Party Pooper Podcast

I’ve been planning to release a few chapters of the book for weeks now. But fresh nutbaggery in DC keeps popping up. The chapters I have in the can are timely. Chapter 16 is On War. There is also a chapter on GOP fratricide. I promise, unless I’m left here alone in a rapture or Taylor Swift cheats of Travis Kelse while riding a commuter train at rush hour, I’ll have the next installment out next week.

If you’ve been with me more than a few weeks, you already know my views on the chemical castration and sexual mutilation of our kids. It was only a few years ago we were, as a people, disgusted with the mutilation of female genitals practiced in backward, Dark Ages places in the Middle East and North Africa.

Let’s Wax Historical.

I have, on more than one occasion, suggested people pick up a copy of The Perversion of Knowledge by Vadim J. Birstein. You can grab a Kindle or used copy pretty cheap on Amazon.

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One of the stories from that book that jumped out at me (page 49 in the 2001 Westview Press edition). Trofim Lysenko, a highly respected Soviet “scientist” taught that hard wheat could become soft wheat or even rye, that crop seeds should be planted very close together, because like species (as the ideal Soviet comrades) don’t compete. He also claimed that if a warbler sits on it’s own eggs along with a cukoo egg, she will hatch all cukoos because of the free-loading mother cuckoo not serving the collective and thereby damaging it.

Lysenko’s agricultural contributions were so well-received by the Soviet bureaucracy that wheat production was destroyed for years, killing millions. They were then adopted by that great agriculturist Mao Zedung, killing tens of millions over several years. This group-think stupidity was ten times as genocidal as Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot combined!

If you didn’t buy into Soviet “science” and practiced REAL science between 1920 and 1940, you were sent to the camps and tortured or coerced until you did buy in. Some dissident researchers and clinicians were killed for not following the Soviet “science”.

Lysenko Lives On Through the American Left!

Fast forward to the “more advanced” world of today. Today we learn that one gas, comprising about .04% of our atmosphere is causing rain and drought, heat and cold, storms and lack of storms. We are told the planet is warming toward disaster (the real drama queens now say boiling…omg!) and yet not a single one of these Lysenkoists can tell you what the optimum temperature of the earth should be or how much CO2 is too much or too little for the health of the planet. They have not the least clue. Ask one. If he gives you a number, he’s lying.

We are also required to “know” that a boy can be a girl and vise versa. We are told to believe that pumping kids full of hormones they were not designed to have is helping them. This Mengele inspired experimentation is rendering all the kids sterile! We are told this is a good thing - healthy. We are required by governments - state, federal and local - to use nonsense terminology like they/them when speaking of one person, or calling a he… a she. No dissent allowed.

If you call a man, dressed as a woman, a man, you’ve committed the grave offense of mis-gendering. If you call Caitlyn Jenner Bruce, you are [gasp] dead-naming. These are bullshit, InstaGram terms, not reality.

Companies also do this in their ads, literature and stationary. Few, if any of them believe a word of the nonsense. Few give a rat’s ass about any of it. But they get rated by the government on how well they pretend to believe and care. It effects their ability to do business.

Sexual Lysenkoists have created laughable doublespeak on the subject. The most naked (it would be funny, if it wasn’t so tragic) is calling the blatant denial of biological, physical, sexual reality “gender affirming care”. Now, to recover millions of kids and stupid adults, we must explain to them that to affirm gender is to explain to the troubled kid, many out there on the autism spectrum that their biological sex is a reality. We must help them thrive in the world as they are. That is affirming. To do other is to entertain delusion.

Almost as disturbing as parents sacrificing their kids to this permanently destructive FAD, is the ease with which a large portion of our population has bought into it. And there has been very little coercion. No camps, no show trials, no torture, as was the case when the Soviets were perverting knowledge. People have sold out their powers to observe obvious truth to avoid being throttled on social media or being screamed out of their wine and cheese club by a herd of hysterical, liberal cows. People are more interested in being in the cool crowd than they are the health and safety of their own children.

I say all this by way of introduction. If you are on Substack or my RSS carries text as well as audio, you’ll find a link at the end of the text below the audio line. This is a very important article. Even some people who until this very moment have been beguiled by InstaGram stars into buying this nonsense will have their eyes opened by Dr. Riitakerttu Kaltiala. The lack of reason, apparent in our headlong rush to destroy our kids, is stark.

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Talking Points Make Us All Stupider…

…except for my readers. Hug yourselves.

Everybody likes to have their confirmation bias tickled. I am no different. But I don’t write about something because it conforms to my ideas. If I did, I’d never tout Peter Zeihan or Bill Buckley. But I do because when they’re right, they’re right. And they usually are. If I note something they say, it is because I learned something or was dissuaded from an argument by them. I will on rare occasion argue with them.

This is why I read the Free Press. They are not paying me to say this. I don’t know the people there. But YOU need to know that the Free Press is a place where you truly get information from both sides of our socio/political zoo.

By pure coincidence, this episode cites two Free Press articles. One is full of information you need to help you raise your kids outside the tranny FAD, cited above. I will be quoting the other article to demonstrate the absurdity of Lefty Democrat groupthink.

I get my Free Press right in my inbox, as you should be receiving your P4B.

To the point!

I was treated (if that word can be applied) to an article by Joe Perticone. There will be a button below.

Right out of the gate he announces his agenda. Then proceeds to obediently spout Regime talking points much to his own discredit. I’d be hard-pressed to identify anything in his article that is a thought formed inside his own head versus put there by his political betters.

When Joe Biden proposed money for Israel, House Republicans responded with a counterproposal. $14.3 BILLION. No money for Hamas, and none funneled through Hamas (it’s crazy they’d have to say that) and the funds should be drawn from the $80 BILLION presently designated to hire 87,000 more IRS personnel.

Immediately through the good offices of Little Orphan Annie….er…I’m sorry…Karine Jean-Pierre, the talking points were issued. The sycophantic media parroted the points vigorously and often. The point is always to drown out other voices and drill the official line into your skull.

Perticone, in his article titled New Speaker, Same Old Stupid Games employed all the Regime’s talking points, now days-old, as if they were his own conclusions. It is clear there was very little critical thought on his part about either end of the argument, whether Israel or the IRS.

First, because some members of congress are FINALLY getting serious about NOT pissing money away and demanded a bit of fiscal belt-tightening, Perticone parroted that it was “typical Republican maneuvering”. That phrase was among those worn out by the time he employed them.

First, there is little typical about this, especially when it comes to spending on foreign conflict. The GOP has been almost as prodigal in their support for Ukraine for the last two years as the Dems. Only a handful have demanded, and not gotten, an accounting for all the money we’ve sent. Much of that money has been skimmed by corrupt Ukrainians.

And the GOP is hardly being ferocious on the issue. They didn’t even suggest a cut in spending (I would demand a double offset). They suggested we pull the dollars from an already over-bloated monstrosity, peopled by incompetents, that was set to receive $80 BILLION additional dollars. And there is no talk of improving the operation, just growing it.

Chuck Schumer, while spewing all the same talking points we’re discussing here, called the GOP requirement a non-starter. So much for collegial engagement. But that isn’t something the Dems do anyway. They always piss and moan, disparage and propagandize until they get all of what they want and offer a worthless pittance - then call that compromise. They have already started that process here with the help of people like Joe Perticone.

His defense of the IRS spending boondoggle is especially hair-brained. Ironically, he accuses the Right of employing talking points. This guy should try his hand at standup comedy. I’ll quote…then crush.

Republicans touted this as an “offset” to save the deficit from spiking, as did some in the press who are often quick to parrot the talking points they’re given. But here’s the reality: The Republican proposal would not offset spending at all. Rather, it would likely add to the federal deficit because cuts to the IRS almost always result in dried-up tax collection, thus adding to the debt. [ital. mine]

His first statement, under the umbrella of his “reality” is that an offset in spending is not an offset in spending at all. Except for a few dollars in red tape, this is a ridiculous statement. But not an uncommon one from the Left on the subject. The simple fact is, if you spend less here to spend more there, that is an undeniable offset. To say other is equal to saying boys can be girls and Hamas are freedom fighters.

Joe defends inanity number one in the paragraph with inanity number two. He suggests, as do his betters across the media spectrum, that by not giving the IRS ALL of the absurd $80 billion, passed by the Dems, it would not only leave tax revenues where they are pre-$80B, it would actually cause tax collection to “dry up”. Do Lefties even hear themselves when they talk?

So what are we concluding here? Are we to assume that if the IRS will inflate its own bureaucracy to staggering levels, using the remaining $65.7B, but doesn’t get the other $14.3B that the entire organization will be struck retarded and that they will suddenly not be able to enforce tax code as they had before the boondoggle? That tax revenues would actually “dry up”?

“CUT”… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The word “cut” should stand alone as Orwellian propaganda. What fucking cut, Joe? Even after the offset, it is still a $65.7B INCREASE! This is the most common fallacy the Left likes to use when budgets are being argued. Whenever the GOP wants to reduce the certain increases the Left proposes in spending, the Lefties accuse the GOP of CUTTING spending. It is the constant lie of the Left.

But the fun doesn’t stop there. The article goes into hysterics about how NONE of the proposed improvements will see the light of day; more robust legal work, an online website to pay your taxes, etc. They MUST have the whole thing or there will be nothing. The IRS will disappear! Scary!

First, it has to be said, the same organization that can’t answer the least complicated questions about YOUR tax burden will be programming that website. It will be at least as douched up as the Obamacare website. Such a convenience would be great, but knowing what we know about the federal leviathan, I’d be leery of using it.

But again, by cutting an increase by about 1/6th is not going to nix everything the bureaucrats want to spring on us.

And how do we justify such an expansion of such an already unwieldy and politicized organization? The IRS is only in business today because of our Byzantine, illogical, self-conflicting, punishing tax code. If we simplified it, took out the needless legalize, we could cut the IRS by 90%. And the cool new website would be far easier and less expensive to create.

One more thing about the IRS before we return to the Israel aid itself. Joe and Regime have whipped out the old saw about how the additional $80 billion will allow the IRS to go after the BIG fish of tax evasion. $65.7B won’t. Only $80B will.

There is so much wrong here it makes my head hurt.

The IRS has a saying: Big money, big problems. Little money, little problems. The army of newbie agents are not going to start on day one going after Daddy Warbucks for tax money. They will hit the streets, with the fervor of the newly converted, to pick apart the returns of the guy with 2 landscaping trucks, or the waitress who my have messed up her tip to wage ratio. They’ll be taking down rural law practices and politically incorrect 501(c)(3)’s.

And ya know what? So will the veteran agents. They rarely go after the big guys, especially on Wall Street. That is where the K street money comes from. They are in bed with these people. Wall Street guys vacation in the Hamptons, vote Democrat and stroke Dem politicians the most, because that is where regulations are born and can be bought off. And corporate lawyers are far better at reading tax law than government agents and lawyers. The money to the IRS isn’t about shoving a microscope up Meta’s or Vanguard’s asses. It is entirely about shoving one up yours.

Back to Israel

Then we get the cherry on top. If you care about Jews you can’t be fiscally responsible in your response to the war against 40-square-mile Gaza. The GOP is now holding the safety of JEWS (not Israel, note the race obsession) “Hostage!”

Let’s parse that one out. The GOP has said YES to aid to Israel. But they have attached an easily-met condition because our spending of late, has been nothing shy of insane and indefensible.

The Left says there will be no spending if any conditions are set. Print the money and send it with no input from the GOP or no money will be sent. Okay, if there is any holding of hostages here, who is holding them? Logically, it ain’t the GOP!

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Wow, what a week!

Two things jumped out at me this week. The Loony Left, led by chief loony Amy Klobuchar and Native American Elizabeth “Pow Wow” Warren are pushing actual legislation to get social media platforms to continue to censor speech on behalf of the Loony Left. They say it is to fight “misinformation” here defined as that which disagrees with, you got it, the Loony Left.

They are now trying to codify what they first denied doing…then said was being done by social media companies on their own…then admitted they were suborning social media to do for them. Back then they had quietly set up a thought police operation…which they then said was abandoned…which then continued to instruct tech firms regarding acceptable content. NOW, they are also putting INTO LAW a new thought police operation.

The bogus issue they are basing their actions on is health information. That’s just a smoke screen. And, recalling RFK Jr’s rules of politics, once these snakes get what they want they will never give it up. And if the government can abuse a law it absolutely WILL. This law, as with the last several years of censorship, will cover everything the thought police demand.

Now, here’s why the Left is coming out of the closet on years of lying to you about censorship. The Supreme Court, with Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch in decent, just let the practices of the Regime stand until a pair of state cases come up NEXT YEAR.

I think the SCOTUS ruled with far too light a hand on this one. The arguments, parsing terms like incentive and threats to get social media to throttle conservatives (there were both and they were substancial), smacked of Chief Justice Roberts panchant for going into the history books as a co-president. It seems Kavanaugh and Barrett were either bitten by this bug or are trying to avoid confrontation to polish their images tarnished in their confirmation hearings. If that was the case, they failed. This decision is a statist delight, a win for the Regime behind the puppet.

What Klobuchar and Warren are doing is rushing laws through which cover the issues in the complaints before the Court now. When the hearings are held it will no longer be an issue of whether the government can play touchy feely, of it’s own volition, with big tech. It will be a matter that is now a law on the books. That will completely eliminate the arguments of cases on the docket and new cases will have to be brought through the appeals process to rule on the law’s constitutionality. This is the plan of the Regime and last week SCOTUS teed it up for them.

Very short-sighted and far too lawyerly…in the bureaucratic sense of the word.

This is another of those fascist things the Left is doing that you must fight. If you don’t fight it then you will richly deserve every bad thing that will come from the lunacy.

Bill details here.

SCOTUS details here.

Item 2: American Brownshirts

Over the past few weeks, it has now become fully acceptable, hell fashionable, especially on college campuses to threaten, harass and disparage Jews because they are Jews. The phony “intellectuals” behind all this are using the new war in the Middle East as their Hitlerian justification for all of their despicable activities.

I single out the spoiled children at Stanford University for my sharpest criticism. Not only are they wallowing in this national, anti-semitic orgy, they have provided the school with a list of demands. (I swear, you can’t make this shit up!) Among the churlish wishes are: 1) 24/7 grief counseling for students in light of events in Gaza. Kiddies, as I said recently on such subjects, IT’S NOT HAPPENING TO YOU! Get over yourselves. 2) The university must condemn Israel and divest itself of Israeli holdings. (The dean should stick out his tongue and blow raspberries at the same time, I suppose.) 3) These hysterical idiots want students “facing harassment” to be provided attorney’s at the university’s expense. (This is the odd one. They MUST be talking about the Jewish students who are most assuredly being verbally tormented and threatened. Because the Palestinian/Arab students are specifically NOT being harassed. How funny it would be if anyone would explain to the children how the rest of the Arab world actually views Palestinians.)

There’s more. See it here in their own stupid words.

Cornell University gets “honorable” mention here. The Brownshirts there are so busy and vile that the Jewish student population are on partial lock down, instructed to avoid places where they usually congregate. The school administration says they will not tolerate violence or intimidation. Perhaps they should demonstrate this by combing the anti-semites from their faculty and administration.

They’re doing it again!

These morons, Lefty socialists with their student unions and committees, are following the example of the craziest socialist, Adolf Hitler. He headed the NATIONAL SOCIALISTS in Germany. Before WWII and the Final Solution he sounded EXACTLY like the brats at our campus Brownshirt rallies today. In Adolf’s case, he needed a boogy man to help propel him to power. So he used the Jews as a punching bag. These hopeless children in our universities are doing it to get attention and make themselves part of the narrative that effects them not at all! The organizers are doing it to brush up their political resumes. They don’t give a rat’s ass about Jew’s or Muslims or Israel or Hamas. They are political whores trying to build credibility among other political whores.

I would suggest that self-respecting donors, law firms, banks and other corporations that normally hire or support brats from these places put a 4-year moratorium on hiring grads from any of these colleges and freezing donations. If they allowed this nonsense to take place, they are shitting out losers on society. Let the losers drive for Uber or get paper routes.

AOC gets a promotion!

I have watched and laughed as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, named after a warmongering general and genocidal explorer, pulls one idiotic stunt after another. Her rhetoric often leaves me empathetically embarrassed for her. But her Green Scam rally that got shouted down and her initial knee-jerk support for Hamas because Orange Man like Israel, were especially fun to watch. In fairness, after people made fun of her she walked back her public support for Hamas. Now she’s quiet about it.

All that said, I want to give her a promotion. She’s no longer an idiot. Now she’s a useful idiot. Congrats sweet cheeks. Love the Spanks!

Think about what has been said so far.

In case you didn’t know it, there’s an election coming next week. Many who do know have already voted (that’s like buying a car before you have all the information you need, but so be it). Many of you will not vote this year because it’s just stupid little state or local elections. It’s not the really cool, important national stuff we see on TV every four years. Those folks buy into this intellectually underdeveloped notion because they haven’t been followers of the P4B long enough.

If you’ve been with me for more than 6 months you know that the people you will be voting for next Tuesday should be far more important to you than whatever schmuck that wins the White house next year.

For the newbies: the most important politician in your life should be your town counsel representative. The next would be your mayor, county supervisor, state reps, governor and congressional delegation. The least important elected official in your life would be the chief executive of the federal government. But because as a people, we are ignorant of the Constitution the founders blessed us with, we get the order backward.

Get out next week. In the meantime, enjoy these tidbits I pulled forward about the federal political zoo we seem to be so infatuated with.

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The Prestense of Ignorance

2 Nov 2020

Before I launch into my critique of our political zoo and the rampant ignorance on display therein, let me just say this:

* VOTE! Vote straight Republican. Yeah, I know, you’re dad went to school with your Dem Rep or Senator. Or your uncle’s boss’ brother plays golf with him. Or you met your rep and you are star struck. He’s the good one – not like all the others, right? Get over all that. If your guy/gal is a Dem but you want a return to pre-Covid growth and an end to the hyperbolic nonsense we’ve endured for the last two years, vote straight GOP. If Donald Trump wins and we don’t keep the Senate and take back the House that will indicate that a majority of Trump voters are just as stupid as their Biden-supporting counterparts and split their ticket. ALMOST ALWAYS A DUMB MOVE!

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Pretending to be Idiots

I’ve come to the conclusion that half the country WILL be stupid on Election Day or already have been in early voting. They know that the Democrats are the shrill, mean-spirited, power-hungry freaks conservatives say they are. But the TV and the cool Hollywood people told them that Orange Man Bad. Well, who wants to be left out of that cool crowd of self-righteous ass hats, huh?

In too many cases, kids have come home from college or even high school where they learned that being multicultural and militantly gay (as opposed to just being gay, if you are) is more important than living your real life. By the truckload, parents of these little daisies will abandon a lifetime of real learning and adopt the preadolescent garbage because the sun rises and sets on their particular little daisy. Pathetic.

The upshot is that in order to maintain their cool kid cred, American adults will pretend that Biden’s campaign actually means anything close to real. But on every issue except the Green New Deal and raising your taxes, Biden’s entire campaign is plagiarized (not his first offense) FROM TRUMP!

Biden will:

* Get Covid testing kits out faster. Testing went from zero to hundreds of thousands almost overnight 7 months ago. The numbers have been growing exponentially ever since. Biden is lying to you. He has no idea how fast he can get tests out, or even if he can maintain the pace the present administration has achieved. Doesn’t matter. Stupid people will pretend it means something.

* Bring back jobs and get things made in the USA. That has been the focus of Trump’s previous campaign, this campaign, and by far the greatest achievement of his first term. How will Joe Duh create more jobs or bring more home. By taxing employers more? Explain how that works. Oh…that’s right…you can’t. You know it doesn’t work that way. But ugh, we just hate Trump so much!

* Improve trade. Hahahahahahaha! Do I have to even address that?

I hear, to the point of nausea, how mean Donald Trump is. Here are two truths. Trump is inarticulate and his most focused attacks are ALWAYS counter punches. And what is usually said about him to begin with is beyond cruel and often untrue. You know this, I know this, all the snowflakes know this. But still adults will pretend not to. They will feign utter stupidity so they can be popular with…who? Other people pretending to be stupid or those who are genuinely stupid!

Since the debates Joe Duh has been repeating the hyper-inflated death toll from COVID. He then says Trump has blood on his hands and that the deaths were Trump’s fault. To all but the most fully indoctrinated crybaby in this hemisphere, these remarks are by far the most disgusting muck ever hurled in a political campaign. What a low-life! And the remarks have no foundation in truth. This, from the guy who was still accusing Trump of hyping the virus for political purposes as late as March (2020)! Even the Wretch Pelosi was up to speed by that time! For the record, the Trump administration was negotiating contracts for the production of antibody therapies in mid January in anticipation of learning enough about the virus to then create the antibodies.

The Trump obsessed crybabies know this. They lived through it. They saw all this unfold at the same time the rest of us did. But they lack fortitude and character. So they continue to pretend. Orwell was right. But we didn’t even need to torture people to see them follow stupidity with religious fervor. The television only needs vapid, cool people to tell the rubes what to think in empty but very snarky language.

To the Biden voter. You know all this, but you want so badly to be a cool kid. Meanwhile, the other “cool kids” are scut-mouthing Trump and applauding Biden’s egregious and vile attacks because they are worried that YOU won’t think THEY are cool. It’s a childish circle of nonsense.

All that said…

…did you know that last week one of the trendiest searches on Google was “how do I change my vote?” Huge numbers of people voted for Joe Duh and are now regretting it. At least these people seem to have come around to reason, albeit too late in some states. But yes, in at least three states you can change your vote. I hope you do.

And for the utterly blind, very few Trump voters are about to change their vote, especially seeing Trump outperform Joe Duh by 100 to 1 this week.

AND…

As I mentioned earlier, you need a Congress that isn’t going to sit on it’s hands and obstruct Trump. To put in another way, Trump is going to continue to simply get out of the way of economic growth. We need a Congress who will stand aside with him and enact laws that allow for it.

I watched a silly cow on TV saying that she didn’t care about the Senate. “It’s all about the president now!” That thinking is what has plagued our society since FDR. I promised no ads so you’ll have to look at other posts on streetpolitics.us to get a link to my book. In it, I try to explain why this is such a problem and how to fix it.

Final thought. A vote for the Dems is a vote for rioting, looting, assault, brown-shirt intimidation and an obsession with race. The party has tacitly or actively endorsed all of that.

Get out and VOTE! VOTE STRAIGHT GOP.

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Don’t Be a Political Pansy…on Election Day!

4 Nov 2018

The tag line I use to promote my book is “Don’t be a Political Pansy!” That is tongue-in-cheek advertising, and as much a joke as it is a challenge. But there really is a breed of political pansy out there.

I normally serve up red meat on this site. There is so much we can devour! And I am serving up plenty of it elsewhere. But right now I am talking to EVERYONE. I may be preaching to the choir though. It is likely that the people this is directed at won’t see it because, well…they are the people it is directed at, political pansies. They usually run from my stuff.

Who are these pansies? These are the people on both side of the political spectrum who harp endlessly on how screwed up everything is. They call names on Facebook and sit in the break room at work looking down their noses at politicians and the people that vote. But in reality they are too lazy and insincere to actually go out and make their own noise in a way that is constructive.  

These pansies have a laundry list of reasons to not fulfill their civic duty and vote. But my favorite is, “Why bother? It never changes. They’re all the same.” These pansies already know the answer to their own question. Things remain as they are because too many people say, “Why bother? It never changes.”

By being that guy, you hand the worst of our politicians the advantage of incumbency and the comfort of knowing that not enough of the electorate is awake enough to impact their political ambitions. You have to trust me on this: If the political class woke up on Wednesday morning to find out 90% of the population voted (the results would be wildly out of sync with what the talking heads are saying now) they would piss their pants! And rightly so. It would mean that they would have to start performing. They would have to shitcan their poll tested garbage and really try to make a difference. They would realize that all the special interest cronyism won’t protect them from US!

And damn! Look how easy they have made voting! You can vote online, vote mail-in (used to be called absentee) and you can vote early. I have made my concrete concerns for these stupid ideas known in my book. Despite those misgivings, how much easier do you need it to be before you participate and drop the phony self-importance about how the man will keep you down no matter what crap?

HOW IT OUGHT TO BE

I was talking to my buddy Bob D. on Facebook the other day. We were in disagreement about a particular get-out-the-vote campaign. But on one point, I don’t believe there was a spark of light between us. I said that Election Day should be a bank holiday. Forget early voting or online or mail-in garbage. Only real cases should vote absentee. On election day, we should all gather and celebrate the day and the franchise, win or lose. Voting is at least as important as the Fourth of July! It’s way more important than Labor Day. There should be Election Day parties after the polls close. No one allowed in without an updated “I voted” sticker. These parties should not be mandated by law, of course, but it would be an original party theme.

On this day, even as the returns are still being counted, we are all one again. We all did our civic thing and now we are enjoying just being Americans. Tomorrow, it all starts again. But today, no rancor or discord would be of any use to anyone. Pass the beer and the brats! 

But what am I saying? [snide whiney voice] No one would ever do that. It’ll never change. Right? To this I would respond with a slightly non-contextual quote from Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977: “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” At the time, that was the prevailing wisdom.  It would last less than 5 years. It all can change, it’s a question of how big the market is for change.

Of course we would need a center of influence bigger than my brilliant self to make Election Day a holiday. And what the hell, it would give Hallmark a reason to jack us up for a whole new set of greeting cards.   Don't be a political pansy! Read Street Politics: It Ain't Your Daddy's GOP Anymore! Grab your copy here. Let's demand good governance!

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Bloody FOX News!

My episodes are written the week before going out. I record on Friday and edits over the weekend. Lately, I have laid out ideas that no one is talking about only to find FOX hitting on them as my work is about to be scheduled for release. I have to move ahead faster.

Sumbitches!

My Mission

Every week I try to bring you an alternate perspective to what you are being inundated with out there. From national and international news, to politics, economics, and sometimes some offbeat topics like sports, health and entertainment, I try to give you a way of seeing things that are not what most think of as the norm.

From where I sit, especially in the the realm of economics and politics, the norm has brought us only pain and corruption. There is a way to view life that, if not actually providing answers (sometimes it does), it will at least inspire a healthy skepticism.

I am sometimes brash, sometimes satirical or light-hearted. But it is always intended to shift your focus from canned information to a historically realistic digest.

Do I get angry at the world? Sure. Sometimes. Can I be a bit cynical at times? Absolutely. When what we’re being told is divorced from reality and intended to deceive you, I am merciless. See ANYTHING I’ve ever written about Davos, the WEF, DEI, ESG or CBDC. These “salvations” are intended to destroy your life and enslave you. On those subjects I am merciless in my criticism and will always champion their undoing.

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Pain in Arizona

As of this writing The Phillies are up 2 game to 1 in the NLCS. We just took an excruciatingly slow loss to the Diamondbacks. That game damn near put me in a coma. But it shined a light on Philly fan enthusiasm. Playing at the “Bank” is unique. Visiting teams hate it. The Phils love it. There is a genuine excitement shared between the team and the city.

Just 6 more games.

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We know what happened to the hospital. Quit posturing.

It only takes a modicum of reason to understand most events. But to understand anything, you have to eliminate the obnoxious noise surrounding it.

To understand the “bombing” of the hospital, and why it is not a genuine controversy, I will look at another situation for perspective.

In June of 2023 a dam in Ukraine was destroyed. The resulting flood destroyed farmland and cause numerous deaths. Immediately, people did what people too often do. They lined up with their pro-Ukraine or anti-Ukraine tribes and dim-wittely declared who blew up the dam.

To really understand the event, you don’t have to be on one side or the other. You could even reject the positions of both sides, and with facts and reason establish, logically, who blew up the dam.

To do this we’ll use too of my favorite tools. The question…qui bono?…and the application of Occam’s Razor.

In April of ‘23, there was a huge leak of classified information in Ukraine. One can safely guess that the leak came from a corrupt source, high on the intel distribution list. Reasonable people can agree that the Ukraine government is still crawling with pre-Zellenskyy oligarchs and other rodents. Whatever you think of the ex-actor himself, he’s just one guy.

It is also a lead-pipe cinch that the documents had at least a broad outline of the coming summer offensive. Integral to those plans was a move toward the south central area of the Ukraine’s eastern border. This would pass just south of where the dam was. The move would have split Russian forces, trapping tens of thousands, and if successful would have choked off all movement of troops and supplies to more than half the territory held by Russia. It also would have put Russian shipping and naval assets in easy reach.

Russia now knew this. The simplest and most direct conclusion is Russia blew up the dam. For the Ukrainians to have done it, they would have had to sneak in tons of explosives and planted them in a dam held primarily by the Russians. No one is that stealthy, certainly not the Ukrainians. And it would have wrecked the upcoming offensive. There’s your razor.

And qui bono (who benefits) is extremely clear. The Russians lacked the strength and depth of forces, and access in the area to repel the planned attack. Of course they blew up the dam. It denied Ukraine an attack route.

So all the screeching by both sides amount to only noise, nonsense, even if some were guessing correctly. Understanding the event is more important than who dunnit.

Of course both sides blamed the other. It was a barbaric act. But logic and reality comes down solidly against Russia. They blew it up and lived to fight another year…or more.

So, to the hospital question.

The same thing happened this week when a hospital PARKING LOT was blown up. The tribes, with no evidence considered, just parroted what the leaders of each side were saying. Most disturbing was the tribal uproar in the United States. It demonstrated how ignorant we’ve become as a society, and how uncivilized.

This time we have the two questions, but with a twist. We have evidence.

First, if you see the videos of the actual explosion, notice the fiery, billowy nature of the explosion. It is not at all the character of the long range munitions Israel has been expending on Gaza. Those blasts are much more violent and debris-ridden. In a night shot, a wide blast wave would have been plainly visible.

In the video including the rocket launches, even Al Jezeera, no pro-Israel publication it, says it was quite clear that a rocket immediately strayed from the its intended path and was likely the one that hit the parking lot.

What else can we deduce, if we’re not tribal children about the subject?

Well, what kind of munition can produce a smaller detonation and flaming explosion? A good answer would be the small rockets Hamas makes from water pipes or smuggles in from outside. You’re not going to get a 13” airframe into Gaza unnoticed.

When you combine this deduction with the photographs the picture becomes even more clear. It doesn’t take a forensic scientist to see that an explosion occured involving two cars directly. Two derilicts are seen sitting askew of all the others and utterly destroyed. The blast lit the gas tanks of both along with several others in the lot. They are still parked and look like cars but are completely burnt.

Finally, there is the claim of 500 dead from this explosion. This is where I bring in the third consideration in my evaluation of the event. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. The Gazans lied. That explosion didn’t kill 500 anything. If you were in the immediate vicinity of the blast you surely would have been killed or horribly burned. If you were on the first floor near a window or door facing the blast, surely you could have been killed. But there was no 500 anybody killed. Lie to me once…

We dispensed with the “razor” with the nature of the explosion. So, qui bono in terms of lying about the incident? Well, the Israelis might have for the first hour or so, but if the detonation was sharp and powerful that would have left them looking super stupid.

Hamas on the other hand is a small band, ruling by force an area of 40 square miles. They can’t afford to have the population rise up. My best guess is that they can’t admit fault here for fear of losing popular support.

Now, I just went the long way ‘round the bush to explain what we in the West knew, in our hearts and minds, within hours of the explosion. But to both sides of the discussion, I’ll say this. To look at the evidence and consider the realities for one second and continue to blame Israel because siding with Hamas gives you some kind of street cred is disgusting. If you side with the Israelis because we are biblically or politically supposed to be aligned with them, that shows an astoundingly simplistic and dangerous reasoning process.

Both those camps are just trying to make themselves part of the narrative. Stop. None of this is happening to you!

As this unfolds, and the danger of much wider conflict looms, we need to take the lessons here and develop a much more mature and clear-minded view of all the key events around the globe. To do other will only contribute the the problem.

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The Main Event!

In the immortal words of Kool and the Gang, Celebrate good times! Come on!

We’ll start the main event with a small celebration. Peter Zeihan, usually someone I am catching up to or arguing with, is finally catching up to me on something!

I have reams of posts here and at the Energy Revolt that discuss Green Scams. My default position is this: NONE of what we are being told is the salvation of the planet is ready for wide deployment. EVs, solar, wind; none of the technologies they are touting as the answer RIGHT NOW are going to do a thing other than empty our wallets.

While Zeihan is nowhere near my position on Climate Change or Green Energy, he released a video this week in which he stated plainly that the tinker toys CANNOT provide the energy we need.

As the baby boomers age out and global markets contract…and China dies…we need to change almost everything about the way we do business. We will have to onshore or near shore almost all of our manufacturing. In fact, this has already started.

If nothing changed at all, green energy contraptions would not provide a substantial boost to our present energy needs. Certainly, they’ll produce nothing on the order of the costs involved in building them, much less the ugliness of having them blighting our land and seascapes. But as we onshore our industries, we will need far more energy than we produce now. This MUST come from natural gas and nukes, large and small. And yes, some still must come from coal. But an energy source that relies on good weather, and has been propagandized the way wind and solar has, IS NOT the answer at all.

So if it sucks, why do we have it?

The two main reasons are these. 1. P. T. Barnum said there’s a sucker born every minute. And I can tell you where at least 150 million of them live. 2. Corruption. Cronyism and easy money made the worthless blighting of our landscapes possible.

A bit of ancient history might be in order.

Starting in the 90’s, when the Global Cooling and Ozone panics ran their course, anti-fossil fuel dandelions needed a new boogie man. And they found it. Global Warming. It was warmer then than in years past! Gasp!

The Birth of an Industry

Before long, the burgeoning hysteria about what was now called “global warming” or “climate change” (GW/CC) gave rise to charletans…er…um…sorry…consultants who could advise you on how to make your company “greener” and “sustainable”. Not all their ideas were bad. Efficiency improves the bottom line. Just changing the lighting in large buildings to LED, for example, does save an inordinate amount of money.

Few, if any large corporations actually believed or cared about what these “experts” were preaching about the environment. But they did know that about half of their customer bases were, and still are, gullible, emotional virtue signalers. They knew if they released statements and ads showing how “green” they are, they’d attract dewy-eyed loyalty.

In 1998 Michael Mann, working with three co-authors, was trying to make a name for himself in the study of climatology. One may safely assume that he was also an environmental activist of some sort.

Mann set about modeling the changes in temperatures on the earth. He created a series of graphs and results, none of which had the kind of kick that results in what we’d now call viral exposure. So, what would happen if you ran two different algorythms together and just graph whatever the computer spits out? And voila, a funny French word, you’ve got the hockey stick graph, the boogie man must be real.

The paper was entitled Northern hemisphere temperature during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties and limitations. And in all seriousness there are so many variables and filling of arbitrary gaps in it that it is nothing short of irresponsible to use it as justification to turn the developed world on its economic head to “fix” what it purports. For example, the use of fat tree rings, with no other accompanying data, to say “There! There’s a hot year,” ranks up there with phrenology.

Also, the report, using thousands of data points, with no time to fully evaluate them over just a one year period is rather incredible.

Finally, the task set for the report was bias toward the conclusions drawn before the fact. In an interview, Mann said he was not looking for a connection between temps and anything else. He was just monitoring the fluxuations in temperatures over time. But the assumption in the work assigned was to address industrial impact on climate. It was a global warming paper from birth. In a very short period, a complex theory was produced using never-before employed techniques and what is called proxy data. Data from lake sentiment, tree rings, etc.

By releasing his data and summarily announcing that the cause of the rapid rise was carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Mann, et al launched a new religion.

We’ll leave alone that his doctored increase (there was an actual increase, just not a shocking one) recorded temperatures rising from one of the coldest troughs in atmospheric temperatures in 2000 years (coinciding with the beginning of reliable instrumentation). Perhaps I’ll deal with that in a future episode.

His graph started to gain steam quickly. Climatologists started modeling, not studying, the global temperatures using Mann’s data as their baseline. From that day to this, they have started with often ridiculous assumptions and fed them into computers. Naturally, you’d get the most outrageous results. For example: Assume the oceans in one day surrendered 2% of all the potential energy they store. The results, the computer says, are of course, terrible.

But why would the oceans do that? There is no known event that would cause them to do that. The only thing that could logically do that would be a massive asteroid strike. So we’d have a lot more to worry about than how much energy the oceans released. But hey, why spoil a good time for the alarmists, right?

Lefty politicians aren’t blind. They saw the power that could be had fanning the flames of this fad. Right away anything having to do with carbon dioxide was vilified. They care not at all for the results of any actions they’ve taken since. Al Gore jumped into the action with speeches and a mock-umentary called “Inconvenient Truth”. This took the daisies in our society by storm.

Countries were already experimenting, quite unsuccessfully, with solar and wind power. Schemes were sold to home owners, businesses and towns by saying something like, “Those wind turbines in Strudel, Germany are producing half the energy the town needs!” These kinds of statement are known in the real world as lies.

Here’s how they arrive at these “conclusions”. I’ve made this point many times over the years and the video above the footnotes bears it out as well. And as we go through this, keep in mind that the coal plants, if that is what an area uses primarily, have to keep burning along no matter what.

The wind farm guy takes a reading on a windy day at a moment of minimal demand. The output from the wind farm reads about half of what the town is drawing at that moment. (THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE A VERY SMALL TOWN.) But that moment doesn’t last long. Associated batteries will deplete very quickly. Then you’re back on coal or natural gas. If power is drawn straight from the rotors of the wind turbine’s movement, then you draw very little power anyway.

When B. Hussein The Magnificent took power, he announced that his election marked the day the oceans stopped rising. Gotta keep Barnum’s suckers blindly cheering. He, Gore and a bunch of other political whores teamed up with large companies (cronies) to really rake in the cash. And here’s where the scam begins to take on a life of it’s own.

The cronies wrote bills that the White House and scammers backed. Congress voted billions of green dollars directly to the cronies who immediately started building large, overly expensive wind and solar farms. Investors flocked to the cash cow. Near zero lending pushed things along even faster.

The Beltway couldn’t pump out “green” propaganda quick enough. Some of the earliest cronies to get big bucks to play out the scam went belly-up pretty quick. Solyndra got $535 million and very quickly declared bankruptcy. Its executives, many coincidentally tied directly to Barry O, parachuted out under golden parachutes. A win-win for political whores and cronies. A total loss for the American people.

But the fun didn’t stop there. Hey guys, what if we convince people to drive electric cars; that would be so great!

Well, at the time they were in the experimental stage (and still are). They had very poor range (with not a lot of improvement since). They had no hauling capacity (again, this had changed little). And as used cars they’ll have no value. So, how do we get rubes…I mean…citizens to purchase them? Hmmmm.

I’ve got it! First we subsidize the shit out of the industry and the buyers of these junkers. Then we add a new highway tax (actually proposed) to discourage the use of the millions of perfectly servicible real cars the people already own. Perhaps the states and counties will follow suit. The suckers in Blue areas probably will. Then, we use the same guilt mongering and lollipops propaganda we used for windmills and solar panels.

And BINGO! Companies that had given up on battery powered, coal charged cars as unworkable and pointless, jumped back into the battery car market! Who’d’a thunk it?!

Then that bad Orange Man came and spoiled the party. There were still some people buying the tinker toys, but it wasn’t nearly as much fun. At least he didn’t take the subsidy away. Too many political whores in Congress to allow that.

Joe Duh to the Rescue!

After four years of so-so progress, the Biden Administration (property of Obama and friends) outdid them all. Davos, the activists, the political whores and cronies all huddled up. And in the course of two years they created the Infrastructure Act (a thinly disguised green scam act) and the Inflation Reduction Act (the name being the only fig leaf for this dishonest green scam bill). They were long and complex and voted on without being read by ANY elected representative.

Now $4 TRILLION has been dumped on the green scam industry. They’re planning to blanket the Midwest with windmills with no consideration for what will happen to surface winds, soil movement, seed movement, migratory birds, or competing wind monstrosities. No thought about how reliable the actual wind will be in some of these areas. They are killing sea mammals by the bushel and will destroy fisheries and vacation areas along more than 600 miles of the east coast with more windmills.

Not a single city or state will be able to run anything reliably off these things. All will have to continue to rely on coal, natural gas or nuclear power for 90% of their energy.

Here’s the best part. I’ve said this many times before and I think I’m still the only one saying it out loud. Because Uncle Stinky is up to his neck in these projects, and because there are trillions of dollars being thoughlessly thrown around, these profanations will be insanely overpriced, poorly managed, and will later become an enormous economic millstone around the necks of those who are supposed to benefit from them.

And I’ll say this again: these tinker toys, especially wind farms, will be rotting, worthless hulks across the country within 25 years. No one will want to tear the derelicts down. That is, until Uncle Stinky blows more of your money to over pay the cronies to do it.

Not for nuthin’…but $4 trillion comes to about $12,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Maybe you should get thousands of shares in the green scam companies. Nah! There not going to give you a dime of anything they make or any increase in the value of the companies you GAVE them.

Solutions. I Always try to bring ‘em.

First, you must ACTIVELY [caps, italicized and bolded] reject this lunacy before it’s too late. You must cajole and even shame your representatives into rejecting the projects and clawing back the money. That would be your city council, mayor, state legislatures and governors, and definitely the US Congress and Obama’s puppet. My thing is to troll their social media and send emails.

Second, 65. This this election, like last election and the three before that, we need 65 GOP seats, peopled by Senators too scared to even say the words “green” or “spending” in public. A veto proof majority, plus a few extra to compensate for the lame asses, is what this country needs to right itself. If we don’t do that, the Left and their cronies will continue to destroy this nation.

Finally, join the Energy Revolt. It’s a good idea that could actually move the needle if it catches on. It is primarily established to promote energy production here, fight ESG and shut down green scams. I’ll be looking for you.

The link at this button just barely scratches the surface of what I was saying earlier. Call it a primer for, and evidence of, bigger disasters down the road.

Here’s Peter ALMOST agreeing with me. This guy probably has a closet just for sunglasses. Double click, then click again.

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Such a dichotomy!

I am watching my friends online swing from baseball euphoria to disgust and dismay at what we are seeing on our screens right now. Then it might be College Football or the golf outing this weekend. Then we shake our heads at the news again. We feel it in our gut. Something earth-shattering might be brewing in Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan. A handful of second tier nations, three of whom you hadn’t thought of since geography class, if ever, are now a balloon knot of conflict, each with their supporters standing by calculating the price of “helping”.

Anyway, the Phillies and the Braves are one game each in the playoffs. And you know how I feel about that.

A Primer (of some value)

Before we get down to the nitty-gritty, I want to mention the video at the bottom of the text, just above the footnotes. I will refer to it in the meat of the podcast. This video is 7 years old. It could have been made yesterday and it’s conclusion reflects what we see right now.

It is also a myth buster. I am heartened when someone acknowledges the FACT that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not thousands of years old. The popularity of that meme is a symptom of the intellectual laziness that governs EVERYTHING in our geopolitical world. But that is grist for a separate episode.

I have one issue with the video I’ll share later.

Present Day

One must suffer a constant state of migraine living in places like Gaza. The cesspool is governed by a band of dark-ages lunatics whose most important hold on power is maintaining a loud, pseudo-religious hatred among the people for their neighbor. The place is crowded, kept ignorant and suffers severe and self-imposed unemployment.

The phony Iranian mullahs, as interested in the hereafter as I am, have been feeding the brooding in places like Gaza for years, decades. And I suppose this is the week they have chosen to expand their power and flex their muscle in these wretched regions.

For context, please note this: Iranians (Persians) don’t much like Palestinians. They see them as inferior, far-distant, poor cousins. That is the way much of what we call the Middle East sees them. If Israel didn’t exist nobody would be excited at the idea of spending any time with them. So clearly, financing and planning the Gaza incursions was not an act of mutual love of god or need for justice.

Iran sees Israel as turf to be taken, that’s all. It is, for Iran, potential Mediterranean access. Jew, Muslim, Christian… it matters not at all. They would covet the land. But, you say, Iran doesn’t border Israel. Iraq and Syria do. You make me giggle.

In recent years, especially under Trump (this will seem ironic to the typically uninformed American) many in the neighborhood have been realizing the pointlessness of conflict and have been moving closer to a real, productive peace with Israel.

Sadly, this has happened concurrent with the United States losing interest in maintaining our role in keeping sea lanes and trade functioning around the world.

Geopolitical Killjoys.

Ever the fly in the ointment, the stick in the spokes, the wrench in the gears, Iran has taken an opportunity here. They see a USA, with a puppet president controlled by a credulous cabal, led by an Islamophile (Obama), bumbling around the world and reacting late and weakly to EVERYTHING.

Hell, the mullahs have taken the same cabal for billions of dollars. It’s not just the ransom payments from Obama and Biden in question. It’s tens of billions in exemptions allowed, rendering the sanctions impotent. By beefing up the Iranian budget, they’ve freed up billions for Iran to dedicate to sewing pseudo-religious destabilization.

Wider implications…maybe

I am not a WWIII believer or WWIII denier when it comes to what this conflict will trigger. I am a WWIII agnostic. A much wider conflict could be triggered by the nut bags and the phony mullahs. Or it all could remain contained to Gaza and maybe southern Lebanon.

I will say the reporting out of Iran is not encouraging. They have chosen NOW to also make noises against their neighbors to the north, which does portend Hitlerian tendencies. In the midst of all this, Iran is explicitly threatening Azerbaijan.

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Iranians have an Azerbaijani presence in the north and feel much the same about them as the Turks and Iraqis feel about the Kurds. Ironically, the phony religious nut bags in Tehran are backing Christian Armenia against Muslim Azerbaijan. Conveniently, and dangerously, this area is close to the Ukrainian conflict. Russia, also Armenian backer, is pleased.

If you consult the map, you can note that this region is among the areas Putin wants to re-establish his vision of a Czarist empire. It has natural boundaries and an area that they’ve been attacked through previously. It borders Georgia who have a testy relationship at best with Russia.

Further, as Tricia DeGennaro mentioned here in her P4B appearance, we need to keep an eye on the Balkans because people who were young when peace was established are now older and moving into positions of authority. Old vendettas are still simmering in their hearts. Just a small spark could set things alight there.

I mentioned this and expounded on it a bit a week later while talking sports with Ron Cori. Could one nut bag or another take advantage of Iranian and Russian aggression to move on old enemies?

It’s a lead-pipe cinch that Russia gave Iran the nod to get loud with Ajerbaijan. Could this be the spark?

I have said that with the breaking up of Germany and the “peace” plans in the Balkans, we had recreated 1876 Europe. That was the chemistry that led to WWI in 1914. Things happen a lot faster now. And the insanity we’ve witnessed in the last few days are far more serious and more wrapped up in international resentments and alliances than the shooting of a central European royal, of whom the world thought not at all.

The grain of salt

I want you to take everything in this piece with a grain of salt. I watch. I read. I spot trends and have been writing about them since 2011. More than a decade ago I told some intel Bubbas, who were fixated on the Middle East to keep an eye on this Putin guy. He never got the memo that the Cold War was over. I got a tolerant smile and a pat on the back. What did I know, right?

But, as much as I might have my finger on the pulse, as closely as you might watch events unfold, neither I nor you can be sure what we are seeing is real - or at least not orchestrated by what are supposed to be opposing governments. Orwell warned us of powerful people creating enemies and killing peoples for domestic consumption. This would be to maintain the myth of other and to instill a frightened sense of nationalism - us against them.

Just a handful of people control trillions of dollars that wash around the globe under their hand. They could stop a country from aggressive action with the stroke of a pen. If you want to borrow my money, you play nice with the other kids. Develop your nation. Don’t demolish others’.

And yet, they don’t. The Rothchild family was the first to realize this power. Instead of using it for peace, they profited WILDLY from endless war - financing BOTH sides! And who controls what you see on the internet and TV? It’s the same people from footnote 2. So where lies the truth?

Qui bono? Who would benefit from something as heinous as this? Well, besides the big guys, how’s your Bidenomics working for you? Biden’s puppeteers might be gearing up the message right now. No, America! You don’t change horses in the middle of the war!

With that caveat…

…just what ARE we seeing right now? It could be a precursor to war between Israel and several neighbors. The subhumans in Hamas might just be the grease fire to be used as a trigger. I’ve heard nothing of troop buildups (keep the caveat in mind) and that would surely be required for a real conflict to heat up. Keep an eye out for word that Lebanon or Jordan or whoever might be mobilizing.

The only thing I can call it so far is a wholesale prisoner snatch. I mentioned earlier the Obama and Biden ransom payments and the multiple billions they freed up in sanction exemptions for Iran. Kidnapping for fun and profit has been a cottage industry in the Middle East for decades. Perhaps Iran has decided to contract Hamas and do industrial level kidnapping.

If so, I can only shake my head. If that is the case it shows the mullahs to be every bit as stupid and greedy as I have accused them of being. Could they REALLY be that stupid? And Hamas just signed its own death warrant.

Incredibly, these subhumans have threatened to execute hostages, one at a time, and release the video. Iran may have calculated the response of Israel to all this, but Hamas hasn’t. They actually think they have a tactical advantage here.

Of this you can be certain: Israel will use their special forces to ferret out as many hostages as they can find. They will attempt to rescue them. Anyone within shouting distance of the hostages WILL BE KILLED.

They can’t kill us all.

I noticed something the average Lefty would call progress, but I find disturbing, in the video of the music festival. None of the people were packing. On my visits to Israel many years ago you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting an armed civilian. We’re talking dads our with their family eating ice cream or a guy having a gyro. Weapons were everywhere.

Not, it seems, today. And the people at that event have lost touch with the lessons hard won in WWII. They outnumbered the subhumans by a grand order of magnitude. There is no realization of the concept that says they can’t kill us all.

Of course, that requires in any situation a person brave enough to be the first. I wonder if it even crossed anyone’s mind. If such a person were there, things might have ended quite differently. I’m not judging. I’m wondering what happened.

Looking forward.

I have spent my life listening to pundits and average jackasses talking about this or that event presaging WWIII. If the dire warnings about this one hatching World War are correct, you’ll know pretty soon. Keep and eye on Iran, Syria and Jordan. Watch the Armenian/Ajerbaijani headache unfold. Notice if France decides to put down the rebellions in their former colonies in Africa. That can do it easily enough. They still have friends in those places who speak French. And I mentioned the Balkans earlier.

Added to the specific areas, we have economies all over the world, especially China’s and Germany’s, that are going very wobbly.

If any of the flash points go critical, then boys and girls, we have 1914 all over again on a much larger scale. All the work the US has done or 80 years keeping the sea lanes open for all nations will be a nice memory.

Should North and South America chose sides? We will have the most survivable economies left. Or should we, on these continents let the rest of them kill each other?

I’m no hawk. Few serious, military men (non-yes men) are. I would lose not a minute’s sleep if we, over here, send in all the guns and bullets they need while we all sit this one out.

One point about the video.

When discussing Israel in 1967 and 1972 the narrator says something like, “they had a war.” In this case it was a nebulous “they”. Your are not certain of a bad guy. Israel’s acquisition of all the territories including Sinai, was the result of aggression by the powers surrounding Israel. Several countries massed huge numbers of troops and tanks and artillery and launched coordinated attacks on a single smaller country. By historical standards, there has never been an obligation on Israel’s part to EVER return a single yard of territory in a situation like that.

In fact, it was the Allies after WWII who set any kind of precedent by doing so. Before giving up ALL of Germany, Austria and the rest of Europe, the Allied powers first insured they were governed by “our” kind of people. And still that puts Israel, or any other country who was so attacked, under any NO obligation to surrender anything to the vanquished aggressors. They could have immediately annexed all the lands and ousted any undesirable elements.

Instead they spent from that day to this in an almost constant state of negotiation and/or defense trying to actually give land back. With Sinai, they surrendered the greatest natural border by any country EVER. Honorable by any standard.

So “they” didn’t just “have a war.”

Enjoy the video.

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This is a jam packed episode. We’ll start with some quick hits and then move to the main event. Don’t forget the smattering of important links and footnotes in the text below the audio line.

Last week I posted a quick hit on Ukraine. I used a play on words to demonstrate how tribal, narrow-minded and emotional people are on the subject. And why wouldn’t they be? On one side of the argument (those who don’t see any benefit in helping Ukraine) people keep talking about “Nazis” running the show in Ukraine. Other than people SAYING it, I see absolutely no evidence of National Socialism having a foothold in that country.

On the other side there are those who have only one default position when someone questions ANYTHING in the way of assistance from the United States. You are called a Putin lover, or some other stupid thing. This is purely the result of the emotional blackmail used by our government to justify the possibly wasteful and rampant flow of money flying to Ukraine while our border stands agape, Maui needs to be rebuilt and criminals own our streets.

It is when you straddle the issue, as I did quite consciously on 1 Oct, that the irrational tribalism emerges.

I titled the piece Skew Ukraine…! I knew most brains would fly across the word and subconsciously read Screw Ukraine or assume I made a typo and was secretly in love with the little Russian Jerkoff.

And my buddy Tom G. fell for it. I am sure he’s not the only one, but he was the first to engage in battle leading nowhere. To wit: “Actually Matt, it is a case of who’s side you are on in the Ukrainian war. There are two sides, one is defending itself and the other is invading a foreign country.

Try this, instead of Russia insert the words Soviet Union. Are you still just as comfortable with them running roughshod?”

This is the opening salvo in what typically becomes a classic circular argument on social media. While it demonstrates my point about how this whole Ukraine mess has become hopelessly propagandized, it also points to something I have often written about here. The quality of our discourse, even among “educated” people has been obliterated by technology and social media. This was the point of my hashtag #nationof12yrolds.

We need to stop swallowing everything our favorite politician, news host or Instagram knucklehead spews at us, and start looking at the world from a more mature, analytical angle. If those passionate about Ukraine hadn’t spent the lead up to the war wringing their hands, and been aware enough to shame the present Regime into quick and early action, we might not be here right now. I proudly count myself among the pathetically few voices who did criticize the foot-dragging and telegraphing of sanction plans BEFORE THE WAR STARTED.

That’s a pretty sad and empty neener-neener, but there you have it.

Anyway, I posted a video at the bottom of the text which somewhat demonstrates how strong we left Russia, post-invasion. It also speaks to the complexity of considerations we must make. How many of the people with Ukraine flags on the bumpers would be willing to pay considerably more than we are paying now for gas to see Russia properly punished for the invasion? And even THAT wouldn’t be necessary if the Regime hadn’t gutted our own energy sector. But Europe would have been devastated by it all.

A celebration

The Phillies won the wildcard series against the Marlins. Huzzah. SAM, RON…Where are you? We need to get another baseball show in the can!

So long, Kevin. See you in the funny papers.

I am not one who will lose a minute of sleep seeing an establishment politician sent packing. The coup in the House is exactly the caliber of action I have been calling for since 2011.

BUT!!!!!!

I have been calling for other things as well. While all very exciting, the timing and follow-through of Matt Gaetz’s actions were…let’s call them sub-optimal. First, you don’t lead a palace overthrow without a substitute head to wear the crown. Yay! The king is dead! Um…er…now what? Are you gonna…? Wait. No, not me…I thought…Oh, shit. Okay everybody, take a week off.

The fact is every institution in DC needs to be throttled vigorously! But you have to have your ducks in a row to do it. Gaetz did not. His stunt was on par with Biden letting the Russians invade Ukraine just to have a shiny object. Before you turn the House and your party upside down you need to have an immediate plan, a popular substitute standing by AND A SENATE MAJORITY, preferably a veto-proof majority.

Gaetz’s premature political ejaculation proves only one thing. Gaetz is a fairly immature and impetuous man. And the ones who went along with him (I am politically aligned with them, normally.) were just as dumb.

Do the smart work to take both houses. THEN take the big steps I outlined in my brilliant (if poorly edited) masterpiece, Street Politics: It Ain’t Your Daddy’s GOP Anymore! Available wherever brilliant masterpieces are sold.

I’ll send Gaetz a thank you note if this article sells a few books.

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The Main Event

Before I begin, I should reiterate you can find this tome of super-smartness and political coolness here. Also, you don’t want to gloss over the footnotes. For the book excerpt, you’ll find them above the video. For this podcast episode, footnotes will follow the video. Footnote (ii) is especially important. Footnote (vi) demonstrates my negative impressions of Trump back then. Not all of these impressions have changed. I have been accused of being a Never-Trumper. I have been accused of being in the Trump cult. Shades of the Ukraine segment above, right. The fact is when Trump is right, tax reduction and deregulation, I give him credit. When he’s wrong, spending and his shotgun approach to Euro and Asian trade deals, I ding him.

And so we begin.

Street Politics:

It Ain’t Your Daddy’s GOP Anymore!

Matt Jordan

Copyright © 2015 Matt Jordan

Formerly 16 20 24: A Path to Consistent Conservative Victory

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15  NATONAL SECURITY:

I’ll Take Real Security, Please, With a Side Order of Personal Liberty.

"What is it that all these wage-earners, skilled artisans, soldiers and tillers of the soil require, deserve, and may be led to demand? Is it not a fair chance to make a home, to reap the fruits of their toil, to cherish their wives, to bring up their children in a decent manner and to dwell in peace and safety, without fear or bullying or monstrous burdens or exploitation, however this may be imposed upon them? That is their heart's desire.  That is what we mean to win for them. "

– Winston Churchill[i]

If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear. 

- National Security Agency[ii]

Knee-jerk jerks

During the post-9/11 debates that gave birth to what would be the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), I recall seeing a Senator, I forget who, exclaiming that Congress needed to pass something because, “we need to look like we are doing something!” This was in response to push back from the White House, not wanting to create a bureaucracy in response to a violent attack.  There was not one comment on CNN or FOX.  I never read anything later about it in any magazine.  Not even on Drudge.  This comment was made from the well of the Senate!

What a breathtakingly stupid thing to say! How much more stupid were we? We stood like idiots and watched the 535 incompetents hatch two deformities that would only be outdone by Obamacare.  Because they wanted to look like they were “doing something”.  In short order, Bush caved to the we-need-mommy-to-fix-everything fever on Capitol Hill.

First there was the Patriot Act, formally introduced in the House by Frank J. “Jim” Sensenbrenner in October of 2001.  It was a homogenization of the Uniting and Strengthening America Act, Financial Anti-Terrorism Act and a stampede of panic-button notions and whims floating around inside the Beltway after 9/11[iii].  It was a massive decision, taken in haste by people who, as usual, didn’t read the goddamn bill.  Did it really need to address the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act? Really?

Despite Sensenbrenner’s repeated insistence to the contrary, the NSA, the Justice Department, the White House and a Department to be named later noticed that the Patriot Act mentions wiretap, tracing and the FISA court (now a rubber stamp for anyone wanting to nose around in your phone records).  They decided that it was the will of Congress that the NSA should take a vacuum cleaner to the Internet and phone records.  They would process warrants that included such specifics as - everybody that Verizon has on record.

Boy, These Guys Have ALL the Answers…Just Not the Right Ones.

Fast on the heels of the Patriot Act was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.  Being herded like cattle through an airport, by under-qualified security guards[iv] is only the tip of the iceberg for this monstrosity.  And it is emblematic DC thinking.

In the 1970s the Israelis figured out it was a good idea to nail the cockpit door shut in commercial airliners.  Their hijacking rate dropped to nil. 

How did we deal with hijackings? Meh.

Long before subhuman religious nut bags flew planes into the Twin Towers, Tom Clancy released a book in which a Japanese pilot flies a 747 into the Capitol Building (1994).  It was quite a shocker.  But I remember thinking how easy it would be to do something like that.  I wondered then, what we were doing to prevent such a thing.  As Tom Clancy was one of the most popular authors at the time, it is a lead-pipe cinch that people in a position to know about these things also read it. 

Reaction? Zilch!

In 1995, intelligence people in the Philippines (!!!) warned us that known or suspected Al Qaeda members were taking flying lessons in the United States.  There would be several more reports of this kind of activity over the next several years.  Including flying instructors mentioning how strange it was that the religious nut bags didn’t want to learn how to take off and land; just how to maneuver in flight. 

Still, no alarm bells. 

By mid-2001 the FBI was just getting around to checking out some of the reports.  They would later say that they knew that the subhumans were taking flight lessons but figured they were just planning for conventional hijackings, not a suicide mission.[v]  (WTF?!?!)

Following the 9/11 attacks and the revelations above, did the government get serious and drill down into the existing intelligence and law-enforcement communities to route out the points of failure? Did they arrest, fire or even demote those who allowed the attack to take place through incompetence or indifference? Did they kick ass and make basic philosophical changes to the way these communities did business?

Noooo! That would have made sense.  No, what the Beltway stooges did was create a whole new, cumbersome and equally incompetent bureaucracy to heap on top of the existing dog pile.  Not only did they not correct the basic problems within the communities, they made their management and cooperation infinitely more complex.  Even the very top of the chain of command for intelligence is now a Byzantine balloon knot of overlapping responsibility.

So, why the History Lesson?

So far, the only serious candidate to speak plainly about the mind-blowing incompetence on all levels of the government is Carly Fiorina.[vi] She is also one of a handful of hopefuls who has the background to take on a large, philosophically malfunctioning loony bin that is our government and turn it into something to be proud of.  Sadly, she is a big fan of mass data sweeping.  Rand Paul has no equal in taking on the derelict DHS system and I believe he has the intelligence to be a superior President, but he needs to get real specific about his views and intentions if he is going to overcome his lack of executive experience as an image issue.

I go on a lot about how we need to shit can programs that are the darlings of the left cheek of the governing class.  But the next POTUS must be willing to kill stupid wherever it rears its head. 

Cleaning up the Patriot Act and fixing (eliminating?) DHS will be a tough fight.  It is popular with both the military hawks and left wing statists.  That alone proves me right on its overall worthlessness.  But you will need the support of the public to deal with these pigs.  Right now, all a commentator has to say is, “Well, what if we get attacked again? Then where will we be?” The public is presently convinced that DHS has been effective.

Please note that all or nearly all the terrorism busts have come from tips.  These tips were from foreign countries or regular civilians who saw or heard something.  The data sweeps have not produced one bust.  The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, the printer cartridge bombs all made it onto airplanes. 

A fat, religious, nut bag on staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, communicating with known terrorists, was transferred to Ft.  Hood where he killed 31 people shouting “Allahu Akbar”. 

In fact, Nidal Hassan was a major in the U. S.  Army.  He was responsible for the psychological well-being of American soldiers.  And no one twigged to the fact that he was in communications with known terrorists.  (They watched him doing it.) This, even after he would inject stupid, religious, anti-American rants into what were supposed to be meetings about military medicine. 

Good job, NSA! Good job all you guys who worked with Hassan! Our special thanks go to his superiors for their timely action! You guys really know what to do.  Like the national security posters say: If you see something, keep your mouth shut or you might offend a fat, religious nut bag.

Since 9/11 people have confused the terms security and safety.  One of the few legitimate functions of the central government is to provide for the national security.  They cannot provide for your safety.  There isn’t enough government for that.  So if you are walking through a mall or boarding a plane thinking that the DHS is on the job and has your back, think again. 

In the first paragraph, under the heading quoted at the beginning of this chapter, the NSA says: “Our value is founded on a unique and deep understanding of risks, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and threats.  Domestic Surveillance plays a vital role in our national security by using advanced data mining systems to ‘connect the dots’ to identify suspicious patterns.” Well, the NSA, the CIA and the FBI had pretty good stuff before 9/11.  The NSA is always decades ahead of the rest of us in terms of technology.  But they couldn’t connect the dots between a very realistic and popular story line and years of low-tech tips about terrorists right here in the US.  They blew it then and they aren’t much better at it now.

Don’t get me wrong.  If something were to happen, say a bomber using what looks like a box of Cap’n Crunch and a FitBit as a triggering device, blew up a comic book convention and you got whacked, you can rest assured the NSA would then collect all the data ATT had available on the guy.  DHS would then make new policies to look for shooters or bombers that fit your killer’s profile.  We’d never see another box of cereal or an electronic wristband on an airliner or in a mall again! So there!

But since we’ll not likely get a match on that again, the NSA and DHS will be left to react to the next killing – after the fact.  But hey, be thankful there is a whole cabinet level department devoted to following up on one killing after another.

It is possible that, some day, a weird phone conversation will be picked up at precisely the right moment and a major, professional terrorist plot will be foiled.  But you can’t build a strategy on that.  And such odds are not a valid reason to dig into the personal lives of every citizen.

Whether you are a private citizen or an aspirant to higher office, you have to look this stuff hard in the face.  The DHS was an elaborate and expensive piece of theater designed to make you think the politicians were at the switch after 9/11, even though they weren’t there one second before.  Its creation has also added deleterious red tape to the already over-bloated law enforcement and intelligence communities.

One of the keys to good intelligence collection and analysis is knowing what you don’t need as well as what you do need.  Too much information muddies the process.  Massive NSA data sweeps have one, and only one, purpose.  To collect and store as much information as is humanly possible on everyone for future use.  It will be used to either find interesting facts about killers after they have killed, or for powerful politicians to destroy you and/or your character if you make life inconvenient for them.  There is no other use for it all.  In order for collected data to be timely and actionable it would have to be much more discreet and come in much smaller, focused packages. 

So my challenge to candidates and handlers is to talk to experts in the field.  Avoid government lackeys.  Honest experts can verify what I am saying.  Continue your elementary school civics lesson, teaching people the value privacy holds for them.  Teach them the potential costs of losing that privacy.

DHS as a Totalitarian Tool 

We can go a step further.  Why does the DHS have urban assault vehicles and billions of round of ammunition? All types of ammunition? In the event of war, agents from the DHS are not going to be loaded onto C-17s and sent to the front.

How might history answer this question for us?

Well, in the early 1930s, FDR was busy prolonging the Great Depression by making lots of busy work programs along with other statist policies to grow the size of the federal government.  One of the programs was the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC).  This was a national organization of (mostly) men, formed into military-style organizations and shipped hither and yon to build dining halls and walking paths through our national parks.  It oozed national pride and propaganda.  If you visit the Gulf Islands National Seashore (National Park) in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, you can walk on the remnants of one of these paths.  At the turn-around, you’ll see a faded photograph of the CCC on display.  It is a picture of morning muster.  The men are formed up, in uniform, in platoon-sized groups.

For Ma and Pa Kettle, the explanation for having a CCC was that men needed work and the national parks needed roads and paths, so we created the CCC.  But that was not the main reason for its inception.

After the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919, French general, Marshall Ferdinand Foch echoed the misgivings of many when he said the treaty didn’t bring peace but “an armistice of 20 years…no more than a 20 year truce. ”

Everyone, with the possible exception of Woodrow Wilson, knew that another major clash of nations was an absolute.  And most countries went about preparing for it.  By Roosevelt’s lights, as it was with German thinkers, the upcoming war was going to be a war of mobility and supply.  How the hell does one train for that? Simple.  Do it.  The CCC did create some lovely fixtures for us to gawk at to this day.  But they were the training ground of future strategists and logisticians.  That was the primary mission; to learn how to organize, feed, house and move hundreds of thousands of men and their equipment for large-scale endeavors.  The CCC was an experiment in wartime logistics, and a very good one.

But again, the DHS is not going to fight a foreign war.  What are they training and equipping for? I’ll ask again; why does the DHS have urban assault vehicles and billions of rounds of ammunition? Why is the NSA collecting EVERYONE’S communications data? What battles, er uh, contingencies are they modeling? And, cui bono (who benefits)? What can the governing class do with such instruments? Render itself invulnerable? To whom?

If you are going to shrink the size and reach of government and yet you allow this kind of intrusion into our personal lives and this kind of contempt for citizens, you are full of shi’ite.

[i] Winston Churchill knew the value of our liberty by Trevor Phillips, the Telegraph, 9 December 2008

[ii] These are the first words concerning our data at https://nsa.gov1.info/data/.  They were also words attributed to the National Socialists and Communists in the last century when they would ”interrogate” citizens.  I am sure Putin’s goons still say it.  What honest people should fear is that their government would actually put that on a website without a blush of irony!

[iii] What a nasty rope of sausage this was! It amended the Electronic Communications Privacy Act - Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Privacy Act – Money Laundering Control Act – Bank Secrecy Act – Right to Financial Privacy Act – Immigration and Nationality Act – Fair Credit Reporting Act – Victims of Crime Act of 1984 – Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act.  It included some 118 other amendments.

[iv] Red Team agents use disguises, ingenuity to expose TSA vulnerabilities, by Brian Bennett, LA Times, 2 June 2015.  Note the insert in the article explaining that the people who got weapons past the goons at the gate were not “Red Team experts” but office weenies.  But the original story and more importantly the big headline stands.  See? We can kind of tell the truth and protect Jeh Johnson and the emperor at the same time.

[v] FBI Knew al-Qaeda Pilots Training in U. S.

Agency Knew of Flight Training Before 9/11, Moussaoui Jury Told, By Timothy Dwyer and William Branigin

Washington Post Staff Writers, Tuesday, March 7, 2006

[vi] Trump has made half-baked comments along these lines, but he is not a serious candidate, as of 20 July.  He’s a real estate mogul and TV clown who believes some of the press accounts about himself.  It remains to be seen if he will get serious.

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As of today, 23 September…

…the magic number for the Phillies to squeeze into the playoffs is 2. That’s down from 6 just a few days ago. I am in communication with my sports buddies Sam and Ron. Expect to see them here soon.

We interrupt this exercise in brilliance for a special report!

I had planned to go straight from baseball into the Main Event. But recent news has distracted me from my mission.

It is being reported that Senator Robert Menendez has been busted AGAIN for corruption. This incident points directly to the discussion we’ll have momentarily about the insane levels of corruption and deception the average American seems to absorb with unbridled, nay, gleeful credulity.

This is the third visit by “the man” to Robert and his second foray into crime. He is easily the third most corrupt politician behind Obama and BJ Bill’s wife. But he, like they, continue to walk around in civilian clothes vise orange jump suits; a tribute to how deep runs the corruption through our law enforcement agencies.

Menendez’s first big run-in with the law was in 2008. He was busted for taking bribes and countless flights and vacations from one Salomon Melgen. Throughout their relationship, Menendez took many flights on 12-passenger, private jets to a private island resort. (Sound familiar? Same game, different host). Along for several of these flights was one William Jefferson Clinton. The rumors I heard, in my old life, was Clinton’s Secret Service detail calling these flights “Air Fuck One” for all the shenanigans gotten up to, there aboard. BJ Bill and the young girls seem to have escaped the attention of investigators back in ‘08. That would happen again and again.

This was all slow-rolled during the ensuing years. Democrats alternately locked arms with, then pushed away the perverted pariah as political needs dictated. Finally, Robert was needed to push Obamacare over the top in two illegal votes. One by the house (that one didn’t really take place, The wretch, Pelosi, deemed the vote to have taken place), and one in the Senate, where they needed the scumbag and Friend of Bill.

A deal was, by this time, inevitable. The 2008 unpleasantness was swept under the rug. For a while anyway. The pig actually kept his seat. So stupid are many citizens, he’s been reelected since! Click the button to see details on 2008.

Keeping up appearances.

Fast forward to 2015. Robert had served his purposes carrying Obama’s toilet water. But people were seriously starting to ask how Menendez was still unscathed by the law.

It was becoming clear that he was still dirty. So, to calm the waters the DOJ finally brought forward the old charges. There was a bit of kabuki theater ending in a “mistrial”. 2016 loomed and the Dems were rightfully worried that the Donald was going to upset the apple cart. The Lefties couldn’t spare one seat in the Senate. So, with a finger wag and a firmly worded statement, all was fully forgiven.

Click the button to see the update.

You just can’t keep a good man down.

22 September 2023

Today we learn that this insufferable pig has been at it again. It seems Menendez has been taking money hand over fist from friends and foreign governments. He’s got a no-show job with Egypt much like what the Crackhead got from Ukraine. He took it because he knew barring a sea change, no one would bust him for it. And for a while, he was right.

I want you to look at a pattern here and a new motivation.

This investigation, like previous offenses, has been slow-rolled. They’ve had him for years. If the DOJ nailed him for things they had early on, he wouldn’t have been able to sell the country further down the river. This whole affair has been an ace the DOJ was holding in case they needed it.

Contrast that to Trump and the documents. With Obama as a precedent, that one could have gone on for years just by virtue of the negotiations which had already started. But Joe’s puppet masters needed to destroy Trump NOW. So they ordered Joe to order the raid on Mar-a-lago. Lot’s of drama. Good TV. And yes, Joe did order it. I’ll deal with that next week.

All the indictments of Trump have been racked and stacked to be served up during the election. Their value as a matter of law is irrelevant.

So, the Dem machine still has it’s ace. Why use it now? One reason is because Merrick Garland, the poofy AG, wants to be able to score propaganda points. See? We punish people who sell out the country to foreigners. No one can say we don’t. Hunter and Joe et al are as pure as a freshly fallen snow.

Also, polls indicate that a generic Dem versus any GOP candidate wins in NJ. They have a governor who’s guzzled ALL the tribal Kool-aid, and who will reliably appoint the goofiest Lefty available to keep Menendez’s seat through 2025.

So, Bob will finally see justice - maybe. But it will all be theater and meted out for far more corrupt reasons than the underlying crime.

Keep your eyes on the ball. The present POTUS is entirely handled by a corrupt cabal. He has also committed crimes of his own against the nation.

So what of Bob? After 15 years of allowing him to commit crimes, actually watching him do it, seeing Menendez eating shit now is a hollow victory.

Redemption. No arguments from me on this one from Zeihan.

I’ve been dinging Peter pretty hard recently. So this week I am happy to give him props.

In a recent short video, Zeihan made some really good points about what we need to do about production and raw materials to secure our economic future. It involves some serious heavy lifting. I like these types of videos because it mirrors closely things I’ve said over the years, but not for the same reasons as Peter does, and certainly not with the geopolitical grasp he possesses. Things like this were also a big part of my 11 points series which you can easily find by browsing this Substack.

I’ll post the video at the very bottom of the transcript below the big subscribe button. That way you won’t miss a thing this week.

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And now, the MAIN EVENT

How can we catalog all the stupid?

It is amazing how Lefties can lie with a straight face. And Lefty proles, not believing any of it, parrot the lies at every opportunity.

They are still, and in the person of Karine Jean-Pierre, playing to the 7 Americans stupid enough to believe their shit. They, and she, are incapable of one syllable of honesty on the subject of illegals invading the country…or any other subject for that matter.

I mentioned some months ago that we would reach 7,000,000 illegals under the Biden puppet show by the end of his presidency. I was wrong. Including an estimated ONE MILLION got-aways, we are already past the 7M number and there is still another year left in the puppet show. The illegals are pouring over the border at a rate of 10,000 per day!

KJP’s favorite lie about the invasion is that the immigration system is “broken.” Spoiled kids and the Left love pithy, breathy phrases like that. We don’t follow the law because the system is “broken” [stamp a foot for emphasis.] Grownups know the law doesn’t work that way. Grownups know that when a president, following the orders of his Dem predecessor, breaks the law, saying the system is broken, he is still committing a crime.

And what a crime it is! Upwards of 70,000 dead American per year from the Dem facilitated drug traffic alone!

The answer to a “broken” system is to go to congress with a winning argument to get enough votes to make new laws which facilitate the kind of immigration policy you desire. Grownups know the answer isn’t throwing open the border and allowing pretend asylum seekers and tons of drugs into the country.

I keep saying grownups. But in reality, an honest, normal middle school student knows all these things. They have to become emotionally damaged, dishonest Lefty idiots before they can finally un-know these basic truths. They must become people stupid enough to believe in Obama/Biden.

This is not unique to the immigration issue. Immigration is just the corruption and non-stop lying we are discussing today. But look at any important issue we face today and you will find the Regime, under the tutelage of Obama and his holdovers, lying and promoting ideas injurious to the United States; what’s left of it.

Nothing is broken.

The bullshit about the system being broken as an excuse for importing slave wage illegals is not new. Going all the way back to Reagan’s amnesty deal the lie has been trotted out for every idiotic, pro-illegal scam the government has foisted on us.

But the system is fine. If we used it we would not only have a few illegals crossing the Rio Grande, we’d be receiving millions of the right people each year to ADVANCE our interests. By that, I mean educated, intelligent people with talents that will contribute to a healthy economy. There are people around the world who have been waiting for years to immigrate here according to existing, perfectly workable laws.

But these laws prevented politicians and businesses from bringing in huge swaths of uneducated, unskilled labor. So with a wink and a nod these forces agreed to bring people in illegally and not to rat each other out.

The business people just wanted the low wage drones, caring not a lick for their welfare. It has been a myth for years now that such people are aligned with the GOP. They are not. K Street, for big business and trade associations are absolutely slobbering on the big regulators, the Dems, for special consideration. And when it comes to importing and hiring illegals, they get the royal treatment from the Democrat Party.

The Dems themselves want to create an entire new voting block of millions of low-wage drones. And they have the imports moving in huge numbers. The Dem partners, the cartels bring the rubes up through Central America and Mexico. They hand off the cargo to the welcome wagon we used to call our border security. The welcome wagon is now paid to promptly release the illegals on society with no controls and a pretend court date for which the illegals will never show.

Through the use of highly paid “non-profits” and migrant activist groups tarted up to look like “church groups”, the illegals are told how to get social security cards and how to game the system if they don’t want to work. Illegals who have been bounced before and those who have illegal relatives here, simply head for the areas where the relatives or old contacts live.

And all this happens, we are told because the system is broken.

Well, snowflakes. It ain’t so. And everybody know it ain’t so. It’s just the lie the Left uses to make all this happen. As I said, if they were honestly concerned about a broke system, they’d LEGISLATE new laws into existence. The GOP put forward a plan a few months ago and the Dems killed it.

And NO, it wasn’t killed because it doesn’t create a workable immigration system. It was killed because political whores like Schumer and Jefferies don’t even want the appearance of ANYONE doing the right thing on immigration. If they did, they’d look even more stupid saying the system is broken.

In a civilized country with a free press, killing the bill meant to fix the countries biggest national security threat since 1861 would have made banner headlines for weeks. We are no longer a civilized country and the media act as fluffers for the government. I would wager that few of you reading this even know the House GOP passed immigration legislation. The Senate killed it, of course. And the gutless Speaker and Senate Minority Leader showed their bellies and pissed on themselves instead of loudly taking their case directly to the people.

The system is fine. Existing immigration laws are fine. It is the political whores who are broken and useless to us.

Here’s the best part and proves the point about making little voters. That’s electoral cheating.

There are now 16 states, which through the bullshit motor voter scam, automatically provide mail-in ballots to illegals aliens who should not be here and are not allowed to vote in national elections. In some cases they are not even supposed to vote in local elections. But vote they do and they’ll do so again. We have 7,000,000 new illegal voters in the country right now.

Those “non-profits” and “churches” make sure the illegals know who got them their entree into the country. These people are heavily propagandized by their handlers. As of the next election, any illegal who came here under the present Puppet Regime, and all the ones who have been here illegally for years before that, (MILLIONS of people) will be able to get a drivers license in 16 states and vote.

Remember the caveat about not being able to vote in national elections? Do you think for one minute they will be printing special ballots for the illegals that don’t have federal offices indicated on them? Think again. You already live in a world so stupid that they don’t permit government offices or even census takers to ask you about your alien status. So the motor voter assholes have NO IDEA who the illegals are on their roles. And in these Blue areas, they don’t want to know.

Do you think when the illegals get their ballots they will mark only the local election blocks and not the federal? If you do, then you are special kind of stupid. Likely the only recognizable names on the ballots will be presidential candidates. We’re not talking about people who seek to grow into their communities and assimilate as the propaganda says. They’ll tick off the Dem presidential candidate and any others with a D next to their names as they have been instructed to do by the “churches” and “non-profits”.

What a scam! What a fucking con game! And all carried out under the color of authority.

Predictions

Let’s dispense with Kamala first. The puppet masters who run the Regime may likely dump her soon. She’ll be bought off. Perhaps she’ll be told that she will get the next SCOTUS seat the Dems nominate. If so, that would make her the most ridiculous candidate to ever sit in those chambers. According to reports, she would also be the most abusive to her law clerks. But first, she’d have to believe that the Dems can win if she is to accept such a half-baked promise.

This leads directly to the second prediction in two parts.

* Cartel Joe remains useful in the eyes of his puppet masters. They let him stay on and run. He already has the worst poll numbers of any president since the use of poll numbers. To the fraudsters, that won’t count for much.

OR

* The puppet masters throw Joe under a bus and hand-select his replacement. This replacement will be awarded all “super delegates” and purchased delegates Joe would have gotten. There may be a Potemkin candidate propped up to create a sham primary battle, but the anointed one will be “nominated” regardless.

Dem voters will be be dispirited by the sham and morale in the party will sink to an all-time low.

But take heart, Lefties. On election day, as was the case in 2020, miracles will rain down from the heavens. Ballot dumpsters will be found filled to overflowing. Harvesters will assist millions of disabled and elderly voters to vote almost uniformly for the candidate they’ve watched crash and burn, or the one they laughed at when he was anointed by the Democrat party.

Covid measures will remain in place to allow people to vote up to 45 days early. MM-MM-MM. All those votes just lying around for weeks. No temptation there.

Blue districts will use stunts like Philadelphia did, ejecting GOP poll watchers and count monitors. Maybe they’ll tape up the windows again.

Let us not forget those MILLIONS of illegals casting their illegal ballots. Since we have no idea of their alien status, their votes will flood polling places.

If they haven’t “found”, forged or “groomed” enough ballots by election night, states will “stop the count”. Look to the usual suspects here, PA, GA, WI, FL. Maybe we’ll see IL, CA and WA added to the stoppages this time. But as I stated before, if they are “stopping the count”, they are cheating. There are no ifs, ands or buts.

To be certain, the Dems will fight to keep ballots coming in past the deadline. Activist judges will once again wave their magic wands and make worthless ballots valuable again.

There is every chance that the sorriest shit show in American political history will be reinstalled in the seats of power.

Much credit will be due the presence of the illegals who should be in the country, much less voting.

Here’s the saddest part of all. Emboldened by this success, the Dems will double down on the debasement of our culture and economy and keep the southern border wide open. It will matter not to them, they care not now, that tens of thousands more American will die each year from fentanyl.

Solutions

Dems with dignity. Turn your backs on these worthless, corrupt political hacks. They could not care less if you fell in a sink hole anyway.

Demand the party find a civilized center again. RFK, Jr., still not protected by the Secret Service stands ready to pull your party back from Stalinism.

Arizona and Texas: Defy and nullify the federal pig farm on the issue of border security. Where the federal government fails to do its job, you have the obligation to take it over. Put the barriers back up. Finish the wall yourselves. The wall was already paid for and authorized by Congress. Sue the federal government for the costs. Give federal agents a choice, assist you or get out. And from here on out, send them right back across the border at the point of a gun if you have to. But, close the border.

The United States have done 10 times their due diligence in taking in illegals. Expel the ones you have. Stop any further incursion.

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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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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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And now: The Main Event!

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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Let me start this week with an important observation. I was in the supermarket yesterday. My eye fell on the cover of one of our nation’s premier periodicals, In Touch Magazine. The big headline? Brad and Angelina’s Divorce Final!

According to this purveyor of pertinent, quality information, Angelina felt defeated. She couldn’t afford to keep fighting. One can imagine she might be sad and vulnerable right now. Perfect! Now I can swoop in!

Angie, darling, if you’re a fan of the P4B (and why wouldn’t you be?) I’m here for you, baby! This is finally our time. Just cancel all those restraining orders and I’m all yours! I’ll even wash all the underwear I stole from your laundry room hamper and give it back to you!

Stupid Judge

Have you ever seen old film of the NAZI judges during the Hitler years? I have a four minute example here in the text.

Here, we have a politically polluted idiot who routinely turned his “court” into a circus of stupidity. A nation that had only a few years before prided itself on it’s orderly and deliberative application of the law, had become this!

Now, despite the fact that I am going to write this paragraph, some readers will comment that I am calling American judges NAZIs. NAZIism was a violent political movement. I will not say here the subject is a NAZI. But…

…We now have people in this country who are supposed to be responsible jurist who have surrendered reason and legal reality to the latest fad and the whims of their political betters. They are not as loud or as violent as the court in the video. No one is being sent to camps - yet. But we’ve have most assuredly started the slide.

A judge doesn’t have to be bombastic and shrill to be contributing to the practice of law the way the German “judges” did in the 1930s and 40s. He just needs to operate outside the law and language.

He/She Said, She Said

The most recent case to demonstrate this slouching toward idiocracy is Westenbroek v Kappa Kappa Gamma. Here we find a man who couldn’t get laid in a woman’s prison with a pocket full of pardons. Perhaps that is why he decided to dress like a woman and join a sorority. He gets to hang out with a lot of women with no cock blockers around.

His joy was short lived. He immediately started to creep out his sorority sisters out by leering at them and appearing to be aroused. One might safely assume he’d then get after himself when he was alone.

There may also be the possibility the our homely dude did everything in search of a lawsuit. Such suits among the “trans” community is becoming a cottage industry. Who really knows?

Seeing the folly of admitting “trans women” to the sorority it was decided that the plaintive see his way out.

The Law and Language

By hijacking language, making up nonsensical terms out of whole cloth, or applying one term for another (like equity and equality) the Left has done untold damage to our society. It has infected thinking throughout our system of governance and law.

Instead of intelligent people standing up to the worthless nonsense, lawyers and judges have knelt before the same altar of peudo-law as the crazy NAZI judges did. The pseudo-law in this case isn’t what we saw during the Third Reich. But it is EVERY BIT as stupid.

In Westenbroek v Kappa, the judge, Alan Johnson committed a crime against language and thereby the law. Words mean things. Just because I want a word to mean something else on a whim does not change the meaning of words in the law. Further, injecting nonsense terms into laws invalidate those same laws until the language used reflects reality as society sees it, not as a few crusaders see it.

In his ruling, Johnson first said that Kappa did not clearly define what a woman is when creating their bylaws. This is devoid of reason and legal reality because everyone knows a woman is an adult female, XX. Some people have recently denied knowing this to promote he “trans” fad, but that’s the reality, the known reality! Outside of Never Never Land there is no requirement for anyone to define what a woman is.

As hard as lawyers work to add byzantine levels of verbage to their documents, even the worst offenders wouldn’t require a legal document define every word of that same document. That is not and should not be an accepted concept because if it was, the words, “I fell into the manhole and broke my leg,” would become an infinite scramble of definitions of definitions of definitions. The document would never end.

So without any other justification than a fad less than 10 years old, the judge HIMSELF challenged the meaning of a word that needs no definition.

In a related statement, the Judge declared definitively that the court would not decide what a woman is. Well, DUH your “honor”! That isn’t the court’s job, so NO, it shouldn’t do that. But in making a needless statement about what the court would not do, reason demands that the sorority has no obligation to define the commonly known either. So his previous finding has no meaning in this case.

Put another way, his words argued the defendant’s case for them because he refused to do what he complains they didn’t do. And based on that, Johnson ruled for the plaintiff. This 180 degrees out from reality. Judge Johnson was obviously out sick the day they were teaching law in law school.

What concerns me in this case is that Alan Johnson isn’t alone in his destruction of jurisprudence in Wyoming or the United States. We have a Supreme Court Justice who pretended to NOT know what a woman is - because of the fad. We have people being TOLD to use nonsensicle terms and pronouns that the Constitution insists they not be required to - because of the FAD! We have frivolous lawsuits being filed by school districts, against the wishes of parents, to keep graphic depictions of recreational oral sex in front of grade school kids. AND THESE CASES ARE NOT BEING TOSSED OUT WITH PREJUDICE because of the FAD! We have legislators creating laws that strip parents of their legal rights if they refuse to allow their kids to be mutilated by quacks…be…be…because…the FAD!

For the record, I will say that last one runs dead parallel to the Nuremberg Laws and mass sterilization, ordered by the courts. There is no linguistic parsing here. They ARE morally identical.

But it is all happening because the children are at the switch and those who know better lack the requisite sack to smack the kiddies’ hands away.

Confessions of a Duffer

How many golfers do we have out there? I’m betting a bunch. As cliche as it sounds, I can teach anyone to golf, just the basics, and they will do well. But I CANNOT golf. I don’t go out often and I have a sickening slice. This year I attended a golf weekend with my sons and some friends. I was beyond horrible!

I seriously considered giving the clubs away. Some people were not meant to swing a golf club.

Inspiration from a baseball legend

During this soul-searching, I happened across the Netflix documentary Facing Nolan.

It’s hard to imagine but after being in Majors for several seasons Nolan Ryan was ready to quit baseball altogether. He decided baseball was just not what he was “meant to do”. The documentary compared the young Ryan to Nuke LaLoosh. Ryan had a cannon for an arm, but he was all over the place. When he wasn’t striking a player out, he was hitting the bleachers.

His wife convinced him to stay and keep going.

Before he was finally done, after 27 seasons, he held 51 major league records, not all of them good. But he was the very definition of baseball. Not only did he strike out some of the biggest names in the game, he went on to strike out their sons, years later. I believe he was 44 years old when he pitched his 7th no-hitter.

When I think of Nolan Ryan, my attitude toward golf is kind of embarrassing. It’s important in that golf is where I spend the most uninterrupted time with my sons. So I set my mind to fixing my game.

I can’t say it’s going well. I’ve collected tons of advice from pros. I do all the drills required to eliminate a slice. I practice the drills and ball contact against a net in my back yard. I drill again at the driving range and then start smacking balls. Right now, from my last two visits to the local range, there are about 150 out of 200 balls in the trees to the right at the 150 yard marker. I’ll spare you the details.

At the New Post range in Fredericksburg, I did a bit better (150 balls in two visits) but I lacked power. I have set a goal of eliminating my slice by 12 October when I meet the boys for another golf weekend. I just want to get through a round without tripping over my driver and drooling on myself.

Wish me luck.

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The Main Event: Guaranteed Government Abuse

You’ve seen me both quote and argue with Peter Zeihan many times here. I am sure my most loyal readers are saying, “What, again?!”

I do this because I think most of his numerical and reasoned observation are extremely valuable. But when he strays into the political I find he is often an apologist for some really dangerous shit. I feel compelled to push back in these instances because so many people do listen to him. When he yawns and tells us not to worry about seriously batshit stuff, I know there are folks out there saying well, if Zeihan says ESG is nothing to worry about then it must be okay.

Today, 31 August, he released a video in which he speaks rather well of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

RFK was Right.

Just to jump the tracks for a minute… Robert Kennedy, Jr. recently gave an interview where he said the first rule of politics is that once you give the government a certain power, you’ll never get it back. He said the second law of politics says that if the government can abuse that power, they absolutely will.

Since Ben Franklin’s warnings of people voting treasure unto themselves, we have proven RFK Jr’s observation again and again. Since FDR’s first term the execution of both concepts have been policy. Accrue more and more central power, then wildly abuse it. I want you to keep RFK’s word in mind as we continue here.

But, It’s FREE!

One of the things Zeihan hit pretty hard this morning was that fact that the CBDC would act as a pay service. It would work like a checking account or debit card or Paypal. But it would be free, so everybody would eventually move to it. Eventually all pay services would be driven from the market.

Problem number one: Everybody would move to it. That is the intent and not because the Fed is operated by a swell bunch of guys who just want to see smiles on all of our faces. More on that later.

Problem number two: It would put all the other guys out of business. When you have just one of something, servicing everybody, and that something goes down (Don’t be stupid, yes it will.) everything stops. A small glitch in the thing that pays for EVERYTHING and the damage would be in the billions in seconds.

We already have a government that thinks we need to put all our eggs on one basket when it come to food, energy, education and on and on. Example: They want us to go electric everything: cars, trucks, farm equipment, busses, cooking, heating, you name it. If it is mechanized or hot, they want it plugged into the grid. The blind idiocy of this idea is self-evident.

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There was a crazy ice storm in Virginia in 2006. It was cold as balls and the power was out for days. But we got through it rather well. We had a gasoline generator, a propane grill and a fire place. We cooked the Christmans turkey on the grill. It was awesome. It ended up being a great holiday. If we had all electric appliances and maybe one of those cheese dick electric fireplaces with the stupid pretend fire we’d have been in real trouble for 6 days.

Similarly, you don’t want fewer means of transferring funds. You want as many as you can find and trust. And you want good old cash. Value-backed currency would be best but the government pretends that would be impossible (An earlier abuse. Thanks Tricky Dick.). So fiat dollars would be better than all electronic.

And of course, we would be creating a situation without competition. Does anybody NOT know what happens when you remove competition from any activity? Okay. For the truly slow, quality ABSOLUTELY goes down, as does the responsiveness of the new monopoly. This is an absolute. Just because it is to be run by the Fed and the government doesn’t change the absolute. It guarantees it. We’re talking about the government here.

If you need to understand the pig-ignorance of THAT, ask 100 IRS agents a question a question about your taxes. You’ll get at least 50 unique answers. And you’ll have no way of knowing which one is correct. Nobody does. That too is intentional. And folks like Peter want us to turn over ALL of our financial transactions to these people?!

One man’s ESG is another man’s SCS.

Zeihan is dismissive of people who say CBDC will be a means to control people through the denial and provision of THEIR OWN money by the Fed. His dismissal is either obtuse or misguided. But it’s not well-founded.

For one thing, he says it would take a huge staff of people to make that work and the Fed is small. Well, for starters, just to make the thing work as designed without abuse WILL take a huge number of IT, clerical and administrative people to keep it going.

Keep RFK’s words in mind. If you CAN abuse it… Right?

It won’t take massive army of people to make it all work. To wring all the control CBDC will present the government with would require a rather light application of artificial intelligence. AI would be used to monitor transactions. The government will have the program throttle people’s money automatically.

Zeihan says no, no ,no. The Chinese did that because they married credit and services and purchasing power to their Social Credit Score (SCS).

Yes! And our ESG is a carbon copy of SCS. The government, with the happy cooperation of cronies in the financial industry, already has companies jumping through ESG hoops with the threat of lowering their credit dangling over their heads.

But why do they do that? Because THEY CAN do that, of course. They are already fucking with companies and banks and thereby people 401k’s through the intended abuse of ESG. Hey, they have phony social agendas they need pushed through. ESG is the truncheon they use to do it.

So philosophically, we already know the government, with the full cooperation of the FED (a collection of crony banks that work entirely by government mandate) will absolutely abuse your money in the way CBDC will allow them to.

That is why they want everybody on it. That’s why it’s “free”. When it’s the only game in town, that’s when the fun starts. The government WILL link your CBDC account to social media, what you purchase, electric smart meter, car choices, and who the hell knows what else to your ESG score.

With the use of AI and as many people as they do want to employ Uncle Stinky will snag your money faster than a stick man at a craps table. Say something critical about men pretending to be women on social media. An algorithm will trigger a report. Your CBDC account will immediately be flagged and the value of your account will drop a little tiny bit. Perhaps your credit score will take a hit.

Say something about the Regime, the way I do routinely, and the next day, when you visit your local gun store, you may find it is impossible to spend your money there. No guns or ammo for you!

It may not shake out EXACTLY as I describe. But it WILL happen. You WILL be manipulated. But how do I know this type of thing will happen? Remember RFK’s rules. If they can abuse a power, they absolutely will. This is why we need to be stripping power from the federal government wholesale and from the Executive branch especially. Instead, we are rocketing through programs that will provide them immense power over us all.

What kind of lame ass celebrates this? How blind do you have to be to NOT see it?

Now here’s the MAIN point about “everybody will get in.”

Zeihan said, correctly, that very quickly everybody would jump into CBDC because it’s free. Eventually all other pay services would be knocked out of business.

The short-sighted will think well, I hate my credit card service. It would be great to see them go under and still have a way to pay my bills that’s “free”.

Think for a minute. The people who offer us bill paying services are, with few exceptions, the people who loan us money! Your credit card company loans you money with every tap or swipe. Take away the need for a credit card and now, if you want to buy something on credit, WHO IS LOANING YOU THE MONEY?!

It will be the same people who control its value and availability. Remember, the government already threatens companies who don’t have high ESG scores. Do you doubt for a second, when they control every aspect of cash and credit that they wouldn’t ruin you for disobedience, or political disloyalty?

Let’s take it all to its logical conclusion. Here’s another prediction require no clairvoyance to divine. Credit cards are a huge source of income for financial companies. Without them the entire industry will be severely weakened. Bigs would easily buy out the small. The entire market would slowly gravitate to the CBDC and those who control it.

As they did with the insurance industry under epically absurd Obamacare, the government will pick winners from the well connected supporters of ESG and CBDC. These people will be the titular “lenders” in the new “market”. A few banks and loan agencies at a time will quietly be swallowed up by the FED banks and other “winners”. They’ll still have their shingle hanging and the letterheads will remain, but they will no longer exist in real terms. They will, for a few years, be sham companies representing the govenment’s CBDC window. For a short while the government will allow their executives and brokers to be paid “commissions and bonuses” as if they were competing against others, but they won’t be. They will be window dressing, drones.

Every dime of your paycheck, your retirement, fees for your services and all of your credit - all of it - will go through the government’s hands. And the algorithm and monitoring will churn away in the background.

But, you say, this would be impossible! The people wouldn’t stand for it!

No? Well, that would depend on how many people were willing to give up ALL their electronics and live like luddites. Your shackles will be your cell phones. The prison wire will be CCTV cameras on every street. Your TV, Siri and Alexa will be the prison goons. Hell, they already are.

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Coming Next Week

There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of things the government does TO you under the aegis of ESG and the Federal Reserve. Green scams, monitoring, indoctrination, printing money, insane spending, denial of biological reality and all the subsets of these issues that you can imagine…and probably some we can’t even imagine.

But I don’t like coming to you with only problems. I like to bring solutions as well. So next week we’ll discuss the potential choices we have to fight back against what promises to be the biggest issue(s) of our time.

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