Attack of the anti-business city slickers

Reader Glenn M drops me a righteous line: === As an avid reader of your emails and a former resident of Gov. Kate's Oregon, how long do you think you will last there? Idaho is "politically correct." Keep up the good work. === I don’t anticipate going anywhere. Frankly, there is no "escape" from what's going on. Anti-business city slickers are spreading like a virus themselves everywhere: North, south, east, and west. In my case, the state is already screwed beyond repair with its extended lockdowns & inane politics, so it's all pretty irrelevant to me. In fact, there was a movement in Idaho that even recently tried to annex my county probably knowing they need more fed up country-folk influence over their body politic. This is a healthy trend you will start seeing more and more of wherever you are if you live in the U.S. And in my opinion it is a good indication of how far along we are towards the inevitable break up of the country. It's all going to come crashing down eventually. It was all inevitable anyway. And this last election only accelerated it. Good. But until then, my attitude is: Do you like it where you are? The community? The people? Yes? Then don’t run — stand your ground, and dig in. Starting today. One idea I am kicking around is starting a social media page just for local businesses. But, not some censored Facebook page or anything controlled by the big tech thought police terrified of someone questioning their Narratives. I’m talking about using the new pro business/marketer/privacy social media platform Troy Broussard & I are cooking up right now as I write this, that will be available to the general public in a couple months. And then using that page/group to build up alliances with likeminded entrepreneurs so they can help me repel — or at least expose the agendas of — the invading hordes of city slickers who would try to turn the area into the various big cities they all just ran away from. They are easy to identify. They always manage to slip in "how come we don't do like ___ does?" Insert whatever big city they just came from, that they fled, due to their own voting patterns. And before anyone asks: This particular social media page will not be open to anyone on this list. Just local businesses in my county. And due to the privacy options our new social media platform has, you won’t be able to find it even if you knew the name of it. So why bring it up at all? There are 3 reasons: 1. To troll the big city refugees fleeing to small towns so they vote better wherever they land. 2. To answer the question asked at the start of this email. 3. To inspire people who are scared of what current events could mean for their business. To them, I quote the wise Frank Castle: (AKA The Punisher) “Pissed off beats scared every time.” All right, that’ll do it for today. I don’t see business as business anymore. I see it as warfare. And the April “Email Players” issue goes into far more details on this. Here’s the link: Ben Settle Copyright © 2021 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. PO Box 1056 Gold Beach Oregon 97444 USA To unsubscribe or change subscriber options, visit: