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Current Events

See, in the past

I have been against term limits. I figured that voters could choose whomever they wanted and that term limits were an encroachment on freedom.

But now I think that I was dead wrong. The problem has become that we have developed into a gerontocracy. It has become increasingly difficult for newcomers to even challenge the “old dogs.”

In other words, the electoral playing field is simply not level, and this is shown in high relief by all the old and decrepit people in Congress. They are NOT citizens who are willing to leave their normal lives and serve a term or two, but people whose career aim is to be richly nourished off the public teat. For fame and (especially) fortune,

The result is the kind of people this attracts. Not people looking to “serve the country for a spell,” but people whose aim it is to be a rich, long-term petty celebrity. For their whole lives.

I think there are two ways to change this (and maybe only two ways).

The first way is term limits. You can serve maybe four terms in the House and two in the Senate. But that’s it. That is, combined, 30 years. And that is enough. AND, there is a mandatory retirement, let’s say, at the first election after you turn 75, regardless of how long you’ve been an elected official.

Already, some state governors get term-limited out! So this is by no means a strange new thing to impose.

The second way is to de-centralize the lawmakers. You won? Congrats. Now here is your VPN, money for an office and security, a secure cell phone, and a phone number for 24-hour tech support. Thank you for your service.

We’ll fund a trip three times a year for you and your staff to fly into DC and meet with your colleagues. But you LIVE in the district that elected you.

Suddenly, a completely different breed of people want to (and are willing to) serve. And lobbyist power is GREATLY diminished. The country is hugely hardened against a decapitation strike. And governance gets much closer to the people.

An additional measure is to move many government agencies out of DC and environs. They simply don’t need to be there, and it is a big security risk to have them there.

So you work for the Agriculture Department? Well, welcome to Iowa, my friend!

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Bad Faith

Yeah, Joe’s China

lie is not looking too good right now.

One of Joe’s most infamous and specific lies was, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about — China,” which he delivered from the stage during the second presidential debate in October 2020.

… Nearly three years later, it’s clear that Welker’s nonchalance and Wallace’s deflection of Biden family corruption did not age well.

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Psychopathology

The truth is

I don’t think the COVIDians will ever ‘fess up and admit their fault. Yes, they were horribly and grotesquely wrong. And what they did was evil.

But I really don’t think they are psychologically capable of admitting fault. It is too ego-dystonic for them. It is a threat to their core narcissistic processes.

Because the authorities, bureaucrats, politicians and media who insisted on all this view themselves as good people, good people who simply don’t do awful things … you know, like wreck the health of strangers, kill their elderly parents in hospital, isolate them in their homes, ruin their business, shred their mental health and wreck the education of their children. Nice people, well-intentioned people simply don’t do evil things like that … and they are nice people, with the best intentions in the world … so they simply didn’t do any of those things. Expressing sincere regret and apologies would mean admitting that they aren’t nice people, with the best intentions in the world. So, they never will own up to the incalculable damage. They simply can’t. and still maintain their self-image as nice people. [emphasis added]

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Energy Epic fail Hypocrisy

Honestly, if

you are not for nuclear power, you are NOT an environmentalist and you are a stinkin’ hypocrite!

Yeah, fill up the landfills with toxic and inefficient unrecycled (and unable to be recycled) solar panels and windmill blades! Then prance and preen and tell people that you are an environmentalist…

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Disgusting!

What a guy!

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Captain Obvious

We SHOULD all

be thankful the atomic bombs were detonated on Japan. Millions of Japanese and American (and Cambodian and Chineses and many others) stayed alive because of it, and their descendants are here. And they would not have otherwise been.

We are talking about a bottom estimate of 1.7 million US casualties in an invasion of the home islands (Operation Downfall). And that is a low-ball estimate. And how many Japanese would have died?

It’s hard to say how many Japanese would have died. But undoubtedly more. Far more. Probably at least ten times more. You think Okinawa was bad for civilian and soldiers? Just think of what an invasion of Japan proper would have looked like!

And remember, it took two atomic bombs to get Japan to capitulate. After the first one they still wouldn’t capitulate! So a second one had to be used. Even after that, there was a coup put in motion against Hirohito when it leaked that he was about to surrender.

Read E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed to get an idea of what it was like for a Marine on Okinawa and other Pacific islands! On Okinawa alone more than 12,000 Americans died and over 100,000 Japanese died.

And an invasion of the home islands would have been exponentially worse. Yet some people think it would be better for 20 million Japanese to die than use the atomic bombs? Where is your humanity?

To armchair-quarterback look back and fantasize about a different, better outcome is to bask in the faux glow of delusion and moral preening. Let’s try to think more than a millimeter deep, here.

Don’t be a dumb-donkey: A ton of Japanese and Americans are alive today only because of the atomic bombs!

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Multiple Sclerosis

Don’t get me

wrong, I’m happy for this limited progress. But of course, I am a bit impatient. The clock is ticking for me…

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Evil

Joe Biden is

a mean, mean man. Plain and simple.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied his request for Secret Service protection.

Joe WANTS another Kennedy assassination!

You voted for him? Way to go. Waaay to go…

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Current Events

It’s about freakin’

time, gramps! Sheesh! What a turd!

Not only has Biden refused to state that he has seven grandchildren, leaving out little 4-year-old Navy, but he’s reportedly instructed staff to also only refer to six grandchildren. He has repeatedly left out the girl, born to Hunter Biden and a woman with whom he had a productive dalliance, Lunden.

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Dishonesty

Uhm, yeah.

Pretty much. Joe Biden knowingly and deliberately lied to you. Yep. How do you feel about having been the “mark” or the “pigeon?”

Hunter admitted that he had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company supported by the Chinese Communist Party — directly contradicting Joe Biden’s previous statements that his family never “made money from China.”

… According to court records obtained by Fox News, prosecutors revealed that Hunter Biden had received a sum of $664,000 from a “Chinese infrastructure investment company.” During the court proceedings, Hunter Biden confirmed to Judge Maryellen Noreika that the money came from a company he established in 2017 with the chairman of the CCP-supported CEFC Energy conglomerate, who has since disappeared.