An identification/assertion/statement/claim/premise that does not align with reality is invalid/false/dead-ass wrong.
“They” Is Wrong
REMEMBER:
Every time you use “they,” “them,” “their” when you talk about a SINGLE PERSON—and especially if you know the sex of that person—rather than the appropriate singular pronoun, you…
…are demonstrating that the trans etc. cult (and its allies) is insidiously winning by adopting its sick terminology, its warped grammar, its distorted mental framework and so-called “thought” processes, and subconsciously integrating this irrational, anti-reality mindset into your own life.
STOP IT!
Anything that masks reality, that tries to hide the truth, that attempts to weaken one’s grasp of objective reality is not only self-destructive but a threat to our very society.
There is nothing “polite” about reinforcing people’s delusions.
There is nothing “admirable” about abandoning your mind at the behest of mentally ill individuals.
There is nothing “acceptable” about dark habits designed to sever your connection to reality.
Small retreats from the truth establish a pattern, a furrow of self-betrayal that makes the next descent into irrationality all the easier, all the more likely to occur.
Don’t throw sand into the gears of your own mind.
DON’T COMPLY!
“It’s Not My Fault”
“It’s not my fault I’m fat/sick. It’s the fault of food/additives.”
“It’s not my fault I nearly died from recreational drugs. It’s the fault of the drug dealers who sell to me.”
“It’s not my fault I’m functionally illiterate. It’s the fault of people who oppose more money for government-run schools.”
“It’s not my fault I got Covid after getting the shot and wearing masks. It’s the fault of people who didn’t get the shot or wear masks.”
“It’s not my fault I’m afraid of the future. It’s the fault of people who reject climate change/global warming.”
“It’s not my fault I murdered that extremist. It’s his fault for saying things I disagree with and hate…”
And so it goes…
Valuing the Real Over the Unreal
When you accept and integrate into the core of your life a set of beliefs that are profoundly irrational—and especially if you do so while loudly and forcefully proclaiming your commitment and loyalty to facts, reason, and reality—don’t be surprised if other people who are just as dedicated to a different set of equally irrational ideas reject your blatant hypocrisy and attack you verbally or even physically and use your actions to “justify” their own depredations.
You contributed to a world that values the unreal over the real and, in doing so, provided a framework for your enemies to promulgate their insanity when you helped establish a society receptive and welcoming to the most ludicrous notions imaginable.
A bad example to offer, setting the stage for your own downfall.
Hoisted on your own petard is not a goal to covet.
Unbreached reason is the only effective defense we have against those dedicated and nihilistic mystics, statists, and collectivists arrayed against us.
Don’t destroy the only weapon you possess to preserve your existence.
The Biggest Graduating Class in the World
Energy Logic
So here are the alternatives:
Create power sources that are physically compact, reliable, relatively affordable, and viable for any foreseeable future needs.
OR:
Push new power sources that cancerously spread like a blight across the landscape, kill birds and whales, are unreliable, increasingly expensive, infiltrate society primarily only because of the force of the State, add unnecessary complications to the power grid, and fail miserably without the existence of the “old” power sources even while trying to have the State abolish those very same power sources.
How in the ever-lovin’ hell could ANYONE advocate for #2 over #1?
Why, such people would have to be utterly brain-dead morons and imbeciles and…
Oh. Oh. Sure…
We need energy sources that we can use now, not in some misty future—sources that do not destroy the environment, that won’t bankrupt us, that are reliable, that do not rely on disguising their true nature, that supply the vast majority of day-to-day energy, and that are available in sufficient quantities for centuries.
We don’t live on Larry Niven’s Ringworld or inside a Dyson Sphere.
Our civilization relies on oil, gas, and natural gas to survive. Eliminate those any time soon, and you condemn untold billions of people to a pointless and needless death.
Dreaming is fine. But we also need to act in accordance with reality and its demands.
One-Way Offense
Funny how the Police State™ cheerleaders and Enforcers™ are only ever concerned with the “hurt” feelings or “offended” sensibilities of a select few favored scumbag groups.
When the petulant bullies slithering through our society whine and screech, well, by golly, the guns come out to silence and punish the “miscreants” who dare exercise their fundamental right to speak about THEIR feelings and/or the Truth™.
Well. Sheee-ittt.
I’M offended when evil morons and hateful imbeciles dare to use the Police State™ to attack peaceful folks who believe in liberty.
I am angry, sad, disgusted, distraught, and dejected by the unbridled hypocrisy and one-way “justice” of worshipping the stunted emotional vomiting of second-class so-called human beings while utterly ignoring and evading the feelings of the decent citizens of the world.
Why aren’t the Enforcers™ rushing to assuage MY upset?
Well. If you don’t know the answer to THAT question, you are a hopeless statist and collectivist…
The War on People and Freedom
The unconstitutional “War on Drugs” violates our rights on every level as it ratchets up the power of the State to control us.
The Jab
I am adamantly opposed to mRNA shots.
But the government has zero delegated authority or enumerated power to ban ANY product (that is honestly labeled. Fraud is a violation of rights.) or even to ban its advertising on TV or elsewhere.
If politicians were truly interested in the welfare of citizens rather than their own sorry-ass careers as thieves, charlatans, and villains, then they should, for dealing with a loss of trust in our institutions:
Tell the truth
Admit they lied
Prosecute all (ir)responsible parties for fraud or manslaughter or some similar offense(s)
Sue all involved and bankrupt them.
Abolish HHS; the government has zero right to intrude in health concerns: no subsidies, no mandates, no approvals or rejections, nothing.
Sadly, all that most people want is to be the ones in control.
They don’t give a shit about freedom or rights.
What way too many people on the Right advocate is no different in principle than what the Left did and does: unconstitutionally prohibiting (or demanding) X simply because they dislike (or prefer) X.
For example, banning pharmaceutical ads on TV is a clear violation of property rights and the First Amendment.
Sure. Ban government collusion and subsidies and kickbacks involving “Big Pharma.” This is merely an extension of the principle that there should be a complete separation of the State and economics.
But supporting rights-violations by interfering in the private market is statism at its core.
It is disgusting and pathetic.
And to begin with, proponents of actions like this from a federal agency THAT SHOULD NOT EVEN EXIST (HHS, CDC, etc.) in the first place is moral evasion on a fundamental level.
Covid Criminals
The fake pandemic led to the rise of hoards of people guilty of crimes against humanity:
Anyone and everyone who forced Covid restrictions on unwilling people;
Anyone and everyone who lied about Covid;
Anyone and everyone who censored critics;
Anyone and everyone who fired, arrested, harassed, or murdered those who resisted the State over Covid because such actions violated rights;
Anyone and everyone who is still doing any of the above.
Death penalty for the worst offenders.
Hard prison time for the rest.
Sue them into the ground.
I hate these “people.”
Tyrants, all.
Fascism in America
We have been rushing recklessly down the fascist freeway for a long time now.
The State can and often does determine:
What people can sell
How much they can charge
Who they can sell it to
Who can engage in what business or profession
The State imposes a labyrinth of regulations, requirements, prohibitions, and permissions to engage in economic behavior
It directly “partners” with businesses, even to the point of using stolen taxpayer money to purchase part of a company
It performs social engineering via taxes
It usurps roles that should be left to private organizations and concerns
The State is an ignorant bully forcing its will on hapless citizens while pretending its depredations are being jammed down the throats of its citizens for “our own good”
We live in a—literally—fascist country
Tariff Toadies
The economic and epistemological illiterates are bragging about “all the money” that rights-violating tariffs are “bringing in” and how “successful” they are, with no downside to the economy.
While threatening tariffs may be an effective (though rather scummy) way of negotiating, failure to examine a wider context destroys any “argument” for tariffs.
These statist cheerleaders for tariffs need to read—and understand—Bastiat and Hazlitt.
These yahoos evade the reality of how much money citizens have lost to higher prices due to tariffs, the cost of which are eventually passed on to consumers. Focusing solely on benefits and ignoring costs is irrational and grossly misleading.
Reducing regulations and red tape will tend to increase productivity and decrease prices for goods and services. This can offset and mask the detrimental effects of tariffs. Prices would likely go even lower if tariffs didn’t exist.
Arbitrary and ever-changing tariff amounts wreak havoc with business planning and the stock market.
Tariffs are immoral, statist, and violate freedom of association and contract. Believe it or not, morality and rights matter.
Congress unconstitutionally ceded its authority to regulate tariffs to the executive branch.
Tariffs are bullshit, substituting the judgment of the State for that of millions of individuals.
Long-term, tariffs will shrink the economy and our wealth from where they would be without tariffs.
Trillions in unconstitutional, increased spending and debt dwarf any monies tariffs add to the treasury.
Big Daddy
Funny how so many politicians who yap on about “empowering” parents are the first in line to push laws and policies that give Big Daddy Government the power to decide for everyone whether or not and how their children will be “allowed” online or able to play certain games.
Yeah. Nothing says freedom and parental responsibility like the State usurping parental authority with “protect the children” as the excuse.
Funny…
To Protect Our Rights
Ninety+% of political “problems” are the result of citizens and government officials evading the reality that there is one and only one proper purpose of government: to protect our rights.
The purpose of government is not to protect people from themselves or any and all
For any given political action X, all one needs to ask is: does X protect the rights of citizens?
If the answer is “no,” then X is none of the State’s business. It doesn’t matter how “nice” or “good intentioned” X sounds: if it violates this principle:
Don’t. Do. It.
“Interstellar” Stupidity
After, lo, these many years, I finally watched “Interstellar.”
Um…
The first half was fairly interesting and seemed to have potential.
But…
Oh-my-dear-fucking-god…
That second half…
The premise about people “suffocating” because some blight is destroying all the earth’s oxygen and will kill all humans. Seriously…? Stupid and contrived.
Even if we “suspend disbelief” on that one, the rest makes no sense. Humanity couldn’t build the equivalent of moon bases on earth? They couldn’t manufacture oxygen from water on a world that is 70% covered in H2O? They couldn’t find a way to counter the blight?
The aliens-are-us cliche? Yeesh. Hand-waving gobbledygook. You’re only allowed one suspension of disbelief per work.
“They” can place a wormhole in our solar system but can’t directly contact and help humanity?
A wormhole that doesn’t take people to other solar systems in the Milky Way but to an entirely DIFFERENT GALAXY? WTF?
Murph is a moron who holds onto daddy issues for 30 or whatever years.
“Love is the answer”? Puke.
NO ONE else was smart enough to tell that the main scientist was lying?!? Jeez… Maybe they all deserved to die…
Enough with all the fucking blubbering! Can you imagine early astronauts crying like babies. Chuck Yeager? Getouttahere!
Ditto yammering on about “survival instincts” and acting like a moron.
I seriously doubt one space helmet shield could break another by hitting it a few times… 🤨
Traveling intact through a blackhole? 5-dimensional beings? Communicating with people in the past? Miraculously transported to our solar system and, gosh, discovered and saved just in the nick o’ time! Wow…
Trying to be “profound” but achieving shallow stupidity instead.
I saw “2001” when it premiered and have watched it countless times since. It still provokes a sense of wonder.
The only “wonder” I felt after finishing “Interstellar” is how anyone could praise this muddled mess of a movie.
Sheesh.
Appeasers and Traitors
I have enormous disdain for statists and collectivists.
But I probably have even deeper levels of disgust for appeasers: those who seek the approval of those out to destroy freedom, rights, the good.
These Quislings to decency possess such pathetic self-esteem that they fear to anger their enemies lest they lose the kudos they clutch to their breasts like some unraveling lifeline.
These nebbishes are more nervous about the opinion of worthless strangers than they are about the concerns of allies.
At least overt authoritarians are consistent in their enmity and don’t give a shit what liberty lovers like me feel.
Know your enemy.
And traitorous appeasers are, in a plethora of ways, greater dangers to what I believe than those coming directly for my throat.
Breakfast of Champions
I don’t give a shit what other people do or do not do for breakfast or for much of anything else that doesn’t intrude on my life.
Eat what you want. Or don’t. I don’t care. I just don’t want to hear about it. Keep your advice to yourself.
Food evangelists are as annoying as religious ones.
Everyone is unique. What works for one person won’t necessarily work for someone else. Unless someone asks for your opinion in areas of life that are a matter of taste, shut the fuck up.
This kind of nonsense reveals the same kind of mindset as collectivists and statists who can’t bear the thought of someone, somewhere doing something of which they disapprove.
But I guess laissez faire is mostly just a parrot phrase that few people actually believe or practice.
I’m sick of busybodies regardless of their flavor of the month.
Go. Away.
Just think for yourself.
Always good advice.
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk was utterly wrong about religion.
He was utterly wrong about abortion.
He never even recognized—let alone acknowledged—the contradictions in what he believed.
He focused his “debates” on ignorant young people who couldn’t think their way out of a wet paper bag rather than those who could actually shred his false assumptions, logical fallacies, and obvious hypocrisy.
He said any number of good things that were ultimately undermined by his mysticism.
I didn’t particularly like him.
His murder was a heinous act of cowardice and irrationality.
He didn’t deserve what was done to him.
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