During “COVID,” the excuse was you had to stay home – and “mask up” – to “stop the spread.” It looks like the new excuse that will be used to lock us down this time will be that it’s necessary to “save gas.”
This stupid, evil war making that “necessary” – via inexorably exorbitant cost as well as possibly shortages. Throw in the “need” to prevent the “climate” from “changing” and you have everything needed to reboot the “COVID” years without any need for the cases! . . the cases!
It’s not a joke. In Massachusetts, there is a bill moving its way through the legislative colon that would give the authorities the power to decree how how many miles you’re allowed to drive. According to its sponsors, the goal is to “align the commonwealth’s transportation plans with its mandates and goals for reducing emissions and vehicle miles traveled.”
Italics deed. That word, again.
Local media dissects this as follows:
“The bill proposed in Massachusetts would limit how far you can drive in your own car. So lawmakers say it would help reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. Now, while no specific mileage limit was listed, the bill would require MassDOT to set goals to reduce the number of statewide driving miles. It would also establish a new council to find ways to make public transportation more accessible for residents.”
A legislative committee has given the bill – S.2246 – a “favorable 4-1 vote and shipped it to the Senate Ways and Means Committee, keeping the radical plan alive on Beacon Hill.”
But it’s not really all that radical, is it?
Maybe 30 years ago, it would have been – in the Before Time, when most Americans were still sane and the Climate Cult was just that, rather than the mainstream religion, as it has become. The kids are very much on-board now, having been raised within the bubble of the cult as well as its adjunct, the Safety Cult – which raised them strapped into “safety” seats and taught them to fear cars or at least, to regard them with indifference. Many – an unprecedented number – haven’t even got a driver’s license, let alone a car of their own. So why would they care if their GenX/Millennial parents and Boomer grandparents are forced not to drive? Many of them are likely to cheer it, as the egged-on malevolence of the Have Nots is directed at the Haves. The latter will reap the consequences of resentment, but it will of course used to enserf everyone – including the Have Nots, who will never have – forever. 
The GenX crowd understands this perfectly because it is perfectly obvious to that generational cohort; the Millennials to a lesser extent but many of them also get it, because their cohort was still mostly enthusiastic about getting their first driver’s license – and their first car.
Some GenZ kids (young adults, really) see it – but it is harder for them to see it, because they lack the memory of it; i.e., what it was like in the past. Without such memories, it is much more difficult to compare the present and recognize it is worse than it was. This is what might be described as the tragedy of historical amnesia. It is what the saying about those who do not remember the past being condemned to repeat it meant. The farther we get from what America was, once the closer we get to something that is very different.
The bill in MA says it is a “reasonable pathway” – these things are always framed as reasonable, so who could object? – to reducing what is styled in “planner” lingo, vehicle miles traveled (VMT). As if how many miles we travel – on our nickel, in our own vehicles, is any business of these “planners.” Who are these people? How did they get to be in a position to make “plans” for us? Well, the answer is that enough of us shirked our right (and our responsibility) to be the planners of our own lives.
The rest of us, unfortunately, get carried along by the rip tide.
How will this work, assuming it passes? Obviously it would entail monitoring how many miles people drive, so as to punish them for exceeding their mileage allotment. This is easily done with the vehicles made since around 2015, when “connectivity” – the ability to access and thereby control a vehicle remotely – became a de facto standard part of the deal. Put another way, nothing new would be necessary to impose this regime on cars made since around 2015; all it would take is sending out the update. Owners of older vehicles – especially the really old ones, those made before electronic controls that were mainly mechanical things – could be forced to have their Barchettas fixed with embedded transponders. Or they could simply find their Before Times machines outlawed outright. 
“This is the same crowd,” says an article in Modernity, “that cheered COVID lockdowns while elites jetted off to climate conferences. Now they’re eyeing your car as the next target. Rural Massachusetts residents already face long drives for work, groceries, and medical care. Forcing them onto broken public buses or trains isn’t ‘progress’ – it’s punishment for not living the approved urban lifestyle.”
Exactly so.
It’s not just Massachusetts either. Or just this bill. This is a general . . . plan. As “COVID” was. And it is a “plan” being accelerated by this stupid, evil war that may have been launched for calculated, devilish reasons that have as much to do with preventing the Iranians from acquiring a nuclear weapon as “COVID” had to do with “stopping the spread.”
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Wonder how much Adelson paid in taxes this year… Maybe she got a refund. $40 million to buy herself a war. Buy all the U.S. defenses to carpet bomb Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank for Israel! Buy herself 40,000 dead Arabs. Buy 60,000 American soldiers. Buy another 10,000 dead and maimed Americans. Another $3 per gallon at the gas pump for every American. Another $40 dollars per grocery trip. Ain’t it great to these Jew parasites sucking the blood of the United States!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/republican-midterms-war-chest-gets-40-million-boost-from-adelson
[…] https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/04/14/another-cost-of-the-war/ […]
I read the bill, it’s a bit vague and without specifics, however, I don’t think it’s a way to curtail people’s driving, but rather, a way to get funding for “green” pet projects.
What the bill does is that it requires the state’s transportation planners to calculate “Vehicle Miles Traveled” (VMT) for any future transportation project, and if the project doesn’t reduce VMT, then it has to be changed, or it has to create “offsets” somewhere else, that on net, reduce VMT. So, if you build a new highway, for example, you increase VMT, but if you then also build bike paths in some underprivileged neighborhood as part of that project, those reduce VMT. This turns into political horse trading, because VMT can’t be measured, it’s something that’s imputed, like how many “deaths” dieselgate caused. There will be a bunch of back and forth between various groups about the VMT values of these projects and eventually some agreement to go away after a green project is funded, it’s just how the government sausage is made.
To me, this reads like the green lobby finding a way to fund their projects without having to argue for them on their merits.
It’s a ridiculous bill, of course, I’m not defending it, but I think it’s being mischaracterized.
It’s hilarious that MA’s slogan on their license plates is “The Spirit of America”. I guess that’s true is “America” is only the coastal elites.
The Spanbergering:
‘Just hours before a midnight deadline, Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Monday submitted a series of amendments to high-profile gun legislation passed by the General Assembly last month, while also signing several related measures into law.
‘Among the most closely watched measures are House Bill 217 and Senate Bill 749, which prohibit the future sale of certain semi-automatic firearms classified as assault weapons, along with magazines capable of holding more than 15 rounds.
‘Spanberger’s amendments further define which firearms fall under the ban by outlining specific features and configurations, a technical change aimed at reducing ambiguity for law enforcement, gun owners and firearms dealers. The amendments also exempt certain semi-automatic shotguns commonly used for hunting.
‘The governor also amended HB 1525, which restores universal background checks by directing Virginia State Police to resume checks on private firearm sales — a system that had been effectively halted following a court ruling in Lynchburg that invalidated enforcement of the state’s earlier background check requirement.’
https://virginiamercury.com/2026/04/14/spanberger-amends-signs-sweeping-gun-legislation-reshaping-virginias-firearm-laws/
As an old tourism slogan used to go:
Virginia is for
loverslosers.I told you VA was going to get the WA state treatment, good and hard!
2023 was year for our ban. Mags in 2022, at least you get 15 rounds we’re at 10.
The fam all got semi autos under the 2022 Christmas tree, we stocked up on high capacity mags in 2021.
The Spanbuggering, Part II:
Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups
‘Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has signed into law a bill to end tax exemptions for a slate of Confederacy-related organizations in the state. The new law’s most significant target is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894. [The bill is explicitly designed to bankrupt it.]
‘Two other Democrat-led bills targeting the Confederacy’s legacy also made it to Governor Spanberger’s desk. One would establish a task force at the Virginia Military Institute to recommend ways the college could distance itself from the “Lost Cause,” a sanitized narrative about the Confederacy.
‘The other bill discontinues specialty license plates that feature Robert E. Lee and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It was signed into law by the governor last week.’ — NYT
https://archive.ph/35vT8#selection-829.474-829.641
This is the familiar communist onslaught — shoving hard-left ideology down peoples’ throats, and trampling any pretense of First Amendment rights.
Having this done to Virginia by a pantsuit-wearing New Jersey harpie named ‘Spanberger’ is the ultimate P****-whipping. Robert E Lee wept.
VSP pig pulls gun on father rushing his daughter to ER in hospital parking lot, charges him with felony and delays child’s medical care:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-xXxmK1iCo
I don’t give a shit if your kid dies, respect muh authoritah, LOL.
Remember, though, Mommy Spanberger says only cops can have assault weapons…
Since this is “holocaust remembrance day” and the continual slogan/purported lesson is “never again:”
@3:50 Ana Kasparian provides some balanced and fair coverage of what is going on in Lebanon and Sde Teiman that Americans are very unlikely to see in our Zio controlled press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOMG44YWGps
In fact, like “covid’, 9/11, the climate hoax, and other manufactured ‘crises’, the bill has not been passed to offset the current war, no, the current war has been launched to push for exactly this kind of bills.
Of course younger generations are so ignorant that they know nothing of the freedom older ones had in their youth and frankly most of these genZ “adults” (lol), almost born with a smartphone implanted in the brain (or in the butt for some) are becoming exactly what the controllers wanted them to be (with debilitation education, woke propaganda and tech gadgetry) brainless automatons.
Like in Cambodia in the 1970’s when children where indoctrinated to denounce and sometimes even killed their parents.
This bill should see millions of people taking to the streets to make it go, instead not a peep except here.
This is covid 2.0 as some stated already and the sheeple are ready to comply…
How will they enforce mile restrictions? Digital id’s, CCTV – 5G towers everywhere, remote controlled car, omnipresent police state, etc…
The open air digital gulag pushed by those behind Trumpstein the controlled opposition blackmailed puppet.
The enemies of humanity and their ‘new world order’, using chaos to impose their sick plans, nothing new:
Bankers’ Endgame
https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/10/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-iran-and-the-bankers-endgame/
This is the REAL Endgame in Iran
https://corbettreport.com/this-is-the-real-endgame-in-iran/
“ALL WARS ARE BANKERS’ WARS!”
https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/allwarsarebankerwars.php
Well-said, Amy –
I couldn’t have said it any more comprehensively. I do my best to “hip” the youth too the situation. But – as you note – their resentment and ennui have been fostered and it will serve an ugly purpose.
Hi Eric: Nearly every pint you make here is valid.
But you have sunnier memories of the past few decades than I do.
For me the nineteen-seventies were like Tom Horn described the *eighteen*-seventies — “Poor, dirty, raggedy-assed, and terrible.”
I was a little better off and freer and generally had a slightly better (or slightly less bad) time in the Eighties.
The (Clinton) Nineties for me were dark and strange. I became a little more famous than I wanted to be and immediately things got pretty weird on an almost “X-Files” or “Twilight Zone” level.
Real, live(?) “MIBs” showing up on my doorstep, my phone obviously tapped, my mail obviously tampered with, my home obviously being watched around the clock, being obviously tailed in traffic, and so forth.
I could go into more detail but it would just seem like bad fiction.
We were very poor when I was growing up in the 70’s. Its was wonderful! I’d trade everything I own to go back to that time and place. Being dirt poor in that world beats anything the present world has to offer. We were free to a degree that anyone born after those days will never know; and the world was so much saner. There was hope for the future- that at the very least, things might have stayed the way they were. By the mid 80’s, itr was apparent that we were on an inevitable unstoppable downhill plunge…and that plunge has not only never ended, it has snowballed exponentially to the point that even the most astute politically-aware conspiracy “theorist” couldn’t even imagine or didn’t really believe would actually come to pass- much less in our own lifetime.
I’m going to watch this again: Jimmy Dore interviews Joe Bannister, former IRS special agent – no law saying you have to pay federal tax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acWmZcRLpm0
I find this especially revelant, I do not want my money going to this illegal war for Israel, nor do I want to support the pedophile empire. Based on moral grounds, I refuse to pay Federal tax to criminals.
T’is true, and people have been saying it for decades…but try doing it- as Larken Rose did, and you get to see how corrupt the judicial system is, and how your neighbors will side with their oppressors rather than their victims, because… “Who does he think he is? We all have to pay it! And if I have to pay it, so does he!”
The judicial system: You get to be judged by a jury of statists, who follow judges illegal orders.
Ditto Kent Hovind, whom they tried several times, until they got a jury who’d convict him.
The only way to opt out is to avoid detection, and never do business with the enemy or narc on yourself by sending them forms.
If you work at a job and have filed a W2, there is no way to opt out.
I wrote my state Senator yesterday, telling him (politely) that this bill was the biggest piece of sh*t that they’ve ever come up with, and that was saying something. He usually does reply so I will post his response here when I get it. As others here have mentioned this is just another power grab scam to micromanage our lives. Now they get to make up a whole new department and hire a bunch of cronies to suck up more of our tax dollars. The commies running this state go out of their way to punish successful people and transfer their hard earned cash to the welfare class for “equity” of course. There’s a 4% surtax on income over $1million; can’t wait to see how that number drifts lower over time like the original 1913 income tax did.
I am way too old to uproot my life and relocate so I will stand my ground and fight them here, I will most certainly increase my driving to over whatever “limit” gets imposed if that outrageous bill passes.
IF (big if) you’re going to tax income, Either every person gets taxed the same (basically a head tax), or every dollar gets taxed the same, and the rate is determined by whoever is least able to pay it.
Personally I’d tax every dollar the same, and keep the percentage quite low. Less than 5% low, for state+local+fed combined.
Or better yet scrap it entirely and go to a tariff/sales/consumption tax model. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and energy (perhaps only non-luxury versions but that gets very messy very quickly) exempted.
Hey Publius,
That’s what I’ve said for some time. To me any income tax should be a flat sum. No loopholes. No deductions. No game of 100 questions.
Essentially no other good or service (if you can stretch your imagination to imagine what the government does as such) works by adjusting its cost according to how much money you earn.
Think if you went to get gas and they asked for your yearly income information. Someone making $40k/year pays $4/gallon, but if you’re making $100k, suddenly you pay $10/gallon. Why, because you can afford it, that’s why.
That would be seen to be egregiously unfair, BUT, anytime you start talking about everyone paying the same income tax, suddenly *that’s* unfair, or REGRESSIVE they will call it.
To me, if I were paying less and less as a percentage of my income every year as I earn more and more, that would be PROGRESS, not regression.
But people are jealous and want you to pay “your fair share” and so forth.
Another thing I’d do is get rid of tax withholdings so that the pain wouldn’t be masked and people would have to write that check every year, seething with anger every time the sum increases.
I could keep dreaming. What we really are is slaves of a certain percentage: Some 10% slave, some up to 45% or so. But slaves nonetheless.
What do you think of this tax bill? The Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act implements a tiered surtax on millionaires. The bill applies an additional 5 percent tax to the first dollar an individual makes over $1 million and the first dollar a married couple earns over $1.5 million annually; an additional 10 percent tax to the first dollar an individual makes over $2 million and a married couple makes over $3 million annually; and an additional 12 percent tax to the first dollar an individual makes over $5 million and a married couple makes over $7.5 million annually. This surtax would apply equally to wages and salaries as well as to capital gains and other investment income. The Yale Budget Lab has estimated that this surtax would impact 615,000 tax filers and raise $1.46 trillion over ten years.
The revenue generated through this surtax will fund needed tax relief for working Americans – whether they are a single adult, a head of household, or a married couple filing jointly – by reducing their federal income taxes based on their income to help ensure they can afford their cost of living expenses.
The median cost of living for a single adult with no children in the United States is estimated to be $46,000 a year, based on county-level data aggregated by the Living Wage Institute. Individuals who earn less than that will not pay federal income taxes.
For individuals with income ranging from $46,000 to $80,500, the legislation provides a significant tax break to also combat cost of living expenses. It phases out this cost-of-living exemption at 175% of the median cost of living for a single adult with no children. As a result, a person making between $46,000 and $80,500 a year would have a lower tax rate using this exemption than they do under the current tax system. To illustrate, a single person who makes $50,000 would typically receive a tax cut of approximately $2,800.
The bill includes a larger exemption for heads of households, 140% of the single exemption or $64,400; and for married couples filing jointly, 200% of the single exemption or $92,000.
These exemptions will also phase out at higher rates, with heads of households making between $64,400 and $112,700 a year and married couples making between $92,000 and $161,000 a year receiving a tax cut under this legislation. For example, a family of four who earns $95,000 would typically receive a tax cut of approximately $6,000 due to the cost-of-living exemption.
https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=9005
The rich are all against it: Forbes 3/16/26 “Democrats Would Eliminate Income Taxes For Millions. What It Means” Workers still would pay payroll taxes that fund Social Security and part of Medicare. But depending on the details of these plans, well more than half of the nation’s households would be exempt from federal income taxes (about 40 percent already pay none).
This has significant consequences. Will high-income people be willing to support safety net programs if they are the only ones funding them? Will people who don’t pay taxes feel even less engaged with government than the public is today? How will people respond to budget deficits and debt if they have no direct role in paying for general government?”
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What these rich and their bought “news media” never tell you is that: AI: “Wealth distribution in the United States is highly concentrated, with the top 10% of households holding over two-thirds of the nation’s wealth, and the top 1% alone controlling over 30%. Conversely, the bottom 50% of households own only about 2.5% to 6% of total wealth. This inequality is widening due to rising stock and home prices, with significant disparities persisting across racial lines.”
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They also never tell you how much they pay in taxes. Trump is suing us (the USG) for $10 billion (his net worth is $7.4 billion (increased 3+ billion in one year in the white house) for releasing his tax returns. AI: “According to tax returns released by the House Ways and Means Committee, Donald Trump paid minimal or no federal income tax in several years between 2015 and 2020. He paid $750 in 2016 and 2017, and $0 in 2020, while paying over $1 million combined in 2018 and 2019 due to significant reported business losses and deductions.”
Americans for Tax Fairness: “Trump could not completely avoid paying taxes during the height of his success with “The Apprentice” in the first decade of the century. Those years of tax payments and a few others over the two decades average out to $1.4 million annually. The Times reported that typical taxpayers in Trump’s elite income bracket paid on average $25 million a year over that 18-year span. MOST YEARS OVER THE PAST 20, BILLIONAIRE TRUMP PAID LESS IN TAXES THAN NURSES & TEACHERS. The Times reported that through the artful use of business losses and other accounting maneuvers Trump paid zero federal income taxes in 11 of the years between 2000 and 2017. In that last year and 2016, he paid just $750 each year. Nurses, who in 2017 made an average of roughly $70,000, paid an average federal income tax bill around $4,900. Firefighters, who brought home on average around $49,000, paid approximately $2,500. “
i.e. when forbes tells us that “(about 40 percent already pay none)” they don’t say how many billionaires, like Trump, are included in that 40% not paying any federal income tax! i.e. they’re telling us what they want us to think it means — same way they do w/Israel!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2026/03/16/democrats-would-eliminate-income-taxes-for-millions-what-it-means/
If one has been watching our demon leaders, you can bet that whatever the title of some “wonderful” bill (that they are crafting), just believe and prepare for the opposite to be law. “Working American’s Tax Cut Act” sounds great on paper. But as Pelosi was fond of saying, “We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what’s in it”. This bill will be no different. Thus, tax cuts means we are going to get it good and hard. That means more taxes, more regulation, more loss of freedom (and freedom to move around without surveillance, aka, privacy), more lavish spending on Congress’ part with no oversight, regulation, or consequence. If we are lucky, the demons won’t hide a pay raise for themselves in the bill. After all, it is tough work oppressing the masses and lording over them.
What do I think of it, AJC?
Class warfare. The type of thing I was specifically decrying. It is still strong-arm robbery, though the nominal targets are those who earn enough money that it is difficult to gather sympathy for them.
But those in those higher tax brackets may want to help the less fortunate in their own way, under their own power, gaining a sense of fulfillment and setting them apart from assholes like Trump. But if their money is just stolen from them and fed into government grifts and nightmare programs of inefficiency and waste, they might only have contempt for the poorer classes that initiated the pilferage.
Of course the poor outnumber the rich. Yes, the gap is growing wider. People were taught to be tools and are now in dismay because they are being discarded. But because there are 100 people in a rich neighborhood doesn’t mean you can bring 1,000 people and raid them at will because “democracy”.
What they never do to any significant degree is cut the spending. One “side” (Uniparty Uber Alles) will increase “defense” spending while the other will increase “social” spending, but the entire works is full of parasites, and they are the true beneficiaries. These are the “rich” who should be attacked, because they are only rich through theft.
Destroy the parasite class and their methods of vampirism and you’ll be well on your way to reestablishing “fairness”. Take the bait and attack the next higher class, and you’ve been divided and conquered.
“I wrote my state senator yesterday”
I worte to Santa Claus last night! Hope I get the pony!
Well, Arthur, I think you have better odds of getting that pony from Santa.
“In Massachusetts, there is a bill moving its way through the legislative colon that would give the authorities the power to decree how how many miles you’re allowed to drive.” Presumably, that is, without paying a monetary penalty for any miles that the State deemed to be “excessive.” The apparent problem: how to squeeze more money from taxpayers to cover road infrastructure costs when, among other reasons, monies for road repair are presently diverted to improper purposes and EVs don’t pay gas taxes. Imagine how crazy — and comical — this could become. Would high-mileage drivers be allowed to purchase unused mileage credits from persons who rarely used their vehicles (sort of like the purchase and sale of carbon credits — just imagine the markets that might develop)? Would such a law prompt a run on clunkers — cars that suddenly would become more valuable because they had an annual mileage allotment? Would mileage limits apply to ride-sharing vehicles? Would mileage cap exceptions be allowed for the usual population groups (“essential” persons, elected officials, politicians, illegal aliens, welfare recipients, etc.)? One possible benefit of such an attempt to impose such a law would be the overdue awakening of Massachusetts voters to the almost unbelievable level of statewide political corruption and financial waste that now exists.
Miles driven tax is on deck here in WA. I’ll bet this ‘miles limit’ will be right along with it too. They just won’t be able to resist. Probably implement fines for over milers.
Then comes the new department, hundreds more state employees to run it all.
Reducing VMT is a synonym for poverty. Though this bill was introduced by urbanites, western Massachusetts remains a rural area, where tourism is a significant driver of the economy.
Squeeze VMT, and rural areas will begin to die. It’s part of the plan — Bill Gates and a new crop of billionaires need that land for private ranches and data centers.
‘Royal forests usually included large areas of heath, grassland and wetland – anywhere that supported deer and other game. In addition, any villages, towns and fields that lay within it were also subject to forest law. This could foster resentment as the local inhabitants were then restricted in the use of land they had previously relied upon for their livelihoods; however, common rights were not extinguished, but merely curtailed.‘ — Wikipedia
Smile, comrades: your rights are not extinguished; merely curtailed! 🙂
But Jim, reducing vehicle miles traveled isn’t poverty…. it’s transportation equity…..it’s necessary to “Saaaaaaaaaave the planet from cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change!” /sarc
And in Oregon, the push for “15 Minute cities” is renamed CLIMATE FRIENDLY EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES per an executive order from former governor Kate Brown, as there are Oregonians who STILL belieeeeeeeeeeve the billionaire approved narratives on cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change.
Yankees gonna’ yankee. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving people.
So apparently there’s a scientifically discoverable ideal distance to travel? How long will it take for that to be determined? How many millions of dollars will be wasted on trying to calculate a “fair” distance per month?
I kid of course. We all know that whatever apparatchik assigned the task will just make something up.
Whatever number they come up with, my guess is that people who normally drive more than the law allows will figure out how to avoid getting caught. While people who drive less than the law allows will increase miles driven, just because that number is now planted in their head. Wouldn’t surprise me if actual miles driven goes way up if the law is passed.
Taxachussetts is a one-party state where the ballot box is completely meaningless.
It’s little surprise that our betters have decided to roll out something as Orwellian and sinister as this “bill” in the Commonwealth. My guess is when the Bolsheviks take over in 2028 after the wreckage left by the Zionists, they’ll force the implementation of this in “Red” states via the stick of the loss of highway funds.
It’s a tactic our AIPAC/oligarch-controlled “Congress” has used before to make states bow before the Imperial regime.
But hey, it’s a free country, right? LOL
“Bolsheviks taking over after the wreckage left by Zionists”…?
You say that as though there is a difference between the two. Both are derivatives of Marxism, the most successful Jewish political philosophy. Zionists are the decedents of the Trotsky wing of Bolshevism.
“Zionists are the decedents of the Trotsky wing of Bolshevism”
I think you’re incorrect and DMTMD is correct. Every week (Thursdays (?)) “Dialogue Works” has an economics program with Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff. Hudson is descendant of Trotskyites who moved to MN after Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico (according to him a big contingent moved there and Minneapolis had first general strike in the U.S.). Anyhoo neither Hudson nor Wolff are Zionist, but both pro-palestinian. Wolff is in NYC and voted for Mamdani. The left wing Jews are for the one world gov’t/UNNY. The Zionist Jews are for the one world gov’t UNJerusalem.
It’s two wings connected to the same evil bird.
And yet, there are people who think that putting Democrats back in power will magically fix everything we’ve been facing the past several years. And when that doesn’t work, instead of grasping that we’re facing the problems we’re facing regardless of who’s president or which party is in power, they’ll blame it SOLELY on Trump.
What is that old saying? “Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter”. And in large numbers, no less. Vacillating between the D’s and R’s every four years (never mind the Con-Gress), and then patting oneself on the back for waring at the ballot box shows just how ignorant said voters are. Either that, or they are just as evil as the people they place in power. If voting ever mattered, that is.
One narrative they belieeeeeeeeeeve nowadays is “Vote Democrats back in power to Saaaaaaaaaave Demooooooocracy from the Authoritarian Right!” Pay no attention to the fact that many DEMOCRAT politicians acted like little authoritarian wannabes themselves the past 6+ years.
I think so, too –
I am increasingly satisfied it was smart of me to do the TA transformation, even though it was a stretch financially. I do not think I’ll ever be able to do such a thing again – and I may not be able to drive the car in the future, anyhow. But at least I get to drive it right now – and the memories of it will carry me through.
You can be sure that the oligarchs and apparatchiks will somehow be exempt from these regulations.
Hi Landru,
That’s what I’m thinking as well. These b@st@rds will almost certainly be exempt from such regulations; possibly by declaring themselves “essential” like what we saw during COVID. You may remember that during the draconian COVID lockdowns, people who worked for large corporations, grocery stores, hospitals, or the government were deemed ESSENTIAL, but practically everyone else who had a job, particularly with a small business, were deemed NON-ESSENTIAL.
And what do you want to bet that if Massachusetts passes this demented bill, other states that have gone all in with Cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimate change lunacy will push similar bills?
“there is a bill moving its way through the legislative colon”
That’s gold, Jerry. Gold!
Does this mean they’ll stop coming south? That’d be a win in my book.
We can only hope and pray.
Here in NC the influx of northeasterners has resulted in a noticeable drop in road courtesy.
Don’t count on all X-ers being sympathetic to the cause of Liberty.
I am core X-er, part of the “Ferris Bueller” high school graduating class of 1986, and I have friends my age who bear the mental scars of having driven late 70s/early 80s sh*tboxes during their teenage years and young adulthood. They take those scars into the voting booth.
You got that right. Late boomers and early Gen Xers spent a good part of their early driving years with the 55 mph speed limit and the shit boxes.
In the middle 80’s it was remarkable to see younger people out on thighway driving slower and more tepidly than their parents and grandparents. The early and bid boomers were slightly different in that regard.
It should be noted that many Gen X people eschewed driving cars with manuals.
They are certainly not guardians of liberty since most sat by and said “that’s the way it is” when I was out in the fight to fight the 55 mph limit. I was an outlier in GenX. Complacency was the name of the game with these folks. It’s only recently that they have woken up.
Not me. I prefer a manual trans over an automatic. I admit, driving an automatic is a lazy way to drive. Not so with the manual, however. Complacency kills, and by the time folks wake up, they will already have been enslaved. The opportunity to fight back having long since been passed by.
Nah, there’s always an opportunity to fight back.
We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way. But it will get done, sooner or later.
Unfortunately too many people don’t push back soon enough, and too many others cling too tightly to their power, so the hard way it is.
There’s another side to it, which I’m looking forward to, but I’m afraid it’s gonna get even shittier for a while until we get there.
I like how the article skips right over things and blames gen Z when the idiots at the helm are gen X and millenials. I’m in my late 20s and it sure doesn’t seem like my parent’s generation is fixing anything.
The absolute worst, micromanaging, POS bosses I have ever had were, with one exception, Gen X.
Boomers in my experience generally made really good bosses, they just wanted you to learn how & then get the job done. But they are almost all retired now.
I haven’t personally seen any millennial bosses although I know there are a few. Mostly the ones who don’t have rich parents just keep getting gut-punched as soon as the economy seems to be on the brink of recovery which makes it a little bit difficult to advance.
Hi Larry,
I’m sorry it came across that way; it was not intended to. I was trying to make the point that people your age are too young to remember the Before Time and that the object seems to be to get you to resent people my age and older, who “got ours” (cars, homes, etc.) while you are denied the same opportunities. There is truth in part of this. Your generation is getting screwed. But so was mine; just not as much as yours when we were your age. The thing is, we all have the same enemy – and it’s not one another.
Life seemed OK in the 70s and 80s I guess but truth is even by high school it seemed most of my “cohort” were shallow. Some of them were aimless neo-hippies while the others were scammers and yuppies. While no one I knew fell exactly into the Breakfast Club or Less Than Zero stereotypes the underlying personalities types weren’t far off in everyone. I could not wait to get out of high school and move away. I have no unfinished business with the people I grew up with, no yearning nostalgia. I miss some of the life in the 90s, when my world was working, going to school, live music at night. It was more simple then.
I’m certainly no traditional success in the Leave It To Beaver model but I’ve hustled and worked to get through. Military, college, marriage, bought-sold a couple of houses, leveraging equity, chasing a career. I’ve done alright, I’m not destitute anyway. It just all feels so wasted now.
What really makes me mad is why “they” just leave well enough alone. The people firing the inflationary money cannons, pushing CBDC and surveillance aren’t the Boomers, they mostly don’t know which end of the phone to talk into. The bulk of the problem are the 50 to 65 year olds in senior management of tech, banks, defense contractors, government. GenX didn’t invent the Internet but we are the ones who made it what it is during the Dot Com. We invented social media, sent revolving credit card balances sky high, ballooned 401Ks, constantly turned over car leases.
The assholes are mostly us. It’s fucking GenX. Whatever. Individually you might be alright but our generation really seems to be pretty spineless and useless.
Hi Anon,
I hear what you’re saying. I was the Bender type when I was in high school – and I suppose I still am! I have been skeptical since as long as I can remember; it might be because I got into Mencken as a kid!
No rational argument can be made against this proposal since March 2020.
That is when our Right to “peaceably assemble”, as allegedly protected by the First Amendment, was flushed down the toilet. The entire country was placed under some vicious “shelter in place” order. Another newly created phrase that is used to cover the fact that GovCo is on the rampage and you better not get in its way.
As you point out, Eric, we’ve now had generations marinated in the swill of “environmentalism” and The Safety Cult. They can’t miss what they never had so it’s up to the older generations to demand this crap stop but, too many either like it as well or have been a part of the long march through the institutions. GovCo retirees are legion and some of the most obnoxious humans you will ever meet.
The passive/aggressive refusal to “go along to get along” must begin with Boomers and Millennials. Encourage your grandkids to question all authority and demand rational explanations. Never let the bastards off the hook.
Amen Mark!
That hook should be inserted into the sphincter and exit their lying mouth!
Wow.
Just add 100 pound test braided line with a steel leader. Fifty yards of line and you are all set. Slow trolling off the cape in South Africa for great whites. No chance the bait will come off that hook. Then again, retired GovCo employees are so vile, the sharks might just pass.