“We all wait in life for things to get easier … It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better. That’s what happens. Most people think that it’s going to get easier. Life is going to get easier. Basketball is going to get easier. School is going to get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone who handles hard stuff better … And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easier because you graduated, and you got a Duke degree, it’s not going to get easier. It’s going to get harder. So make yourself a person that handles hard well.”
~ Kara Lawson, Head Coach for Duke University Women’s Basketball Team and Graduate of the University of Tennessee [July 5th 2022]
An incredible number of Americans today have been coddled, pampered and fed a sense of entitlement from birth that continued into their early adulthood, making them always look to others or the government for help in acquiring their needs and wants. They have been raised without a backbone, weak-willed and dependent; and so, whenever they find themselves to be in a minority, they more often than not petition the federal and state governments, protest and riot, in order that their particular concerns are proactively pursued and implemented as favored, privileged and superior, no matter how insane, from destroying humanity by way of transgenderism or energy and job-killing fallacious “climate change” policies.
From my earliest memories, I saw hard men, laughing, loving, fighting hard and playing just as hard, as they’d rise each day to head out to work, in the mines, the forests, office buildings and on the nation’s lines of defense, and in particular I recall learning something of worth from each of them, much as I did from my Granddad Spurge, who was a coal miner and a stone mason. They were a hardy bunch of industrious scrappers, who pulled up their sleeves and worked hard to make a better life for themselves and their children, to build better communities, a better America.
But what passes for young “men” today is but a mere shadow of men of worth from better days gone by, what with their feminine appearances and their aversion to doing anything to break a sweat. And aside from weak bodies, too much coddling has made their minds work in a new, cunning devious manner, in which they waste enormous amounts of effort sidestepping real work and figuring out how to get something for nothing rather than perform an honest day’s work to pay for bills they make, without any intention of ever repaying, such as student loans.
Half of America seems content to allow Uncle Sam to make life better for them and their children via the welfare system and the government cheese, even tho’ it means a life of subsistence, just scraping by. Although today, many have developed gaming the system into a real art, whereby they live just about as good as anyone working a full-time job, complete with HUD homes, EBT cards, late model cars, color T.V.s and government purchased cellphones.
Life doesn’t owe any of us a thing, regardless of the circumstances and station of our birth. The miracle of your birth alone doesn’t mean you are automatically owed a job, a house, a bed or a single meal after you are a grown adult and supposedly capable of doing for yourself. You’re not owed recognition and understanding for simply existing, and neither are you owed success and comfort, abundance and happiness or immunity from the problems, pain and suffering that is simply a part of the human condition, and you certainly aren’t due any money you haven’t earned through your own sweat and effort, not from me, the American taxpayers or the U.S. government.
The only thing anyone should expect from The Government, if we are to accept the Contract found in our Constitution, are those things enumerated in its original form, and in that sense, we are owed a strong, affirmative and fierce defense of our Inalienable God-given Rights, as expressed and defined in the Bill of Rights, to be left alone to our own devices to live and thrive as free born Americans, without interference from The Government and its agents where no real harm is being done.
People aren’t created equal in the very real definition of the word and life has never been fair to anyone, and yet, the constant refrain heard all across all levels of American society today, from the ranks of the Mau Mau Marxist-Maoist totalitarians, those lovers of “democracy”, is “the world is so unfair”. They were evidently raised to believe “all men are created equal” in the context of the Declaration of Independence meant they are somehow guaranteed equal outcomes in everyday life, instead of the simple “equality under the law” as intended. And their voices are now amplified by an out-of-control regime that seeks to use their envy to complete the fundamental transformation of America, by any means necessary, no matter how unconstitutional or illegal they might be and are currently proving to be.
Standing on one’s own two feet and making your way through the merit of your own knowledge and work are now a thing of the past, as the poorest results in school and on the job are given the same weight and worth as the best and everybody gets a participation trophy. And in its place, envy, greed, sloth, gluttony, lies, sex and murder, the destroyer of worlds, are the rule, for a generation indoctrinated through Marxist-Maoist multiculturalist doctrine and propaganda, taught from kindergarten through university, who are now driven by an unhinged hate and anger directed at white society and capitalism.
This, in part, is the reason we see whole cities, controlled by the Marxist-Maoists and the totalitarian minded, enacting new “laws” that make the theft of anything $900 or less a misdemeanor, giving way to thousands of groups of poorly taught, undisciplined, predominantly black “youths” rampaging, rioting and looting numerous times a day, taking $900 dollars worth of merchandise nine times a day, if not more, taught racism and hatred and driven by envy and greed. It’s the reason cities across America are folding up, shriveling like a crop attacked by locusts and dying on the vine where once they thrived, back when our people, indeed our youth, had more pure hearts and moral directions and had not strayed far and away from America’s Christian roots.
Over the past thirty years, the nutcases of the Democrat Party have advocated a pathologically negative agenda for America that is based on destroying the Founding and revising history to portray early America as evil and worth casting on the ash-heap of history. Accelerating their plans through the public education system, an entire generation of America’s youth have been brainwashed to believe our planet is dying due to manmade CO2 and “climate change”, in defiance of actual science, and as if that isn’t enough, we are all constantly inundated with one alarm after another raised over racism — even as reverse racism against whites is now advocated, capitalism — which hasn’t really existed in America for over 100 years, homophobia / gender bigotry, capitalist oppression — even tho’ our system is economic fascism, and the fallacious assertion that White Supremacist Nazis are ascending in every community in America.
The real problem found within the ranks of the Takers? They just can’t face the fact that life isn’t easy for anyone, especially the Makers; and it never has been, although exceptions can be found in those born into wealth. But even the wealthy are weighted with life’s problems, if of a different variety, much as the old adage says that “money can’t buy you love or happiness”, even if it does buy you a line of coke and hookers, in a sad sort of dystopian world of a different immoral construct.
The routines many of us indulge in daily have made the largest percentage of Americans, a fairly large majority, complacent and apathetic, caring next to nothing on matters of government and whether or not they are actually living free.
Americans rise each morning, check their emails and cellphones, shower, shave and maybe brush their teeth, to rush off to their same, everyday, boring regular job that may or may not quite pay the bills, grabbing their $7 dollar cup of Starbucks special latte of the day, to do a job they find meaningless. At day’s end, they may grab some overpriced fast-food on the way home, to relax and maybe drink a cheap beer or glass of whiskey, while they watch The Voice — or is it porn [?] — call some friends to complain over how bad things are, and then simply watch some news, ’til they call it a night, sleeping fitfully and rising the next morning to do it all over again, and everyday afterward, year after year, until one day someone hands them their walking papers or a copper watch upon their “retirement”.
Too many live under the delusion that they should be able to drive brand new $60k cars, own $400k homes complete with the most exquisite adornments and furniture on their $15 per hour paycheck at McDonald’s, having never put forth the effort to gain useful knowledge demanded by skilled and professional career positions, in order to make themselves more valuable to society on the whole, and thus able to demand a salary that would allow them to buy all the trappings of such success. Instead, they cast an envious eye in the direction of the Makers and scheme on how to take what they want, by any scheme, any illegal act, any means necessary. They believe their mere existence entitles them to other people’s property, just because deep down in their black little souls, they really, really want it — just not enough to go after it the right way.
Our youth have lost all sense of shame and seem fine with getting anything they want, right when they want it, no matter how they come to acquire it. They never learned that something worth having is worth the work it takes to purchase, as if stuff is just supposed to fall from the heavens and land in their lap.
Things of real worth don’t come easy.
Sure. Not everyone has the intelligence and capability to become a surgeon, but if that’s your dream, you will never know if you could have been one, until you try — same for anything else that any of you are dreaming of being, no matter if you dream of being a content farmer or a successful writer. Whatever you want in life, put forth the effort to achieve competency in that field and then go do it.
If you want something of worth in life, stop depending on others. Venture out on your own in some business or capacity you love, rather than settling to work for someone else your entire life. And for your own sake, quit wallowing in self-pity over bad circumstances created by your own bad choices.
As Ms Lawson notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzfZOfNki4 at one point:
“Any pursuit in life, if you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want. People that wait around for easy — You probably see them at the bus stop. They’re waiting on the easy bus to come around. Easy bus never comes around. Go handle hard.”
Too many parents, too many schools, too many churches have failed America by failing to teach them that hard times won’t break you if only you have the right state of mind on life — that there is a loving God — and no one will ever find a fulfilling or positive way of life by looking to The Government for answers and solutions. Our society stopped teaching the youth how to be strong and independent somewhere along the way, as the tyrant-wannabes persisted in teaching “everyone is a victim”; but the fact remains today, anyone can be a proud survivor of hard times, if only they persevere and never give-up and never give-in to defeat, choosing to ultimately succeed and live good, prosperous and happy lives.
by Justin O Smith
Lauren should know , she had to suck Bogies cock to get anywhere.
That was mean and un(Ba)call(ed) for, Gap.
Don’t you think MOST actresses had to “perform” to get anywhere in Hollyweird?
Perhaps you have never heard of the casting couch?
No need to be vile about someone who made something of their self or the means by which they had to achieve it.
“or the means by which they had to achieve it.”
Goes back possibly to what Gap said. Could be a combo “perform”ance.
??? A TOTALLY MEANINGLESS STATEMENT! COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO CANNOT “REMEMBER WHERE SHE CAME FROM”…UNDERSTAND???
That woman had crazy eyes.
The Japanese call it “sanpuku” eyes.
Great post Justin… Chip
Thank You so very much, Chip. I’m glad You saw its worth.
Life hard and you young people suck.! Said every old person throughout the millennia.
Young people have it easier said every old person.
Yeah dumbass old person it’s called progress!
I heard there are ancient Egyptian hyrogliphics depicting the despair of the parental generation of that day of the waywardness and rebellious nature of youth.
The article brought in to view the real mechanism behind maturing and I enjoyed it.
Calling regress “progress” — lies the “truth” — serfdom “liberty” — and evil “good”. If you think reverse racism the New Green Deal, massive stimulus and omnibus Marxist/Keynesian bills and totalitarian-style attacks on private property represent real progress, you haven’t a clue what the definition of the word is.
It’s not always so much the age of the person but what knowledge, or lack thereof, is stuffed between their ears. I’m guessin’ the wind has a straight shot between your ears.
True I have tinnitus the wind blows 24/7
…rising the next morning to do it all over again, and everyday afterward, year after year…
Struggling for the legal tender
You aren’t your brother’s keeper or your nation’s.
Capitalism doesn’t owe you anything. You will rent the chozenites pods, eat their toxic goy slop, take their genocide jabs, work for their increasing worthless shekels and like it. The free market ain’t free , bruh. You will work as a debt slave until your die, and then your shekel collection must return from whence it came… i.e. back to the shekel creators.
It is the free markets job to weed out the weak. If you’re too weak to make it in the land your ancestors founded. Tough shit, bruh. Your third world replacements are here and they don’t mid working 7 days a week for below poverty wages, living 35 to one bare room and eating out of a rescue mission. Life’s hard, boi. Buck it up, if your going to make it.
” Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO says
A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO says
Of course, Fink has a vested interest in Americans boosting their retirement assets, given that his firm collects fees from those accounts. And in his letter, he also promotes a new target-date fund from BlackRock called LifePath Paycheck, which will roll out in April.
“He’s steering the conversation toward BlackRock — and a lot of people who talk about Social Security reform on Wall Street want to privatize it in some manner and make money,” Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff, an expert on Social Security, told CBS MoneyWatch. ‘
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-social-security-crisis-raise-retirement-age-blackrock-larry-fink/
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“No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old,” Shapiro, who’s 40, told his 1 million–plus subscribers. “Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.”
bin shekel doesnt know his head from his ass
Work until you die. You will live long
Amazing that a million retards pay to listen to this putz. Guy knows fuck all except how to blather really fucking fast. JWTAF?
(It’s the yamika, isn’t it?)
He’s just the typical JINO, always taking, never giving any added value back.
And he gets to decide how other people live why?
I Retired at 55 you shmuck, and I was never owned by the mossad or any other alphabet agency.. I also am perfectly healthy, and I do what I want when I want all the time.
The second highlighted sentence is the statement that make abortion unconstitutional.
Not one single aborted baby ever enjoyed the Blessings of Liberty.
And all three of the top “contenders” for the 2024 POTUS fix support abortion.
ID
Use English.
WTF do you mean!?!?!?
Who expects an accountant to know English?
Birth rates are crashing. When there are more old ladies who want grandchildren. Birth control will be outlawed
Overly simplistic and native outlook on life.
Some feel that life owes them something, sure. But many are hit over and over again with truly horrible experiences that drive them into a lifetime of mental hospitalization or suicide and it’s stupid to tell them to just get over it. As an example, I met a woman once who welcomed the constant shock therapy she was getting, in the hopes it would wipe her mind clean to erase the trauma she endured through life.
Could you please define what you mean by a ‘native outlook’? Thanks
I believe it’s a typo and supposed to be “naive”.
I think he meant naive.
Spike awesome!
“Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.”
Offered for your viewing and listening pleasure.
I can’t decide which I hate more …….printers or politicians…..it’s a tuff call.
We have become a nation of people who got participation trophies for everything they did.
Good Essay, Justin.
Thank You, TN Patriot.
Hopefully people will soon start being more honest with their children and return our people to the work ethic that helped make America great in its early years.
Unfortunately, it will take a gigantic change in America for us to get back to learning hard work at an early age. Too many who are adults currently do not know how to work or have any useful skills.
Exactly. EVERYONE gets a trophy. Even the team that won not a single game everyone gets a trophy. As far as I know the “idea” started in earnest late 80’s.
Gen z has figured this out.
There participation trophies go right into the garbage.
Whenever I’m in Walgreens I leave if a nigger walks in
Do you live in Brenham?
Thats a prudent policy.
Unfortunate thing on the subject of being “owed” is the number of white niggers that think they are entitled. It’s everywhere.
What’s funny is those really stupid white guys that imitate ghetto blacks in clothes, speech, and mannerisms. The hand finger symbols, grabbing their dicks, getting the vocal sounds and wording just right, etc. Fucking hilarious.
Not the “N” word. It’s “If a member of the Negroidal species walks in”.
Sorry Anon, ‘nigger’ is NOT a color specific phrase, they come in all shades, including white. As a kid, in my house it was a term of endearment. I have never lobed it at anyone of any color in and attempt to belittle.
Peace, L.
‘nigger’, ‘cracker’. Who cares?
sidestepping real work and figuring out how to get something for nothing rather than perform an honest day’s work to pay for bills they make, without any intention of ever repaying
They have learned by observing and are emulating politicians, bankers, CEOs, government contractors, and lobbyists.
fake celebrities and musicians
Fake and gay.
Exactly. And in 2024, a “hard days work” in the US, 40+ hours per week, won’t earn you enough money to even have a place to live, much less food, gas, car insurance, day to day expenses, etc. In other words it’s gotten so bad here, it’s no longer worth it to work a job unless you make $100,000+.
It is said life is a bitch and then you die. A younger sort mentioned that in time past. It’s not a bed of roses for certain yet my thoughts, trudge on.
One of my favorite sayings is only two things are guaranteed in life, death and taxes. In this country you get taxed even after you are dead. Is this a great country or what?
Better than having been born in places like Burundi?
In the US unlike taxes death does not get worse every day.
Death is getting a lot worse now in the US, thanks to the “Covid vaccine” genetically modifying, nanotech wireless network operating system installed in the body, depopulation bio-weapon shots!
The “vaccinated” ARE emitting MAC addresses in the Bluetooth frequency range. I’ve tested it. Why people aren’t figuring this out, I don’t know. It’s a big deal. HUGE, actually.
Could you provide a reliable, not-too-technical, source concerning this topic, please, or at least define what you mean by “MAC” addresses? ” Thanks.
Use to be able to explain that stuff. Now I think it means the address at which one throws up after eating a big mac. Mercola has mentioned micky is the worst of the worst fast food outlets.
Sad situation and I may regret saying that at one time their 19 cents burgers were actually “real” meat, at least some sort of “real” meat…kangaroo maybe…rumors.
Agreed at least who wants to die from a jab?
Just wait honey, just you wait
The worst in “property taxes”. What a scam. You never truly own the house or land. And the property taxes will continue to go up indefinitely so eventually old people can’t afford the property taxes and lose their house. If real estate property had to be taxed it should be 8% or whatever taxed onto the original price just like cars and everything else. Why do they get to rob you every single year, and keep increasing that amount, FOREVER, for a house you bought?!? And you supposedly “own”?!?
I have to agree with You there. My property taxes went up by 20% this year, and I’m certainly not being given the services the State and County are always touting they provide.
The State of Tennessee has sent a bill to the State Senate to cap property taxes and other bills are under review for a general tax break, but already, the naysayers are crying it will “cost the state too much” without a damned bit of care for what the people are currently facing and enduring.
Our property taxes are already too damned high. I’ve got half a mind to refuse to pay my taxes next year; and when they try to evict me and take my property, burn the house to the ground and foul the land with contaminates, and say “there now, have at it”.
Justin,
I’ve heard rumor that ‘kids’ have been known to play with matches… you could take a nice vacation and drive slow in the fast lane, just a thought.
Peace, L.
Mine jumped 40% , bruh. We just have to tuck our chins in and work harder to support the state’s largess ….hard work and sacrifice, that how we make it in muh free market…if we can’t make it on 2 slave wage jobs , we have to get 3.
The subject is discussed for a long time as to pros and cons. Con is a big part of some folks existence yet beside the point.
A one time tax on the sale would result in yet more financing in order to pay the one time tax. One would have to roll the dice so to speak and determine how many years they expected to live in a residence “banking” on one’s prediction how long one lives. I know the yearly property tax on a “modest” 300k home (by todays prices) would far exceed a one time 24k (less financed interest) easily in ten years depending on local and far less in others.
“We are the government and we are here to help you” lose everything you have or ever had.
I tried to explain this concept to my neighbor but he was in a hurry…didn’t want to be late for his pedicure.
The two weeks prior to last Mondays surgery I put up two loads of hay and bedding, and a month of coal for the mrs. Next I put in a new frost free water hydrant, tore up 300 sq. ft of living room carpet and laid down new laminated barn wood flooring and worked four 8 hour days a week.
24 hours after my neck hardware installment I literally ran up and down the stairs for PT/OT.
They said they never saw that before.
This morning, 48 hours later I walked the back 40 with our new dog with my nifty new hard neck brace.
All is very well.
Next is to see if I’m going to be able to go back to work or not and ride my horse and motorcycle again and if so when.
God willing
Praying for God’s healing hand to come over your body, Eyes
Ty TNP, He’s doing a great job so far.
Why, I don’t know, but I marvel and am continuously and eternally grateful for His daily, miraculous, undeserved grace upon my life.
I do not know how a person can live without His grace and mercy.
Me neether.
Sounds as though you would qualify for “disability entitlement”.
Doing far better than I still recovering from knee replacement 3 months out, so congrats. Still very stiff and sore and the new knee is not taking very kindly to exercise at all. But been on the motorcycles (early this year), so there’s that.
Or as Clint Eastwoods William Munny said to Gene Hackmans Little Bill at the end of Unforgiven, “Deserves got nothing to do with it.”
I really liked your essay, Justin. I try to be an example to others, show not tell. I worked at a crappy job for years while going to school at night. Then switched to full time school while working nights and weekends. I’ve been running my own little business for 20 years now, and have something you can’t buy—satisfaction and contentment. I do worry though about having it all stolen by the coming swarm.
Thank You so much, Little Mouse. I appreciate You recognizing its worth.
God Bless You and others like You, who have worked hard and done the right things to finally achieve some modicum of success. It’s our hardworking, intelligent, caring countrymen who are the engine of America’s economy and the salt of the earth.
I don’t know what kind of business You’re operating, but if You’re in the public eye, much at all, I’m certain Your example has been witnessed by a good many youths over the past twenty years. Hopefully Your example has made an impact on them.
I pray daily for our nation and its people, because I share Your very same concerns, and as You suggest, a “swarm” — a massive, horrid storm — is on its way; and what we do between now and then determines who will survive and who will be dragged down and fall to the wayside.
Best wishes and my hopes and prayers for Your continued success.
Very well written. I would only add that the masses don’t love freedom enough.
Thank You, AKJOHN! I appreciate the acknowledgement.
As for Your observation, I’d say it is spot on 100% accurate. They’ll endure a period of tyranny until they’ve finally had their fill and become desperate enough to act forcefully and violently enough to reclaim their freedom and individual liberty.
Some hard and dangerous days and years lay ahead for all who love freedom and traditional America and the virtues and principles She was built upon.
Shall we see the likes of Justice Scalia again? Auntie is not sanguine about that happening anytime soon.
Life is more than mindless toil and getting those shekels faster.
Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water.
Lay your bed where the cat sleeps.
Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm.
Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit.
Plant the tree where the mole digs.
Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself.
Dig your fountain where the birds hide from heat.
Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the days golden grains.
Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest.
Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water.
Agreed. A well adjusted person will figure out how best to achieve the right balance between work and play, in order to live the best life possible and say at the end of the journey “I had a life that was well lived — no regrets”.
Everything in it’s season.
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
Total fucking bullshit! A horse in the desert will drink alkali water in an instant…and die on you.
Don’t got brains? Follow the Kamala Harris school of success. It’s not who you know, it’s who you……
Perhaps Christine Lagarde’s advice was better. “Don’t like it, you should’ve asked to be born to wealthier parents…..”
There are things that can be done. You can change education in one step. Make all public schools immune to civil litigation. The day the lawyers don’t get paid is the day the schools will fix themselves. If government can’t threaten the schools all the better. With holding funds by the Fed should not be allowed. We as a society must change our minds on civil litigation involving public institutions. Sorry that teacher influenced your child to get a sex change, but you don’t get no money from the school. Sue the teacher.
Marc,
the state, fed or otherwise has no fucking business in our children’s education . F. Jimmah Carter! Government schools are child abuse.
Peace, L.
Edit; NOT anon, Lucretius.
Life apparently owes the illegals free everything.