Posted on 02/24/2023 7:25:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, I had the opportunity to work in Senegal for several months. My very first experience in-country was that the rental vehicle wouldn’t start. While the friendly and talkative mechanic repaired the jeep, he inquired if this was my first trip to Africa. “No,” I replied. “Ahhh!” he said, “then I don’t have to explain the meaning of ‘TIA’ to you.”
But I’d never heard that term or what it meant. When I asked, he explained, saying, “This is Africa; nothing works!” Indeed, in my travels, it was much the same in Latin America and other places I have lived, worked, or visited back in the day. When I returned to America, it was a joy to drop a quarter into a payphone and hear a dial tone, or find that the nearest toilet always had toilet paper at hand.
But, in 2023, in Biden’s America, the acronym takes on a whole new meaning. Last week my wife’s car wouldn’t start, and after several return visits to the dealership, the problem remained undiagnosed. The service tech apologized and said, “it’s TIA.” I asked him what that meant, and he said, “This is America; no one knows how to fix things anymore.” Talk about a reflective moment.
Consider recent news items reporting stories of unusual events, ones growing in frequency. With the technology and knowledge developed over decades, stupid stuff shouldn’t happen nearly as much as it does.
A United Flight loses altitude rapidly after takeoff, narrowly avoiding crashing. Why? Pilots were momentarily distracted at a critical moment.
A railroad derailment in Ohio caused toxic gasses to sicken hundreds. Railroad knew they had a “hot box” situation with the car’s journal bearings discovered by trackside devices
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“Balloongate” raised the specter that China or Russia could have been floating nukes over the U.S. for years because someone manually changed the filters on U.S. radar displays to exclude balloons.
Ford halted production of their newest E.V. vehicle due to battery problems.
Southwest Airlines stranded thousands of passengers because outdated scheduling software was not equal to the tasks at hand.
An outside hack crippled Florida’s Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Surgeries were canceled, manual record-keeping returned to use, and general chaos ensued.
Fabled Boeing Aircraft hasn’t built a “clean sheet” — i.e., newly designed aircraft — since 2003. They recently announced that another new plane would not be built until the 2030s. This follows a series of major snafus, including crashes of the Boeing Max and problems with almost all other civilian and military contracts. Boeing is now a distant second to European upstart Airbus.
mRNA Vaccines may not be vaccines at all? Traditionally, vaccines provide immunity from a disease. Today, we understand that the primary value is not immunity but rather a reduction of symptoms and death. This is not what was asserted to the public by the CDC, which continually appears to redefine the intent of the shot.
Approximately 9 million Americans receive Federal Disability Benefits, and another 5.5 million former military receive full or partial disability. An additional million plus receive private disability. These numbers are the highest in history and call into question the legitimacy of the process, which seems to offer government-funded disincentives to work.
Is our education system failing? Today, 65% of children can’t read at grade level. Reading ability has been on a downhill trajectory since 1992, but the government and teachers’ unions underplay that obvious and disturbing failure all too easily.
Four issues help us understand how these sad scenarios came to be:
Lack of competency
Disincentives to succeed
Workarounds to working
Wokeism
Sometimes it is Affirmative Action that has caused these problems, when White engineers are replaced or fired and replaced with “diversity.”
It is happening in South Africa right now after they got rid of all their competent White workers - they can’t keep the lights on:
South Africa Declares ‘State of Disaster’ Over Energy Crisis
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday declared a national “state of disaster” over his country’s crippling power shortages, saying they posed an existential threat to the economy and social fabric.
https://www.voanews.com/a/south-africa-declares-state-of-disaster-over-energy-crisis-/6956810.html
#2 - Liberalism
#1 - Conservatives tolerating Liberals and letting them destroy the country.
Meritocracy, discipline, know-how, etc., are all holdovers from an evil white supremacist, heteronormative culture. We must move beyond that now and shape shift into shit hole third worldism to prove we are not racists.
It’s caused by elimination of meritocracy....
This is what happens when schools don’t meet minimum reading and math requirements for the kids but send them up to the next grade or graduate them anyway. An uneducated generation of kids.
This is what happens when uneducated adults are hired based on the skin color or nationality. (non whites only unless they check the box as an LGBTxyz). Merit is not allowed as a requirement. Tucker Carlson did a very good segment on this topic recently. That’s how we ended up with gay mayor pete the buffoon.
Thanks in advance!
When you combine all these numbers, you approach 100 million people who don’t work for a variety of reasons. That number has risen by about 35 million in the last ten years.
But those people get tired of all the rules and regulations. Name me one area of the economy where the FEDERAL govt IS NOT
“#1 - Conservatives tolerating Liberals and letting them destroy the country.”
Yep, we all need to look in the mirror. We’ve let a tiny minority (leftist activists) rule over us without as much as a whimper. They’ve taken over every institution.
And it continues.
“TIA” isn’t about Africa’s shoddiness, it’s about the futility/frustration/hopelessness in endeavoring to make it less paleolithic.
I’ve always heard it as ‘Africa wins again’.
That's because the actual purpose of the jab is to make tons of money for the pharmaceuticals, and for the politicians and bureaucrats that enable their scam, and to create MORE illness and death, so as to keep the scam going and the money flowing. Enabling tyrannical government control is a bonus.
This is the fruit of the feminization of our culture and politics.
Is TIA a corollary to “Africa Wins Again”?
Get to work, slave!!! A hundred million people living on government benefits need you!!!
You might remember we had a couple of piddly little wars.
And military disability does not mean you are unable to work and, considering what it amounts to, you are not able to live off of it.
Allan needs to do a bit more research before he starts writing.
Well it does mean more opportunity for those that want to work?
Get to work, slave!!! A hundred million people living on government benefits need you!!!
New tagline. *sigh*
Trump Isn’t Around.
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