Black Friday

Thoughts on the End of Retail Stores and Somali Pirates Here at Home

As Americans experience the joy and rush of fighting with thousands of others over overpriced Chinese Junk at a slightly reduced price, its worth taking a look back at some of the joyous occasions of cultural enrichment and diversity that Black Friday has traditionally meant:

Now, Amazon has taken the joy, the traditions, the UFC beat-downs of diverse customers culturally enriching the nation. The same deals, and without the in-person Octagon without chain link fencing.

That, and a bunch of other things writ large, is why retail is dying.

List here: here

Bed Bath, and Beyond is gone. I liked shopping there with my brother. Barnes and Noble, has closed many locations in California, again that was a joy to shop at Christmas, I’d usually buy anything my late brother took a fancy to; just for fun. Rite Aide closed down a few months ago, after 63 years in business.

All of these retail stores, many of them national chains, are gone. The others are seeing plummeting same store sales and foot traffic.

This is a big cultural shift. Black Friday for many people will consist of shopping on their computer for stuff on Amazon, and watching the Black Friday Amazon game at 3 pm Eastern; [Bears vs. Eagles], and watching a few college football games or the NBA on Peacock or Amazon.

Perhaps this is better in some ways. People now have better things to do with their time than stand in line for hours in the early morning for deals that are not that great. Electronics used to be something people would fight over, now they have become so ubiquitous and cheap that no one cares.

The modern world offers what the Dead Kennedys wanted in 1987:

“Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death”

No more fighting with obese basketball-American women over a cheap flatscreen TV. Amazon has you covered. But this has a cost, more and more atomization. At least, when people had to fight in Thunderdome, there could be no denying the realities of cultural enrichment by diverse people. DEIversity was in your face, smelling of week old cheetohs and menthol cigarettes. Now, people can imagine everything is OK, because they never come to grips with reality. Particularly middle class people in suburbs, who drive to work via their cars on the freeway, they don’t have to deal with the kind of diversity that Iryna Zarutska did. Or that woman in Chicago.

America’s normies only see what they see in real life. And as long as their suburban neighborhood is much the same, they won’t care about DEIvirsity any more than rich liberal elites do. It will only be when their daughters encounter the cultural enrichment, that they begin to care.

Which means Trump has to make the immigrants, legal and illegal, all about the money. Offer FREE (as in government picks up the tab) for deluxe health care for all CITIZENS, and nothing for permanent residents, or Temporary Protected Status, or “Dreamers” (aka free-loaders), and FREE College Education for ANY CITIZEN (no foreigners or residents or any other status) in any place, no college loans – but make it dependent on scaled deportations. Deport 20 million next year, FREE Health Care. Don’t meet the goal, nothing. The goal being deporting 60 million in three years. Make it all or nothing, and if the goal falls short, then there are no subsidies and everyone has to pay full freight.

For too long, Democrats have played the money game, getting illegals and legal aliens here, so they can get massive amounts of welfare. Which are then distributed back to various Democrats, and things like Al Shabab.

Details here

Somalis claim existing (or imaginary) kids have autism. They “send” their real kids to a Somali Doctor who diagnoses autism, and sends them to Somali clinics (most don’t exist) which bill the State and eventually the Federal Government (which funds State programs). Everyone gets a cut. The parents, the Doctors, the clinics. Even the Somali auditors get a cut. Then the money is sent back to Somali via the Hawala network to fund Al Shabab. Which is a US State Dept. designated terrorist group.

Trump has threatened to remove TPS for Somalis over the funding of Al Shabab, of course the courts will not let him and the media is up in arms over this.

One would have to think that both Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz were getting their beaks wet. This stuff does not go on for all that long, at the scale it did, without the State government and the City being aware; and taking their cut.

Estimates are that billions went to Al Shabab this way. The scope of illegal alien and legal immigrant fraud is off the books. The only way to get normie to care, is to smack him upside the head and make him aware of how much HE is missing out, like that fat basketball-American woman who had her flat screen grabbed away from her. A couple of billions sent to Somalia is money normie did not get back in tax rebates.

I hope everyone has a safe, and relaxing Black Friday, and has time off from work. Hopefully, today is a good day for you.

And as always, your thoughts are welcome.