Party Pooper Podcast

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This is part 2 of an oldies for newbies series. If you are new to the P4B than you are most welcome. I am grateful to have you here, and the next paragraph doesn’t apply to you.

I am less than pleased, to put it diplomatically, with the reaction this post gleaned when first posted several months ago. The infantile affront, discussed in the Main Event below, is now imminent. It didn’t have to be. I broadcasted the warning. It vanished into the ether.

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Before we start, a quick hit.

You’ve seen me agree with and argue against Peter Zeihan many times here. His feel for trends is fascinating. His apologist politics are pretty lame. His 1 Sep message was on the lame side.

He has allowed himself to be caught up in the hype surrounding the Tuberville hold on military promotions. This, while I am sure it is quite annoying to people waiting for their stars, is no threat to the security of the nation. Zeihan calls it the greatest threat.

In a nation with far more 4-star officers than can be justified, a hold on advancement won’t cause anything worse than out-of-joint noses. And it WILL NOT cause security clearances to be withheld. If I am ordered to serve in a position marked for an Admiral and I am a full-bird Captain, I will get all the clearances I need (and likely already have them). I, or the officer permanently designated for the post, just won’t get the corresponding star until this is settled. Any officer who shirks duties because a stripe or star is held up, should resign his commission or be arrested.

The DoD has dug in it’s heels on this while accusing Tuberville of intransigence. Ironically, Tuberville has said he’d be glad to have a vote in the Senate on the question of his “hold”. He would respect any result. Hmmmm. No one will agree to the vote.

And the argument isn’t whether the military should allow pregnant service members travel to have abortions (on demand). It is about PAYING for their travel to get those abortions. This is an anathema to a man like Tuberville and most of his constituents. And he is standing on his convictions, his generous offer to respect a Senate vote not withstanding.

Who is being intransigent? Who is actually holding up those promotions? I suggest you look no further than the Pentagon and the children on Capitol Hill refusing to call a vote.

The Main Event

History is history.

If you try to tailor it, a snip here and a slash there (all for reasons you might think quite defensible) your new narrative is not history. It’s fiction. History does not exist to make everyone feel good about themselves, their country or anything else in our lives.

History simply is. If we ignore it, refuse to see it for what it is - you know the cliche - we will repeat all the mistakes. As unarguably true as that is, we now live in a nation of 12 year olds doomed to forget facts surrounding just about every important event that has come before us.

No surprise there. As demonstrated by the discussion below, too many people, some quite long-in-the-tooth, don’t acknowledge anything that occurred before they were pubescent. Others just supplant their own storybook worldview for the truth.

I’ll open the argument with an example provided by the state of Florida.

After shit canning a garbage curriculum for elementary schools that told all white kids they are little white supremacists and that boys can be girls, Ron DeSantis appointed a board to create a curriculum that was based on factual knowledge to provide the students.

In the history product, an effort headed by a black PhD, there was one line buried deep in the text. It said, basically, that while slaves, some people acquired skills that would serve them well in their new-found freedom.

After combing through the whole program, opponents of the Florida GOP, in an effort to foment hate, chose that tiny hill on which to die.

They blew this one statement up to where you would have thought the entire curriculum project was based on it. The complaints were as ignorant of reality as they were childish.

The meat of the complaint was that the statement was saying slavery was good. To understand how intentionally mendacious this is, one need only read the entire piece and see how slavery is put into its proper moral place. The work teaches, of course, that slavery is repulsive and it catalogs why.

No matter for the Lefty loonies polishing their political resumes. They pounded away at their dishonest message anyway until you heard credulous InstaGram drones making the same claims.

Here are some facts that are as unavoidable to know as hitting the ground is after jumping from a roof.

First, there were slaves who learned many skills other than working crops. Thomas Jefferson’s right arm in the renovation of Monticello was a slave, who if he were alive even today, would be an excellent candidate for project manager, building the finest of houses. There were slaves who were ferriers, millers, stores managers, nurses and quite talented cooks.

About all those who were given such responsibility, we know they found themselves in positions that other slaves would have coveted. This does not say slavery is good. This does not say that these people were satisfied with their lot in life. This does not mean slave owners are to be excused. But slaves in these positions did exist.

Second, and equally true is this. At the end of the war, once gaining their freedom, these now free people certainly used the trades they learned to the benefit of themselves and their families. To think other would be to assume they were intrinsically and irretrievably stupid. Such is the nature of the racism of low expectations. Such is the nature of the arguments we’ll address here.

The case in point

Last week, in part one of this series, I reported the pending removal of a monument from Arlington National Cemetery and the disinterment of the soldiers buried there. I said in a civilized society there would be NO TALK of ever doing that to graves, certainly not over the likes of George Floyd.

And in reality, the people trying to see this callous act through likely never gave a damn about George Floyd. What they do give a damn about is political activism and jobs as consultants for movements or candidates. This is where they can boost their credentials as activists capable of making something out of nothing. Good work if you can find it.

Last week we dealt with the disgusting disinterment question. So let’s pick apart the arguments we hear for taking down the monument. You’ll find they run very close to those of the fallacious harpies we heard from in Florida.

In a bit of impressive mind-reading, and supported by exactly nothing in the sculpture on the monument, we hear people saying that, in his work, the artist was “trying to say” that slavery was good and should be glorified.

There is nothing of the sort depicted anywhere in the piece. This, like other arguments we’ll see here, are words thrown at the art with no foundation in…anything. No truth, no knowledge of history, no knowledge of the artist’s intention, no cue at all from the work.

Slavery existed. That is an unassailable fact. In depicting a Civil War, southern plantation scene, the artist states in no uncertain terms that it existed. This, along with saying the men marched off to war at that time, is the broad message of the monument.

But what of the specifics?

I think the most debase charges made against the monument is the complaints about the presence of the “mammy”. I could write a book about the fallacies in these complaints. More than any other, they are clouded by the sheer ignorance and morally smug assessment of a different time and world than the one we live in. My conclusion is established without the least excuse given to the immorality of slavery.

Before arguing with the modern harpies, I will first, with not a little hubris on my part, deal with the complaints lodged by W.E.B. DuBois when he railed against a memorial commissioned for “mammies” specifically. In an odd approach - I’m drawing from a work of Kimberly Wallace-Sanders - DuBois said the mammy was “one of the most pitiful of the world’s Christs…an embodied sorrow.” He then went on to say that any dignity that she had was stripped away once the children she raised went on to lynch her sons.

DuBois was referring to events that occurred during the era of Jim Crow. And I find two things wrong with his contention. First, it occurred after the Civil War, the historical event in question here. There may well have been incidents where the boy raised by a nanny later lynched her son. I don’t know if that happened, but if it did one can only hope the killer died a slow and hideous death of his own. But that is not the era depicted by the monument.

Also, why would we give credit to the shit in this world for stripping away the dignity of good work because of their crimes? Should we say that the work of Viktor Frankl is undignified because he was in the death camps in WWII? Is Chris Kyle’s talent and achievement rendered undignified because his student killed him? No.

Likewise, the work of a mammy, or all mammies, remains a beacon of real and timeless dignity in an otherwise abusive and undignified world.

Why?

From Georgian thru Victorian to the Edwardian age, wealthy people did not raise their own kids. For sons, that applies to the formative years. For daughters, that probably carried through to their debut. Among the British Royal Family this tradition seemed to be the norm until Diana. In aristocracies from Russia, across Europe, all the way to North America, if you were wealthy, it was considered unfashionable to provide care for your own children (talk about twisted morality). But that didn’t mean appointing good nurses to provide care was taken lightly.

It was expected that your kids were always well-turned out and that they were healthy, respectful and happy. If they weren’t you were the object of gossip, and of course you were worried about your kid. It was incumbent upon the nurse, the term of endearment that would become the title in some places - Mammy, to raise these children to be healthy and happy.

A special trust was placed in these women. And she occupied a special station among slaves at the time. I refer you back to the earlier statement on the subject, above.

So there, on the monument is the “mammy” people are crying about. Her presence is not a glorification or absolution of slavery. It is the acknowledgement that she existed! If anything is “stated” by her inclusion specifically, it can only be concluded that she was an important figure. She is holding a baby up to be kissed by the father as he leaves for war. He is clearly entrusting the welfare of the child to HER. The child clinging to her dress is not, as some have said, her own child competing with the white baby for attention. It is the same man’s daughter turning to her mammy for comfort as her father leaves. That is the most poignant image in the sculpture. It is also the kind of dignity, which the violence that occurred years later, cannot erase.

Were there bad mammies? Sure. Were there exceptional mammies. Absolutely. And as pointed out in an article I cite more than once here, it wasn’t uncommon for mammy and the children to have a lifetime bond of love and affection. You cannot overstate her importance in the formative years.

To have excluded her would have been an insult. And it would have excluded an emblematic figure in the lives of the people being portrayed in that section of the sculpture. Erase the monument and you erase her. In the name of what? Your shallow, comfortable, reason-less, 2023 concept of equality?

Everyone loves Mammy. To be certain the children she raised did. Who the hell are these professional whiners to erase her?

What of the slave marching with the Army?

It’s easy to look back in our comfortable modern existence and make emotional pronouncements about “how it was” back then. But only a cursory glance at recorded history gives pause and demands an honest assessment of life at a time that is not narrowed by empty assumptions of our own making. So it is true of the complaints about the slave marching off to war with the Confederate Army.

While researching, I saw one article discussing the monument entitled The Pernicious Myth of the 'Loyal Slave' Lives on in Confederate Memorials.

Well, friends and neighbors, I’m going to say the quiet part out loud. Yes, there were indeed loyal black slaves. There were slaves who were given tasks that would allow them to walk away and never be found. They didn’t. There were slaves that went above and beyond their calling to perform tasks that demonstrated more than that they were slaves. I recall Thomas Jefferson’s builder again. I read an autobiography some years back by a slave who traveled the Mississippi River area extensively. When his owner was injured, the slave conducted his business for him. He collected large sums of money and out a sense of honesty, and partly because he was treated well by the owner, he returned with the money, gaining further trust. I am frantically looking for the story and the title as I write this. It may be Josiah Henson I’m thinking of, but I’m not certain.

And don’t get me started with the black overseers. Some were trusted not at all. Some were trusted explicitly.

Why they did what they did, only they can understand. None of us is qualified to question it and none of our comments on the subject would be valid. The only conclusion we are free to make is that slavery was an evil.

In the case of the man depicted on the memorial marching with white soldiers, those men absolutely existed. If they were fortunate, they stayed with the plantation owner as a valet. For that to happen the plantation owner would have to be rich and of high military rank.

The less lucky were teamsters, cooks or laborers. So why did they go? How did they feel about it?

For starters, you can assume some were told they would do it and that was that.

At the start of hostilities, you can also safely assume that they heard stories about how Northern Armies would loot, rape and pillage and hoist babies on their bayonets, etc with no consideration for skin color. Not entirely inaccurate and pretty standard propaganda in war. So one shouldn’t assume an underlying longing to meet the Union Soldiers.

Among the younger men, there surely would have been a sense of getting away from the daily grind and perhaps having some sort of adventure. Among the more seasoned men, they were told to go so they did.

It was reported later that they did find common ground with their white counterparts through the shared terror of battle, seeing people maimed and killed, and in shared hardship - often privation.

Indeed, years later, many of the men who marched away from everything they knew with white soldiers would attend reunions for the units they were attached to during the war. AND THEY WERE WELCOMED. They shared many of the same war stories.

Some black groups were captured by Union units carrying arms. It isn’t clear whether they were scouts or just men who snatched weapons and were trying to escape in the fog of war. Ballsy move, I’d say.

At any rate, they existed. Did they wear the kepi hat? Probably not. The Lousiana Native Guard, an all black unit disbanded in 1862, wore the full uniform. But most of them traded that in for Union blue.

But they lived. They were a part of the convulsion the nation endured (1861 - 1865) and deserve to be recognized whether modern day virtue signalers like it or not.

We even bend history in real time.

I mentioned Charlottesville in the previous article. The incident that occurred there, according to the NDAA FY21 and the Washington Post and other the proponents of desecration, is a catalyst, along with George Floyd for all the un-remembering.

This, from the start, is by far the most disingenuous justification. This, aside from the deadly assault with a car by one man, was an incident with assholes on BOTH sides.

A quick review. On 11 and 12 August 2017, a group of white supremacists gathered for a PERMITTED protest and a march which was to take place the next day. The protest centered around the proposed removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.

Between Friday night and Saturday morning, UN-PERMITTED counter protesters started moving into the same general area. There was a strong police presence, but not a very useful one.

The white supremacists (about 250 of them) held a morning rally during which rocks and bottles were thrown at them. No, I’m not saying you need to sympathize with them. I am just reporting what happened.

The group then lined up for the planned march. To this point and beyond, two things are clear. The WS group was intent on completing their march peacefully. They wanted their movement to look good. Many of the “counter protesters” were there for one and only one reason - physical confrontation. They did their level best to achieve it.

Throughout the march the WS were punched and pushed. People stood on the side of the road and sprayed them with pepper spray. Other than pushing away assaults, they didn’t strike back. Until…

A group of “counter protesters”, the real troublemakers that day, formed a human barricade to block the marchers. Read a little law. Your can’t block someones right to walk - in this case an officially permitted one.

Here’s where the cops are fully responsible for what happened next. They did not clear the un-permitted people from the right of way. Also they did nothing to cool things down and prevent direct confrontation between marchers and their antagonists. A preventable riot was now inevitable. And yes, it was the result of the “counter-protesters”.

Now, to the 2023, woke, uncritical mind, I may sound like a racist because I reported what happened before the vehicular homicide. And that is the thinking that poisons any adult discussions that can be had about slavery and racism and the desecration of the graves of soldiers as well.

It is also why, when someone says something about slavery that doesn’t comport to the narrow woke view of the subject, that person is labeled racist. The listener feels justified in saying, or sometimes doing, anything they wish to the speaker. Some Black Americans may feel like they have been personally slighted by saying what happened during slavery. This is very sad for reasons we’ll discuss now.

Let’s have it said.

Neitzche posited to the effect of that which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I would add a corollary to that: That which didn’t happen to you didn’t happen to you.

Too often, certainly not always, Black Americans are taught from birth to see all things through the lens of slavery. Something they, nor anyone alive experienced. Also, too often, not always, liberal do-gooders who feel themselves superior to Black Americans, fan the flames of this externally imposed worldview. This they claim to do out of altruism. Then there are race hustlers like Al Sharpton who thrive on it.

Just this week, Teachers Union president, Randi Weingarten said that people who favor charter schools, magnet schools and vouchers are (you can’t make this up) white supremacists. What does that make of the black parents who would walk barefoot through broken glass to get their kids out of the dumps we call schools on some cities.

The default position, when you have no argument is “racism” and the underlying emotional trigger is slavery - which didn’t happen to any of us or anyone we know.

As a result, anything said that makes people, so raised, uncomfortable is equated to the past sin of slavery, or in some cases Jim Crow, which only a few people still alive experienced. To be certain, this is not a healthy condition, not for Black Americans, not for America.

We’ve had do-gooders convince otherwise normal people that having black faces representing incredibly successful brands was a bad thing. Why, they were wearing old timee clothes - that MUST be praising slavery, right? Everyone knows that no thinking person felt that way, but somebody has campaigns they can brag about later.

I had Aunt Jemima CANCELLED! Aren’t I awsome? Hire me as your campaign manager.

It is a certainty that no one’s life will be improved in the least bit by removing a piece of art and digging up graves. A few people will get their 15 minutes. A few will claim some kind of perverse moral victory. Political whores will try to take credit. But soon after, we will all go back to our lives. We will have all the same problems. The legal vandalism will be forgotten. We will look askance at the unbridled ugliness and pointlessness of it all. Any claims of a better life for anyone will be a lie; an act.

We will have removed one more reminder of what happens when factions chose emotion and naval gazing over discourse.

The images of the battles, the soldiers, the slaves, the carnage, the heroism are as important as the texts we read about them in the preservation of history. And the texts are next on the chopping block. Doubt me not.

Equally certain, the removal of this memorial will do more to advance the insult of that falsely imposed, stigmatized existence (I speak only of those who pretend to share the fate of antebellum slaves) than it will to heal any modern day “wounds”. And to connect George Floyd to this is not only disingenuous, but an unforgivable insult to the actual slaves with whom the activists are trying to claim affinity.

This much is certain. Inspired by the desecration about to happen at Arlington, race hustlers, black and white, will be off in search of the next thing they can ruin FOR EVERYBODY.

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For your the best experience, some people like to listen to this at 1.25 speed and follow along in the text below the audio line. You also catch the footnotes that way.

This is part 1 of an oldies for newbies series. If you are new to the P4B than you are most welcome. I am grateful to have you here, and the next paragraph doesn’t apply to you.

I am less than pleased, to put it diplomatically, with the reaction this post gleaned when first posted several months ago. The infantile affront, discussed in the Main Event below, is now imminent. It didn’t have to be. I broadcasted the warning. It vanished into the ether.

As usual, if you want to support my work, I’ll leave a bunch of buttons in the text below the audio line so you can grab P4B gear or all kinds of gifts and/or decor.

Now let’s get on to some nut-baggery and some updates before we move to the main event. Do stay with us until the last segment. There is an evil thing being done, under the holy writ of wokeness, that will bring shame upon this nation. It is an intentional act of infantilization of our Black citizens. In other words it is a blatant act of racism. Never mind the emotional prose that perfume it.

Let’s start with the light stuff, then move to the idiotic, then the critical.

Golf Update

I got in a quick nine holes at the Four Winds this week. Don’t go there for a real round of golf for at least the next 2 years. It’s a dump. They swear they are going to fix it. One can only hope.

However, it was fine for my purposes. I just wanted to see if there was real world progress in the things I am working on. And there is. Now I need consistency.

If I can beat any of my sons on the links in October my life will gain new meaning.

Golf clap.

It’s good to have Bill back.

Before taking advice to dumb down my copy (I’m not saying that was bad advice) I labored to write in the style of those I recognized as my betters. My high school teachers, Jim McGrath and Wally Selfridge might have been proud.

The advice. I was told that my style may have been making it difficult to attract readers. People, evidently, are intimidated by what my son called my “wall of words”. This, I was told, was the possible reason my bounce rate was so high.

It was suggested I break up my paragraphs, even inappropriately. One or two sentences - tops. Write to a 14 year old level. According to Office Word and Wordpress I was usually unsuccessful at the latter. I rarely got a score down to an 8th grade reading level. But I did break up the paragraphs and my bounce rate did go down. Thank you, Ken.

Gettin’ the lazies

How my success led to decline. There was a time when I did all my lawn care with a walk-behind mower. At my previous house, an acre and a half, using the mower resulted in more than seven miles of walking. I finally picked up a John Deere. Man, life was good - for about a month. Very quickly, I came to dread lawn work as much as I did when it took ALL DAY to do. By making the task easier, I became disproportionately lazy.

And so it was with my writing. Writing in a simpler style, no longer seeking just the correct word or phrase, it was easier to grind out 2500 words. But after a time, complacency reared it’s comfortable head. I found the dumbed down pieces just as daunting as the old style had been.

We’ll see if this week changes that.

Among my small pantheon of literary heroes were George Will, Christopher Hitchens, Charles Krauthammer and William F. Buckley. I have a wide range of styles and genres I enjoy, but these guys are the exemplars of good communication, in my opinion.

In the late 80’s I happened across an audiobook, Right Reason by William F. Buckley. It was on cassette tapes, of course; about 120 minutes total. I wore both cassettes out! Before they actually broke both were making hideous screeching sounds.

The audio was actually a truncated version of the hardcover. I promised myself I would find the book. Decades would pass. There was always a “reason” to not grab one. The biggee was expense. Whenever I’d search the book, it may be out of print, I just found it too expensive. I would tell myself, well I have three books open right now anyway. That excuse doesn’t hold water. I always have several books open.

Well damn, if I didn’t trip over thriftybooks.com last week. This is not a paid plug. I now have the hardback of Right Reason on my desk. It is made more fun to read because Buckley’s meter and mannerisms are ingrained from listening to the tapes so many times 35 years ago. I hear him as I read. And there is four times the material in the book.

Sadly, another thing that has suffered in my slouching toward mediocrity is my vocabulary! It used to be easy to keep up with these guys. Since acquiring my book, I am already keeping a highlighter next to me as I read. Buckley and the rest NEVER dumbed down anything they wrote.

What the fuck is a satyagraha?! I’m not even sure of the pronunciation. I’ll know when I finish the chapter and look up all the highlights. I didn’t used to be this stupid, I swear.

Well, hopefully you will benefit from my good fortune. I really need to get off the intellectual “riding mower” and sharpen my rhetoric. But can I?

Robinware456, where arrrrre youuuu?

I just blew the gaff on my advanced years with that heading.

The media is shocked, sort of, to be reporting that Joe Biden used pseudonyms to communicate with the crackhead via email. That, like every other revelation involving the crackhead, we’ve all known for a long time. The MSM is now dripping old news out a little at a time because they can no longer cover for the puppet without looking even more ridiculous than they already do. Also they are slowly laying the groundwork, on behalf of the Regime, in case it becomes necessary to throw the puppet and the cacklin’ hyena in the shit can.

And yes, in these emails, the foreign shakedown business was discussed.

But it reminded me of something we learned several years ago, in fact while Barry O was still president. He, Obama, communicated regularly with BJ Bill’s wife on her illegal server to an illegal email address using his own pseudonym on a private email account. No protection of information. Just pretend names.

So let’s be specific.

Hillary had an illegal, unsecured server at her house. She used it to illegally bypass the State Department computers and deprived the government of the obligatory record of her work on our behalf. The server was hacked at least twice. That’s how the Podesta emails were leaked.

IT people at State repeatedly called for Mrs. Clinton to get off the illegal server and migrate her work onto the State Departments servers or, at least allow the government people to STIG out and secure her server and link it to State servers. She was repeatedly told that her activities were ILLEGAL. She refused. Finally, the IT people were told, in clearly threatening terms, that they were not to bother Herself again about following the law. This likely came from Humma Weiner - or Huma Abedin… anyway… Hitlary’s helper and plaything.

During this time, B. Hussein knowingly communicated with his corrupt Secretary of State over that server. He used a fake name for that very reason. He knew she was operating illegally. She knew he knew. He knew she knew. And the media fluffers have known for years. Nothing to see here.

When Congress learned about the illegal server, while investigating Hillary for collecting foreign payoffs, much as Biden has while emulating her, her electronics and the contents therein were put under subpoena. Rather than abiding the subpoena, Hillary Ramrod Clinton destroyed all the incriminating messages she could find and then smashed her electronics. What a shit bag!

Barry was obliged at that point to have her arrested for destroying evidence. But there was no way he was going to because he would have incriminated himself for participating in the crime.

But now we learn that Barry’s present meat puppet is doing the same thing and the media is looking at it as if they have found Big Foot drinking Blue Label at the Gibson.

In other Puppet news…

Through the gaping hole running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, Joe Biden and his partners in the Cartels are supplying America with all the unskilled labor, illegal voters and fentanyl we’ll need for years to come.

But now we learn that Joe has new partners. Now, continuing to prove that Donald Trump was a big, fat jerk for building the wall, Joe has representatives of ISIS escorting Uzbeki terrorists to our border and handing them off to the welcome wagon which used to be our Border Security. A classic Lefty shit show.

When word got out the National Security Council sprung into damage control mode. Speaking for the NSC, one Adrienne Watson calmed all fears.

“The U.S. Government has taken steps to identify all those whose entry to the United States was facilitated by this smuggling network and has utilized the full suite of law enforcement tools to assess such individuals to ensure that they do not pose ongoing public safety and national security concerns.” [emphasis mine]

Did you get that? The FULL SUITE! The total package! The whole enchilada! The fuckin’ bucketload! Damn! And they might even identify these worthless bastards some day!

The lumbering bureaucracy has no clue what’s become of the terrorists. For some reason, deep down, I just feel like this would not have happened if Joe’s puppet masters had simply not thrown open the border and instead finished the wall. Am I alone on this?

Here’s something else everyone knows.

Your government, mostly the Left side of it, is now laying the groundwork for the next round of cheating. And they are getting cooperation from an unusual place.

Over the weekend the Red’s announced Barry Williamson would not be starting this week because he tested positive for Covid. What drama! They are putting restrictions on the clubhouse and testing feverishly (forgive the pun). Understand, Williamson wasn’t sick, but either in support of the new Covid propaganda or because they actually believe it, these people are testing for Covid again! Among the healthiest people on the planet they are pretending Covid is a threat.

Yeah, I hear the whiners. But MJ! You don’t understand! The new variant is so much more dangerous than the ones before it!

Right. So has every other variant been labeled until we found out later that it really wasn’t. It is rare that a virus gets stronger as it travels. They tend to get weaker. Some of the “variants” tend to disappear altogether or for long periods of time.

The White House is all atwitter about the Covid opportunity. Biden announced recently, as he did before the first mask mandate, that there would be no mask mandate. That’s a lie, of course. We are weeks away from being told, “OMG folks! This one is a humdinger! Get your face diaper! Social distancing is back! (and here’s the cheating part) Make sure you use mail-in balloting, ballot harvesting and ballot dumpsters so you don’t catch the Wuhan when you vote! Safety first!”

Going back to 2012, even before I outlined it in the book, I correctly pointed out that mass mail-in balloting was an invitation to cheat. It is entirely too subjective. While it is unavoidable in cases of those serving in the military and for people who actually cannot make it to the polls, wholesale mail-in simply WILL be abused.

Remember way back last week when I quoted RFK Jr.’s second rule of politics? If the government can abuse a power, it absolutely will. And so it is with too many fingers on too many ballots. If you think people handling tens of thousands of ballots, whose job it is to decide which ones get counted, are all honest and pure you should run out and buy a timeshare.

Think on it for just a few seconds. Mary is a ballot counter. We’ll say she is a life-long Democrat. She has been conditioned by her betters to believe that the GOP are marauding baby eaters. Her job is to take someone else’s voting franchise and pass judgement on it. Every state, at least as of 2022 had signature requirements for mail-in ballots. Mary comes across one that is unsigned. But it is for her favored candidate. Ah, well, Mary is sure it was just an honest mistake on the part of the voter. We’ll count that one. Later she sees one for a GOP candidate, also unsigned, for the horrible GOP guy. Well, we all know the GOP would burn your house down if they could. So, hell know, we’re not counting this cheating bastard.

Perhaps there is a ballot with blanks where the voter didn’t chose a favorite. Well Mary, ever the helpful person, might think the poor dear just forgot to check one here. I’ll do that for the voter.

When caught, the parties who were actually ignoring the rules just sought emergency consideration from the court to allow for unsigned signatures, late ballots, ballot grooming, etc. In too many cases, judges ignored existing laws and legislated new rules from the bench. The cheating was “legitimized”. And propagandists were then able to say it wasn’t cheating anymore. But clearly, it was.

Oh, that stack of votes that were disqualified but were for the bad guys? Yeah, those weren’t among the the ones that were contested but were for the good guys. They all remained in the solidly rejected pile. Funny, that.

And THAT, friends and neighbors, is what this election year Wuhan Flu scare is all about. It was as predictable as a sunrise.

Big Pharma, owners and operators of many politicians in DC are happy about the new panic, of course. That’s just a nice side benefit for them. They REALLY want the party of endless mandates to win again.

This particular reality is in itself worth mention. Jill Biden has been vaxed and boosted several times. She’s gotten Covid several times; has it now. Harold Ford, Jr., the true gentleman on the Five and other news programs has been vaxed and boosted a total of 7 times and has had Covid THREE times.

But hey, a windfall for Big Pharma will not be left on the table. Be sure to wear that damp petri dish on your face on your way to the next jab - suckers.

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I told Karen Hockenberry, an occasional guest here on the P4B, that this segment would be about the imbecilic wind project the retarded wing of the Democrat Party intends to build off the east coast. I have spoken of it before and will again in two weeks time.

But this week I will instead discuss something truly debase and stupid happening just outside the Nation’s Capitol.

We are no better than the Taliban, but worse and more childish, in fact!

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations…” [emphasis mine]

Those were the words of Abraham Lincoln as the Civil war came to a close. He knew how important it would be that real and lasting rapprochement be achieved. He knew the terms North and South must quickly and always be simply geographic terms, not designations for opposing belligerents.

He was not alone. The nation, much more civilized then than it is now, understood the need for true unity. Some truly amazing things occurred in this spirit.

One interesting twist was the fate of Jefferson Davis. He was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe. His ankles were shackled and his cell lit 24/7. But the disposition of his case seemed a prickly issue. I’ll quote a piece by Clint Johnson directly.

“The legality of secession had been discussed, but not litigated, for decades. Charles O’Conor, the former chief prosecutor for the District of New York, put together a legal team of Northern lawyers who were convinced Davis had done nothing illegal. None had any personal ties to Davis. All worked without compensation. On May 8, 1866, a year after the Johnson cabinet had received a report from its own team of lawyers that Davis had done nothing justiciable, a U.S. prosecutor in Norfolk formally charged Davis with treason. Newspapers began to comment on the undesirability of trying Davis, particularly if a trial ended in acquittal. On May 13, 1867, three days past the second anniversary of his capture, Davis was released on $100,000 bail. Some of the money came from wealthy Northern abolitionists.” [emphasis mine]

Here’s the quiet part no one, to this day, wants to say out loud.

Succession doesn’t appear to be a crime. Hell, it was how our nation was born. Before the Civil War, New England threatened succession more than once. They made one such threat DURING the War of 1812! Treason much? And always the threats were directly or indirectly, about trade.

I have posited in years past, that the Civil War (possibly) had never needed be fought. Indeed, there were people then who believed that letting the South go their own way would have been a temporary thing. Geographically, politically, economically, strategically, the South and North needed each other to survive. There was a school of thought that said the South would be back in the union within years- less than a decade. We’ll never know.

But if the Davis case went to trial, and he was acquitted by a jury (remember a group of disinterested lawyers thought he should be) then blame for 80,000 dead Americans would have been laid squarely at the feet of Lincoln.

Davis received a Presidential pardon along with all other ex-Confederates on Christmas day 1868. The Civil War was truly at an end. Confederate veterans who were young officers and enlisted men in the 1860’s would go on to serve the United States in the Spanish American War in 1898. Many would serve the U.S. loyally in Congress and in other government posts.

Every President after Grant would have reason to reiterate the joy and value of reunification all the way to Woodrow Wilson. By that time we were more than a generation past punishing the South for the war.

We honor the men who fought, not the politicians they fought under.

It is axiomatic in our culture, indeed throughout Western history, to honor the bravery of the rank and file soldier, and the professional officers whose main aim was to bring his men home alive. Victory was sought, of course. But losing men is rarely salved by the taking of objectives.

It is an unassailable fact that the soldiers who fought for the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865 fought valiantly and under extremely harsh circumstances. Their resilience and guts are legend.

We are told today that this is no longer important. In the National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2021, Congress in a truly uncivilized bit of racial pandering, declared that all bases named for Confederates be changed, and so that has occurred. Never mind that these officers danced circle around Union generals for YEARS, while the Union generals squandered tens of thousands of lives through their own incompetence and/or gutlessness on the field of battle. Never mind that our nation still benefits from the lessons learned from these colonels and generals in military academies and war colleges throughout the services.

But now Fort Bragg, one of our premier military facilities, is called Fort Liberty. Oh, how cute, how thoughtlessly vague.

Supposedly, in keeping with the intent of NDAA FY21 (and certainly to say, look, I played too) persons at Arlington National Cemetery, with plenty of help from others seeking their 15 minutes, have decided to disinter the remains of confederate soldiers from the present area (Area 16), a memorial for Confederate soldiers and move them to another area…another memorial for Confederate soldiers.

And in a nod of respect toward their exemplars, the Taliban, they will remove the sculpture that stands at the site today. Another blow struck for the un-remembering of things. There are points to be argued here about guilty white liberalism and emotionally conflating small, modern events with sweeping historical ones. But that will have to wait for a part two, next week.

But I will tender this one point for all to ponder. Perhaps a lawyer worth his salt will pick up on it. NDAA FY21 clearly states that monuments to those who served voluntarily in the Confederacy will be removed.

Well sir, the South had a rather brutal policy of conscription during the war. Is anyone going to tell me they know who, among the hundreds of soldiers affected, were volunteers or conscripts? I would contend we don’t have enough information in that regard to justify disturbing a spade of dirt over those graves.

In a civilized society the question would never come up. It certainly wouldn’t be raised as a question stemming from the death of someone like George Floyd or the behavior of belligerents of BOTH sides of the Charlottesville incident. We are told by Arlington and the Washington Post that these are the catalysts for renaming bases, pulling down memorials and desecrating the graves.

In part two we will discuss the memorial itself, the price of feel-good legislation and racist pandering.

Leave the memorial and those buried there alone!

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Systematic rape? Meh, not so bad - according to weak-ass American whiners.

This week, the squad has moved lower than any political entity in America. And that’s saying something! I’m not too chauvinistic about the quality of American politics and governance versus the rest of the world. Ours may not be as violent as regimes around the world, but they are no better.

The US government doesn’t need as much coercion as say, a Putin, to control you. We’re a nation of willfully ignorant lemmings. And the motivations of those in the governing class are not honorable. They are always self-serving. This has allowed the lowest common denominator to rule within the system.

One needs to look no further than our titular president. They say he never held a real job. I disagree. He’s been in the employ of foreign governments for at least a decade now. If he can hang in there a bit longer, he might get a pension from them.

So with that as your standard of measure, the squad, and specifically Pramila Jayapal have lowered the bar into the sewer. Jayapal went all moral equivalent on CNN when asked about the rape of women on 10/7. First she immediately complained about the actions of Israelis in their perfectly justifiable war and implied, without saying it, that Israelis have systematically raped Palestinian women. That’s never happened. It’s just a tactic employed by Democrats, terrorist regimes and Hillary Clinton of accusing the opponent of what they do routinely.

Refreshingly, politicians did line up to condemn Jayapal’s idiocy. But she is not without support. Idiots online have been making excuses for all the abhorrent Hamas behavior witnessed on 10/7. It seems to many that the rape of Jewish women by thugs is, well, not so bad if the thugs are “freedom fighters”.

So, what about those girly protestors?

While that term “freedom fighter”, here employed is laughable on its face, let’s let it stand for one disgusting moment. To the shrill shrews and man bun types, in your trendy keffiyas, screaming bloody murder and attacking Jewish Americans as if they are responsible for Gaza’s troubles, this question:

If a group of people fighting for any cause you might support raped your mother or sister or daughter, would you shrug it off because they are freedom fighters or some other righters of wrongs? Or would you want to put a bullet in their heads?

It’s a simple question that should be put to every person who makes excuses for Hamas starting this shit in the first place, thus subjecting Gaza to the inevitable pain it now suffers.

I often repeat that through it all, bad, mean Israel has continued to offer the general population of Gaza escape routes. And sweet, humanitarian Hamas drives people away from them. All the death we are witnessing is on the heads of Hamas. And it is made worse by their use of Gazans as human shields. The thuggery and cowardice of Hamas defies description.

But you keep wearing the stupid scarf, man bun. It’s highly fashionable and makes you feel like you are a part of drama.

A Public Service Announcement…sort of.

Be careful eating at Chopt. The name of the restaurant makes this AP story ten times as funny.

A salad was served to a customer, which contained, among other condiments, the manager’s finger. When I started reading the story, I thought it would be about worker dissatisfaction. But, no. Turns out the Manager Chopt her own finger off…and then served it up. “Digit salad for table 8 - ding.”

Unsurprisingly, the customer who got the finger was displeased. One can assume it was reflected in the tip.

The story goes on to say that as a result of gnawing on the uncooked human flesh (no word on whether the fingernail was in there to provide extra crunch) the patron suffered from “shock, panic attacks, migraine, cognitive impairment, nausea, dizziness, and neck and shoulder pain”.

Ever your intrepid correspondent, I wanted to test the claims of the finger recipient. I tried to eat a finger. Not mine, of course. That would be weird. No, I threw my wife to the floor and sat on her. Then I tried to eat the tip of her index finger.

She screamed…a lot. But after a strenuous effort I can report suffering none of the maladies the Chopt customer reported. I think the lady may be lying to pad her lawsuit.

I did suffer severe gonad discomfort. But that wasn’t directly related to the actual finger eating. The ER people are flummoxed with both of us coming in at once; she with a mangled finger and I, with nuggets the size of mayonnaise jars (mama can kick!). The intern said something about a psych eval. I told them that my nuts really hurt. I’m not imagining it.

There are two lessons to be drawn from this. First, be careful in the kitchen. And the second, (You know it’s coming. But I have to say it anyway. It’s inevitable.) you should never give a paying customer the finger. It’s bad for business.

Enough of this nutbaggery. It’s time to get back to pooping on empty-suit politicians.

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On a tip from Megyn “so friggin’ hot” Kelly, I grabbed a copy of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel by Douglas Brunt. Full disclosure: While Brunt is married to Kelly - the lucky sonofabitch - her recommendation is legit. I am enjoying the book and learning new things.

For starters, I never knew the Diesel engine was named for it’s inventor. I thought it was a term for the process the engine works from. I’m not alone. I’ve seen the term all my life with a lower case “d”.

But this is not a book review. I am not being paid to promote it. I do highly recommend you read it. It’s a great read.

But that’s not my point here.

The book got me thinking about a long standing fallacy your government, the circus I referred to earlier, has intentionally fed you in the interest of protecting Big Oil.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

How often are we treated to theater in the well of the Senate or in the House, where politicians, especially Dems, “grill” CEOs of oil companies? They rail against these cruel bastards belching their filth into our atmosphere and pocketing billions in the process. And OMG - Climate Change!! Each politician in their turn derides the villains for the cameras.

I have news for you, folks. When the cameras are turned off, all the political snakes line up for pictures with the “villains”. Hell, they go for drinks and giggle behind their hands at playing you for chumps - AGAIN!

You could paper a wall with the number of instances where I’ve said: THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU! They don’t care about climate change. Many, including the Dems who use it for their own benefit, don’t believe it’s real. Their concern for what you pay at the pump correlates directly to how close we are to the next election.

And they still want everyone of you to put food in your gas tank to the detriment of your engine, and a wash on power versus pollution. And bio-Diesel is considered a cute but unworkable idea. And they giggle behind their hands again.

While I knew you can run a Diesel engine on used cooking oil, people do it, I never knew Rudolf’s engine was designed to do so. More correctly, it was to run on plant-based oil. I’ll save you the spoiler and let you read the book for the details on that. But it worked just fine without fossil fuels, and it burned very clean.

And Diesel engines are efficient. Their production of energy as a measure of fuel consumed is very high. Nuclear power plants have a poorer percentage.

And that all made Rudolf Diesel a danger to John D. Rockefeller. And from that day to this, Big Oil has been buying politicians like so many donuts. And don’t be naive. This isn’t a case of the GOP helping big business, at least not as far back as FDR.

The Dems are the big government, central planning hyper regulators. If you want consideration in DC, you need to buy all the Dems. The GOP is always behind the 8 ball on this. And they are all for sale. They tell you they are regulating for your benefit. But they are not. Almost all regulation starts on K street and the bills are written by the businesses to be regulated. And the regulations protect them from competition, in this case alternate fuels. They don’t protect you!

And the game goes all the way back to the turn of the previous century and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. Chicanery and monopoly were his stock and trade, oil was just his medium.

And what of the fallacy I mentioned…

It is this simple. You are being lied to about Diesel as a technology.

Do you want to score a win against pollution? Are you a “climate change” drone? Then tell your elected SERVANTS to get rolling on putting food in Diesel engines and getting it out or your goddamn car! They can’t collect paydays from anyone if they aren’t elected.

Every few years, going all the way back to the Archer Daniels Midland days, we get treated to a publicity campaign. X company is working in a public/private partnership (your money) to research the use of biofuels to move America! It’s an expensive stunt, mental masturbation, to make you think they are actually doing something. They’re not. They want to keep the system addicted to petroleum.

The research has been done. Rudy Diesel DID IT! It’s in the book. Petroleum burns significantly dirtier than plant oils. Plant oils are genuinely renewable. By switching to another source, we reduce the price of petroleum for all other uses. And the air will be cleaner!

But nobody has the choke hold on politicians the way Big Oil does. YOU need to get a choke hold on them. They don’t fear you. Teach them to.

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Well, boys and girls, the ‘Niners came to town and slapped da taste out our mouf!

If I hear the words pocket passer from sportscaster one more time, I’m going to find the speaker and hit him so hard the picture on his driver’s license will bleed.

What is with that concept and the Philadelphia coaching staff? I’m not just talking about the present staff. There has been an effort by coaches going back to Randall Cunningham, to teach quarterbacks, almost all of whom made their fame and college numbers by being quick and nimble, to stay between the hash marks on pass plays.

That would be swell if we had the offensive line and play design of the Patriots and Tom Brady under center. Their greatest weapon was a set of plays that developed in a second or two, allowing Brady to dump the ball quickly. He was capable of moving most of the time if HE HAD to, but that wasn’t the thrust of their offense.

So if you want a pocket passer, you need plays designed to accommodate that.

As happy as I am at the Eagles’ record this year, I’ve been saying for weeks now that we have not been winning. Our opponents have been losing. But for a few dumb turnovers and miscalculation by other teams, and of course, the “push”, we would have lost a lot more games this year.

Yes, the Birds have had moments of brilliance. But Hurts is looking lead-footed (except from when he’s escaping the pocket under pressure) and not especially fired up. Our O-line is not consistent. Our pass defense is spread from here to Louisiana.

When we are executing passes it sometimes looks like the other team has 42 players on the field.

And twice in two weeks, Kelse got called for a false start. The man is a football god in my opinion. And mistakes happen. But he’s the center. He IS the start. I didn’t think such a call was possible! But twice?

I’m not hating on our guys. I hope team leadership and key talent take seriously the lessons of Sunday’s game.

Finally, is it just me? I counted four instances, three in the end zone, of ‘Niners defenders leaning on our receivers and holding their arms down. In one instance the pass might have been read as uncatchable. But the interference was blatant. No call from refs who could register a eye brow twitch on our offensive line.

I’m done. We’re good. FLY, EAGLES, FLY and all such like.

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My god! That title is practically poetry. Give me a thumbs-up if you want me to communicate everything in rhyme from now on.

So, the long-awaited, hyper-hyped Frick and Frack debate is in the books. I think calling these things debates should be considered a crime against humanity. I admit I got a bit more out of this one than I have most of the regular blather orgies the media subjects us to. But the structure of this one was even more crazy.

A minute for each respondent. Then the same question to the opponent. Well, it didn’t take long for that idea to turn to shit, did it? And while one minute is enough for a political ad, it certainly isn’t space for a thoughtful position statement. It’s barely enough for a decent elevator speech.

Along with too much participation from the moderator, and the inevitable interruptions by the opponents trying to squeeze out more time, I believe these so called debates do more to contribute to the dumbing down of American civics than reading The Onion as a news source.

I can say, with complete confidence, that the viewing audience, regardless of party, is stupider at the end of any modern debate. I will say, for this debate at least, their was a mild attempt to get the participants to answer the questions asked.

DeSantis didn’t seem to have much trouble with this. But Newsome, especially with the first question, seemed to think the moderator asked him to drool non sequiturs onto his podium. So intent was he to appear to come out of the gate swinging, he made a complete ass of himself. Sadly, this resulted in Hannity awarding him more time to try again. Newsome failed again. But he filled the air with standard liberal tropes and outright bullshit for an extra minute or so.

And what of that moderator?

I used to be a Sean Hannity fan. Years ago he had a producer/ co-host on his radio show. I think her name was McGlaughlin. She was excellent at banter and seemed to be the influence that kept Hannity’s foot nailed to the floor.

After she left the show became kind of annoying. Hannity was notorious for asking a diatribe of a question, allow his guest about half a sentence then launching into another filibuster. It was infuriating. Even if the guest was someone I held in contempt, I wanted to hear their points to consider them for myself.

Sean also spent the entire Obama tenure in office yelling, “What about Bill Ayers? What about the reverend Jeremiah Wright?” Granted, both characters are beneath contempt and you could fill volumes with their offenses and hypocrisy. But they are not the answer to EVERY liberal foible.

So you can imagine that I was not too pleased that it was Hannity who came up with this debate idea. I also assumed it was intended to be a DeSantis showcase. I never did see the point of the exercise.

But about Hannity, I was wrong. Take a screen shot in the text below. You won’t see that sentence very often. The host did a fair job and wasn’t overly self-congratulatory.

Conclusion? As modern “debates” go, this one was not too bad. But I wouldn’t call it an enlightening or uplifting experience.

Wouldn’t it be nice?

Would it be possible to have real debates? Could an outlet create an in-depth series dedicated to political aspirants coming to a podium and addressing A QUESTION. For example, How is an open border impacting the United States and what should be done about it?

The question is provided to participants well before the debate. By flip of a coin or drawn straws the first participant stands to the podium and makes an argument for 5 to 10 minutes. Then sits down! Then the opponent is given the same amount of time to counter. Then there is rebuttal. If you want a half hour show, perhaps you do two questions.

Could the American attention span survive? Perhaps not at first. Too many of us expect to be entertained. Too many want to see a personal rhetorical punch landed (to no valuable result). We’ve grown used to low-rent bickering while an audience cheers mindlessly. [see “decorum” below]

But, with exposure and the with the ejection of audience members who interrupt speakers, I believe a viewing audience could grow. With the example set, we could possibly start to see a change in how we interact ourselves. Wouldn’t THAT be nice?

Here’s the best part. We don’t need the MSM to pull this off. Their ratings are tanking anyway. It could be hosted online. As an example, Meta could host Democrat debates and X could host the GOP. That would cancel out anyone screaming about party favoritism anyway. Live and online audiences would be polled immediately to gauge results.

To be certain, we’d be able to weed out the weak candidates pretty easily. If we had perhaps 12 weeks of one on one debates matching various candidates, perhaps even playoff specials the polls would surely gel around just a few.

People are glued to Battlebots doing this, for Chrissake!

Anyway, that’s my contribution.

Presently…

What our present debates, and our reactions to them, prove is our desperate need to bring civics back to the class room and some semblence of decorum back to public discourse.

There are so many forces opposed to teaching civics. The teachers unions would consider it just another tool of indoctrination. Left leaning politicians would fear it, because true civics and an understanding of our Constitution would put their politicians out of a job in just a few years. An educated (not indoctrinated) electorate is dangerous to the ruling classes.

And decorum along with honest participation, in other words, making sure all views are aired, is rare in this country. We are too eager to shout down and too lazy to carry the argument. And now, Big Brother is watching what is said in public meetings, which has either a chilling effect or aggrivates whatever existing resentments may be in play.

What are you prepared to do to make a difference without causing rancor? Are you even prepared to participate in local, state or national issues? Or are you ready to punch out now and watch kitty videos? Would I be better off grabbing a beer and talking baby talk to my dog? How many planets are there, really? Why can’t I stop asking questions? Is there a way out of this segment? Do you love me? Cue the damn stinger!

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Will pixie dust power our green new world?

Panama just closed a copper mine. Investors were unprepared for the news. I saw that on Bloomberg a few days ago. It got me to thinking about mineral resources and what that means to our re-industrialization and the Green Scams that will interfere with that.

Let us pray.

The world’s newest religion is the Church of Climate Alarmism (CCA). It is heavily modeled on the worst of fundamentalist Islam or the early Christian Church.

It comes with all the trimmings of intolerant religions. They have the Inquisition, for example. If you disagree with what these perpetually offended, inexperienced, naive people say, even as a matter of degree, you get cancelled. Look at Michael Shellenberger. He’s a 100% believer in man-made GW/CC. But he disagrees with the “solutions” the religion insists on. They see him as the enemy.

Adherents will slam you in public. Sometimes, offenders get dox’d. But the intention is to punish. The label for disagreeing with ANYTHING they say is the modern equivalent of “heretic”. Their term is “climate denier”. This is a super cheese-dick term. It means nothing real to anyone but the CCA adherents themselves.

But it is indicative of what lowlifes these CCA people actually are. In searching for a term to slap on anyone who doesn’t follow the true faith, they stumbled on a term used for people who try to deny Hitler’s treatment of European Jews, the handicapped and (the irony is so thick you can smell it) other people who disagreed with NAZIs.

Truly, to be a holocaust denier is to mark yourself as a social bottom feeder. The CCA cynically hijacked the term and try to label opponents as “deniers”, trying to draw a moral equivalent to holocaust deniers, thinking that will shut down discussion.

It’s remarkably stupid and exploitive. To advanced an empty, almost pointless agenda, they have taken the third saddest period in modern history and hitched their shit to it. So they lack brains and dignity.

As a side note, it’s truly instructive that 99.99% of the people vandalizing and screaming, “From the river to the sea…” are among the very same people who populate the CCA. And few, if any, have a clue what that chant means. But the killing of Jews is the key point of the chant.

Like I said, they’re not the brightest bulbs in the marquee.

CCA Prophets

The religion has their religious icons who speak holy writ the followers MUST accept and preach, if they themselves don’t want to be labeled deniers.

They have prophets.

There’s Michael “hockey stick” Mann, who used two algorithms together, inappropriately, to create his silly graph upon which the CCA is based. He later stood on his head to hide his work and admitted he created the hockey stick because he needed something shocking to bring his faith to the masses. He’s like an Elijah character.

Then we have Saint Al of Gore. He made, and continues to make, dozens of prophecies. All those whose time frame has passed, polar de-icing for example, have never come true. Not nearly so. Saint Al, peace be upon him, doesn’t care. He simply invests in green scams the CCA and government cronies have strong-armed governments for, and he makes a killing! Dude! It’s better than Amway!

Please support the P4B. Keep it free for everyone! And I’m running out of coffee and gas station sandwiches.

Then there is Greta Thumberg, the new Joan of Arc. While being exploited and brainwashed by her parents and other CCA followers, she made a few speeches worthy of Academy Awards. “How dare you…!” Then she would launch into a bunch of stuff that just ain’t so, and scold the people who gave her a comfortable life, in a culture that allowed her to spew her parent’s spurious crap and not be arrested.

Now she’s livin’ large and flying private to attend CCA church services all over the world. Other high priests and priestesses also fly private and they all have their fat asses carted around in limos.

What they have in store for YOU!

These are the people we are spending TRILLIONS to please. They infest our government. Those in government are preyed upon by cronies like BlackRock, Vanguard and other Davos/WEF types, who see the dollar signs in creating industries around the non-critical thinking the CCA spawns.

They have already pocketed hundreds of billions of the trillions of dollars GIVEN to them in the last two green scam bills out of Congress. And they have the CCA adherents in the MSM and Social media preaching the holy word and punishing non-believers and heretics.

The money is being spent on electric cars most of you can’t use, energy programs that have no hope of working, and developing the concept of “smart cities” where you will be watched over by Big Brother 24/7/365 to make sure you do not act or speak in a way that contradicts the holy word of the CCA or the Nanny State. If you do, they’ll cut off you digital money.

But where will it all come from?

The CCA preaches many things that range from silly to dangerous to impossible. But the government is spending YOUR MONEY on all of it. They must believe that all the things they want will come from pixie dust, because we don’t have enough of the real stuff.

For example, if you want to have 50% electric vehicles by 2030, we have to 3x our existing copper supply. Remember the mine I mentioned in Panama? And Chile’s mines are nationalized. We would have to 7x our supply of lithium. The same it true for cobalt and all the other weird, toxic crap we need for EVs that we don’t need in real cars.

The world has never even doubled it’s supply of metals or rare earth crap inside of 20 years - ever. Not only is this difficult and expensive to smelt or extract, we don’t even have a handle on how much exists.

When you get into wind and solar nonsense the supply problems become even crazier. Just the copper required to move power from wind turbines, which must be in the great wide open, to distant cities will be immense and expensive! Add to that the need for transformers along the way because the cables running for many miles represent a load, or a significant loss of power.

And the damn things don’t work as advertised! They are much more effective at killing birds and driving people around them crazy from the weird noise…and being ugly…than they are at providing reliable energy.

And all that draws resources from the real energy systems we do need and will for many decades to come. This is especially true in the near term - the next decade. We don’t have the time or money to waste on tinker toys right now. NONE of the CCA’s answers to energy are ready for deployment and will need a great deal more work before we employ them at scale, if ever. And wind farms are ugly and self-defeating.

And the smart city idea is especially comical. Through central planning, by government incompetents, everything you will be told you need will be crammed into sectors you can walk across in 15 minutes (so they say). There will be cameras EVERYWHERE.

How much power, how many resources would be required to do this? Added to the things a crowded urban area needs right now, how much power will have to be devoted to the servers controlling everything, including where you will be permitted to spend every single dime based on your ESG score?

Whenever you see smart cities touted as the future, the illustrations are bright, shiny, clean, safe places. But lets get real. How will they be inhabited? Who will the NICE ones be for? Are they going to canvass all of West Philly and offer a shiny, new condo in a high rise to every citizen? Of course not.

The worst of our cities will be left as the worst of our cities. The central planners will just add cameras and a few mandated services (run by the government) and call it done. No one will be permitted to leave those areas unless the central planners approve. If you leave without an approved purpose, your car and your cell phone will shut down.

And how, without coercion, will you get people to give up a house in the burbs to live in these new urban dystopias? And what becomes of their present houses? I’ll deal with the second question in a bit.

The fact is they can’t get people who already sacrifice to live in the suburbs to move voluntarily in any great numbers. They will do it through denial of services and support. They’ll do it through policies that make life outside the dystopias as difficult as possible. High taxes, denial of business and building permits, and propaganda will figure critically here. (Watch for a Potemkin smart city to be built on Maui. The praises from the CCA and central planners will be endless - and absurd in the extreme.) Home improvement and restoration outside smart cities will become evils concepts. Talking heads will disparage those fixing up their house as greedy parasites using up critical material needed for expanding the smart cities.

Then the burbs will be abandoned - for what? This is one of the key concepts that makes the CCA’s dreams ridiculous. We live where we chose to live, limited only by our income. For the smart city to be more than a silly plaything, you’d have to bulldoze MILLIONS of houses. But yes, I think about half of our governing class would be stupid enough to try it.

But to that second question…

The nice houses will not be bulldozed. They will be purchased, for pennies on the dollar, and inhabited by the governing class, the wealthy with good ESG scores and cronies. The beautiful people, as they already do, will live the good life while keeping you as penned in as possible and feeding you bugs.

All of this is avoidable. It depends entirely on how many people read my work or that of dozens of other writers and realize that the CCA’s version of the future is not possible without imprisoning you.

Not everything is avoidable.

For at least a little while, until a realignment of where we get EVERYTHING and how we cobble it together to make our lives possible, you will soon see a world different from the one you live in now.

The Regime is doing everything it can to forestall that day. They are presently carrying China and trying to convince CEOs who have already turned their backs on the CCP to get back in there. This won’t help very much. And the companies involved WILL pull out as soon as they find places like Mexico ( where labor is now less expensive and better educated than the Chinese) to move their operations.

But there will be a lag as the “boomers” around the world age out of their productive years. You can’t conduct international trade when there aren’t enough people to grow or make the stuff.

Raw materials, as mentioned, are going to be harder to acquire. Things are going to get more expensive. For the first time in generations, that won’t be because of government spending. But in light of what IS COMING, we need to SLASH government spending now.

The issue of food becomes interesting. For all of my adult life I have been able to walk into a super market and get just about anything I want to eat 365 days a year. That’s going to change. What isn’t in season in some semblance of proximity, will not be available. For a time, certain food will just vanish from the shelves. It will take herculean effort just to mitigate this.

Solutions

The most obvious solution to survive what is coming in a healthy way is to first defeat the CCA on all fronts. These are not people who care about you or the United States. They are fanatics who think the WORLD IS BOILING! Their words. Their response to this pretend crisis will destroy this country.

The second solution is not in your hands except that you can pressure your government to make it happen. We need to start negotiations yesterday with the British and the entire commonwealth to become their most valuable trading partner.

This will provide a more stable supply of the goods we’ve become accustomed to and in some cases need.

The price will be an about-face on something we’ve been quietly doing for a few years. Our naval presence around the world is shrinking. Since Bretton Woods, the mission of the United States Navy has been to keep the sea lanes open to protect international trade, not just our trade - everybody’s. We’ve been leaving areas of the world unprotected for a while now.

To reinvigorate this presence, we don’t need to rebuild our 600 ship fleet. With the Commonwealth of Nations and other friendly nations in this hemisphere, we can coordinate patrol of the sea lanes needed for these members. We should treat solid trading partners as we’ve treated the world since WWII. They can be responsible for protecting the shipment of goods they need from countries outside the new trading organization.

While this represents an alliance, not a pursuit to be taken lightly, it is more about trade and what we already do anyway. It isn’t a military alliance like NATO. We shouldn’t entertain military engagement for these countries unless it is in our compelling national interest to do so - ours and no one else’s.

There are many more things that need to be done. You can find the big ones by searching/browsing this Substack for articles about THE 11 POINTS. But the two I just mentioned are among the most urgent and productive. Contact the politicians who work for YOU, and discuss these things. Make them respond just to get you to stop calling. …But then don’t stop calling. The P4B will always give you lots of issues over which to ping your elected servants. It’s what I do. And you are welcome.

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Before we get into the good stuff, I want to provide a consumer alert of sorts.

Be careful where you fill up. Pay attention to how much your getting on the meter vs how much you think you should get.

I can estimate how much my tank will take to well within a gallon one way or another. Recently, I went to a Murphy’s at just a hair below half a tank. The needle was still touching the half tank line. For my truck, Ram 2500, 26 gallon tank, that would top off at just over 13 gallons. I allowed for 12.5 to 14 gallons. I even thought 14.5 if the meter was a bit dodgy. I stopped the fill when THE METER said 20 gallons. My tank was still not topped off.

I looked for a state calibration sticker. There may have been one, but I couldn’t find it. Just be familiar with how your tank takes on fuel. Most of you probably are. Remember, when a station is considerably below the competitions, there might be a shady reason for it.

In my case I was planning to save $.05/gal. That was wiped out many, MANY times over.

The more things change…the more they revert to the Dark Ages.

We’ve not evolved much from the time that the Church was the government. We’ve just gotten the priestly vestments off the official podium and replaced it with a business suit. As hard as the thinkers in the Age of Enlightenment tried to rid us of mystic “leaders”, we have created a bureaucracy fueled by Byzantine nonsense so complex that even the people who dominate it don’t understand it. They just know how to exploit it to keep you stupid.

Thomas Jefferson once said - I’m paraphrasing - all laws should be written so that a common man could read it and comprehend it…while running. The idea is that a society ruled by the will of the governed is only legitimate if EVERYONE knows what is being done on their name.

Sadly, we are double vexed here. First, because of the built-in advantages lawyer/politicians have in writing things in a “lawyerly” fashion, they can claim that only THEY can understand the true meaning of their documents. This mirrors perfectly the clerics who insisted they alone could understand the Bible, and therefore outlawed the citizen reading it.

When a citizen, like your humble host, gets uppity, the lawyers (modern mystics) can discredit the uppity views by saying the uppity guy isn’t among the mystics, and therefore can’t understand the meaning of their words.

The other edge of the vexation lies in the fact that more than half the population will not grasp the first five paragraphs of this article. So in a sense, because of our intellectual laziness and our disinterest in the things the mystics do to us, the previous paragraph is correct.

There is a term for this. It is the “tyranny of expertise”. You can’t be right about the simplest, most observable point on things like “climate change” or freedom of speech. You can’t possibly have a legitimate argument against government spending. None of this is possible because you are not an “expert”. You cavort not among the mystics.

And most people buy this nonsense. Many actively support it to feel powerful. That is absurd, of course, because those who do that make of themselves the worst of victims.

When the average citizen reads at an 8th grade level, and since the greatest amount of reading by a citizen centers around box scores and gossip and entertainment, the mystics feel invincible.

Can that change? Maybe. Jefferson also said that it is healthy if the government fears the governed. He also said that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”. Be assured that the modern day mystics, lawyers and politicians, and the cronies that own them, are indeed tyrants and no longer deserve to sit in seats of power.

But unless we have enough literate and engaged patriots, then the mystics live without a healthy fear.

I will use a line that sets my teeth on edge whenever a Lefty uses it on social media, because they always use it then they are 100% wrong, but it applies here. Educate yourself.

Speaking as I did, of the Climate Scam…

Earlier I spoke of things observable - things we know to be true, but are told not to believe them. Last month, a new study emerged by people WHO ARE experts. It completely un-settles that which you were told was settled science: GW/CC.

The fact is that anyone with eyes and a smart phone knows there is no emerging pattern of hurricanes or any other weather event that portends climate dome of any sort. The mystics had simply found a new scam upon which to base new seizures of power. They have used the tyranny of “expertise” to shout down anyone who got uppity about what they were seeing with their own eyes.

To wit

Have you ever noticed when watching weather reports, especially during the winter, how the temperature is always a few degrees warmer in the cities than in surrounding areas? Keep that in mind as you watch the video linked by a button in the text.

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Punks roam your streets. Your mayor is happy about that.

I have often laughed at people who live by, or instill in others, a sense of class envy. It is among the most childish aspects of the modern Left. It paves the road for wasteful, useless ideas like universal income, paying people to breed and not work, modern monetary theory (MMT) and my favorite self-zeroing scam, a mandated minimum wage.

When I see this nonsense rear its idiotic head, I take pains to call out the purveyor. But this week leaves me gobsmacked at how class envy has evolved. Let’s tease it out.

Grab and go: The new urban shopping spree.

We’ve all seen the videos now. Gangs of young adults and teenagers, male and female. Usually black, sometimes Hispanic, maybe a few Asian. They attack stores, nowadays high-end, big box joints, and grab everything they can carry out. It is looting, with the blessing of the state, in broad daylight.

Someday, merchants will tire of this. Perhaps there will be a large man, hired by the store, standing at the exits with Louisville Sluggers cocked and ready for the first looter through the door. Instantly, the problem will end, IF THE STORES PROTECT THE BOUNCERS. But the looting must stop!

More disturbing than the disgusting looting, is the justification (lame excuses) offered by the Left for its occurrence. We’ve been told these punks are acting out because of racism. Or they are are doing it so they can eat. Then the ace excuse, the stores can afford it.

I’ll start with the third excuse first, then we’ll tie them all into a neat bow.

These RICH stores can afford the looting.

This is one example you’ll see here of the ignorance of economics rife among idiots who consider themselves elite and are the governing class in too many of our cities. These excuse makers are by no definition “elite”. They are to a person, lazy, ignorant, corrupt bums. They are happily trashing their own cities, watching their citizens reduced to worthless punks, then going for cocktails. The Barry Obiden regime (now in their third term), along with media are happy to give them cover.

These people are now saying the stores are rich. They can afford the losses. They have insurance. People are worth more than things. AND… If they don’t like the looting and the laws that say it’s okay to steal $900 at a time and if arrested, you’re released the same day, the stores can pay to create a referendum to fight the laws.

There are people, perhaps even people reading this right now, who will think this all makes perfect sense! So snowed under are we with nonsense tarted up to be clear thinking, some often can’t see the obvious.

But the simplest fact that must be realized is laws should never have been written inviting punks to take that which is not theirs to begin with. The Cities never should have put the store owners, rich or not, in a position where they have to fight City Hall to change laws that never should have been written.

In some cases, the government-endorsed crimes are not even protected by law. They are just policies of lazy, Lefty DA’s and prosecutors who stand athwart existing law. Much of this has to do with plans these jackwagons have for you in the near future. But to see those plans, you need to hit this button. It’s in the second segment.

None of the looters are Jean Valjean.

Among the most pathetic reactions to mass looting came from a barmaid we know as AOC. She took to her IPhone to tell us that these people were just stealing food so they could eat. She was lying, of course. This barmaid, named after a war monger and a genocidal explorer, knows the looters are doing smash and grabs in high-end jewelry stores and fencing the booty. They are also hitting lower end stores and selling stuff on Ebay. Some are happily insulting the stores they loot by selling the stuff on the street across from the stores they knock over.

In the Hollywood version of Les Miserable, the kindly priest sees something good in a man who did time for actually stealing bread. Even after the convict steals from him, he goes the extra mile and helps him further, giving him more stuff.

William F. Buckley reduced the value of Hollywood morality in his review of the film True Confessions. “It used to be that Hollywood priests were Bing Crosby, going his way and making ours lighter; or Spencer Tracy, telling the Dead-End kid he was a good boy after all, with transmutational effect; or Ingred Bergman, raising money for the bells of St. Mary’s and while at it, tingling the chimes within the human spirit. Most people, I should think, knew that this was romance; that in real life Bing Crosby neglected his children, Spencer Tracy kept a mistress, and Ingrid Bergman not only looked after orphans, but produced them.”

Sadly, I believe Buckley is wrong about one thing. Most people didn’t see these old films as romantic. To far too many people, the message was concrete. I am old enough to remember the nuns pounding the message into us as if it were gospel. To be sure, the average viewer today would see these characters as dated. But they see the newer and more sophisticated productions like Le Miserble, with Liam Nesson as reflecting reality, in the same way my grandmother bought Bing’s routine.

If all these worthless punks were running into supermarkets and just grabbing bread and some meat and milk for their family, we’d be closer to a Going My Way approach to dealing with it.

But in the videos none of them are. This isn’t survival. It’s big business. The punks are stealing and selling, then stealing again. They do it brazenly because they know the lazy bums in City Hall see their entire constituency as being these punks. They DO NOT care about those they claim to serve.

And then there’s the obvious response to the “stealing to eat” crap. We have programs for that. Unless you are hopelessly schezophrenic or living in a cave, you have access to housing, food and money. That qualifiers for this go up routinely, as do the payouts. But I’ve heard excuses made over the years that on that kind of money you can’t have the high-end stuff. Oh, boo-hooo.

Racism? Really?

The most spurious defense the mass looting is using racism. It’s the easy go-to for the intellectually vapid or the smarmy politician exploiting same. Most of these kids have never encountered REAL racism in their lives. By meaningful, I mean from anyone of any value in their lives. Many have been taught a non-existent version of the concept by rap artists and race hustlers. But other than a racial epithet shouted by a drunk on a street corner or from a Billy Bob in a social media post (should one survive for more than a few minutes), the vast majority of these kids have only been protected from everything, including challenges they’d be better off exposed to, by the rule of law.

Further, there is more than one race involved in the looting fad, so there’s that.

No, these punks, kids and adults alike, are not doing anything based on any of the excuses offered. They do it because they have been given incentive to do it and because the same people offering the incentives failed to teach them to read, much less live like productive, honest citizens.

The pretense of victimhood is not a point of pride.

Solutions

I can only offer solutions you will except if you are not one of the criminally negligent politicians that run this nation, especially those in the cities. If you are an excuse maker, you will not benefit either.

But if you are a citizen tired of seeing the fabric of society unraveling, if you are a person who is tired of their race being labeled as helpless and hopeless, then you need to advance the right message.

Say this to every youth and young adult you know. These things you steal are not yours! You are not entitled to them! You don’t deserve to have them! There is no excuse for the looting! If you put half the effort into becoming better people as you do the looting and selling, you can become worthy of respect. You can earn a respectable living. If not, you should pay the consequences. No excuses!

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The Peoples’ Republic of Saint Peter’s Square

There’s a little Lefty fella running a franchise in central Italy into the ground. Running things into the ground is what Lefties do. What he does and says wouldn’t be worth a bucket of spit if he didn’t have billions of followers around the world who think he’s a direct conduit to their Maker.

There was no loved lost between me and Joe Ratzinger when he “retired” from the papacy. I considered him an angry, rather fanatical religious figure. From all accounts, I was wrong about that, but I don’t think much about popes anyway. There are also slowly emerging stories about the state of the Vatican Bank (already not having a sterling reputation) and politics within the walls of the “holy” city. Was Benedict shown the door because he was going to spill the beans?

Francis, on the other hand, has flim-flammed just about everybody.

Jorge Begoglio, spent his formative years straddling both sides of the political fence and studying philosophy, literature and theology. Looking back, it might have been helpful had he spent a semester or two studying economics in Chicago. But you can’t have everything.

The political fence-straddling makes a bit of sense considering the loony bin Argentina was when he served there as a Jesuit priest and bishop. But that doesn’t explain his reeling back and forth since.

Why should I care?

I shouldn’t have skin in this game. I have no association with a spirit world and certainly no religious loyalties. What the head of a pretend country, allowed to survive through a deal with Benito Mussolini does, should effect me not at all. But it does. The pretend country is well-connected and the boss is very political. As it turns out, he has decided to throw his weight solidly behind the Left and is trying to take his flock with him. And he is lock-step with his secular partners in bringing the whole world into a dystopian nightmare. The nightmare is, of course wrapped in pretty ribbons of “diversity” and “care for the downtrodden”.

Basically, Begoglio is driving his church into the waiting arms of his friends in the WEF/Davos cult. The policy of “Silence and Prayer,” as described by Vatican participants in Davos, smacks of the Concordat and the Lateran Treaty. And recent church policy is running fully behind the chaos and power grabs of the Davos cult.

True to modern Leftist form, Begoglio and the tiny central government in Rome are now cancelling people who don’t ring the bell for the boss. Among the lunatic pronouncements from the Vatican we’ve seen lately is the embrace of the trans fad, including where young people are involved.

Jorge’s lack of sincere care for kids is of no surprise considering his appointment of an unapologetic enabler of child abuse to the office to investigate - you got it - cases of priests abusing kids!

Keeping the pot stirred for socialism, sociopathic fads and non-diverse “diversity” nonsense is serving the Davos cult (which includes administrations of almost every western nation) quite well. Having the active assistance of the Vatican provides “religious” cover for more proles to pretend to believe the nonsense as well. It is intended to serve as a rubber stamp for more green scams, “smart” cities and more aggressive censorship of us, the proles. They will sterilize our kids and tell them pretending to be of another sex is real. And “Francis” will tell you this pleases god. [eye-roll]

For defending the church against this secular onslaught, led from the top, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas was fired last week. To his credit, he has not taken this insult quietly. He is calling on his people and bishops across the country to stick to the teachings of the Christ and the Bible.

If he and I were to have a beer and discuss the miraculous side of Church teachings, we’d have much to disagree about, from the concept of a god needing a son to the definition of a miracle in the first place. But in standing against the secular craziness the Roman Church is being driven to, he and I have common cause.

The Vatican has tried, with varying results, to insert itself into politics since Rome fell. Now, it is being used, by the POPE, as a sacrificial alter, where you and I will be will be devoured by our new masters - governments and the cronies they serve.

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Straining My Morality

I watched with mixed emotions - amusement and disgust - as protestors blocked the Bay Bridge in San Francisco during APEC.

Considering these spoiled brats were pro-Hamas idiots, I’d have a hard time respecting their presence if I were driving across that bridge. Their only saving grace might be their utter ignorance of how the entire Arab world actually sees gays, liberals, women and Palestinians. They haven’t a clue what they are hollering about. But hey, they get to be part of the narrative. They get a collective 15 minutes.

That they inconvenienced the pure theater known as an APEC “Summit” was kind of amusing. These things are junkets, during which domestic audiences back home hear how their heads of state are taking it to their counterparts at the conference. Little comes of it all.

Adding to the phony drama is the meeting between Joe Duh and Xi Jinping -Ricochet Rabbit. It seems more and more we’ve been tarting up photo ops between POTUS and people like Xi and Putin as being in any way important. Such things used to mean the consummation of some kind of pre-negotiated deliverables being inked by the participants. Now they mean nothing at all.

Oh sure, we heard how the Chinese were going to “cooperate” in the reduction of Fentanyl. You bet. You just hold your breath and watch how they cooperate on that one. Let us know where to send flowers.

They also agreed to “restart” military talks. What the hell does that even mean. When it is in our interest we already talk to their military. They never listen. We’ve been shaking our finger at them for 10 years over their militarization of the South China Sea, including in the national waters of other countries. They don’t give a warm, watery shit about what we think, militarily. And unless they invade Taiwan, they never will.

The brats on the bridge accomplished nothing. APEC amounts to nothing. Since the Chinese kook has purged all his reliable advisors, the meeting with Joe Duh means less than nothing. So San Francisco had an extra traffic jam for nothing. The good news is the drug addicts and lunatics will be back, camping in the streets, quicker than you can say “California deserves it.”

Naive Pronouncements

It’s a good thing the European Union’s days are numbered. They say the silliest things. This week, Josep Borrell, foreign policy chief of the EU, lectured Israel saying one horror doesn’t justify another. We’ve been hearing such unhelpful drivel for over a month now.

Do these people have any sense of history at all? When fighting their way into Germany, should the allies stopped and said, “Now wait a minute! We need to get aid into the towns we are attacking and negotiate the release of our POWs before we do one more thing!”?

There are two truths these intentionally ignorant “officials” pretend not to grasp when a horror is committed. First, when a horror like 10/7 is committed, ALL consequences meted out by the aggrieved nation is on the shoulders of the original perpetrators; every last casualty, until they surrender and give themselves up.

Also, when such attacks occur, it is the responsibility of the nation attacked to make certain that there are no traces left of those who committed the horror, or their organization, to do it again. All other considerations, food, fuel, medicine - even hostages, take a back seat to that mission.

You go, Israel! You fight your war. The chattering peanut gallery has no responsibility to YOUR people. Bebe Netanyahu was very clear that questions would be asked of him when it’s all over. That is as it should be. But that can’t be a guiding influence on his actions. The defeat and extermination of Hamas should be.

If only someone could point out to Palestinians in Gaza, Lebanon and the territories how phenomenal life could be if only they tolerated civilized, honest, 21st century political representation. Sadly, we are at least two generations from that happening. Violent indoctrination is intense among these people and starts with the very young. Those living along the Mediterranean don’t understand they have a two-state solution already. They could seriously cash in on their turf almost overnight. Gaza, Beirut and the West Bank could both be amazing destinations. But not while medieval lunatics run those places.

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I warned you!

I posted on FB on Nov. 14th that the FCC was about to vote on a piece of “regulation” that was going to change how the information industry works. And they voted the next day. The Senate has been busy in the arena too.

As we go through this, remember RFK Jr’s second rule of politics: If government finds it can abuse a law, the government WILL abuse that law.

A while back, while crafting the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act - another green scam tarted up as law, Congress tasked the FCC with coming up with an “equity” scheme for the internet. This was another of those times where “lawmakers” task unelected bureaucrats with making actual laws.

The result was the FC-goddamn-C basically hijacking the way the internet will expand and operate. Get a load of this naive bit of justification:

“The trajectory of digital progress has not always been even, has not always been fair, a result that has held back our collective achievements as a nation,” said Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, who voted in favor of imposing the rules. “Eradicating digital discrimination anywhere will empower individuals everywhere. This is a proceeding that will impact generations of Americans to come, and will work to ensure a more just and equitable future for tomorrow.” [emphasis mine]

It’s worth noting that it reads like socialist drivel. That is the mindset that leads to the kind of draconian requirements they are about to slap ISPs with. And get this bit of subjective, catch-all bullshit:

ISPs could be fined if they are caught engaging in conduct that’s discriminatory and “not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility,…” [emphasis mine]

So here we have a law, vaguely worded to allow an agency to write the actual law, under which penalties will be assessed based on a Lefty bureaucrats’ subjective interpretation of the term “genuine”. The term in this case being attached to the words “technical” and “economic”.

Let me tell you how this will shake out. (Doubt me not. I called the problems with EVs and wind farms BEFORE companies started bailing on those stupid ideas.) XYZ company is expanding their 5G network in, we’ll say, Baltimore. They have analyzed the data and believe they will make money by next setting up in the downtown area. They considered areas bordering the business and retails areas but decided that they wouldn’t make money in the surrounding areas and that those areas didn’t justify the risk to workers due to high crime and drug trafficking.

This will be the exact case the FCC’s socialists are banking on. It’s the one they want. They WILL say that these do not reflect GENUINE economic considerations. The question being: genuine to whom? They will say complaining about safety is racists (regardless of the racial makeup of the neighborhoods). They will tell the ISP to keep building until the FCC is satisfied or face fines.

And the plot thickens. The Senate has been busy.

The seedling for complete government control over internet content was planted on 5 September of this year. S. 1080, Cooper Davis Act states that communications companies will be responsible to report all drug trafficking content on their servers and report the account holders.

There’s more. You need to read the summary.

“S. 1080 would require providers of electronic communications and remote computing services (such as email, cell phone, social media, and cloud computing) to report certain instances of illicit drug trafficking on their platforms to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Specifically, the bill would require providers to report the unlawful sale or distribution of fentanyl, methamphetamine, or other counterfeit controlled substances and preserve the contents of each report for 90 days. S. 1080 would require each report to contain information about the users involved, including their names and addresses, and how the provider discovered each violation. Additionally, the bill would create new criminal penalties for providers who fail to submit a report and civil penalties for submitting incomplete or fraudulent reports. S. 1080 also would require DEA to review each report to determine whether further investigation is warranted.”

Criminal Penalties?! Keep in mind, the only way this is possible is for every company involved to monitor every account through the use of algorithms. So if your algorithm misses a few, you’re now a criminal? Great. While shifting the law enforcement responsibilities to social networks and phone and email services, S. 1080 lays the groundwork for what is to come.

RFK’s second rule, right?

Once this Orwellian scheme has been tested and the providers are sufficiently cowed, we will again here about the DANGERS of “misinformation” and “disinformation”. As demonstrated by the Twitter Files, this is any content that doesn’t fit the Lefty Regime narrative. Piggy backing on the S. 1080 test cases, Uncle Stinky will lay out a new regimen of reporting required for anyone with a server on the internet. Who is saying what? Control of your speech and mine will be etched in law. Disobedience will be punished.

The FCC’s equity drivel will be expanded and linked to new and improved S. 1080 to make sure that the information provided by the communications entities doesn’t look bad for minorities.

These people don’t care about drug traffickers. Hell, in partnership with the cartels the Regime is the biggest distributor of illicit drugs in history. And they don’t care about equity. They care about power and absolute control of information and the backbone that provides it.

All of this will absolutely happen, unless you stand up. So far, I’ve watched you let one abuse after another wash over you like gentle waves on a sunny beach, knowing the waves will get bigger and more numerous. You’ll eventually drown.

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I wrote this book early in the primaries before the 2016 election. I revised and updated it during the general election. I first thought to write it after Bush 41 yawned his way through his re-election campaign against BJ Bill. It is full of lessons we’ve overlooked or completely ignored for decades now.

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The sixteenth chapter of the book discusses war. It is pure coincidence that I have arrived at this chapter this week.

I’ll leave a link to Doug McGregor’s conversation with Tucker Carlson on the evolving situation in Gaza and the wider implications therein. I’ve done my best to warn readers and listeners about this type of situation for a long time. This is especially true on the P4B since last March.

In recent years the United States has exhausted itself, often not in its best interests, both economically and militarily. Foreign powers know that we are not in a position to reach out and wreck very much right now. We are painfully short of men and material.

To understand the level of incompetence that allowed this to happen, we now have more flag rank officers (generals and admirals) than we had in World War Two. Then, we have 16 milllion men in uniform. Now we have just over a million. That means 94% of these overpaid “yes” men with the big shoulder boards can’t justify their existance.

The Navy, if appearances are any indicator, isn’t ready to fight anywhere on a conventional level.

I remember after Viet Nam being told that we would never have to fight a conventional war again. That was why we were scaling back on forces. A new and empty term was invented, asymetrical warfare. For the little shit holes we’ve been fighting in, we call it asymetrical war. The enemy in those places just called it war. It was the most they could do with what they had.

Understand, that if any biligerents in the Middle East simply will it to be so, we will find outselves forced into a very large kenetic conflict. No humping around the badlands then going back to base camp to watch TV. This will be the real thing. And NONE of the empty uniforms walking around the Pentagon have any experience even close to this.

All it will take is one fuck up by any international actor in Eastern Europe or the Middle East and people will start dying, including our people.

Last week I suggested North and South America sit this one out. But Lindsay Graham never saw a conflict he didn’t want us to jump into and Joe Duh is looking to get reelected. No, I wouldn’t put it past him…or his handlers who dictate everything he says and does.

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Telling your government to butt out of the world’s problems is not unpatriotic. With the state of our Armed Forces right now, it’s the voice of reason. Would I lose any sleep if Hamas ceases to exist? Not a wink. But others in the world may see an opportunity here.

The next 20 years will be horrible for much of the globe. We don’t have to participate. So let’s not.

Let’s get to the book!

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Formerly 16 20 24: A Path to Consistent Conservative Victory

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16

ON WAR

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events... incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprise, awful miscalculations.

– Winston Churchill

No Jokes Here

War is the most onerous of duties to befall a thinking and humane statesman. There may be a day when you have to come to grips with that reality. Whether you are senator voting on a war resolution or a President ordering men into battle you will have to screw up the courage to face your duty. Or screw up the courage to stand against it, if there is the fever of violence in the land and you don’t believe war to be the answer.

All the wars we have fought post-WWII have been wars of convenience, expedience or policy. We have not fought one out of necessity. Afghanistan should have been that, but we approached it like all the others.

In Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan the US wasted 119,174 American lives. We brought home hundreds of thousands of wounded. We killed millions of the enemy. And all for what? The tyrants we went to vanquish stayed, or the tyrants we installed betrayed us (always predictably). Borders remained as before. Countless tons of material were left behind, countless dollars squandered.

If you have the least sense of decency, the casualty numbers sicken you. If you have a brain the results should enrage you. You are witnessing the result of 70 years of post-war “yes” men; men in uniform, who ingratiated themselves to politicians with the promise of a new kind of war, limited war. Clean, supposedly quick, not cheap, of course.

Robert McNamara, with his body counts and spreadsheets, promoted these guys to the head of the class and they have replicated themselves, one generation after another, ever since.

Limited War! Indeed! Great for the diplomats and officials involved. They can feel extra civilized in that they are not defeating anyone to the detriment of their self-esteem. And for the ones we kill, well they won’t have a self-esteem problem, will they? It’s great for the weapons industry. “Limited wars”, after Korea, tend to run long and gobble up tons of product. It’s just one long, manageable supply chain. And “limited war” is just super for American citizens. For decades now, we’ve been able to hang out a flag, watch the Bob Hope USO tour and pat GI Joe on the back and call that our contribution to the effort. No draft, no rationing, no inconveniences.

Yep, it’s a pretty good deal if you haven’t lost a son (or now a daughter) to the “limited war”. It’s rather an inconvenience for the guy squatting in some shithole in Goddamistan, getting shot at, losing buddies, not seeing anything accomplished over multiple tours. And again, for the guys who get killed, well they now don’t have that inconvenience anymore.

What the governing class in this country remains intentionally obtuse to is the fact that for the warriors and their families there is nothing “limited” about it at all. And when all is said and done, they know it was all for nothing.

Well, friends and neighbors, it’s time we did away with “limited war”. The smart candidate, when asked about the possibility of clashing with ISIS or Russia or whomever, should make one very certain point: that the President does not have the power to wage war on his own. That past Congresses have ceded power to past Presidents to have adventures in foreign lands does not make it right; not legally, not morally, not ethically. Certainly not Constitutionlly. This candidate will not lift a finger against a foreign power or any agent on foreign soil until Congress specifically declares that a state of war exists between the United States and that state or entity. The only exception would the immediate defense and evacuation of Americans in a hostile area.

In a declared war, this candidate, as President, will move the might of the entire nation into the fight (and a candidate for Congress will declare support on that level). The nation will go on a war footing. The Department of Defense will be designated the Department of War. The draft will be reinstated. An overwhelming force will be marshaled. We will move on the enemy with one and only one purpose; to destroy his capability to resist our will. Victory will come in the form of a complete surrender by the enemy or his total destruction, if that is the path the enemy chooses.

Pause a second to let that one sink in, look the questioner straight in the eye and say if this is not what you expect from your commander-in-chief, you need to elect a weaker candidate. You can point out that under a weaker person, the United States is much more likely to be caught up in a war. And a “limited war” candidate will get more Americans killed in the course of a much longer effort. But hey, it will be a lot easier for everyone at home, especially the Congress. They can, and have in the past, turned their backs on the White House when “limited wars” became unpopular. A more uncertain President won’t insist on a clean declaration of war. He’ll want a reason to not fully commit.

An Approach to Actual War

Among the many things Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for, one should stand out as misguided, at least it should to a historian. That would be his “management” of war. We hear admiring stories of his going to the telegraph office every day and sitting for hours waiting for reports from the front, so worried was he, for the troops.

Well, worried he may have been, but it is clear from his communications that he was also at the telegraph office to tell his generals how they should be fighting the war. Not surprisingly, he met with one setback after another for the better part of the entire effort. All the demons mentioned in the Churchill quote at the opening of this chapter would visit the Union effort, and few understood why.

Across the divide, the confederacy was winning battles and making strides despite an economic and industrial disadvantage. While it is certain the Jeff Davis set the strategic objectives, application was correctly left to the generals. When a Southern general failed, he became more valuable to the cause, now sadder but wiser in the ways of war.

And by not being in constant communications with Davis, the troops moved rather quickly and far afield, allowing them to harass the Union one day at Winchester and a few days later, many miles away.

On the Union side, if a general failed, he was sacked. A new man took his place. Sometimes the new man was ambitious and coveted the position to begin with. Perhaps others were loyal to their old commander and took the new post with a heavy heart. It didn’t matter. They still had to learn lessons they could only learn in that post. These lessons cannot be learned while observing from a subordinate position.

If I can be allowed a personal analogy, it is like conning a ship. The conning officer doesn’t have his hand on the helm or the engine order telegraph. He watches the ocean, his charts, radar and other ships and gives commands to the helm. I can tell you from experience, having learned from Commander Tom Corcoran, one of the best ship handlers I’ve ever met, a ship feels different under your feet when you have the con than it feels when you don’t. It was during a conflict in handling technique with that same man that this lesson was made most clear. He nearly relieved me in a minor emergency and would have given different orders to the helm. But he kept faith and later said that I got the exact same result as he would have gotten.

While much more complicated, commanding troops in the field has the same differences from one person to another. So the burden on the Union Army from Lincoln’s telegraphs was two-fold. By replacing one general after another, there was no learning curve to rely on, and a man far-removed from the field was giving orders, to whatever general was in command at the time, on how to conduct the war. Orders were coming from a man who couldn’t “feel the ship beneath his feet”, so to speak.

We still have not learned our lesson on this more than 150 years later. As technology has improved, our Presidents have more and more taken over the running of warfare from the safety of the Executive Mansion, and the results have been abysmal. By crossing the lines of responsibility between strategy and tactics, policy and execution, the President becomes a burden to his troops, not a force multiplier.

So, all that said (Remember, if time allows, you should be teaching, right?) our ideal candidate will also commit to surrounding himself with the brightest, most aggressive military minds available. With their advice, the President will set the course of a war and have the generals carry out his will. This will save lives and make victory far more likely.

History agrees with me on this. For example, if Hitler wasn’t delusional and had his same ambitions, he could have told his staff to take Russia and given them the supplies and support they needed. He could have fought one war at a time, as he was often cautioned to do. If he had, they’d be speaking German in Vladivostok today.

If the next Commander-in-Chief, I don’t care which party he or she may be from, faces conflict or the threat of conflict with this philosophy, and doesn’t take another word away from this book, I will consider my life to have been purposeful. If the same C-in-C were to face down an adversary without firing a shot, so much the better. Let’s face it, when your power and resolve are undeniable, you don’t have to kill anyone to protect your interests.

Oh, what a wonderful world that would be!

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17

FRATRICIDE

“Thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican...Henceforth, if any Republican has a grievance against another, that grievance is not to be bared publicly. ”

- California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord B. Parkinson (not Reagan). This is called the 11th Commandment of the Republican Primaries.

Save Your Fire for the Real Opponent!Here’s the challenge we face on this subject. We are dealing with egos the size of Mount Everest. Most of the people in the race really think they should be President. Some should be satisfied with a cabinet post, a few should just go home. For now, all are trying to appear Presidential. While Democrats spew mostly untruths, they do so with real discipline. We might try to adopt some of that discipline while we speak the truth.

The choice you have when running for the nomination is to a) adopt a scorched earth policy and leave the party and everyone’s bank accounts in a shambles when the primaries are over, or b) run a campaign that sets you apart from the field without pretending that everyone else in the field is the biggest POS (not an acronym for Point of Sale) since Nancy Pelosi.

Some candidates, despite pleas to the contrary and whatever attention this very chapter might gain in the wider media, will stupidly choose a). Some already have.

This is because they are not conservatives. They can barely call themselves Republican. They don’t have a solid idea or plan to call their own that will stand up to the slightest challenge.

As successful as he has been in these early days, Trump is the poster boy for that last paragraph. I have to admit that his showing a crowd Lindsay Graham’s request for money and giving out Graham’s phone number was pretty funny. But his lowbrow attacks against Republicans at this stage show him to be as odd and unserious as his haircut.

The three strongest candidates at staying on message and hitting the Democrats are Cruz, Fiorina and (sadly) Bush; Fiorina, especially.

She has saved her most vociferous volleys for Empress Rodham and the federal government in general. Her appearance on the Kelly Files showed her willingness to take on the incompetence of government head on, deal with Hillary and only argue responsibly with other GOP candidates.

Also, think about this: Let’s say you (whoever you are) win the GOP nod. You’ve just spent the last 10 to 12 months ripping your opponents mercilessly. You know there is going to be pressure for you to take on some of these people as supporters, a veep, and as cabinet members. When you pick the one you called everything but “good guy”, the public and your adversaries will know that your message was hollow. You start your first day in office, hell – your transition period - looking weak and insincere.

Finally, when all about you are yapping like skittish chihuahuas, and you rise above it and make your argument coolly, confidently but with real passion, you appear Presidential. The field appears pedantic and weak. In the early days, Bush shows a bit of promise on this point.

You must respectfully disagree with other Republicans; but you abhor the statist policies and lies of the Democrats.

The Fratricide Corollary regarding Funds and Support:

One last point: Instead of forming little cliques among conservatives running for various offices, and this goes all the way the state and local level; candidates, handlers and the Republican machine must find creative ways to show support, across the board, for conservative candidates everywhere. The party would be wise to heed this advice. There is going to be a conservative surge this year. To capitalize on it and remain relevant in coming election cycles, you will want to embrace it. Be smart, for once, instead of trying to be clever. If two known conservatives are running head-to-head, don’t endorse one. Support both! A win is a win.

18

GOD-DIDDY-GOD-GOD! OMG!

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. ”

- Barry Goldwater

This was originally intended to be Chapter 2, but since I know the less broad-minded will slam the book closed as soon as they read this, I figured I’d wait until later in the book before losing you. To the folks who think the only person worth voting for is a Christian who wears his faith on his sleeve, thanks for stopping by. But know that with the possible exception of Rick Santorum, there is no way to know if any of the candidates are what they say the are, religiously speaking.

Some political aspirants don’t make a thing of their spirituality. But too often conservatives pander to the religious right in order to “sew up the base”. It’s kind of the way the Dems treat blacks and Latinos. They’ll go all Ebonic like Hilary and Barry do in their speeches. Or they will try to convince Hispanic citizens and legal immigrants that illegal immigrants are good for them because they share surnames with the illegals. Thus the Dems think they have the votes of those groups (whom they consider to be their lessers) locked up.

Note to Dems: If any of the ideas discussed here (none are new) get traction, your domination among minorities will soon end. One thing people of all races are discovering, in ever-growing numbers, is that the modern progressive is not their friend.

And thus it is slowly turning among people of faith. The Conservative = Christian crowd is shrinking. By pandering to religion for votes, you not only debase yourself and your audience, you divide the party and face the law of diminishing returns.

The prime example of this is Huck. His version of Aw shucks, I’m just a conservative Christian makes Reagan’s affability look like Greek stoicism. This man has tarted himself up to be a conservative. He is most certainly not that. He knows it, and yet he keeps the lie alive by using religion as political hackery. So what then, can be said about his Christian values other than the fact that they are as fungible as Bill Clinton’s would be?

While the hard-core, blindly religious Billy Bobs reading this will reject it outright, the conservatives in the race ought to think twice. There are fewer and fewer Billy Bobs left in this world, especially in faithful Christian families. And though he may rant on Facebook about how so-and-so isn’t conservative because he doesn’t go to church, Billy Bob seldom votes. His grandpa might, maybe his mother. But Billy Bobs are usually lazy, ill-informed whiners. The conservative movement burns needless energy catering to him and to abstract beliefs that don’t actually underscore the secular issues we face.

Remember, our discussion on Message. Our target is everybody. The more narrow the target of the message, the less useful it is. Still, as I said in chapter one, be yourself. If you are a person of faith, great! Be that. But ration out the come-to- Jesus routine carefully. It wastes time and air.

I’ll tell you why.

Religion is like any other exclusive group in society. In claiming membership in a group, a politician may gain some electoral traction in that specific group. But your good standing in a beach volleyball club is not going to motivate members of the Jerkwater Knitting Society.

So as a speaker, in a room full of people who knit or play volleyball, you are left with three choices.

Pound your chest and tout how many spikes you had last year.

Do the above AND pretend to like knitting by throwing in some crap about a sweater your Aunt Helen knitted for you.

Appeal to your audience as voters and stick to the important issues.

Which would you choose? That’s a silly question, because if you were a typical, modern politician, you would choose – foolishly – 1 or 2. The correct answer is 3!

WHY?

Liberals like to be pandered to. They like to be divided, subdivided and made to feel like snowflakes. They exist in a world of fallacious argument. Republicans want ID used when voting. Democrats call Republicans racist for wanting ID. Therefore it is wrong to check the true identity of a voter. That’s the fallacy of the ad hominem argument. OR We have to give Iran a nuke in ten years. If you disagree, what do you want WAR? This is called a straw man argument. You can see every common fallacy in political arguments. But in the case of liberals as we have seen in recent months, they then act out on these fallacious positions. They don’t agree with us on gay marriage, abortion or the fact that races need to be pandered to. Therefor they have no right to be CEOs or to be bakers or run a pizza shop. It is okay for us to run them out of business. “They”, of course, are conservatives or Jeffersonian liberals.

This also demonstrates solipsism on the part of liberals. When they look in the mirror, they think they are looking at the world. If you deviate, you are evil.

Earlier, I said that by teaching people to be republican (members of American society) you can produce Republicans (members of a party). Here is where you can do the most good. By delivering a full-throated, muscular message, honestly and clearly, a lot of the liberals I mention above will have a positive alternative to emotionalism and anger. Where do you think those folks known as the neo-cons came from?

Clear-minded conservatives and uncommitted voters do not think like progressives. We have real jobs. We are concerned with real issues. We want to know what the hell you intend to do in office. We don’t like the baby kissing and the I’m-a-shuffle-board- enthusiast-like-you routine. We tolerate it. We wait to get past the pandering garbage to hear what you have to say about the economy, the size of government, America’s enemy’s and/or Bill Clinton’s former 1970s sex partner, Hillary. We don’t want hugs and drum circles. We want your thoughts and plans on real shit!

For the record, no one likes shuffleboard. Even people who play it everyday hate it. They only do it because they have no athletic skills. I’m great at it.

Somebody Wake Up That Guy in the Back.

I want the handlers as well as the candidates to pay attention here. It goes against common assumptions and requires a shift in thinking to get used to.

As illustrated above, people don’t really care about your religious views if you are not from the identical religion. Let me say that again for the folks in the back. PEOPLE DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR RELIGIOUS VIEWS IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE IDENTICAL RELIGION.

It only becomes a topic of discussion because it is considered polite, God only knows why(pun fully intended), when someone says something spiritual, to compliment them on it. The substance is unimportant and the compliment is as well-intentioned as a reflexive, “God bless you,” when someone sneezes. But it will not get you enough votes to win national office.

There is an even less desirable way a candidate’s religious pandering can inspire conversation. If the larger public senses animus or religious provincialism, no matter how minor or benign, those people will be turned off by the candidate. And they might say so. I would contend that if honest, most people would say they wouldn’t vote for a guy if they perceive him as too religious. The few that make up the radical wing of the religious right would. Many folks would not vote for a candidate who is overly solicitous of a religious audience. Candidates are better served educating voters on the folly of identity politics.

I like Ted Cruz. He is almost always the smoothest, smartest duck in the room. He appears to be a man of substance, his Catholic priest delivery not withstanding. Contrary to popular lore, he has held an executive position. As Solicitor General he had to absorb and digest information all day long. After doing so, he made decisions and delegated authority to see them carried out. This is much better preparation for the White House than being an absentee legislator or sitting with buddies in Chicago writing bogus grants for each other to cash in on worthless government programs; the Barry Obama resume. I am of a mind that Cruz would be a very good VP choice.

Still, it is arguable that Ted Cruz did serious damage to his candidacy by announcing at Liberty University. There is just so much wrong here. By speaking to the audience as “us”, and putting strong religious overtones in his announcement speech, he implies that he favors this group over any other. My assessment will put off many Christian talking heads, but the reader knows it is true. You cannot be parochial and all-welcoming at the same time. No matter how many phrases you insert about people of all faiths, it still smacks of vote for me and I’ll give you the best darn Christian theocracy ever! And...oh, yeah...we still like Jews and Muslims and Druids and Atheists and other Christian denominations too...even Catholics.

The point is that making more than a mere passing mention of your faith, and in direct context with something important about you, and only you, you are wasting time and energy in a way that could easily blow up in your face.

Never announce your candidacy or break open a new stump speech at a church or mosque or temple or universities dedicated to associate faiths. Do it at the Washington Monument (everyone’s monument) or the Statue of Liberty (everyone’s statue) or before an Eagles’ game (everyone’s team).

Finally, this kind of phony intimacy feeds the undesirable narrative that as President, you would be involved directly in the lives of everyday people, or at least their pal in DC. This is exactly the wrong message to send to the listener. It is also a form of identity politics...always horseshit. Always. Leave the preaching and the hallelujahs to the preacher and the choir. You are seeking a secular office for all the people. You’re not running for Pope.

To the voters:

It sounds cynical to say this, but politicians love a religious constituency. And it’s not out of the purity of their hearts. The more people there are that believe the zanier aspects of all religions, the more a politician knows your credulity can be counted on. You might actually believe they are “with the government and here to help. ”

The typical political hacks are the type I describe at the beginning of the chapter. They will whore themselves out to anyone on any subject so they can join the governing class and set themselves up for life.

The honest ones, precious few, know that they can’t deal with your personal religious foibles. When they get to DC they find their plate is full just dealing with real-world problems, and a lot more than praying will have to be done about them. If you have such a representative you may want to dump him because he doesn’t pander to “God” enough. You do so at your own peril. The next hack is watching and will be happy to swoop in wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. He won’t do for you what the religiously unidentifiable guy will do. The hack will take your vote and forget you exist.

To come to terms with this reality, we need to acknowledge what the modern political animal is. To survive more than a few states during primary season, a candidate must be of a coldly calculating mind and have a gargantuan ego.

There might be something out there more important than they are, but they (the politicians) are near, if not at, the center of the universe. Those who lack this “quality” don’t often survive. So a REAL spiritual candidate is a much rarer species than one might think.

So whether you are religious or not, the next time a politician tells you he is motivated by Jesus, Yahweh, Allah or a talking tree, ask him what he plans to do about the deficit? Surely his spirit guides have addressed at least that issue while calling him to serve, eh?

Don’t let your faith be fodder for insult and manipulation by disingenuous hacks. Hold them to account no matter whom they claim to worship!

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As promised, here is the My Movie Story Show with host Brian McAleer. It’s a great distraction from the noise of the world.

I expected this to come out later. My plan was to get an installment of the book out on Tuesday, then schedule this for the following week, essentially giving myself a week off.

But Brian is efficient. He had the episode edited and in the can in a few days.

That’s good for you! Brian’s got a great formula, a great format. His shows can’t NOT be interesting. (Bad grammar, I know. Sue me.) So, it’ll be fun for you, while putting me back to work.

If you’re more a listener than a viewer, just crank up the video and listen along as you normally do.

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The reason I brought this post forward from the 11 POINTS series.

I’ve been teasing this episode for a few weeks now as I moved through the 11 Points. Energy, and how we handle it in the next year or two, has the most far-reaching impact on whether we thrive through the global demographic decline or we destroy ourselves. Without a diverse energy industry there will be no transportation, no food, no economy, no reinventing an industrial America. As with all of the 11 Points, if we fail this the rest won’t matter. But as a linchpin, energy stands out as the most critical…

…or so it seems as I write this. But really, if you go through the list so far, you can easily see that without any one of the issues solved, or heavily squelched, you don’t have any of the other issues mastered, at least not to the extent that we still have a viable nation. But there are one or two of which it can be said that if you don’t have these, you can’t get any of the rest, at all.

In an advanced, industrial society, energy shouldn’t be an issue. We KNOW what to do to produce the energy we need. But we have endangered ourselves through our collective retardation on the subject. How did that happen?

Let’s start with a different example of damaged thinking.

In a previous segment I spoke of our “maturity” problem and how “woke” took hold in this country. In an interview, Jordan Peterson mentioned the thousand mini-retreats. This is the phenomenon which has allowed the welfare state, immigration insanity, the trans fad, climate alarmism and green energy scams to take root in our society. And that’s not a complete list.

It goes like this. A person or persons pitch an idea to a loud, immature audience, for example the idea that you can be another gender. You can’t. Everyone knows you can’t. Even the people who jump on board immediately with such a silly notion know you can’t.

The collective idiocy grows as advocates of the concept simply change the meaning of language to create a phony logic that promotes the stupid idea. Often these new terms are so over the top normal people stand gobsmacked that anyone would accept the terms. And the truth is, no one does. They just pretend to. But advocates of the stupidity insist on using the terms, like “gender affirming care” and cry and scream until school boards and governments (often filled with the same stupid people we are discussing now) find in the stupidity, a chance to exercise new controls over people, primarily by forcing them to adapt the new and remarkably stupid terminology.

Thinks about it, if you can use the color of authority to cause adults to use terms like “gender affirming care” when talking about denying, and pretending to change, a person’s ACTUAL gender, you can do absolutely anything. And the first time any of the 99.99% of us that flatly reject the concept of changing genders uses the term, that’s a mini-retreat. The stupidity advances further into our lives. The social mania is mistaken for popularity, so more of the weaker among us jump on board to be popular. And the pattern repeats.

Even before “gender affirming care” was concocted, there were already hundreds of bullshit terms being hatched, mostly by social media clowns and being thrown into our lexicon. And it all started when the first quack offered the first adult male sex change surgery to fulfill his personal kink to see himself as a women. Now the kink is being foisted on our kids and they are being mutilated for the entertainment of twisted parents and educators or the for validation for those who had ruined their own lives previously.

The retreats have been so broad and repeated we now have FUCKING LAWS in states and cities that say if you don’t let your boy be a girl, you’re an abusive parent and can lose custody of your own child!

If you had described this scenario to ANYONE in 2013 and said it would be here by 2023, you’d have been laughed out of the least intelligent company. But here we are.

So then, what other imbecilic terms like “minor attracted persons” to romanticize the image of pedophiles? And school books showing adolescent boys blowing adult men? Would I be crazy to say that by 2033 we will have sex clubs for pedos and kids tarted as controlled, safe environments where different generations can explore their mutual attraction? We have a society that increasingly says you can lose your daughter to the state if you don’t let a quack cut her tits off. How much of a leap would it be say 40 year old men should be free to have sex with your kids?

Not only must the mini-retreats in the face of this STOP, we need to go on the offensive to regain lost ground. Or, mark my words, 2033 WILL HAPPEN. As we continue to retreat, the only possible inaccuracy of my prediction is whether it will actually take until 2033.

The same assessment applied to energy.

And so it is in the area of our energy production. Stupid, childish worthless ideas stand in the way of what this country must establish - quickly!

We know what works; coal, oil, natural gas (NG) and Nuke. They work - period. They are responsible for advancing our civilization, technology, medicine and cleanliness to create the life we know today. Without those things, you have none of that. We’re talking Mad Max shit here. By eliminating those things in the future (what fuzz nuts call zero emissions) you have Mad Max plus a few minutes of power per day.

That’s because the energy “alternatives” we are wasting trillions dollars of our wealth on today - don’t work. But with every passing week, the people who know they don’t work make one mini-retreat after another. Why?

Dr. Ruth Curry is a climatologist with 40 years experience studying REAL numbers. She makes a good point as to why the climate scam, and ultimately the green energy scams, continue to gain momentum. People seeking fame and attention make up wild and undocumented claims and then “cook” the data, add absurd assumptions and get noticed. Opportunists see the con they can run based on that data.

A whole market sector has been created from the hockey stick graph, the author of which admitted he spiked the date because he wanted people to pay attention to his more general claims of pending disaster. None of which have happened. Supporting the sector are thousands of “scientists” who are, as Dr. Curry says, professionally vested in keeping the con alive. And the sector owns politicians and Instragram clowns who will channel Greta Thunberg. Question them, even as a matter of degree and they shout you down. If you can’t be shouted down they’ll go after your career.

So the mini-retreats continue. This despite the fact that MOST of the people shouting down the reasonable people KNOW THEMSELVES that climate alarmism is pure nonsense.

If the worst predictions of the climate nuts came to pass over the next 100 years, it would be a general nuisance for humanity. It wouldn’t be an existential threat. And there is not a swingin’ dick on the planet who can say with true certainty if ANY of the predictions will come true. So far, their batting average is about .001.

And in homage to this nonsense, we have tinker toys like wind farms and solar farms. The bullshit flowing through the media to support the tinker toys is laughable. I’ve seen propaganda stating that the US is now powered 12% by wind and solar. I have seen one claim of 20%. This despite the fact that we have only a few minutes of capacity across the entire country from those sources.

So how do they arrive at the 12% figure? Well, they record the power being released to the grid when power from the batteries is being demanded. We’ll say a wind farm in Texas produces X megawatts when the batteries are discharging. The local grid is demanding just under 10 times that amount. You can then conclude that the windfarm, for that controlled period of time provided 12% of the energy needed. But it won’t be able to do that again until the batteries are recharged and ready to go again.

There can be a running charge/discharge process put in place, but then the percentage comes nowhere near 12% of anything. And it never will. Not with wind. Not with solar.

There is not enough lithium ON THE PLANET to bring entirely to the United States and make enough batteries to run the power grid for 4 hours a day, even if your covered the nation in windmills. Wind is not a reliable commodity and the sun doesn’t shine 24/7. Put those three true statements together and what we are told is reliable, alternative energy becomes a sick joke.

But that isn’t stopping the political whores, and the cronies they feed with your tax dollars, from charging headlong into these green scam projects. NONE of these things will work reliably. They will be many times more expensive to operate than we have been told and they will ultimately lose their value. Then they’ll be left to rot into the landscape, polluting the ground. They will be monuments to our stupidity.

But let someone with a larger market reach than me say these things and they will be shouted down, slandered, doxed, canceled. And the people doing the doxing and cancelling, by and large, will know what I am saying right now is true. But these words hurt their bottom line or their personal “coolness” experience.

There is huge money, hundreds of billions, now trillions of dollars washing through the economy waiting to be scooped up by the green scam industry to built the monuments. Coal plants are being shut down and immediately dismantled, AT YOUR EXPENSE - NOT THE PLANT OWNER’S, and replaced with the tinker toys. The tinker toys are either built locally, where they likely won’t work at all, or the tinker toy energy is being brought by transmission lines over huge distances. The power lost, just to the transmission, makes the concept a complete waste of time and YOUR money.

In other words, the coal plants are NOT being replaced at all. If we were building nuke plants, large and small, then tearing down the reliable but dirty coal facilities, that would be a good thing. But we are not, so we are killing our energy grid. The politicians are doing this to you intentionally.

Because there is so much money to be made, so many childish and emotional voters to please, the government, big banks and the companies they support will SAY ANYTHING to keep the scam alive. And when the price of wind and solar turns out to be 3,4 or 5 times what we’ve been told it would be, these crooks will be there to scoop up all the money.

Here’s the worst insult of all. If I am right and we don’t all fight back, energy costs for YOU will become untenable. Then the government will step in. But they won’t be stepping in to finally correct the problems they caused. No, they will double down and announce they will save you by subsidizing the failed wind and solar schemes…WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS. Then of course, as with all things subsidized, it will continue to be more expensive every year, regardless of the real costs. It will work exactly like the college scam. If you are in your 60’s and you don’t fight back, you will likely live to see all of this play out.

If this were still the world of 2019, and we were going to stay that prosperous and continue growing economically, then the energy scams would just be graft on a huge scale. Eventually it would piss us off and we’d finally make the mature shift to nuclear energy. But we don’t live in the world of 2019.

2019 was the year of the economic peak of the Boomer generation’s consumption and when global markets were still fully functional. It’s all downhill from here. At a time when we can’t afford to make bad decisions about where to put our efforts, scam artists and your government are putting you on a rocket sled to hell. The time and national treasure wasted on the tinker toys will make building a proper energy infrastructure later much more difficult than it needs to be; if not impossible.

The clock is ticking.

And while the propagandists are using ESG to control you and corporate America and forcing us to swallow this universally stupid green energy crap, they are actively destroying the “pristine nature” they’ve been crying about over the last century. Now they say - Hey, fuck the trees and grasslands and coastal waters and fisheries. There’s money to be made. And the virtue signalling, former tree huggers, who aren’t in on the action, are going to get screwed right along with the rest of us.

Consider this from a previous post.

Take a good look at the picture above. It’s from Nature.com

* EDITORIAL

* 26 November 2018, How some wind turbines hog the breeze

The nature.com article brings some interesting points we’ll get into a bit later.

Look at the view in the background, now spoiled by a wind farm. Funny how the very people who have always talked about keeping our wilderness pristine and not defacing nature, now want to blanket the fruited plains with these wretched tinker toys. There are areas of the country where humans are not allowed to walk for fear of spoiling nature. But we can do this?!

What’s worse, in 15 years, when the lack of value these things hold is fully understood, these monstrosities will be broken rotting hulks blighting our landscape from sea to shining sea. The battle then will be who is responsible to get rid of them all.  How many billions will that cost?! To be sure the companies that scammed our tax dollars to build them will have declared bankruptcy and washed their hands of it all.

Meh, who cares. We just spent a combined $4.5 trillion for “infrastructure” and “inflation fighting” which do nothing for what either title suggests. In fact, as we saw last week, Al Gore made a truth poopie and stated out loud the “Inflation” bill was, in reality, a green scam bill.

And, oh, by the way…in 2009, Barry Hussein spent $80 billion to convert us to a green economy. What happened to all that money?  Who got it?  We know a bunch of his donors opened a phony energy company, took billions then split with all the money (Solyndra).  Certainly we have never seen $80 BILLION worth of value. If we did there would be wind turbines and solar panels on every median of every highway in the country. $80 BILLION! By this time we should be up to our eyeballs in old batteries and solar panels we can’t get rid of (That’s in our future now too).

Wind is not infinite!

I’ve been telling people this for years. Wind is a form of energy. While you cannot destroy that energy, you can convert it. That’s what wind turbines do. They convert wind (kinetic) energy into mechanical energy and then into electrical energy.

But no one is asking, “What happens to the wind?” And that is where the problems with wind farms immediately cascade.

The Nature.com article demonstrates that wind farms, on land and at sea, compete with each other to capture wind. If you put up a multi-billion dollar wind farm intended to grab the prevailing winds, and I put one as many as 10 miles upwind of yours, your turbines will not run at capacity. They will not generate the electricity they were designed to put out.

If you have a wind farm with more than one row of pinwheels facing the wind, the second row is less efficient, as is the third row and so on.

When someone else puts up a farm upwind from me, now my turbines are crippled. And so it is going today. This alone should point out the folly of wind power on an industrial level. We’ve been told that wind is a natural and unlimited source of power. But it’s not. It’s very limited. And it is notoriously unreliable even without the competing tinker toys tugging at it.

More important than wind scammers robbing each other of the primary resource, there are natural considerations at work here. Surface winds have a very important job to do. Soil, seed, bugs, birds and the Green Holy of Holies, temperatures rely heavily on the natural movement of surface winds.

Nature.com reports that areas downwind of a large windfarm can see productive wind substantially reduced as far away as 50 kilometers (31 miles). The scammers and their cheerleaders want to build wind farms all over the US! This must not happen. It’s ugly. It’s unreliable. It’s self-defeating.

End of excerpt.

Also in a previous post I spoke at length about the hypocrisy mixed with mind-blowing lying and stupidity at work on the East Coast. They are already starting to build insanely large wind monsters right off the beaches, from New York to North Carolina. The biggest lie being told is that they will be so far out to sea that you’ll hardly be able to see them.

Copper is expensive and attenuated energy transmits through conduit inefficiently. These HUGE structures will be placed as close to the shore line as possible to offset those two facts. They will blight the immediate coastline as the picture above blights our landscapes.

In my article about the coastal blight, I went into detail about how our fisheries will be destroyed. We’re already killing whales and dolphins. That will continue for the foreseeable future. These monstrosities will negatively impact sea mammals for as long as they exist.

Click here to see the episode on food and the damage being done to the shoreline and fisheries.

Solutions

What this country needs is NG and nuclear power. The nukes can be large conventional reactors, or as often as possible, small Thorium LFTR reactors. Everywhere stupid people tell us we need a huge wind farm, drop a LFTR instead. It will take up less then 100th of the space and will generate more energy, more reliably, 24/7, whether the winds blow or not.

The most efficient and reliable form of energy on the planet is nuclear. We should have kicked our plant construction into high gear ten years ago. Despite the scary scenarios the naysayers like to point to, nuclear energy has been by far the SAFEST compared to it’s conventional counterparts for the entirety of it’s existence.

Consider the age of existing plants. Consider the technology in play. If we could build plants that work that well in the 1960’s and 70’s that continue to function with the technology available them, consider the possibilities NOW. Our knowledge and our electronics have seen tens of generations of advancement. Safety and redundancy in today’s plants would be child’s play compared to the difficulty and complexity it presented the early nuclear industry. We should be able to build dozens of plants over the next decade, by which time they will only be 20 years late to the game. If we go all in for stupid tinker toys, those plants may never get built. And we need them. ALL reasonable people can see the logic of it.

But for the big plants, you need water and plenty of it. In some places, that might not be a problem. In the Southwest new nuke power plants would be impossible. There, once impressive water supply has been squandered by piss poor planning and whorish politics. Here is another place where LFTR technology shines. In areas where water is scarce, use LFTR’s to desalinate. Where the power grid is being overwhelmed, LFTRs are a relatively cheap answer.

The naysayers of LFTR technology argue that the problems faced in the 50’s and 60’s are a problem today. Well, the Chinese seem to have solved those problems. Being is it is now 2023 and our technology and metallurgy has advanced just a tad, solving those problems turns out to be a non-issue.

As with my earlier comparison to child grooming and mutilation, we are past the time to stop the mini-retreats and go on the offensive. Take back our nation. We must go on the offensive! Now! We must call out, with a unified voice, the stupidity unfolding before our eyes. If half the country stops worrying about being “cool”, then we can’t be canceled. And it is far more than HALF the country that knows what I am saying here is true. It just takes the tiniest bit of guts and grit to start fighting back.

Get hot on social media. Hell, start by sharing this podcast across your accounts. Slam the FB, Twitter and LinkedIn of every politician from your mayor to your House and Senate reps, to the White House. SLAM them with demands they stop the nonsense. Link articles demonstrating the bullshit behind the green scams. Shame them into real action if you have to. And you will have to.

Get with your friends and join the Energy Revolt, chalk your car windows or slap on a couple of magnets and drive 40mph together down a major interstate or highway in your area. Take all but one lane. Do it together. Maybe one day 30,000 of us can take a nice leisurely drive through one of your major cities right around 4:00 PM; catch all the sights.

At social gatherings, stop retreating. When someone says windmills and solar cells are great, call them on it. But oh, you don’t want to have conflict at social gatherings, right? That’s just what these people are counting on. The pattern has been there since hippies roamed the planet. Meathead says something ridiculous; perhaps in this case that wind turbines provide 12% of our energy. Then if you speak up, Meathead goes bat shit and the room thinks YOU are the jerk for upsetting the Meathead. Let the idiots in the room think it. But there will be those who will get it. Give yourself permission to stand your ground.

We must end the tinker toy nonsense before we’re in too deep. The economy, our food supply, our cities, our survival as a healthy nation depend on truly reliable and abundant energy, not hyper-expensive, unreliable, tinker toy fantasies.

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