that you receive our breathless adoration than for you to do something good for people.

You never had a plan, you geriatric turdbag.

Supposed to reveal this grand plan on day one, but hey it’s more important to give out free transgender surgery to the military. More important to sell your country out to the globalists. Saddle more Americans with more debts that they can’t afford because you’ve wrecked their jobs and their economy. Oh and hey thanks for the higher taxes, that helps so much.

What happened to that day one covid plan, Joe?

Chile votes for new constitution

Referendum vote has resulted in Chile’s decision to draft an entirely new constitution, which will be written by popular-vote delegates.

“If it were not for the brave young people who fought for us, no one would have gone out on to the streets. I had wanted this to happen for a long time and it happened and thanks to them, today we have won.” -Pablo Naranjo

So, you’re glad that lives, businesses, and homes have been burned to the ground because that’s the change we can believe in. Asshole.

“I want there to be a written record of our basic rights, which for me are education, healthcare, housing.” – Mario Bustos Mansilla

No, they are not rights. All those things are privileges, and commodities. Rights simply exist. Commodities must be produced and paid for. So who will pay for this? Chileans are notoriously cheap and most with money are smart enough to keep it where the socialists cannot reach. This is the case with any latin-american country. So when tax hikes happen, the poor ALWAYS and without exception always end up shafting themselves with the bill. It’s not that I don’t feel sorry for them– it would be great to help. But you can’t help them all. And the only REAL solution to poverty is to teach people how to be less poor (ie: capitalism and entrepreneurship).

Everyone talks about how Chile has the greatest economy but the greatest wealth disparity in latin america. Well, that may be true BUT… there are a lot of people in Chile who live profitable subsistence lifestyles in the farflung off-grid corners of the global frontier, where they couldn’t even spend money if they had it. There, boats are better transport than cars. The roads are not paved for hundreds of miles. Rivers and forests and impassable mountains block paths. There, sheep are wealth. Land is wealth. Solar panels are wealth. You can’t eat pesos. Much easier to trade eggs and wool and hard commodities. There, the people want for little and need nothing.

BUT because they don’t actually make any definable taxable income, they are considered to be in poverty.

It is these people who tilt the statistics, and it is the politicians who abuse those statistics. Those people don’t need help. It reminds me of the “poor” trash sorters in Uruguay for whom the government set up an entire welfare program to assist, and found out that most of them did not qualify because they all earned more than the minimum wage.

Chile does not need wealth redistribution. It needs to be left the fuck alone.

I see a few possible outcomes from the new constitution:

1. The new constitution is just a carbon copy of the old one. Because let’s face it, it worked just fine. People continue to riot and destroy their own neighborhoods.
2. Marxist tripe ruins a perfectly good country and we get Chilezuela. People continue to riot and destroy their own neighborhoods.
3. Enough fancy words go down on paper to make everyone happy so they all pat each other on the back and sing koombaya. People continue to riot and destroy their own neighborhoods.
4. Pinochet 2.0. Lots of dead communists. Peace and prosperity for decades.

Wow so much going on.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. It’s been a while so i will summarize as best i can.

I got back to the usa just in time for covid. Fortunately the lockdowns in the swamp are more logical than the rest of the country. It hasn’t been too bad here, all told.

Then the bolsheviks took over several blocks of Portland and Seattle. LOL. Ruined, completely. Good riddance, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, etc.

BLM, pffff. Founded by pedophiles and human traffickers. Manned by morons. Good luck with that, you’re hurting race relations in a way I fear it will never recover from. Unless you want a civil war, and I regret to inform you YOU WILL LOSE. The same economics you complain about will not get you the arms and training you need and the rednecks you want to pick a fight with already have basements full of guns and ammo they know how to use. Just a bad bad bad idea.

Bretton-woods is going the way of the dodo. Good riddance to that too. Bitcoin is finally finding the support it has been waiting for at what seems like an exponential rate, which is nice. It’s blowing up and I hope it keeps doing so.

I think Trump is going to win. The left has just shown too much of their true colors this year for any other outcome. If it doesn’t happen i will be honestly surprised. I welcome a Trump victory, if for nothing more than fuck the left. But besides that, love him or hate him, you cannot dispute the fact that he is the best thing for world peace since Jesus. Nobody had the stones to talk to North Korea for nearly 70 years and he just went in and defused it. Isis, Israel-UAE, the Balkans… not only those but he’s the first prez in generations to not escalate international conflicts.

I’m not enamored with him. I think he’s a dick. But he’s doing a good job. The dick America needs. The dick America deserves. Bring on another 4 years of dick, please.

Expatbob cancelled in 3… 2…

More insight on why Chile is fucked

I was awakened by the shouting of more crowds of protesters. Fortunately they are not burning and wrecking shit. Yet. The day is young.

There exists a clear and present danger ingrained in Chilean people, and that is the lack of, and avoidance of, a sense of personal responsibility. When caught in an error, lapse in judgment, or outright red-handed doing something purposely wrong, they will deny everything and attempt to turn the tables on the accuser, “how dare you insult my dignity!?”

Which I find entirely fitting for the laughable name they have given to the bombed-out wasteland they changed from Plaza Italia to Plaza de Dignidad. Let me tell you, there is no dignity there. Not even the sidewalks remain; the rioters smashed them in order to have ammunition to throw at the police. Every storefront near there is smashed or burned, barricaded with steel plates, every surface painted over three times in graffiti calling for dead cops. Metro station Baquedano, underneath it all, was so badly wrecked that it remains closed even to transfers between rail lines. It would make the perfect set for an apocalypse movie.

So, instead of admitting any sort of wrongdoing, they try and convince themselves that the environment is wrong. And they just keep committing the same mistakes expecting different results (the definition of insanity). Thus, when the protests get rowdy enough, and the cops show up to try and disperse them, the rioters get even more violent and then express grand surprise that people get hurt, run over, shot in the face with pepper gas, sprayed with burning chemical agents, etc. Like, what the everloving fuck did you expect?

Then, of course, according to the protesters, it’s all the cops’ fault. Granted I am no fan of cops in general but in this situation my heart goes out to them. Anyone else viewing this stuff can see the remarkable amount of restraint the cops show here. In any other country, there would be a lot of dead rioters with bullets in them. 10,000 people rioting in a square throw a fit when they rip a cop off his motorcycle, throw it in the riverbed, and light it on fire. He escapes, barely, and the vehicles helping him get out manage to crush a pedestrian or two. The crowd, with the help of the media, post his photo and identity on the internet, further endangering his life and those of his family. Wash, rinse, repeat. There is no end in sight, because the people are rebels without a cause.

My crystal ball tells me that the plebiscite vote does not matter, really. There is nothing truly awful with the constitution, barring some judicial reforms. My prediction is that the plebiscite will fail and things will continue as “normal.” And if it wins, the new constitution will likely be a paraphrased version of what already exists. Because, once again, the existing constitution is not terrible. I think the main reason people want to change it, other than to fix some judicial problems, is more because “it was Pinochet’s constitution and it’s got to go.” Change a few words and voila! Look it’s a new constitution!

If they really get into the guts of it, then nobody will agree on what to change. Hell, every single political party here is too busy infighting (and avoiding personal responsibility by throwing everyone they can under the bus) to even get any proper leadership sorted out. It’s a hilarious game of hot potato! So a fresh new draft of a constitution is doomed. In order to try pleasing everyone, they will please no one. Or they will just fight for years while more angry mobs burn what is left of Chile to the ground. Chile’s culture of responsibility-avoidance and lack of forethought is going to guarantee a disaster should the constitution be completely redrafted.

And if they keep the old one, their mobs will continue to terrorize, loot, amd destroy. They will continue to blame their problems on a constitution they have never read. Chile is stuck in an unfortunate downward spiral from which, in my opinion, it will not re-emerge any time soon. It is their culture that needs to change. A culture now driven by spoiled and impressionable youth raised in the counterswing of socialists taking full advantage of their post-Pinochet pity party. And these kids will never, ever admit that they are wrong.

I hope I’m wrong about all of this, I really do. How un-Chilean of me!

Is Chile fucked?

It is my conclusion that Chile is, indeed, fucked.

The disparity between older and younger generations’ mentality is wide and unbridgeable. The poor refuse to pick themselves up and improve their own lives without outside assistance, and, in fact, find it quaint to resist help— instead finding some kind of reverse-psychological Newspeak “pride in poverty.” The rich simply leave for greener pastures. And the middle class are far too nonconfrontational to pick any sides. Or too busy thinking that they are poor when they are not. The “ghetto mentality” has really taken hold in Chile.

Previous protests have won a plebiscite vote to create a new constitution in April. That should have appeased everyone. Such a monumental thing has not been seen in Chile, let alone worldwide, since the famous “NO” vote of 1988 which ended Pinochet’s dictatorship. Chileans should be happy that they even have this ability, because other countries do not (and when it happened in the USA, the dissidents were summarily paved over into the bloody soil).

The moment to decide their own destiny is right there on the table but for some reason Chileans still wreck and burn their own neighborhoods. So, really, one must ask: what are they still protesting? Or do they simply want to wreck and burn shit?

The conclusion I have come to is that they simply want to wreck and burn shit. They want to pick fights with the cops. They want things to escalate into fatal encounters with the police. They want to steal and break things that they have not earned. There are no other reasons for what is happening here, barring major tinfoil hat shit and we’re not going to go there.

The cops are getting blamed by the popular media as being the cause of these major fires but looking at statistics and science and chemistry, my bet is that 99% of the fires set are by rioters wanting to blame the cops. Endothermic decompression of aerosol canisters containing chemicals that are largely non-flammable does not make a bonfire. The one fact that people seem to be overlooking is: these protests are wrecking and burning shit. It doesn’t really matter who is the cause. But I’m pretty damned sure that the shit wouldn’t be on fire if there were no fucking protests. Rocket science 101.

In my opinion, the best thing the cops could do is simply not show up. Best PR play, best strategic play, best military play. Leave these “nonviolent protesters” as the sole cause of destruction, fire, and mayhem, and let the people see who are the true terrorists. Maybe things would fizzle out quickly, as they tend to do when the guest of honor fails to show up at the party.

If not, let them march through burning and looting and when the zombie apocalypse gets bad enough that the people beg for help, then roll in and use real bullets to grind them into a fine red paste. It’s time for Pinochet Part II.

I don’t see that happening, though.  Chileans are too weak, immature, and unrealistic. They would prefer to cut off their nose to spite their face. Despite so much worldwide present and historical proof, abroad and in their own country, they still cannot see that socialism and communism do not deserve (or leave room for) second chances.

More WTF in Chile: an update

So, a little perspective on what’s going on in Chile.

Daily protests continue, albeit slightly less violent than before. Probably because downtown there is nothing left to smash and burn, and most commercial locations have literally welded plate steel over their storefronts.

Once in a while you still catch an underlying whiff of tear gas and that subtle background sizzling in your eye sockets.

Things have kinda calmed down. For now.

Overnight, an entire industry has popped up for private traffic directors. Folks don a brightly colored vest and collect coins from passers-by for the service of directing traffic, which is good considering that most of the traffic lights downtown were torn down, smashed, or spraypainted over by vandals.

Some of these people came under attack by the protestors– how dare they do something good, or constructive, or useful! How dare they try to help themselves or their families! Literally dragged from the intersections and beaten by angry crowds of bolsheviks.

It hasn’t stopped the others, though. And not everyone respects the “authority” of the traffic directors. When there is a protest going on, or rush hour happening, all bets are off since drivers want to GTFO ASAP.

So… what happened to get to this point?

There are several factions at play here:

1. Overtaxed minimum wage employees and pensionistas (retirees) who feel the pressure of increased electrical costs and commute fares.
2. Any and all workers (from poor to upper class) who see the future hopelessness of the AFP pension/social security system and believe, perhaps rightly, that their retirement savings will be worthless or completely unavailable when it comes time to retire.
3. People concerned with the state of health care (honestly I think they are ignorant– health care in Chile is excellent compared to literally everywhere else I have been)
4. Angry students who want “free” education.
5. Bolsheviks who want “free” everything.
6. Angry assholes who just want to wreck stuff.
7. Angry assholes who just want to steal stuff.

The whole thing really started kicking off when the subway fares went up. By 4 cents per trip. There were mass protests and people jumping turnstiles to show their dissatisfaction. BUT– most of the people doing this were students, who already pay a reduced fare (at a roughly 70% discount).

Some say that the subway fare increase is the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of social pressures in Chile. However, I disagree. My take on it: I think it was the subway and Carabineros’ general lack of ability to secure Santiago against the mass protest, which the people saw, and decided to take advantage of for their month-long drunken bonfire party. Hey, there’s nothing the government can do, we have free reign to do anything!

“Hey, I’ve always wanted to trash a hotel. And burn a subway station. And burn a church. And oh hey, look, dumpsters. What else can we burn? OOOOH A BUS! WITH PEOPLE! Wow, fire sure is fun to play with!”

And so they did.

What legitimate gripes people had (1, 2, 3) were quickly taken over and/or swept up in the bolshevik terror wave. And that’s exactly what it is. I’ve even heard that it was a planned attack– rumor has it that the PDI knew something was up– but since Chile has a bad history with intelligence organizations, Bachelet dismantled what remained of it during her tenure, and Piñera did not rebuild it (thinking it unnecessary), the threat was largely ignored or was not able to be dealt with properly. Some 80 subway stations were attacked or damaged simultaneously, 11 completely destroyed. Who knows if it was a conspiracy. Occam’s Razor says it’s just angry bolsheviks (4, 5, 6, 7).

What use is it blocking roads and setting fire to private property and businesses if you want government change? You’re not hurting the government, you’re hurting yourselves. I’ve had this conversation so many times and so many people agree with me. The most typical response from the most moderate Chileans: “Yeah we have problems that need solving but we’re committing suicide to try and fix them”

Chileans, as a culture, have a bad habit of not thinking things through. They are a bit naive/immature in their methodology. That much is clear with their behavior lately. The way to get better pay is not to burn businesses and send all those people into the unemployed worker pool. The way to get them to work faster and more efficiently so they can earn more money is not accomplished by burning the subway, putting up roadblocks, and smashing traffic signals. The way to win the hearts and minds of your fellow man is not through inconveniencing him or destroying his neighborhood. The way to keep the purchasing power of your currency is not to cause so much social unrest that you crash its value.

 

WTF is going on in Chile?

According to international news, “Piñera has been having some problems with protests.”

In reality, criminal vandals have destroyed the metro system, looters have smashed and stripped clean countless places of business, and riots of arsonists have been rampaging through cities, setting fire to businesses, churches, and residences.

Police headquarters and personal homes have been attacked, army bases attacked, and roadblocks are set up by “vigilantes” who think it’s fun to force drivers to get out of their cars and dance for the mob. If they please the crowd, they are allowed to pass. If not, the mob smashes or burns their car.

It all started about a month ago because of a 10-cent hike in the public transit fees. People began protesting nonviolently at first by either boycotting the metro or jumping the gates. Then they decided to take it to a new stupid level by wrecking and setting fire to the metro stations.

Supposedly the driving force behind these protests is that the people want constitutional reform. However, of all the people I have asked, “what needs to be changed about the constitution?” not a single one could give me an answer.

Essentially, people are just looting and burning shit because they can. There is no reason to any of it. Every single night, the trash piles are dragged into the street and set on fire by arsonists. The dumpsters are long gone– they burned those the first day. The metro remains closed, and the storefronts that did not get looted or burned remain barricaded and closed. What businesses are open are shuttered up and you have to enter and exit through a tiny opening in the steel plate. Everything closes at 4pm so that people can get home in order to hide from the mobs.

I can’t keep my windows open because tear gas and the smoke from burning trash will waft through.

There is no mainstream media coverage of this at all. And I really don’t know why.

 

Self-employment tax break (Chile)

2017’s US taxes got borked and the IRS sent me back a notice that I owed them A LOT OF MONEY™ the reason for which THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU™ so you simply have to figure it out yourself and redo everything, paying interest penalties on money you never owed in the first place because it took them 9 months to get back to you because they are slow and they suck.

Anyways, in dealing with the fallout, I found a neat thing called the US/Chile Social Security Totalization Agreement which pretty much absolves you of the need to pay self-employment tax if applicable. 

There is no official tax treaty (yet) between the USA and Chile, but fortunately this agreement, in combination with the FEIE, should help eliminate a good deal of your tax burden if you are a self-employed vagabond in Chile.