My Most Embarrassing Moment

My Most Embarrassing Moment

Back in 2016, I was in a bind. I had been poor my entire life, every single day, and I wanted out. I wanted out so badly that I was willing to do anything. At the time I had just finished a book on programming by Steve Heller. It was a C++ book.

Suddenly I got an idea in mind. I saw all of these people making big money on Kickstarter. I wanted to be one of them. Some of these companies made billions, billions. I wanted to win like that. But I didn't know how.

I had this idea from reading the C++ book, and without researching its efficacy I hastily created a plan to build my first Kickstarter. If my past was any indication, the Kickstarter would simply be ignored and I'd stay poor.

But something happened that I would never forget. Over 7,000 people viewed the Kickstarter in a little over a week. At that point I realized that I was totally unprepared for success. Many people emailed me who completely understood my thought process and what I was trying to do. But for the most part I was lambasted.

And deservedly so. The thing that stood out most to me was the fact that if I had done the slightest bit of research on my idea, I would have realized that my idea was already patented and already existed. It's existed for decades, but I didn't know.

My one chance at fame and I lost it all, before I started. It was because of my thinking. I'll never have that kind of audience again, but I do know that knowing what you're talking about is worth a lot more than fame. In this world, people who know nothing get featured on the big screen, their name in lights, proving that you don't have to know everything to be popular.

But everything that happened to me was my fault. I'm a black man. I know better. And now I will have to pay the price. I will never have that kind of spark again, but I will know what I'm talking about before I speak.

 

JohnJenkins2315@yahoo.com

The Shutdown

The government shutdown may be over. I don't think that I should spent too much time thinking about government shutdown. It seems that ever since George W. Bush, whoever gets into office gets shut down by the opposition.

The truth is that America just owes so much money. Over 160 Trillion dollars. I keep thinking that if I had only one one millionth of that, I would b set. But oh well. I'm really vascillating about voting for Trump. Was it a mistake, or not?

Trump is bold, and he's already done more for me than any other president. But the drawback is that...I don't know:

For one thing, he things really small. It's hard to follow someone who is so focused on the small stuff.

On the other hand, he's always complaining about how unfair life is to him. And that's a loser's mentality. As men, we want to take what is rightfully ours, not be given it.

Kasich Was The Better Pick

I should've chosen Kasich. He was so mild-mannered, so accomplished. I chose Trump because he appeared to be saying what everyone was thinking. Of course, I behaved the opposite way that Trump did, but what did I know? I was a poor, broke loser with non family and no future. Success had to be the opposite of me, right? Well I was wrong. Trump talks a great game, but real life always catches up. The run up in stocks was deceptive at first. It seemed like he had this special "Winner's" DNA that I could not come close to.

But now the country is doing worse than 2008. Trump only added to the deficits. Trump looked like a dark horse, but really he was the establishment candidate. Anybody could've created that platform. Just read a conservative news website for a few months and you've got every element of Trumps platform. And that was part of the appeal, for me. He conformed to my biases, and he was RICH. I wanted to be rich more than anything at the time.

The beginning of Trump's presidency raised the eternal question: Do the ends justify the means? That's a hard question to answer, as a human, and a man. It's hard to answer that question because both are true. The ends absolutely justify the means. The original medicines were found by trying every poisonous, inert, destructive substance until, magically, somebody didn't die. All of this fancy scientific research we have now is just fluff compared to that.

But at the same time, no. The ends never justify the means. Trump will be so busy bailing out his accomplices and taking "deals" that he wont have the time or the energy - or the good will - necessary to push through my agenda. I wanted an end to welfare and affirmative action, but it's not going to happen this way. Success doesn't happen overnight. It happens with hard work and social skills, not a few tweets and a trial.

I'm sorry Kasich. From now on, you're my model for a Republican president.

JohnJenkins2315@yahoo.com

The Real Problem With Google

Trump is bellyaching about how he thinks that Silicon Valley is using their technology to discriminate against Conservatives. Essentially: Google bad. That's not quite true. Why are you more likely to see a liberal viewpoint on Google? Because it's more relevant. To be clear, what I mean to say is that Conservatives are, by definition,  more open-minded than liberals, and are thus more likely to seek out opposing opinions.

 From my own experience as a Trump Republican, I spent years, previously, watching The Young Turks on Youtube. Only recently did I stop. I live and work in a one-party Democratic city and most of the people that I interact with on a daily basis are Liberals. Deeply Liberal. Most of the books that I read on a yearly basis are written by Liberals. Liberals control the narrative, because they talk about an ideal, of how human nature should be, of how everyone should pay attention to #Mee, of how life should be easier for #Mee.

It's very appealing, almost a sinful pleasure, to entertain the notion that Trump just hates everybody who isn't white, because if we believe that then we don't have to look at the real problem and we can continue in blissful ignorance.

But the real question is that has the potential to be even greater of a burden is: Is Google good? More specifically, is Google too good? Is Google to Google? Tell me if you've ever experienced this. You get off the computer to go to work. On you way to work, you think of something. It could be anything. Something that you haven't thought of in years. It just comes to you and you don't say anything to anybody, you don't write it down, you don't search it in you phone, sky-write it, smoke signals, nothing.

As soon as you get to work you log in to your Youtube account and there are one or more videos in your feed talking about exactly what you were thinking, and you didn't tell anybody. Or at the very least, there's an ad on one of your videos that talks about just what you're thinking. And you never told a soul.

Am I Really That Friggin' Predictable?

The question is not "How does Google do this?" or it corollary, "Whom do I sue?" The question is, what is it in me that caused me to patronize Google in the first place. If you're my age, the answer is probably not what you're thinking.

What is it that attracts me to something that can know my every thought before I think it? True, Google knows our personalities. It has our file. It knows our tendencies, even our histories and pasts. But what doesn't Google know. What is it that we desperately want Google to know about us that it can never learn? Is that what keeps us coming back like a faithful spouse?

It's not "What is Google trying to tell us?" that we should be worried about. It's "What are we trying to tell Google?"

What about Trump?

What do I feel about the NFL protests? I'm extremely proud of all of the NFL players. It's amazing that these people, who make millions of dollars a year on average, are willing to risk everything to go after something they believe in. It really is a atheist miracle that these athletes, who, to be fair, are jocks, would care about something other than pythons and Bros long enough to take a stand. And I say this even though I completely disagree with them. Just as a fellow American I salute them. Moreso, I salute them for providing for their families in ways that I never could. Risking their knees, their fingers, and their brains for the greater good.

What this protest tells us is that we need more people like Trump in office. Trump brings the winner out of everybody, especially me. Voting for him last year made me feel like a winner, and I'm happy to announce that the reports of my hopelessness and demise were greatly exaggerated. If I know Trump like I think I do, he secretly loves NFL players, for their bravery in standing up to a President with a mandate. Even though the President could technically remove the NFL through executive order and make all of the players destitute, or at the very least get some of the players fired, they remain undeterred.

It seems like these "jocks" are taking a page out of Trump's playbook. Everyone told Trum that he was wrong. Everyone said he couldn't win. And now he's in the white house. In the same vain, everyone told these NFL players that they weren't smart enough to succeed, that they would spend the rest of their lives scraping by, that they would never see a mansion, much less own one. These players have done the impossible.

I don't watch sports, but I'm proud of these players. I think that this whole Trump debacle will end one of two ways. Either Republicans will see how people react to Trump and will resolve to stop complaining about minorities, or, what I'm hoping for, we will have ten more presidents just like Trump. Having lived in a one-party democratic city my whole life, I understand the liberal platform quite well. Kiss your butt to your face and then stab you in the back. As I've gotten older, I prefer to have somebody say it to my face than to have somebody go behind my back.

About the black men and police: If black men truly believe that the police are out to get them, that's okay. But the second these same blacks have a disagreement with one another, the first call is to a white cop. Which is it? When you want to get back at your siblings for defending themselves against you, you make sure that they get charged and convicted. You take off work to testify against them. You apply for numerous orders of protection. You rely more on white cops than white people do. No disagreement is too small to call a white cop. There are more calls to the police in black areas than white areas. I'm not saying to "stop snitching," because we need to snitch. I'm just saying that that blacks are pretending that they are different when they are more like us than we are. And if the democrats couldn't beat Trump 2016, how are they supposed to bring along the Law Enforcement Revolution?

JJ.

Trump Over Reagan

I heard a few weeks ago that Trump had made some comments regarding the civil war. Apparently there was some kind of media "storm" about it. My first reaction was, when are they going to leave that man alone and let him work?

As usual, I ignored the fake news and went on about my day. It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that I actually read the quote. What did I think? I thought that it wasn't possible.

It was literally impossible to have one man be so utterly qualified for the office of president. Impossible. I could not believe that I'd had the pleasure, and the duty, of voting for the greatest president alive.

Who else could've come up with such a rational comment about the civil war? Hillary would've talked out of both sides of the mouth, talking about how "evil" southerners were, whilst acquiescing to the norther practice of denying blacks jobs until they create crimes of necessity and then incarcerating them for life, and their kids.

It seems like a sweet deal. We get a great president, they get something to whine about.

"But Andrew Jackson was a slave owner," they say.

Well, your job only exists because of slavery, liberal. Now all liberals should quit their jobs and give them to black men. Plus, the purpose of "No Gun States" was to prevent blacks from defending themselves from the KKK, so you can reverse that too. See how that works? You don't feel that you should have to pay for something that was natural back then? Well, if Andrew Jackson were alive, neither would he.

Don't like being blackmailed for things you didn't create? Neither do black ex-cons. So go easy on them.

I don't understand what is going on here. This is some kind of bizarro world. They try to guilt and shame, to prevent him from being president. But it was precisely this guilt, this shaming, that caused him to be president. Not to mention the constant jokes about his skin color and natural hair. Was that really the only thing you could come up with?

More recently I look on Yahoo! news and see a story about how Trump and the Republican congress have repealed Obama Care.
Am I mistaken, or is this the first time in American history that a major entitlement has been repealed? Do you now understand what I meant when I said that Trump already surpassed Reagan?

Why Is McDonald's Flagging?

Why are McDonald's profits slowing? The answer is simple. One word, two syllables.

Subway.

Subway is the upstart, the old upstart, that promised years ago that it would surpass McDonald's in number of restaurants nationwide. So how did subway win?

First of all, location. McDonald's are much easier to get to, but Subways are more economical. They are parked at free, open, well-lit locations that sort of lead you to the library, or lead you to work. It something to do on your way to do something else.

McDonald's, on the other hand, leads you to a cul-de-sac parking lot and a death trap eating area, full of cumbersome immovable furniture.

What else is there? Subway is the restaurant of the Proletariat, whereas McDonald's mainly targets the Steve Easterbrooks of the world as customers. What? Subway's cheaper. Not only that. Subway is cheaper, more filling, arguably better tasting, healthier and provides more energy.

If you go to Subway for breakfast, you can get the best-tasting, most filling and almost most affordable sub they have (Spicy Italian) for just $8.12, which includes a fountain drink that you can mix yourself. Suicides, anybody?

What does McDonald's have? Well, if you're going for the breakfast menu, you can get two Sausage McMuffins with Egg and a soda (no mixing allowed) for $8.60. That's an extra $14.88 per month in taxes.

But isn't two better than one?

Not exactly. Those two sausage McMuffins with egg are the size of doughnut holes and you'll be hungry within the next fifteen minutes again.