I was going to talk to the breakdown of logic as a second part to Monday’s rant. But then I was listening to the news about the virus situation and from the news I couldn’t get a straight answer as to whether or not I should actually be wearing a mask. I also couldn’t get a straight answer as to what the real situation with the virus was.
I don’t understand this. I don’t understand why one station has one version of the “news” while another station has a different version of the same “news.” I most certainly don’t understand why information regarding my health and well-being and also my livelihood is convoluted and not transparently presented.
But I’m older and old-school, and I suppose in this woke world I’m supposed to disregard everything I’ve ever learned and change all my beliefs because some people “feel” a certain way and one part of my government allows those people to dictate how things go according to their feelings on any given day because that part of the government, you know which one it is, hates the duly-elected president more than it loves the country it is sworn to represent.
And this is the real sickness in America.
What frightens me most is not Covid. It is the idiocy of the Despicable Democrats. What frightens me most is that their hatred and thirst for power guide them when the well-being of the American people should be their beacon of light. What frightens me most is that their lapdogs, the mainstream media, Pravda USA, are in cahoots with them in selling us snake oil like the hucksters of old used to do.
Greed, thirst for power, hubris and hatred: these constitute the real sickness in America and no vaccine will cure it.
By Peter Weiss
America is one of the most multicultural countries in the world and certainly one of the most diverse. It is also one that is devoted to allowing and encouraging all its peoples to be “all they can be.” Yes, from all over the world people try to come here to live the American Dream.
It is precisely America’s diversity, its multiculturalism and its attempts (at the very least) to respect all cultures and diversity that make America difficult. Few other countries have allowed their different voices to be heard, represented and protected as America has.
Not too long ago I ran a series of blog entries here dealing with the many different viewpoints in America. The blog picture was of two different pairs of shoes and the series asked which shoes you wear, examining how viewpoints were shaped not only by culture, religion or race but also by socio-economic level, education level, age, life experiences and more.
Put all of this together in a pseudo-free society and yes, America truly is hard.
Nevertheless, despite how diverse America is, despite all the factions within it and the subcategories within the factions too, no matter how difficult it is as a country and a society America must have a sense of decorum and a sense of law and order about her.
I’m no youngster. I’ve been around a while. I taught for more than thirty years and worked in kitchens for about twenty-five years. I say this only for a sense of context.
Sometime toward the end of the last century/turn of this century we started the beginnings of disregarding simple rules of argumentation and logic. It’s actually much more complicated than that but in a positive light I’d like to say that what took place was well-intentioned and what we’re experiencing now is unintended consequences. I’m not so sure that this is altogether true, but…
So in the interests of brevity and simplicity, you know, for the no-think, mob-mentality, all-in-regardless-of-any-consequences lefties, I’ll talk to only the first part of the “breakdown” now.
Simple, first part, feelings aren’t facts. If someone walks up next to you, maybe a little closer then you like but not really in your space, and is just there but not doing anything and you “feel” threatened even though you’re not being threatened in any way, your feeling threatened does not constitute a threat. The fact is you haven’t been threatened even if you feel that way.
If everyone who felt poor at any given time didn’t have to pay taxes because feeling poor was “a fact,” no one would ever pay taxes.
America’s societal breakdown begins when feelings are equated with facts. (I feel hurt by this statue, so rip it down.)
America is a difficult country. That’s an opinion, not a fact.
By Peter Weiss
So a few things.
First, little of any of the anarchy going on amidst the pandemic is Trump’s fault. He’s only been in Washington and in politics three years. Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Nadler, Maxine Waters: they have been there many, many decades. If you add their years in Washington together, close to if not more than two centuries. The pandemic is not Trump’s fault. All those long-timers can criticize – that’s easy to do. But given what is, they would have done much worse with their policies, surely not better.
Second, given that Trump’s only been around three short years and they’ve been in Washington through the civil rights era and for all the time it’s taken to demonstrate the utter failure of traditionally governed democratic cities like Chicago, the police problem (which is not accurately portrayed by the biased media and not even a police problem per se), the education shortcomings, the racial strife (also not accurately portrayed in depictions) and the financial mismanagement cannot be blamed on Trump. It’s a fallacy to do so, as absurd as Cuomo (another life-long, family-pass-on Democratic politician) not taking responsibility for the nursing home deaths he personally caused with his order. Trump didn’t write his order!
Yup! Blame it all on Trump. Tear down all we’ve built. Destruction is easy.
Finally, the media, now a 24/7 full-time conglomerate owned and operated by a few multi-billionaires (that make Trump look like a pauper comparatively) who have personal business interests contrary to America’s foreign relations policies (they’re in bed with China, the country doing its best to destroy us) have a personal interest in not presenting truth and/or reality. Or, man is by nature selfish and greedy.
KISS. Keep it simple stupid.
It’s not the police. It was a bad policeman.
It’s not a racial issue or a justice issue – that’s what they, the media and the Democrats want you to believe. Why? Money and power. It’s just that simple.
Yes. There is injustice, even inequality.
No. It’s not what they’re telling you or near like what they’re telling you.
Finally, what’s tearing down our country as I’m writing this is a funded anarchist movement. It’s ominous. It’s organized. It’s destructive. It’s dangerous.
The silent majority can no longer stay silent.
By Peter Weiss
Check out one of the last scenes in Zombieland: Double Tap, the one where Woody Harrelson jumps onto the hanging hook which leads all the zombies to jump off the edge of Babylon up-high.
Stupid is as stupid does.
So look at the mob. Look at the mob justice. Look at our failing Democratic Leaders and their idiocy in pandering to the mob, the mob justice, to going contrary to their oath of office, and on and on.
Look at those big-business sports organizations. Teams are owned by multi-billionaires, players are mostly all multi-millionaires, (like our Democrat leaders are). Look at those poor, downtrodden Hollywood actors, again, need I say it? Multi-millionaires. For all of them, only their business interests are at heart when they pander to the anarchists who have usurped any sense of real protest regarding the George Floyd murder. The rules we must follow do not apply to them. They are simply afraid of losing their incomes.
Stupid is as stupid does. Us following them is stupid, stupid, stupid. It makes no sense whatsoever.
The staggering increase in crime will not be fixed by defunding police and replacing them with community service organizations and social workers.
It’s simple. We can close our eyes and think this ridiculousness being perpetrated by the Democrat state and city leaders and those famous national leaders won’t affect us, or we can start to look at what’s really going on.
That’s where we’ll see that our leftist leaders are grossly failing us and that they ascribe to running blindly into stupidity.
Along with their lapdog Pravda USA media, also owned by several multi-billionaires who are looking after personal business interests, they are selling us a total lie. If we follow them…
Well, stupid is as stupid does.
By Peter Weiss
We could do better heading back to the hippie era. I lived through that, old enough to be part of it. Things were more honest then, more straightforward, less complicated. Issues were clear, not so convoluted.
The issues back then were meaningful ones, hard ones. The anti-war movement, the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement, burn the bra, were true struggles. The existing injustices were plain to see.
Burn the bra.
Make love, not war.
I’d rather be dead than red.
Free love.
Those were some of the slogans. They represent two basic notions, first free love and equality, and second that America is a good country: better to be free than to live in subjugation.
Not hard. Not unclear. Certainly not easy.
Shoot forward to when the Berlin Wall fell. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, was president. America became the only superpower in the world. She did not attempt to conquer the world. She spent her time and resources helping the rest of the world. Stupidly, she allowed China and Russia to rebuild and regain superpower status. Those two totalitarian powers are now attempting to and succeeding in expanding their attempts at world domination as this pandemic goes on, while America is in the throes of this anarchist turmoil.
The time for silence has passed. If the silent majority stays silent now, America will be lost. Our The Despicable Dems and their lapdog mainstream media, Pravda USA, are hell-bent not just on failing us, but on taking us over. They have spent their last three years attempting to overthrow a legal, regular election. They would rather see us go down as a country than not have political power for themselves.
Our fate is blowing in the wind.
By Peter Weiss
Today’s latest, a judge made it so blacks don’t have to wear masks outside because of their fear of being profiled.
Let me get this straight. Whites and every other color have to wear masks, blacks no.
Justice?
William Barr is threatened by Jerry Nader with impeachment with the assertion that he is Trump’s lawyer more than an attorney general.
Wait a minute. What about Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, Obama’s pet lawyers? One refused to prosecute blacks and even sent around a memo through the Justice Department. The other, well you know all she did. Or maybe if you’re one of the hook-line-and-sinker dogma Dems, maybe you don’t.
Truth is the real racism is coming from the Democrats and now all those afraid of them and the power they yield with that “r” word.
Justice?
Illegals get free medical care. Hard-working citizens, tax-payers, sometimes go broke from medical bills. Justice?
Those rioters who were arsonists, assault and batterers, even murderers, who committed crime after crime–where is justice for them? Those innocent store and business owners whose businesses were destroyed wantonly by the looters and anarchist-rioters, where is justice for them?
On and on and on and on. How many of those shootings in Chicago were committed by legal, licensed gun owners? Take away their guns? Justice?
And there it is. Most of our leaders, starting with Nancy and Chuck and Al and Jerry and Adam wouldn’t know justice if it walked up to them and introduced itself in plain English. Worse, they are not even interested in it. Money and power that’s all they are interested in and the hell with us. As we see now from them now, the hell with our country so long as they get theirs.
Man is by nature selfish and greedy. Justice? Not with what’s going on now. Maybe never again if we keep on as we’re going.
By Peter Weiss
When the FBI came in plain clothes and started beating up the demonstrator and the police were waiting around the corner with full riot-type gear, I started to believe in the notion that certain people and agencies and parts of the government had their own agendas.
The lefties like to work the all-or-nothing game. So they invoke the conspiracy theory notion, and say to dismiss any criticism that anyone who disagrees with them and looks into how things occurred are wacko conspiracy theory people.
Not.
Of course there are some.
The person in the paddy wagon who led the conversation that showed up verbatim at my trial was an undercover cop. He was let out of the holding cell within about a half hour and was on his way to finish out his shift. I saw him some weeks later selling weed in the street trying to get more arrests. He didn’t recognize me, but I recognized him.
Excuse me, but I don’t really trust many institutions. I don’t trust many people. I certainly don’t trust the media, the government, ours or any other, and I don’t trust a world that is now run buy a select group of multi-billionaires whose interests are so convoluted that they would end up helping China with its internet-theft capabilities (of course not under that guise) yet not open the cell phone of a terrorist, domestic or otherwise, here in the U.S.
We’ve seen our politicians lie over and over. We have them on videotape and can definitively show they are lying. Trust them? I don’t.
And so we come back to the same thing over and over. Check out everything for yourself. Don’t believe the Despicable Dems. Don’t believe Trump. Don’t believe me. Check it out for yourself.
Really think Medicare for all will work? Check out the reality of such a thing.
Really believe the Democrats are for you? Check out their records and their history.
Really believe our government has your best interests at heart?
Really believe Bill Clinton didn’t do anything untoward on his 26 trips on Epstein’s Lolita Express?
Give us a break.
I don’t trust anyone whose way to win an election is by offering free stuff and dividing us by saying some of us deserve free stuff while others of us deserve to pay for the free stuff.
The saying goes: believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. Take it as you will.
The real deal is that this election is a choice between manure on one side and manure on the other. That’s because man is by nature selfish and greedy.
It’s already clear that several of those big billionaires (Trump is a pauper comparatively, by the way) have already begun censoring what can be seen on their social media outlets. This means we won’t even get a fair representation of what’s really going on.
Who do you trust? I certainly don’t trust a party that starts with 50 million voters who are on the government take (pay no taxes and collect government benefits) and then offers them more free stuff, a party willing to wreck our economy and our way of life for policies we already know are untenable.
By Peter Weiss
Our government is failing us. Our government was meant to be run by representatives who left their personal lives for a term in office and then went back to their personal lives having served their country. It wasn’t meant to be run by career politicians hell-bent on staying in power and enriching themselves. So long as we fail to institute term limits and get rid of the rubbish we have – that American Politburo – we are destined to be subjugated and ruled rather than represented.
I wrote this last week. Seems to me it is still true today.
The Democrats have spent the last three plus years blaming President Trump for everything, everything, no matter what. The fact is that he has only been in government service for three years. How much blame can he actually get?
Pelosi: 31 years
Biden: 36 years as a senator, 8 years as VP
Schumer: House of Representatives from 81-99, Senate from 99 to now and ongoing.
So, how does this add up?
It’s the Democrat cities that are deep in financial debt and being burned up by the anarchists. They are not protesters.
23 trillion dollars has been spent on the war on poverty. We haven’t changed the demographics of poverty much or lessened the poverty rate significantly.
I could go on, and on, and on.
Isn’t it enough already? Aren’t you tired of the false narratives being pushed down our throats?
By Peter Weiss
Simply put, and things must be simply put these days in the heat of mob-think and leftist power-grab mentality, the answer to racism whether real or perceived is not more racism. The answer to injustice is not more injustice.
Is that not what we are seeing? What we’ve been seeing?
Are we not in the throes of emotionalism? What does emotionalism get us?
Did the owner of the Wendy’s in Atlanta deserve to have his/her place burned down for calling police to move someone who had “fallen asleep” at the wheel in their drive-thru?
So we need to think things through. We need to all of us take a deep breath, take a pause, and think about what’s going on.
We need to ask ourselves many questions.
First question: is the answer to racism more racism?
Second question: is the answer to injustice more injustice?
Third question: when our politicians say no one is above the law, do they mean that or do they only mean when it suits their political needs?
Fourth question (at least for now): can we really believe anything we’re told by the media?
And a final statement: it behooves us all to think for ourselves and to check out what we’re being told by our elected officials and especially by our openly-biased media.
By Peter Weiss
I have a bridge to sell. If you don’t buy it, you’re racist.
If you watch Fox News you’re racist.
If you hire a white person over a black person, you’re racist. But… If you hire a black person over a white person, you’re not.
Black lives matter. Yes, they do.
But…
Shouldn’t it be: All lives matter?
If the implication of Black Lives Matter is that white lives, or brown lives, or olive lives don’t, isn’t that racist?
So these days there’s no point in even talking about what’s going on. These days in mob heat and mob mentality you can get fired, beat up, even killed and they (whoever they are and it’s not the Republican right) justify it as part of the movement. Either you’re woke or you’re the enemy to be suppressed, squelched and obliterated. That’s their justice. That’s their mob-rule-think.
So think what you think. Say what you say. Do what you do. This is America, at least for the moment. (It won’t be for much longer if we keep on as we are going in the mob heat.)
Two things are very clear.
First, group think/mob think brings us to the worst of what mankind can do. (Oh God, please don’t let me get fired for saying mankind.) (Oh God, please don’t let me get fired/beat up/killed for believing in God and for invoking You here.)
Second, our government is failing us. Our government was meant to be run by representatives who left their personal lives for a term in office and then went back to their personal lives having served their country. It wasn’t meant to be run by career politicians hell-bent on staying in power and enriching themselves. So long as we fail to institute term limits and get rid of the rubbish we have – that American Politburo – we are destined to be subjugated and ruled rather than represented.
