Derek Rose

Jesus is King. Husband, Father

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@jondutoit FUCK THAT NOISE

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@BenStoeger187 did you ever get to try out the COA optic? Did you like it?

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

People are far more outraged about one night of sex and drugs then hundreds of thousands of little British girls being raped by immigrants.

It's all performative, none of it is moral.

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@FBIDirectorKash Can you go after those motherfuckers that call spam call me everyday about personal loan offers? Sure I’m not the only one

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@realpeteyb123 This is really conservative and showcases how rough it is. Even if you had the paid for used car(s) - most have some other debt, student loans, extras for the kids. There is no room unless you can move somewhere real cheap - and then you're shortchanging your family in other ways

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@Cernovich Might be able to buy our rental in North Idaho - in the spot just perfect for our 3 / soon 4 little ones. I have not a clue how to justify buying vs renting right now - except for the emotional/psychological aspect of it. That may be enough, but 8% is a tough pill to swallow.

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@SarahHuckabee Yea - this is a bs way to frame things. Cowardly avoiding the reality of things,

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This Republican ad calling out welfare leeches uses a young white male named "Brad" as the villain. Meanwhile, back in reality, women are significantly more likely to be on welfare than men. And black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male "Brads" abusing the welfare system is minuscule. Practically non-existent. But of course Republicans don't have the balls to do this ad with "Shaniqua" as the villain. Even though that would actually be an accurate portrayal of the problem at hand.

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post.

Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Soloman.

We all know that Donald Trump has a colourful history of spouting off some truly outrageous whoppers from time to time, but even he has never disseminated something as fatuous, dangerous or dishonest as this. And while he seldom backs down from his outrageous claims, whenever he pushes the envelope too far, at least his entourage goes on damage control to walk back some of his excesses – Carney’s guys are doubling down.

Despite these idiotic statements, these are intelligent men. The odds that all three of them would simultaneously become afflicted by the same psychotic delusion is infinitesimally small. The only rational conclusion, therefore, is that they believe, or rather their polling data shows, that enough Canadians are so possessed by Trump Derangement that engaging in such asinine demagoguery is politically expedient.

Sadly, they may be right. The vast coalition of useful idiots and true believers after effectively having their intelligences insulted by their dear leader, are coming out of the woodwork to express gratitude online for the Prime Minister’s caution in preparing for all, including the most remote, contingencies. Others are retreating slightly to hold the line at the fall-back position articulated by Minister McGuinty that, this kind of paranoid delusion is perfectly normal and, “all militaries in the world spend time analyzing risk scenarios.”

I assure you, this is not normal.

Back on planet Earth, the situation is tense and acrimonious (and there is plenty of blame to go around for that), but this is not the more than two centuries of peace along the 49th parallel that followed the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 drawing to an end. Trump has imposed tariffs on $20 billion (or 2% of the $400 billion per year) of Canadian exports to the US. In other words, amid this unnecessary, escalatory, and foolish trade dispute, the United States will still purchase 200% more Canadian goods and services this year than the rest of the world combined. This situation is like a restaurant’s picky regular customer complaining about an overcooked steak to a prideful chef who, fortified in his own mind by the knowledge he cooked the steak perfectly, refuses to comp the entree. This is not the start of World War III. We are so far removed from a military incursion at our southern border that we may as well be strategizing the response to the equally plausible threat of Santa Claus leading an invasion of elves from the north.

If we woke up tomorrow in some parallel reality where the United States actually was contemplating a full-scale military campaign against Canada, with all due respect to our brave men and women in uniform, the only preparations to be made would be negotiating the terms of our unconditional surrender. Some brave and patriotic Canadians may refuse to submit and instead choose to conduct, as a matter of principle, a brutal and bloody guerilla warfare campaign against the strongest conventional and nuclear military force in the history of the world. Unfortunately, they would be in the precarious position of having to rely on our miserly European allies, or countries like Russia or China, whose recent actions have been significantly more hostile and provocative challenges to our sovereignty than the US tariffs, to supply us with weapons, and they would not remotely be adequate. It’s all so desperately preposterous.

But for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that Donald Trump was indeed the terrifying bogeyman haunting the dreams of the most extreme and hopeless sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome and its frightful sister affliction, Andrew Coyneism, a rare and especially acute form of tweet-induced psychotic maladjustment. Even in this scenario, why would Trump use the military to annex Canada? All he would have to do is offer Alberta statehood, liberation from transfer payments, excessive regulation and carbon taxes, carte blanche to exploit its natural resources, a generous welcome bonus in the form of a $100,000 tax credit to every adult Albertan and replace their Canadian dollars with equal amounts of US currency. They would effectively be acquiring Alberta for the knock-down bargain price of roughly 1x annual GDP.

Simultaneously, the US (including the newly acquired Alberta) would immediately cut off all trade with the rest of Canada. The net impact to Canada of this manoeuvre would be a cataclysmic economic collapse, while the newly composed United States would take a net GDP hit (loss of all trade with Canada, mostly offset by the acquisition of Alberta) of 0.8%. Next would come a full package of sanctions, a naval blockade, and when the rest of Canada became desperate enough, a Chinese belt-and-road style offtake of all of Canada’s resources at bargain prices, which by then, the Canadians would be desperate for. In the meantime, the US would revamp its immigration policy to recreate the brain-drain of the 1990s on steroids, welcoming the top 20% most productive Canadians to flee what had overnight become the third world. Harvard Alumnus Mark Carney might well be among those at the front of the line seeking this emigration opportunity, rejoining 91 percent of his own investments already located there.

There would, no doubt, be a fearsome contingent of Canadians refusing to bend or break in the face of American tyranny, and elbows would be flying up to vertiginous heights with such vigour that the Canadian healthcare system would be overwhelmed by millions of spontaneous emergency room visits of patriotic patients with dislocated shoulders.

I suspect many of you reading this are thinking to yourself that this is so completely far-fetched and absurd that, if serious, I must have lost my mind. Allow me to reassure you that while this is all bunk, it remains at least ten times more likely than the United States military executing a boots-on-the-ground invasion of Canada. Anyone who spends more than one second worrying about such an outcome should immediately proceed to the nearest sink to splash some cold water in their face and pull themselves together.

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@sam_gzstrength 😂 I think sometimes about what my historically scrappy disposition with a 165 lb frame a couple years back vs my 215 frame today - and still scrappy. 165 lb me NGMI

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@huntercdurham Maui was awesome in that sense too. But similar vibe in some ways in terms of action. For our family, since our kids were born there - and we have a ton of connection - our plan is to snowbird a bit to take the edge off winter here.

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@MarcLobliner Guinness zeros are also great if you're a Guinness fan (as close an NA beer to the original I've seen)

[Alix @AlixG_2]

This Canadian woman was given MAID as her only choice for stage 4 cancer in Deathcare Canada. She went to the US and death was not the option the doctors there gave her.
Canadian healthcare used to be good, it is now in desperate fear of collapse. They're bringing in doctors who did not study in Canada and whatever else that entails.

I find the healthcare in the US unquestionably superior. Health insurance is the same since I don't pay income tax in Florida, I pay it on insurance. There is immediate, private healthcare if you need it.
Medically assisted suicide is not an option they offer.

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@sam_gzstrength Thoughts on starting running again - after NLP. It is like running with a completely different body. 165 lbs - 215 lbs currently

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@SS_strength Need to hear / every damn day

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@sam_gzstrength I overdid it with that "muscling" in trying to set my upper back a couple weeks ago. My biceps were so taxed, my planned pullups were a non starter. Glad I didn't do myself worse than just being a little fucked up

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@jockowillink response to the IRS demand letter
"standby"
we have made repeated attempts to contact you
"good"

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@Cernovich Do what you can with what resources you have now then add. I really like horse stall mats as a floor / foundation piece - just makes the space tidy and more inviting in a basement or garage. A power rack bar and plates goes such a long way and doesn’t have to break the bank.

[Derek Rose @mindflood85]

@AJA_Cortes Hook grip is the way IMO on heavy deadlifts. Straps if needed later. I used to reverse grip - and once I figured out the hook grip and stopped being a pussy about how it felt - deadlifting was way better