Mother of Mayhem 009: Sanctuary Insanity

So I'll ask again, is the president working to make life more affordable for you in your family? We all know the answer is no. That one actually with the gas price, I don't feel as angry with her as I did when I first heard it. I in that was good. How have you been my friend? Thanks for joining us tonight. No, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Folks. This is Mother of Mayhem Episode nine. I thought it best to title this one's Sanctuary Insanity, as we are going to touch on, like, you know, kind of the no duh situation that Virginia finds itself in. Which is Abigail's final executive order that she signed in her list of I think it was ten, correct me if I'm wrong, Keith, And that final one was to not cooperate with ICE. And now the DHS has come out and these are their words, not mine. They were quoted saying DHSQ Spanberger of creating a quote hot bed for illegal immigrant violence with her Day one order rescinding former Governor Glenn Youmkin's two eighty seven g agreement, which cut cooperation ties with ICE and the Virginia State Police, Fish and Game Wardens, and State Corrections officials after the latest gruesome incident, which was the unbelievable two year old who was killed by h or tease Moron Moron, his name's actually Moron if you were, if you were fits. So the terrible tragedy that it is man is, uh, you know whatever. I don't know if we need Brownie points to blame her for it. It is what it is. But I think we kind of saw this coming. What back in episode two or something, right, Keith, we said, if we you know, you don't let ice come in here and get these people out of here, as bad things will happen, and bad things have happened. I guess the question is do you think bad things will continue to happen? No, they will, And I guess the only saving grace with this is that the local sheriffs they can actually I guess decide I guess amongst themselves with their jurisdiction. You know, she has jurisdiction over state police, like you said, gaming in the fisheries and those kind of folks. But you know, the sheriffs might be able to, you know, to push back a little bit on this, but you know, it's it's it's a bad situation. You know, you just mentioned that one case, and every time I read about it, get little blips here and there. It just I just I just get a pit in my stomach. I mean, I look at it this way with with illegal immigration, and even though crime and murder and all that stuff is trending down, if he was not in the country, then the crime wouldn't have happened. Two year olds alive, Yeah, crazy two year old girls alive walking around And that's kind of the thing that we you know, well, at the first of all, Keith joining us from the common sense practical prepper. Follow him down there, that's your ex handle right at a prep underscore podcast. Great show, great guy, gonna be a Prepper Camp. Going to be doing an active shooter class at prepper Camp this year. You're doing two class or one class. Now just one class, one class Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You can see Keith, just so everybody knows who we're dealing with and how to follow him because you're gonna love him. We're all we're all suffering under the tyrannical hammer, which of course is you know, ironic in and of itself. Because because of the flag of the state of Virginia. But that's where we sit right now, right, and so, but our chance to kind of help out, I guess comes in one hundred days. Right. We were seeing the downstream effects of voting the wrong people into office, and you know, they're deadly frankly, and in one hundred days, we have the ability to affect another election if we get out and vote. So I don't know how we get people to do that, though, Keith, that's a tough one anymore. No, there's a lot of folks in Virginia. They don't get off their butts and they don't come out and vote. So it's I don't know, I don't know what it looks like for the midterms. I don't know if it's if we're too early to talk about picking up seats or losing seats. But yeah, people have to get out and vote. That's just plain and simple. Yeah. And this so if you come to the show because you don't like the governor, or if you come to the show because you want to know what's going on in Virginia politics. To some degree, I mean, we're pretty much kind of focused on Abigail, you know, figuring out how bad things are going to get. The whole motivation of starting this show is let's keep an eye on her. Uh so we know you know how bad it's going to be. If you three months ago we thought we were going to be turning guns in or you know, dealing with repercussions had we not or not being able to buy certain guns, you know, it's a big deal. So we saw the keep eyes on you know what she was up to, and that's how this show came to be. But you know, the other problem that we have is that the you know, the Congress, the state Congress is in a bad position in and of itself with with the Democrat majorities, right, and it could get worse or you know, I don't know. We beat the jerry mandering, so that was a plus, but nobody votes they will take do they have them? They currently have the majority both right, let me, yeah, they have the majority, so they can hold on to the majority and do all the crazy they want for a while. Yeah, then we got the injunction that went into effect. We could go yeah, the magazine band and the and the assault assault weapon band I guess they called it. So, yeah, that'll be working its way through the courts. But yeah, who knows how long that's gonna take. Gosh, that could be next. Year, hopefully. Hopefully it goes on and on and on until it gets up to the Supreme Court and they go, oh, yeah, I forgot we had a second Amendment. When I thought I forgot, what shall not be infringed men? Again? Exactly. Yeah, So, you know, I don't know if we have the moxie to motivate you guys to get out there and vote. But in Virginia, you know, it would be a whole different situation if we could get a House majority, you know, just to battle against what we got going on here, because we flipped everything, and I think this is just the beginning. Unfortunately, Yeah, at least get the majority in one of the one of the branches, so you at least kind of, you know, put up some roadblocks. And I mean that's what they did to Yunkin. Oh yeah, they told him, they said, well, you know, we're just gonna block everything. We're gonna obstruction is from day one, regardless of what you try to pass, We're just gonna block it. So I mean, fair play. I mean, I'm really worried about the gas price and the war and how that's going to affect people, because you know, that's a powerful tool for the Democrats. I think is every day you drive past the gas and go, Johnald Trump, get out of this dumb war man. We're dying here with these gas prices. And I think that'll affect people at the polls. I do. Yeah. When I say people vote with their pocketbooks and their debit cards put pocket books, I think so. Yeah, no, exactly right. You just it's on the on the very surface of it. Like you said, you drive past the gas station, you go, you want to get some hamburg or a stake up a food line, and you're like, oh my gosh, and immediately you're gonna blame whoever's in office, regardless if they have anything to do with it. You automatically republican democrat. You want to blame the person in power. Yeah. Yeah, there's that. There's that, and that. The other thing about the gas price and the war is it feeds into this. I mean, I don't know how how legit it is, but it feeds into this kind of democratic socialist slash communist mentality that's out there brewing, and particularly in young people's heads, which is I want to get something on the house because the system is unfair. And I don't think anybody who's in that camp looks at a Republican as a viable option, you know what I mean. They look at Republicans as capitalist, old system, you know, not going to get me a house, not going to get me a car, not going to get me a whatever else, a vacation at home. I don't know what people expect, but they definitely seem to be in the market for something free from the government. It seems likely, well. All these young kids, I mean trying to get homes and stuff, they can't, you know, with the you know, with rent being so high and not you know, it's legit. I mean, it is high interest rates, you know. So I can see why some young adults would look towards you know, the DSA is at the Democratics, So yeah, I can see why they would kind of look towards it and be like, well, what can you do for me? You know, I can't get a house. Gas prices are through the roof, I can't afford X Y and Z, I got student debt. What can you do? And when someone says, whoa we can do it all for free. We can give you free stuff. You're like, oh, not knowing that somebody has to pay for that somewhere down the line. Yeah, yeah, it's well, they're in a bad position, you know, and I guess it's probably it is possibly the worst time for as good as good as something like doge is as good as something like Nick Shirley's findings are coming out and finding all this corruption in the government. There's so much truth hitting hitting the airwaves, hitting the mainstream right now. But the problem is, I think it feeds into that mentality that the young people have right now, and so you know, some of it feeds into the very real truth that they're living right which is like, people are getting rich all around me doing the wrong thing. I'm trying to do the right thing, and I can't get out of mom's house exactly. Yeah, you see, you see all the fraud, and you and I and a bunch of other people are like, well, that's just the tip of the icebergs. Oh yeah, there's tens of billions of dollars more. And again you get the young adults, and they could just get even more discouraged. They're like, look, exactly, just like you said, I'm trying to do the right thing. I'm working sixty hours a week, and here's all this money that's being wasted. Why should I have to go out and bust my butt and work all this overtime when all these people are just just robbing us blind? And again, what you know, what can you do for me? Why can't I get something for free. When they are Yeah, I think that is that's the big deal right now, and I think that's going to affect a lot of things at the polls. I don't know if a lot of people are going to fall for the I don't even think it's falling for the Democrats socialist situation as much as it is kind of having old faith in the fact that things will change under you know, if they vote Republican. Right, No, it's it's easier, yeah, with the DSA and stuff. You know, if you just put your you know, you just put your thinking cap on just for ten seconds and you think about some of the things that the DSA is offering. You know, they want to get rid of the Supreme Court, the Senate, they do want to get rid of everything, you know, banking, and they're just like this is absence, it's communism, Yeah exactly. But you know, young people out there that are very discouraged and disgruntled, they're going to give it a second look. Oh for sure, it's difficult. I'm not necessarily going to judge them, but I mean if I was in that position, well, I'll have to exclude me from the conversation because I have half a brain and you know, I'm a critical thinking But people out there that are very impressionable to get told these things over over and over. Eventually, eventually they're going to start believing what's being told to them. Yeah. Yeah, they get put in that kind of a buying right, I mean, what else is it? Well, under Biden, they got in the chatter. No go ahead, go ahead, No, it's fine, it's not going anywhere. With Biden, they wanted to, you know, get rid of the student loans, and everyone's like, that's fantastic. But if you think about it for a second, that has to be paid for by somebody. You, me and all the other people listening to the podcast. Oh yeah, that had That has to be paid for by somebody. But you get the kid who wants to wipe away sixty grand and he's like, absolutely, why wouldn't I want that? Not thinking that everybody and their mom's going to have to chip in to pay for that sixty grand that's it. Yeah, well, look at uh. I just heard yesterday our free bus service is getting reduced because we're blowing seven million dollars a year on bus service here in Richmond and can't afford it, so they're gonna cut the bus service down. I guess, you know, they go pretty far into the county. Now, I'm assuming either they'll drive less routes or drive you know, less less far. I'm not sure how they're gonna do it, but I had no idea. It was free. All the buses are one hundred percent free. You can ride a bus. And me and my son did it the other day, just for the hell of it. We were up by on Forest Hill Avenue and we hopped on. But he said, let's hop on the bus. I said, all right, why not? He never rode like a public bus before, right, We just hopped on and took the bus close to home and got off. That's it. You should get on and get off. Nice. Here's the funny part about that, though, Keith Ready, this is what I don't understand seven million, which sounds like a lot of money. Seven million per year is what we're losing right now to give people the free bus rides, which I mean, if you can make it work, it's fine with me. I think it's kind of cool to be honest with you. Sure, this is what I don't get. Richmond is liberal, There's no way around it. Liberal artsy donors the whole thing, right, Nothing wrong with that. I'm an avid VMFA go or thank God for him, God bless them. They said that the donors, they can't find seven million a year from donors even that's why it's getting cut, you know what I mean. They couldn't find the money to pay for the extended service, and they couldn't find donors to support it either. Now that kind of makes me angry about donors because I bet a lot of these donors are the type of people that would swear up and down what we need is free public transportation like in Europe, you know what I mean. So it's not putting your money where your mouth is kind of thing, because I know, I mean, you know the houses in Richmond, Virginia, in certain spots in this town, man there's plenty of people with plenty of money who could make that or realize maybe they will, maybe they'll maybe the it's not their responsibility to or anything like that. It's just kind of one of those hypocritical things. But Be Prepared Solutions in chat, by the way, be Prepared Solutions dot co dot co one of the coolest personalized dashboards for emergency and preparedness that you can put together, and it's really easy to put together. Go check them out because it's pretty sweet. You want to know what's going on, you know, power outages, water levels, the news, that kind of stuff, Like be Prepared Solutions dot Co has a really they got a lot of cool stuff, but that dashboard is special. Nineteen seventies, they say twenty percent of income spent on housing versus thirty percent today, so a ten percent increase. According to Be Prepared Solutions, I also said the trapid democracy stands until the population realizes they can vote themselves government benefits. What is that? That's Franklin is so what that is? I think it's a Franklin quote. I mean he didn't say that exact thing, but it's pretty close, pretty close to their quote. I think it was Franklin one of them. Well, and the statue just gave about what nineteen seventies in the spending itself, the dollar went a lot farther back in the South seventies. The value of the dollar, it's devalued so much. I mean, it's just, yeah, that just seems a little low, right, Yeah, seventies till now, twenty to thirty percent seems low. On housing. Yeah, I have a hard time believing that people are spending only thirty percent of their income on housing right now, because, uh, you know rent, you know, it's crits, Like what's it. I wonder what the national averages. It's got to be fifteen hundred and two grand something like that, right. Oh at least? Yeah, I mean, gosh, in Chester, I was looking around just for kicks and giggles in like two bedroom apartments, you know, sixteen seventeen hundred's then utilities that they're in, the cable electricity, you know, you look at two grand, you know, and kids coming out of college. I mean, you know, we never could have made it. We never could have made it. My wife and I you know, there's no way. I was a chef out of college and she was was she was working actually for the company she works for and still but she was entry level at the time. It was literally like a job that they set her up with out of college to start making money to pay the loans back, you know what I mean, There's no way we could have afforded that, and that that's not taking into account that if you have even if you have a couple, you're probably sitting on another thousand in car loans a month, right, like, like the average car loan is insane. And the biggest problem with that is there's no used cars like there used to be, so you can't even really opt out. You can't be like, well, I don't want to take the loan on, I'll just buy a car out and out. Or you can't as easily as you used to be able to anyway. Yeah, everybody's hanging on to their cars. I mean I did the same. I've got a my just my grocery getter is it's a ninety ninety nine Buickless Saber that I oh, it's just it's a land yacht and I love it, you know, it's it's a fantastic little and I'm gonna you know, it just hit one hundred thousand miles and was it like you know that thing that's an old car and I'm gonna driver it's the wheels fall off. That's it, man, Yeah, that's it, because I mean, even even with the exorbitant which is another cost that's totally out of control, Even with the exorbitant amount of money you got to spend to get a car fixed, Like if you got to drop two grand to get the car fixed, it's way better than having to drop half of that a month for your brand new car. You know what I mean, because I know people that have nine hundred dollars car notes. It's insane. I mean, it's literally insane. It's like, you do you live in it? You may as well. It's half your rent, half your mortgage. I'm sure you might as well. It's right, that's it's insane. So that I mean, you know, to boil it all down, that's sort of the issue, right. That's the concern is what is a kid gonna look at the Republican Party in fall and say they're the ones I want to vote in. Because what they're gonna do is this. Yep, you know, they're gonna look at the war, they're gonna look at the and I don't even think that people are sold on the look. I'm not even completely sold on the tariff thing, you know what I mean. I don't go tariffs great. I understand how that works, and I understand how that benefits me. Right, I don't you say tariff? Sometimes I'm like, does that mean I'm gonna have to pay more money again? Exactly? You know, I don't quite get it all day, you know, and the long term I can, I kind of understand it. You know what I would do, Keith is I would just have a tax moratorium. That would be my goal. If I were the Republicans, I would say, we're just gonna We're just gonna finagle some kind of a state tax moratorium or a fed tax moratorium or both. And until we get out of this war with these gaps, until we get out of this inflation, until we get out of all these problems, until the housing market corrects. We're not paying all the taxes because immediately you help everybody working, just you know, immediately you pay your take home gets you know, bigger and better. Yeah, they could do that. They'd have to put it in a graph or something to show everybody. You know, this is how much you're pinion now, you know, do it for three months, six months, whatever it happens to, and this is how much I mean, I know how much I get taken out in the federal state and fight at all that. I mean, yeah, I think people would love that. Now we're already thirty nine forty trillion dollars in debt. So what what does that do for the debt? I mean, I'm sure it would just I would just climb even higher than it. Is now if you were The problem with that is Donald's bringing in all kind of tariff money that is the debt. Yeah is that where? Yeah? Where is that? That is a lot of money. Is it in a bank account somewhere? Is it in somebody's pot? Where is that? It needs to be on that debt. It needs to be on that debt or it needs to be in a check form coming to the American people one or the other. Yeah, you know what I mean. It needs to be an offset or it needs to be I mean, I'd rather than put it towards the debt myself, but hey, you know whatever. But to your point, that's the big question because when the government gets their hands on money like that, and then all of a sudden they're like, you know, it kind of reminds me like social Security. We're gonna we'll hold on to this for you when you're old. You'll be fine. Yeah, talk to a senior who lives on Social Security, no kidding. Yeah. If you ask the average American what they would want, I bet you most most folks i'd probably go fifty to fifty would say, you know, cut me a check. But then I think folks that are more financial, that are in a better financial spot, would say throw it on the debt. But a lot of people, young adults, you can't blame them. No check for five hundred bucks or eight hundred bucks, whatever it has to be. Yeah, I mean that's something. I mean, there's half your rent, there's I. Think it was a lot more than that. I mean, last I remember he said what we was in the hundreds of billions or something like that. It's a lot. I think when we cut the COVID checks, we spent like eight billion or something, right, Well, yeah, I think it was, and that was what six hundred of person or nine I can't remember. Yeah, it would make a difference. It's time the government do something that make a difference or else. Yeah, it's gonna get bad. Well, something's gonna have to give for the mid terms because I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. I don't see the Republicans, you know, the next new shiny thing, you know, for someone to someone sitting on the fence to go, Okay, you got my vote. I don't know what. It might not be the Save Act because Thune is screwing that up royally. I'm not sure if he's compromised who he's getting paid by. But I don't I just look at that guy, and I'm like, you're such a typical politician. He just yeah, I guess yep, yeah, because I mean, yeah, I don't know. That's a that's a wild one. That's Save Act. I just don't understand it. I just can't wrap my head around it. It seems like cut and dry. The only thing that doesn't you know, the only rerational thing is just to say, like, probably lots of Democrats and even some Republicans want to cheat, you know what I mean. I don't think it's all Democrats or else we'd have I think we'd have more support, you know what, I mean, you'd have you'd have a few Democrats across the aisle, and yeah, I don't know, it's weird. What about eighty percent of the people. Yeah, it's something like that of the American people. And yeah, an eighty twenty issue, I guess they call it. Yeah, support voter or voter ID and and all that stuff. I mean, just yeah, and the fact that Washington's just you know, kicking the can down the road and ignoring what you know, eighty percent of the people want Republican Democrats across the board. Eight out of ten folks, regardless of your political affiliation, want it, and they're. Just put it on the ballot. We got reproductive rights on the damn ballot. Put it on the ballot. Do you want to push this save back through so that we know we're not cheating on elections or not? Vote yes or no? Do you want free and fair elections like they did with the Jerrymander vote. Remember, well, if we like, if we lose, you know, if we lose the House or the Senate, come come to bid terms, and it's just going to be a moot point. I mean, if we can't get something past, you know, with. A majority oh right now, Yeah, that's rap. Now we're screwed. Yeah, we're just gonna be pretending elections for a while. Yeah maybe a long while could be, couldn't be as right? Hey, let's take a I forgot we got to take a not a break. But I gotta show everybody something. I told my partners at Disastercoffee dot Com that I would show off or we got something new. I don't do this enough. I don't, really, I don't. I'm terrible with this promoting of disaster coffee stuff. But I do want to. I do want to show you guys the two new flavors we got. Man, they're fun. I might have to bring one of them to preper camp. Let's bring up the Disastercoffee dot Com website real quick. The newest there are two flavored coffees, which is hilarious because we don't really drink flavored coffees that much. Actually, I could say I only do it like once or twice per year. But we've got the new Smores. The new s'mores is. I mean, it's s'mores medium ros natural flavored coffee. Pretty awesome, pretty awesome for around the campfire. I will tell you with all these What I've found with all these flavored coffees is, uh, you gotta put milk in them, which is to my chagrin. I'm not a big fan of putting milk. And this is this one was actually Phills, not necessarily his design, but his. It kind of came from Oh he put the story in here. When I was a young lad, I used to spend summers in Evergreen, Louisiana with my great grandmother, whom we called Mammy, and she made the best freak of pee cam pie in the world. And this is our Peacan pie flavored coffee. This one I haven't tried. It sounds like it's probably pretty damn good, though, so go to Disaster Coffee. There are two new offerings for this year. We'll probably do another regular coffee before the year's out, too, but this is something new for us. Oh and for all of you Halloween freaks out there, one more, one more. I'm a Halloween freak too, so don't worry about it. But this is the black Pumpkin, and the black Pumpkin is the pumpkin spice number, so if you want to get into that earlier. And I see a lot of people that are like, screw summer, we're done. Whether we're going right in the fall, I don't know. I was at Low's yesterday and they already have the animatronics and all that. Oh, don't tell me that. Now I gotta go to lose tomorrow. Oh my goodness, you know, the twelve foot witch and the little dancing mummies and stuff like that. You know, I'm not a I'm not a coffee flavored coffee guy, but that be can probably pretty good, right, Yeah, check that out. That sounds pretty good. The pecan pie coffee. Yeah, that was Phil's inspiration. He saw he said, man, that might be Yeah, that could be something, And I was like, you know what, let's do it. Let's run this some more for the summer. Let's run the PEACMPI. We could always, you know, chime that back income Thanksgiving time. We have fun over there. Man, it's a good time. It's way more fun than chasing Abigail Spanberger around. I'm gonna bring an article up real quick. Actually know what. Let's check X real quick too, because there's h I saw something about data centers of the I got Spamburger distances herself draws a hard line on data center bands because she seems pretty intent on that. Tomorrow at ten am, I got a guy coming on who's building data centers. He's a he's a contractor. Wow, he's literally like the you know, he's in there building them. So that should be pretty interesting. What what is X money? You've got X money? What's that? It's a debit card? Oh, it's the ex debit card. How about that? It's rolling slowly rolling out, And I think you have to be a what uh not the free subscriber? What I pay for something over there? Eleven bucks a month? What do you? I don't even know what it's called, but I think that's it's got to be one of those. They're slowly rolling that out. Oh bummer, I thought I got some money for something. So this is an interesting little one. I'm glad I found that. I can't believe I found it. This is a wing and a prayer. Uh let's see if did that come up on the stream here? Yeah? There you go. So this guy right here and I don't have the link to it, so we've got to, like, at least assume it's real. Six News WTVR, Richmond, Virginia study on ground. What are data centers, calls for tighter what are regulations? Uh? And what Ocham's razor up here says is Spaanburger and Company hit a ground with a report showing that data centers are draining are aquifers. Virginia is now literally running out of water. Listen when you read stuff like that on X. I don't know who the hell Olkham's raisor is. He's probably from Richmond though, because he's got a damn possum profile picture. Oh is he? Okay? Yeah? They pretty good. Well, when we get that, we get Keith Blessing that must be legit so produced by environmental scientists. The report, which the state for more than six months had refused to release, said regulators should have more authority to reject industrial water withdrawal permits, force entities to examine alternative source of water, and clampdown on users might be using more water than they should be, which I mean this is fundamentally the the big gripe with all the data centers, particularly here while we're in a drought. Right. Yeah, there's four of them being built in Chesterfield, chess Field to go to Chesterfield dot gov. They did their own little tab on data se yeah. Four. Yeah, the that Meadowville out there where Lego is, the Meadowville Technology Parkway out there near eight to ninety five, and there's four of them going up. There's a lot of space out there. That makes sense. Yeah, Now, a lot of them are closed systems. I mean it's again I'm not the I'm not the data center expert, but a lot of people talk about, you know, the groundwater and uh, depleting the aquafer and stuff like that. But it's my understanding that a lot of them are closed systems. Once they put in the five to ten million gallons, then it pretty. Much kind of recycle it. Yeah, but there's some that aren't like that. So yeah, weether again wheather, but you know, there has to be some evaporation at some point. I don't think it's truly a closed system. I mean, like your car, like your radiator, you know, yeah, summer, you know, you need to top it off every once in a while. So yeah, that's a good point. But yeah, well, I mean I'm not bringing this guy on tomorrow to go one way or another with him. I really just want to hear what he's got to say, because he might be one of the best resources there is for this stuff. You know what I mean, because he's the guy with his hands in it building and I do know there's an exorbitant amount of money being divid out to build these things. Oh my goodness. And the tax breaks and the tax incentives, my goodness. Yeah, he's he's What this guy does. I found him by accident on Instagram. But what this guy does is he coaches other contractors on how to get more clients. And the whole reason he put the video up was he was telling guys like, you know, you've got a decision to make here. Either you're gonna be mister anti artificial intelligence, so you're gonna make all these millions of dollars and help build these data centers. So I mean, it's, you know, it's a conundrum for them. I guess if they're you know, that's their thing. But it'll be great. I can't wait to talk to him. I'm sure it'll be an awesome I'm gonna flip it this out of here because there's another one I wanted to bring up here with Spanburger's take on the data center situation, because it seems to me, like, you know, I don't know how you feel about it. But it seems to me like somebody talked to her and was like, look, I don't care who gets upset. We're building these things, and we already have a ton in Virginia, you know. Oh, gosh up, dere gosh up near DC. I had to go up to Dulles to pick somebody up last weekend. And they're just almost as far as the eye can see. I mean, they're just, they are just, and they're easy to pick out. They're very easy, you know, they don't look like anything else. But you know, with with Spanberger, i mean, you know, she ran as a moderate. Of course we know she's not. And her numbers are in the tank. I mean so far, like the first six seven months, she's like her numbers are worse than any other governor, you know, with you know, this short tenure, you know, And I think her advisor somebody's telling her she's going to have to push back a little bit to try to at least give the impression that she's coming more towards the center. Now again, I don't think anything's gonna help her until she does what she said she was gonna do. There's no pool and wool over the people's head. Every time people turn around, she's adding costs, taxes, costs, fees. You know what I mean. And her whole platform was I'm going to lower cost of living affordability. I don't. Yeah, I mean, you can move her all around the chessboard until she gets caught. Prices down and cost of living down in the state, like, I think it's going to continue to get. Worse and worse for her. I think the midterms will be will be very telling, you know. If you know Republicans pick up some seats or something like that, then I think there's going to be even more pressure. But need a dn'tand they need something to combat it. That's why I think the tax I mean, I know it will never happen until we have torches and pick axes, but like the moratorium on taxes or something along those lines would would at least resonate, you know, at least say, look, Abigail failed, this won't fail. This is money in the bank, you know, And people would say, you know what I'll vote for? Why not? What do I got to lose? I voted for her. She said she was gonna make things cheaper. They nothing would go up. Yeah, no, at least. I know they're gonna cut taxes and make things work for me a little bit. But yep, they took my gun. I don't know my power bill went up, but everybody's power bill is going up thirteen dollars something. Yeah, that all a green energy surcharge or whatever acurity that was. Throw us right into that. That's what we need. Yeah, exactly. Well, something's got to offset all the pollution from the data centers. I guess right, Well, she's gonna have to do something. You know, she's a one term governor. You know, she can't run again. Yeah, and so I mean, you know, she has aspirations for higher office one of these days. I mean, her legacy cannot be that she just rained Virginia into the ground. She took a budget surplus from young and just squandered it. Yeah, she's gonna have to do something, make herself a little bit more marketable, come you know, twenty eight, thirty thirty two, whenever she wants to run. Speaking of another question about where big lumps of money are. If we got a seven million dollars a year problem in Richmond for the most important thing in the world, which is pre public transfer port, you know, and if she's so green, that's a surplus problem. Right. My wife tells me the other day in the car that there's a new new tax, like the tax is going up one percent in Richmond or something like that because there's infrastructure shortfalls for schools. All I can think is, why why no budget surplus dump into Richmond for that? I mean, I don't understand how Richmond schools don't have enough money. I can't. Everything I've heard since I've got here in two thousand and nine has been We're gonna raise, raise, raised for school schools, schools every other year. You know, I don't understand where the money goes. Well, they had the budget surplus with younkin, I mean, I don't you know, I don't know how many, you know, tens of millions of dollars or whatever. But what happened to it? Someone just just erase it off the books. I would love to know, you know, day one she came in office, we have this much of a surplus. I mean, what happened to it? I mean, it's paying for her national run for office right now, going into the pockets of people who are gonna give her, you know, favors later on or who she's going to give favors to later on. I don't know, man, that's that's the kind of stuff that will make people insane though, you know, that will drive people totally not swear to all the money, go, I don't have any of it. I can tell you that much. Nope. So this article from I think this is the Examiner. I'm pretty sure. What is this Washington Examiner. Rena Row. That's a great name, Rena Row. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger defended the economic and national security importance of the states booming data center industry this week. Those two things right there, like, if you see those two excuses for artificial intelligence. I'm not necessarily anti artificial intelligence, but if you see those two things, I always think it's crap because economically we're not really sure, and national security is always it's just the fallback on everything, right, It's always like, oh, need for national security? Don't you want to be safe? So yeah, but she seems hell bent on Oh here you go, Glennell. Oh no, that's not. That's an ad budget finalized by Long create a first of a kind tax on electricity consumed by data centers, which should offset some of our taxes. Right, I want to hear the word offset. Offset just means it's gonna cost you more money. There is no it's never coming back. Don't worry, that's right. That's why they'll never do the tax moratorium because then they would have to raise the taxes after they you know, cut them back. You cut them back. It's a hell of a time getting them back up to the previous levels because people go, hey, things aren't looking all that bad and we're not paying any taxes. They're still out there digging every damn roam up in Richmond, and uh, you know, we're doing just fine without all this tax grab and. Look at that. By the end of twenty five, Dominion Energy they had a request. I talked about this a month ago about I talked about data centers on my podcast. Seventy thousand megawatts. That's just what on paper, the data centers like hay Virdgini Power, we're gonna need this much. That absolutely a lot. And again I don't it's a big number. Now where that plays into how much you know, how much we have in the grid like that, I don't know, but yeah, on paper, you know, as they slide the paper across the deskin dminion powerately. Oh I need twenty, I need fifteen. I only need five. Yeah, seventy thousand. So we need to come up with seven, or somebody does needs to come up with seventy thousand megawatts. And those Dan wind turbines off the coast of Virginia Beach are not going to do that. Those sames are ugly as hell. I cannot believe, cannot believe they did that. I haven't seen them with my own eyes. I don't go to Virginia Beach very No. I stay away from the beach. I'm not a beach guy. But yeah, saw some news stories on it. They're just out there, just spinning around. It's wild, Spamberger said, eliminating the tax exemption outright with risk damaging an industry that has become a cornerstone of Virginia's economy. Yeah, they're not going anywhere, folks. With her in office, we're going to have data centers down top of data centers on top of data centers. That's yep, that's that's that. I don't remember that being a part of her plan. I don't remember her talking about that much when she was running to you. Oh, no, I want to bring a whole fresh crop of data centers into Virginia. No. Her advisors are like, don't even say that where it's a that's a dirty word until you get into office. Don't. Yeah, don't say we're gonna increase you you know, we're gonna increase your power bills, or we're gonna put a bunch of buildings around that make all these crazy noises and drive people bananas at night. That hummings. Yeah, don't don't tell anybody about that until we get into office. They did a good job. I don't know, though she's floundering. Man, mm hm. The question is whether or not we'll we'll go back Republican for the next governor. You know what I mean? Oh at, that's he's gonna be. With Nova going, you know, more and more blue and nobody voting out in southwest Virginia. It's gonna be tough to get us, to get us back even purplish. I don't know. I don't know if we'll ever I don't know if we'll ever be read again. I mean, we got lucky with Youngkin. I don't think we'll ever at least not for a long time. Someone's really gonna have to screw things up. Yeah, because what was the motivation to change. You know what? I mean, there was no big gaff in Youngkin's governing that I remember that people will go like, oh, we need a Democrat in there, like is Republican thing ain't working? You know? Well it was yeah, they didn't. Yeah, they just voted. It was a vote against Trump is what it was. She didn't win. Everyone just voted against Trump. I mean, that's that's how the DSA is getting it, you know, getting into politics and getting in you know, some of them are you know, getting on the national stage as far as somebod these uh you know positions are being elected to. And that's all everybody's that's all the Dems are running. They're just saying I don't like Trump. And it was like I was like, oh, I'll vote for you ten times if you just don't like Trump of me. That's and that's all it takes. They have no platform. What are they gonna do when He's gone? What are they gonna do? What is the media gonna talk about? What are the Democrats gonna talk about? What are they gonna be get up? What are they gonna get up for in the morning. I think we're gonna rash of suicides when Trump's gone. The meaning in life is just going to be over for these people. Well, is it gonna be left the hate? You know, is it gonna be Rubio or is it gonna be you know Vance? And you know jd he's the vice president, so they're oh, he's just you know, he's Trump like that's he's he's been close to Trump for you know, five six. No, no, no, no, we can't have him because he's just like trying. Might you know anti JD Vance? JD Vance might be the polar opposite of Donald Trump in a lot of ways, you know what I mean. Upbringing is I mean just very different than Donald. Trump, Mark or Rubio. Very very smart man. I mean, I mean I never. Noticed Rubio's ears. You don't miss nothing. That's why he's so smart. His ears are enormous. I was watching him today, I was going, my god, the ears on this guy. He hears everything. He's he's like a weapon himself in meetings. I bet on the press conferences. I mean, I mean, he just he knows his stuff. I mean, he just he's great. He stops smiling and he became awesome. He used to be all like happy. Remember now he's all straight face and he's the man. I like him. I'd love him to be president, very smart man. Yeah, I'd love to see him as president. He'd be great. Ye, he'd be great. And I think under under this administration, I think he's probably learning a lot, you know, and he wants to keep law and order in the country. And I think that's probably gonna be you know, that's your wheelhouse, but it's probably gonna be one of the most important things that that we preserve in the coming years decades is law and order here in the States, because there's gonna be so many reasons there already are so many reasons for people to be at each other's throats. And oh, it's terrible, the division. It's oh, it's just it's sickening. And it's done on purpose, you know, neighbors, of course, it's just and you know, everybody's falling in, you know, falling right into their laps. Yeah, it's the Communist credo, the doctrine, you know what I mean, it's older than my father, this idea, literally, the the we're gonna run it, We're gonna I've got the documentary that I don't know the guy's name, but I got it saved. I watched it years ago and it was just unbelievable. It's like a nineteen fifties black and white documentary. There's no way I'm gonna find it because it's saved in a YouTube playlist with all the other once there's a ton of these amazing documentaries from like the fifties, sixties, seventies, and they're not this one is is a little propagan to ask like if you if you were a communist, you might watch it and go like, I don't know. But then again, he reads out of this communist manual. But one of the things that's crazy about is he talks about the book that he's reading from. Talks about the importance of basically the blacks and the whites being against each other and how it is like the cornerstone of getting communism into America. Yeah, because these two sides can fight, you know, forever, and just they can bring the whole country down around that. And it's just crazy that, you know how long we've been at it. Now, this has got to be nineteen sixty at latest. It's all black and white and we're still falling into that trap. Man. Yeah. Now it's just crazy. Fighting amongst ourselves and fighting with your neighbor across the street, and you're you're not paying attention to what's really going on. Yeah, and that's you know, you you're too worried about what people are saying about you, what your neighbors are doing, and crime, and you're not paying attention to what's really going on behind the scenes. And that's what they want. It's a perfect cover. And it's a perfect cover if you want to build four data centers in Chesterfield out anybody saying, true, that's true. Too busy arguing with my neighbor to worry about the data centers. At Chesterfield, that's right, reading bumper stickers and getting mad. That's exactly what it is, man. It is. The question in my head always is you know what happens if we do wise up? Because that's kind of scary too. I mean, if everybody comes together and goes, okay, it's time for some action. Of DC, they'll, I'll, they'll, they'll crap their pants. That's a long shot, but I mean, I think there are a lot of people that are are finally figuring it out, you know, and you see see the testimonies on Facebook and Tube and all that. It's like, look and how can this be? This is not right? But is it? You know, are enough people you know putting on their thinking caps and really digging into it to see exactly what's being done? That's the question, right. But there's no doubt that that we're rolling into a time like never Well, we're in a time like never before where people, you know, there's no hiding anything anymore. And that's you know what I mean, Yeah, that's that's a kind of a due ledge, sar. But no, you're exactly right. You have these people coming on saying, look, you know, we've been getting screwed for the last fifty sixty years. What have you? This is not how you know, I want to live or he wants to live, you know, And you have the ability of getting on social media and spreading that. So that's it, you know, hopefully hopefully enough people will listen and then you know, then DC screwed. Yeah. I think we need a We probably need a wave of new politicians, you know what I mean, not new politicians per se, but people in public office who maybe aren't so good at being politicians and more more prefer being representatives right like we're supposed to be, because it seems like the uh, I don't know, there's just I mean, outside of the outside of the everyday sort of corruption of politics. I also feel like politics now, even with the new up and comers, it feels like theater. It feels like even when we get somebody like, all right, we got him, we got him, dead to rights, he's sitting in front of Congress, We're gonna make him look stupid. We're gonna put a bunch of clips on tiktoka. How smart we are, you know, asking him questions about abortion or whatever. But nobody ever goes to jail, Nobody ever gets in trouble. Nobody ever goes to jail, or at least I don't hear about it. You know. I want to see headlines. I want to see this person lied under oath and here's the repercussions. Yeah, I want to see a purp walk. I want to see a mug shot. That's it. I think everybody does. I think a lot of people, you know, all this stuff, all this uption. Fauci's going to testify tomorrow, all this yeah, you know, and my ex feed, that's all my ex feed was was Fauci. This Fauci, that his diary, he lied, he had dinner with Jake Tapper and all that. I think I posted something that replied to somebody. I'm like, just this is all a bunch of blowny blowing up my feet when he's in cuffs and there's a purp walk in a bugshot somebody called me. Until then, just just get off my feed because it's all just a dog and pony show. And this is another aspect, you know, this is the two tier justice system that man, the communists eat that stuff up, you know what I mean, They eat that stuff up like these people just walk. Imagine if you were there doing it, you know what I mean. Imagine if you did all the lion that Fauci did under oath into Congress and to the American people, you'd be in jail. I mean, you know, you can't even not pay your taxes. You forget to pay your taxes for a week and see what happens be seventy people calling you, Hey, I'm gonna come take your house if you don't straighten us out. Just like it's all theater it's all just for show. No nobody's nobody's gonna be held responsible, nobody's gonna have to, you know, suffer the repercussions of all the crap they've done. That's what's got to change, or the whole house of cards is gonna get flipped on its head by young preaking radical maybe not even that radical, you know. The The other scary thing is the fact that like the crisis of young men and young women because of the Internet largely is keeping them apart. And you know, in this kind of environment, the last thing that you want is a giant population of twenty five year olds who are like, I don't know what I'm doing with my life. You want to topple the government? That sounds like fun, right, right, We could put that on TikTok for some views. Right, you know what I mean. I mean, that's where we're at. We got to you know, but there are a lot of people doing a lot of great things. I just don't get the news, you know what I mean, They don't get the press, and uh, you know that kind of press unfortunately doesn't sell anymore, not at all. There's no value in the good stuff. So but you know, The good news is Abigail's tanking, the mother of Mayhem is tanking, which hopefully we'll you know, drawing end to her influence and maybe we'll wind up getting some somebody in office with half a brain. I mean, where we live, we're doomed no matter what. So it doesn't really matter, I don't think. But that's true, that's true. Well we can hope, you know, we can. It's what degree of suck are we willing are we going to put up with? There? You go, right? But it is a beautiful place. It is. It's a wonderful place. Man. It's hard to imagine what it could be. How much better could it be? You know what I mean, if we had I've had some people with a quarter of a brain. I'm trying to figure out how many times we're gonna dig Forest Hill Avenue up. I can't wrap my head around. Is there a max number you can dig a roda? You know? Like, yeah, every time they fix it, it just gets worse. Yeah, it sounds like it just gets worse. It's like the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It's the last fifty years. I mean, it's still under construction. You drive, You're just like man, those those are the same cones that were there ten years ago. Yeah, where are the guy? Where are the workers? I love it. I think it's hilarious. I driving down the street and you're like, oh, they're digging again. Okay, just digging it up again. We would laugh because they started changing pipes in our neighborhood like three years ago, and they dug the whole neighborhood up, and they covered the whole neighborhood, and then they dug the whole neighborhood up again. Little did I know this is just doing business. I had no clue. I thought. I figured, if you're gonna dig through the asphalt, you do it one time, right, fix everything, and then you know you don't do it anymore. But that seems to be the way things go down here. I guess that's that's how you spend a surplus. That's why we don't have free buses anymore. That's how you spend a surplus. You get guys out there, you say, you know what, dig it all up. Fill it. We'll have you digging it all up again in two months. Yeah, we'll have the residents ready to jump off of the I ninety five bridge and everybody's happy. Yep. You know we'll get him with the estate tax and it will be good. You know, we make it sound like it kind of crap, but it is a beautiful place. The state of Virginia is an amazing place. Man. Oh it is. Oh my goodnes, it's a beautiful state. I mean Richmond's at Richmond's a fantastic city. I'm not I'm not from here. I've been here since eighty six, but you know it's my second home. I guess you could call it. I mean, Richmond is it's a it's a beautiful city. And I mean the state has everything. I mean, you know, Nova excluded, you know, no offense anybody at Nova. If you guys a success pool, you can go visit up ninety five North. Yeah. You got the mountains, you got the beach, you got everything in between, Shenandoa National Park, some beautiful colleges and universities. Oh yeah, it's an amazing place, man. I mean just just Richmond alone, just the James River, the restaurants, the museums, It's amazing, man. The bow tie cinemas. Yeah, at a Squirrel's New Park is school. They tried to kill everybody in there the other night. That was pretty crazy. I've got season tickets, I said, right before you were you there? I left because it was packed. It was like, uh, what was it? U of R Night and Faith Night? I mean the place was packed. And at you know top, it was the bottom of the eighth and we were up by one. I'm like, let me start slowly and I walk around slowly, get to my car, beat most of the traffic. Yeah. Yeah, And then the next morning screams of horror. My son sent me the video and I'm like, oh my goodness. Yea. For those of you who don't know, our trip La double ball team is double A double A based the Giant set off fireworks. They do it a lot. They set fireworks off often, and they set some off in the in the field, in the outfield, and uh, I guess some of them tipped over and shot into the crowd. Did anybody get hurt? I don't think anybody else. No. No. Ironically enough, it's called and I'm not making this in your face fireworks. That's exactly what they call it, in your face, in your in your shorts, and in your hair fireworks. But now they're going to launch him over inside the old Diamond. At the Diamond, so you've got you've got a couple fences and some walls between, but you know it's on a utility trailer. And if you walk in, you see the pyrotechnic guys, you know, wiring up. So they got the big borders, you know, and they put them on this utility trailer and needs bring out a little tractor and you know, shoot them off. At one fell over and then yeah, and then people were just getting just getting tagged. The new stadium's pretty cool. I do miss the Diamond though. Yeah, no, Yeah, the new Stadium's CarMax Park. It's beautiful. It is a beautiful place. You were there during a toxic air day. We went there for Christmas in July when the air was supposed to kill us all off if we dare go outside. Yeah it was a good game. Well it wasn't. Actually, it was a horrendous game. What am I talking about? It was like nothing, nothing in the fifth and we left. Oh but you don't have to wait for the bathrooms. There's plenty of food. It's not like, oh yeah it's cool man, Oh it's state. Yeah. They have a good set up there. They got a good thing going nice. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, there's just something about the big old concrete that I liked. I don't know. I also like being up high too. I liked that. I was always a second level guy all the way over there on you know, first baseline. M But the seats are way better. Oh they're comfy and they're wider, you can sit back and. Every like, every seat is nice. Every seat's got a good view. You're clothes, you're down there on the on the field. Yeah, yeah, it is a good time. They did a good job with this one. Yeah, it's all that. It's all that. If we could just get the politics right, that's our gripe. We also don't want to get taxed to the point where we have to leave. That's another concern, you know what I mean. It's like, don't make me leave this beautiful place behind because I can't justify, you know, taking loans out to pay the time. Yeah. So, I don't know. I do appreciate you coming on though tonight, Keiths or anything. You want to mention shows coming up shows? Have you have just done that you want to promote here? Anything? Yeah, comment since Practical Prepper podcast, we just broke one hundred thousand downloads. Man, congratulations, that is awesome. That one kind of snuck up on me. So yeah, I've got to undred k downloads. That's big. I did last week, did a couple episodes on Flock Camera struck a nerve. So I had to do the follow up as a thing. Yeah, that's what I do. I did a follow up a couple of days ago, and uh yeah, I got my loan made on the ridge, had a couple weeks off, so I got my little, my little fictional post apocalyptic audio book. I got to get back to that E eleven. Yeah, I'm going to record an episode yeah, later on tonight. I'm going to do one on why I want to live off grid or semi off grid? Okay, yeah, A lot of reasons for that, a lot of opportunity for that these days. Man, Man, there's a lot of cool off grid tech coming out. Oh my gosh. Yeah, little stuff, big stuff, it's crits. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how many more generations are going to be on grid, you know what I mean, It's going to be antiquated. Why would I hook up to that big stupid power lines on wooden poles? System from nineteen ninety or nineteen fifty rather Yeah. All the data centers are taking the power. Yeah, right, solar panels and go off grid. Yeah, it's only going to get easier and better. Yeah, and no, God only knows what happened on artificial intelligence. You throw throw the problem of fold So what is it? Voltaic cells in there, and I bet it'll figure something pretty interesting out. All right, my man, I won't keep you. I know it's getting there. It's been a long Monday, I'll tell you that much, folks. Yeah, no problem. We'll return for another Mother of Mayhem at some point. I don't know. We took a long break. I took a long break of a lot of things, just keeping up with the network. But we'll be back, hopefully some good news. All right, talk to you soon, folks. Keith, thanks again for coming on. Man. We appreciate you.