Tax Mules Have No Rights

Posted on June 5, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a government that keeps track of every penny we make, but can’t keep track of a single penny it spends, must be dedicated to spending not improving the standard of living. This is made clear by the enormous amounts of fraud being discovered around the US. From Minnesota “Learing” centers to Californian day cares, billions in fraud is being handed out. Meanwhile, the legislature in California proves it’s on the side of the fraudsters not the taxpayers, by passing the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.” A law specifically to protect those committing fraud from the prying eyes of the public. This shows the government sees its role as extracting wealth from the nation to hand to those it favors. Obviously, this can go on until the wealth is all extracted, then the system will collapse.

The money extracted from you is taken at gunpoint. If you don’t believe that, try not paying taxes and see if armed men don’t show up at your door. They will and the consequences can be mortal if the interaction goes wrong. Ask Edward and Elaine Brown. They “leared” the hard way. Since tax money is extracted at the point of a gun, you would think they would spend that robber’s largess, judiciously. On the other hand, human nature being what it is, to reduce cognitive dissonance at robbing people, the bureaucrats might dislike us. To align their feelings with their actions. Then it makes sense they would squander that money as a way to disrespect us. Since their actions might make them hate us. This brings us to consequences. Will there be any for this clear violation of the public’s trust?

The billions in fraud are no longer in question. The question is if the federal government will do anything about it. You can be sure there will be bluster and maybe some people could be called before a congressional panel to be yelled at, but that’s where it will end. Wouldn’t you have liked to be yelled at for DUI, instead of losing your license for a year, berated rather than put in a drunk tank, or belittled before an audience as opposed to going to jail? Every day ordinary people face far more serious consequences for far less serious crimes. Your penalty for reaching across the counter in a bank and stealing 10 bucks would be far worse than for an elite that steals billions. I wonder if it depends on who the victim is? Steal from the elite and law is merciless, steal from the poor and it doesn’t care.

More to the point, steal from those with political favor and the machine of government goes into overdrive, steal from those without political favor and the machine stays idle. The taxpayer for example. Fraudsters steal directly from the guy and gal who gets up before dawn to work a ten hour day. That person today is a slave for the fraudsters for the first three months of every year. Swindlers have enforcers in the form of police who will shoot you for non-compliance. This makes the government itself an agent of the fraudsters. Nothing proves the point more than passing laws to protect the fraudsters. All of this builds an obvious and undeniable double standard. A double standard where the money of those stealing from taxpayers is inviolate but taxpayers are but mules.

Very few things infuriate people more than an obvious double standard. The same state government that regulates every aspect of their citizens lives, and hands out billions in embezzlement money, passed a law forbidding citizens from exposing it. While that law is a blatant violation of our First Amendment Right to free speech, I suspect that will not be an issue for the courts. In post constitutional America such things are ever unripe, laches, or moot. So the double standard will go on. The taxpayer will face the barrel of a gun while the fraudster faces a life of opulence. Protected by the same government that is merciless to the taxpayer. Meanwhile, that government forces you to self-report your personal papers in direct violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments… so politically favored fraudsters can get rich.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on June 4, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

White collar workers are having a fit,
Fuming in their cubicles they do sit,
But opportunity is here,
Demand should appear,
For the smart ones who get ahead of it.

The oikophobic left owns this atrocity,
Hypocrites with guile gall and sagacity,
The heartless crew,
The ruling few,
Exposing their rot evil and audacity.

There once was a man called Toofer,
He was known as a constant goofer,
But it aint what it aint,
Toofer fell in some paint,
And after was red as an Irish roofer.


The bureaucracy is a swindle we know,
Extracting wealth and power for show,
A constitutional mar,
Has gone too far,
It needs felling it only brings us woe.

Ai is coming after our jobs they ___,
As our civilization just rots ____,
A world run by _____,
Inept imp that drools,
Ruled by a heartless machine we pay.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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The Anatomy of a Swindle

Posted on June 3, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if the government were going to foist some huge hoax on us, they would get rid of all the experts with the authority, knowledge, and ethics to undermine it. That’s swindling 101. You isolate the mark’s access only to the sources of information you control. That way you can manipulate what he or she thinks while they think it’s them all the way. That’s the way a game is played on a patsy. The more they think they are in control the better the game is working. If this is true, then when we see people with authority removed en masse it might be a sign a game is being played on us. This is especially true if right after those authorities are removed, a major disclosure is announced. Such actions should send up a multitude of red flags.

A swindler replaces the mark’s sources of information with his own. That way the mark can only know what benefits the swindler. Information in this sense becomes a maze that the con controls. The mouse then runs after the cheese and right into a trap. In a well-executed game the patsy even then thinks he or she had no other choices. That’s when a scam goes from run-of-the-mill to extraordinary. Even after the mark is fleeced they have no idea how it was done or that it even happened. That can only be done when the mark has no access to the truth. One would think it’s hard to get people to believe lies, but history shows differently. If the lies are all we hear, then how do we know they are lies? Moreover, if the truth is illegal, truth itself becomes a pseudo-moral wrong.

When swindling a whole population you need tools. Calling truth a moral wrong is one way to get people to self-regulate. That’s a valuable tool. Many people who feel they have a stake in the swindle, even if they are themselves the marks, will defend the lies… and zealously if they have to. The useful patsies will point to the lies as proof of truth, and the illegality of truth as proof of lies. Another tool of mass scamming is discrediting individuals instead of addressing their arguments. If someone is a hater, why engage with them at all? You’re just validating their hate… and so the truth is suppressed from the marks. Just vilify the truth-teller with slander and voila, their argument is irrelevant, they themselves become the target of debate. This has a chilling effect as well, because no one likes to be a target.

These tools are very effective at controlling information to keep the patsies in the game, but one person with the authority, knowledge, and ethics to come forward would upset the board. A scientist, for example, who has expertise in a field has knowledge coupled with authority that can’t be undermined by slander. That person is dangerous unless they can be purchased. So, if they have ethics, they become deadly to the swindle. In the private sector a scam artist will make sure to keep such people well away from the mark. In the public sector the swindlers can simply eliminate such people altogether. So if we notice a large amount of scientists and experts in a field suddenly disappearing, that could be a signal a swindle is about to happen or is underway.

In an unrelated story, it sure is odd how so many UFO scientists and experts have gone missing lately, isn’t it? Lots of government officials, scientists, and contractors have been disappeared in the last few years. A woman’s body was just discovered. She had been missing for a year. What makes it even more puzzling is that the government is now claiming UFOs are real. Right after nearly 20 experts in the field are missing… that seems strange. Obviously, the same people who assured us Covid came from a pangolin, MK Ultra was a conspiracy theory, and the Covid vaccine worked having no side effects, now tell us UFOs are probably real, and here is the footage to prove it. I would like UFOs to be real. That would be cool as heck. I don’t know though, something smells… as bad as the corpses.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on June 2, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

Democracy is critical we all know,
Consent of the governed is the go,
But here’s some news,
Elites now choose,
And elections have become just for show.

Our culture is Narcissistic and pedantic,
As atheists call it cool and romantic,
But it’s not alive,
It’s universe 25,
So self-destructive and sycophantic.

Communism is the progressive emblem,
A lustful voracious wealth eating golem,
No housing here,
But never fear,
Population collapse will solve the problem.

Envy is destructive but fun,
Target those who have won,
Jealousy is,
A dirty biz,
But it can be a profitable pun.

Power is chosen by wile,
It lives in opulent _____,
Can we redeem,
But it does ____,
That we can be ruled by _____.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on June 1, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

Kids are taught hopelessness is the way,
Life skills are so passé and bourgeoisie,
Learn to slouch,
Ride the couch,
As the elite fritter your future away,

Central planning has taken control,
Our Constitution has become droll,
Our economic prophets,
Extracting all the profits,
And our kids futures they have stole.

Feminism cut girls like a knife,
Now they have aught but strife,
No kids to mother,
A career to smother,
Passing alone and never a wife.

The true space age it does loom,
Excitant promises so stay tuned,
But physics is hard,
Here’s an ace card,
A bigger rocket means a bigger boom.

The extracted from are weak and _____,
Stealing from today and the future _____,
A poor and sad ____,
One of trial and strife,
But the future may not be quite so scary.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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The Power Of The Societal Myth

Posted on May 31, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the goal of every government is to keep the right people in power. It’s not to guard the rights of the masses, defend justice, or create a system where prosperity can thrive. Those things are what we are told it does. That’s the manipulation. What makes it pernicious is that sometimes it does do those things, or at least appears to. Since we tend to believe that which we want to believe, the fact we can occasionally point to examples of justice, gives us permission to believe government is benevolent. That mindset serves those in power just fine. Here is the sly part though, the true power isn’t in the limelight… true power pulls strings from behind a curtain. An ivory tower that exists above and outside the power structures, that’s a jail as much as a palace.

The wire-pullers are always the real power in any government. Many think they are the politicians, others the bureaucrats, still others think the bankers are the real power… and the list goes on and on. Politicians even with blatant election fraud are still subject to scandal. The wire-pullers can exploit this to their advantage against the elected officials. Bureaucrats are mere cogs on a sprocket. They might add friction but if they become a real source of irritation to the real powers, they are easily replaced. The bankers, executives, and billionaires have boards and stockholders to answer to. Every group you can think of is constrained, yet we live in increasingly unconstrained times. Why? I would say it’s because there isn’t a group of people that are in charge, but a spirit that’s the real power.

If the politicians, bureaucrats, or executives get too far out of line with that spirit they are replaced and ostracized. This is a strong mechanism to regulate them into compliance. What that means is those people in power are largely in power because they serve that spirit. Moreover, those who seek to upend the system are in opposition to that spirit. So the mechanisms of power will be exploited to protect those that support the spirit, and undermine those that offend the spirit. This strongly suggests that government does indeed try to keep those who are in power, in power. Whether they are politicians, bureaucrats, or executives. Elitist theory says as much. The ten percent will defend political foes because they have more in common with each other than with us.

The spirit I am referring to is the societal myth. That’s the idea that drives the society forward. In warrior cultures it’s individual bravery, in cosmopolitan cultures it’s compliance, and in extractive societies it’s conniving. Often a society will start with one societal myth then evolve it until the society collapses. Meanwhile the role of government doesn’t change. It maintains the status quo despite the changing societal myth. Those elites that object to the evolution are tossed for more compliant elites. That evolution is driven by success. A warrior culture sometimes finds itself in a position of power. That power allows it to become wealthy and then cosmopolitan. A warrior ethos is unsuitable for a cosmopolitan society, so the societal myth evolves to be more suitable.

As the societal myth evolves so too do those in power. Government then becomes a means to maintain that evolving societal myth. To do so it must keep those who favor it in power. This is why as a society becomes prosperous, the societal myth evolves to become more cosmopolitan, then extractive. Small extractions of the glut of wealth grow. This continues as the societal myth evolves not only to allow but demand extraction. Extraction becomes an obligation. The elegant part is that as we watch our societies and social myths evolve, we think those in charge are the enemy. We are wrong. The real enemy is the evolving societal myth that protects its cronies and not justice, our Constitution, or prosperity. So we need to focus on the spirit instead of the red herring.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on May 30, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

There once was a stupid king,
He believed in a stupid thing,
A fool of a man,
Face of a pan,
And with brains of a ding a ling.

Failure here failure there failure everywhere,
Its a theme with the globalist leftist prayer,
They promise utopia,
Then deliver dystopia,
And blame us for it all with verve and flair.

What’s going on in the executive’s head,
Ideologues demand we all become red,
A terrible pact,
Will they act,
We’ll see if pragmatism is truly dead.

Cornyn couldn’t help buy try,
To get elected despite his lie,
A RINO at core,
In a pan of gore,
Now a conservative will go to fry.

Central planning empowers the ______,
Diverting blame in ways quite _______,
Ideology has ____,
Angrily condemn,
Creating a place corrupting and livid.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Abuse Is Blasphemy

Posted on May 29, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if people are created in the image of God, then abusing another is a blasphemous act. It is literally disrespecting God by debasing an image of God. That’s the definition of blasphemy. If one accepts this definition of human beings, Christian morality falls out of it, derived, not ad hoc. Institutions that have existed since the dawn of time in every culture and civilization, were rejected by the Christian ethos. Indeed, every crime against the person is a form of blasphemy. This is because they are all acts that disrespect an image of God. Today, even Christ hating atheists accept the Christian morality as self-evident, and exploit that morality to condemn Christians. It’s true that Christians violate our morality all the time. This is exactly what Christianity teaches us… that we’re sinners.

The philosophy that we are all created as an image of God is Judaeo-Christian. It originates from the Old Testament. The concept, however, wasn’t universally applied until the Gentile Pentecost. This is when all people were accepted into the church. At that moment, every human being on Earth, who ever was or ever will be, slave and free, poor and rich…became philosophically the actual image of God. An image of God in any religion is sacrosanct. It is not to be abused, debased, or polluted. So in the case of a human being, the icon of God, to debase, abuse, or pollute a person, is to do it to God. This makes such actions blasphemy. That philosophy taken to its logical end concludes that Natural Rights belong to everyone. The logic didn’t happen overnight though.

People resisted the Christian ethos for generations and many still do. This is because Christianity asks a lot of its adherents, but delivers much as well. Many want the goods but don’t want to pay the price. That doesn’t make them evil, it makes them human. We are like electricity, we seek the easiest path to ground. If that easy path is exploiting the Christian ethos but not adhering to it, that is the path ever more will take. We are a lazy lot given the opportunity. This mindset, that of taking advantage however, destroys the goods it seeks to gain. This is because the goods of Christianity cannot be long enjoyed without Christianity. I can almost hear the cries from atheists, what goods does Christianity bestow? That, as they take advantage of the peace, prosperity, and equality that Christian ethics demand.

The goods that Christianity provides are usually tallied as supernatural. You may suffer in this world but prosper in the next is how its sold. This is all fine and dandy but it short sells the product. Christian ethics outlawed slavery. No other religion has done that. The lack of slaves enabled the market system to arise. There would be no arms raised searching for work, if there were slaves who did it. Stealing, even ideas from an image of God is blasphemy, that’s the foundation of patent law. Without such protections there is no incentive to invent. That each man keeps the fruits of his own labor also falls out of man as the image of God. Every moral good that we take for granted is of Christian origin. Although, it’s true that some ideas were imported and incorporated.

The ideas of democracy from ancient Athens are compatible with people as an image of God. That’s why it’s taken as self-evident today. Not because of the power of ancient Athens but the power of the Christian ethos. Atheists use Christian morality to condemn Christians and Christianity. They make the spurious argument that Christians had slaves, therefore Christianity is evil by its own standard. Many claim the science that Christian ethics encouraged (to see into the mind of God) doesn’t comport with Christian theology, proving Christianity a myth. I think they accuse so as not to have to live up to those standards. Meanwhile, they forget that without Christianity, slavery would come back, science would whither away, inhumanity would become the norm, and they might not be the winners.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Posted on May 28, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

The RINOS are having their day,
And Cornyn is leading the way,
Backstabber Wright,
Fox is a sight,
And Chip Roy is willing to play.

Uniformity of thought is so insipid,
Demanding it is evil and wicked,
Wisdom must cower,
Abusing their power,
Is proof they’re arrogant and stupid.

250 years ago people created a great nation,
Built on liberty but perverted by education,
The progressive theme,
Bureaucracy supreme,
As government now attacks its own foundation.

The elite think us as nothing but fools,
A dull clump a frump a dump that drools,
As they pander,
Take a gander,
The intolerant minority always rules.

The RINOs were beaten bad,
Stabbing our backs was a ___,
The unpatriotic few,
Dusted in ____,
And tolerating it is just ___.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Cultural Harm

Posted on May 27, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, being a single mother is a hard life is both true and untrue. What I mean to say is that when a woman is young her options for marriage are wide but as she ages they get fewer. Even as she becomes set in her ways and less wife material. This is because good men want the rare tradwife types, not a drama queen. Women who sleep around often must choose to have an abortion, or to be a single mother. Later on this translates into either being Eleanor Rigby or a Grammy. So the real trade off is not that her whole life will be harder, but the first half will be, and quite possibly the second half will be much better. The problem is that our culture makes Eleanor Rigbys not Grammys. It doesn’t teach girls to be traditional wives but drama queens who are high maintenance, therefore, not wanted.

Our culture puts great pressure on young women and men. It promotes the slut life to women and abortion as the solution to the “only” issue, pregnancy. Our culture encourages women to live as sailors in a foreign port. It tricks them into thinking that is the best life. Not the life that suits a woman, or she is suited for, but one that serves the lust of those promoting it. The cultural elites’ desires are met at the cost to all women everywhere. Even wives are touched by the cultural prion. Upon contact it bends a woman’s mind toward self-destruction. Just as a prion bends a protein to its opposite. The women who avoid the prion of feminism tend to live long healthy happy and fulfilled lives, find their burdens light, and die surrounded by their great grandchildren who lament their passing, then go to Heaven.

Men are told there is something innately wrong with boys and masculinity. That is an underlying theme of our culture. Everything a young man thinks and wants is proof he is evil. The culture further goes on to inform young men that they need to change what they are… they need to become more like women. The drive to get ahead, to vie against each other, and ambition itself is labeled as a bad thing. The result is, men that fail to launch. Why subject oneself to ridicule, heartbreak, and theft when video games provide a pseudo-life that is challenging, fun, and satisfying? The culture destroys the aggressive drive born in all men, replacing it with hopelessness. That same culture vilifies the boys who believe its perverted messages as incels.

Girls are desired for their beauty but boys are desired for their accomplishments. This is the natural order. A girl has within her everything she needs to find a man. A man, however, has to make something of himself to be desirable to women. Men have to prove they are good enough to have a wife. This sets up the paradigm where girls find they are desired at an early age. They are pandered to and told how pretty they are. This leads them to develop a false sense of value. Moreover, the prettiest girls are systematically taught to be insane. Think about it, if everything you ever said was called brilliant, not because it was, but because they desired you, you or I would go crazy too. We need constructive feedback to stay sane. The boy who is constantly belittled has the opposite problem.

This sets up a paradigm where no one is satisfied with life. Many women have had several abortions but no children. They are aging into Eleanor Rigby. Many boys have retreated into video games instead of engaging in life. I blame the culture. It perverts kids at a young age to ruin their lives. Culture tells girls the best life is the slut life, and tells boys they should just go away. So both do. Since culture is the source of the problem, culture could be the solution. The problem is the cultural elites are dedicated to this paradigm. They adore the slut life and revel at blocking boys from ever having wives and families. The answer then is to replace the cultural elites. Boycott those works that tell girls to be boys and boys to be girls. Future generations will thank us if we do, and condemn us if we don’t.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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