“Okay, whose job was it to feed the butterflies?†– The Venture Brothers
What do you call a unicorn’s dad? Popcorn?
I remember reading a story as a child – I’d give the source if I could remember, but too many years have passed since I read it. I’m at the age where I’m having trouble remembering names – mine for starters. But some stories stick with you, especially when you can relate to them like I relate to batteries. I mean, like batteries I’m not included in anything, either.
In this particular case, a young Japanese girl sat in a classroom. Her desk was near a class project. Inside a terrarium, a caterpillar had spun its cocoon and was slowly turning into a butterfly. Each day, the young girl would watch this metamorphosis. Finally, the butterfly was finally ready to emerge from the cocoon.
It struggled. The little girl watched, sympathetic to the beautiful butterfly that was trying to free itself. She could hardly wait – little kids are like that. Every minute the butterfly tried to escape, she was torn. It worked so hard! Finally, she couldn’t help herself, and helped to tear open the cocoon for the butterfly.
The butterfly fell to the bottom of the terrarium. It walked along the bottom of the terrarium, pitifully. Soon enough, the butterfly died. The little girl saw this happen.
That butterfly knows what it did.
The teacher pulled the little girl, who was now crying, aside. “Did you help the butterfly get out of the cocoon?â€
“Yes,†the little girl replied. “It was struggling so! I couldn’t stand watching it fight so hard!â€
“You have to understand,†the teacher responded, “Only by struggling to escape the cocoon does the butterfly build enough strength in its wings to fly.â€
Then he straightened up. “You KILLED IT! You’re so stupid!†screamed the teacher and then sent the little girl to the Japanese PEZ® mines. Okay, in the story I read, the teacher didn’t scream that at the child, but I like my ending better. In my defense, The Mrs. says I’m a high-functioning sociopath.
Butterfly and PEZ© mines aside, a repeated, tragic, repeated lesson of humanity is this: misplaced compassion destroys.
I apologize. John Gruden made me make this meme.
Misplaced Compassion
The median world household income is sort of a guess. In 2013, Gallup® estimated it was about $10,000, and I haven’t seen a more recent number. So, if everyone made the global average income, per capita, we’d each make about $2,900. Per year.
The average family in the world is really, really poor. But, hey, give a poor man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a poor man a poisoned fish? He eats for the rest of his life.
If you needed an explanation of why people are attempting to come to the United States, even the poor people here generally make more than $2,900 per year. Welfare benefits for illegals (in the scale of their home countries) is big bucks, plus they get free schools. The magnet driving the illegals is the wage imbalance (if they want to work, and many do) plus social programs (whether they want to work or not).
Being poor in the first world is better than being above average income in most countries.
Huh. They called that a traitor when I was a kid.
This is not sustainable, because there’s a problem. People rampage across borders in endless waves, yet capital flows freely. Even as people flood the border, and I’ve heard estimates of 3,000,000 this year, industry flows away.
Capital flows freely, it flows without respect to any sort of morality. Add in zero tariffs? It’s a race to the bottom. The economy hollows out even as millions come to partake in it. Heck, if it gets bad enough, Google® might have to lay off some congressmen.
Just kidding. Google™ would have to lay off all the congressmen.
The lure is simple. Short term, we all get to buy lower-cost stuff. Long term, however, it results in a shell of an economy. Supposedly, one of George H.W. Bush’s economic advisors said, “It doesn’t make any difference whether a country makes computer chips or potato chips.â€
That’s true. Unless you live in what we call the real world. Check the wages of people who work at either place. Get back to me and tell me it doesn’t matter. That’s the sort of short-term thinking that leads to long-term poverty and the eventual destruction of a nation.
What do you call a sad Italian parasite? A hopeless Roman tick.
Venezuela Effect
The other problem with the social safety net is that the money and effort spent in creating and maintaining it is money and effort that isn’t spent advancing the economy. Even if we had infinite amounts of money (spoiler alert: we don’t) we have only so much effort.
Socialist giveaways lower motivation and destroy economic productivity. I even made the argument with a Leftist friend that we should delay the implementation of socialism so we end up with better technology. He agreed. But, let’s be fair – in a pure capitalist economy, it’s man exploits man. In a socialist economy, it’s the reverse.
What we are morphing into is a government of the takers and the oligarchy versus those that produce, perhaps the worst possible combination of crony capitalism and socialism combined.
One model of this is Venezuela. The government replaced the leaders of the oil company, PdVSA©, with loyal commies. A company that previously was one of the leading economic winners in the country (heck, the continent) was transformed over a decade into a basketcase that had to import fuel.
Yes, Venezuela is sitting on one of the largest deposits of oil in the world, yet they degraded their economy so they couldn’t make fuel. It’s like Hollywood having to import movies, or Washington, D.C. having to import corruption, or a Biden having to outsource sexual depravity.
Biden met with his cabinet today. And argued with his desk.
Welcome to our future under Brandon, er Biden. Being a tick is a great business model until there are so many of them that they kill the host. But I guess that the reason for that is real socialism has never been tried? From a tick’s point of view, I guess they just need more dogs.
Also, the social safety net isn’t based on any moral concept, either at the source of the money (which is not freely given, but taken) to the recipient, whose only requirement is to fit a category and be breathing. Forced charity isn’t charity. Unworthy recipients are little more than thieves.
I mean, not that I have an opinion.
Potterville
In It’s a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart’s character is shown a world where he didn’t exist. The same thing happened to me, but it was just called “Tuesdayâ€. In Jimmy Stewart’s case, it was Potterville – a town where everything that wasn’t illegal was fair game for capitalists to exploit.
And exploit it the Potterville that was the United States, they have. The “money†monopoly was made possible by the end of the Cold War. With enough nukes, pretty much everyone is going to take your cash. So, the idea was to print money and get stuff. As long as that worked, the party could go on forever.
When I win a journalistic prize for this blog, I’m going stick my finger out to Joe Biden and say, “Pulitzer.â€
This was built on the idea that there was a check on political financial abuse. Bill Clinton was famously quoted as saying, “You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of f*****g bond traders?â€Â In the 1990s, there was a check on the excesses of the Left.
In 2021, apparently, those f*****g bond traders have no real place to invest or are “all in†on Weimerica, so the printing presses go brrr. Why make (spins wheel) tires when you can make them with nearly no labor costs and no safety or environmental regulations right where they grow the rubber trees?
And if a plucky guitar company (Gibson®) wants to make guitars in the United States and they don’t agree with you politically? Why not go after them for a non-crime for “importing wood†from countries that wanted to sell them the wood?
Sounds like Potterville to me.
Another Way
Our choice isn’t only between Potterville and Venezuela, or the strange blend of the two that we are becoming.
First, we have to have a nation. Nations matter. The second thing we have to have is morality and virtue. As John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.â€
And he was right.
The choice is the “Lived Experiences†of the Leftist mob creating a new Venezuela combined with Global Capitalism creating a Potterville, or the other way: Mayberry – morals based capitalism, a self-moderating system.
- The failure of Potterville is that something being legal doesn’t mean it’s moral.
- The failure of Venezuela is that universal socialism is jut theft from everyone.
- Combining the two leads to Purdue Pharma® selling poison while the government pays for it.
Rebirth is possible only with morality, not a reversion. 1992 will always turn into 2022 unless the morality changes.
And he likes his martini shaken. Or stirred. Or unmixed. Or still in the bottle. He’s not picky.
Politics is downstream from culture. Culture is downstream from values and morality. What values do we share? What morals do we share?
Who do we serve?
In the end, misguided compassion will destroy more than the economy. It will destroy us all, as will capitalism without morality.
There is another way.
I believe in America. We will find our way. It will not be what came before. Like a butterfly, we will struggle.
Let us hope that struggle builds our strength.
You are mixing up and confusing two separate questions.
1) Taxes should not be paid out to non-taxpayers: I agree.
2) By using tariffs or borders, the humans inside the barriers can permanently and forever escape competition with the humans outside: False. This does not work. There is no way to permanently avoid Darwinian competition with all the other humans. If you seal yourself off for long enough, then you get conquered in an invasion by outsiders with greater productivity due to better technology.
The correct answer is: free movement of labor, goods, and money; and tax-paid benefits only go to taxpayers. Implementation is simplified by abandoning the organized criminal enterprise calling itself “government”. As the crooks won’t voluntarily go away, letting them destroy their own logistics because commies are idiots also works. Let’s mint a million trillion dollar coins!
You are correct: Free movement of goods requires free movement of labor.
Free movement of labor weakens family ties and destroys communities (ask any Navy brat or TCK). The which are the seed corn required to pass on their cultural capital. Ability to preserve and grow cultural capitol is necessary to have a civilized, law-abiding, *virtuous* high-trust society.
Low-trust societies crash and burn even faster than societies that control immigration and imported goods to maximize the benefits to their own people. I imagine the difference is even more stark when the protectionist nation starts with a decent (*cough* Christendom *cough*) civilization to start with. How is Switzerland doing these days?
And that is without the binary thinking that equates any nationalist protectionism with a completely locked-in society. Some movement; some restrictions: Moderation FTW.
That nice Mr. Coolidge was right again!
@Codex. I think you may be right, but I add an additional clause:
Moderation in all things – including moderation.
You are mixing up and confusing 2 things: a strawman argument and a false dichotomy. Nowhere did the author say we could (or should) permanently close off our nation to the outside world. It isn’t a choice between Fortress America and Globalization.
The rational choice, as usual, is somewhere in the middle, and it shifts depending on the people and the situation. There are studies showing that free trade actually stifles development of all but the top few producing nations. RL also shows this, as every nation after Britain (OG industrialists) to industrialize did so using tariffs to protect it’s own industry. Every nation that did not do so (often at the point of a globalist gun in the form of the US military) remained largely unindustrialized. If a nation allows it’s industry and food production to be outsourced, even if it’s more efficient to do so, that nation will find itself at the mercy of those nations which did not. Which is why previous to WW2 all serious nations protected food production and war-related industries like automotive.
You also create an exception that swallows the rule: only tax payers can get welfare, but if someone is paying taxes it means they have a job and so do not need welfare. This is another false dichotomy that many on the Right fall prey to, thinking welfare is either a far left boondoggle that destroys a society from the inside, or full-blown social Darwinism where people starve to death at the side of the road. Again, the rational choice is somewhere in the middle, and it shifts depending on the people and the situation. As one example: welfare that takes away the right to vote, requires an implant that negates fertility, and existing children get sent to that training facility like in the movie ‘Soldier’ starring Kurt Russel to become elite killing machines from the future.
This would actually end up being eugenic, unlike a system with no welfare. In a system with no welfare, no one would actually die as they would always have family or a sucker to fall back on, allowing them to continue to breed.
I do not want to live in a nation whose main goal is to maximize GDP. I want to live in a nation that tries to make a great place to live for the people that created it.
Nope – free movement is a race to the bottom. If free movement were possible, 20 to 30 million people would move to the United States in the next year. Their culture? Nothing like ours.
Won’t work.
> free movement is a race to the bottom.
Free movement to North America in the 1700’s caused a race to the bottom? If not, then how do you discriminate (tell the difference) between free movement you like, and free movement you hire gunmen to kill the innocents doing it?
> If free movement were possible, 20 to 30 million people would move to the United States in the next year.
Like the wildlife conservation people say, don’t feel the wild animals, they become dependent on handouts. Stop giving away welfare and freeloaders won’t show up.
> Their culture? Nothing like ours. / Won’t work.
Who cares what their culture is. Either they work enough to support themselves, or they steal and go to prison in Alaska at their own expense. Is your objection based on you already having conceded someone else’s right to rule you and call it “voting”?
> Jim Kunstler called it, “A World Made by Hand” – a world that’s gone back down the tech tree.
World Made by Hand is a White Male Christian Patriarchal fantasy, even less plausible than Handmaid’s Tale. The actual outcome is going to be Snow Crash burbclaves + Thorium nuclear power + Mars colonization + Singularity.
Free movement: Interesting analogy, but failed due to the complexity of the nanny state. Also: lack of consensus morality in 2021.
Don’t feed the animals: That’s a “if only real communism were tried arguement.”
Culture: There is the heart of failure of your arguement. You can’t have the commies move in and expect a libertarieant paradise, voting or not.
Kunstler: I’m sure he’d be surprised to be called a Christian.
Interesting take on actual outcome. That singularity will sting.
Good post JW.
I believe in the people who made the country what it was up to about the ’70s. They were mostly moral and somewhat focused on doing what is right. That orientation has slipped from our grasp these last 50 years.
One thing that gives me a bit of hope for the future of humans is that this has civilizational development has largely been made possible by cheap sources of quality energy, principally oil. That Age is slowly winding down at last, but not before tremendous changes and damage were inflicted upon the world. There were a lot of positive effects too, but if they are carried too far, they become negative in their result. And these days everything is carried too far if there is a way to extract money or power from it.
So, in 100 years life will be much more like what our great grandparents experienced. That seems a good idea to me.
“So, in 100 years life will be much more like what our great grandparents experienced.”
That assumes an orderly transition from high population and affluence to low population and poverty. Humans generally do not go through that transition in an orderly manner… In 100 years it’s either going to be the Jetsons future we were promised, or “Mad Max VIII: Life is Feudal”
“In 100 years life…”
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A century is an incomprehensible amount of time.
Nobody accurately remembers yesterday, let alone yesteryear:
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https://news.mongabay.com/2009/06/proving-the-shifting-baselines-theory-how-humans-consistently-misperceive-nature/
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2021 — as we get involved in daily (hourly?) decisions to facilitate immediate survival, our memories are erased… often replaced by fabricated ‘happy’ memories.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome.
Entropy, the reliable axiom, is inevitable.
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We will remember these as ‘the good old days’.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome.
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2021 — If I was young and fertile, I would be looking around for potential ‘warlord’ material.
Somebody to protect my babies.
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For decades, BisonPrepper James M Dakin, that finely-haired lovable rogue, wrote of this, our inevitable entropy.
Devolution on a planetary scale.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome is the perfect explanation… we can be no other way.
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And, as Shifting Baseline Syndrome predicts, our children will come, knowing only their lived experiences as ‘the old normal’.
I think Jim Kunstler called it, “A World Made by Hand” – a world that’s gone back down the tech tree.
We’ll see. World can’t take as many people as today . . . .
“First, we have a nation”.
This is a more fragile statement than people realize. “Nations” are a political invention of the so-called “Westphalian” system (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty ) that was “invented” by the Peace of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War in 1648. Before that was molon labe/warlords/kings/feudalism etc. So for only around 375 years of the 5000+ years of human history has there been the concept of imaginary lines in the dirt called “borders” where (ideally unified) “citizens” get to be left alone to collectively mind their own business.
This is a very unnatural state of affairs. Susan Strange (Dr. Steven Strange’s sister?) wrote several important books back in the 80s and 90s about how this system is failing, punningly calling it Westfailure (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfailure), and her thoughts are very prophetic today.
Socialism wants to spread money evenly and capitalism wants to concentrate it where it can generate the most bang per buck. Both ignore “borders”, sending people across imaginary lines to where high wages are concentrated and money to where low wages are concentrated. Under this kind of tension, the center cannot hold, as Yeats said in his poem The Second Coming:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Enjoy while you can being the “citizen of a nation”, a rare anomaly of history. Socialism and capitalism and Big Tech are all messing with the literal cocoon started in 1648 and greatly enhanced in 1776. Between the “help” they are all giving us, the butterfly of a just nation of citizens isn’t getting any stronger these days.
I read it as defining nation as it was originally used, a group of similar people. ‘Natal’ was the word ‘nation’ came from, for example. It is the state that is an unnatural creation of the Westphalian system.
There were borders before, but it was more like the private property of individuals rather than lines in the dirt ordained by God to belong in perpetuity to a made-up entity like the state. One of the funnier examples of this was how the King of England was also the Duke of Aquitaine by marriage, when Aquitaine was still part of France. Technically he was supposed to pay homage (which he refused to do), and use the troops from Aquitaine to fight against himself whenever France and England were at war.
I love Yeats. But tell me Hadrian’s Wall wasn’t a border?
Misplaced compassion is pretty common, both in public policy like dumping endless buckets of money into the school system without a shred of accountability because “it’s for the children!” and also in mission work where churches dump endless buckets of money into the third world without a shred of accountability because “it’s for the children!”. It is a solid rule that when you give people something for nothing their appreciation of that something is equal to what they paid for it.
On the other hand, our “capitalist” system has plenty of faults. As the saying goes, the problem with socialism is socialism. The problem with capitalism is capitalists.
@Arthur – and as the saying goes:
Capitalism is the worst possible system, except for all the others.
Yup. Emotion sells. That’s why they keep picking at it . . . .
WEIMERICA !………where the staid Weimar Republic meets today’s SEX CRAZED and out of control NAKED printing machines in this sequel to “GIRLS GONE WILD”© that will BLOW YOU over with its BLOCKBUSTER scenes of DEPRAVITY and lack of fiscal RESTRAINTS.
Coming soon to a neighborhood like yours.
Not an entertainment for the button-down accountant due to profligate excesses that will make even DC bean counters shrink back into their green eye shades.
RATED: NSFSHE*
* Not Sufficient For Sustained Human Exposure
Actually, I think it might be in it’s 500th smash week . . .
The problem is, we don’t have a nation of butterflies.
Half the nation is made up of Dung Beetles. In the human world, we call them Democrats. (They’re actually Communists, but focus-group polling told them that was a non-starter.)
Which explains why what they think we all need is more of what they want.
Illustrated thusly.
https://imgur.com/GKpbhA9.jpg
And which they supply, beyond all expectations. It’s a $#!^apalooza any time they get the reins for 5 seconds.
Try to remember that just 2 years ago, we were experiencing the greatest economic boom of all time.
In real terms, not inflated terms. You could look it up.
And then, we listened to Democrats.
Then, with everyone watching, they grabbed the reins.
Now, here we are.
Tell me, is anyone really surprised?
The problem isn’t nearly so much misplaced compassion, it’s mis-withheld homicidal aggression.
Everything gets better when you kill the parasites.
And FFS, stop listening to them. Because they’re PARASITES!
What does it look like economically when you crib-strangle them, and anyone who gives them so much as the time of day: Switzerland, circa 1960. Where everyone works or they starve, everyone has a loaded machinegun behind the front door, and the president of the country rides the trolley to work with everyone else, and no one thinks any of that is strange.
If only America had a natural barrier around her like the Swiss Alps to keep the commies away once we physically remove them. Oh wait, we do!
Switzerland 1960? Count me in . . .
When I win a journalistic prize for this blog, I’m going stick my finger out to Joe Biden and say, “Pulitzer.”
– Oh no, John Wilder!
We’ve all seen the picture of what he does with fingers. You really should reconsider.
And he “Sir”-d Brandon. So polite!
Hah! I’ll carry some disinfectant and a roll of paper towel . . .
I saw this a few years ago. I went looking for it later on but could not remember it. Thankfully someone reposted recently h/t to you sir.
https://youtu.be/LPjzfGChGlE
“In my defense, The Mrs. says I’m a high-functioning sociopath”.
That is not true, you would be in D.C.
Great video.
Sorry to nit pick, but these narrative points irritate me. Venezuela ran out of enough conventional oil so as to harm her economy. The crap that is left is Fake Fuel. It was never about socialism. The US not only meddled in the country, we also played with their refinery access, so that even the Fake Fuel couldn’t be sold in volume. If the facts were widely known, it would have pointed to the fragility of out own Fracking Fuel ( which peaked in 2018, so say goodbye to half our domestic oil, eventually. It is already down 25%, which harms the economy more than Corona or Joe Biden did ). Love you, bro. Carry on.
Lord Bison . . . I’ll have to check the numbers. Sounds like a good post for next week. Great catch (as usual).
@Codex
> Free movement of labor weakens family ties and destroys communities (ask any Navy brat
Navy brat? (The child of) an indentured servant in the government’s army, used to kill innocents to implement the ultimate big government program, war? That’s not ‘free’ movement of labor, that’s movement by orders.
> Some movement; some restrictions: Moderation FTW.
Government does not do “moderation”. Permanent small government is a fantasy, just as fictional as the naive communist idea of government with no self-interest. Track record is government increases until collapse.
@Zorost
You’re selling the same fantasy of permanently small government as @Codex. There is no policy middle ground except as some middle period observed of a trend on its way to collapse from exponential government growth.
You’re both mistaking ‘some countries which turned out successful did protectionism’ to mean ‘therefore protectionism was both required and beneficial’.
You both think central planning is theoretically possible. However, without a price system, you don’t know what products and industries to protect, or how much or how long to protect it. Show me the numerical formula used to calculate the amount of any of those previous protectionisms you like.
After President Andrew Jackson drove the Native Americans down the “Trail of Tears” ethnic cleansing to be forced to live in the “Bad Lands”, he gave them government welfare payments. Do you think Jackson gave them welfare because he thought welfare would help them? I think Jackson gave the adults welfare to displace them from their roles as self-sufficient family providers, and to prevent the children from learning that a large part of their adult lives would be spent doing work that others wanted done.
You are the king of the strawman argument. You aren’t arguing against what I said, but what you think I said. I never said I was pro-small government. I never said I was pro-big government either. I am pro-correctly sized government to solve more problems than it creates.
It’s not that some industrialized countries did protectionism and some didn’t. It’s that all industrialized nations used protectionism to get off the ground. By the nature of “free” competition, the first to succeed had a huge advantage against late comers. And part of that advantage was to use military force to keep nations from industrializing, so they’d continue to be exporters of raw materials and importers of the industrialized nation’s finished goods, e.g., the Mercantilist System.
I said nothing about central planning, so that is another strawman. Or do you equate tariffs with central planning? In that case, it is another example of your love of false dichotomies. Tariffs are as old as international commerce, so obviously they exist and work. You can have tariffs without being a centrally planned economy like the USSR. If this is what you meant, you are once again thinking there can only be 1 of 2 extremes, either RonPaulistan or the USSR.
I don’t understand why you’d think that reference to Jackson was a relevant argument. It seems to be another attempt by you to create a false dichotomy, that somehow public assistance is either ‘welfare used to genocide people’ or ‘nonexistent so people starve to death by the side of the road.’ Neither of those extremes sounds very pleasant, so I’d prefer an alternative somewhere in the middle that helps poor people while also helping society as a whole. See my example above, which you apparently missed the first time while skimming through for strawman arguments to use.
“Central planning” is the act of government deciding what and how much to tax/tariff/subsidize/spend/ban. Any amount of government is central planning. The government of RonPaulistan would do central planning. By 1930 central planning was proven impossible to be done well. The very act of tax/tariff/subsidize/spend/ban destroys the free market price data you were using to decide if, for instance, automobile fuel made from corn or electric automobiles are a net win. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem Therefore, there can exist no correctly-sized government, because nobody can calculate what the correct size should be. Any example you can point to in history of central planning was actually harmful, regardless of what the humans then thought. Show me the spreadsheet proving the largest construction project ever, the American Interstate Highway System, was a net win over whatever else would have been produced with that money if it hadn’t been taxed away to build roads.
The Jackson example is relevant because any amount of welfare is harmful. In Jackson’s time they knew welfare was harmful, and used it as a method of genocide which superficially looks good in the media.
The dreaded supply chain disruption due to the COV-LARP and ships blocking straits throws a monkey wrench into the cheap gadgets from Asia plan.
If a real WAR starts off there will be no resupply and our good buddy ally CCP will turn everything off with the back doors.
America will be the only place ever where being poor is no big deal because even the poor have an extra big azz teevee, an expanding waistline, a sailfawn (cellphone) and high speed internet, some replacement housing subdivision sectors come with broadband provided by Uncle Sugar gov.
When the fiat Weimar Wheelbarrow Zimbabwe Wallpaper goes live all of that will go up in smoke like an old Cheech and Chong movie.
The CPUSA is in it to burn it all down better so we can experience the egalitarian equality of results for all Cuba/North Korea/Venezuela/Zimbabwe, equity utopia while they live large as unelected apparatchiks and nomenklatura who can never be voted out of office.
It is now a San Francisco, Chicago, Tammmany Hall NYC gone nationwide under comrade Xi O’Brandon of the CPUSA/CCP.
Well said. Nationwide corruption . . . welcome to Weimerica.
Some people think “It Only Takes A Spark” is just a camp meeting song.
Other people realize that the whole national order is made of gasoline-soaked kindling.
We’re about to find out which group is closer to the truth.
BTW, stand upwind of fires that you’re lighting, or you’re liable to make an ash of yourself. And no one wants to be carbonated.
Yup, standing upwind means being away from people . . . be careful out there.
“…unelected apparatchiks and nomenklatura who can never be voted out of office…”
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I am pretty sure at least one method exists to ‘vote’ the bumblebrats into an early ‘retirement’.