Author: White Whale

 If perhaps 10 million actual votes–actual ballots cast honestly by registered legal voters–were stolen from Donald Trump and given to Joe Biden, that is bad enough.

But consider that according to some experts perhaps 6 million people voted for Biden only because they were denied access to honest information by Google and others.  The Hunter Biden laptop story, for example, is utterly unknown to anyone who gets their news from CNN or MSNBC.  It was not that they covered it poorly, or inaccurately: they didn’t cover it AT ALL.

This means that Donald Trump might have won by 15 million votes.  This may have been one of the largest landslides in history.  And why not?  Not even the Democrats like Biden.  His only likeable attribute for them is that he is not Donald Trump.  And he may well have cheated to get even as far as he did.  Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren both alleged this.

If Biden is inaugurated, it will only be by the largest dereliction of duty on the part of our leaders imaginable, and certainly in history.  No Republican should allow this stench to taint the White House.  No honest Republican–or for that matter, honest Democrat–although it remains to be seen how many of both of those still exist.

Returning to the laptop, though, for their part, Google would have stacked the results of nearly any search in such a way that the most damaging allegations–evidence, really–never appeared to most people.

Consider the twin likelihoods that by hook or by crook–by any legislative and Executive Order means necessary and possible–Joe Biden will 1) legalize some 11 million people here illegally, and that 2) social media and search engines will continue their patterns of informational suppression indefinitely, and will no doubt get worse with Biden’s enthusiastic support.

What chance does sanity have in such an environment?  Most of Latin America is undeveloped wasteland–by American standards–precisely because the people always give in to the allure of free shit.  Outside of Cuban refugees, a high percentage of the Hispanic population will be beguiled by the offers of the sort Joe Biden & Co. are very professional and experienced in making.  Add censorship and Google as a de facto arm of the Party, and EVEN IF we fix our elections, even if we get Dominion out and stop the ballot stuffing and other awful and no doubt long term abuses we are finding out about, Biden & Co.–he’s really just the present face of a brand–will most likely be able to win elections honestly, if by honest we mean one ballot, one legal vote.

And I was contemplating the riots that will no doubt break out if Donald Trump is inaugurated for a second term, which would be the visible symptom that democracy is still alive in America, and that we still live in a nation ruled by laws and not mobs and tyrants.  They will be severe, for a period of time, but I really, really think that in fairly short order bubbles will start popping.  People will start waking up and wondering why they are so angry about all this.  Not all, to be sure, or even most.  

But Joe Biden is showing his cards.  He is laying them on the table.  We know, now, what sort of Administration we could expect from him.  It is not moderate.  It is not reasonable.  And it is not what most Americans want.  We voted for Donald Trump for a reason.  We want prosperity, honesty, and peace.  These are age old desires, and quite reasonable.

We don’t want a national mask mandate, most of us.  We don’t want a 4-6 week lockdown NOW.  We don’t want Big Brother spying on us and censoring us, and predigesting our information for us.

Many problems will remain even in a Trump Administration, but they will be exponentially less bad, and there is at least hope of curing and healing and solving them.

 A credible scientific claim is that every point in the universe is unique, and that every point in the universe contains the entirety of the universe.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, listen to this.  Then you will have even less, but be hopefully confused in a more interesting way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4iG_VGVb0

 Is that the laws of life require a lot of work to understand.

If I come up with the second, I will let you know.

For now, view the rejection of self pity, persistence/perseverance, and curiosity as pretty good hypotheses, in terms of ideas which will most likely help you in the ways you eventually decide matter, and not hurt you in the ways you eventually decide you do not want to be hurt.

I continue to attempt to turn them into theories, but am nowhere close.

 This is a metaphor, it seems likely, with Christian roots.

It occurred to me to comment the other day that even though Jesus often spoke of the Shepherd guiding his flock, the fate of the flock–particularly for Middle Eastern sheep, although I am not finding easy details with a basic internet search–was murder by the Shepherd, and being carved up for meat.  It seems likely that wool was a product more practical for sheep raised in much colder climates, like Britain and Scotland.

We have a local Middle Eastern shop (quite a few actually, but this is the closest one to me).  They have Lebanese flags everywhere, but say they are Palestinian.  A couple months ago, they had a sheep carcass on the floor when I went to buy whatever it was, usually bulgur wheat, zaatar, sumac, and sometimes their yogurt and interesting cheeses.  I make my own lebneh.  It had been skinned, but was otherwise intact.  I was with my oldest, who is a vegetarian, and did not mention it until after we left.  Just laying there in plastic on the floor.  I think the older brother likely got it there himself.  Halal slaughter, no doubt.

Mutton and veal are both produced, ultimately, by the work of shepherds, and sheep dogs.  “Sheep to the slaughter” is of course an old metaphor.

I have no particular agenda, commenting on this, other than to point out how often we fail to see obvious problems with metaphors we use.  I still like the metaphor–I think it comes from David Grossman–but wanted to complete it.

I’m that guy.  Sometimes.  Many people call us assholes.  

 We need to banish the phrase “voting irregularities”.

What is being described is on a continuum from apparent to blatant violations of election law. If it is not against the law it had no legal legs.

I would append the comment that a good argument for legislators in PA and perhaps soon elsewhere is that if they are not already on the gravy train—if they are not paying now, directly or indirectly for thrown elections—then they will benefit greatly and in short order from the cleaning of this Augean Stable. It is likely many of them have been winning by as much as ten points mire than they realized, for many years.

Yes, the rule of law is on the chopping block, and we are at risk of putting a man clearly guilty of many crimes over and above election fraud into the White House, but the WIIFM factor never hurts.

 In the modern world being educated amounts to being made to forget.

I myself am an intellectual—a thought worker—but I have long preferred the company of the “ignorant”.   i realize now that is because they have in general not forgotten the things that matter most to me.

 Oxymoron isn’t.

Might take you a second.

 It seems to me that the worst fate that can befall someone is to be bereft of memory, loyalty, and principle.  This was largely true of the men of Orwell’s generation, I suppose.  Individualism–even though it was even then being attacked carefully and effectively by careless and incompetent thinkers–was a thread permeating their consciousnesses.

Today, though, it seems to me that through a variety of means we have created hordes of people with de facto Borderline Personality disorders.  They have fractured, undeveloped personalities, and tenuous and highly conditional senses of self. 

For such people, being excluded from the groups they have come to depend on for sanity is the worst fate they can suffer, and in such a world the idea of the social credit score makes more sense.  It is a torture by ostracizing, a torture by removal, by shunning.  And it can be fully automated.  It could be overseen TODAY, most likely, by AI.

I say to myself sometimes the best you can do is stay alive, hope, and do your best to remain awake, alert, and human, in ways both good and bad.  And some days that is the best I can reasonably expect from myself.  I am not depressed, so much as feeling this gnawing sense of desperation, like a trap is being closed around me I cannot avoid, and which will sooner or later devour me.

I say this in a spirit of ignorance and naivete–so this may be stupid–but it feels to me like a physical battle, with bullet wounds inflicted and seen, with smoke and sound, noise and fury, would be less stressful than dealing with the looming threat of empowered collective and collectivist madness.

And I say that having read a year or two an interview with a Canadian veteran who said precisely that, that he preferred being shot at to the slow growing grayness of Trudeauism, and who in fact volunteered to go back to some hot spot somewhere.  I suspect a lot of mercenaries are like that too.  It is a much simpler life, and not infrequently simpler is better.  You know who your enemies are, and you have every chance to shoot them.  They shoot back, but there is nothing particularly personal in it.

And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled.

He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.

We were a “happy city” last February, were we not?  New businesses were opening up everywhere, unemployment was at historic lows, we were winding down our wars, and not starting any new ones.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19

Johns Hopkins started self censoring this nearly immediately after posting it. Since we patently now live in a world populated by more or less literal political Commissars scanning the internet for ThoughtCrimes, this post itself may be taken down, or mislabeled as misleading or false.

But the problem is not the science: it is the POLITICS. It makes it very obvious that the crimes our governments are committing against us can’t be justified even on their face, which is the claim that they are “saving lives”.

Overall death rates in all categories are more or less the same. Those who would have died of the flu died of COVID. Those who would have had heart attacks in their early 40’s died of COVID.

NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE. None of this, in my view, EVER made sense.

This is mass madness. This cannot–as I continue to demonstrate to the annoyance of some of you–be said often enough.

From the article: “Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.

“The reason we have a higher number of reported COVID-19 deaths among older individuals than younger individuals is simply because every day in the U.S. older individuals die in higher numbers than younger individuals,” Briand said.

Briand also noted that 50,000 to 70,000 deaths are seen both before and after COVID-19, indicating that this number of deaths was normal long before COVID-19 emerged. Therefore, according to Briand, not only has COVID-19 had no effect on the percentage of deaths of older people, but it has also not increased the total number of deaths.

These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.
This comes as a shock to many people. How is it that the data lie so far from our perception?”