Lemons To Lemonade

Democrats have been pushing for a so-called "voting rights" bill, HR4.  Scanning the document, it is a nightmare of indirection such that anyone seeking the least hope of divining so much as a scrap of reliable meaning from it would have to engage in significant labor, going step-by-step, inserting and removing text from the extant statutes as the legislation proposes to amend.

I have discerned a few nuggets, none of them looking good for liberty, but cannot claim to have done so sufficiently to form an intelligent assessment of the bill.  Suffice to say that it is an act of Congress, which in itself should set anyone with an IQ into a state of deep suspicion and high alert.

My purpose here is to offer a raving mad idea about which to think in terms of possible future chicanery on the part of sitting Democrats and their political machinery.  I hope that by putting this idea out, perhaps it will aid in some small way to thwart any such notion on their parts, having been forestalled though exposure.  We must remain alert because where politics are concerned, nearly anything is possible.

Clearly, the Democrats are eager to see HR4 become statute, and though those prospects seem thin at this time, they have nothing to lose by maintaining the press.  It makes sense that the Democrats want this to happen prior to the 2022 midterm elections in order to stave off the loss of their current controlling majority in the House, and the possibility of losing their majority in the Senate.  Given the abominably low approval of the current president, not only are these outcomes a real possibility, at times they appear as likelihood.

Given these lemons, how might the Democrats attempt to make lemonade?  Glad you asked.

If we assume that the current president remains in office through 2024, loss of both houses may not be as disastrous as it seems at first blush.  It is doubtful they would lose by anything more than by a thin margin, which would allow the veto to hamstring Republicans at every turn.  Furthermore, given the turncoat character of far too many Republicans, there would remain some possibility that HR4 could pass during the second half if the current presidential term in any event.  But how to make it happen if you're in the minority in both houses?  How, indeed.

Were Democrats able to pass HR4 prior to the 2024 elections, they could possibly position themselves in a way we may have never before seen in American politics, effectively ending two-party rule.  Here, we are working on the reasonable assumption that HR4 is not what it appears and that it is in fact a means for affecting the theft of elections, moving forward.  Given the apparent chicanery of the 2020 election, a topic we shall ignore here, nothing should be dismissed as implausible.

Imagine the Democrats actually engaging in ballot stuffing/harvesting in order to rig the midterm results in favor of Republicans.  Seems utterly absurd, does it not?  And yet, were they to do so, they could themselves play the victims of evil Republican election fraud.  With a compliant and indeed eager media, nobody needs to guess how this would play out on the broadcast networks.  The barrage of accusations would be loud, massive, and unceasing.  Democrats would howl for a forensic investigation of polling data, etc.  Clear evidence of felonious tampering with the ballots would appear and the spotlight would immediately fall on the Republicans.  After all, why would the Democrats rig an election against themselves? 

Having been condemned by Democrats, tried by media, and a gullible and lazy public turning against them, Republicans would do what they do best: retreat like sissies into defensive positions.  They would turn out looking like stooges, cowards, and most importantly, GUILTY of massive election fraud.  In the wake of this, Democrats, once again greatly aided and abetted by media, would get on the campaign as to why HR4 must be passed and signed into effect immediately.  Think of the children!  I would bet that there would be just enough shivering and/or paid-for Republicans to get the job done, after which the enactment of the bill would allow Democrats to take the presidential election in 2024, establishing their positions of authority in such matters in teh context of the newly amended voting laws for decades to come, or longer.  Showing a landslide victory in the face of "public outrage" at Republicans, Democrats would then further capitalize on this turn of fortunes by citing it as a clear mandate by the American people for them do as they pleased.  

So positioned, Democrats would be able to hold on to carefully managed margins of victory - thin enough  to avoid suspicion by the average dullard - and keep the Republicans effectively shut out of power for a very long time.  All the while, media would be pounding home the "nothing to see here, move along" message, while simultaneously blowing every Republican's in-grown toenail as a looming, apocalyptic threat to our belovèd democracy.  The Republican party would be reduced to the status of window dressing for the purposes of maintaining the illusions of two-party rule, "democracy", and the ever devolving definition of "freedom".

Hopefully, such a grand conspiracy is not in the works, but given that this is big league politics, one should refrain from dismissing this seemingly wild possibility out of hand.  If you are inclined to do so, bear in mind that history has shown without equivocation that fortune favors the bold, and that the more wildly and ambitiously unlikely the plan, the less likely is the average man to believe it could ever happen.

Remain strong, God bless the good land of America, and until next time please accept my best wishes.

Superorganization Is A Trap That Cannot Be Avoided

Some while ago I opined the troubles with the notion of Lowest Denominators.  I also wrote briefly on the concept of Superorganization.  Today, I combine the two and reveal how these phenomena combine and conspire to create a trap that is likely impossible to escape, given our nature as humans.

In the first example, I pointed out that in the case of China, American manufacturers were presented with the choice of moving their operations to China's slave-labor economy, or be consumed by their competition.  I noted how sporting footwear, for example, saw top-end products fall precipitously in price, in many cases from several hundreds of dollars per pair, to under $100.  The near-zero labor costs drove this change and anyone who wished to remain in business, much less healthily so, was forced to go Chinese.  The short-term results were fabulous, while those of the longer term have proven far less appealing, especially since those manufacturers now find themselves in the bind of economic manacles.

In the second example, I noted the advantages of superorganization, where sufficiently large numbers of people cooperate with sufficiently adept management to accomplish what in many cases are truly monumental goals as a single organism, the Superorganism as I like to call them.  Corporations are prime examples of Superorganizations.  Could a single man have launched another into earth orbit?  No.

Armies may be the ultimate example of superorganization.

By now you may be putting two and two together, in case the deeper point still evades you, allow me to elucidate.

Superorganization tends to have large costs associated with it.  Running a mom and pop sandwich shop does not carry the same resource requirements as, say, operating a large standing army, or a government.  This in itself is not a particularly grave problem, save for the fact that the only way in which people have figured out how to finance such endeavors has been the forcible robbery of huge populations in the form of taxation.

The naive lover of freedom might render the knee-jerk response, saying "eliminate government!"  Would that it were so easily done.  The trap here is precisely the lowest denominator of establishing and creating a standing army.  Once nation A does so, nations B, C, D, etc. become faced with the choice of whether to follow suit.  If they don't, they stand the risk of being attacked and subdued by A.  That is a risk few in the modern world are willing to assume.  Therefore, they feel forced to establish and maintain armies of their own, which costs money and which in turn requires the further extorting of their populations for the funds to do so.

A great example of this came during the later nineteenth century as Great Britain foolishly undertool to build their first modern battleship, an economy-herniating endeavor whose net results were naught but trouble for everyone.  Once they built their first such vessel, which arguably loaned them some advantage over the other navies of the world, the Germans, Americans, Austro-Hungarians, Russians, French, Italians, Japanese , and perhaps a few others all threw in, wasting endless resources that, in my opinion, might have been devoted to more profitable endeavors.

Superorganizations are neither good nor bad in themselves.  When put to good purposes, they can accomplish magnificent things.  When otherwise put, we get "cultural" revolutions, replete with tens of millions of corpses.  Good or bad, in the context of an environment of hard adversarial competition such as that found between some nations, they become a trap away from which few see the possibility of a path that does not carry with it categorically unacceptable risks.  They now find themselves unable to extricate themselves from the life-destroying burdens of maintaining such organizations.

Take the Centers for Disease Control, for example.  As of recent times, their credibility has slipped precipitously in the wake of their blatant nonsense with regard to the so-called "pandemic" of the SARS Cov-2 virus.  My gut impulse is to call for their immediate dissolution, and all who can be proven to have knowingly peddled the lies tried, convicted, imprisoned, and in some cases executed for crimes against humanity, a charge that remains on the books.  But positive reality dictates I keep that notion in my pants, so to speak.  Why?  Because America's enemies, which include China among others, have created superorganizations such as the Wuhan bioweapons facility where bright but misguided people obediently continue exploring the possibilities of biological stoogery with viruses, bacteria, and other pathogenic agents.  Being our enemies, they cannot be trusted not to one day actively engage in operations that would see some terrible plague foisted upon the world.  In such an event, individuals sitting in their basements, hiding from the bugs with naught but hope and their prayers, seem unlikely candidates for coming up with cures against such assaults.

The only currently viable hope against such an attack would be our own superorganization with the resources to combat such an attack.  Yes, we could establish private organisms, and perhaps we have, but "government" being what it is, will not be likely to relinquish the sort of power represented by establishments such as CDC, FDA, and so forth.

While in principle it would be a simple matter to walk away from such foolishness, the chances of that actually happening in the face of the colluding counterincentives of fear and the determination to maintain power, rapidly and intimately approach zero.  The risks appear too great, and this is understandable.

This sort of circumstance applies to many cases, especially those where economic or political stakes are high and exist in adverse environments.  We trap ourselves such that extrication becomes nearly impossible and almost always entails risks worse than those perceived to be keeping us in.  How can one free himself from the burdens of structures that suck away his life so long as the threats they are intended to protect him from remain?  

Yup, a trap and we're all stuck in it because of our mutual suspicions, fears, greed, and other manifold and raving stupidities.

Verily do human beings tend to be their own worst enemies.

Be well, and until next time please accept our best wishes.

As The Official Covid Narrative Collapses...

Over the past week or so, I have noted that Theye are now engaging in what clearly appears as a damage control campaign, perhaps to forestall and mitigate the potential consequences to come in the wake of what currently appears to be the in-progress collapse of the official covid narrative.But what if there is something far more sinister at work here? How could it be more so than what we've enjoyed since 2019? 

 Glad you asked.

At the beginning of all of this I offered the obviously paranoid thought in other venues that this could all be a prelude to something far worse - that the objective of this covid deal is to fatigue the population to such a point that no longer do they trust an "official" word uttered, nor will they then obey orders. This appears to be coming to pass as I write these words, which I will address forthwith.

The fatigue bit is now long-established. People are just worn out by the endless bad news, the idiotic mandates, the fear mongering, the seemingly endless phalanx of new "variants", the guilt-shame campaigns and demonizing of those who are not quite buying the baloney, and so forth.  Entire populations are now openly protesting in Europe, Canada, and Australia, clearly fed-up to their eyeballs with the gross excesses of abuse and the threats now clearly presented to the people at large, not to mention to the young.

Scanning various outlets, the sentiments of this state of being fed-up can be well nutshelled by a single statement I saw posted just this morning which read, "I will never trust public health officials again", which brings me directly to the point I wish to make.

What if this fatigue was the precise strategy behind this two-year terror campaign against the unwashed human masses of the earth?  Imagine a deeper strategic objective being that once properly conditioned to ignore anything offocials might say regarding future outbreaks, the real pathogen is then released. As cases pop up initially, the relevant outlets issue their dire warnings, which are ignored by a distrusting populace.  This delay provides just enough obstruction of proper responses to result in a cull that provides Themme with the greatly reduced populations they seek, and a basis for saying "hey, it's not our fault, we warned you."

Some might think that this is too much fuss. Why not just let the fur fly, have your cull, and move on? Because there would presumably be a world left for moving on, and those people who survived but were not part of Theire cadre would become an immediate and dangerous threat to Theire continued existences. Theye cannot wipe us all out because they need us for the menial tasks, not to mention that they want people over whom to lord, which is perhaps the majority reason that Theye do what they do.

Therefore, wiping us out in toto would not only be undesirable, it would be potentially very dangerous for Themme. Theye need not just subjects over whom to rule, but also an ever-present potential threat to their position in order to maintain the necessary focus of purpose and cohesion, such that their hegemony may span endless generations into the blue future.  After all, our history is checkered with examples of how nations rise and fall, as well as the reasons for the cycles. I do not believe that Theye have not taken all that into study and ultimate account, now that global dominion stands within their reach.

And so Theye need a plausible explanation to the survivors that so ironically tells why Theye are not to blame for any of it and how Theye in fact endeavored so valiantly to save a reticent humanity from destruction and how so few heeded their instructions, etc. and so on ad nauseum. This serves the purposes of keeping Theire heads on their shoulders in the immediate timeframe, and to cement their positions as authority in the minds of the rabble for the long term, without notable challenge. The new mantra, tacit or expressed, might be something along the lines of "we've had quite enough of this dissent nonsense" or "we can no longer afford to have people going against our command - we see how it has resulted".

I am in no measure comforted by the apparent collapsing of the phony baloney covid narrative. I do in fact, find cause to be alarmed at it, given the possibility as I've outlined above. And for those who would dismiss this as yet another "conspiracy theory", I bid you take heed of the warning that no matter how unlikely it may seem, where politics are concerned there should be nothing placed outside the realm of plausibility, save that Theye have become decent human beings interested in your better interests.

These dangerous jackanapes have taken a huge risk in this latest and perhaps largest global perpetration. I do not for a moment believe that any of this has been done without some enormous payout in mind, the currency there always being power. One thing I can nearly guaRONtee is that this was not conducted for the sake of some token fortune of money, or similar. The stakes here are staggering, IMO, and since Theye have clearly failed in the endeavor at hand, it seems likely to me that the apparent end-goal was not the actual objective.

Bear further in mind that most likely nobody of import will be held accountable for the carnage. Talking heads, Anthony Fauci, a few administrators here and there are readily sacrificed to sate public outrage while Theye remain safe behind their anonymity. That, of course, means that they retain their powers and resources, which may be brought into play as deemed fitting. Therefore, the threat shall not have been removed in any sense whatsoever, save in the misled perceptions of the mean man, leaving humanity open for the next volley.

I will repeat what bears it: Theye are playing for keeps, and I hold no doubt that they would sacrifice billions of lives to gain that which they covet.

And just to keep you clear as to your place in all this, I offer George Carlin's quip:

"It's a great big club, and you ain't in it."

Neglect this at your peril, for if it comes all to naught, you've lost little in at least having given it due consideration.  But if it proves out, at least you may have some small opportunity to steel yourself against what is to come.

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.