For the longest time American politicians have believed that they could negotiate with the Iranian theocrats and convince them to join with civilized nations in productive relationships. This reflects a hopelessly naive understanding of the world and life view of the Mullahs. In order to understand where the relationship with Iran is going one must examine the fundamentals of Shiite Islam.
In the first instance, Shiite Islam rejects all notions of natural law. This means that they reject the idea that universe as it exists bears moral content. Without a notion that the universe bears moral content there is no foundation for universal human rights. For the Shiites, tribalism is not something they accidentally back into in the same manner that western leftists back into tribalism by subscribing to group identity politics. For Shiites, tribalism is at the core of their belief.
Shiites do not believe that all men are created equal....that none are endowed with a right to dominion and none are endowed with an obligation of servitude. They are supremacists. They believe they are endowed with a right to dominion and all others are endowed with an obligation of servitude.
In the matter of eschatology greater difficulty arises. Shiites believe that they are under moral obligation to usher in the end of days. They see all efforts in this direction as man perfecting himself within history.
On account of these aspects of religious belief they will not be dissuaded from building nuclear devices. Further, they will not be dissuaded from using those devices. They cannot be bribed to give this up. They will build a bomb and they will use it. They see this as their moral obligation.
So the only question which remains is the issue of where they will use it first. The most likely first use of these weapons will not be against Israel or the United States. The most likely first use of these weapons will be against Saudi Arabia. They will gamble that Israel and the United States as well as others will temporize and do nothing if the weapons are used against Saude Arabia. They are probably right.
Monday, July 29, 2019
Friday, July 19, 2019
BEFORE TRUMP
Before the stunning victory of Donald Trump in 2016 there existed in the United States among almost all senior elected officials a common understanding of the American people and the role of the United States in world affairs.
The American people were seen as incompetent, ignorant boobs who needed to be led, fed, housed, cleansed, transformed, and most of all punished by the enlightened few occupying the most important offices of government. Since the close of the second world war the American taxpayer was envisioned by both political parties as Atlas holding the planet on his shoulders and bringing civilization to everyone everywhere who previously lived in a cave and wore a loincloth.
In matters of trade this meant accepting the ideas of Philip Dru administrator endorsing one way free trade and a steeply graduated income tax. But as it turns out, one test is worth a thousand expert opinions, and with the passage of time Americans came to see exactly how fatuous these ideas were.
What eventuated was a export of major sectors of the American manufacturing base. The policies effectively turned the United States into a colony of all of the rest of the nations of the earth. The United States exported its manufacturing base, raw materials, and commodities. It imported manufactured products, low wages, and excess populations of foreign countries.
Trump was elected and immediately set about reversing these historic trends. For many years Republicans and Democrats had assured Americans that their manufacturing jobs were gone for good and were never coming back and it was time to get retrained to flip burgers at Hardee's. But after only two years in office Trump had shown that the standard bromides of Republicans and Democrats were nothing more than vicious lies. The success which he has had on economic matters virtually assure his reelection.
It has been my long experience that nothing engenders more resentment and hatred than dramatic success in large swaths of the public wed to envy and greed. Thus, it is in my view that the life of Donald Trump is in real jeaparody from the crazed left, Islamo-fascists, mainline Democrats, and RINO Republicans. For the vast center of the American public however, many can not remember ever being so respected by the leader of the country.
The American people were seen as incompetent, ignorant boobs who needed to be led, fed, housed, cleansed, transformed, and most of all punished by the enlightened few occupying the most important offices of government. Since the close of the second world war the American taxpayer was envisioned by both political parties as Atlas holding the planet on his shoulders and bringing civilization to everyone everywhere who previously lived in a cave and wore a loincloth.
In matters of trade this meant accepting the ideas of Philip Dru administrator endorsing one way free trade and a steeply graduated income tax. But as it turns out, one test is worth a thousand expert opinions, and with the passage of time Americans came to see exactly how fatuous these ideas were.
What eventuated was a export of major sectors of the American manufacturing base. The policies effectively turned the United States into a colony of all of the rest of the nations of the earth. The United States exported its manufacturing base, raw materials, and commodities. It imported manufactured products, low wages, and excess populations of foreign countries.
Trump was elected and immediately set about reversing these historic trends. For many years Republicans and Democrats had assured Americans that their manufacturing jobs were gone for good and were never coming back and it was time to get retrained to flip burgers at Hardee's. But after only two years in office Trump had shown that the standard bromides of Republicans and Democrats were nothing more than vicious lies. The success which he has had on economic matters virtually assure his reelection.
It has been my long experience that nothing engenders more resentment and hatred than dramatic success in large swaths of the public wed to envy and greed. Thus, it is in my view that the life of Donald Trump is in real jeaparody from the crazed left, Islamo-fascists, mainline Democrats, and RINO Republicans. For the vast center of the American public however, many can not remember ever being so respected by the leader of the country.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Thiel, Google, and Treason
On the evening of 7/15/2019 the co-founder of Facebook Peter Thiel alleged that while Google had refused to partner with the US military on the development of Artificial Intelligence, it was nevertheless moving forward with providing that technology to the Red Chinese army. Thiel dared to suggest that this move might be considered treason and urged the FBI and CIA to investigate. Of course the possibility that Google would walk a tight line nearing treason comes as no surprise to the average intelligent US adult. Many of my acquaintances no longer use the word google as a verb. Instead they use the word goebbels as a verb.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Tutelary Fascist Patriarchy of Judicial Supremacy
There is no doubt or dispute among historians that the United States of American was founded as a republic and not as any despotic form of government at all. The Constitution as designed was a document of enumerated powers and not a document of enumerated rights. The branches of government were designed to be separate but equal with no branch holding supremacy over the other two.
The founders were deeply impressed by the work of John Locke and understood his two treatises as presenting the two basic ideas behind governance. One could either have some form of patriarchy or one could assert as a self evident truth that no person is endowed with a right of dominion over others and no person is endowed with an obligation of servitude to others.
With however, the passage of time and the ever swelling hubris of the political class the despotism of tutelary fascist patriarchy of judicial supremacy has reemerged to impose relentless punishments on the hapless citizen. The leadership in the movement has undoubtedly come from the federal level, but has also been followed in many of the several states. Who will deliver us from this tyranny?
Who will save us from the government employee or judge arriving on the door step to announce that he or she has arrived to 'help' us. Whence comes this dubious belief that the poor individual ignorant citizen must be punished into submission for his own good?
In recent years the notion of individual district federal judges imposing nationwide injunctions is antithetical to every notion of liberty that has ever been contemplated. To some these will seem wild and baseless statements. But this pattern of governance reaches from the highest offices in the land all the way down to local traffic enforcement with local governments using fines not to punish truly criminal behavior, but merely to pad local budgets. My concern is for the future of the country and for our posterity who will eventually hang from meat hooks to receive beatings with rubber hoses.
The founders were deeply impressed by the work of John Locke and understood his two treatises as presenting the two basic ideas behind governance. One could either have some form of patriarchy or one could assert as a self evident truth that no person is endowed with a right of dominion over others and no person is endowed with an obligation of servitude to others.
With however, the passage of time and the ever swelling hubris of the political class the despotism of tutelary fascist patriarchy of judicial supremacy has reemerged to impose relentless punishments on the hapless citizen. The leadership in the movement has undoubtedly come from the federal level, but has also been followed in many of the several states. Who will deliver us from this tyranny?
Who will save us from the government employee or judge arriving on the door step to announce that he or she has arrived to 'help' us. Whence comes this dubious belief that the poor individual ignorant citizen must be punished into submission for his own good?
In recent years the notion of individual district federal judges imposing nationwide injunctions is antithetical to every notion of liberty that has ever been contemplated. To some these will seem wild and baseless statements. But this pattern of governance reaches from the highest offices in the land all the way down to local traffic enforcement with local governments using fines not to punish truly criminal behavior, but merely to pad local budgets. My concern is for the future of the country and for our posterity who will eventually hang from meat hooks to receive beatings with rubber hoses.
Friday, April 5, 2019
The Smear Merchants and the Demand for Trump's Tax Returns
The emerging demand for the release of Trump's tax return has an actual unspoken agenda. In the first instance everyone knows, or should know, that the Democrats in congress already have Trump's tax returns. It was only a short time ago that it was revealed that the Obama administration had a program of wholesale violations of first amendment rights of American citizens.
It was Lois Lerner et. al. that slow walked or denied applications for tax free foundations and other conservative organizations. When questioned before Congressional committees on the issue, the felonious acts were so egregious and numerous that she was compelled by her own guilt to plead the fifth amendment. Since there was no effort when she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service to scrupulously obey the law, it is fatuous to assume that any other law would be obeyed.
The natural conclusion of this line of reasoning is that the Democrats already have Trump's tax returns and are merely demanding the formal release of such information so as to not expose employees of the Internal Revenue Service to further criminal liability. They must already have returns for all eight years of the Obama administration. Why then, do they want the returns out in the open? They want to reveal specific information to public scrutiny that Trump and many others would prefer remain private.
The most reasonable conclusion of this line of reasoning is that they want to expose all private tax exempt organizations that have been recipients of donations from Trump over many years. They want to smear and besmirch those organizations regardless of what they do in an effort to destroy them. It is about smearing everybody who is anybody who ever had anything to do with Donald Trump.
At the end of the day this mob of fascists will undoubtedly get their way, and none of us can predict how many worthwhile organizations will be destroyed. Who will be on the list? Hospitals?
Colleges, Educational Foundations...? Whoever they are they will be pilloried without mercy for accepting money from Trump. It is after all not likely that Trump would have attempted to reduce his tax bite by writing off the donation of his used underwear as was done by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
It was Lois Lerner et. al. that slow walked or denied applications for tax free foundations and other conservative organizations. When questioned before Congressional committees on the issue, the felonious acts were so egregious and numerous that she was compelled by her own guilt to plead the fifth amendment. Since there was no effort when she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service to scrupulously obey the law, it is fatuous to assume that any other law would be obeyed.
The natural conclusion of this line of reasoning is that the Democrats already have Trump's tax returns and are merely demanding the formal release of such information so as to not expose employees of the Internal Revenue Service to further criminal liability. They must already have returns for all eight years of the Obama administration. Why then, do they want the returns out in the open? They want to reveal specific information to public scrutiny that Trump and many others would prefer remain private.
The most reasonable conclusion of this line of reasoning is that they want to expose all private tax exempt organizations that have been recipients of donations from Trump over many years. They want to smear and besmirch those organizations regardless of what they do in an effort to destroy them. It is about smearing everybody who is anybody who ever had anything to do with Donald Trump.
At the end of the day this mob of fascists will undoubtedly get their way, and none of us can predict how many worthwhile organizations will be destroyed. Who will be on the list? Hospitals?
Colleges, Educational Foundations...? Whoever they are they will be pilloried without mercy for accepting money from Trump. It is after all not likely that Trump would have attempted to reduce his tax bite by writing off the donation of his used underwear as was done by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
The Tutelary Fascist Party and Christophobia
The Tutelary Fascist Party (aka the Democrat Party) now supports several policies each of which will raise opposition among a variety of single issue voters. These positions include:
1. infanticide
2. a command economy
3. antisemitism
4. elimination of the 2nd amendment and seizure of all firearms
5. elimination of the 1st amendment
6. elimination of the presumption of innocence in American jurisprudence
7. elimination of all air travel
8. elimination of all internal combustion engines
9. elimination of the consumption of all fossil fuels
10. doubling the number of justices on the supreme court
11. eliminating the electoral college
12. broad and deep Christophobia
13. open borders and the end of all immigration enforcement
14. euthanasia
15. requiring all persons to become vegetarians ending all cattle, hog, and poultry production
16. razing all buildings in the nation and reconstructing them to be 'green'
As more and more of these positions become widely known and understood it will be necessary for future democrat electoral victories to depend on the importation of more and more persons from the third world. Any intelligent awareness of the extremism of these proposals will engender not mere opposition but extraordinary fear of their fundamental stupidity or ignorance.
1. infanticide
2. a command economy
3. antisemitism
4. elimination of the 2nd amendment and seizure of all firearms
5. elimination of the 1st amendment
6. elimination of the presumption of innocence in American jurisprudence
7. elimination of all air travel
8. elimination of all internal combustion engines
9. elimination of the consumption of all fossil fuels
10. doubling the number of justices on the supreme court
11. eliminating the electoral college
12. broad and deep Christophobia
13. open borders and the end of all immigration enforcement
14. euthanasia
15. requiring all persons to become vegetarians ending all cattle, hog, and poultry production
16. razing all buildings in the nation and reconstructing them to be 'green'
As more and more of these positions become widely known and understood it will be necessary for future democrat electoral victories to depend on the importation of more and more persons from the third world. Any intelligent awareness of the extremism of these proposals will engender not mere opposition but extraordinary fear of their fundamental stupidity or ignorance.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
WHY I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT
Democrats are progressives. They believe in the perfectibility of man. They believe that man perfects himself in the historical process through conflict and punishment. They repudiate the value of the individual. They see human value only in groups. They are dismissive of individual character.
They repudiate the notion of due process and the presumption of innocence of the accused. They stand against every major advance of the enlightenment. They believe the fundamental existential truth of the universe is the punishment of man into submission. They hate me as an individual. I know this because they have said so. They hate me because I am old, white, Christian, and male. They hate me because I stand for the well established notion of the modern nation state which was created in the wake of the 1648 treaty of Westphalia. They hate me because I actually have read history. They hate me because I reject rationalism. They hate me because I embrace empiricism. They hate me because I believe that authority should be observed not alleged. They hate me because I believe that none of mankind are endowed with a right to dominion, and none are endowed with an obligation of servitude. They hate me because I can identify their fundamental political view which is neofacism. They hate me because I have identified their obsessive desire for political power as a social-sexual personality disorder related to sadomasochism. They are the true jack booted, high stepping brown shirts of our day. Should they ever come to complete power, I will be among the first they will hang from a meat hook and beat with a rubber hose.
They repudiate the notion of due process and the presumption of innocence of the accused. They stand against every major advance of the enlightenment. They believe the fundamental existential truth of the universe is the punishment of man into submission. They hate me as an individual. I know this because they have said so. They hate me because I am old, white, Christian, and male. They hate me because I stand for the well established notion of the modern nation state which was created in the wake of the 1648 treaty of Westphalia. They hate me because I actually have read history. They hate me because I reject rationalism. They hate me because I embrace empiricism. They hate me because I believe that authority should be observed not alleged. They hate me because I believe that none of mankind are endowed with a right to dominion, and none are endowed with an obligation of servitude. They hate me because I can identify their fundamental political view which is neofacism. They hate me because I have identified their obsessive desire for political power as a social-sexual personality disorder related to sadomasochism. They are the true jack booted, high stepping brown shirts of our day. Should they ever come to complete power, I will be among the first they will hang from a meat hook and beat with a rubber hose.
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