Limericks

Dear Friends,

I wonder where all my money went,
I cant afford food or to pay my rent,
Prices have doubled,
But don’t be troubled,
The BLS claims it’s only twenty percent.

There once was an interesting man,
And he had an interesting plan,
He ran with shears,
His mother’s fears,
And now he’s called one eyed Stan.

The elite don’t know what to call it,
Statistics made for us and back-lit,
But we’re not hearing,
In fact we’re cheering,
Because what counts is what’s in your wallet.

Cracker barrel what a great brand,
Of home style chicken I’m a fan,
But times change,
Politics rearrange,
In ire it’s united us woman and man.

The foolish run with ________,
Scurrying around like ________,
Believe my _____,
Oops my _____,
With ideas as good a ________.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Conspiracy Theorist

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, calling someone a “Conspiracy Theorist,” is the fallacy of dismissal by slander. This is a form of ad hominem attack. People use such fallacies when they can’t refute an argument and don’t want to have to deal with an exposed lie, so they socially attack the questioner. A “conspiracy theorist” then is both slander, a person not to be taken seriously, and a means to dismiss an argument you would rather not engage with. This is often done when a conspiracy is threatened with exposure. Such tactics allow a conspiracy to go on indefinitely. Poking Machiavelli in the eye. In that, if a conspiracy can be authoritatively denied it can go on to its conclusion. As in the case of the CIA coverup in the JFK assassination. If they weren’t involved, why keep their involvement secret for six decades?

Dismissal by slander is Kafkaesque in that defending yourself proves you are a conspiracy theorist. The slanderer can sit back and ridicule every point you bring up to “prove” the negative… that you’re not a conspiracy theorist. The debate has changed from the conspiracy to your credibility. Even if you win and retain credibility you lose the argument about the conspiracy. It’s pure catch 22 in scope, effect, and intent. The only way to counter it is not to take the bait. Don’t put your finger in the Chinese finger trap. Instead maintain pressure about the conspiracy while ignoring personal attacks to derail the conversation. If they keep at it, simply call them out. Ask why they don’t want to debate, why only make slanderous attacks? Put the onus on them.

Dismissal by slander is a social attack in that the person slanders, the “conspiracy theorist” is now someone who is crazy and has to be treated as such. The idea is social ostracism as a weapon of censorship. No one wants to be socially attacked. Since we are social beings our status in the hierarchy is critical to our ids and superegos. This gives social attacks more weight in our minds than they actually have. Our social standing is threatened and so we react and put our fingers deeply into the trap. This is another reason dismissal by slander is so effective. People almost can’t help themselves but to take the bait. The logic is simple, attack someone’s social standing and they take their knife from your throat and stab themselves with it instead.

Dismissal by slander shuts down critical thinking. No need to engage with a “conspiracy theorist,” that would be a waste of time. So the argument is never examined. Instead the focus turns on the person with the audacity to shine a light on a conspiracy that would rather remain in the dark. At least until it serves its purpose. Imagine if Brutus and his cohort were exposed on their way to the Senate to kill Caesar? Then they claimed the informant was merely a conspiracy theorist, and were believed? The assassination would have gone on without a hitch. Even as the whistle blower would have been killed for spreading lies. Such ad hominem attacks are ideal when critical thinking is the enemy. The only time critical thinking is the enemy is when someone is lying.

Dismissal by slander is done by people who are telling a lie or maintaining a narrative that’s counter to the truth. Usually conspirators to a conspiracy or those with minds firmly closed. The advantage to the closed minded is that it saves them having to think for themselves. Some people would rather have others do their thinking… freeing them up for other tasks. Nevertheless, dismissal by slander is highly effective at shutting down critical thinking, is a catch 22 trap, and is a social attack. Therefore it’s the definition of a spurious argument. The best way to avoid the trap is not to take the bait. Continue cutting at the conspiracy with the knife of logic. Refuse to turn it on yourself. If pressed, turn it on the foe and ask why they don’t want to debate… but instead dismiss by slander?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,


A man like a computer is a brainiac,
There’s no knowledge he doesn’t lack,
Elsewhere he has fears,
But the realm of ideas,
And in truth he is foolish and a maniac.

And in truth he is foolish and a maniac,
God gazed upon Adam and said,
What can I do to ease his head,
First was a wife,
Filled with strife,
So God gave him a dog instead.

If we lie to them it’s a major felony,
Their lies build consensus not perjury,
It’s not a double standard,
It’s just law he answered,
But it smells fishy wouldn’t you agree.

You need a degree or so they said,
Blue collar jobs are gone and dead,
So get a degree,
Then you’ll see,
They gave the job to a foreigner instead.

There’s a con called _______ ___ _______,
Selling what doesn’t exist is the _______,
Faster than _______ ______,
Please don’t ask ________,
And the patsy will end up in a ______.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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A Faction’s Core Principles

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, factions should be judged by their core principles. If the core idea of a faction is unlimited government all their initiatives will be towards that goal. If the core idea of another faction is limited government all their initiatives will be toward that goal. Moreover, elitist theory says that the elite’s goals align in plundering the people, so their initiatives will seek to do it. Some factions may have religion as their core idea and so all their initiatives will seek global hegemony. There are as many factions as there are core ideas. All of them vying for the votes of people who don’t agree with their core principles… so they manipulate, lie, and connive to get them. That’s why we as wise citizens have to interrogate their core principles and judge their initiatives by them.

Every faction and person in them have a core principle or idea that drives them. That core idea motivates them to action. Some factions believe in limited government, like the US founding fathers. Others believe in unlimited government, like the progressives and globalists. Then there are those who believe the world should be run by their religion. That core principle is what they are all striving for. Though some are more motivating than others. Those that promise unlimited wealth, power, and prestige have an innate draw to the ambitious element of society. Simple fixes to solve all the world’s problems appeal to the simple minded. Each faction trying to establish themselves as the hegemonic faction. Those factions that are willing to go the furthest have a distinct advantage.

Factions that have the stamina to commit atrocity often win. Usually the most zealous adherents are captured by an idea. With pre-programmed talking points they needn’t burn a calorie in debate. This is one of the reasons faction is such a strong tool. People become enamored with an idea and worship that idea, and try to impose it on mankind… for our own good. The Nazis didn’t think they were the bad guys, nor did Lenin, or Tamerlane… their atrocities were justified in their minds. Because it was the path to their core principle. The difference between Hitler and Hindenburg was that Hitler was willing to act and Hindenburg wasn’t. Lenin was willing to defraud an election to get the name majority, he was willing to do Cheka’s work, and even exterminate the Kulaks… to get it done.

Factions then that believe in limited government, limited imbalances of power, and as unlimited individual freedom as possible… are at a strong disadvantage. Because such factions and people that fill them are by definition unwilling to use force. Because force itself is what they seek to eliminate. Even as their foes seek to gain force so they can use it. Let’s face it, people who seek unlimited power believe might makes right. So you see how this creates a dichotomy of power even when the faction that seeks to limit power has it. Because they are unwilling to use it to hold their political foes to their own despotic laws… even as those who seek power are willing to murder their foes. Those factions that seek unlimited power will use atrocity against those unwilling even to hold them to the law.

That’s why it’s so critical we judge all factions through the lens of their core principles. A faction that seeks unlimited power over you, will lie to you, cheat you, and even kill you. Because unlimited power means unlimited power. They follow Thrasymachus believing might makes right, as long as they have the might. Even as those factions that seek to limit the power of government are vilified and attacked under color of law. A faction that seeks unlimited power will not limit itself by a constitution, it will exploit limitations to hobble their foes, as did Pericles. Wise people see through the charade and vote for the faction that seeks limited government, but we are easily manipulated. Edward Bernays showed us that. So when casting a vote, ask yourself, what does this faction represent… despotism or freedom?

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

Some folks have a violent bent,
Like driving a car into a tent,
They fill their cup,
But it’ll catch up,
And prison awaits that angry gent.

The ivory tower’s wrath is well renowned,
An echo chamber without a sound,
She’s just better,
An elite jet setter,
And dancing on us in an evening gown.

The law has strange and distorted shapes,
But law is pressed from wrathful grapes,
It serves the few,
So how good gets through,
Is blackmailing judges with the Epstein tapes.

Elites are singing the post nationalist song,
Provoking violence with a dash of wrong,
Now that the truth,
Is long in the tooth,
We find that Hegel was right all along.

There once was a corrupt elite named _______,
Who hated us all ________ a ________,
Connived in the _____,
In a pleasant ______,
And that corruptocrat ended up in the _______.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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The UN

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the UN is one example of how utterly corrupt, irrelevant, and counterproductive central planning must become. At that prestigious institution highly paid functionaries debate world events with all the gusto, intellect, and effect as a high school debate club, with better surroundings obviously. They back ever more centrally planned obsolescence in the form of a world bank, world court, and a world war. Coming up with “plans” much like Stalin or Mao’s “five year plans,” but to be imposed on the world instead of an unfortunate nation. Agenda 2030 and others have as a goal to centralize authority to get it away from individuals and local governments to one that’s so far away it might as well be floating among the clouds.

Corruption at the UN is legendary. From blue helmets abusing kids to the huge bribes Kofi Annan’s powerless son was taking in the Oil For Food scandal, with supposedly none of that money flowing up to the father… corruption at the UN is a culture. But it’s not the fault of those at the UN. The fault lies in human nature. When people are given power without consequence for failure, they must become arrogant. You or I would become just as corrupt as they. The problem of corruption isn’t finding saints, they don’t exist, the problem is that power itself is corrupting. Solon set up a series of laws, customs, and mores to keep anyone from amassing despotic power, but Pericles used those very institutions to make himself an arbitrary ruler. Showing laws can’t control avarice.

The UN spends around 67 billion dollars a year in total and amounts to no benefit but a great deal of harm. One could argue that UN vaccine initiatives that are claimed to have resulted in women being sterilized… are quite possibly eugenics experiments cloaked in vaccine distribution. Not unlike the Tuskegee experiments. The early progressives were open about their eugenics ideas. One must do a cost benefit calculation on those billions spent. If the outcome is harm and some good, don’t they cancel each other out? Making spending all those tens of billions of dollars… irrelevant? The money would be better left in the pockets of those who earned the money. They could have spent it in ways that would improve their lives… but the arrogant few at the UN would be out of a meal ticket.

The debate club that is the corrupt and irrelevant UN actually harms mankind. With agenda 2030 and such they create plans to usurp power from the people and put it into the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats. A laudable goal… if one is a demon. The would-be central planners at the UN would plan our cities to the street, our homes to the room, and our lives to the second. They consider themselves to be so much smarter than us they believe they can dictate from New York, Brussels or Beijing… how the rest of us should spend our lives. Even harvesting our organs if they see fit. Because they view people, you, me, and our loved ones… as chattel. No better than guinea pigs to be experimented on. Like a god would experiment on his creation. Except they aren’t gods nor can they create.

The UN is an institution that exists by legalized plunder… as Bastiat would say. Making its very existence a crime. Let alone its irrelevancy, as well as the harm, and corruption it fosters. Then again, the corruptocrats at the UN aren’t to blame. Yes they are probably psychopaths drawn to unaccountable power, and yes even if they went into it with ideals, they are now corrupt. Living in a cesspool makes one stink. So we can say that the UN and indeed all centrally planned systems are criminal in that they exist by legalized plunder, are corrupt in that the incentives are inexorable, and counterproductive because central planners are basically stupid. The UN then is merely an example of why central planning and centralized authority must fail. The incentives lead them to it.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

Tension builds the leviathan will dine,
Turn your eyes and drink your wine,
It’s fly by wire,
The house is on fire,
But the elite pretend it’s perfectly fine.

Presumptions ridden as a bike,
Absurdity assumed in a light,
A foolhardy drum,
It all comes from,
The notion that we all think alike.

There once was a man who knew too much,
The knowledge he held was ever his crutch,
Thought he was in on the scam,
But didn’t count on the slam,
And they say he strangled himself before his lunch.

In castles and islands mad scientists would reside,
Doing experiments that would shrivel your hide,
That was then this is now,
They’ve found a way somehow,
To get us pay for their atrocities and speciocide.

Elites are said to play a _______ _________,
Centrally weaving us on a ______ ___________,
Focused on _______,
But being a _______,
Jumping to conclusions and ready to __________.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Simple Minded Phrases Lead To Atrocities

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, that the progressive idea, anyone who isn’t a communist is a fascist, is a simple worldview… for simpletons. It breaks the world into two factions, neither of which is true or even a close representative of mankind, but it is simple to understand. Everyone, in their minds, is a Marxist or Nazi, there’s no room for nuance in that position. That’s why ANTIFA is so powerful. They prey on the weak minded with their polemics and absurdities… to get them to commit atrocities. In such a dichotomy the weakest minds have the advantage. Because they aren’t burdened by knowledge, wisdom, or humanity… they are programmed. Brainwashed people never realize they are brainwashed, it’s part of the brainwashing… they believe with all their heart they thought it up.

Bonhoeffer said that stupidity is far more dangerous than evil… and believing that anyone who isn’t a communist is a fascist is as stupid as it gets. Because it ignores the 90% to define the 10%. That 10% are the same whether they ascribe to fascism or communism because they are two nuts from the same burr. Both are centrally planned systems empowering a plethora of bureaucrats to make all the decisions for the rest of the people. The only significant difference is the nationalistic flavor of fascism and the international taste of communism. They both are bigoted to their core. The targets of that bigotry may be different in times and places, but that just shows they are able to evolve. At their peak, card carrying Nazis in Germany were 10% of the population… the Bolsheviks way less.

The advantage of exploiting stupidity is that stupid people are plentiful and easily angered, making them willing to commit violence at the drop of a hat. Because they don’t know any better. A small cadre of stupid people manipulated into monsters can control a much larger population… by terror. The IRA exploited just such people to create chaos in Ireland, the Democrats exploited the same people to create the KKK, and Islamists thrive on the stupid. Even as the Red Fighters League, (ANTIFA’s forerunner) fought battles with the early Brown shirts in the streets outside the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, both sides were cut from the same cloth. Proved by the fact many members of the Red Fighters League became Nazis later. Because they both appealed to angry, disillusioned youths.

Simple mind viruses like, anyone who’s not a communist must be a fascist, appeal to the simple minded because they are so easy to understand and put the world into stark black and white. No critical thinking needed to grasp that. Crucial calories that can be sequestered in huge fat reserves for later. More importantly, simple jargon like “war is peace, freedom is slavery, social justice, women can have penises, diversity is strength, and Antifa doesn’t exist…” make the argument for the absurd appear self proving… making them circular arguments. Then again, a merry-go-round logic suits the simple minded violent. They become self-censoring lest they risk ostracism. This is like a distillery, distilling the most volatile from the syrup.

Once a faction has its followers believing in absurdity, like anyone who’s not a communist is a fascist, atrocity is at hand. Those stupid people then can do Cheka’s work… public spectacles of brutality. Acts that instill terror in anyone who would stand up to them. Once everyone is afraid of the stupidly violent, those that wield them have absolute power. Ask yourself, who benefits from that violence? The historic precedent is magnificent. The CCP, the Bolsheviks, the Nazis, Islamists, and now whoever runs ANTIFA. We know ANTIFA exists, not only due to history and their antics, but because the mockingbird media says they don’t. Dehumanizing simplicity leads to atrocities. Because power flows from simple phrases with circular logic… because it puts a gun in the hands of a usurper’s zealot.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

If the truth gets in your way,
There’s one thing I have to say,
It’s well understood,
Your not serving good,
So put the toxic narrative away.

The minority standing up to power myth,
Backed by a mockingbird media wordsmith,
A venomous kiss,
But know this,
The unreasonable can’t be reasoned with.

Keep it illegal and a foreign trade,
Laced with fentanyl and cash paid,
Incentives matter,
Constitution’s a tatter,
‘Cause there’s too much money to be made.

The elite say that free speech is long in the tooth,
Narrative control being the warp and the woof,
Police our speech,
With unlimited reach,
But what omniscient saint discerns lies from truth?

The liars all tend to _______,
Perception should benefit _______,
A selfish ______,
An NPC _______,
But the truth will set you ________.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

There’s an imposed progressive wisdom,
We’re simplistically told to play the victim,
But don’t listen to the lectors,
We are complex force vectors,
Embedded within a complex system.

A government will do whatever it’s able,
Judicious spending is a fairy tale fable,
The truth does sift,
When run by grift,
So cutting spending is off the table.

In darkness and froth do many bewail,
Due to their attitude those same do fail,
Cause effects aim,
Are we the same,
In quantum seas does our Theseus’ ship sail.

Are our problems heaven sent,
Or is there a more devilish bent,
Look and you’ll see,
It’s not you or me,
Our problems all come from government.

There once was an elitist ______,
Mankind she begrudged and _______,
A pathological _______,
Without the ____ _____,
Though stupid she was terribly _____.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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