8th Grade Syndrome

Newt Gingrich was pontificating the other day, as is his wont, about the just completed midterms, giving the Republican party spin that it wasn’t all that bad, got control of the House, yadda yadda, but had to admit the much anticipated ‘red wave’ turned out to be nothing more than a slightly higher tide than usual. Seemed to surprise him and he concluded that maybe, just maybe, he needs to reevaluate his political thinking. 

‘Bout time.

It’s been rather clear to those of us not blinded by party and politics that a goodly portion of the American people have reached a fatal level of self-absorption and illogic, what I like to call “8th grade syndrome.” ‘Why can’t we all get along?’ is the central core of their social and cultural stance and they firmly believe material goods and security and recreation are freely and deservedly provided by dufus parents who Just Don’t Understand Me. So, they vote accordingly, for anyone who promises to give them anything for free; against anyone they think is mean i.e., anyone who talks like a dufus parent, i.e., conservatives; and for anyone they feel sorry for, i.e., Fetterman. The result? Over the past twenty years, there has been an increasing Balkanization of the populace, somewhat along the same lines that split the Romans and the Visigoths, with about as much chance of compromise.

Newt and the other Republican party mavens have, of course, missed this. Having moved from one civilized environment to the next - middle class family to middle class college and career - they developed a logical and common-sense view of human behavior. Maslov’s Hierarchy of Needs and western civilization’s inspirations and motivations for family, relevance, and prosperity form the convictions and subsequent voting patterns of the populace. In normal times those are givens and the various political parties set their platforms based on them, the Republicans for an orderly society in which anyone can participate by exertions of their own efforts, the Democrats for more assistance to those who have somehow missed the chance to participate, the one-off lunatic fringe parties for their various single issues, such as the environment or anarchy.  

That was then, this is now.

Pocketbook issues and common sense are now only the province of a rapidly dwindling boomer generation, which was the last one raised with individuality, respect, and optimism. We now have the Nietzsche generations ascending, and they have far more loyalty to themselves than they do to social structures. Anything that promotes their own well-being and the advantage of their friends over others has their attention. They are far more akin to the 18th Century aristocracies than they are to the American yeoman class, seeking power and wealth and control over yon peasants who still cling to those outmoded concepts of individual rights and sacrifice and responsibility.

Which is why they vote for Fetterman. Because a brain-dead pseudo-Marxist is far more likely to help install the neo-corporatist state that they feel will bring about the eight-grade world they have long dreamed of than will some fussing farmer boy spouting self-reliance and more police.

Which means, of course, that all former bets are off. So, Newt, and everyone else who still thinks elections will save us, y’all best re-evaluate.

Dear Bill Barr

I had the pleasure of watching Guy Benson’s interview with you discussing your new book, One Damned Thing After Another. It appears to be a very informative and entertaining read. But there are a couple of things you said during the interview that you should address:

1. The Nov 2020 election: you said that Trump “beat himself” apparently by not listening to your advice. Perhaps that is so, but you imply that the 2020 election was legally and legitimately conducted. However, there are anomalies in that election which raise serious questions about its validity. Those include the unconstitutional changing of election procedures by several states, the inexplicable halt of vote counts simultaneously across several precincts, the number of votes exceeding the number of registered voters, the defects of Dominion voting machines, and even video evidence of votes pulled out of hiding spots.

Perhaps all of this can be explained, or perhaps the level of fraud was insufficient to change the outcome of the election. But no one has done anything to establish either take. There has not been one grand jury convened to review the evidence of vote fraud. Not one federal prosecutor has conducted an investigation of vote fraud allegations (except, of course, against President Trump for having the temerity to protest a fraudulent election). Judges have dismissed voter fraud complaints on specious procedural grounds, not on merits of the evidence. Subsequent private or state legislature investigations have uncovered massive evidence of widespread voter fraud at a level that seems to alter the reported outcome. Yet, you did nothing. And you still do nothing.

You remind me of a coroner standing in a crime scene covered with several sets of bloody footprints and several bullet casings, five bullet wounds in the victim’s head, and declaring, “Suicide.”

2. The indictment of James Comey: James Comey used a cutout to transfer classified information out of secure holdings and to a newspaper for the purposes of damaging the newly elected President Trump. At the very least, this is felony mishandling of classified information. Given the intent of the act, it’s treason. You acknowledge Comey’s crime in so many words but say the charges did not meet your standards of proof. Really? I have no doubt that had I, as a captain in the USAF, mishandled classified information in as egregious a manner as Comey did that my conviction would be a slam dunk and I would be serving my 25-year sentence in Leavenworth right now. So I can only presume that it’s collegiality that stayed your hand because you and Comey run in the same elite circles; for lack of a better cliche, you went to the same schools. It is the same principle that sends sergeants and captains to jail, while colonels and generals are simply denied promotion and allowed to retire.

I do not take away from your years of outstanding service, but we have a saying in the Air Force: one ‘aw crap’ wipes out ten thousand ‘attaboys.’ In this case, we have two ‘aw craps,’ the 2020 election and Comey’s skating out of charges. From the latter it is plainly obvious that there is a two tiered justice system in this country, and the average person now has no chance of ever obtaining justice. Indeed, the average person will now be judged with a political standard instead of a legal one. Just check on the Jan 6 prisoners. The average American is, therefore, foolish to rely on the criminal justice system for redress and protection. You may not like that, but you helped create that viewpoint.

And you reinforce my and millions of other voters' conviction that the election was fraudulent, that Biden is not the legitimate president of this country, and that you elites conducted a coup against the US because President Trump wasn’t the smooth and urbane striped-pants effete that you prefer in your politicians. President Trump was the first president since President Reagan to actually punch back at the sneering pseudo-intellectuals who daily insult us peasants. And that’s what we wanted. You didn’t. 

Thing is, it would be very easy for you to put our concerns to rest. Arrest Comey. Impanel a grand jury to review the vote evidence. Prove to me that Joe Biden actually won the election. It should be easy. Why won’t you do it?

You are more and more like the dog that did not bark.

It is painful to regard you in this light. When you were first appointed, I was hopeful that an out-of-control Justice Department would be brought to heel. But, in the critical cases, you were wanting. We thought you were George Patton; turns out you're Mark Clark.

Legalization

The mainstreams have tacitly acknowledged that the 2020 election was a fraud, was stolen, was corrupt, a coup, whatever label you choose. Main streamers- and in that I include RINOs and other assorted false flag conservatives- will never openly admit it because that would result in their immediate tar-and-feathering, but they’re letting us know they know that we know it was a fraud. A coup. An overthrow.

The first acknowledgement is HR1, which is nothing less than the codification of every fraudulent and unconstitutional means the DemoMarxists used to block Donald Trump from his rightful victory. The second comes from all those Redumblican state legislatures rising in their high dudgeon to close a barn door hanging by one rusty hinge as the winds stir the cobwebbed stalls.

HR1 is like marijuana reform: what were once crimes are now habits, so, heck, let’s benefit from it. Get rich off of it, gain political power from it. If it hastens the Idiocracy to which we are careening, what of it? Gonna happen anyway.

Redumblican legislatures in Georgia and Pennsylvania and wherever are shocked to find gambling going on at Rick’s. After we told them and told them and told them that mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting and no ID were going to make our elections a third world joke. Which it was. Which it is.

Let’s stop pretending that votes matter anymore, that the election process matters anymore, that you have a voice. A DemoMarxist one-party America for the rest of our lives, with a very loyal Redumblican opposition to make it look good. Forward into the future, comrades. 

Gonna happen anyway.

All of us former drug agents watch the avalanche of marijuana legalization, shake our heads, and wonder why we even bothered. That’s pretty much how you should now view voting.

Soviets gonna soviet. It’s their nature. Whether ‘Muricans gonna murican remains to be seen. After all, it took a few years of ever increasing outrages until the militias gathered at Concord Bridge.

Newspeak

 It is the nature of oppressive regimes to change word definitions. That way they sound logical and legal as they take your stuff, charge you with things that didn’t used to be crimes, and send you to the work camps. For your own good. Because you speak the traditional English  taught back when schools actually taught it, you’re gonna get sandbagged. To prevent that, take heed: 

1. Domestic terrorist: anyone who opposes the Marxist state. Anyone who believes the individual matters more than the group, that the natural law trumps the statutory, and that government, no matter how benign, is, at best, a necessary evil. In  short, an American. A domestic terrorist is anyone who considers themselves an American.

2. White privilege: western civilization. Any social structure which promotes self reliance, family, the rule of law, historical and cultural traditions, a belief in God, and the pursuit of happiness. Also includes anyone who thinks themselves an American.

3. Justice: the confiscation of all property, assets, accounts, family members etc. of anyone meeting a and b above.

So don’t be fooled. Domestic terrorists are no longer crazies like Timothy McVeigh or Bill Ayres; they’re anyone who supports Trump. And if you spout words reminiscent of the Declaration of Independence or the Preamble or even the Magna Carta, you are a racist oppressor in need of justice. 

Those black buses should be rolling up to your door anytime.

Football No Mo'

 For the first time since about 1968 or so, I did not watch the Superbowl. I didn’t watch a  single NFL game all season, for that matter. Why not? ‘Cause it ain’t football anymore, especially after  this past year of COVID/take-a-knee/virtue signaling. It has morphed into some American/European soccer hybrid. With pads.

The wussification began with the three foot rule on wide receivers that Commissar Godawful imposed back, what, five, six years ago? They got rid of the horse collar. And blind side tackles. And anything else that resembled football. Now, if you look at the quarterback cross eyed you get a fifty yard penalty, loss of your next six touchdowns, half your salary taken, and your entire team goes to rehab. Which they’re usually in, anyway.

And then there’s all the baffling rules about a catch and a fumble and what the ground can, or cannot do, and challenges, with more red flags flying than a Chicom picnic, and you need an attorney and about ten minutes of review by the Supreme Court before you can call, or not call, a penalty. God help you if you take a step towards the quarterback while he’s posing back there and casually deciding which of his many untouchable receivers he can pitch to.

But, but, but...the game is now safer!

Safer? Safer! This is FOOTBALL!

Or it used to be. It’s a girly shadow of itself now, which I suppose is appropriate because today’s football players are girly shadows of their forerunners. Whining and simpering over social justice as they pocket unbelievable salaries to play a once-or-twice a week game that doesn’t even require them to have a real education. Which, based on the general inarticulateness and illogic, most of them don’t. They don’t even have to worry about getting hurt anymore. Especially if they’re a quarterback.

And if you think I’m going to watch a bunch of spoiled ingrates take a knee over something they can’t even explain while mouthing bumper sticker complaints about a country so terrible it gives halfwit pituitary cases like them a grand opportunity to make millions instead of working as a bouncer for their cousin’s illegal backyard bar, then no. Never again. Screw the NFL.

I’m going to watch golf, instead. At least it’s full contact.

How to Read Pravda

 What do you do when you no longer believe a word that the news media says or writes? We ‘Muricans don’t know because we were spoiled by Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace but fortunately, we have a model: the Russian people. They don’t believe what they’re hearing and reading any more than we do, but they’ve got a lot more experience with that. After all, they’ve had Pravda for nigh on 80 years now and, over the decades, they developed methods for eking the real news out of the lies they’re told. Since it looks like we’re heading into an all-Pravda-all-the-time environment, we’d best develop those same skills. So here’s some time tested, Russian-approved methods for reading the Post or the Times or listening to MSNBC and the rest of the propaganda stations without being fooled:

1. Apply common sense: If the story doesn’t ring true, then it’s most likely not. Best example is the Russian Collusion accusations made against Trump during the 2016 election, and pretty much every day since. Common sense told you this was bogus. Hillary was a fellow traveler, a dedicated Alinskyite, a woman after their own Russkie hearts. Besides, they’d already paid her millions of dollars in bribes through the Clinton Foundation, and they already knew how incompetent and greedy she was. Easy button reset. So why go with a loose cannon like Trump? Uh uh. Russians are smarter than that.

2. Who benefits: This is the first question a detective asks in a murder investigation, and since the media is murdering the truth, remains a valid technique. Best example, the Chinese COVID, which is a bad cold that only a tiny percentage of people get and to which an even tinier percentage succumb. Yet our businesses were shut down, we were placed under house arrest, and required to don masks. So, who benefitted from that? Well, the Democrats, who used the hyped panic as a means of ramming through unconstitutional voting methods to “protect” us from the zombie plague virus, thereby bringing off a coup. And they accrued extra benefits by destroying the economy. You have no choice but to place yourself under government control if you want to eat.

3. What’s not said: That is the art of reading between the lines. Within the strident affect-embued opinions that pass for news today, there’s always something left out. Takes some practice spotting it, but here’s a good example: the “at least 60 courts have found no evidence of election fraud!” trope that’s now embedded in just about every news story. What they left out: not one of those courts have actually reviewed the evidence. They’ve all rejected the cases on technical grounds. 

So start practicing. Pick up a New York Times, if you can stomach it, and read a couple of articles applying the above. You’ll be amazed how much you understand what’s really going on.

Dosvedanya, comrade.

We Will Not Move On

 No, Lindsey Graham, we will not move on.

If someone stole your checkbook, Lindsey Graham, would you let them take over your bank account? Because that’s what you’re asking us to do. Just accept it. In fact, go ahead and put some more money into that stolen account.

Is that what you would do?

Apparently so. You even make excuses. “Oh, there was no election fraud! It’s all been disproved.” I gotta wonder, Lindsey Graham, to what disprovals you refer because not one single court has reviewed one single item of evidence. You’re either making it up or taking the assurances of thieves: “Oh, don’t worry, we’ll leave you enough to live on. Besides, there’s nothing you can do so move on.”

Actually, Lindsey Graham, you should move on. You, and the entire GOP sellout backstabbing Quisling party, so happy you’re back in a position where you can throw up your hands and say, “Sorry, we’re as mad as you are but we can’t do anything about it.” The thief stole the bank account, doncha know. Harumph and harumph and gotta save our phony baloney jobs.

But I’ll tell you what, Lindsey Graham, if you can prove to me that the election was fair and correct, then I’ll back you guys. Get a grand jury and lawyers and witnesses and evidence together and lay it all out; prove to me all the things I saw on election day were just my lying eyes.

Otherwise, Lindsey Graham, you’ve got 80 million Republican voters who witnessed a Soviet style coup, and witnessed you making excuses for it. 80 million people who no longer believe their votes count, that the Republican party no longer has their backs, and that they have no redress in the courts or Congress.

What will 80 million people convinced they have no recourse do?