We Can Take Back the USA by Modeling the Hero Southwest Airline Pilots!

A month ago, my brand-new bestseller, "The Great Patriot Protest & Boycott Book," came out. A month seems like a lifetime ago. What happened over this past month validates the strategy I laid out. It changes everything.

My book lays out the case that America and American exceptionalism are under vicious attack. We are facing a radical communist takeover of the United States. I believe we must respond with the tactics and strategies of Martin Luther King Jr. -- with strikes, boycotts, protests, intimidation and CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

The great news is the pilots of Southwest Airlines have put these tactics to work. And they've proven that conservatives and patriots can use this strategy to save America.

Civil disobedience and intimidation are what liberals (i.e., socialists, communists, Marxists) have used for decades to steamroll us. A vocal and vicious minority has managed to hijack the direction of America with these tactics. Now it's time to turn the tables!

Until now, conservatives have never used intimidation, strikes, boycotts or civil disobedience. The reasons why are simple. Liberal activists are vicious, violent and loud. That's because they have nothing to lose.

Have you ever seen an antifa protest? They look like they've never had a job, or a bath.

Left-wing protesters in 2020 weren't about protesting as much as rioting, looting and burning. They caused about $2 billion in property damage in the summer of 2020.

CARTOONS | STEVE BREEN VIEW CARTOON That's never going to be us. Conservatives don't riot, loot, burn or commit violence. We have too much to lose. Conservatives don't sit home collecting handouts. Our lives revolve around work.

We have jobs, businesses, families, assets to protect. We can't afford to engage in violence or be arrested. We'd go broke just paying the legal fees. Whereas liberals with no assets are provided free legal aid lawyers by the justice system, or free lawyers by billionaire communist backers like George Soros.

But we can copy this strategy of civil disobedience by using the one advantage we've got -- buying power. We don't need violence. We can bring this nation and economy to its knees with our wallets and purses.

Other than open borders, the main tool of this communist takeover is COVID-19 vaccine mandates. This is the "defunding of the middle class." The middle class doesn't want this vaccine. Cops don't want it. Neither do firemen, prison guards, border patrol, nurses, paramedics, the military or jet pilots. Millions of middle-class Americans will soon be fired or forced to resign. They will lose their jobs, incomes and pensions.

This is how the radical communists will make us jobless and hopeless. This is how they will make us dependent on government. This is how they will destroy first responders and the military. This is how the enemies of America create chaos, crisis, confusion, depression and division.

We have to hit back -- HARD. Just as my book proposes, the hero pilots of Southwest Airlines just used the power of the purse. A week ago, they refused to fly. They called in sick by the thousands. Thousands of planes were grounded. The airline lost $75 million in just a few days.

The liberal mainstream media once again lied -- they made believe this was based on "scheduling issues and weather." The last thing they want is word getting out that millions of Americans refuse to take the COVID-19 jab and some of them are fighting back. That message scares government and liberals to death -- as well it should.

The first volley was shot by Southwest Airlines pilots and flight crews. The result? VICTORY. Southwest's CEO announced they will not adhere to Biden's federal mandate to terminate workers who won't vaccinate. Immediately Delta and American announced the same decision.

Bull's-eye. The airlines blinked. We won. This is the way forward. This is the model for conservatives. We do all the work. We have the buying power. Without our work ethic and dollars, every company in America is bankrupt and out of business.

This is the way forward out of the darkness -- with mass protests, strikes, boycotts, intimidation and civil disobedience.

In my next column, I'll lay out a plan that empowers conservatives, Christians and patriots to showcase the full force of our power with nationwide strikes.

As Benjamin Franklin said, we either hang together, or we surely hang separately. Together, we have the power to take back our country from these communist traitors.

The ONLY person i trusted with my Les Paul has lost my business due to his cobid hysteria.

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Sorry, saw that one after I posted.

I started learning to work on my guitars for a similar reason. Nobody around here I trusted. Guy at the local music
store in mod 90’s was a joke, he literally tie guiitar strings to the tuner posts.

Another guitar player in our band asked me if I could redo the setup on his guitar, he took it tot his guy to have strings replaced. Nothing else, just put strings on. Isaid OK, started to check out his strat. Everything had been changed. Intonation, action, pickup height, and when Istarted to remove strings, found out they were oiterally tied to the tuner posts. Took me almost 30 munites just to remove the strings, then another hour to reset everything.

I’ve never let anyone else tyouch my guitars since that day. Had to do guitars for both our other guitar players, same story, everything changed when he wasn’t supposed to touch a thing, just replace the strings, which any 10 year old can do. I was already halfway there, took a guitar to a music store in Baton rouge, let him put strings on for me, which I could easily do myself, then that night onstage the neck pickup fell out against the strings, made an awful noise...(Univox strat copy w/ 3 humbuckers). He had removed the trim ring and put it on someone else’s guitar, then denied he did it. I had to buy another one to put on a borrowed guitar, I was not a happy camper. But I was a walking bad advertisement from then on too.

that’s when Istarted learning to do most of my own wortk, except for the difficult stuff, nut replacements, filing and crowning frets, truss rod adjustments...the guy who tied strings on changed all that, I now do everything but fret replacements myself. Just finished replacing capacitors in a hollow body Ibanez AG 75 a few days ago, thats a chore...now I have to do it again and replace all 4 volume/tone pots. Fish everything through with a string...yish...I’d rather eat shoe polish...

How Ilearned to cut nut slots...by surprise...

took my Takamine acoustic to a frioend who owned a vintage guitarsop,bet repair guy in town. Ihad already made and installed the nut, looks like factory, just needed slots cu, alread had marked for spacing.

He said “well, it’s time for you to learn how”, and handed me his nut files...YIKES...talk about scred...if I screw up, I’ll have to buy another bone blank, file and sand for an hour, glue it in place, and start all over with the nut files...and might not get it right again...it only takes about 3 seconds too much filing and the slot is too deep, you start over because it will buzz aainst the 1st fret. Not deep enough is no problem, it will just pull out of tune when you fret it. Take another swipe or two with a nut file and play it again. I’ve seen him do it 4 times...on one string...shake his head and grab the file again, detune and pull the string to the side...grrrrr

I got really lucky, I hit it right the first time, I’m still playing the Takamine onstage but it’s about time for a fret filing, it’s developing fret grooves.

Ain’t it fun being a guitar player? 4 hours a day practice for half your life, 40 years of lugging heavy tube amps around, then you have to learn to rebuild your own guitars because the local “luthiers” can’t fix their way out of a wet paper sack...

Anything involving a soldering iron freaks me out.

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Soldering is easy. Dead simple. A friend taught me over 40 years ago. I knew he worked for Westinghouse, they had a plant outside Bryan. We had never “talked shop” so I had no idea just what he did.

It turned out he sat on a bench and soldered calculators together for 8 years...and taught me how they do it. Not hard at all. He took a 2 week class for it.

I use paste flux, can’t stand flux core solder. Resin flux, not acid, which will cause rust. Acid flux is used for things like copper tubing for water pipes. It won’t rust the copper tubing but will rust things like chrome guitar jacks. I found out the hard way...my jar of flux is 30 years old, still half full...2 inches diameter, 2 inches tall.

Put a little flux on each contact. (think toothpick) Melt a small blob of solder onto the iron. Takes very little, half the size of a bb or match head. Touch it to the contact and watch it flow onto the contact/wire. This is called tinning.

Practice with a couple of wires. With new guitar jacks, you might have to use a foamboard fingernail file to rough up the chrome surface and get it to stick better.

Then hold the 2 tinned contacts together, alligator clips often work wonders, and melt another small blob of solder onto the iron. Touch that to the tinned contacts and soon as it flows, pull it away.

If it’s a shiny silver solder joint, it’s good to go, if it’s dull gray, it’s a “cold” joint, do it again. In that case, all you have to do is let it cool, then reheat it with the iron and see if it cools shiny. Melt a tiny blob of solder onto the iron first though. Just enough you have a tiny puddle on the tip.

Always melt a small blob of solder onto the iron, the already melted solder heats and melts solder quicker than just the hot iron does.

Work quick, it only takes a couple of seconds. Be careful with capacitors, heat can destroy them.

Use a wet natural sponge to clean the iron, just wipe it on the sponge. Do that every time, just before you melt solder onto the iron. I use a custard cup to hold my sponge. Ialso use an old junk towel as a work surface so I don’t mess up a table or whatever. Just have a good stand for the hot soldering iron...I use a very large glass ashtray. You can get thick rubber mats that work great, I’ve just never tried to get one.

A work holder with 2 inch magnifying glass and 2 alligator clips is priceless, I used mine on the Ibanez almost every time I soldered. It also acts as a heat sink, so the heat is less likely to travel up the wire to the component, the clip takes the heat instead. You can also get alunminum heat clips for that purpose, aluminum draws heat better than most other metals.

Easy, try it on a couple of small wires, 2 or 3 tries and once you learn how to see the solder flow, you’re good to go. In most cases, you only have to strip a half inch of wire at most. Try soldering 2 wires toghether, or both ends of one wire. That’s how I learned, got it right the first try once I knew how to do it and what to look for. Once both are tinned, it takes 3 seconds.

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