Monthly Archives: December 2021

Déjà Vu

30 Thursday Dec 2021

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            Adolph Hitler inspired, led, and directed the activities of the Brown Shirts. They did marches, and intimidated people in local, state and federal governments. They were the original anti-Jewish arm of Hitler’s Big Lie that the Jews had caused Germany’s capitulation ending World War I and other lies. Later when he gained power, Hitler had the Black Shirts kill all the Brown Shirt leadership in an effort to clean up his image.

            Think the Proud Boys and their brown and yellow uniforms are following the Brown Shirts? They thought they were acting on behalf of Trump in their activities. When Trump was asked about the militias he said “Stand back and stand by.” He talked them into the insurrection. When Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boy’s Leader, was arrested before January 6 and those arrested afterwards because of their insurrection, Trump didn’t do anything. Trump’s Black Shirts are dressed in “Civies” quietly going to Republican groups and some radical groups to incite them to do anti-democratic, not party, efforts to restrict or overthrow voting results they don’t agree with. That was Brown and Black Shirt work under Hitler.

            Millions believed Hitler’s Big Lies – A Nazi invention – even after 1945. Some people are easily duped and aren’t easily able to see they were lied to and duped. Today’s militias are following the same path. The FBI needs to shut them down while they number in a few thousand before they become millions of sucker’s, becoming Oath Keepers, Three percenters, or some other radical militias.

Natural Immunity

30 Thursday Dec 2021

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            Some Republican states and misguided people in other states believe natural immunity instead of vaccines and masks are the answer to ending the virus. For most diseases getting it once and surviving means the victim is protected from getting it again. Covid 19 is not one of those diseases.

            Half of my nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren are not vaccinated. Some have had it and have since been vaccinated having learned their lesson. One great grand daughter and husband figured they were protected so they didn’t get shots. Their first episode was like a bad flu. Their second was a very bad flu with long haul symptoms. They still haven’t gotten the shots because of some lies they read on the internet. All of those who are not vaccinated believe those lies and have chosen to not get their shots risking another more serious infection and serious long haul complications.

            Republican governors who tell their people to depend on natural immunity instead of mandating shots should remember – dead believers can’t vote for you. Using your people to do another Big Lie means you don’t care about them.

Don’t Need Bullets

29 Wednesday Dec 2021

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            Wrestling, Astrologers, Fortune Tellers, the Big Lie, Covid stories and lies, internet sites and Fox News stories are all complete fiction designed to suck gullible people into a silo or a state of compliance to that particular line of thinking.

            Americans are not the only suckers who fall for these stories and lies. Social media makes billions from allowing lies to dominate their sites. The bigger the lie the more gullible people buy into lies and deceit to shape their opinions. This is one reason people have fallen into silos and an anarchist mentality.

            Who is responsible for much of this problem? Some is home grown anarchists but we now know that Putin and Xi have told their cyber groups to create social division in the United States and other democracies. They have lit the fuse to destroy democracy and replace it with authoritarian governments like theirs.

            How to combat gullibility is with facts but in America’s situation facts are dismissed in the deluge of anti-science and anti-government hysteria. Putin and Xi don’t allow freedom of press in their countries and any anti-government posts are immediately removed and the person posting it arrested. In some countries, they might never be heard of again. Democracies have free press so we are fertile ground for Putin and Xi to destroy us without using Khrushchev’s bullet.

Plan B for Taiwan

29 Wednesday Dec 2021

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            There’s an old saying that countries plan for future wars based on past wars. History is full of examples of obsolete thinking. The Maginot line was designed to keep the German Army out of France in 1939. They went around it! Our Rainbow Plan in 1941 was for our battleships to steam out of Pearl Harbor to keep the Japanese out of the Philippines. They all lay on the Harbor bottom December 8th.

            Because the aircraft carrier proved to be the real weapons of destruction in World War II, Korea and Viet Name plus smaller conflicts, we will put carriers in the way of the Chinese attacking Taiwan. A carrier battle group is composed of several ships designed to protect the carrier. The outer ring is to protect against submarines. The inner ring defends against simple missiles and aircraft. The carrier itself has some anti-missile and aircraft defenses plus its planes.

            In today’s Chinese armaments exists missiles which can hit a carrier within a few yards of the aiming point at a speed no defense weapon can stop. They have thousands of aircraft of which many are stealthy as are their missiles. A battle group has thousands of sailors on board who could be swimming, if they are lucky, in a few minutes.

            Unless they are to be a sacrificial tripwire, they have no business near Taiwan. Our planners need a Plan B to protect Taiwan.

Individual Rights in the Eye

18 Saturday Dec 2021

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            Is ‘individual rights’ in the eye of the beholder when it is a senator making the decision? During the December 5 Meet the Press show, the host Chuck Todd asked the question of Indiana Republican Senator Mike Braun who says, “The abortion issue should be decided by the states and not the federal government.”

            When Chuck Todd asked him about Federal mandates on getting a Covid 19 shot, Senator Braun said it is up to the individual to make that decision; not Biden. Chuck Todd then asked, “Since the majority wants abortions to be available, why should the state make that decision for the woman?” Sensing the conflict in his stance, Senator Braun replied, “The two don’t compare.”

            Senator Braun’s conflict is he wants to be the one to decide when people of Indiana can have an individual right on any issue.

Big Lie Works If

18 Saturday Dec 2021

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            I can’t understand why the Trump sycophants are continuing to do audits of the Presidential vote in states that flipped from 2016? When someone is running a con they don’t want the con to be exposed as a complete fraud by their own activities. After the disaster of the Arizona audit by people they claimed are experts, they can’t now say Trump won in Arizona. They can no longer claim a long dead Venezuelan Dictator or an Italian Drone or the voting machine company changed the votes from Trump to Biden.

            The sycophants now want to have the same experts audit votes in Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. All have already gone through multiple audits by real bi-partisan groups. When a psychopath participates in such an obvious “Big Lie” they must have some belief it has some truth in it.

            When all the partisan audits find Trump lost what will happen to them. Hitler’s sycophants professed to believe his “Big Lies” long after he died. Can Trump’s sycophants and true believer followers ever see they were conned?

            What will happen with the tens of millions who finally see Trump and their political leaders have been conning them so they can stay in office. Will they turn off completely, turn against the Republicans who have been conning them, switch parties, or become so disillusioned they really do become anti-government?

Fight or Walk

18 Saturday Dec 2021

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            This week we have learned of two more threats to the world. Russia and China are preparing to invade other lands. The rest of the world has two choices. Either let them go after promising protection or go to a conventional war. It means the world would have hours to make an actual decision to show them if the rest of the world will fight.

            Putin has been trying to reconstitute the U.S.S.R. since his first term as President of Russia. He has used covert political methods to put his minions in power in some of the old Republics. The Russian supported Administration in the Ukraine was kicked out so Putin created a rebel group to take it back but were held to a portion. He moved Russian Marines into the Crimea to annex it and its people. Now he has massed thousands of his troops on the rebel-held portion of the Ukraine border. NATO believes he will create some excuse to try to take the rest of Ukraine.

            XI  has been saying Taiwan is part of China and he will get it back. He has been pouring money into his military. He is rapidly building up his nuclear weapons, Navy and Air Force. His jets have invaded Taiwan’s airspace hundreds of times this year. The U.S. and many other countries have promised to defend Taiwan while we have sold them billions of dollars of high tech weapons to defend itself. We may only have hours to make a decision.

            Russia has been sanctioned before without any compliance. Sanctioning China might cause unrest there but it definitely would in its trading partners like America and Europe.

            Do we let them have their way, or do we go to war and hope it stays conventional?

Political System Is Changing

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

Posted by in America, Politics

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            I have voted for Democrats, Republicans, and Green candidates. I voted for Bush I, Perot, Gore, both Clintons, McCain (First Primary), Reagan (2nd time), Obama, Carter, and Biden. Sometimes I vote against someone.

            I like moderates but they are few and far between today. The left wing of the Democratic Party conforms to the periodic liberal phase. The progressive agenda has been growing because the rich have gotten much richer. Some are more radical than others. Some moderates still exist and act as a brake to some radicals.

            The GOP’s philosophy has been quietly racist, big business oriented, and supporter of law and order. Their boost in voters evolved from L.B.J. pushing his racial equality agenda. The Democratic Party lost the south because of it. More support of big business was because of huge contributions. The law and order plank was a plank – in every Presidential campaign. Later they added the Second Amendment as an adjunct because of the money and lobbying.

            The loss of big business support has coincided with Trump’s influence on the people he has conned. An indication of the change away from business is Senator Marco Rubio’s support of the organizing an Amazon Labor union. The Republicans in many states are using the “Big Lie” to pass laws reducing the minority and poor people from voting. They say little about the mass shootings which are against their law and order plank.

            The American Political System is in turmoil.

Wasted Money

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

Posted by in America, Climate Change

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            In the past, single homes and small communities have been moved out of flood prone areas or lost their flood insurance because of repeated claims. A few years ago a levee protecting thousands of acres of Missouri farmland was blown up to save Cairo, Illinois. Cairo has been a dilapidated wreck for several decades. So why do we continue to spend billions year after year on reviving communities and homes that are flooded several times each decade?

            We have spent hundreds of billions to build levees and dikes to try to reduce flooding from our creeks and rivers. Those with the lowest levees gets flooded. Much of New Orleans is below sea level and the Mississippi River. We spend billions to raise and rebuild levees, install new pumps, and rebuild barrier vegetation. New Orleans just missed the worst of Ida and still was damaged and powerless. The area to the west was destroyed and flooded. We will spend billions again for Ida and hurricane season isn’t even half over.

            Hurricanes are getting stronger because the Gulf is getting warmer. We are getting more hurricanes because the Atlantic is warmer. If they don’t come into the Gulf they sweep up the East Coast flooding the states well inland.

            We know it is only going to get worse and lot more expensive. Isn’t it time to say move out of those areas that are going to flood? We will pay for the move because it will be cheaper than rebuilding every year or so. Some of Louisiana rebuilds every year. Isn’t it time to quit wasting money?

Fads Pass – Hopefully

08 Wednesday Dec 2021

Posted by in America

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            Unfinanced fads pass. My memory goes back to Southern Illinois people building root cellars as a nuclear bomb shelter. I was in college during most of the flower child long hair, long beards and ragged clothes. Hula hoops and pet rocks have come and gone. None of thee and many others lasting a few years were supported and financed by any belligerent group or company. Not so over the past few years.

            Today we still have a few fads that will hopefully disappear like shaved heads and long beards. These are from TV shows, social media, and sports figures. The disrespect for authorities and government is caused by a few anarchist billionaires who have wanted to undo our Federal Government. Interestingly they made Trump’s following to get him elected but they did not support him because of his personality. Trump has further opened a rift in America to make anarchy possible. Not since Viet Nam has America been so deeply divided.

            The rift is feeding on itself by the propaganda promoted by the NRA and gun lobbyists. The more fear they can create; the more guns will be sold. For the NRA it means more money for their leadership’s pockets and to buy politicians and influence gullible constituents.

            The Viet Nam rift closed after the war ended and reopened when the Republican Newt Gingrich reopened it to get his party back in control. It closed some after 9-11 but the anarchists have succeeded into tearing it open again hence the “Big Lie”, millions of guns sold, and disbelief in science. One party continues to try to divide us. Hopefully their efforts are a fad.