Now that we’ve got assorted Democrats calling for us to shower coronavirus bailout money on people who are here illegally, it seemed a fit time to revisit this post.
Back in 2012 the average welfare household was raking in more than $60,000 a year–quite a bit more than I was making, working full-time.
And then there are public employee pensions.
Government gives them all chunks of my money. Now they want to shower it on illegals, too.
Is there anyone out there we’re not working for?
Some say the total fiasco resulting in the coronavirus pandemic is proof that globalism is not only a failure, but never could have been anything but a failure. I think that’s true.
But globalism is hyper-humanism’s holy grail, and they’re not about to quit on it.
Here are four signals that will tell you that you’re reading or talking to a hyper-humanist.
*Insisting that there is no God, hyper-humanists are more than eager to take on God’s job. They give themselves away by revealing their dogma that perfection can and will be achieved by… well, them. Imperfect human beings. They will create technology, societies, and political systems that are better, wiser, and more efficient than they are themselves. In their view, God couldn’t do it (because He doesn’t exist), but they will.
*Failed systems like communism and socialism won’t fail, no way, if they’re in charge! All those other poor saps in all those other countries all over the world–they just didn’t do it right. “But we will!”
*Because everything’s supposed to go right when The Smartest People In The World are in charge, if ever something goes wrong, it must be someone’s fault. Somebody let down the side. Some nay-sayer, biggit, hater, xenophobe, racist, trans-phobic deplorable must have screwed up somewhere. Probably on purpose.
*Everything “old” is useless and “on the wrong side of history.” Old stuff like Christianity, marriage, the family, nations, free enterprise: stuff like that. Everything “new,” that The Smartest People In The World just made up a few weeks ago–like 50 different “genders,” or, God forbid, a robot-controlled “social credit system” like they have in Red China’s workers’ paradise–that’s all good. That’s all on the right side of history.
Even one of these tell-tale signs, if you can spot it, should absolutely disqualify the writer or speaker from ever holding any public office or other position of responsibility.
Get these people out of power, and keep them out, before they come up with another pandemic. We probably don’t need philosophers and probably don’t need kings; but philosopher-kings are no use at all. And dangerous if swallowed.
When did “policy” get transmuted into an all-purpose magic word? A substitute for making any kind of sense?
Somehow just saying “We have a policy” does away with all semblance of thought–especially for petty bureaucrats and corporate ninnies.
Can you imagine them running a global government? Saints preserve us!
No, I’m not nominating Rocky Bridges for president. I just want to quote him.
Rocky once said there are three things that everybody in the world thinks they can do: run a hotel, manage a baseball team, and write a book.
To this we must add, “And be president.”
Is there anyone, at any given hour of any given day, who does not know what the President of the United States should do? “The president needs to do such-and-such, right now!” “Here’s what the president has to do…” And so on. It must be the easiest job in the world. And if not, well, you’ve got an infinite quantity of advice.
How easy? Doddering Joe Biden promises to name a woman as his running mate, who will become president if Joe gets elected and then conks out. It sounds like a little more than half the people in the country, in Joe’s opinion, are fully qualified to be president. And that’s Rocky in the background, sagely nodding his head.
Can you imagine being president and actually trying to take all the advice you get?
If that doesn’t give you the horrors, nothing will.
No, not quite that old!
We were watching a movie yesterday when the phone rang. Only because we get so many of them every single day, at any hour of the day, I expected it to be yet another in an infinite series of robo-calls. “This is your final notice,” blah-blah-blah. “Final” as in ten thousandth time, with ten thousand more to come.
I was taken aback when it turned out to be a human being. She introduced herself, said she was part of a volunteer campaign here in town to check up on people, and how were we doing? This had me totally stumped.
Oh, wait! Suddenly I realized–I had forgotten we were senior citizens! Good grief, when did that happen? I’m so glad I figured out what was going on here before I could bite this woman’s head off. She meant well. And I’m glad I didn’t ask her to have anything done for us, because we don’t really need it while other people do.
This is a very strange time to be living through. It feels unreal. Who knows what to believe? What kind of weird resolution are we headed for?
Anyway, it annoyed me for a moment, but now I’m glad that someone’s doing it–calling people up to make sure they’re all right.
I’ll try to remember that I’m old.
Not quite galley slaves, but getting there
I posted this in 2012, and five years later it sparked a lively discussion.
Of course, this was all before China launched its “social credit” regime, in which the government keeps tabs, 24/7, on each and every citizens. They keep a running score on you which fluctuates up and down, depending on what you say and do; and whether you are allowed to do certain things–like ride a bus, for instance–depends on your current score, as compiled by the government. And it’s all done by robots, so you can’t defend yourself, you can’t appeal–might as well argue with a chair.
Government is able to do things like that because it has too much money.
What bunk
Why do leftids always hate their country? I expect it’s because doing so makes them feel virtuous.
The happy hormads next door used to have a home-made sign that said “Patriotism=Scoundrels.” In this, the golden age of unfettered travel, it beats me why they stay here. Certainly America doesn’t need them.
Yeahbut, yeahbut! A World State, man! No borders! Wouldn’t that be great?
No, it wouldn’t.
There are many things out there more dangerous and harmful than coronavirus; and worst of all is leftism. Like this.
Be very afraid of any pinheads who claim the authority to “design society.” That means they want to design you. ‘Cause they know what’s best for everyone, and even your thoughts are not your own. They’d suck ’em out of your brain with a straw and spit ’em on the ground, if only they could.
And they’ll still be here when the virus goes away.
Think about the best way to crush them.
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As we all sit around stalemated by the Wuhan Chinese Communist flu, it’s to be hoped that we at least learn some lessons from it. Like for instance:
Relying on Red China is folly. Everything we get from them has a sting in it. They are not our friends. Buy from civilized people, not from communists.
“Open Borders” is an idea whose time has never come and which is now totally gone. Just imagine what would happen to us, disease-wise, if we had a government that stubbornly refused to close our nation’s borders.
We don’t actually need all those colleges and have been wasting our money on them. We can more than get by without Gender Studies. The whole idea that everyone should go to college was ridiculous from the git-go.
We also get a lot less value from our public schools than we ever realized. Just how badly to we need teachers’ unions and gender counselors, anyway? I’m guessing not at all.
A ruling class of globalist elite schiff-heads is not smarter than us. If anything, it’s even dumber. They did a lot to make this mess.
Come to think of it, our own professional governing class is something less than a national asset. Maybe it’s time to re-think the whole business of who gets to run the country.
Actively and loudly rooting for the stock market to tank, rooting for the plague, because they think these disasters will destroy President Trump and boost them back into power, Democrats have shown that they are America’s enemies. They do not wish us well. C’mon, people! That mask slipped off more than a year ago. Wake up.
If we can learn these lessons, we will be a stronger country than we were six months ago.
Some guy on Politico thought this would be a good idea: elect someone who’d be above the president but not have any power–just a kind of figurehead, for everyone to love. Stop laughing! He was serious.
Unfortunately for his idea, he never quite figured out how this beloved figurehead ought to be chosen. Libs and moral imbeciles would want some Democrat. Heaven forbid.
Maybe a national lottery, excluding anyone who’s had any role in government at any level? “Our new Beloved Figurehead–Mrs. Margo Sawatski from Saginaw, Michigan!” Or maybe a fictional character would be better. If you could find one that half the people didn’t hate.
Would you trust today’s media not to turn any fictional character into an annoying, preachy, left-wing scold? Betcha they wouldn’t know how to do otherwise.
Reliving the horror of Obama… No, I couldn’t stand it.