Wednesday waffles - thoughts on the corruption of politics, IQ points, censorship and telephone calls
What could be more destructive to a functioning democracy than spending the tax dollars from everyone in the political spectrum to eliminate a political rival?
We can ask socialists for a full list, but let’s hit a few of the ways.
It is my belief that “all taxation is theft” rather than the socialist/communist dogma that “all property is theft”. The bigger the “state” the bigger the theft, the greater the surveillance and the harsher the enforcement – all the way to the jackboot.
Politics has moved a long way from the accountability and transparency that is the hallmark of a healthy democracy.
Canada is a failed natin state run by Nazi sympathizers. The political establishment in Germany is frantically trying to choke off the rise of the AfD party to prevent it competing in open elections. Macron of France has no compunction in inflicting poverty on the French and Trump has been tied up in court with abhorrent lawfare tactics that have cost him and the taxpayers from all sides of the political spectrum tens of millions of dollars. The waste of taxpayers’ dollars on mischievous, arbitrary, capricious and spiteful cases against Trump – to further Democratic Party-political goals - extends to fund raising for the political campaigns of the prosecutors. Alvin Brag has raised 800,000 bucks on the back of his case against Trump and Letitia James half a million. How much crime could have bee prosecuted if these bigoted half wits had pursued real violent crimes instead of political interests?
Check out this little nugget from North Carolina. A 35-year-old mother of three successfully primaried the sitting Republican candidate for Superintend of Schools. A fair fight ad she won.
Michele Morrow, Republican candidate for superintendent - EducationNC (ednc.org)
Good for her, you might think. But not good for the Democratic Party who despise Christian family values such as morals and decency and prefer no family, shared bathrooms, transgender and racist, bigoted, Marxist and BLM ideology.
So, what do the Democrats do?
Democrats run anti-Morrow bill in NC Senate (carolinajournal.com)
"While these two bills are unlikely to become law, Democrats should take a step back and reflect on the message they are sending with these two pieces of legislation.” - Jim Stirling, research fellow, Civitas Center for Public Integrity.”
“Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, is running Senate Bill 867, Superintendent of Public Instruction Minimum Requirements. The measure mandates that the state superintendent “must have at least one year of experience as a teacher or school administrator in this State or a member of a local board of education or the State Board of Education.” The legislation notably leaves out homeschool educators.”
One wonders how many Democrats in any position would have to step down with that kind of criteria or would be prevented from even standing! One could speculate on the reaction if Republicans employed the same tactics to enforce home schooling!
Still, you see the tactical antics. Morrow is principled, popular and has life experience that the Democrats find abhorrent. Let’s hope it does not pass.
This is what is so incredibly crass within politics, especially the Democratic Party that wants a one-party state. There is an opportunity cost to consider when pursuing a strategy.
The Democrats rigged an election, Americans have been saddled with 30% inflation in four years and 30% higher taxes for 2025 than 2019.
Democrats slavishly followed Chinese C19 measures adopted by China, cost the economy 5 trillion bucks that could have been spent on infrastructure, alleviating poverty, creating innovation hubs.
Democrats are ardent believes in the Cult of Climate Change, spending more trillions on 70 storey tall wind turbines and plantations of solar panels that results in energy prices that are five times the price of hydrocarbon energy and failed to develop even cheaper nuclear energy.
Democrats opened the borders to10 million immigrants fleeing crimes committed in their home countries and/or seeking “free shit” in the US. Even larger migrant flows have been experienced in the EU since Merkel’s 2015 debacle. Aside from the direct and indirect costs (50,000 bucks each per criminal immigrant) there is the opportunity cost of these criminal immigrants taking over schools, airports, crowding hospitals, transport systems, schools and so on and so forth.
Remember the surge in government spending on C19 measures in 2020, 2021 and 2022? Do you think that the spending should have ceased when the pandemic was over in late 2022 and officially in May 2023? Federal spending has not only been maintained, but it has increased under the resident sock puppet’s plans for 2025. Trump tax cuts will expire, and corporation tax rates will be raised to higher levels than the majority of US competitors around the world.
Socialist Democrats think that spending on any pet project has no opportunity cost. Money grows on trees and someone working exists to pay taxes to the state with any shortfall on funding of their pet project must be met with government debt. Interest rates are not a concern, nor are inflationary consequences.
Let’s remind ourselves of the descent into ruin of California. Leave aside the bid for 5 million bucks in reparations if you are black and the clean-up of the tent city ahead of the visit of Premier Xi of China (where did all those tent people go?0 – we can remind ourselves of stories like this one from 2020.
“On average, the city’s 44,526 employees received pay and perks costing taxpayers $131,335 apiece. Four out of ten – 18,749 city workers – received a compensation package exceeding $150,000 per year.”
On average, the city’s 44,526 employees received pay and perks costing taxpayers $131,335 apiece. Four out of ten – 18,749 city workers – received a compensation package exceeding $150,000 per year.
All funded by debt and taxes. San Francisco only has a population of 875,000!!!
This situation occurs in every city. How much better off could people be if this millstone was not draining their city taxes? There are direct costs as well, such as the State of California upping the minimum wage in fast food outlets to 20 bucks an hour – 40,000 bucks a year. The result? Outlets will shut down or automate - causing mass layoffs. Soros backed attorneys refuse to prosecute, prisoners are released from jail early with the result that increased poverty from lower net of taxes take home pay, higher inflation results in more crime and higher insurance costs. Only a Democrat does not see this.
Let’s move on with the question: “Do those who win elections think that their IQ automatically increases 30 points, making them intellectually superior with the right to dominate and decide on all matters?”
Consider the vast complexities of federal, state, city and local issues. A politician might campaign on one or two key issues like immigration and the economy. That leaves another 25 key issues on which they did not campaign ad which they know little to nothing about. And that is before elected representatives have to vote 5,000-page omnibus bills that you have to vote on before you know what’s in it.
Politicians are transient – they “form” a temporary government until they are voted out of office.
The UK is about to plunge into an abyss of failure. The ruling Conservative Party will suffer the largest loss of any incumbent political party in British history. The failed Conservative Members of Parliament will be replaced with Labour Party MPs with zero expertise or experience in running a country. There are structural impediments facing the UK, all “woke” and all needing to be reversed. These structural impediments plague all “western” democracies. “Climate Change”, Open Borders, Education, illegal drugs, and Healthcare.
As an example of the lunatic left’s socialist policies that will be inflicted, I expect that energy will be rationed by age cohort with automatic daily blackouts if the quota of natural gas, electricity or petrol is exceeded (automatic engine shut down devices to be compulsory in all vehicles). There will be a new, ever growing and massive government department to enforce compliance and a special “put that light out” enforcement and prosecution system.
Taxation and (misdirected) spending are both two to three times higher than they should be.
The UK Conservative Party moved towards socialism; the Labour Party is even more extreme – but with even more incompetence! One size fits all – one party state. Do as you’re told, the nanny state knows best.
It will not take laws to pass, that have to be discussed in Parliament and tested in the courts. They will b “regulations” that carry the same punishments for non-compliance.
There will be the inevitable increases in taxes, debt, inflation and unemployment, further contributing to the ongoing descent into state failure and bankruptcy of the UK.
How will this socialism be enforced, or indeed how is this being enforced? We know the surveillance methods that the WHO is trying to impose for “health reasons”. These surveillance methods are already in place in the UK. From street and highway cameras to drones to helicopters.
Plus, internet surveillance.
Of course, telephone calls are also recorded and can be called up via the relevant algorithm. Anyone that becomes “a person of interest” can have all their electronic communications pulled up at the drop of a hat.
The Nazi Party in Canada has gone even further. Backdating hate speech laws, rewarding informants (including family members) and potentially locking up enemies of the Canadian Nazi Party for life. (c63).
So that’s the emerging punishment laws around the world. Ireland is attempting the same, the French/EU have already passed similar laws, so have the Brits, Australians and Brazilians plus a few others. Of note, Rumble has been banned from France and Brazil.
We are aware of the “data scraping” and its feeding into censorship algorithms with automatic “adjustments” to availability, shadow banning and outright banning on social media platforms.
The same is going on for telephone calls. Voice recognition technology and data storage means that the “security services” in the 5-I’s countries (US, UK, Canada, Oz and NZ) each have access to all of ach others telephone calls on landline or cell phones.
It used to be that the NSA was the only agency that could track international calls and the CIA was only permitted to operate outside the US. Not anymore.
In the same way that anything posted on the internet is “fair game” for surveillance, the same is true for every phone call.
I am sure there are algorithms in place that can identify potential and actual “criminal” speech over the phone. Certainly all phone calls can be downloaded at the touch of a button.
Canada has gone e step further in pushing for sponsored informants. How long will it be before there are compulsory “state” listening devices in every home? Oh wait, we already have those n Apple, Microsoft and Google devices – and all modern TV sets.
Onwards!!!
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