"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life.
The man across the office is running a different road from a different starting line.
Race the man you were yesterday. He is the only honest opponent you will ever get.
Heavenly Father, we thank You for the blessings of this new day. Guide our steps, protect us from harm, and bless the work of our hands. Fill our hearts with peace, wisdom, and gratitude. May Your grace and favor be with us throughout the day. Amen!
3 days ago, I wrote a post about the dejection I observe in men each morning they leave their houses for work.
Today, I was just tagged in a story about a pilot who was disinherited by his ex-wife.
Despite putting so much effort into his marriage, being there for his family, and bequeathing his wealth to them, he has lost everything.
He is now homeless.
3 years ago, when I wrote here on X that a man must build his private citadel where he can disappear silently and secretly to find solitude and singularity, I was trolled, mocked, insulted, and berated for encouraging men to abandon their wives.
Here is the thing,
Nobody cares about you, the man.
Not even me, Amerix.
The only person who cares for you is YOU.
You either bite the bullet and start building your retirement bunker, or continue neglecting yourself and suffer the consequences of your ignorance.
#MasculinitySaturday
Food for the postpartum woman and breastfeeding mothers:
Her nutrient stores are depleted.
Her gut lining may be stressed.
Her hormones are in rapid transition.
What she needs:
• Iron from red meat and liver.
• Collagen from bone broth.
• Choline from eggs.
• Omega-3 for brain restoration.
• Magnesium for sleep and mood.
Not rice, maize, wheat and vegetables.
Not Ribena, Lucozade, Soda and Chips.
Not soup with no protein.
Feed the mother like she built something extraordinary.
Because she did.
#FoodFriday
Raising children with discipline is not cruelty.
It is the highest form of love.
Raising children without structure leads to:
• Adults who can't tolerate discomfort or delayed gratification
• Entitlement that nobody will accommodate
• Anxiety - because a child without boundaries has no sense of safety
Hold the standard even when they resist it.
When Mumias Sugar Collapsed the entire economy around it also collapsed.
Frame 1: These dilapidated one-roomed houses is where sugarcane truck drivers lived. Those who remained behind are now living in squalor.
Frame 2: This was a very active commercial centre inside the complex, just a few meters from the factory. Here, there was:
- Post Office
- Bus Booking offices, in fact, Easy Coach parked here all the way from Nairobi.
- Police Station
- Shops, the first Mumias M-Pesa in 2007, were set up here.
- Nation had an active courier shop here.
Frame 3: These are offices of Asians who were contracted to transport cane. They owned hundreds of trucks and tractors. The place is now a shell.
Frame 4: Former employees of the company have resorted to doing menial jobs like burning charcoal to make a living.
Fuck you, Kidero.
After SACCOs, Banks And M-Pesa Are Next As Kenyans Become Guarantors For A Debt Crisis They Never Ate
Kenyans must stop asking why Kenya has not defaulted and start asking who is being prepared to carry the default when the music finally stops.
Ghana was here.
Sri Lanka was here.
Zambia was here.
Argentina was here.
Lebanon was here.
The script is always the same, because a broke government borrows until lenders get tired, taxes until citizens are dry, leans on banks until credit disappears, pushes pain into pensions and domestic savings, then tells the public that sacrifice is needed to save the country.
That is why the SACCO story should scare Kenyans more than they currently seem scared, because SACCO savings are not government money, they are the private sweat of teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers, matatu people, boda riders, mama mbogas, small traders and workers who ran there after banks abandoned them.
In every default story, the government does not stand alone at the edge of the cliff, because it drags citizens there as guarantors through inflation, taxes, currency pain, bank losses, pension restructuring, frozen credit and forced patriotic nonsense dressed up as national recovery.
Banks already formed a comfortable debt circle with government, where lending to Treasury became safer and sweeter than lending to SMEs, which slowly choked biashara, starved the real economy and turned ordinary Kenyans into beggars inside their own banking system.
Now the same government that fed banks with public debt is walking into SACCOs, looking at the last pool of money ordinary Kenyans still controlled after taxes, deductions, mobile money charges, fuel prices, school fees and rent had already eaten their pockets.
The anus cannot be stitched to stop diarrhoea.
A debt crisis cannot be solved by raiding SACCOs, squeezing banks, eyeing M-Pesa, selling public assets and pretending that every desperate grab is an infrastructure plan.
Ghana called it domestic debt exchange.
Sri Lanka called it restructuring.
Argentina called it emergency controls.
Lebanon left people staring at bank balances they could not freely touch.
Kenya will give it a cleaner name, maybe national development, domestic resource mobilisation, infrastructure financing or patriotic investment, but the meaning will be the same.
The citizens are being prepared as guarantors for debts they never ate.
Kenyans are not angry enough, because if they understood where this road ends, they would know SACCOs are not the final target, they are the warning shot before banks, M-Pesa and every private pool of money still breathing outside Treasury’s hands.
The money is finished.
A Broke Government Never Falls Alone
Kenyans are still laughing, forwarding memes, arguing about tribes, insulting each other on X and pretending that a debt crisis is something that will only visit State House, Treasury and Parliament like a polite visitor with an appointment.
That is the stupidity broke governments love.
When a country enters a debt crisis, the government does not go down alone, because it goes down with the public, drags citizens by the neck, empties pockets, shakes banks, touches pensions, kills credit, weakens the currency and turns ordinary people into guarantors for money they never ate.
Ghana was here and citizens felt it through domestic debt exchanges, banks took pain, pension funds entered the conversation and the same public that was told borrowing was for development found itself carrying the bill.
Sri Lanka was here and citizens did not debate theory, because fuel vanished, medicine became a problem, power cuts became life, taxes went up and ordinary people paid for a debt mess cooked by leaders.
Zambia was here and the country spent years inside restructuring, IMF conditions, fiscal discipline speeches and the usual recovery language that always sounds clean until it lands on families, businesses and workers.
Argentina was here and people woke up to find that bank deposits were no longer freely theirs, because when the state panicked, citizens discovered that money inside banks can become a hostage.
Lebanon was here and depositors stared at bank balances they could not freely touch, watched the currency get crushed and learned the hard way that when government and banks rot together, citizens become the burial committee.
That is why Kenyans should stop asking why Kenya has not defaulted and start asking who is being prepared to carry the default when the music stops.
The anus cannot be stitched to stop diarrhoea.
A broke state cannot borrow recklessly, tax everything, sell public assets, starve SMEs through banks, raid workers through deductions, eye SACCO savings and then pretend the public will remain safe when the debt fire finally enters the house.
The public is the guarantor.
Not Parliament.
Not Treasury.
Not State House.
Not the tender billionaires.
Not the budget magicians.
It is the teacher with SACCO savings, the nurse with a payslip loan, the police officer with deductions, the mama mboga paying mobile money charges, the farmer waiting for credit, the boda rider paying fuel taxes and the small trader already blacklisted by banks.
Kenyans are not angry enough because many still think default means government fails, yet history says default means government transfers pain to citizens and then hires economists to give the theft a clean name.
After SACCOs, they will come for banks, M-Pesa, pensions, deposits, transaction flows and every private pool of money still breathing outside Treasury’s hands.
The government will not go down alone.
It will go down with you.
If these criminals are hunted one by one from their hideouts, and shot dead, "human rights" activists will be out here shouting the loudest.
@DCI_Kenya, hunt these criminals, kidnap and finish them.
This is unacceptable!
Men,
Most men focus on stopping bad habits
Instead of focusing on becoming better men.
We don't rise to our goals.
We fall into our identity.
Don't say:
"I am trying to quit."
But start saying:
"I am a disciplined man."
Identity changes behaviour.
#MasculinitySaturday
Men,
Most men think they have a masturbation problem.
They don't.
They have a self-awareness problem.
You can't solve what you refuse to accept.
The journey of freedom begins with one question:
"Why am I doing this?"
#MasculinitySaturday
I told you that all those politicians masquerading as opposition are what we call POTEMKIN or ASTROTURF OPPOSITION.
But you insulted me.
Do you now see the game clearly?
They aimed to discredit genuine clamour for economic transformation, scatter powerful voices and legitimize Government's economic agenda.
This is their mechanism of existence:
INFILTRATION
Movements and social media platforms were quietly infiltrated by individuals loyal to the establishment. These individuals mismanaged the platforms to discredit social media voices in the eyes of the public.
"You have been paid."
"You are tutam."
"How much have they paid you to post this?"
These infiltrators also steered the platforms away from achieving the core goals by creating unnecessary slogans.
"Wantam"
"Tutam"
Example: X users, X posts, X spaces.
CO-OPTATION AND COMPROMISE
Leaders of a genuine grassroots movement are persuaded, bribed, or pressured into watering down their demands.
They are given lucrative platform access and media coverage but are kept on a tight leash, transforming radical critics into moderate voices that the establishment can comfortably manage.
Example: ODM and BREAD-BASED ESTABLISHMENT
STATE-MANUFACTURED OPPOSITION
The state actively creates, funds, and legitimates smaller political parties. These groups appear to challenge the government on minor, superficial issues, but they never truly threaten the ruling regime's control over the state.
"Please don't protest. We shall defeat him on election day. He has no numbers."
Sheep: "Yeees!"
Example DCP and LINDA MWANANCHI
The state played its cards strategically and outmanoeuvred all of us.
Now, we are back to:
"You are a Kikuyu."
"You are a Kalenjin."
"You are a Luo."
Don't under-estimate the STATE.
Anyway, one day, GRASS WILL GROW.
Another comes here to tell us,
"Africa is our business,"
But when an important African business was happening on African soil, he was in Europe, eating lasagna like Khlestakov, the deceitful character in the play The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol.
Liars!