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Category Archives: Politics
Existential Question: Competence vs. Expertise?
The future survival of modern societies is balanced on a razor’s edge. Those societies that learn to distinguish between competence and expertise are most likely to survive and prosper. It is not clear that most modern societies will make the … Continue reading
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Space Alien Ambassador Unimpressed by Joe Biden
Yes, judging by its political class and by its elites in media, academia, and corporate culture, the US is in serious trouble. It doesn’t take a space alien to see that. A number of the global cities with highest homicide … Continue reading
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Is Re-Electing President Trump the Only Alternative to the Unutterable Madness and Decay of Wokeism?
Wokeism has taken over the US Deep State and most large social institutions in the US. The slow release of the Twitter Files by the innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk, is gradually unwrapping the ugly truth behind the government and the … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Education, Elon Musk, Government, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Philosophy, Politics
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A Meeting of Titans
Around the time of the recent G20 summit, secret meetings between the world’s titans took place with consequences that could shake the world. Here is a brief edited transcript of the interchange between the two giants of the modern age: … Continue reading
A Catastrophic Moral Crime
More Bill Maher is a proper moron, but he occasionally has intelligent guests on his show. And like a broken clock, he is right two seconds out of every day. More from the above episode: It is important to remember … Continue reading
Paranoia: The Flip Side
It seems to me that we are living in an age of paranoia, which is likely to get worse with time. Too many people are mainlining their thinking and decision making directly from a 6.7 inch screen. Is that why … Continue reading
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Irony
Irony is the figurative term for the disconnect between what appears to happen or what is apparently being said and the actual truth or reality. __ Source The singer in the song above expresses one meaning in the lyrics, while it … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Ideology, Politics, Propaganda, satire
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When Will We Ever Know What’s True?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The western world is in the middle of a year + game of playing the fool to governments, media, public health agencies, and the rest of the gang … Continue reading
Graphic Summary of 2020 US Election
They try to scrub the truth from most large media sources, but the corrupt and illegitimate government* and its media lackeys will find that the people do not forget so easily. Image Source Updated source for information documenting fraud in … Continue reading
If Biden Refers to Kamala as “President Harris,” What Does Kamala call Biden? “You Drooling Idiot?”
There Is No Biden Administration A basic problem with the Biden administration is that there really isn’t one. Like most journalists I use the term as a formality, but the White House site calls it the Biden-Harris Administration. It’s not … Continue reading
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What Would a Real Insurrection Look Like?
After months of insurrection theater combined with a fake impeachment trial, inquiring minds would like to know: If the fraudulent election of November 2020 were truly contested by armed insurrection, what would it look like? Consider the visual contrast between … Continue reading
They Cannot Help But Go Too Far
Over the years, Maher’s audiences have always been trained seals, reliably clapping at every hard left, anti-George Bush, anti-Trump, pro-Obama statement the host utters. But this time, he said that the BLM rap pushing Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) on American society … Continue reading
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Americans are Leaving California and New York in Favor of Florida and Texas
Americans who live in Democrat Party-run states such as New York, California, Illinois, and New Jersey, are experiencing economic hardship, high unemployment, and draconian regulations and taxes. The highest unemployment states are Hawaii, Nevada, California, Colorado, New York, New Mexico, … Continue reading
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Nobody Really Believes Biden Was Elected Fairly
Months before the election, top Democratic Party senators warned that Dominion Voting Systems machines could be easily hacked, with votes intentionally switched from one candidate to his opponent. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar were among the prominent elected Democrats to … Continue reading
When Overreaction is the Only Tactic Available
This whole business over the Capitol riots long ago passed the overreaction threshold and entered the realm of the absurd… MSNBC Host Proposes Drone Strikes Against Trump Supporters In the age of “rule by leftist extremists,” if you do not … Continue reading
How to Be a Good Leftist
It all starts with group thinking conformity. Leftism is an ideology, not a philosophy — a key difference. Maintaining group conformity is a major undertaking in a nonsensical ideology, particularly in the early stages. Here’s one way to do it: … Continue reading
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Witch Trial Against Citizen Trump Begins 8 Feb. 21
The US Senate has scheduled hearings in the impeachment trial against Citizen Trump beginning February 8th. The Senate does not have the constitutional authority to hold an “impeachment” trial against a private citizen, nor should it have. That simple limitation … Continue reading
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Why Election Fraud is So Easy in US Third World Cities
Rigged elections are routine in communist and third world countries. Election fraud has also become routine in US third world enclaves — such as the inner parts of Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Atlanta etc. In such broadly impoverished places the … Continue reading
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Election Fraud in Broad Daylight: There Will be Hell to Pay
There are plenty of people who hate President Trump, just look under any rock or log. Such people deny that election fraud could have happened — or that it could have made any difference in the outcome if it did. … Continue reading
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Only a Complete Idiot Takes These Pandemic Numbers Seriously
We have never kept count of any disease in quite this way. It makes comparisons impossible: “The case definition is very simplistic,” Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. “It means, at the time of death, … Continue reading
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Company Behind Election Fraud Has Ties to Deep State
The many faces of 2020 election fraud Credible expose’ of Pennsylvania fraud Clear evidence of vote counting fraud involving software hack Unprecedented level of open election cheating Google shifted up to 6 million votes to Biden Democrats long for one-party … Continue reading
Witches, Wolves, and Skinny Naked Things Running in the Dark
We are living in a weird time of high level information manipulation. Wealthy power players at the highest level of government, finance, industry, media, law, and academics have an iron grip on public minds, both educated and uneducated. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Pandemic, Politics, Uncategorized
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The Most Important Thing We Learn from Politics
Daily life is based largely on lies that we tell each other. Politics makes this point so well because there is virtually no truth at all in anything that touches politics or government policy — especially the media. Telling the … Continue reading
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Wizard of West Returns Even Stronger Than Before
The wizard of the western world descended into the abyss while battling the Balrog monster named COVID. To the amazement of the world, he has returned with a new visage, and a revitalized mission — to defeat those twisted men … Continue reading
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The Illusion of Control and the Circle of Influence
Some Things Cannot Be Controlled — Even By the US, the EU, or the UN In the 1970’s, Ellen Langer, a researcher from UCLA, demonstrated evidence for a phenomenon she called the illusion of control… Time and again, research has … Continue reading
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