Process this: If you think that the stuff you’ve seen in the Epstein Files is outrageous, and people should be tossed in dungeons over it, understand the very worst stuff has been quarantined. If you this stuff is bad, wait until we find out what they’re hiding.

Epstein dealt with a lot of evil people and evil deeds, and he said that Trump was the most evil person he’d ever known. I’m hearing stories of murdered babies and such, and as crazy as they sound, so far the stuff I’ve heard from the Epstein Files has turned out to be true, so I’m assuming the rumors are true as well.

Not any more. We can care about raping kids now.

I recognized some of those words, but the point is YOU did, and more importantly, there are almost certainly others out there who would be interested, too. That’s exactly the sort of specialized information that has value to a small group of people, that you can capitalize on.

In the old days, it may have been impossible to reach those people to let them know what you offer, but the Internet makes it easy to reach everyone in the entire world who might be interested. You just have to figure out how, but you probably already know forums and websites where you can promote your unique service.

You’ll have to figure out how to reach them, sell to them, etc., but just take it step by step, and figure out each hurdle. There are a lot of steps, and some can be a bit complicated, like taking credit card payments. But you get through it, and then you can take credit card payments for any business you start, forever.

Start running business scenarios in your head, and be brutally honest with yourself. Which ones work? Which ones won’t? Which are too complicated? Too expensive? Etc. There is almost always a simpler, more efficient, more elegant, and CHEAPER alternative, if you put your full mind to it. Nothing is more satisfying than when a solution pops into your mind that is easier, works better, and most of all, is more profitable. ALWAYS try to UNcomplicated things as much as possible.

Just remember to keep your humanity and your morals. Too many business people forget that.

Not all businesses require investment money. Every business I had started with nearly nothing. My first business started with a legal, pad, a pen, a phone, and a list of potential clients, and a lot of cold calling. When you don’t have money to invest, you tend to have to substitute your own sweat and determination.

It means that your new business might not be in the field you want, or be as big as you want, etc. You may have to start with a smaller concept, and evolve into a bigger one. The guy who started Chipotle wanted to start a high-class restaurant, but couldn’t afford it, so he started a small burrito stand to make the money for the fancy restaurant, and it became such a hit, he never started his fancy restaurant.

Your goal should be success, not the field. I started off in the music biz, but that collapsed, and I eventually ended up in a business that I never thought I’d be in.

It’s hard for people to drop the expectations they’ve been carrying their entire lives, and view their career path in a different way. Use your imagination, work as hard for yourself as you would for any other employer, and you’ll do well.

I’ve managed to keep my one man operation going for 18 years, and I’m not quitting any time soon. I know lots of other people with small companies like mine.

I guarantee that there are lots of small businesses where you are, even if you think there are “no jobs.” That’s kind of my point - If there are no jobs for you, create your own.

Stop blaming others, circumstances, the economy, etc. Nobody is stopping you but you.

Can you write? Can you teach? If you are an expert in your field, you can do a blog, or write a book and publish it on Amazon, or do a YouTube channel.

Perhaps there is some sort of consulting you could do. Years ago, I put up a consulting page on my website, and it generated over $100,000 in revenue over about a decade. I still get 2 or 3 nibbles a year, but I’m not really chasing that these days.

You are trying to find a job in your field, so you must feel you have a value. I’d establish myself over the next six months with a blog, write a book about what you do, and then start fishing for consulting gigs. A year from now, you could be making real money, and be completely in charge of your schedule and your life, with no boss but your own sense of responsibility.

I get it, and I even said somewhere that not everybody is cut out to be a business owner/boss. I just got really tired of having to take stupid orders from stupid bosses. My current boss is as dumb as an ox, but I’m self-employed, so that’s the best I got.

The world needs employees, too, so that’s okay, but I’m just saying that if I was in a long-term unemployment situation, and was getting nearly no response, I think I would keep that up, but carve out some time to establish some side hustle, like Etsy, or eBay, based on something you can do. Do you play an instrument? Maybe you can get into a band. You don’t have to be a rock star to make a little money playing 2 or 3 wedding receptions a month.

It’s better than sitting home week after week, month after month, waiting for things that are entirely beyond your control to break in your direction. At least you are taking responsibility for your own fate, not leaving it to others who don’t even know you exist.

If you are so willing to work that hard for somebody else, why wouldn’t you work that hard for yourself?

There are an infinite variety of businesses, they aren’t all the same. Uneducated immigrants come to this country without speaking the language, and start successful businesses every day.

The basics of business are easy. Business management is one of those college degrees that kids with no other skills get, like communications. At its core, business is just fairly simple math, with lots of percentages and what not. I’m pretty dumb about that stuff, and I managed to start my first business with no money, a legal pad, a pen, and a list of potential clients. Then I started cold-calling. Don’t know how to do that? Neither did I. You learn by doing.

Eventually, you can get into the advanced stuff like funding, going public, and selling your business, but most people just have a small business large enough to support their family, and they only have to worry about costs, expenses, and profit. Learn to balance those, and you’ll have a business.

Or you can keep convincing yourself that you can’t do it, and you will be 100% correct. Those that succeed don’t listen to that nonsense.

Sure, choose ludicrous options to try to disprove my point. Nobody is expecting you to go out and become a professional athlete or artist, and to pretend that those are the ONLY options is disingenuous.

I used to be in the music business, a career I planned for, and tailored my entire education toward since middle school. After a couple of decades in it, the entire business collapsed, and millions of people lost their jobs, including me.

I tried a few other things, mostly sales jobs, and finally decided to start my own thing. That was 18 years ago, and it was the best decision of my life.

This is looking like the toughest year, due to MAGA screwing up the economy so badly (the indicators lag by a few months, but in a quarter, it will be apparent how badly the economy has slipped. Small business owners are already feeling it, including me). So I’m not sitting around whining about it, I’ve already started a few other initiatives to generate some money, including an online business. I have confidence that my regular business will survive this, but it will be good to have alternative sources of revenue, and when the economy recovers, I’ll have those side strategies boosting my income, which is always nice.

You have skills, and they are transferrable to other businesses. My music education and experience didn’t help my current business, so I developed the skills I did have - sales, negotiating, improvisation, quick thinking, etc. - and applied those.

You’re what Small Businesspeople call a Dreamstealer. You’re fishing for excuses, but if you don’t think you have what it takes to work for yourself, that’s fine, but don’t try to make it sound like I’m wrong for encouraging people to follow their dream, and Hire Themselves.

How is it ridiculous? MANY people are self-employed. Sure, there’s daily stress, but I was under daily stress in my corporate life, too. At least my future and my fate is in MY own hands, and not being decided by the whims of some Sociopathic corporation that despises me, and is constantly looking for ANY excuse to replace me with anything cheaper.

Besides, I can’t think of ANYTHING more stressful than long-term unemployment. If I’ve been applying for jobs for months, with no response, I would try a different strategy. What have you got to lose?

And even if you do find a job, having a side hustle that actually makes money keeps your employer from being able to exploit you too badly, because you know that you aren’t 100% reliant on their Sociopathic policies.

But if you don’t get it, that’s okay. Not everybody can be a business owner, which is a LOT different from just being a boss. We need workers, too, and some people can’t see themselves as anything but an employee.

If nobody will hire you, then hire yourself. It has never been easier to start your own business, and make it pay. The Internet makes it almost free to start. You may not become wealthy, but it can still generate steady revenue.

You catch the most flies with rotten meat or shit, so that idiom has always been dumb.

The guy even shits his pants in the middle of a press conferences, like it’s nothing:

https://youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg

Watch at :34, you hear him shart, and the lady in green behind him hears it, and looks at him. A few seconds later she starts to react to the smell, and then the staffers jumped in and cleared the media from the room.

How many symptoms of dementia do you need?

JFC, between the treasonous racist pedophiles, and the whacked-out delusional religious freaks, who both have a pathological obsession to control every aspect of every citizen’s life, how do good, decent, moral people who only want to live a dignified life with their families, stand a chance?

Hey Commanders! Y’know when they said you had to ignore illegal orders? Passing on illegal orders counts.

It was the olden days, the 60s, EVERYTHING just took longer, all of it done by hand, no Internet, computers, robots, automation, printers, etc. Every item needed lots of handling, stuffing in a package, making and sticking a label, etc.

What? Trump lied? Well, I never.

The bill’s language allows scrutiny based on “views” and “opinions”

That won’t survive the 1st Amendment challenge.

All the MAGAs I’ve seen complaining about this are the ones that are already kicked out - Carlson, MTG, etc. Their whines are falling on deaf ears.

MAGAs understand the power of a good terrorist attack. They knew something big was up before 9/11, and they did everything they could to ignore it, and let it happen.

Of course, that gave them the excuse to create the Department of Homeland Security, which is currently murdering innocent American citizens in the streets with spontaneous firing squads.

They would LOVE to have a big mass-casualty terrorist event to use an excuse for their worst dreams.