The Arrogance can be Astounding

Al Ritter 

A recent article on Buzzfeed castigating the “Older Generation” certainly has many holes in the theory.

The arrogance begins immediately as they ask, “What doesn’t the older generation understand about wealth and income?” That question is obviously an aggressive attack on “Boomers.”

They question the idea of buying a home rather than renting because, “The average house in my area is 10 times my annual income.” What isn’t addressed is what most boomers did in their day. They searched outlying areas and homes they could actually afford rather than purchase a home in an area they couldn’t. Obviously the writer feels entitled to buy a home in the neighborhood of their preference.

They blame society for their decision to go into debt in the form of student loans. When I grew up I took the word “loan” seriously. If I couldn’t afford the payments I didn’t buy the item where it be a car a house or student loan, which I never did.

I purchased my first home at age 20 the mortgage scared the hell out of me. The house cost $35,000 and during settlement the final pay off amount of the loan was revealed as $125,000. This was the true amount of the loan not the selling price. That represented 21 times my annual income at the time of purchase. My budget figured that I would have $5.00 left over at the end of the month.

I took a loan as seriously as I took my marriage vows.

I think I understood income and wealth far more than the writer of this article. They don’t share the same seriousness that I share about loan debt. If the student loans had actually stayed with the banks rather than the government under Obama there would be no student forgiveness programs. Students would be expected to actually pay back loans. This is a great life lesson to learn, that you actually do what you promised.

What is next on loan forgiveness? Maybe home loans, maybe auto loans?
“All according to their needs.”…..isn’t that the socialist mantra?

I find it humorous how the writer of this article doesn’t put their name on such an aggressive biased piece of trash.

Read the article here:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/millennials-gen-z-want-know-145102999.html

 

Final Stages of Narcissism

 Al Ritter

As I stated in a previous article narcissism never heals itself. In a normal person hopefully we all improve ourselves throughout life to make ourselves the best we can be. The narcissist however degrades their moral compass so to speak as they age. Some can actually stay at one point for extended periods of time but eventually they worsen.

The run of the mill Grandiose Narcissist may stay that way for a long time but the need to get even with some past acquaintance that they have ruminated about for years, sometimes even decades can get the best of them.

All narcissists lack empathy, a moral compass and feel the need to degrade their victims that they see as weak or less deserving of acceptance.

What I want to address today is the end stages of Narcissism and that is the Sociopath and the Psychopath. I separate these two as end stage because these individuals are the most dangerous kind of narcissists. They find a sadistic pleasure in the abuse they deal out. Boundaries, social norms and societal acceptance mean nothing to them. They even scoff at laws and regulations as being beneath them. They often think that either that law wasn’t meant for them or that the law is just stupid anyway. As a result they do whatever they want, they have no boundaries they won’t cross.

A malignant narcissist often flies into rages that are disproportionate to the perceived slight or shall we say blow to their fragile ego. Even small critiques of their actions can drive them into a crazy frenzy.

Stalking is yet another action they see as a normal reaction to your moralistic stance, and in doing so they are participating in terrorism that is perfectly justified in their mind.

The normal individual sees laws as societies’ way of self-regulation, a way for people to learn respect for others and to show a degree of dignity for those around them.

The Malignant Narcissist has no acceptance for people like that in fact they loath them and see them as weak. The Sociopathic Narcissist derives pleasure in the pain they inflict in a sadistic way. Often you can see a slight smile on their face while handing out such emotional abuse.

They Psychopathic is the end stage narcissist and the leap isn’t much but the Psychopathic Narcissist wants to see you dead, they want you out of the picture entirely, and will stop at nothing to obtain their final goal.

How quickly they get to this point depends on what stage of Narcissism they started out with. As I stated before there is a scale of 21 degrees of narcissism. How quickly they ascend depends on how effective they have become in their abuse. One who gets constant supply and feedback on how devastating they can be always wants to go one step further the next time. As such they keep honing their skills of abuse to get the desired reaction from their victims.

As a result of this end stage narcissism one must be very careful as they are the most dangerous.

Disclaimer: As I said before, I am not a psychiatrist or am I a psychologist and this article is not about diagnosing anyone. Formal diagnosis is the job for professionals and can take a long while. All I can do is relate my personal experiences with narcissism and the degrees that I have seen.

Watch these two videos on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StWXCYsZvps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnC38brDeZI

 Update:

 Clinical Psychologist Dr Ramani seems to disagree with the idea of Psychopaths and Malignant Narcissists are somehow related and if the narcissist can become Psychopaths. She believes there is a genetic pathway to Psychopathy that just isn't there in Narcissists. However there is a link of progression to Sociopathy. Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzNHBtph-o

Like Beef? Not for Long in the Biden Regime!

 Al Ritter 

Joe Biden’s Climate Change agenda is threatening your way of life in many ways, but this yet one more. Through executive fiat and massive regulations on the beef industry your preferences may come to an end.

Many food processing plants have already been sold to out of the country companies have been sold abroad. One classic example is Smithfield products, long associated to the ham products from Smithfield Virginia. It is now a Chinese owned company called WH Group. The company was bought in 2013 for $4.72 billion and now imports pork products from Poland, Mexico, Romania, Germany, Slovakia and the UK. As you can see what was once a family owned entity whose product was once a company that was the largest pork slaughter house in America has been farmed out abroad.

The Beef industry is now being raided by governmental regulations and executive fiat in the name of climate change. The largest cattle farms in the US are being strangled to death by our government, in the woke idea of “You will have nothing and you will enjoy it!”

The advancement of the Bill Gates idea of eating bugs and imitation veggie burgers instead of the actual meat products has taken on a new life in the theoretical advancement of “climate change.”

As the supply dwindles the prices rise leaving the consumer in the lurch and denied a product they want.

The Biden Regime has taken on the cause to deny Americans of yet one more thing!

 

Watch the video here as a rancher explains his plight:

https://thecongressionalinsider.com/rancher-warns-of-cattle-crisis-biden-policies-hurting-americas-cattlemen/

Article here:

https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2021/10/04/comprehensive-report-on-u-s-cattle-market-published-for-congress-usda/

 

This Should Scare the Hell out of Every American!

 Al Ritter

The Uniparty in the Senate gave every American the middle finger when they voted to send more money to Ukraine and Israel but denied money to stop the southern invasion. Sadly it’s not just the southern border now but an invasion has started on the northern border with Canada also under the Trudeau regime who shares the same open border ideas as Biden.

Under the Biden regime the total of 8.6 million illegal immigrants have invaded our country, and it’s not just Mexicans. The invasion is coming from around the world and so far we have apprehended 2200 terrorists that were on our watch list from entering our country. I don’t know how many more escaped capture, but you can bet it was only the smartest ones.

Our country and resources are being torn apart at the seams and those in Congress are doing nothing to stop it. At least the House is pushing back, but when I see Senators that I thought were Conservatives such as Grassley and Kennedy vote for the bill I start to question the legitimacy of our Congress.

This is my state of Maryland and the impact this invasion has had on our economy. We now rank 11^th in the nation on the invasion. Since Biden opened the border, our influx of illegal aliens to our state has ballooned to 350,000! That’s a total increase of 5.66%. They have over run our hospital systems with unpaid child births to the tune of 121,000 babies! They have over run our school system by 117,000 students. All these figures place a direct drain on resources with no chance of repayment.

How is this illegal surge even sustainable? Why are illegal aliens receiving more money per month than our own Social Security recipients who have paid into the system for decades? How is it that they are being given free flights to any city that they wish to go and free lodging in $500 a night hotels while our Veterans languish on the streets?

This has to end in some way or shape or our country will cease to exist.

To find out where your state ranks view this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8VFsRfkgw

Sen Rand Paul on the Bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZw3TBqFRes

So the Right should somehow feel Remorse about This?

 Al Ritter

It’s been a long time coming but the backlash is happening and it’s BIG! Beginning in January the main stream media is purging. They are hemorrhaging employees at an alarming rate. It seems funny to me because America has tired of their political bias and continual falsehoods.

Tens of thousands of jobs are already gone!

I think that the Covid-19 era is when America started doubting them full time. With increasing injury claims due to the vaccine the public wasn’t buying into the government narrative that was being pushed through the MSM proxies. American’s aren’t stupid even though the MSM seems to think so.

The “print media” has been the first to fail, magazines have lost their base due to credibility and trust issues. America in general isn’t buying into the woke agenda in magazines that promote obesity as a healthy life style such as Sports Illustrated recently exemplified. Now Sport Illustrated is basically dead!

The online leftist agenda is failing also, millennials and Gen z’rs are being released from their opinion and commentary status masquerading as “news.” Now they are whining about it complaining that they never made that much of a living in the first place.

The basis of Capitalism is supply and demand, if there is no more demand for leftist propaganda the supply must dwindle.

It all boils back down to credibility, if the narrative you are pushing isn’t credible advertisers and subscribers will dry up.

Companies now are learning the hard lessons also. Why in the world would a company display their political agenda when there is a possibility that they could lose half their base? Same way with actors and athletes, why is their political stance any more important than your own?

It just doesn’t make any sense why these companies would shoot themselves in the foot to merely push an agenda.

Watch Matt Walsh’s video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCIotrm9VMw

And this article:

https://www.westernjournal.com/paramounts-job-carnage-claims-800-jobs-including-cbs-journalists-deep-controversy/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/get-woke-go-broke-far-left-vice-media/

 

The Great Emancipator or a Wholesale Violator?

 Al Ritter

It is said that history is written by the winner, and in this case it is certainly true. If I told you that a President had actually jailed newspaper editors that printed articles that weren’t flattering to his administration. What if I told you that same President had jailed a Supreme Court Justice that didn’t agree with him? What would happen if a President suspended Habeas Corpus in America?

I think you may already know where I’m going with this by the title of the article but we actually must visit the violations of the American Constitution. In an attempt to keep Maryland from succeeding from the Union, President Lincoln did all the afore mentioned violations including jailing elected officials and interfering with elections within the State.

Because Maryland is so close to Washington DC Lincoln couldn’t risk losing a state so close to the capitol, so his tactics were suspect to say the least. Maryland was actually split down the middle as far as Union supporters and Southern sympathizers.

Did Lincoln actually run for President as an abolitionist? One can look at campaign quotes to judge for themselves. Today without a doubt his views would not be considered racist, but even back then they may have been, as were a lot of his contemporaries.

Was the Civil War fought over slavery? Absolutely NOT! The war was fought over taxes as evidenced here, contrary to the history rewriters of the 20^th century. Imagine a 40% tax in this day in age!

Was Lincoln the Great Emancipator that he was professed to be? Well not exactly. The Emancipation Proclamation was a Presidential Proclamation that was later voted on and ratified by Congress and became law. If you read the summary of the text you will find that he only declared freedom of the slaves in the Southern States involved in succession, and offered them a job in the Union Army as a consolation, I'm sure the huge death count of troops on both sides played a part in his decision. The way the proclamation was worded read that if any state came back to the union that freedom would be null and void. Once you read the actual Proclamation rather than just take someone’s word for it you will see the inconsistencies.

Of course Lincoln never lived to see his Proclamation ratified. But it certainly proves that history is written by the victor.

Was Lincoln a saint or a villain? Only you can decide after finally having the other side of him exposed. You must admit though you now get to see the dark side you never saw before.

Please feel free to examine the documentation that I have collected over the years on this subject:

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/abraham-lincoln-crushes-civil-liberties-in-maryland/

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/lies-my-teacher-told-me-the-true-history-of-the-war-for-southern-independence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8PCOWaUhro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7ZJN9KC9Q

 

The Revolving Door of Narcissism

 Al Ritter

Sadly almost everyone will come in contact with a Narcissist in life, whether it be in the form of a spouse, a parent, a boss, or even a neighbor. Wading through that relationship can feel like tiptoeing through a mine field in the dark.

For those who have never encountered a Narcissist let me explain, a Narcissist is a person who has a grandiose feeling of superiority and dominance over their victims. To accomplish that task they use several different attacks but it usually starts out surprisingly enough with adoration of their new victim. Usually showering them with compliments that seem not only out of place but extremely over the top. This is not to say that anyone who compliments you is a Narcissist but overly complimenting you should raise a red flag. Usually they are good at slowly taking you in at first but increasing their tactics over time, so you rarely see it coming.

Intuition is the single biggest attribute that the victim must listen to. If you feel something is not quite right or off you shouldn’t dismiss it. As humans we have this sixth sense that alerts us to the possible dangers we may encounter with certain people, not all of these people will be Narcissists but we are able to pick and choose who to interact with. There is no written code saying that you must accept everyone equally.

The next biggest item a Narcissist uses is gaslighting (coined from a 1944 movie called Gaslight.) This a form of Psychological abuse aimed at making the victim question their own sanity. When used over an extended period of time it has a devastating effect on the victim. I would highly recommend watching the movie to get a better idea as to its power.

Degrees of Narcissism is on a sliding 21 level scale as has varied nuances. One Psychologist states that a normal person works daily to improve themselves and to become a better person. The Narcissist only works to hone their skills to the next level. Narcissists never heal naturally, they only get worse through time. It takes a month and sometimes years for a mental health professional to make a formal diagnosis, so as you can imagine full diagnosis is pretty rare especially because they never seek treatment on their own. Understand that Narcissism is the gateway to both Sociopathy and Psychopathy.

The mental health community says that up to 6 % of the population is Narcissistic not including the recent increase of entitlement by Millennials and Gen Zers. Some say the overall increase may double in the next decade.

Navigating the waters with a Narcissist differs with what type of relationship you have with them. Certainly you would deal with a boss differently than you would with a spouse, parent, or child. The main thing a Narcissist needs is what they call “supply.” The more supply you feed them the more power they have over you. They seek dominance and power so anything you say or do contrary to that end goal will put you in their crosshairs. They don’t strictly see your adoration, and approval of them as their supply. ANY interaction is their supply even a screaming match. It’s like the proverbial fisherman sinking the hook. Once hooked they play with you like a toy is if poking your emotions with a stick.

Most everyone has certain boundaries that we say can never be crossed, but a Narcissist is an expert at making you stretch your boundaries to suit themselves. Understand though, a Narcissist has no boundaries and never has. They will push and push your buttons just for the response regardless if it’s good or bad. It’s the back and forth they enjoy not particularly the subject matter.

They are emotional vampires, they want you to react to them through emotion because their actions are a result of emotion rather than logic, and they want you to be just like them. NEVER share an emotional weakness with them, it WILL come back to haunt you!

They view themselves as the puppet masters because nobody is as smart, or as informed as they are and everyone else is beneath them and must conform to their view. Rules, laws and regulations were never made for them, there is nothing they won’t do to accomplish their goal. Remember they have NO boundaries.

Projection: Another tactic they use. You will often see them accusing you of the very things they are doing to you or claiming shortcomings in your character which are actually their own shortcomings. Accusations are normally confessions with a Narcissist.

Anyone who has endured the scars of a spousal relationship at the hands if a Narcissist will carry those scars for life. Sadly it places a certain amount of cynicism in their nature as they try to move on in life.

As a victim of a Narcissistic spousal relationship it took me over a year to finally regain my self- esteem. Not only did I have to rebuild my self-worth I had to modify how I reacted to the common triggers she used to use, because I didn’t want to bring that behavior into a new relationship. Recovery from an abusive relationship is tough but the scars always remain.

Personally I had put a lot of those scars to bed over the 20 years since the divorce, but sadly now that abusive behavior has been introduced into my life again. I can’t make a diagnosis of another abuser as being a Narcissist but I certainly see the same traits emerge that were present with my ex, except this one is more dangerous.

The only true way to be done with a Narcissist is remove their supply, and to do that you must cut off ANY and ALL communication. I suppose I was a little slow on the uptake of the signs with this one, but it’s all coming back now both in how to deal with him and cutting off his supply. I have severed all communication but things get tough when they use a lawyers as their own weapon of lies and deceit.

Once they see you as a liability they will seek out one or more backups for their supply just waiting in the wings for their signal to join in the dysfunction. 

I suppose I’m feeling a degree of PTSD from this latest encounter, but hopefully I can work through it.

Understand that although they project an air of perfection they in fact are tortured souls deep down, they are all insecure at heart.

I’ll leave you with one thing. I once heard a saying that pertains to this discussion; “Never wrestle with a pig in the mud because he will just enjoy it and you will just get dirty.”

Watch this video for an in depth analysis from Dr. Ramani:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGgVBOH19vQ

 

 

Too Senile to be Charged, but just fine to be your President!

 Al Ritter

Special Counsel Robert Hur has released a report that is quite damning about Washington DC’s favorite vegetable Joe Biden. Even though Hur said in his report that Biden have willfully retained documents that he shouldn’t have, prosecution would be futile based on Biden’s current mental status.

Hur claims that a jury of Biden’s peers would be sympathetic to his condition and that a guilty verdict would be highly unlikely. He may be correct because a trial would likely be in Washington D.C. and we know from the past that no Democrat is ever convicted in D.C.

Many similarities are sited in the report between how Biden and Trump handled sensitive documents. There is one glaring difference however. Biden was then Vice President and had no power to declassify documents, only Trump as president had that power.

It seems strange that after Hur’s report, Biden in an effort to refute the idea that he was an elderly man with a bad memory only cemented Hur’s assumption as he gaffed his way through a 10 min press conference as he confused countries, leaders and even the press he was talking to.

It’s sad that Hur put himself in the seat of judge and jury to dismiss this whole obviously illegal action of private citizen Joe Biden ex-vice president.

But fear not citizens, he may be too senile to prosecute but he’s just fine to be the leader of the free world!

Think about that for a minute.

Read the report here:

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/af07e020c210293d/8dac19a5-full.pdf

Watch the video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9KeS_ihTdk

Paul Pelosi Jr Skirts 7th Indictment

 Al Ritter

Almost three years ago I wrote an article that Nancy Pelosi’s son, Paul Jr. now age 55 was arrested for fraud and I along with many of my astute readers wondered what the outcome of that arrest was. Of all strange things that happen in this search which I embarked upon just weeks ago, I came up with absolutely zero. Not one article dealt with Paul Jr., only articles about Paul Sr’s attack. I narrowed and narrowed my search but found nothing much except the original articles of his possible arrest.

I had several credible sources that claimed the arrest but the trail dropped off there, and as I found out later he slipped away from arrest that day

Now for people not familiar with his troubles, Paul Jr. was involved in many shady deals in much the way Hunter Biden and John Kerry’s son had been. Paul Jr was being investigated on seven fraudulent schemes. The SEC was hot on his trail and it seemed as if justice would finally be served, and the American public could rest assured that the DOJ would prosecute fairly.

Unfortunately the American people have been cheated once again Paul Jr. has escaped prosecution when almost all his co-conspiritors have either plea bargained or been found guilty ….all except little Paulie Jr.

And as Paul Harvey used to say: "And now you know the rest of the story."

My old article:

https://alspoliticalview.blogspot.com/2021/03/pelosis-son-now-charged-with-fraud.html

And now the updated reason:

https://dougbillings.us/2024/02/nancy-pelosis-son-paul-avoids-federal-prosecution-for-seventh-time/