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Funniest News On the ‘Net.
In this episode:
“This isn’t a video game. There are no extra lives.” – Edge of Tomorrow
Kamala posted a commercial to YouTube®, I tried to reply, but just like Kamala the comments were disabled. (Memes and content mostly “as found”)
Kamala Harris has invented a new type of presidential candidacy – one based on being absolutely nothing. Seriously. She has stated exactly one position publicly: “No tax on tips” which is precisely the position staked out by Donald Trump two months ago. I guess we should give Kamala this one, since she’s no stranger to a variety of tips.
Oh, sure, Mr. Trump’s trademark is being “short on details” so that he can leverage a win, but based on 2016, what really outraged the GloboLeft is that Trump actually tried to follow through on many of his positions. One thing that Trump won’t be to voters is a surprise, but I think Kamala is so unknown as to be a surprise, and not a good one.
Kamala’s first interview question: “Describe yourself in one word.” Kamala: “Vague.” Interviewer: “Can you elaborate?” Kamala: “Possibly.”
Why?
She’s pulling what I’ll call an “Ultra-Clinton” approach to her candidacy. Back when Hillary first ran for senate in 2000, I was expecting that, finally, she’d have to address the public. There wasn’t any way, I naively thought, that she could duck the people for an entire election. I mean, without killing them.
Whoops. While Hillary did do carefully staged and vetted “listening tour” events, what she didn’t do was meet with anyone but fawning press. She successfully avoided all genuine interaction with people so she wouldn’t have to kill time. Of course, Hillary was well known to be a GloboLeft accomplice, so it wasn’t any surprise when the New York machine churned out a senate seat for her to launch an eventual presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris, though, is another matter. She is the ultimate in vapor. What, exactly, does she stand for? Apparently, no taxes on tips. But beyond that, she is a ghost.
Is she Indian or black? Yes, though my guess is that more of her ancestors owned slaves than were slaves.
I guess if she doesn’t owe reparations, nobody does.
Is she for or against illegals scurrying across the border in unending streams?
Yes. She wants to be seen as “tough on immigration” at the same time she promises to “let every illegal sitting in detention out on day one”.
Is she against inflation? You bet she is, and on day one of her administration she’ll do something (the something is not mentioned) to stop it. Why the Biden/Harris administration can’t stop it right here and now isn’t discussed and no one asks here that question, since that would be mean or something. As usual, the Bee nails it:
If honesty is the best policy, I guess Kamala’s normally uses the second-best policy.
Interviews? Trump sits down to a multi-hour open and candid conversation with Elon Musk, and sits for interview after interview. Kamala? She might sit for an interview sometime by the end of the month. Maybe. If they can keep her off the gin for that long.
And Trump’s request for three debates?
Well, there’s just one on the schedule, and that’s enough for Kamala, at least in August. Heck, in September I’m not so certain that Paperwork American Judge Juan Merchan won’t slap Trump in irons and send him to prison. Oh, sure, he’ll get out on an appeal shortly thereafter, but don’t count that possibility out. This election is a circus, and we’re far short of the finale.
They did a study of how often Kamala was drunk. The results were staggering.
But what is known is that Kamala is really attempting to appeal to a select group of voters: those who aren’t paying attention and who will vote for a candidate based on what they feel.
Kamala has no need to preen for the hard-core GloboLeftists that want to hang Trump because they don’t like his face. They’re going to show up for her even if she changes her tune to being pro-life and wants to start distributing AR-15s to every citizen. They’d vote for her, because what they believe in is based only on what the latest talking points are from the DNC. These people are Non-Player Characters (NPC) because they’re programmed by the mainstream news or by whatever the talking head night joke men tell them to believe.
What, really, is an NPC?
Since humans are social creature, there is an inherent tendency in many people to follow. In the past, this made sense. The number of people, say, a French peasant would have seen in their life was small, and they derived their beliefs by what was presented to them other people, rather than any other source.
This variety of NPC is popular in the UK, and in the United States too! Talk about diversity!
Women, especially, were subject to this effect. An example proving that was the number of war brides that American troops returned home with from Germany. I don’t have the total from Germany, but over 300,000 war brides came from Europe, many speaking little English, to the United States. These women immediately married men of the armed forces that had bombed and terrorized them for years because everyone said they were in charge now.
See? NPC.
But as family groups become fractured due to no-fault divorce and a system that gives women cash and prizes for divorcing men, and as people become uprooted chasing economic success in areas far from where they grew up, they became reliant on a different tribe: mass media.
No one is entirely immune, but some are entirely dependent on mass media for their opinions. A close-knit family, longstanding friends, family stories and novels and other idea intrusions (like this blog) serve as counter-programming to the NPC soup that many live in. The more you’re divorced from Infocancer like The View, the greater your immune system, and the less of an NPC you are.
This phrase must have tested highly with the NPC species Karenus Manageriusspeakum.
Kamala is not for you. Kamala is for the NPC.
Kamala has to appeal (or pretend to appeal) to the middle. These are the people who aren’t on the GloboLeft, and aren’t on the TradRight. They just want to grill and enjoy the sunset and consume mass media. Be aware, this how they were built – to follow. Immersive multi-media that’s fed from a screen and doesn’t require any critical thought is what they desire.
For the NPC the TV or TikTok™ is their tribal sense of purpose. Along with a lot of drugs.
How the NPC class copes.
The difficulty for Kamala is that for many of these people the last four years have been hell. Their businesses have been closed (if they own a business) and their paychecks have dwindled in the face of ever-present inflation. They’ve seen awful riots, they’ve seen this weird transgender explosion that they don’t much like, and now they notice huge numbers of people who moved into their neighborhood and don’t speak any English staring at them when they fill their gas tank. They know they’re supposed to like them, but also have a tingling sense that these aren’t refugees or immigrants. They’re becoming worried that this is an invader class.
Huh. Wrongly think. Get on board, citizen!
Kamala has to appeal to those people to win. She can’t do it on record, so the best option is to run against anything she has ever stood for, or at least pretend to run against that. She can say anything in front of any group, and will wait for the networks and search engines to run interference for her so that she can fulfill her strategy to win the White House.
How? Kamala intends to be the first NPC candidate, standing for nothing, with no real substance except a desire for power with the media as her staunchest friend and defender. Let’s get this woman some more gin!
“You blow it tonight, girl, and it’s keggers with kids all next year.” – Heathers
There’s also a neolithic monument to Dad jokes: Groanhenge.
FYI upfront: very likely I’ll not have a post at all on Monday – travelling for pleasure and won’t be back until the wee hours Monday morning.
Göbekli Tepi is back in the news. But first? What the hell is a Göbekli Tepi?
Göbekli Tepi is a location in the southern part of Turkey, right near the place you put the onion in, and later discover you forgot to remove the plastic bag with the gizzards and cooked it, and decide, “meh, it probably won’t kill me,” carve it up, and serve it anyway without telling anyone.
Oh, wait, it’s the country Turkey not the tasty bird. Göbekli Tepi is located right near the border with Syria, and is one of the most significant archeological sites. Ever.
Why? It’s made of huge stone structures, carved intricately and realistically, and showing more artistic skill than any post-modern artist. That’s not saying much, but, there it is.
I once read a very moving story in Braille. It was touching, really.
Original by Sue Fleckney – https://www.flickr.com/photos/96594331@N03/20385309880/, CC BY-SA 2.0, snarky comment by Wilder.
It’s old. Very old. 9,500 B.C. old.
That’s a really long time to try to even imagine. I’m not sure I can, since when compared to the lifespan of any human except your mother, it’s hard to conceive. I’ll never be able to put it in terms anyone can wrap their brain around, but let me give an example:
We’re closer in time to Jesus than Jesus was to the building of the pyramids. Göbekli Tepi is four times farther back in time than the construction of the pyramids was from the perspective of Jesus. This was so far back in time that pottery had yet to be invented, but, strangely, Tupperware™ was already in wide use.
Tupperware™ even made a casket with a clear lid. It was a failure, I don’t know why. They had a great slogan: Remains To Be Seen©.
Göbekli Tepi is old enough that it started being built around the time the very first evidence of agriculture shows up in the archeological record. This is such an early settlement, that most evidence indicates that it was made by hunter-gatherers for use only occasionally, like the cabin in the woods that they visited only on Labor Day. But why did they go there?
I know the answer. Why would hunter-gatherers meet up at the dawn of history?
To party.
I’ve written about this before – there is evidence of grain and yeast in big stone vats at Göbekli Tepi. This is evidence of the really simple answer to the question of why Göbekli Tepi was built – the guys got together, made beer, sang songs, told lies about the big aurochs that got away, farted, and got really, really drunk. Want more evidence? Over 7,000 grinding stones to mash the grain into something they could brew with. 7,000 seems like a lot, but they gathered there to party and get stoned for over a thousand years.
I go to the pool every day to try to get a swimmer’s body. But no one ever drowns.
Once a year, probably, because that’s all the beer they had because they hadn’t developed agriculture.
That last part is new and is in a paper by Dr. Martin Sweatman (chemical engineer) out of the University of Edinburgh (LINK). It turns out that a bunch of Scotsmen (I assume it involved grad students, having been an engineering grad student myself back in the day) noodled over the carvings and started counting. Scotland is boring, so counting the number of times a “V” (apparently the only letter the Göbekli Tepi residents knew) showed up was the only other thing Sweatman’s team could think to do after they drank all the booze in the lab.
Adderall© is dangerous. One of my friends took it, blacked out, and now he’s a grad student.
They found that there was a pretty cool pattern on the blocks (figure 12 on page 38 of the .pdf I linked above):
My guess was that the last V? That was party day – the ultimate pre-dawn of writing stuff down beer bash. Since they only drank one weekend a year, I imagine these folks were the ultimate cheap date, sort of like a group of high school freshmen who had scored some near-beer.
I guess Cain was Abel. (meme as found)
And, by Crom Coors®, they invented mathematics, astronomy, sculpture carving, building craftsmanship, and agriculture in a short span of time.
To get more beer.
I’ll stand by that statement.
Society was created by and for beer drinkers. I’m not even kidding. People needed a reason to build all of this stuff, and men were the ones who did it. Have you ever been around men? We only do stuff for one of two reasons – one is beer, and you know what the other one is. Okay, three reasons. I forgot the PEZ®.
Wait until he tries to explain Netflix®. (meme as found)
In the end, Göbekli Tepi wasn’t destroyed. It was carefully buried. This, my friends, suggests a great reverence for the place. It was like the ritual burial of the frat house after all the fraternity brothers had gotten married and had a real job.
Which was probably the case, they were now all farmers and soldiers and bureaucrats that ran the small cities so they could eventually build breweries, convenience stores and refrigerators. They gradually forgot about the place.
Then we (modern humans) found it. Now, the people who found it were very serious people who have grown only more serious over time at university cocktail parties in the woke modern world. They can’t, for the life of them, figure out what this was, since they forget that this was a place built by and for men to party.
I think Dr. Sweatman is totally right (there’s more in his paper including a Time Lord™ and a possible record of a cataclysmic comet, you should RTWT)– the stone is a calendar. And it’s counting the time until the next party.
It’s the countdown to beer day. And who doesn’t like beer day?
The Mrs. is tired. Have some memes:
“They chose to murder and steal.” – The Dark Knight
Notes: All memes are as found, and no podcast tomorrow – The Mrs. has to catch some sleep.
Alice Smith is a reciprocal follow on X®. She’s the great-great-great-granddaughter of Scottish economist Adam Smith, and is a good person to follow (@TheAliceSmith) if you’re already following the most important account on X™, @wilderbyfar. She’s from the UK, and had the absolutely best post I’ve seen on the current sickness that’s destroying the West:
Doesn’t that say it all?
Immigration to the West (Europe plus the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) has nothing to do with freedom or our culture for most immigrants. It’s merely about the stuff.
The sickness?
It’s from the GloboLeftElite attempting to brainwash the world into thinking that:
It’s the last one that we should talk about right now.
I’m not particularly interested in going on a culture jihad, so, perhaps all cultures are “valid.” I suppose, if cannibal, rape-y, stone age tribes are your thing, I guess you could call it valid.
But all cultures are certainly not equal in things like freedom, justice, morality, and economic output.
Here, for centuries, the West has been far ahead of the world. Europe was free-ish (feudalistically speaking) since the Black Death, which greatly changed the relationship between serf and local lord.
And in a continent that was freer than any in the world, there was a place that was freer yet: Great Britain. Great Britain had a really big advantage: after the year 1066, it really was never invaded by a external enemy army. Sure, you could make a case the culture has been subverted by outside forces (and I will below) but not by force of arms.
This isolation as an island nestled right next to Europe allowed a strange development – yeoman farmers who were encouraged to take up the longbow and become soldiers so that while the English lost land in France, there was never a doubt about them losing England. The Scotts in the north were much the same, being hard-headed independent herders, they had to be strong, and were used to fighting both against and with other Scotts as well as the English. And, yes, that’s a complement. (I’m partially Scot myself).
This isolation of individually armed individuals set up an independent society with no safety nets. If you were too poor, stupid, or drunk to make enough money to live, you died. If your lord decided he wanted something out of line, well, your +3 longbow could outrank his +1 armor at a distance. As a result, Britain’s I.Q. rose over the course of centuries because the culture itself winnowed out stupid people, yet the strong, stubborn sense of independence remained.
Even the song “Rule, Britannia!” has the following lyrics:
“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves;
“Britons never will be slaves.”
This is a very, very different culture than that of the current people who opened the floodgates to Great Britain – they were unabashedly Globalist and Leftist, hated everything that Great Britain stood for, and were more than willing to start the migration into Great Britain. I’d be lying to say that none of them pulled their weight – in some cases Britain got some of the best from their home countries, hence the term “brain drain”, but this was the exception rather than the norm. Most of the immigrants to the UK have been a net negative to the country.
But no outside army ever conquered Britain. Except the army of beggars that have invaded it have done something that no one thought possible – united the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland – against the onslaught. What does it take to get people who have been fighting each other for centuries to hold hands, literally, and march together?
Whatever it is, it sounds Evil to me.
And it is. Evil. Brought directly to the shores of Great Britain by GloboLeftists in misguided altruism and the GloboLeftistElite out of a calculated bid to displace inconvenient people who don’t want to be replaced.
There reaches a point where something so awful happens that a culture revolts: it says, “That’s enough.” In the United States for transgender acceptance, it was the murder of six children by a trans killer so crazed that they still won’t release her manifesto. That was enough. The GloboLeftistElite wanted to try to hide it (see how autocomplete will try to take you to murders of transgenders, but not murders by transgenders). These murders is why Bud Light™ is Bud Deadtome© for so many consumers.
It appears that the United Kingdom (Great Britain plus Northern Ireland) has had enough of murderous vultures in their society. The cause? The murder of three girls, ages 6, 7 and 9 at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in a town called Southport. By knife. By a 17-year-old that had no place being in the United Kingdom in the first place.
English people had watched as rape gangs of organized sexual assault on at minimum 1400 young women that was denied to even exist in Rotherham because the victims were mainly white and the perpetrators were of privileged minority status – Pakistani, mostly.
This was covered up at a national level. Filing cabinets full of the data on the case mysteriously disappeared. That was never solved.
But would it matter? Probably not:
Some of those convicted (many weren’t even tried) got as little as 2 years. Britons can get more time for being mean with words.
Oh, and the last one? She was posting Bible verses.
That set the situation, along with other, repeated, ongoing murders and rapes by people not fit to live in any sort of civilized society. These three final murders were enough.
The response of the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, was exactly what you would expect from a member of the GloboLeftElite: he blamed the people pushing back against unrestrained and unrestricted illegals swarming the United Kingdom. And if you complained online, even if you were more likely to be arrested than the illegals swarming the streets with swords and machetes.
They’re now calling him “two-tier Keir”, since his justice has two tiers: a harsh one for actual English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish and one where all acts by any minority are ignored. Probably because Starmer hates his own people, because he hates himself.
I guess that’s easier.
The United Kingdom has found a point where they say, No More.
This is coming soon to a country near you.
Oh, and if they offer the type of deal below? We should take it. Because it’s not about the stuff.
At all.
“I knew your brother would send assassins.” – Gladiator
I would tell a joke about my time travelling experiences, but you guys didn’t like it.
Volume VI, Issue 3
All memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I’ve kept the Clock O’Doom at the same place – though it will notch up quickly if there are any signs of the TradRight stiffening up.
This is a moving situation, and things are changing quickly. The advice remains. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.
In this issue: Front Matter – Destabilization – Violence and Censorship Update – Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Kamala – Links
Front Matter
Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report. These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month. I’ve created a page (LINK) for links to all of the past issues. Also, subscribe because you’ll join nearly 850 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
Destabilization
I’ll start with a couple of my own quotes from last month’s Civil War 2.0 Weather Report:
July will be an even more eventful month, if my guess is right.
This level of political intrigue is the highest since 1859 or so, and it’s quite clear that the glue that holds the country together is nearly gone, and this is a signpost on the way to Civil War 2.0.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was a surprise, and certainly not one that I had anticipated. In the immediate aftermath, Trump’s popularity soared as people saw the raw response to the event from Trump in one of the most iconic photographs of my lifetime, his fist raised in defiance.
Trump is certainly a showman.
As the details of the event continue, it looks like the Secret Service was doing its job as well as Boeing®’s Starliner™ design team.
The other thing the assassination attempt did was show how pathetic the attempt to prosecute the January 6 “insurrectionists” that were so ill-behaved that most of them used trash receptacles for their water bottles. Comparing the two events shows how silly, vindictive, and political the prosecution of the protesters was and is.
Immediately the political attacks restarted on Trump. He was Cheeto® Hitler™, and still is in their minds. Many of them were in open despair that the shooter had missed.
What followed? Joe Biden dropping out of the race. Joe was done, but his last middle finger to Obama, who I believe is the one who pushed for the June debate and pushed for Joe to be booted, wanted someone else, anyone else, other than the retarded girl-child with a love of vodka known as Kamala to be the nominee.
Obama lost, and Kackela Harris will soon be voted in by the Democratic delegates as their first candidate that never received a single primary vote, and was selected by a senile man as a revenge choice.
All of that screams stability.
Just kidding. Of all of the strange and destabilizing things we’ve seen so far, I would lay money we’ve yet to see the strangest part of this election season, and it will be more destabilizing even than what we’ve seen just this July.
Violence and Censorship Update
Well, there’s this:
Which resulted in proof that you don’t hate the media enough:
And also proof that the constant drumbeat has made GloboLeftists evil or crazy. Or both:
And the GloboLeftElite try to hide what we all saw:
But don’t bet on Bing™ to be unbiased:
And here are things they’re also attempting to memoryhole, including billionaire Alex Soros with a bullet hole and forty-seven dollars. Hmmm, Trump, if elected would be the 47th President:
And Prince Harry shows why July 4 is still important:
And here are things that the GloboLeftistElite don’t want you to think about:
But there are Bright spots:
Biden/Harris Misery Index
If Democratic economic policy had a face:
Let’s take a look to see how we’ve done this month . . . .
Yup, up again. It’s like there’s a pattern here . . .
More to come:
Updated Civil War II Index
The Civil War II graphs are an attempt to measure four factors that might make Civil War II more likely, in real time. They are broken up into Violence, Political Instability, Economic Outlook, and Illegal Alien Crossings. As each of these is difficult to measure, I’ve created for three of the four metrics some leading indicators that combine to become the index. On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.
Violence:
Violence is up. I wonder if Chicago’s Democratic National Convention is going to spike temperatures? Maybe they’ll play some soothing music?
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it is slightly down. I expect this fall to drop.
Economic:
The economy looks to be juiced, but thankfully we have housing options.
Illegal Aliens:
July is showing as down, again, since (my take) the .gov folks are just making up numbers now.
Kamala
I was going to write a bit more, but I’m a bit under the weather, so here are some related memes, in order:
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Bad Guys
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1818705002023530940
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1818801077308809307
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1816613118056837285
https://x.com/DaRealMonch/status/1817987959922250083
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1817614424141857175
https://x.com/Glock_Topickz/status/1815899177596903814
https://x.com/GangHits/status/1816611210214731827
Good Guys
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/89EFTHojJRw
One Guy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrlrzw5550o
Body Count
https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/25/kids-a-growing-number-of-americans-say-no-thanks/
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1817731127672779239
https://reason.com/2024/06/15/house-passes-bill-to-automatically-register-young-men-for-the-draft/
https://themilitant.com/2024/08/02/congress-discusses-upgrading-the-draft-and-conscription-of-women/
https://www.newsweek.com/us-army-military-women-draft-conscription-1916238
Vote Count
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184621/presidential-election-voter-turnout-rate-state/
Civil War
https://radaronline.com/p/trump-shooter-suicide-mission-trigger-second-civil-war/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/ohio-republican-trump-civil-war
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/trump-vance-civil-war-gop-political-violence/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-civil-war-talk-1235066760/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/29/how-civil-wars-start/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/movies/war-game-documentary-review.html
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy-suffer-quiet-death-simulated-trump
“I don’t know, but whatever it is, it’s weird and pissed off.” – The Thing
The Mrs. is so weird: she starts every conversation with “were you even listening to me?”
All memes today are “as found”.
In the recent week, a miracle occurred. It seems like every Mainstream Media® pundit found the exact same word to describe Donald Trump, JD Vance, or both of them.
“Weird.”
Yup, “weird”. That’s the Kamala campaign’s strategist attempting to frame the 2024 election. Republicans are . . . weird. Master Persuader Scott Adams analyzed this. His conclusion?
This was “mean girl” politics. And the person who came up with the idea was . . . a woman. Her idea was to use the “in-group/out-group” method of attack.
What’s that? Well, simply enough, a junior high girl would describe someone as “weird” in order to get her friends to form a united group against someone. It only works, mind you, in junior high and also if it’s true. With Trump and Vance?
Well, not so much, for a couple of reasons. First off, they’re actually the weird ones:
See what I mean? We aren’t the weird ones. Nothing about us is weird. Okay, some things about me are weird, but most of them in a good way. Most of them. Those memes above will have a visceral impact, mainly on those who already agree with us. Some of them, though, especially at the bottom end of the list will be far too much for the normies in the middle. They might chuckle, but they’re gonna be pretty hesitant to share them. Regardless, if they see them and they’re not already consumed by the Woke Mind Virus, they’ll start to grow the doubts about who is really “weird”.
Here are some that are a bit more sharable:
See what I mean?
My take is that the following, though, are knockout punches to the middle, because they really hit the values that define us, but that the normies in the middle have a hard time seeing as weird – it builds a cognitive dissonance – the look at that, and realize that’s a far, far better world than we live in today.
Which makes these memes something that might move them.
And that’s my take. YMMV. And if someone called me weird? I’d say, “Hell yeah, I’m so weird I believe in marriage and intact mothers and fathers raising their kids with moral values.” Agree with them, and amplify. Because every single time that they try to paint us as something, it’s something that they fear others think of them.
Streams will show up at 9EDT (click the link below), that’s in just over 30 minutes! (and we typically pregame for five minutes, so it really starts up at 8:55PM)
Funniest News On the ‘Net.
In this episode:
“You know what doesn’t look good? A story about gross incompetence.” – American Hustle
My garden shears will never be obsolete, after all, it’s cutting-hedge technology.
My science teacher in high school, who I’ll call “Mr. Johnson” (not his real name except that was totally his real name) often lectured us on things entirely unrelated to science. It wasn’t a doctrine he was trying to instill us with, it was merely that he was old enough and close enough to retirement that he really didn’t give a damn about 90% of the class. I don’t think that he even cared if we listened, since he was only talking to 10% of us anyway.
You either got him or you didn’t.
One of his random asides was about the word “crisis”. Mr. Johnson hated the use of the word crisis except to refer to a single moment in time. His definition was that the crisis was a moment – the Cuban Missile Crisis when everyone was poised to push the button, and yet backed away from world condemning us to live in a world where The View exists.
Regardless of Mr. Johnson’s definition, I think we’re in the midst of a crisis.
Why do I think this stage would smell of old kitty litter and stale chardonnay?
Datapoint:
The Crowdstrike© software incident from just two weeks ago brought down at least 8.5 million computer systems, and brought them down in such a way that they couldn’t restart. To make it even better, once a fix was found, it had to be fixed computer by computer. Why? Because they didn’t test the patch.
Right now, the estimate is that this caused at least $10 billion in financial losses, though a communist would tell you that it was a good thing since all of those computer techs had something to do other than play Tetris™ and Minesweeper© while listening to Dan Fogelberg.
I think Boeing® should adopt a “no slippers” policy.
Datapoint:
The Starliner® is anything but, more resembling a large orbiting bucket filled with cash than a spacecraft, it sits, useless, stuck against the side of the ISS. If it were the only failure to Boeing’s©, name, that would be one thing, but it’s not. Their planes regularly either fall from the sky due to poor programming kludges, or have random spontaneous partial disassembly of their planes in flight due to spotty manufacturing quality control.
Boeing™ had a pretty good reputation for decades as a company that took engineering seriously – the name of the Boeing® 707 was rumored to be an engineering joke – it’s one over the square root of two. It kept showing up in their calculations, so they decided that was a good omen for naming their (then) flagship airliner. In reality, it sounds like it was just a product number, with the 7 series being jets, and they liked the sound of the end 7.
Regardless, they didn’t call it a “Dreamliner™”.
NASA refuses to send a giant duck into outer space – they say the bill would be astronomical.
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I loved NASA when I was a kid. They were generally seen as a triumph of competence and coolness under pressure. They did real engineering, and also were great at managing the integration of multiple complex systems in a manner where they worked pretty well, Apollos 1 and 13 notwithstanding.
They literally wrote the book on getting man to the Moon using the very limits of known technology at the time. Getting to the Moon was so hard that it was barely in our grasp, yet they did it, time and time again. They even managed to get the ISS built.
But now? Barrack Obama stated that the primary goal of NASA was Moslem outreach. During the eclipse of 2017, they even spent NASA resources to make a Braille book about eclipses. What was that meant to do, taunt the blind kids? And, yes, the Webb Space Telescope has been pretty cool. But the Space Launch System costs about $4.1 billion per launch, and each launch takes about six months.
I was okay after I figured out alcohol could kill COVID.
Datapoint:
Every aspect of the response to COVID-19 was horrific from an economic and medical standpoint. From an economic standpoint, the government response was to blindly throw as much cash in as many places as possible as quickly as that could. This was a bipartisan effort.
The panic and hypocrisy weren’t limited to the economic response, no. The medical response was just as inept, as Fauci now admits he just made things up as some sort of medical theater. Ventilators appear to have killed more people than they saved. The abomination of the “Vaxx” has led to an excess mortality that many reckon has a body count higher than COVID itself. I, for one, really hope that everyone who took the Vaxx® recovers, but can we forget a government and its accomplices who tried (and in many cases, succeeded in forcing people to take it?
I can’t, though the GloboLeftElite surely hope you forget. But remember, there are no refunds.
I was wondering if this was going to be too dark, but then I realized it’s all under two and a half miles of water, so of course it’s going to be dark.
Datapoint:
In one sense, I certainly admire the guts that it took to build a submarine from a pressure hull and off-the-shelf parts like an X-Box™ controller, but the hubris of the owner remains: the CEO didn’t “hire 50-year-old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational”. I wonder if we would have made it to orbit if Von Braun had a similar philosophy?
Well, I guess he paid the ultimate price for his hubris and disregarding competence in favor of the “inspirational” stories. Most CEOs just lose their shareholder’s money, like Disney™, which I could write an entire post on.
The crisis we face is one where we’ve lost the capacity for competence and will to achieve that we had as recently as the 1960s even as our systems grow far more complex. Again, one software update cost $10,000,000,000, NASA doesn’t produce spaceships that can fly with any reliability, and Boeing™ went from making some of the most reliable airplanes in the world by the thousands to a company that survives on government contracts, accounting errors, and inertia.
Maybe, though, this crisis will do what the Cuban Missile Crisis couldn’t do:
Free us from The View. Wonder if they’d like a trip to the Titanic?
“Well, ‘free’ is just another word for ‘socialist’.” – Watchmen
There are social drinkers and socialist drinkers. Socialist drinkers only drink when someone else pays.
TIK History is a YouTube® channel that focuses on, well, history. Mainly his channel has focused on World War II battles, and mainly battles involving lots of tanks. He did one series on Stalingrad that (I believe) totaled over 3,000,000 words of script by the time he was finished. Obviously, that took him years to put together. That’s more than enough work to earn him a doctorate, which I guess would make him a Stalingraduate Student.
When not doing battle documentaries, he also does some on political philosophy. Where I do listen to all of his battle recreations, his political philosophy videos are hit or miss. One that I did listen to (LINK) is one on the similarities of the lives of socialist leaders who had no particular problem with the idea of killing millions to achieve their paradise.
Which socialist leaders? Well, all of them:
Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, Engels, Stalin, Mao, and (and, to a lesser extent) Pol Pot. TIK included Mussolini and Hitler, and, on reviewing, in my opinion they don’t quite fit the mold, so I’ve omitted them here.
Lenin, Trotsky, and Mao walk into a bar. There are no survivors.
TIK noted that each of these had the same sort of pattern:
This doesn’t really surprise me. Mothers and fathers have utterly different roles in raising a child – mothers teach love and empathy and altruism, while fathers teach discipline and honor and courage. These are very different tasks, but this might be incomprehensible to someone who cannot define what a woman is.
This is directly from Mao’s Wikipedia® entry: ”During the 1930s, Mao would claim that he resented his father, viewing him as stingy and unaffectionate. He contrasted this with the affection he received from his mother, thus adopting a Marxist dialectical perspective by dividing the family into two camps: his mother and himself on one side, his father on another.”
This leads us directly to:
Again, mothers are different than fathers. Looking at what mothers teach, these socialist leaders were taught that they needed to fix the world, but never told to fix themselves.
What did Freud use as an insult? “Your mother is so unpleasant that even your own subconscious isn’t attracted to her. What, no, this is just a cigar.”
Religion, when done right, provides both a goal and a means to achieve that goal. In Christianity, you’re supposed to help people, but those people should also be striving to be worthy, and there are limits based on the religion of exactly how one should help people: altruism, but with limits. Remove the religion, remove the limits but keep the misplaced altruism.
This is crucial, because it means that all power is in the hands of man, and there isn’t any space for a higher power. Man has no limits, and thus there is no meaning to any of this, so everything is justified as long as it brings about the desired end result.
Socialism doesn’t even work on paper, if history books count.
Mao, for instance had a hardworking father that bought up several acres and employed several farm workers – this was substantial wealth for where he grew up – Mao as a child had his own room, which was amazingly rare.
I think Marx did some occasional writing for papers, but mostly he lived based on begging money from friends and family. Yet, he had a maid, drank like a fish, and smoked enough cigars to bankroll Cuba. So, no job, his wife constantly giving birth, his maid once giving birth (likely to Marx’s kid) and he lived in an eight-room house. No wonder communism was a failure: listening to the advice of a pauper on the way to get to economic prosperity is like taking the advice of Boeing in 2024 on how to make spaceships.
These people either hated or feared the idea of economic independence. Lenin worked for two years before becoming a bum. Ditto with Trotsky. Stalin’s only job, ever, was as a cobbler as a child working for his father for a very short time when he was a kid.
A GloboLeftist said that if we had to kill our own food, we wouldn’t eat meat. But I say if he had to make his own computer, he wouldn’t whine on Reddit®.
I think the poor economic conditions that each of these people had filled them with envy. It’s not that they wanted everyone to prosper, it is that they wanted (especially with Marx and Lenin) other people to work harder so they didn’t have to.
Each of them is slightly different, yet those same patterns appear to remain. Additionally, I think the family structures (I wrote about this at the links below) of their countries allowed them to come to power in a way that wouldn’t have worked in England or the United States.
When I look to the modern politician that most models this family structure and early life, it is clearly Barrack Hussein Obama – each of the points that would lead to a socialist or communist dictator were and are there. I think this explains, at least partly, his current engagement to try to steer and control the Democratic party and to “fundamentally transform” a nation that he hates.
Which brings us to the other candidate that fits the pattern: Kamala Harris. Although she never won a primary, she fits the pattern as well: her father was absent from her life after their parents divorced, her mother was her sainted figure, raised as a Hindu, she is more than likely not at all Christian, since her father is a rabid communist and commies hate Christianity.
Makes me wonder if her quest for power has left a bad taste in Kamala’s mouth.
That leaves Kamala as filled with altruism as someone guided by religion, but without the constraints that the belief in God. Or whatever gods Hindus believe in, since I don’t believe anyone actually understands the religion.
Regardless, these two people are dangerous. And they are potentially working together. If you look at the intense desire to bring in hordes of illegal and legal immigrants used to either socialist or chaotic government, look no further for the reason: they hate America. They hate you. And they want to replace you because, in the end, they hate themselves as well.
Here’s hoping that Kamala can’t keep away from the vodka during the campaign. Perhaps we can convince her to start a vodka diet if we tell her she can lose three days in just one week.
