Month: October 2016

These are the machines being used in about 16 States.  George Soros has a strong financial interest–and thus presumably some control–in this company.

I found this: http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/06/17/1466775/smartmatic-discredited-eu-us-even-venezuela

“Therefore, the only time Smartmatic has participated in an electoral process in the USA, it was deemed a disaster, and in the ensuing probe, it refused to collaborate with US authorities. 

I found this too: http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/soros-connected-company-provides-voting-machines-in-16-states/ 

For the life of me, I do not understand how anyone could be insane enough to completely eliminate paper ballots.  The way we do it around here is we fill in ovals, like the tests you took when you were a kid, and it is scanned into a machine, which I think tabulates it then and there.  It is electronic, and efficient, but if you want to later verify the votes, you have primary documents.  And we show voter ID also.  They have a list of registered voters, you tell them your  name, show them your ID, then you put your signature on the line.  This has multiple safeguards in it.  

Just putting it out there.

I have spoken before of a forest as a metaphor for a complex system.  The trees–of all sorts–and lichens, and moss, and squirrels, and grasses, and everything else come over some time to form a harmonious whole.
We speak of an eco-SYSTEM.  They all go together.

This differs tremendously from, say, a cherry orchard, which needs work and care to flourish.  It is not inherently resilient. It was brought into being artificially, and perishes or diminishes if they care goes missing for too long.  That, or it becomes a complex system, as other plants and animals slowly take hold.

Wanting a single ideas to dominate any sort of discourse is the equivalent of killing everything in a forest but one single species.  You have the one thing, pristine, pure, but it cannot live on its own.  It must be continually refreshed, fed, watered, cared for.

People who are fed only one idea because weak and dependent.  They are not resilient.  They require constant care.

One can make philosophical cases here and there, but psychologically and sociologically what is happening at our colleges is profoundly unhealthy.  It is breeding sick people who will suffer all their lives with their lack of agency, lack of independence, and their inbred infantilism.

Bad philosophy makes bad people.

At root, philosophy is simply at attempt to think clearly, to clarity what is complicated and confusing.  It is the intermediate step between one emotion and another, as I have put it in the past.  It is necessary, but soluble.

We cannot not philosophize.  We can merely do it competently and consciously, or incompetently and by assumption and rote habit.

If you say: “I don’t want to think so much that it confuses me”  you have established a criterion for your behavior–whatever confuses me is bad–and a corresponding and logical course of action, not thinking.

If you way “there are no universal truths” you have stipulated a very unlikely universal truth.  Certainly, some things seem to be true most of the time and this is obvious to all.  Banning murder seems to work in most societies, at least intra-tribally.  I can’t guarantee the sun will rise tomorrow, but I’d bet everything I own on it.

And I was thinking about safe spaces.  What philosophy underlies these?  It seems to me to be a combination of magical thinking and corrupted philosophy.  What they are NOT is sound psychology.  A sense of safety can be needed to help heal trauma, but they are not doing therapy in these places.  What they are doing is reducing the resilience and emotional strength of young people in ways likely to breed a demand for social control, and violence against dissidents.

What a safe space IS, is a sacred space for holy Victims.  It is a place to worship them; it is a necessary temple for the Cult of the Victim.  It is a place for them to go and be feted and worshipped, and for votaries to be exposed to their Gods.

But a sound philosophy would ask: what sort of society do we want, and why?  What are appropriate purposes for human existence?  What is the importance of psychological health?  When we say Individualism, what do we mean, and what can we say about this creed?  What is good about it, what bad, and what interesting, and how do we define all these terms?

Self evidently, I have worked hard on my Goodness Movement website to develop a coherent, useful, simple, but adaptable philosophy.  I have defined my terms and purposes, and pondered my means and principles.

Most college students never even attempt such work.  They are handed a prepackaged philosophy concocted by lobotomized and hateful anti-humanitarians, and punished if they question it, or even attempt an alternative of their own.

I seem to be doing better in recent days with human stupidity and insanity.  I did not create it.  Trying to abolish intellectual and emotional dysfunction is about as smart as trying to banish grass or moths.  I might make some progress here and there, but the weight of the whole thing is vastly beyond my meager capacity.  I have realized I need to learn that not every wrong needs to be righted, that most people WILL NOT LISTEN to even the best arguments, framed as positively as I am capable.  No, they are looking in the mirror, thinking about their selfies, and staring at their phones.  This is not my fault, and not my problem.

This world will obviously pass me by at some point.  I will be gone. I have tried to do good, but the obsessive part of it is gradually falling away, which is good.  My own reality testing has not been what it could have been, but I think I can argue with cause that it is getting better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEQvsK5w-jY&feature=player_embedded

The evidence that Hillary broke Federal campaign law is in my view indisputable.  Does anyone expect anyone in our government to do the right thing and launch an investigation?  Do you expect any arrests?

And I suspect that anyone caught violating campaign law is likely rendered ineligible to hold office.  It would be a logical concomitant of the law, a logical next step to prevent repeat violations.

And as Trump rightly noted, the mere fact that Hillary plainly destroyed evidence after receiving a subpoena should ALONE prevent her from holding higher office.  But Comey is a dirty cop, as they say, clearly, and undeniably.  The motherfucker sold out his country, and betrayed his duty as a sworn defender of the American people and our laws.

And what about the hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled to the wife of the lead investigator?  At WHAT POINT DO THE PEOPLE WE ARE TRUSTING TO DO THEIR JOBS START DOING THEIR FUCKING JOBS?

Cops on the take are supposed to be Latin American problems.  Well, I guess that is one more thing Wonder Boy Obama has allowed across the border.

I want to drain the swamp.  Hillary IS the swamp.  Even she doesn’t know who all she has taken money from, and who she owes favors to, but you can bet they don’t have the best interests of the American people at heart.  You want corruption OUT of Washington?  Vote for me.  Make America Great Again.

This would be particularly effective if Trump were paying for it out of his own pocket.

I think ads could be targeted to different markets.  This idea is likely obvious, but I think an ad targeting inner cities might be interesting which shows the promises made to them by Democrat politicians from JFK until now–JFK, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama, with maybe a few Senators or prominent other politicians thrown in.  Depending on how it did in focus groups, you might have a black narrator on there, and end with Malcolm X calling people who keep voting for Democrats without getting anything chumps.  You would definitely need a black voice narrating it, though, but it could work.  It could get through.

Trump has balls.  Political courage makes a lot of things possible.

Here is an idea: require all recipients of Federal educational funding–all universities and colleges–to require all students to undergo one hour a year of training in conservative ideas.  If they don’t do it–and I have in mind requiring students to watch an hour of PragerU videos and taking short quizzes on them–they get their funding pulled.

The level of indoctrination at most universities is Orwellian.  It is Stalinesque (really, Lenin started everything Stalin continued, but Stalin’s name seems to evoke more emotion).

These kids obviously are getting plenty of left wing indoctrination, so that side of the coin is obviously going well represented.

We cannot continue as a nation of two completely different mindsets when it comes to politics, which cannot interact in any way. I can talk to Leftists, but they can’t talk to me.  They just start shouting and frothing at the mouth.

And I think Trump could likely do this with Executive Order.  Yes, of course all of us have been bemoaning Obama’s use of Executive Orders, but to my mind this cause would be worth it.  Most of these kids literally have NO IDEA why someone would vote Republican, and absent an outside intervention no one will teach them.  They close their ears and stop listening any time someone tries.

And I fully expect many of them to become more violent–there has been quite a bit of violence already–if Trump wins.

We are fighting for sanity.  Sanity is a good cause.

I have had this sense for some time that Trump understand political emotion and political momentum.  There is little point building up energy early on that later dissipates.  It doesn’t matter a bit who is ahead 6 weeks ahead of the election, which is why I don’t think he is running many campaign ads.  In any event, it is likely anybody watching enough TV to be influenced by those ads is already indoctrinated by the media.  His campaign depends on talk in coffee shops, around dinner tables and especially on social media.  That is the only way he is staying close (or has taken a slight lead according to the Investors Business Daily poll).

But he has committed to spending $100 million of his own money.  What is the smartest way to do that?  Given his unorthodox approaches to public relations, why not spend the whole wad in the last week before the election?  A blitz like nobody has done before?  This might be a good idea, if he mainly runs positive ads, and I think that would play well.  Nobody could take the fingernails on the chalkboard of relentless “my opponent is a big meany head and hates puppies” ads on continual loop, but what about ads focused on what people DO want?

He has signaled, perhaps, a beginning of this approach with this excellent Contract with the American Voter which is any REAL conservatives dream.  If you are a Republican and don’t support this, I can only assume you have been bought and paid for by the same special interests he is trying to get rid of.  That, you are are an idiot, or you are an assholes.  And we seem to have plenty of assholes.

But a sample ad might be:

I want to protect American Jobs.

I want to create a lot more.

I want insurance premiums to go down, and healthcare to get better.

I want secure borders and to get criminals here illegally out.

I want to end corruption in Washington.

I want to avoid pointless wars.

I want less taxes, so you hard working Americans keep more of your money, and so employers of all sizes can afford to hire more people.

Etc.  That is off the top of my head.  Maybe:

I want to protect American jobs, my opponent wants to export them with more horrible trade deals.

I want to lower taxes on the middle class and on employers of all sizes, so the people have more money, and employers can afford to hire.  My opponent wants to raise taxes on everyone, and make it much harder to do business.

I want secure borders, so we only let in people who benefit this nation, which very definitely IS a nation of immigrants.  My opponent wants to get rid of borders from Canada to Argentina.

I want you to keep your doctor and your health insurance plan and for both to be affordable.  My opponents wants more of the same failure we have seen with Obamacare.

Etc.

But being a bit of a student of history, I cannot help but draw a parallel with this strategy, if this is what he has in mind, and World War 1.  I remember in one or perhaps multiple battles–likely Somme or Verdun–the British conducted a 24 hour artillery bombardment, then attacked.  It failed.  The Germans had simply hid in their bunkers, then came out.

In 1918 Paul Hindenburg did something like what later became the Blitzkrieg.  They picked a spot on the French lines, and dropped roughly the same number of shells in TWO HOURS that the British had sent desultorily in 24.  They then attacked in a tight concentration with the sole intent to punch through the lines.  They used shock troops with, if memory serves, flame throwers.  They advanced a long way–let’s say 10 miles–in a day or two, when they had remained stuck for years in the same place.  As I recall logistics finally came into play–they were not able to effectively supply their troops–so the plan ultimately failed.

But that is where this analogy fails.  What Trump can do is very focused “assaults” on key Swing States, with ads at least roughly 80/20 positive, and he only has to maintain momentum through Election Day.

Possibly, he can even gamble his base is sufficient in most Red States that it will hold.  I am no expert , obviously, but these are some ideas I will put out into the Universe.

I keep hearing the mantra being repeated “fat shaming is never OK.  Fat shaming is never OK.  Fat shaming is never OK. Fat shaming is never OK.”

And I think of George Bernard Shaw calling for mass murder, but doing so in such a congenial way that people accepted it or thought it a joke.  And he knew this would be the case.

Their program, the Fabian program, was oriented around enacting horrific and socially cataclysmic political policies, but doing so in a genteel, urbane, polite, polished way.

And part of the indoctrination people have received is that how someone says something is more important than what they say.  College students are taught there are no truths, but how you speak is vitally important.  Speech becomes more important than action, and moral comparisons–mass murder versus fat shaming as one example, become impossible.  It’s much easier to agree fat shaming is worse, at least when the mass murder is not being visited currently upon those doing the judging.

Hillary got 4 men killed in Benghazi, did not give a shit, accepted no real blame, lied to their parents about why they died, lied to the American people and the media about it, then to add a final insult to injury, accused the parents of those who SHE GOT KILLED of lying about what she said to them.

This Muslim dad is just a stage prop, who is either a useful idiot, or more likely (I have not dug up on this) a covert Islamist who is only too happy to use the occasion of his sons death to support anti-Trump propaganda.  You know, THOUSANDS of American parents lost sons and daughters in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Being a Gold Star Dad is not unique.  He was not the only hero.  And his son is likely telling him from beyond to stop using him as a political prop, which is an insult to his memory.  Hillary’s support among rank and file military is dismal.  She broke laws they all KNOW would have gotten them court martialed and jailed, did so often, did so very intentionally, and did so with ZERO regard for national security or American interests.  I have little doubt his son would be a Trump supporter, if he was the dedicated soldier being described.

But “Islamophobia is always wrong.  Islamophobia is always wrong.  Islamophobia is always wrong”.  It is a mantra, a conditioning tool, a method for separating people from the effective use of reason, of independence of thought.  Rather, it seeks to conjure a more or less literal knee jerk reaction, in which the MOMENT ANYBODY breaks one of the mantras, or appears to, RAGE flies out of them, which derives from the fear they feel of not fitting in.

The creed of Niceness thus dovetails well with indoctrination and propaganda.  It both suppresses independence of thought, and channels needed emotional releases of anger and “self” assertion.  I keep meaning to post on this, but I haven’t felt that post when I had time, and I lately often have little time.

This should be obvious beyond the need for saying, but the entirety of the Leftist program to “rescue” them depends upon highly racist notions as to their incapacity for taking care of themselves.  Absent the whites, and their care, they are told, they can’t do or be or accomplish anything.

I wanted to share a small anecdote on this score.

I was in a part of town last week where every time I go out to my car somebody hits me up for something.  I was asked to help a man with a trach (who was smoking through his mouth) get his keys out of his locked car.  I was hit up for spare change twice.

Well, as a reversal, this old black man was walking by smoking a scented cigarillo, and asks me if I needed change for the meter.  I told him no, but thank you.  He looks at me with a conspiratorial smile–I had probably frowned at him initially because I thought he too was going to ask for, rather than offer, money–and says “the old man says “you don’t have to like all niggers, just ME.”  And he laughed heartily. I laughed too.  You couldn’t help but like this guy.

And I don’t doubt for one moment that in his life he has been called that name, that he has encountered genuine racism, and that he has had hard times in his life.  But you know what?  Both of my grandparents had hard times too.  They didn’t have to tag racism on top of it, but life was not easy a couple generations ago. Both of grandfathers were beaten regularly.  One ran away at 15.  Both went hungry often.

And what I thought was that black people are resilient, and that the worst thing that ever happened to them is when they trusted white people to look out for them.  White politicians–or even black politicians riding the same gravy train–haven’t, can’t, and won’t do it.  Obama didn’t do it.  Hillary won’t do it.

Just ponder all the rich while people out there pandering to blacks, promising them the moon and stars, and telling them the sky will fall in and the world be engulfed in darkness if they trust Republicans with anything.

As Trump says, 50 years is enough.  If they vote Hillary, they will get what they got with Obama: free phones in a few swing states, and otherwise continuing economic decline, no jobs, failing schools, and no reason for hope.

School choice clearly will make a difference, and I trust Trump to finally bust these fucking gangsters who run the teachers unions at the considerable expense of the children we continue to foolishly entrust to their care.