Month: July 2021

I personally think every election in every State should be audited, to some extent or other.  If they sample 10,000 ballots and everything squares, then leave it be.

But we need to do that in EVERY election and in every State.

What I will suggest is that in 2020 there was cheating in literally every State in the country.  The intent would have not just been to make sure Joe Biden won the election by getting the most Electoral votes, but also that he smashed the Popular Vote, as he supposedly did, so that they could back up the fake victory in the Electoral College.

81 million votes is a lot of votes.  If they were real, that is quite an impressive accomplishment.

But I think there was cheating in Wyoming and Montana and Alabama and Mississippi.  I think an audit may be particularly useful in the places where honest conservatives control everything, as seems to be the case for example in South Dakota.  I think they should audit their machines and their mail in ballots THERE.  There will be vastly less Democrats pushback, and fewer obstacles  I don’t think the cheating will be as egregious there, but I think a 5-10% swing is likely.

Wherever Dominion was used, and honest conservatives exist, they should be audited.  Michigan is purple and squishy.  Georgia has crooks for Governor and Secretary of State.  Pennsylvania is, effectively, purple, and has someone as governor who relentlessly opposed election transparency and accountability.

But this should not be a problem in Montana, should it?  And if they want help paying for it, set up a donations page, or ask Mike Lindell or Donald Trump.  We would all be glad to kick in for a Jovan Pulitzer style double check, which I think will yield results EVERYWHERE.

I was contemplating the relentless quest in most universities for “diversity”.  By diversity, they mean non-whites, and non-Asians, and preferably non-Jews.  They mean everyone else, regardless of their talents and intellectual aptitudes.  They get the best they can, but the best 10% from a horrible schools will be vastly worse academically than the bottom 10% from a good school.  You know, the sorts of schools white people–including white Leftists–make sure their kids attend, all while bemoaning “systemic racism” that starts, if it is a thing, with the educational system–the K-12 system–which they have ruthlessly and even violently opposed even attempting to fix with anything but more money for teachers who are demonstrably incompetent.

[Charter schools, of course, are the obvious, scientific, and proven answer.  And they HATE Charter Schools.  If you would like, use that fact alone to assess their priorities, and in the process consider that we have known this now for at least 20-30 years, or so I understand.]

Here is the point I would make: if you asked them “why is this so important to you?  Do you have evidence that the specific communities you claim to care about will benefit?”, then they would reply “this is HOW WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT.  AT LEAST SINCE I’VE BEEN HERE.”

Think about that.  The words may differ, but in substance I am right.  They stopped evaluating the merits of this mania long, long ago, probably some time back in the 1980’s, which would the very beginnings of the careers of the people who run things now.

When people express sentiments like that, that is reactionary.  “We’ve always done it that way” is the mantra of people who are stuck in the mud and stuck in their ways, and actively opposed to any and all innovation.

The great merit of CRT is that it permits them to return to the status quo ante progress, when there actually WAS useful work to be done in reforming the “System” in some places, writ large.

But these people don’t understand economics.  They don’t even really understand PEOPLE.  They are not conversant with the needs of rank and file folks of color.  So they make shit up, that places them back in the center of everything, even if it is supposedly other people they are talking about.

And I think about this famous quote from Frederick Douglass, with whom the Left is VERY uncomfortable, not least because he has the dignity to oppose their codependent and almost entirely selfish interference:

“Everybody has asked the question. . .”What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!”

Here is the thing: CRT–as a discussion mainly happening among white people, and consisting mostly in one group of white people yelling interminably and without conscience at another group of white people–STILL, after more than 150 years, amounts to “doing” with black folks.  It STILL amounts to self appointed “adults” determining the destiny of the designated “children”, which is persons of color.  It is STILL racist to the core, not just with respect to white folks, but with respect to the assumptions of helplessness and a sort of existential stain of Victimhood that they attribute to ALL blacks, and which somehow are absent even among the most victimized whites.

I still can’t get over Chelsea Handler telling 50 Cent he needed to remember he was black.  It was exactly like a rich white slave owner telling a slave to remember his place.  It was way, way past patronizing.  50 Cent should have told her to go fuck herself.  Or, perhaps in her case, to go fuck a rich white Republican without drinking any vodka first.

What do you think of this idea: the “rebellion” of those who have never faced non-negotiable cultural (parental or community) demands is radical conformity to a mutable agenda.

True, not true?

Here is what I would point out: the Bolsheviks were rebelling against an Emperor.  The Chinese were trying to foist order from chaos, particularly in the post-Japanese occupation, post-colonial period, but doing so after thousands of years of kings and emperors.

Even the Cubans had Batista, and not so very long before him, Spain.

What are the fat, complacent kids of this country, who have grown up with running water, air conditioning, and too much food and too little physical exertion and too few parental demands, rebelling against?

They are rebelling against not having anything to rebel against.  Their fury is sent out, spent, and returned with a cold need to cling to some group, within which their rage again plays a role, and which serves to direct the rage in more directions than any angry young nihilist could ever hope for.  Sooner or later everyone and everything becomes a target.  What better place for someone angry at the world for not caring enough to shape him or her into something coherent and beautiful?

Here is the thing: simply because someone is not pointing a gun in your face, YET, does not mean they are not seriously mentally ill, and building up the social and legal support to act on it.

Here is what I think is happening, both in Biden blaming the un”vaccinated” for the spread of COVID, and for the over the top fear mongering with respect to the “Delta” variant, which seems more contagious, but much less dangerous: a narrative is being protected.

The justification for the last year of moronic nonsense depends upon the notion that “Herd Immunity” could only have been foreseen happening in a fully “vaccinated” population.  This is anti-scientific bullshit, which flies in the face of many centuries of evidence.  Europe achieved Herd Immunity with respect to the plague multiple times.  All smallpox outbreaks have ended, and did so long before the cowpox was used to create the first cow-cine.

As I have said often, this is described by Farr’s Law, which in fact WAS evolved as a mathematizing of an actual smallpox outbreak in London in the first half of the 19th century Anno Domini.

If this thing goes away when fully half the population hasn’t rolled the dice and taken the experimental agent being foisted on them, then that narrative is at considerable risk of not lasting.  People will see through it.

Now, all honest and intelligent people have seen through it already, but it is worth remembering that Communists and Fascists and other such psychopaths always want their lies to have at least a patina of plausibility.  They don’t need it to be airtight, but they always want it to be good enough to fool stupid people.  That is why the Communists had show trials: they wanted to pretend that predetermined verdicts–particularly the “crimes” of political disobedience and unwelcome independence of thought–were just.  Always and everywhere you will find them seeking out small pretexts in truth for large lies.

George Faludy describes the process of trying to get him to confess to something or other at length in his book “My Happy Days in Hell”, the second half of which in particular should be read as a primer on the REALITY of Communism.  Finally, his interrogator just said “sign this confession for the crimes we say you committed, or I will beat your brains out, and you will still wind up signing it.”  He did the math, then signed it.

And so the President of the United States is treating people who are rightly hesitant to take medical agents which have not been evaluated long term for safety as if they were criminals, murderers.  He is doing that to protect his own political interests, not the health of the American people, or the world as a whole.

The reality is that most likely HE is the murderer.  He is the guy insisting people get injected with things that are almost certainly MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE VIRUS.

As I have echoed more than once, requiring people to participate in this global medical experiment is a patent violation of the Nuremburg Code.  We don’t and can’t know what we don’t know; and even there, the authorities seem to be LYING about what they DO know.  It seems clear you neither get full immunity with the shots, nor is it clear your symptoms will be less if you get sick.  What DOES seem clear is that many young men particularly get life threatening and in many cases lasting heart injuries, and that the shock of the shot to the system seems to send particularly the vulnerable elderly over the edge, as seems to have happened with Hank Aaron.

There is no informed consent in any of this.  Our authorities are lying to us about what they know, and far too many authorities are not permitting dissent, which means they are precluding consent outright.  They are demanding, not asking.  Obviously, a college student can drop out, and an employee can quit, but that is not a choice which should be forced on anyone.

The whole thing is an unconscionable crime.  It is an atrocity.  It is a global human rights abuse.

If you knew nothing else, would it not be sufficient to know that people like Martin Kulldorff and Robert Malone and Jay Bhattacharya are being censored to conclude something deeply fishy, likely criminal, and certainly anti-scientific was going on?

If I might paraphrase Robert Downey, Jr. in the first Avengers: Science that rejects science is not cool.

The layer of fog is so thick it is hard to know what percentage of people are still fully delusional.  It’s not hard to hire “astroturf”–as Nancy Pelosi likes to call her own support–so not more than 1-5% of people would need to buy this BS, but I suspect it is more like 25-40%.  I don’t think it is an absolute majority, and the lies have gotten so large, so obvious, and so stupid, I have to believe that number is shrinking; and that actual “woke”ness is on the rise.

We are fat and comfortable and that makes people stupid.  So too does social alienation, following social isolation, and the following terror of being rejected and left out of a party no one would otherwise want to attend.

 

No one teaching CRT has ever been involuntarily hungry.   True?  Not true?

For my part, it’s hard to see anyone who has ACTUALLY been deprived not focusing on ensuring others not share that experience, and CRT does NOTHING to alleviate hunger, in the ghetto or anywhere else.

Yes, of course it is prelude for the Great Political Lottery, which is a magical money for votes program the Democrats hope to enact at least once, to keep the black vote at least a little longer, until it no longer matters, and they no longer even need to pay lip service to the black community.

How many people under the age of 70 walking the streets in America have ever been involuntarily hungry, I wonder.  10%?  That seems about right.  And I feel confident that 10% has better things to do that make up grievances from whole cloth.

Cuba?  The numbers may well be inverted.  There is a 10% perhaps hangers-on that is fed well enough, and a 1% that is truly living lives of luxury on the backs of their serfs.  That makes a 90% that has been hungry, and self evidently hunger is terrible right now, or they would not be incurring the wrath of the secret police, who are motivated not least by a desire to avoid hunger for themselves and their families.

The whole thing is medieval in all respects, right down to the dungeons.

 

You know, if he had any, nobody heard Orson Welles‘ last words.  He died alone of a heart attack at age 70.

What struck me this morning is that in his first film–Citizen Kane, generally considered his greatest, which he directed at age 25, and in which I read he more or less invented the “noir” genre–Welles may well have anticipated his own death.

I look at myself, and see all the unresolved conflicts in me.  He had them too, but in vastly larger quantities.  They can easily cross a lifetime.

Welles was married to Rita Hayworth, one of the most beautiful women of her time, so beautiful that she is one of the few women of that era remembered even now.

And yet, in his later years, when he was down and out and living with Peter Bogdanovich and Cybill Shepherd, she reported he would often come down in the middle of the night to the refrigerator and eat fudge popsicles endlessly.  You want to know how he got so prodigiously fat?  That was one way.  Fudgecicles.  Fudgecicles.  Just ponder that.

He was like an overgrown child, living in an adult world.  I can relate to that.  I sometimes feel that way myself.  I wonder how the hell I got here.  I feel many of us are like that.  Call that an inner child if you want.  I suppose it’s as good as anything.  Don Henley likely has one too.

And Welles life was filled with hustle and bustle, and more than his share of drama.  I suppose someone must have remarked on it, but in many respects he anticipated his life and death at age 25.

And yet, does it not make sense?  No one disputes he was a genius.  He is at the top of most polls for Best Director of all Time.  Certainly he was at the top in the most recent BFI polls of both Directors and Critics.

A becomes B.  Mathematical logic works this way, but so too does emotional logic.  Welles’ had a very unpleasant childhood in many ways (I suggest you read it, in the link at top), and perhaps knew even while still quite young he would never fully surmount it.

This, to me, is an interesting hypothesis.

While holding off on my theodicy post (I have a few I think interesting posts I’m more or less putting on the coffee table in the living room of my mind for the moment, but will share before long), what I will suggest is that Life, writ large–which includes both this life and what comes after–is a Big Swirl.  By this I mean a large movement that we participate in, that we adapt to, and which to a lesser extent adapts to us.  Felicity is finding a home in this Big Swirl.

But pains and traumas of various sorts create within us Little Swirls, which interfere with the free flowing of the Big Swirl.  They are hooks that hold us.  They are Rosebud’s, in a term I’ve used periodically for some time.  They are rocks in a river, eddies, incompletions, “cut-off’s”.  They are being left behind.

This, ultimately, is what I think the ego is that should be left behind.  If I might riff on U2, the ego is precisely what can’t be left behind, because you are stuck in it.  You are, in another riff, stuck in a moment.

I would argue that in some respects–and I have not studied his life in detail, merely at a high level–Welles was stuck in a moment across a lifetime.  It’s easy to do.

To get unstuck you have to move sideways, onto another pathway.  It’s hard.  It’s really hard.

My average night without booze is much like I imagine psychedelic experiences must be (and I will comment I am not the sort of drinker who gets DT’s and withdrawals; I don’t drink more nights than I do, by about 5 to 1; I am simply referencing that I am not using booze to suppress PTSD symptoms which will continue indefinitely with or without booze until I get this thing licked).  I will do psychedelics at some point, but I don’t feel that point is yet.  I am moving without them.

But I feel ripping and tearing and molding.  I am slowly getting used to it.  It is a sort of emotional Rolfing, I suppose, and needed.  The aim is greater freedom, and I do in fact feel that sometimes.  I actually had a brief glimpse yesterday listening to this song of what it might feel like to love with no agenda, no possibility of judgement, with literally nothing but hearing and kindness.

That song made me cry.  I have a very, very powerful imagination, and it was like I was there.  You know this song is true in so many ways.  There is so much pain to our left and our right; so much silent suffering, covered with fake smiles, and fed at night with booze and drugs.  I see all this.  It hurts me.  But I was born for this.  I can take it.

This is the game.  And winning for me means winning for all.

And having read that, you might suppose I am nicer than I am.  I still yell at people, and get impatient with stupidity.  I hurt, and pain always tends to share.  I stop myself better than I used to–MUCH better than I used to–but it still gets out.  One of my kids got me Grumpy Old Man socks, and I wear them.

How does this sound: Goodness arises from enlightened, which is to say intelligent and perceptive, self interest.  Evil arises from an unconscious selflessness, from a nullity.

Goodness is a 1; it is plenary.

Evil is a 0; it is empty.

Goodness arises from extending and expanding what we consider to be our selves, but never asks you to be miserable indefinitely to no purpose.  Feeling good–feeling positive feelings–is the aim.

Evil arises from misery.  Pain wants pain.  Misery wants company.  And if it is natural for us to feel good feelings, then evil is unnatural.  It is a fullness of pain, and an emptiness of pleasure.

And of course happy, honest people make unhappy, dishonest people miserable.  They come to hate them, and this motivation has consequences, not least of which is the abhorrence of “normality”, even if that normality is actually healthy; even if that normality includes true love, laughter, purpose and sense of place.  Such people torture the miserable with hope, and ridding the world of hope comes to seem the most hopeful possible act.

Goodness is selfish, and evil gives no thought of the self at all.  It is split off from an honest sense of the self, and what to do with it.  Evil is a broken mirror.

Shunyata is fullness, and that which is truly empty is filled only with illusions.

I’m chasing something I’m not quite catching, I don’t think.  If this doesn’t work for you go clap one hand for a while.

Watch this Tucker Carlson commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7xJB7tDB0k

Here is the thing: in a sane world this is the sort of thing foreign intelligence agencies would use to BLACKMAIL both of the Bidens.  Trump supposedly was being controlled by the Russians because of some alleged pee videos with Russian hookers.  It was all a lie, but people believed it was good enough for people to treat Putin as Trump’s handler for all four years of Trumps first term.  It was all madness.

In contrast there is PROOF Hunter is a pedophile–or at least had sex with underage women–I read, and nearly incontrovertible proof not just of Hunter’s corruption, but of Biden’s as well.  Hunter talks about 10% splits with his dad.  Imagine what would have been made of that if Don Jr. had said that.  They impeached Trump twice for concocted crimes which, even if they were true, were a small, small fraction that serious.

And there is no doubt that Burisma hired Hunter to buy influence.  He was paid more than the CEO, despite knowing nothing and doing nothing.  And in the event, they got the outcome they wanted, which was the firing of someone threatening to expose their corruption.  They used corruption, in other words, to hide corruption.  That’s how that works.  You cheat, and then you pay off the people who could do something about it.

But HOW IN GOD’S NAME IS BIDEN PRESIDENT WHEN WE KNOW HE TAKES BRIBES?  WHY DO MOST AMERICANS NOT CARE?

The disclosure of this sort of thing should have been damning.  Both of them should have been arrested and convicted of the crimes they manifestly committed.  Instead, the whole thing has disappeared IN THE OPEN.  It’s out.  The secrets are out.  There is nothing that we know about that anyone can threaten to reveal.

And crickets.  The world has lost its fucking mind.

Every couple of years I feel like I should comment on my goal with this blog.  I want talented thoughtful people to read it, think about it, then riff on the themes I discuss that resonate with them.

I want creative theft.  I want you to take my ideas and do with them, but do in YOUR way.

The CEO of a company you have likely heard of offered to help me monetize this blog, but that just feels a bit gross to me.  It was a generous offer, for which I was grateful, but I turned him down.  I have no objections to money, but no matter what I might have been selling, it would change the feeling.  It is pure, as it is.  I have no strings, no limits, no considerations other than what I myself think and feel.  There is no one’s opinion I need pay attention to.  I am completely free, and that feels good to me.

This blog really is therapeutic for me.  As I have said before, it is mostly the talking itself that helps, not the being heard.