Tag: governed by fools

‘You Can’t Defy Reality Forever’ (2019)

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Scott’s polar party: they all died. Wanting success was not enough.

History teaches lessons that many people don’t want to learn. Consider R.F. Scott’s Antarctic Expedition in 1912

You Can’t Defy Reality Forever

Wanting things to work is very, very different from making sure they work. Captain Scott was abundantly endowed with wishful thinking–enough of it to supply an army.  Come to think of it, World War I–by then just two years away–featured whole armies and governments with decisions based on wishful thinking.

But don’t worry–that mess with the Ukraine and Russia, it’ll all turn out right.

‘You Asked For It!’

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You tell him, Bela!

Don’t you love it when a woke big shot “asks” for something from the public–and gets it? Like a pie in the face!

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (what a nice man I am, resisting the temptation to call him “Noisome”) set himself up for a lovely bashing when he asked social media users to submit ideas for the design of a new commemorative $1 coin “to honor the state’s innovations” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/oops-gavin-newsom-asks-social-media-users-help/). The coin will be issued in 2026.

Among the plethora of suggestions were homeless encampments, filth on the streets, skyrocketing crime, businesses fleeing the state, drug abuse, high gas prices–oh, yeah, plenty of innovations! Makes you wonder how these wokemeisters ever got elected in the first place… but that’s another story.

So far the governor has not replied to any requests for a response. But I’ve got a comment for him:

“You asked for it!”

SF Whole Foods Shuts Down: Too Much Crime

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Major Outbreak in San Francisco Shelter Underlines Danger for the Homeless - The New York Times

Guess why they have to hose down the sidewalks.

After only one year of business, San Francisco’s flagship Whole Foods supermarket has shut down… because of too much crime (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144777/posts). This includes drug use in the rest rooms, violence against the staff, and theft of every single shopping basket.

But the main reason was, it just wasn’t safe to work there. Whole Foods officers said the crime in the streets flowed into the store. Ya think?

At what point does a city get so bogged down by crime that it ceases to be a city? What kind of municipal government do you provide a shattered city inhabited by criminals? What if people who should be running the city just up stakes and say, “I’m out of here”? Because it’s impossible to achieve any meaningful results… and you could get robbed or killed if you venture onto the sidewalk.

Yeah, well, what are California’s governor and San Francisco’s supervisors doing to make the city fit for human beings again?

Hint: Nothing. Oh, wait–they want to pay $5 million apiece in “reparations” to “blacks.” Wow. Who the dickens is going to stay there once he has $5 million in his suitcase? And you could always get shot or stabbed or die of a drug overdose before you can collect.

The city of San Francisco is not safe. And what happens when the whole place becomes uninhabitable? Who picks up the tab for that?

Honk if you really don’t know.

My Newswithviews Column, May 26 (‘Big Shots With Lame Excuses’)

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“The tanks’ll shut ’em up!”

Two days in a row this week, we were treated to totally lame excuses offered up by big shots who got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. In both cases, the whole mess was blamed on someone else.

Big Shots with Lame Excuses

Which is more spectacularly awful? The National School Boards Assn. wanting tanks called in to silence parents (maybe we could have, like, our own Tien An Men Square!), or the State Farm Insurance Co. dispatching “hundreds of agents and employees” to feed transgender propaganda to five-year-olds? I can’t decide!

They’re killing our culture; and as we’ve seen in just the past week, the ruined culture will kill you back.

Birds of a Feather (Barf Alert)

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Churchill: Christie and Cuomo will teach us ... civility?!

(I almost used an expression that rhymes with “birds.”)

As if to purposely drive home the point that our ruling class big shots have much more in common with each other than with their hapless constituents, two of America’s most notable gubernatorial failures had a cordial lunch together the other day: Chris Christie (R-NJ) and Andrew Cuomo (D-NY).

Once upon a time Christie looked like he was shaping into another great political hope for the GOP–until photographers caught him hugging Obama. We then realized he didn’t mean a word he’d ever said to us. And I hardly need to remind you how Cuomo was forced to resign because he’d landed in a mess of sexual harassment scandals–although it does seem he’s gotten away with stuffing COVID patients into nursing homes and causing a few thousand easily avoidable deaths. Oops. I just reminded you anyway, didn’t I?

Our landlord stopped by, and he and I had a good cuss-out of Biden and his crew of amateurs, dopes, and twaddlers. Shootin’ for gas at seven bucks a gallon are we, Joe? Who ever thought it possible for one unbelievably incompetent president to do so much damage in so little time?

The jerks who are running our country need to be replaced. Before they finish us off.

Is Biden Just an Old Caligula?

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First this, a tweet made by SloJo during the 2020 campaign:

“Vladimir Putin doesn’t want me to be President. If you’re wondering why… it’s because I’m the only person in this field who’s ever gone toe-to-toe with him.” (https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1230998887298564096).

What did that instantaneously remind me of?

This!

Here we have the insane Roman emperor, Caligula (John Hurt–greatest role he ever played), returning to Rome after staging a war against Neptune, god of the sea–which of course he claimed to have won, because he, too, is a God (it’s complicated). Then he displays the “loot” he took from Neptune: piles of sea shells. And Caligula chortles: “Loot from old Neptune! He won’t be in a hurry to take me on again!”

How delusional is Biden? Can he actually believe, even in his wildest fantasies, that Putin has any fear of him, or any respect for him? Not after Afghanistan, he doesn’t. No one does. “America? That’s where the top general in their army spends all his time worrying about white privilege and Climate Change–nothing to fear from them!”

When ya gonna give Iran nuclear weapons, Joe?

The Lord has a reason for giving us leaders like this. We had better find out what it is.

Ancient Rome Had Stupid Experts, Too

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Gaulish warriors

A little after 400 B.C., masses of Gauls invaded northern Italy: their own lands couldn’t support them anymore. So they took land belonging to several cities friendly to Rome, but ruled by Etruscans. The Gauls were ready to wage war for these lands, but not yet committed to war.

Responding to appeals from their allies, the Romans sent three Fabian blue-bloods north to broker a peace deal. Those three peace commissioners urged the Italian cities to fight, raised and led an army against the Gauls, attacked them, and killed their king. That was a violation of international law that even the barbarous Gauls couldn’t tolerate. But instead of declaring war, they demanded that Rome turn the peace commissioners over to them for punishment.

The Roman Senate refused even to listen to the Gauls’ demands for justice. The Gauls snatched up their weapons and marched on Rome. Experts in the Roman army decided to ignore it. Then, when the huge Gaulish host actually came within sight of the city, the experts shifted to Plan B–panic.

The Gauls captured the undefended city–no one was left but a small garrison on the Capitoline Hill–and burned it into rubble. Eventually the Romans recaptured their city and had to rebuild it. Rome was a long time recovering from this.

How many easily avoidable errors of judgment led to this catastrophe? The best and the brightest of Rome made them all.

Stupidity, injustice, and arrogance–our own country should take warning from this.

‘Build Back Better,’ Eh?

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Beautiful background with ancient ruins and Sunny summer day. The old ruined walls of the ancient city . ⬇ Stock Photo, Image by © mcherevan #153134038

Somehow that “Great Reset” slogan rubbed people the wrong way, so the self-anointed elites don’t say it anymore. Their new buzzword is “Build back better!” Like King COVID has given them the chance to scrap all that messy freedom stuff and create a statist utopia… with no more germs in it.

And I got to wondering, “Where have I heard this before?”

In the Bible, Isaiah Chapter 9. God has just warned the tribe of Ephraim and the city of Samaria that He is highly displeased with them and is going to make them feel it. But do they listen?

Verse 10: Ephraim and Samaria, “who say with pride and arrogance of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

You gonna punish us, God? Huh? Well, go ahead–and we’ll just build back better!

This is generally the kind of thing that precedes total ruin. This is the pride that goeth before a fall.

Too many of our leaders have no fear of God.

That’s how we wind up being governed by fools.

We Told You So: Dems Are Anti-God

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Flashback: What Nadler said about impeaching a president in 1998

Governed by… him? God help us.

[Thanks to Erlene for the nooze tip.]

Here’s one from a few days ago that our Free & Independent Nooze Media Inc. didn’t shout from the housetops.

Debating “transgender protections” in the so-called Equality Act, Democrat reps piled on Rep. George Stuebe, Florida Republican, for telling the truth about “transgender”–that is, it’s a sham and a delusion–and saying it’s a business clearly condemned in the Bible (https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20210301/nadler-god). That got their knickers in a twist.

But the quote of the day belonged to New York Democrat Jerry Nadler, who said, and we quote:

“What any religious tradition describes as God’s will is no concern of this Congress.”

Because it’s a Democrat-controlled Congress. That’s all you need to know.

Is any purpose to be served by pointing out that the very existence of the United States, as we have known it, is founded on the word of God? Our morals, our traditions, and our laws? Does Nadler believe America would’ve been just the same as it is now if the members of the Constitutional Convention had all been Muslims, Hindus, or pagans?

We have nothing left but our prayers, including this one: Oh, Lord! Remember that these things are done without our consent, against our will, and over our objections. In Jesus’ name, Amen!

A Promise: I Will Not Kneel

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Now the new thing is for white people to kneel to black people  (“protesters”) and beg forgiveness for being white (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3851864/posts).

Count me out. I won’t do it. That’s a hill to die on.

Other crowds of submissive white people have gathered together to wag their hands in the air and swear lugubriously that they’ll be good from now on, honest, they’ll educate themselves about Systemic Racism blah-blah-blah.

This is positively shameful.

Oh! And you can’t say “All lives matter.” Apparently only Black lives matter. To believe anything else makes you a racist.

Again, count me out.

I have to hand it to Far Left Crazy–they’ve really outdone themselves this time. They’ve got all the normal people heading for the hills. From now on, I guess, whoever can stir up the biggest riot gets to run the country. What a treat that’ll be, to live in!

Decent people need to stand up against this and smash it, break it, utterly defeat it.

Either we win this war with the Left, or America dies.