Jonathan Russell

Author, producer, inventor, engineer

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Ok, I get it and you are doing a great job. But the subject matter with these lunatics is so repulsive that it’s difficult to step back and observe your tactics, as the mental inflammation the cause brings discomfort.
Try using other scenarios in life I.e Business conflicts, marriage or relationships, philosophy.
I have no doubt you have what it takes to eventually get paid well on a lecture circuit. Would hate to see you get pigeon-holed as “ that woman who fights with transgenders on X”

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

So we’re all clear here:
When you buy your home, you’re paying for YOUR structure and land. If you want to live in the woods, home school your children and clear your own roads after a snowstorm or hurricane, put out a fire in your kitchen or garage and take on someone trying to rob you, then have at it.

If, however, you want to travel on paved roads to your home, send your kids to public schools and enjoy the safety of both a Police and Fire Dept., not to mention EMS, then you need to join a community … property taxes pay for that.
THAT’S what makes your property more valuable than a log cabin located 26 miles from the interstate down a 5 mile dirt road….
The municipality and its services.

Granted, many towns are not run efficiently, but that is the resident’s responsibility to monitor.

So let’s stop with this short sighted notion that we should not pay property taxes after we purchase our home.

I pay a RIDICULOUS amount up here in CT.
Over $30k annually!!! and I get it, but my property value is based not only on the structure, but on the community it is located in.
Understand that you get what you pay for, and if not, then either get involved and change it, or move.
Because I’ve never met a rich town service employee.
(Politicians…hell yeah,
Administrators…sometimes. )

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

NOPE! Vote YES to to eliminate property taxes. We pay plenty of taxes to fund everything in this state X10. Stop wasting it on stupid shit.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

So we’re all clear here:
When you buy your home, you’re paying for YOUR structure and land. If you want to live in the woods, home school your children and clear your own roads after a snowstorm or hurricane, put out a fire in your kitchen or garage and take on someone trying to rob you, then have at it.

If, however, you want to travel on paved roads to your home, send your kids to public schools and enjoy the safety of both a Police and Fire Dept., not to mention EMS, then you need to join a community … property taxes pay for that.
THAT’S what makes your property more valuable than a log cabin located 26 miles from the interstate down a 5 mile dirt road….
The municipality and its services.

Granted, many towns are not run efficiently, but that is the resident’s responsibility to monitor.

So let’s stop with this short sighted notion that we should not pay property taxes after we purchase our home.

I pay a RIDICULOUS amount up here in CT.
Over $30k annually!!! and I get it, but my property value is based not only on the structure, but on the community it is located in.
Understand that you get what you pay for, and if not, then either get involved and change it, or move.
Because I’ve never met a rich town service employee.
(Politicians…hell yeah,
Administrators…sometimes. )

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

With all due respect,
You're joking right? You actually need to ask Grok if allowing untrained pilots to use evolving technology for convenience and/or recreation in a public space is a good idea?
Sure, 150 year old automobiles are mainstream but they still are the 13th highest cause of deaths in the US and 3rd highest as the cause of serious injuries (the majority of which are lifetime handicaps)...and thats on the GROUND!
Please, find another hill to die on. This one is ridiculous.
Reality doesn't give a damn about anyone's enjoyment or expectations!

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

@MonicaCoffey319 @SC0000_ @Rainmaker1973 Oh, so the overworked and understaffed air traffic controllers (Since the 1970’s) can now add Amazon delivery vehicles along with soccer moms to their air traffic radar sweep monitors.
Wonderful!!!
No problem though, there’s always a “tech” solution.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Sure, As long as they stay below the tree line.
We have to stop normalizing this insanity. Many people will get killed, or worse.
What is worse? Killing others and ending up yourself eating through a straw for the rest of your life.
This isn’t the Jetsons, it’s reality.
And reality doesn’t give a shit about anyone’s expectations.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Yes, I get YOUR motivation but don’t get dragged down a hole with these people.
You don’t want to come across as someone personally affected by their insanity, as any normally functioning and rational person would dismiss their claims in a second and devote less than that to respond.

Suggestion (and as always, as an outsider) ,
Go after the decision makers. Get them to explain their actions, statements and motives with regard to female sports. The surburban liberal females who use this to validate their humanism in spite of the horrible people they are.
BTW, my daughter was a D1 pole vaulter who ran track and field along side the two transgenders that CT forced on us back in 2019. We watched her friends get their college dreams taken from them coming in third snd fourth place when they should have come in first and second.
No one recognizes what youre trying to do more than we do. I just don’t want to see you waste your intellect, energy and talent by getting into the trenches with mentally ill persons and their co-enablers.
Go after the decision makers.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Ever wonder why nature puts a finite life on the reproductive cycle?
Wonder no more.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

36-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complains that her insurance didn't pay for her to freeze her eggs and says she spent "years" saving up for the $8,000 egg-freezing procedure.

AOC also said men who criticize her can't be trusted because they don't "understand the first thing about a woman's body."

"There is so much negative messaging that is directed towards women around our family choices, period..."

"If you have kids, when you have kids, whatever, there's so much negativity, and it is designed to... put us in a place of fear or insecurity so that we are making choices out of that place."

Or you could just have a child like everyone else in the history of humanity.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

@CollinRugg Ever wonder why nature puts a finite life on the reproductive cycle?
Wonder no more.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

BS. No chance in hell the FAA would approve these flying anywhere beyond that field, and even then, the altitude would be strictly limited.
Grow up people and learn about aviation.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle.

Price: $128,000

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Sure, the “kids today“ are all out of touch with budgeting. But let’s stop blaming them for the outsourcing of all of our manufacturing jobs, which essentially eliminated their ability to gain entry-level skill sets in the workplace; all designed to increase corporate profits by lowering labor costs without any concern for how it affects our society

Then let’s talk about Wall Street speculators and the biggest scumbags, the “PE” private equity firms and their pump and dump schemes, destroying mom and pop businesses in favor of big box stores, which we all as baby boomers had no problem shopping in.

Every Walmart “Super Store” wipes out dozens of small businesses that could’ve hired young kids right out of high school and gave them the foundation they needed to succeed in the world, not to mention the owners of these small stores who had the ability to actually find wealth as opposed to reporting to an Ivy- League educated HR manager who’s only concern is their meeting data profitability metrics.

And now they’re being completely manipulated by social media which projects a lifestyle where everything comes to you. Is anyone else fed up with the “it’s your world“ marketing garbage?

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Remember, if you're not successful, it's boomers fault that don't even know you, not yours. 😂

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Sure, the “kids today“ are all out of touch with budgeting. But let’s stop blaming them for the outsourcing of all of our manufacturing jobs, which essentially eliminated their ability to gain entry-level skill sets in the workplace.

Then let’s talk about Wall Street speculators and the biggest scumbags, the private equity firms and their pump and dump schemes, destroying mom and pop businesses in favor of big box stores, which we all as baby boomers had no problem shopping in.
Every Walmart wipes out dozens of small businesses that could’ve hired young kids right out of high school and gave them the foundation they needed to succeed in the world. And now they’re being completely manipulated by social media which projects a lifestyle where everything comes to you. Is anyone else fed up with the “it’s your world“ marketing garbage?

I don’t like what the young people are proposing as a solution, but until we acknowledge that they have a real justification for their anger, and find the source of that, will never solve anything in this country.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Yo Catturd,
I’m from the same time as you, but you cannot deny the outsourcing of all of our low paying jobs since the late 1970’s hurt the younger generation’s prospects for entry level employment . Add to that the Wall Street speculators who shut down all the mom and pop businesses….
And the feminization of our education system going back to the Carter days that took away all skill sets where a man can make a living with his hands.,
You’re 40% correct about the younger generation… but they DO have a point about not having the same opportunities we did.

I don’t like their proposed solutions, but if we don’t start to acknowledge and understand what the real issues are, and do something about it, the DSA will.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Total bullshit!
We’ve been recording 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and all the other “fractions” of a wah-wah pedal since 1973.
We even built a box that had (4) potentiometers connected to a Vox Cry Baby wah circuit so you could make presets and hit them with a foot pedal.
Don’t make up shit- posts when you have no idea of what you’re talking about.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

That guitar tone was an accident. Chasing a ZZ Top sound, Dire Straits left a wah pedal parked half-open and a studio mic that had drooped overnight, pointing at the floor.

They never could recreate it. The riff that defined MTV, built by mistake.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Total bullshit!
We’ve been recording 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 and all the other “fractions”of a wah-wah pedal since 1973.
We even built a box that had (4) potentiometers connected to a Vox Cry Baby wah circuit so you could make presets and hit them with a foot pedal.
Don’t make up shit- posts when you have no idea of what you’re talking about.

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

@JackThompsonFOX We’re all so “Tolerant “ until if hits us personally.
Is anyone else tired of these crocodile tears?

[Jonathan Russell @jthomasrussell]

Ultimately women are insecure with who they are. Consequently if a man looks up to them (for reasons that in no way diminish his own attributes), rather than accept the elevation, women instead see the man as being below them, which is a non starter considering their own self worth.

[Brian Atlas @BrianAtlas]

Can anyone explain this female phenomenon?