PS: Adam, I may take the tank off, but by now, it's probably better to just let it run out. I've already diluted the gas with the regular stuff - may get a can of Avgas for longer-term storage - it's that or non-alcohol gas with stabilizer (PRI-G). I will get a new spark plug though. I mean why not? (It probably is the problem.) About every 3-5 years I buy a new air filter and that rubber diaphragm pump - hopefully they are still ready to sell me this stuff.

Alarmist, in answer to your 2 questions/points;

Yeah, it WAS more than $600 of the year, though I doubt more that $1,500, and I did know that number. BTW, that $600 is so little money now that it ought to have been indexed and be a couple of thousand now, but this was the one Brandon's IRS was set to lower to ZERO. It's not so much the money, IMO. They want to know EXACTLY what everyone's doing to get by.

I wasn't there when the kid came. I think his phone # is on the note. Yes, bargaining with him would have been a good lesson.

M, If his parents really have him filling out 1099s, it's either that they are both accountants, or they don't know how to raise him. Perhaps, that "honesty is the best policy" is what they are trying to teach, but a big disdain for the Authoritah of the US Feral Gov't is probably a more important value to impart these days.

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I have to wonder if the reason for that $30 price is that he actually is filing the forms.

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@Safenorw, my father earned a few extra bucks on his off days swinging a hammer for a friend’s construction firm, and I tagged along and made a few bucks for myselg along with learning a few things. We also still had construction and shop classes in American High Schools back in the day.

@MrMod, unless she paid you more than $600 that year, she had no business dropping a 1099 on you. As for the kid, did you make him a reasonable counter-offer? This was you chance to mentor a wild-eyed yewt into a thinking, productive human being. Lulz.

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PS: Good evening, friends!

For Achmed...
https://i.ibb.co/YBjqXYDn/Scorpion.jpg

(Also, if you think you have 2 cycle fuel in your lawnmower I would recommend draining the tank and starting fresh with a new fuel filter and spark plug.)

For SafeNow...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah2-a-GADLQ

(Americans can do work.)

I had all these ideas for a comment a bunch of hours ago...
But now I'm getting sleepy.

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

I hope you all have a great evening! ☮️

PS: Mr. Hail, that's a lot to digest. Again, I wouldn't mind if you let me post these 2 separately here on this blog.

Regarding your 1st one: Yes, Hunter is part of that Washington FS - residing crowd that knows mostly the narratives on everything that the 20% you mention have spread around through hard work. The problem is that our elites, if you can call that worthless crackhead "the elite", haha, come from this background more and more. I should say the politicians do. You take a Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter - whatever else you think of the latter - from the old days, and it wasn't the same story.

The Sailer crowd, including the man himself, I know have written numerous times about the high proportion of big-time pols and high-powered officials that went through Ivy League schools, and often the very same couple of them.

They don't get out much, IOW.

About Steven Miller, I think he's an exception, and I think there ARE plenty of exceptions. Mr. Miller is fairly young. I don't know his whole family background and when some ancestors came over from E. Europe or wherever. It could have been so long ago that immediate family members don't get into all that business. I do know that Steven Miller grew up a Californian and was so sick of that Hispanic infiltration even as a High Schooler. (He was involved in some political thing to get these Cholos to stop speaking Spanish in class or something ...)

At some point, Jewish people who are not quite the Globalist elite types, have got to realize that they need to drop that shit. Others can't help themselves, like the proverbial scorpion (or the frog, for that matter).

PS: Your 2nd paragraph has EXACTLY what I was going to get into regarding price increases due to going American with labor, if that will even really happen. (See Mr. Hail's 2nd comment under this thread.)

Yes, a nickel a head, even in today's times, seems in the ballpark. Someone could easily pick 2 or 3 hundred an hour, maybe more. I've picked cucumbers and tomatoes, yes, alongside Mexicans, of course, many years ago. (The whole deal for us didn't last long.) I have a good idea how much time it takes per cuke or tomato.

Then, with the hotel room cleaning, I've never had to do this tedious work, but I've stayed a lot (not just at the Holiday Express to make me smarter) in hotels and I've occasionally asked questions such as "How many rooms a day do you do?" to the housekeepers - the few that speak English AND are not surly black women* and "How much do they make?" to some managers.

Then too, I know an Indian guy who told me all about his parents' low-budget hotel business. This guy did not mince words - pretty Americanized, as he'd say "my crowd" when often complaining about how they act, haha. Let me tell you firstly that the State and Feral Gov'ts don't collect a whole lot of income tax.

Anyway, I'll save this stuff for a couple of posts, SafeNow. Thanks for your input on it.


* Actually, in this area, most of them seem, or at least act, fairly friendly. That's training, I guess.

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(An addendum to previous comment)

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-- Do Trump and co. disagree with Hunter Biden about sacred status of Migrants --

With Trump-II at the 6-month mark (or a full "one eighth" done with the four-year term), it's hard still to get a grip on what the full impact of the border-closure, forcible deportations, and voluntary deportations have been, on the scale of the demographic problem.

The pro-Trump people have always, always, since the start ten years ago, said "Give him more time"; or, as the Q-Anon slogan had it, "Trust the plan." But what if I want to trust demonstrable actions and data above some intel-op (as Q-Anon was revealed to be, at least the claim is out there).

Here is some data for us:

The U.S. ethnocultural-core population stands at about 185 million. In effect I mean, here, Whites of fully European-Christian heritage. This group has been shrinking for at least the past ten years.

All other population-elements other than the core now number above 155 million.

The broad non-core is a huge category of all sorts, many races, languages, religions, and lengths of residence in the country. It's not like all of them are one single category. (It would be a different game if it were 155m Blacks rather than just 40m of them.)

The total-resident population, core + non-core, crossed the 340m mark sometime around late 2024, according to the Census Bureau. That was just about the time of the Trump-II presidential-election victory (Nov 2024), or perhaps slightly earlier, during the contra-Kamala kampaign (these by Census Bureau estimates).

Recapitulation:

-- 185m: US ethnocultural-core population (54.5%)

-- 155m: US non-core population (45.5%)

-- 340m: TOTAL US resident population, ca. late 2024.

Today, in July 2025, total population is estimated at 342m (Census Bureau), 2 million extras having been tacked-on since the election. Therefore, under Trump-II, the ethnocultural-core share has actually gone DOWN from 54.5% to 54.0%.

Of the 155m non-core, perhaps 25m are illegal, in-principle easily-deportable people. It's unclear what estimate for illegals the Census Bureau is using. (I am certain the Census data-people have an estimate of illegals which they refuse to release, hiding behind the fact that they Census questionnaire itself doesn't ask about citizenship; they have long declined to make such data public but the Yale study of a few years ago using similar methods to the Census estimated it could be close to 25m even before the Biden waves.

A large portion of the other 130m here, legal residents, are actually of "illegal-immigrant stock." By that I mean people normalized after an initial illegal arrival or overstaying visas, or children of such people. Many of such people, too, should be encouraged by any means available to depart.

But... the Trump-II people's now-stated goal is to deport 4m illegals by January 19, 2029. They are said to be running well behind even on THAT modest pace. And even so, deporting 4m illegals by January 19, 2029, all else equal, would only raise the core-stock back up to 55.0%!

Importantly, ***there is NO discussion going on*** about the bigger picture something I've elsewhere called "demographic emergency measures." A policy of stabilization of the core expressly in the interest of keeping the US a Western society with a core that is a healthier majority than the paltry 54% it now stands at.

Demographic-emergency measures are needed given the past decades of almost-continuous slide; including the puppetization of the US, as a nation, to multi-national forces: "Empire abroad, Empire at home" is a tacit ideology of important elements of the broad upper class (and it goes beyond simply Israel, although that little gangster-state is a keystone; it goes back to the 1940s-60s period and developments of that time).

The internal de-Westernization process was, itself the impetus towards Trump in the 2010s, but he never himself took it seriously enough.

ON THE PLUS SIDE, lest I be accused of excessive negativity: New flow of illegals is way down. For now. How do we ensure it stays down?

Flows of migrants, be they formally illegal or not, might turn even sooner than we expect. Trump has turned against his own base over the Epstein affair. He has been fuming, and no doubt thinking about how to exact revenge on these disloyal people (like MTG). He could introduce an amnesty and guest-worker program ("comprehensive immigration reform"), in alliance with the Left, in 2026 or 2027. It'd fits his style and the flexibility of his principles.

I am not sure how much I totally trust Vance, if Trump dies or is removed (after impeachment), not to do the same. His own principles have slid all over the game-board in the 2010s and 2020s. He was a critic of Trump in 2015-16 for making "Brown people afraid," and has boasted many times of having "mixed-race" sons by his Hindu wife.

These people came to power, I hate to say it, on a demagogic movement which they exploited. They exploited the desperate position of the receding ethnocultural-core; a civilization and people being led into planned obsolescence, and everyone kind of knowing it, but most outside a a portion of younger-male hotheads not willing to vocally opposite.

They must be held accountable and pushed harder towards the right direction.

Epstein-Gate, to me, is partly about these things. Hypocrisy, and sheer arrogance, and refusing to be held accountable. The rich laugh their way to the bank.

The time for this rift with Trump was many years ago now. Ann Coulter led the way, already, in the closing weeks of 2018, when she turned on him publicly. (However, I note she is quite pro-Trump in the six months of Trump-II).

In conclusion... I believe there is evidence, from occasional quips but also from actions. that Trump and these other people DON'T actually DISAGREE with the quote from Hunter Biden about how vital and precious Holy Migrants are, how we couldn't live without them. I see no real vision of a transformed society. No pro-White/Western policy. More like a lot of self-aggrandizing taunting, and form over substance. Like the politics and policies you'd get from pro-wrestling characters and story-lines.

PS: "These residential “mow, blow, and go” hombres do indeed work for landscaping companies, but liberals should not be calling them “landscapers.” They are, properly, “gardeners.”

You are quite right there, SafeNow. I may change my term, because that was lazy of me. It's like software people calling themselves engineers. That's wrong too.

I'll address the rest write back to Mr. Hail's nice comment in a few hours. Gotta go.

PS: "The kid is, no doubt, factoring in the 7-year depreciation of the mower plus the forward hedge of gas prices." Ha, in that case this guy will own all the landscaping companies in town before he gets out of High School.

BTW, as for gas, with those big lawns we used to mow I think about 15% of our $5, sometimes $4.50 went to gas. It was at a high point. Now, gas is really pretty cheap. (We've done the silver dimes thing here multiple times.) I imagine the guy wouldn't use one whole pint of gas on this yard, so we're talking 30-40 cents out his proposed $30. I did rag on this kid and his prices in the post here, but the professionals do things quickly, pick up business from houses in close proximity, etc, so they may be less. I don't know - never had it done for me, ever.

"Give him a real lesson in adult life: Ask him to fill in a Form I-9 and drop a 1099 on him at year end." Ohhh, now you're being just mean! Haha, years ago I did this certain weekend work for very cheap even though I was in my 30s already. The one woman, not a nasty HR lady, but part of our small group, called up in January to ask for my address. "What for?" "Oh, we're trying to get things on the up-and-up, so we're gonna do 1099 forms." "No, not for me you're not. Seriously?" It was all on good terms, but for that money, hell no, I wasn't going to send the Feral Gov't a check!

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"The former son of the President of the US has no idea what kind of country we used to have"

Hunter Biden is steeped in Big-Blue-metro-area, pro-immigrationist ideology. The opinions from quote from him are not those of a clueless individual. To the contrary, they are opinions of a highly plugged-in individual. They are words he may have said, but they are not his own opinions.

As Steve Sailer, p.b.u.h., used to quip often, the consensus in recent decades in such places as the Washington D.C., the city of which Hunter Biden is a product almost his whole life, is heavily Judaized. That is, things are seen through the "lens" of Ellis Island Jews and their descendants. Even among a great portion of non-Jews. Non-Jews with similar family histories of similar eras can can roped into the same agenda, especially any that are not of generally-Western, generally-Northern, generally-Protestant family-origins. But the coalition of the Ellis Islanders is not really coherent, and at its core it is a Jewish narrative rooted in a sense of Jewish exceptionalism with its hugely distorting effects on society, culture, politics, and foreign policy.

Over the past few decades, astonishingly, Washington D.C.'s resident white population has been as high as one-fifth Jewish. In the inner-lying areas of the Washington D.C. proper (the 1790-delineated borders did not anticipate the automobile or even the streetcar or train), the share of Whites is less Jewish in most places but still substantial (less than 20% is no difficult bar to pass).

They are highly networked, ambitious, and possessing of a pervading ideology of their Right to Rule (after their rise between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries and associated mythologies they've forced everyone to acquiesce to). They are talented bunch in many ways -- high IQ, if quite low on ethics compared to our exacting NW-European standards. Jews always punch above their weight.

If a Western city, or city-core, like Washington DC proper, has a white population as high as ONE-FIFTH Jewish, they and their ideas or narratives will extremely likely end up with defacto steering-control. Everyone else will be aware of their views indirectly, and often, for the high-info people, even directly (but they traditionally almost unanimously respect a taboo against mentioning the subject); and this one group will have veto power over competing narratives. Non-Jewish elements in these places of course long did offer coherent opposition but were ghettoized and receded from view over a few-decade-long period, as partially happened with Pat Buchanan and others.

Hunter Biden doesn't need to have anything defective about himself to have absorbed these views. He needn't, for example, have one of the hundreds of "AIPAC Handlers" that are assigned to every single member of Congress (except for the anti-Semitic Thomas Massie; and possibly also now excluding Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose AIPAC Handler I assume has quit in a huff or spends his days at Starbucks and such places pretending to do the usual AIPAC-handling, having given up on the puppet-game in her case).

These people engage in a form of a ethnic self-adulation and a form of double-dealing in which a form of ethno-solipsism exists at the core but they are sharp enough to conceal it partially from outsiders most of the time. It's actually, I've learned and long observed, quite hard for a typical White-western type of person, of which I imagine all or near all the core readers of PS are, to understand what this other group is up to and how they think. It's one reason some people, when they do start to figure it out, go overboard into cartoonish anti-Semitism.

But as for pro-immigrationist cheerleading, drumbeating, moralizing, browbeating, and hectoring: I don't know that I've ever met a single member of that ethnoreligious group who doesn't sooner or later make an appeal to Jewish persecution on the need for open immigration for Wherever Migrants in the present-day. It always seems to be there.

Hunter Biden grew up and lived his adult life in an environment in which this is the obvious view; an element of civic religion.

You can bring up certain specific counter-examples like what Steven Miller supposedly is, but I have never met someone like that; to the extent I've seen members of that group who do "talk in that direction," often they end up being frauds, like the one guy now known as Mike Benz, who, in the late-2010s was, it came out a few years ago, was conducting an intel-operation against the Alt-Right.

They are talented arguers and rhetoriticians in many cases, including Mike Benz (in his Alt-Right infiltration days known as "Frame Games"). They will make maudlin arguments such as you hear Hunter Biden, in his crass kind of way (we are all our father's sons...), parrot in the quoted excerpt.

I've struggled for years with what to make of this Elite Pro-Immigration Consensus. I've written a few times in my usual style of a few-thousand-word essay, which most info-consumers in the 2020s will assiduously avoid. The topic however is not to be avoided. It glares at us every day.

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These residential “mow, blow, and go” hombres do indeed work for landscaping companies, but liberals should not be calling them “landscapers.” They are, properly, “gardeners.” My actual landscaper has a two-year degree in horticulture. He took courses in pesticides, soils management, and so on, and when I need to save a sick tree, he tells me what to do.

I once read an article saying that if a farmer hired traditional Americans to harvest crops, a head of lettuce wound cost only a nickel more at the store. I suspect the same principle applies to cleaning hotel rooms; there are so many costs associated with running a hotel that cleaning the room is just a drop in the bucket.

Alarmist, building that shed is very impressive to me also! How the heck did you learn those skills? I would never be able to do that. My father did not have those skills, and so did not mentor me. I did work as teen, but nothing that required being a handy guy.

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The kid is, no doubt, factoring in the 7-year depreciation of the mower plus the forward hedge of gas prices.

Give him a real lesson in adult life: Ask him to fill in a Form I-9 and drop a 1099 on him at year end.

My wife was surprised when I built a new garden shack from raw materials. I told her I used to do this sort of thing to earn money as a teen. Unheard of in Europe.

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