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[getchuapeepsi @getchuapeepsi]

@MFG_SMB Don't worry about it man. Surely some of our naturalized Somalian or Indian friends can be trusted with the job. 🙃

[Russell Winter @MFG_SMB]

today i ran an experiment that exposed what i believe to be one of the biggest threats to America right now

in fact, I’ve been running this experiment for the past 7 years

i attempted to grow my family’s small manufacturing job shop that I purchased from my dad in 2019

this story is important because it relates to many MFG SMBs like us

at one point we used to have 3X as many employees, work was abundant everywhere and marketing was not necessary to grow – word of mouth got us everything we needed. In fact when my Opa opened it in 1977, his boss gave him the first customer to get started

First I targeted getting a quality management system certification (ISO 9001:2015), something my dad told me was just a bunch of paper work. His words were “Just say NO to ISO.” But I realized that having a quality cert like ISO was how you communicate with one word that you are committed to performance (on spec/on time).

Next was diversifying the customer base. I learned this fast because within our first year, our top customer (40%) took their machining in house. The plan was to get into the defense market. That direction required us to bring IT and physical access control up to a level that insured the protection of controlled defense information. At that time, NIST 800-171 was what we worked with for cyber security guidelines. CMMC was still in the works.

The same month that we got ISO certification and NIST 800-171 compliance, we landed our first defense contract directly from the gov

At that point, me and two buddies were the only employees & our avg age was like 26

When the Defense Contracts Management Agency (DCMA) came out for our first contract review, they sent (3) 50yr old guys. When they saw us they asked if this was everyone?Lol

Almost EVERY question or document request they had we were prepared for, we had everything tabbed out in a 3-ring binder and just whipped out whatever they needed

blew them away

A comment they made that I will never forget,

“You are more prepared than contractors w/ $10M contracts”

But this next comment really meant something to me,

“So you actually care about this?”

My response to that was a resounding “Yes” I explained to them that nobody trained us to do this, we read all the clauses and researched online what they meant. Considering our first contract was like 40 or 60 pages, with tons of acronyms and some pages were full of “clauses incorporated by reference”

We ended up delivering that contract and a couple others to follow. The rest is history.

Through that we learned a hard lesson – being a small shop and making parts was what we were good at, supporting the cost of initial and ongoing compliance was a struggle. Dedicating all my time to gov communications, systems compliance and quoting was expensive and something that is too big of an ask for most of us smalls

this is the reality: America is at an inflection point, our gov recognizes that we have lost much of our production capacity over the past 40yrs and THAT is a major threat to our national security.

They want us to reindustrialize, in fact they NEED us to.

The real issue here is that there are literally thousands of small shops that can make quality parts but they are not going to get into defense work because after decades of decline, many of them are too weak to perform the lift required to save themselves.

Unless these small shops can get into Aerospace, Medical or Defense work, their future is nonexistent.

There’s also a case for tech-enabled shops to be successful at high-mix/low volume work (a handful of current examples exist)

Within a limited timeframe, can our country afford to let them close?

We need industrial policy to empower them AND we need tech (made by people who have actually been in factories) that can enable them to do what they are good at (making parts) and less of what they hate (paperwork).

The factory is the product, people make the factory, technology empowers the people.

[Neon White Rabbit @RedPillRabbit]

Scammers admitting UNDER OATH that H1Bs are NOT MORE SKILLED THAN AMERICANS.

When they are in court and think they are going to rot in jail, they get scared enough to tell the truth.

[Lucky Teter @TheMagaHulk]

In 2017, Justine Damond called the Minneapolis police twice to report that she was hearing a woman "being raped."

When police arrived, Justine, clad in pajamas, approached the squad car and Officer Mohamed Noor drew his service weapon, opening fire from the passenger seat through the driver's-side window.

The Krassensteins never cared about her death.

[A Strange Loop 🧭✴️ @Recursion_Agent]

𝖲̶𝗁̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗐̶𝖺̶𝗌̶ ̶𝗐̶𝖺̶𝗏̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝗀̶ ̶𝗁̶��̶𝗆̶ ̶𝖺̶𝗋̶𝗈̶𝗎̶𝗇̶𝖽̶ ̶ ̶
𝖲̶𝗁̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗐̶𝖺̶𝗌̶ ̶𝗃̶𝗎̶𝗌̶𝗍̶ ̶𝖽̶𝗋̶𝗈̶𝗉̶𝗉̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝗀̶ ̶𝗁̶𝖾̶𝗋̶ ̶𝗄̶𝗂̶𝖽̶ ̶𝗈̶𝖿̶f
𝖲̶𝗁̶𝖾̶ ̶𝖽̶𝗂̶𝖽̶𝗇̶'̶𝗍̶ ̶𝗁̶𝗂̶𝗍̶ ̶𝗁̶𝗂̶𝗆̶ ̶
𝖲̶𝗁̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗐̶𝖺̶𝗌̶ ̶𝗌̶𝖼̶𝖺̶𝗋̶𝖾̶𝖽̶ ̶𝖺̶𝗇̶𝖽̶ ̶𝗍̶𝗋̶𝗒̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝗀̶ ̶𝗍̶𝗈̶ ̶𝗀̶𝖾̶𝗍̶ ̶𝖺̶𝗐̶𝖺̶𝗒̶ ̶
𝖲̶𝗁̶𝖾̶ 𝗐̶𝖺̶𝗌̶ ̶𝖼̶𝗈̶𝗇̶𝖿̶𝗎̶𝗌̶𝖾̶𝖽̶ ̶𝖻̶𝗒̶ ̶𝖼̶𝗈̶𝗇̶𝖿̶𝗅̶𝗂̶𝖼̶𝗍̶𝗂̶𝗇̶𝗀̶ ̶𝗈̶𝗋̶𝖽̶𝖾̶𝗋̶𝗌̶
𝖮̶𝗄̶𝖺̶𝗒̶ ̶𝗌̶𝗁̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗁̶𝗂̶𝗍̶ ̶𝗁̶𝗂̶𝗆̶ 𝖻̶𝗎̶𝗍̶ ̶𝗂̶𝗍̶ ̶𝖽̶𝗂̶𝖽̶𝗇̶'̶𝗍̶ ̶𝗁̶𝗎̶𝗋̶𝗍̶
Ok she hit him on purpose but he's a puss for being afraid of a two ton suv

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Jatin K Malik @jatinkrmalik]

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

[E. Cavendish @ducavendish]

‘Um jornalista certa vez pediu que Kissinger explicasse o que era “diplomacia de vaivém” (shuttle diplomacy).

Kissinger responde: “Você quer casar a filha do Rockefeller com um cara simples de uma vila siberiana.”

É assim que ele faz:

Ele vai até o camponês siberiano: “Você quer casar com uma americana?”

O camponês: “Pra quê? Aqui temos ótimas garotas.”

Kissinger: “Mas ela é a filha do Rockefeller.”

O camponês: “Ah. Isso muda tudo.”

Depois ele vai ao conselho de um banco suíço: “Vocês querem um camponês siberiano como presidente do banco?”

Eles: “De jeito nenhum.”

Kissinger: “E se ele for genro do Rockefeller?”

O conselho: “Ah. Isso muda tudo.”

Em seguida, vai até Rockefeller: “O senhor gostaria que sua filha casasse com um camponês russo?”

Rockefeller debocha.

Kissinger: “Mas ele é presidente de um banco suíço.”

Rockefeller grita: “Susie! Venha aqui, o sr. Kissinger encontrou um bom noivo para você. Ele é presidente de um banco suíço!”

Susie: “Mas todos os financeiros são magros e chatos.”

Kissinger: “Mas esse é um homem grande da Sibéria.”

Susie: “Ah. Isso muda tudo.”’

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

"My son has said to me, he's almost seven, 'I wish we had a daddy.'"

I said, "I understand that. I can imagine that you would. And this is the kind of family that has two mommies because that's how mommy got born, that I love another mommy, not a daddy." And he gets it.

-Rosie O'Donnell

So many children raised in same-sex households voice the same longing. And many receive the same answer.

Your needs are negotiable.
My attractions are not.

The moral burden runs only one direction. The child is expected to surrender something fundamental and then be grateful for the choices that caused the loss.

[getchuapeepsi @getchuapeepsi]

@suzylebo @TheCalvinCooli1 Qatar is a bagman for Israel. Bibi raises money for Hamas through them. Of course Qatar sends money to inhibit American institutions of learning. Americans who can think are Israel's only danger.

[getchuapeepsi @getchuapeepsi]

@TheCalvinCooli1 Lmao. I wanted to enter their philosophy program. Guess not anymore.

[The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1]

🚨Report: Texas A&M has ordered Plato readings to be removed from the philosophy department curriculum

Professor Martin Peterson has confirmed that he was instructed by the philosophy department to remove readings by the Greek philosopher Plato or he would be reassigned

[TheDoomerTapes @DoomerTapes]

I used to be a full fledged socialist, then I saw what socialists do to people and civilizations.

Then I was a left leaning gun owner. Until I saw the childless society we were producing, and making the "great replacement" a theorem.

I settled on "spineless fence sitter" for a long time. But after seeing the behaviors fence sitters allow to happen out of fear of being called racist, I have learned that choosing sides is part of being a man.

I used to care about offending people, losing friendships, losing followers. But I would rather be true to myself and see who the other real ones are than watch my country get pillaged to death by people from the third world. I am completely intolerant of other cultures, and I will not be replaced.

I don't care who I offend along the way anymore. I am aligned with the right wing, even if I don't agree with everything. Our country is in its own little cold war, and I'm choosing the side of those who love their country and its people.

[Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel]

In case you’re missing it:

WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF A SOFT INSURRECTION.

The hotel that canceled the ICE agents’ reservations was the Hampton Inn by Hilton in Lakeville, Minnesota.

It is owned and operated by Everpeak Hospitality as an independent franchisee.

Public filings show the company is owned by a group of four INDIAN partners: Parmjit Singh, Amanpreet Hundal, Karandeep Nagra, and Mohinderjeet Kaur.

THEY are the ones who allowed this atrocity to happen IN OUR COUNTRY.

The very idea that a Hilton franchisee would feel free to cancel ICE Agent/DHS reservations IN DEFIANCE of the duly elected president is UNCONSCIONABLE.

And protesters are calling on ALL hotels not to allow agents to stay on their properties.

America is circling the drain because our FAKE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM was really just an INVASION SCHEME.

These foreign owners think they can UNDERMINE OUR LAWS while PROFITING off our land.

DHS should seize that hotel and turn it into a detention center.

Trump won—time to STOP PUSSYFOOTING AROUND

Arrest any and all IMPORTED ELITES and ELECTED OFFICIALS who confuse protest with TREASON.

[Full Verity @FullVerity]

“Tacitus ascertained among the Jews a “malignant hatred against everyone different” and calls them a “nasty people.” Seneca speaks of the “despicable people.” Mohammed reproaches their profiteering [Wucher]. Martin Luther opines: “On no people more bloodthirsty and vengeful has the Sun ever shone.” Giordano Bruno designates the Children of Israel as “a race pestilential and dangerous to the community.” Voltaire[2] speaks of them as “the greatest rogues that ever sullied the face of the Earth” ["les plus grands gueux qui aient jamais souillé la face du globe"] and urges them to return to the Promised Land as quickly as possible. Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen, saw in the Jews a national danger, and barred them from all public offices. Similarly minded was Tiberius Caesar, likewise Frederick the Great and Bismarck. Herder [3] speaks of the “foreign asiatic people” that is “corrupted in upbringing.” Goethe [4] wants generally to deny to the Jews “participation” in our culture, and fears the worst consequences from granting them the equal rights of citizenship, which he calls “foolishness.”Fichte [5] recognizes Jewry as constructed “upon hatred of the entire human race” and prophesies that the Jews, if in addition to the rights of their nation (which he, like Mommsen, Moltke, et al. rightly indicates as their own state)  one gave to them rights in all other nations, they would “trample” the nations. Kant[6] sees in the Jews simply a “people of swindlers and salesmen.” Schiller [7] calls them an “impure channel” and a “vulgar vessel”[“gemeines Gefäß”].  Wagner [8] calls them the “demon incarnate [plastischen Dämon] of the ruin of humanity.”For Schopenhauer [9], Jewry is a “crass dogma,” “crude,”“dull.” Through Ezra one learned to know it from its “shameful side”: Schopenhauer often speaks further of “bloodthirsty tribes of Jehovah and his Chosen Robber-People.” Even the overly tolerant Tolstoy [10] finds even yet in the Gospels traces of the “alien, filthy Jewish spirit.” Shakespeare’s Shylock conceptualizes the Jew in his deepest essence with unparalleled vividness, as the best men of all ages and peoples had portrayed him. And Dostoyevsky [11] stands shaken before this undeniable fact: “It must mean something, this ‘all’.” For the deep knower of souls the “common Jewish idea” (Shidovskaya idyeya) is the “idea of despoiling through usury [Auswucherung].”

This view of the greatest men of all nations (joined also by Cicero, Plutarch, Napoleon, Balzac, Peter the Great, Maria Theresia, Joseph II, et al.) was now the expression of the universal feeling, as it always developed during closer contact with the Jewish folk.” – Alfred Rosenberg, Der Nationalsozialist, 17 & 24 July 1921

[It would have been great to toss Klages in here, but Rosenberg despised him.]

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

-Cicero

[C3 @C_3C_3]

It’s looking more and more like we are wrong about there being no National Debt without fraud.

There would actually be a Surplus.

That’s how bad the American people have been getting robbed.

It’s sickening.

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

I've got a true story for you. I worked at a movie theater for a summer when I was a junior in High School.

The kids working the ticket booth would take the money from the patrons and tell them that the ticket machine wasn't working but they could still go in. The kids working the podium at the door would get a wave from the ticket booth and they would allow the customers to enter without a ticket. The ticket booth and podium workers would then split that money.

Inventory and nightly accounting was done by popcorn bag and soda cup count. As a simple example, if you started with 500 soda cups and 500 popcorn bags and you ended the evening with 100 of each, the money in the till should correspond to the number of bags and cups missing from the count.

The theater ushers would clean the theater after each showing. They would find popcorn bags that weren't destroyed, empty out the popcorn and wrap them around their legs, tucking them into their socks. They would then walk through the lobby and bring these bags to the concession workers who would flatten the bags and then add those bags back into their stock count and sell them to customers for the next showing. The ushers and the concession staff would then split that money.

The concession staff had their own shakedown separate from their joint scam with the ushers. There were no calculators used when tallying the concession orders. Totals were calculated in your head on-the-fly. It wasn't difficult once you had done it a few times. When a couple who were clearly on a date came in, the staff would add a few dollars to the order knowing the guy would be less likely to question the total lest he look cheap in front of his date. Staff kept track of the extra cash by adding popcorn kernels to their till. At the end of the evening they would count the kernels and remove the appropriate amount of cash during their reconciliation.

There were plenty of people working there that talked shit and didn't like each other at all, but everyone working at that movie theater was in on the fraud and worked together to enrich themselves.

At the time, I had no idea that movie theater was operating exactly like the US government.