News Round Up 1 February 2023

I have not done one of these for a while (or much of anything here really) so let us have some fun with the news.

1. Maybe they were all tall enough

A few weeks ago the Golden State Warriors were at the White House celebrating and Joe Biden knelt in front of them. Kamala Harris shouted “I am not doing that.” Given how her political career started it is interesting that she would refuse to get on her knees. Perhaps those fellows were tall enough that she did not have to.

Stephen Curry, a player for the team and an ardent Biden supporter is in the news this week as he is opposed to low income housing being built near his multi million dollar mansion. This is fairly typical for a liberal. They want millions of illegals here but not in their neighborhoods. They are all for the homeless camping out as long as it is not in their neighborhood. Hell, Maxine Waters does not even live in her district. She lives with the well off people and avoids the mess of the homeless encampments.

Curry has a $30 million mansion and is opposing a low income housing development near him. He feels for all you oppressed poor people but he does not want you near him.

If it were not for double standards liberals would have no standards at all.

2. Maybe Pink will be in the red

Alecia Beth Moore Hart, known to some as the singer Pink, wants people to know that if they are pro life she does not want them listening to her music and they can just F-Off. I have seen this person a few times (on TV) and I know that I have never listened to her music of my own accord. It is possible that it was playing someplace where I was but I would not know her music unless someone told me it was she singing it.

I am more than happy not to listen to her. If she feels comfortable losing revenue because of her intolerance then fine, I hope many folks accommodate her.

Maybe Pink will be in the red when it comes tax time next year. It would serve her right for being filled with so much hate and demonstrating intolerance to other points of view.

Bye Alecia!

3. Profit ahead of people

You might think I am referring to the pharmaceutical companies and while that is a good guess and quite true, this time I am referring to the hospital systems across this nation. Hospitals were enticed to admit people with Covid (even if that was not the primary reason for being at the hospital or in some cases, whether they actually had Covid) and then put them on ventilators. Turns out that was not the way to treat people with Covid and there were indications of this early on. The problem is a Covid patient was worth about $13,000 but one on a vent was worth $39,000. Hospitals put people on vents even though it was a death sentence because they could get a lot of money doing so.

I said early on that vents were not the way to go. People needed a high volume of oxygen but at low pressure so that cells could get O2 into them. It was discovered that high flow nasal cannulas with a lot of humidified O2 was much better for patients. Doctors at UChicago Medicine used these cannulas on 24 patients, Only one required intubation after 10 days. It is reported that the Chinese figured this out early and made a fortune selling their ventilators to other countries.

There are lots of people who discuss how many people died in the US from Covid. I wonder how many of them would have lived if they were not considered secondary to the money that could be made. How many of them would be alive if simple things like Ivermectin and high flow nasal cannulas had been used?

Then again, the pharma companies needed their cut too and they could not belly up to the trough if we used effective methods to treat people.

Don’t trust government and do not trust big entities that are easily enticed with taxpayer dollars.

We need a lot of investigations.

4. Speaking of investigations

Dr. Deborah Birx lied to the nation and manipulated data and altered CDC guidelines in order to deceive President Trump. A lot of people will call Trump the bad guy and lay things for Covid at his feet but the so called scientists (follow the science) who were there to help him were actually working against him AT YOUR EXPENSE.

Birx is no different. In her new book she explains how she knew the vaccines would not work. She discusses manipulating data. Her belief is that the vaccines were overplayed. She admits she knew they would not protect against infection and yet she pushed them on people.

This woman is a subversive and should be treated as such. Forget anyone from J6 and throw her in jail.

I hope the Republicans investigating all this will not overlook her.

Senator Rand Paul is itching to get a crack at Dr. Fauci. He needs to throw Birx into the mix. Maybe we can force them both to forfeit their eye popping retirement checks.

If Donald Trump wins again he needs a better way to vet people. He needs to fire all these back stabbers and put his own people in place.

Birx is responsible for a lot of deaths.

5. Trump was right with regard to Biden and Ukraine

Remember when Donald Trump spoke with the Ukranian president and told him he needed to look into the Biden’s business dealings in that country? The left impeached him for it and they did so because Trump was very close to the actual truth of what was going on.

Turns out though, he was probably getting lip service since the Ukranian president is as corrupt as the Bidens. When Russia invaded that nation Zelensky gave an order for all information relating to Hunter Biden and a company his investment firm was heavily invested in, Metabiota, to be destroyed.

That very day government officials were seen burning a lot of documents. This is deep swamp level stuff here and the Bidens are neck deep in that swamp.

Why Trump thought he would get help is beyond me. Zelensky is like an American liberal. He begs for free stuff and when you give it to him he begs for even more. Every time this guy gets bilions of dollars he turns around and says it is not enough, he needs more.

And watch, when this is over (assuming Ukraine wins) he will be begging for billions of dollars to rebuild his country and no matter how much he gets he will complain that it is not enough.

We owe them nothing. I would love to see them beat Russia and embarass that country but not at the expnse of the hard earned money the government confiscates from me and not at the expense of equipment that this nation needs to protect itself.

Russia should not have invaded a sovereign nation. BUT we should not be giving Ukraine billions of dollars worth of stuff. That action will eventually lead to escallation and that means World War III is right around the corner. Worse yet, it could incite the Russians to use nuclear weapons or strike some of our cities with hypersonic missiles.

A few short months ago Joe Biden said he would not send tanks to Ukraine because that would mean starting WWIII. Then Joe came to us and let us know he sent Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine. He said sending tanks would start WWIII and then he sent tanks.

Is there any doubt about what outcome Joe wants?

6. Captain Kirk where are you

Up in New York and New Jersey along the shore there where the Atlantic Ocean is being defiled by the placement of windmills a strange thing is happening. Humpback whales are dying and washing up on shore (or they are beaching themselves and dying). It appears that the sonar or sound waves used by the companies doing the work to install windmills is affecting the whales. The usual suspects one would expect to pitch a fit about this are amazingly silent and the green energy zealots are ignoring the deaths of these whales so they can have their wind farms.

Ten whales have been found along the beach over the last few months. Huge creatures that were once hunted to near extinction have partially recovered only to once again be the victims of man’s selfishness. The latest was just this week.

I know how this will all play out. In the year 2286 a large probe will appear in out solar system and disable everything in its path. It will play strange complex songs that no one will understand. Failing to get a response, the probe will start to destroy the earth. Captain Kirk of the United Federation of Planets (home of origin earth) will have to go back in time to rescue two humpback whales to keep the earth from being destroyed.

This voyage home will save mankind from its shortsightedness.

I have a better idea. Regardless of what the “experts” say, how about we stop the work in the Atlantic and study it. Perhaps the work can be done when the whales are someplace else. They are migratory so maybe there is a time when they are somplace else. We should be sure to check the impact on other creatures as well.

It amazes me how these animals are protected and hunting them has been banned but they can still be killed off and not one of the people who claim to be environmentalists and nature lovers bats an eye…

I won’t be here in 2286. But I might be when when Kirk has to come back to this point in time. I hope he phasers all the people responsible.

With the phaser on the highest setting…

Until next time…

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Late Round Up Star Date 2021.308

Elections and other stuff.

1. The Dem-Commies could not cheat to a win in Virginia as Republicans swept the three statewide offices on Tuesday night. It would appear as if the cache of fraudulent ballots the Dem-Commies needed to bail them out in the middle of the night are on a cargo ship from China that is still anchored off the coast of California. After the Democrats took a beating in VA and other states in numerous offices across the country, they began the calls of racism. This is not unusual because screaming racism is the only tool in their toolbox. These morons screamed that racism was the reason Youngkin won in VA while ignoring the fact that a Cuban American and a black American female won offices as well. Dem-Commies do not and will not see why they lost, will double down and will most certainly be massacred at the polls next November.

2. The state of New Jersey was able to play games with the election. As a Republican truck driver who spent $153 of his own money took down a 20 year establishment Democrat the governor’s race was fraught with shenanigans. One county reported 100% of the votes were in and had the Republican up 52-47 and magically, the 100% reported precinct changed to 52-48 for the Democrat. There were other swaps taking place in other counties. As is usually the case, the Democrat heavy counties took all night to count and report. We all know this is so they can see how many votes they need to win and then drag them out from under the tables. They cheat no matter what they tell you.

3. There is no doubt the Dem-Commies cheat in elections. The funny thing is, no matter how many times they get caught they will look you right in the eye and say the election was free and fair. Until they lose that is. New Jersey was engaged in shenanigans and this was caught by Project Veritas. A New Jersey election worker offered a non-citizen/non-registered voter a ballot and said he would let the person fill it out right now. Perhaps even more telling is a portion where the claim is made; we let anyone vote in the 2020 presidential election. This is an admission of rampant fraud that puts to rest this phony claim of free and fair elections. Until the people committing the crimes are sent to jail for very long periods of time nothing will get fixed. If there is no penalty for the crime the crime will continue. This is why the rioters in Portland keep destroying things and it is why the people elected to office in DC keep violating the Constitution.

4. Don’t try to stop the fraud though or they will throw a hissy fit. Whenever any law is passed that makes it harder to cheat in elections the left screams about racism and how the laws are designed to keep minorities from voting. Who is the racist here, the person who wants integrity in elections or the one who thinks minorities are not smart enough to comply with the law? It is no harder for a minority to get an ID than it is a non minority. Ron DeSantis in Florida has just announced a full time police unit that will work to catch and prosecute election cheating. As you can imagine, the left is losing its collective mind. If they can’t cheat they can’t win and now that DeSantis is putting law enforcement on the job full time, to arrest people cheating, Democrats are in a snit. They are saying this is, you guessed it, racism. The left does not like law enforcement or enforcement of the law. They like to cheat and get away with it. Good luck with that in Florida. I hope we read about the arrests very soon.

5. Rider University in New Jersey changed the name of the Van Cleve Alumni House to the Alumni House because Benjamin Van Cleve, the one time owner of the property, signer of the Constitution, Revolutionary War veteran and New Jersey statesman supported slavery and owned at least one slave. His name was removed from a building on property he once owned because he had the audacity to do something that was not unusual for the time, own a slave. That does not diminish the horror of the institution of slavery but slavery was practiced all around the world during that time (and is still practiced in some African countries as well as Muslim nations) and was legal in the US. Being legal des not make it right and I would not argue that. But this notion that we can look at the lives of those from that period under the spectrum of today’s norms is ridiculous. The question I have is, should we remove the name of Barack Obama from any building or street named after him and topple his statues? His ancestors owned slaves. Think about this as you continue reading about the moronic stuff being done to erase history.

6. Last but not least, while the Dem-Commie led government is forcing diversity on members of the military and teaching all about inclusive environments our enemies are improving their lethality. China surprised us with a hypersonic missile that we can’t detect or destroy and Russia will arm its navy with hypersonic cruise missiles beginning next year. We have a Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who are part of the woke mob. They fit in well with supervisors (civilian and military) who capitulate to any complaint, founded or not, and agree to woke diversity training so they look proactive and will get great annual reviews. Our enemies do not care what pronoun you wish used when you are addressed. They only care about killing you and ending our way of life. But don’t worry, we will make sure the DOD puts they/them/theirs was killed in action because of snowflake diversity training and they are woke no more.

UPDATE: Looks like the establishment democrat in New Jersey will not concede as 12,000 ballots were “found” and all ballots must be counted. If they steal this election from the truck driver then all truck drivers should refuse to deliver to New Jersey. Starve them out…

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Round Up for Star Date 2021.243

Prologue:
I heard Joe Biden give his speech this afternoon and he lied throughout the entire thing and he was gaslighting America. He claimed that Trump left him a bad plan and that he had to follow it or send more troops to fight so he moved the date ahead. This guy took office and immediately started undoing everything Trump did. He dismantled the border and allowed an influx of hundreds of thousands of illegals to overrun the country. He cancelled Executive Orders and there is no doubt that if Donald Trump said he liked to breathe Biden would have held his breath. So does he expect us to believe he could not change this one thing and he had to follow what Trump did? The reality is Trump had a goal based agreement where the US would drawdown if the Taliban hit certain milestones along the way and if they did anything violent they would pay with their lives. Biden said there was no plan in place for a new government when the Trump plan specifically required the Taliban to form a coalition government with Afghanistan’s existing government. Biden could have told them they missed that goal and that we were staying around for a while. The reality is this would not have happened if Trump were in office because the Taliban knows he would have killed them. Biden bent over and let them take advantage of him and thus our entire nation. But ole Scranton Joe talked tough. He was trying to tell us that he had to add more troops or leave. No one is criticizing the leaving part, Trump was working on that when the election was stolen from him. The problem is the way Biden did it. It was all messed up and ended up leaving people behind and having 13 military members killed. So the BS is not true. He could have left in a much better fashion but that would require knowing what you are doing. Also, the war did not really end today. We will be fighting in the future BUT the war wound down some time ago and the military we kept there were peacekeepers who were there to ensure terrorists did not get another foothold in Afghanistan. Joe let them get that foothold. One last thing. Biden again invoked the name of his dead son. I was sad for the Biden family when Beau died but I am tired of hearing about it. I am tired of hearing about his dead kid who served but did not die in combat. He came home, served in elected office and died of brain cancer. Joe invokes that name for sympathy and I am so past hearing about it. Let Beau rest in peace Joe.

Now for the Round Up!

1. This person was possibly inspired by terrorists. I wonder how many terrorists got on those flights out of Afghanistan and I wonder how many more will waltz in through the porous southern border. I am fairly certain there will be an uptick in terror activity directed toward the US and its citizens abroad. I imagine that right now Americans are being rounded up by the Taliban and they will be ransomed or murdered but most likely both. This is what happens when you have a weak person in a position of authority. Biden is responsible for the mess happening.

2. Ninety retired Flag Officers have written a letter indicating that Secretary of Defense Austin and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley should resign over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. These officers are not happy and have indicated that if these two gave Biden the advice for this messed up mission they should resign and if they did not but did not strongly object (with threats of leaving over the plan) then they are wrong and should be out of their positions. These officers rightly claim that Austin and Milley are more concerned with woke culture social justice training than they are with warfighting. This too is true. These two are a disgrace to the nation and they have as much blood on their hands as Biden does. The 66 million or so of you who voted for Biden are just as guilty. I wonder if any of these officers supported Biden in the 2020 election. It is known that nearly all the Democrats in Congress did because they hated Trump. Well now some of those Democrats who are vulnerable in 2022 are distancing themselves from Biden and what he did. Too late though, they are part of this. They supported him and they certified an obviously fraudulent election and they impeached Trump a second time in the name of politics. So no distancing for you folks. You are part of the problem and should be booted from the People’s House. BTW, there are plenty of Republicans who should be booted right along with you.

3. The only thing the Democrat Communists know how to do well is cheat and ignore the Constitution. These cretins used the plandemic to impose illegal voting schemes that made it easier for them to cheat. The Dem Commies are working hard pulling every trick in the book to end the recall of Gavin Newsom in California. They mailed a ballot to everyone, they put suspicious holes in the ballot so you can see how people voted and two people sued to stop things (they lost) because they claim that they do not want to vote to recall Newsom so they only get one vote and people who want him recalled get two. They want Newsom’s name on the back of the ballot as well or the recall stopped. These people have the same rights as anyone else. There are two questions. 1) Do you want to recall Governor Newsom? 2) If Governor Newsom is recalled who do you want to replace him. Based on these questions everyone, even those who vote no on the first, has the opportunity to vote for the replacement, should one be needed. The Dem Commies used Covid to break the law and to do things the Constitution does not authorize. They are working on that for next year and these Covid variants are only smoke screens they need to get to the election where they can introduce some magical new variant forcing us to allow them to cheat again.

4. I have discussed the vaccine and how the thing was forced on us, how it was not tested for long term issues and how the FDA approved a vaccine that is not available and will not be produced for quite some time so that the EUA drugs can be used up while immunity is present for their use. This article is pretty detailed in the issues involved and demonstrates how the FDA shirked its responsibility.

5. Joe Biden and his cabal of anti American misfits botched things horribly in Afghanistan. They gave the Taliban names of people and then did not allow those people to get to the airport even though they were at the locked gates. All they had to do was open the damned gates and let the people in. But no, our feckless leaders kept the gates closed and in so doing forced 600 students at American University to go back to the school grounds where the Taliban will be able to find them without difficulty because they have their names (and those of their families). There have already been threats against the students and faculty and those folks are franticly trying to find safe passage out. I fear these people will be captured, the males executed and the females turned into Taliban baby makers. This is all on the hands of that moron in the white House. Democrats have other education related ambitions that include eliminating some or all student loan debt. Keep in mind that when they say they are cancelling a loan it will still be paid but the taxpayer will, as is most often the case, bear the burden of that cost. We pay for welfare, we pay for Congress’ elaborate retirement, we pay for their sexcapade cover-ups and we pay for the relief from the consequences of their ill advised response to Covid. Be careful students. It is not beyond the left to leave you for dead at the hands of terrorists.

6. Maybe we should defund the FBI. The guy in charge of investigating sex crimes at the FBI has been charged with committing sex crimes. It appears this freak exposed himself to a young girl and has written that he likes underaged girls. He needs to be convicted and sent to jail for some good old fashioned justice. The FBI has been shown, over the last ten years or so, to be a group of political hacks who have no problems breaking the laws we pay them to enforce. They manufacture evidence, they harass people and they alter documents to fit their needs. Defund them, fire them, and do not replace them.

7. There is no doubt, except to the brain cell challenged, that Biden “won” because of fraud. He did not get 81 million votes. He is lucky to have gotten about 66 million, if that. The democrats and a lot of their minions cheated to flip votes, manipulate machines and add millions of mail in ballots to exploit the pandemic and steal an election. The evidence is all there to all but the woefully ignorant. There are 15 MILLION mail in ballots that are unaccounted for nation wide. There is no record of them ever being returned (or in some cases sent) but they were cast. There were nearly 44,000 absentee ballots counted in DeKalb country GA that violated the chain of custody rules. They ignored the rules and counted the ballots anyway. This is how fraud is committed. People have been screaming that fraud took place and now more people are seeing it and actually believe that the election was rigged. The fraud is how we ended up with a guy who allowed the situation in Afghanistan to deteriorate and how 13 heroes were killed. There is blood on a lot of hands. People need to go to prison.

8. General Mike Flynn had his credit cards cancelled by Chase. The company claimed it was because he was damaging to their reputation. This is part of a continuing attack on conservatives by woke financial institutions. They have cancelled the accounts of gun stores and they have been a watch dog for the government to oversee what people are doing. There are options for conservatives so be sure not to support companies that do not have your interests at heart. If you are an investor, or want to be, try some of the alternatives to woke company investments.

9. Dr, FrankenFauci is a petty dictator wannabe. He is pushing mandates on you for the not approved vaccine and he wants you to wear a mask to do just about anything. He is now pushing for children to be mandated to wear masks in school. Dr. follow the science is ignoring the science that indicates children are not affected, to any great deal, by Covid. In Louisiana to date only 12 people 18 and under have died of Covid and in Maryland that number is 10. Any death of a child is tragic but we cannot force children to wear masks or get vaccines, another thing Fauci wants to force kids to do, just because a very small minority is affected. The reality is vaccines are less effective in preventing hospitalization among the adult population. Since children rarely end up in the hospital because of Covid, why do they need to be forced to get a vaccination? If their parents want them vaccinated, fine but if not then so be it. This is not the government’s business. Some states have banned localities from mandating masks and other measures. The Biden administration has opened a civil rights investigation claiming that these bans are a violation of the rights of children who have medical conditions because they deserve to be protected. First of all, there is nothing that says an individual must give up a freedom to protect another and there is nothing that would indicate it is ok to force people to do things to protect others. We do not make all children wear football helmets because the football team is more susceptible to head injuries. If the vulnerable children want to wear a mask then fine but it is wrong to force others to do so. You cannot protect one’s civil rights by infringing on the civil rights of another.

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Facebook Fact Checkers Are Not Checking Facts

Heil ZuckerFacebook is an arm of the federal government that helps Democrat causes. One can be fairly certain that whenever there is some information that the swamp does not want to go to the masses, Facebook and the other social media arms of big government go into action to ensure that information does not see the light of day. Mark Zuckerberg is the only true disinformation campaign on Facebook.

In the past year we have seen labels on posts about Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, Hunter Biden’s laptop and a myriad of other items that Facebook is told by its partners in government to quash. Now this might lead one to believe that they are only stopping the spread of bad information but that is not true. The items listed above are now being demonstrated as true statements. Of course, this comes after the election to ensure the left and the swamp RINOs can maintain control.

To be clear, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin work. This was known before the pandemic as Fauci’s people showed it was effective against SARS CoV1. The major reason Fauci said it did not work and to follow the science that he neglected to follow is because if there are effective treatments then Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) cannot be granted for a drug. This would mean Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson would have to go through the regular process to get their drugs approved and that would take years. Fauci and the swamp creatures along with their partners at Facebook can’t allow that to happen when they have a fortune to make in stock in those companies, now can they?

As for Hunter Biden’s laptop, it has been demonstrated that it is indeed his, it was not Russian disinformation and that he (and possibly his father) engaged in inappropriate sexual contact with children and that they have business dealings with other nations that are illegal and leave Joe Biden open to blackmail. This would probably have derailed his campaign so Zuckerberg had to step in to help.

So what about these “Fact” checkers? I recently shared a post questioning the efficacy of masks and lockdowns. Facebook was quick to do the master’s bidding and flag it as false. They proceeded to attach a tag to inform me that:

Scientific evidence demonstrates that wearing face masks and implementing lockdowns reduce the spread of COVID-19 – Health Feedback

The link goes to a review of one or two sources that conducted retrospective assessments. They claim that since there are fewer deaths and cases after masking and lockdowns than the computer models predicted then those actions MUST be effective.

This is what passes as science. Obviously they can’t ethically do studies that denies certain people masks or lockdowns (if they wanted them) and possibly expose them to a virus BUT if they are going to look around perhaps they should include many observations. Perhaps they can explain why Switzerland is 45th in the world in deaths per million when they did not have a country wide lockdown and masks were not mandated. However, this too can be misleading because not all countries behaved unilaterally within their own borders. The US is a prime example. We have fifty different states and DC (I will leave out our territories). The way this was handled varies widely among these states and the District.

If Lockdowns and masks are effective or give you a better chance then one would expect to see better numbers in states that had strict measures and high numbers in those that did not. The top three states in the US for deaths per million are New Jersey, York York and Massachusetts and they are states with tough lockdown and mask mandates throughout the pandemic. The states that weigh in above the US average are a mixture of states that did things to differing degrees. Given this data one could just as easily conclude that the lockdowns and mask mandates had no effect on the spread of disease and the associated deaths.

There are plenty of things to look at and conclude one way or the other and that is just what the alleged fact checkers at Facebook do. They look for one study or one instance to use as the basis in fact while ignoring anything to the contrary. These fact checkers have even used such scientific methods as “it is unlikely that it could happen” as the basis for a tag on a post.

What is really going on is that Facebook is using a group of people that receive paychecks from Mark Zuckerberg to come to a predetermined conclusion and mask (pun intended) that process with the words “Independent Fact Checker”. These people are far from independent and they are far from fact checkers. Facebook is not the only one either. The Twitter fact checkers labeled what the Mike Lindell symposium pointed out about elections as false BEFORE the symposium ever started…

In addition to falsely demonstrating that people are incorrect the fact checkers provide ammunition for Facebook to throttle down a person’s feed. They specifically state that continuing to spread false information (but only false if their people say so) can result in your feed being pushed down where others will not see it. They also use the fact checkers as a reason to restrict your account. My account has been restricted twice in the past two weeks and I traced it back to something I shared that they said was false. They say in order to prevent you from spreading disinformation your access to account features has been temporarily restricted.

In any event, if you see one of these tags do not assume that they are actually correct or that something was actually fact checked. I have seen the tags show up nearly instantly when it would have been impossible to look at the post and determine it was false in that amount of time. I maintain a high index of suspicion when I see any of these tags because Facebook and the Nazi running it have demonstrated time and again that they have an agenda and they will silence anyone to advance that agenda. It is also obvious that the agenda is driven by their partners in the swampy federal government.

As for me, I can post here. Mark Zuckerberg has no say at this site. He can’t put tags on this site. He can’t restrict my features of this site and he cannot prohibit me from posting here. Do I have as broad a reach as he? No way and I never will but I have a reach and it is an honest one.

I, unlike Judas Zuckerberg, did not sell out to government for the 30 pieces of silver.

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What If…

If you are like me, and you probably sometimes are, you go thru life with many preconceived notions and assumptions.  Introduced by friends and family, reinforced by school, TV, movies, and our own experiences, we have certain ‘givens’ in life that we rely upon to try to understand a very complicated world.  But what if they are all or mostly wrong?  Let’s dig.

What we are taught in elementary school is likely our bedrock for more assumptions.  Our history, how current events impact us, the roles of many people in society, all have the opportunity to be learned here.  What do police do?  Firemen?  Doctors?  Congressmen and Presidents?  Judges?  Lawyers?  While some of these may be discussed at home (depending upon the home), most are introduced in school, in one form or another.  If your teacher or teachers were pro-cop, you would get entirely different views than if your instructor(s) were anti-cop.  And so on.

Some of my assumptions were about how systems work in the US:  police, law, courts, elections, military, Congress, virtually everyone in elected or appointed roles in US society.  Speaking entirely for myself, I always assumed that checks and balances were in place in ALL of these systems to prevent criminal behavior by those folks in those roles.  Sure, some folks of every position stretched the rules, and benefited personally by those stretches.  But I always assumed that the overwhelming majority were honorable people, doing their part in society to keep things running.  But what if ALL of those assumptions are flat-out wrong?  What if the systems are inherently broken, by the past and present office holders, and because of their control over those systems, they will NEVER be fixed?

What if Congress has nothing to do with representing ANYONE but Congressmen?  The rest is pure marketing.  What if the courts are so complicit in the malfeasance, that they rule however they want, to protect the entire elected and appointed class?  Boat rockers and folks with integrity are shooed away, or absorbed into the cabal.  Once elected, they are shown the REAL deal:  do it our way, or you will be an army of one, with zero assistance from anyone in the system.  What if the police only superficially enforce the law, and only how and where their chain of command dictates?  The same may hold true for the military, just on a much larger scale. What if wars are fought just to advance the fortunes of the defense contracting companies, with appropriate kickbacks to those elected folks again?

You may ask:  Dude, what makes you think so negatively about these things?  The riots and mayhem over the Summer started the crack in my mental veneer.  Then, the recent elections process, coupled by the omnibus spending bill, made me think that no systems appear to be working as advertised—certainly not to the benefit of the taxpaying citizen.