Limericks

Posted on December 7, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Absurdity created by the elite idealist,

Crushing their enemy the pragmatist,

He said as a quip,

We shouldn’t stop it,

Which are the words of an accelerationist.

 

There once was a dame from Wellington,

With front teeth that gave her distinction,

She ordered with a grin,

You must take this toxin,

But couldn’t reach her front teeth with her tongue.

 

Democrat fraud may not work this time,

When it did denying an election was a crime,

It was wrong yesterday,

But now the elite say,

If we don’t win we can turn on a dime.

 

There once was a guy named Maher,

He claimed to be woke and aware,

Pretending to be tough,

Saying I’ll leave in a huff,

But in truth no one really does care.

 

The British taxpayer will sing joyously,

Knowing their money went across the sea,

To shill for a loser,

A sloppy boozer,

While the boats keep a coming endlessly.

 

It’s astonishing to regular folks,

It’ll be the brunt of future jokes.

Trump was attacked,

The story was sacked,

Like Russian collusion but not a hoax.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Win Win And Win Lose

Posted on December 6, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, elites have an idealist mindset of win lose. The idea of win win is alien to them. When speaking of the Ukraine war, all those with the public’s ear can say is, “Ukraine needs bargaining chips to force concessions from Russia.” Which shows a complete lack of understanding of human nature. There are things Russia wants more than winning a war, that’ll saddle it with responsibilities it doesn’t have the wealth or manpower, to squander on. Our elites however, can only think in a binary way… win lose. No matter how many lives it costs, they must be spent, to get that bargaining chip… so they can win more concessions. Win lose also applies to matters public as well as international. The government must always win and the public must lose in every interaction. Illustrating the weakness of government.

Idealists think in terms of win lose, while pragmatists think in terms of win win. Government however, is an arena where win lose is the norm, and so it draws those with that mindset. Idealists for example. People who are binary in their thinking. There’s an ideal and then there’s everything else. To them, only the ideal is allowable, even if achieving it kills everyone on Earth. The idealist mindset allows one to believe an ideal is worth any atrocity. Meanwhile, a pragmatist seeks to gain, even if the other side gains… and if not gaining at least cut the losses. A pragmatists keeps a foot behind to catch herself if the rope lets go. While an idealist pulls with both feet forward. If the rope breaks or the load suddenly releases, the pragmatist catches herself, while the idealist goes flying.

Elites that have to win at any cost are willing to bleed a nation dry of its youth…while capitalists, who must be pragmatic, cut their losses. The idealists that run our nations have goals that must be met. Whether or not those goals make any sense in the real world. They’re ideals and as such must be striven for. Without hesitation. The goal of socialist equality of outcome is just such an ideal. Equality of outcome, (an ideal) flies in the face of the Pareto distribution, (a law of nature). Making socialism, communism and fascism all idealist dreams, that can never come true in the real world. Instead, their implementation results in human suffering, far exceeding even the state of nature itself. If a lion chases you down and eats you, it’s not personal, but going to a Gulag is.

The win win mindset is a profit based system of thought. It seeks to maximize profit at cost to later losses. While a con may make a ton of money today, it pollutes the well for later interactions, an unaccounted for loss. Even as a good salesman will sweeten the well for later sales. Which means his sales rise over time, while a scammer eventually goes to jail or is beat to death. A swindler maybe an extreme illustration. What about a used car salesman? You buy a jalopy from him and find the odometer has been turned back. How many future sales can he expect from you? That’s the acme of a win lose mindset. What about a different used car salesman, who gives you a good deal, fixes a minor flaw without question or charge, and sends you birthday cards? Would you buy another car from him?

Three kinds of people need to win, idealists, bureaucrats and toddlers. If they don’t win… they throw a fit. Moreover, if you don’t lose, they feel cheated. Idealists are driven by emotion instead of reason. Yet use reason to rationalize their emotionally driven actions. People with a win lose mindset can only succeed in government and monopoly. Every other arena of adventure breaks the idealist. They thrive in government however. Becoming the elites that ruin the world. Win win is utterly foreign to an elite. Like cutting your losses after a bad investment. Idealists go all in. Falling prey to the sunk cost belief. That’s why nations go to war, and we go to court, or cut our losses. We’re pragmatic while nations are idealist. Which is why, pragmatically… government must be limited.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on December 5, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Progressive denial of categories is profound,

Using rationalism and logic that’s unsound,

Saying with a straight face,

Categories have no place,

As the rights of Man they drowned.

 

It’s not hyperbole heaven knows,

Blind hate and hypocrisy as it goes,

But turn it around,

Reverse the clown,

And the story would be different as history shows.

 

Elon Musk has made himself quite the villain,

Free speech is hated by those at the pavilion,

Discourse the elite reject,

It’s what we now expect,

When dealing with powerful immature children.

 

There once was a man who conformed,

Never comfortable and always bored,

He said in some pain,

I stay in my lane,

And off the cliff in his car he roared.

 

The faction of gaslighting lies and deflection,

Telling us why we must deal with dejection,

With a straight face,

Calling us a disgrace,

Not knowing it’s confession through projection.

 

Reform and change hour by hour,

Nothing tarnishes the ivory tower,

Only one thing is fit,

Drastically limit it,

Because Government has way too much power.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Inflation And Deflation

Posted on December 4, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when Trump takes command, even if the Fed were to cut interest rates, there will be deflation, not inflation… as long as he cuts government spending, taxes and regulation at the same time. Think of it like a car. Taxes and regulation are the brakes, while spending lowers the efficiency of the engine. So if you push down hard on the brakes, with taxes and regulation, while at the same time lower the efficiency of the engine, the car will slow and eventually stop. A Keynesian would claim spending is the accelerator, but empirical history proves it lowers efficiency, it doesn’t increase fuel intake. It’s “pushing on a string.” R&D, investment in plant, and innovation are the accelerators. So, to cut inflation, government only needs to cut spending and lift its foot off the brakes.

Because government spending is like cocaine, it only feels good, it doesn’t make anything better. In fact it’s destructive. Why? Because government spending competes with private sector spending, creates inefficiencies, and fosters cronyism. All of which corrodes a nation’s wealth. Though it vastly increases the wealth of those directing the spending. By competing with private sector spending, government largess drives up costs. Monetizing the debt increase inflation. Government needs directs research, instead of consumer needs, making the economy less efficient. Meanwhile, Many firms become established they only rent seek. Becoming specialists in filling out the forms necessary to get free government money. Like coke, it feels good… until it runs out.

Deflation is the normal state of affairs in a free enterprise economy. Wages and costs are directly derived from the efficiency of the operation. If a manufacturer buys a new tool that increases the efficiency of his workers by 20%. He can give them a raise, lower his costs to under cut his competition, and take extra profits for himself. All because of that increase in efficiency. To make it more clear. If a contractor had a carpenter, who can frame a 20 foot wall in 20 minutes with a hammer and nails. Then the contractor buys a nail gun that increases efficiency, so the same carpenter can frame the same wall in 5 minutes, that increase in efficiency translates in to profit, higher wages and a savings to the customer. Making deflation and rising wages the normal state of affairs in a capitalist economy.

The way the government keeps inflation as close to 2% as possible is by printing 2% more money than the economy grows in a single year. Which is tricky because the actual growth is hard to measure,. Especially with flawed metrics. What the elite never want to happen, is to allow natural deflation. Because that leads to rapid increase in wages, the standard of living, and the station of us peons. The argument for keeping inflation above zero is based on flawed logic as well. They claim people will stop spending if they can expect lower prices next year. But if you need a refrigerator, you need it now, not next year. Few who are making gobs of money, are willing to store meat in a cooler for a year, to save a fiver. Making the argument against deflation spurious as it can be.

So if the government can cut spending, regulation and taxes, The federal reserve will be reigned in. Because there will be no need to print money to keep up with the deficit. The debt would be whittled away while our standard of living would increase. Even as the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to try to cut into the growth. To save the cronies. A wise government that serves the interests of the whole nation, would then cut spending, taxes and regulation to allow the free market the breath, to grow us out of the debt the elite have saddled us with. I suspect the Fed’s plan though is to collapse the currency the debt is denoted in and voila… the debt is inflated away and the elite don’t suffer. Just the economy, citizens and debt mules. Us for the most part.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Climate

Posted on December 3, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the climate of our planet is constantly changing. It’s perpetually going into a glacial period or an inter glacial epoch. Of the two, an inter glacial epoch is preferred, for civilization and the ecosystem. If the Earth were to be covered with glaciers again, civilization would go off planet, underground, else die out. So of the two, if we indeed have an effect on the planet, warming it is the ideal situation. Moreover, warming it, and adding plant food to the air at the same time works not only in mankind’s favor, but the entire ecosystem will benefit from the increase in plant productivity. Were we to stop global warming, there’s the chance there would be global cooling, leading to another ice age. Making our increasing CO2 emissions a life expanding act.

An ice age would bring humanity to the edge of extinction again. As it did before. Because when the weather is unpredictable crops can’t be grown. Wild vegetation, the backup for human grown crops, is diminished and wildlife is displaced. The entire ecosystem goes into shock. As ice piles up, the weight changes tectonic action leading to out of place earthquakes, subduction zones and activating formerly dead faults. Our cities would be buried under perhaps a mile think sheet of ice. Then crushed and scraped to the bedrock. Moreover, an ice age could take much more CO2 out of the atmosphere… leading to more global cooling. An ice age could be upon us in a century, should we stop global warming and replace it with a cooling climate. Like some scientists want to do.

A warming climate can only lead to more healthier flora, fauna and farms. Despite the arguments of changing rain patterns, there will always be rain. It simply may fall more at some locations that were dry and less at some that were wet. Meanwhile the USDA zones will rise so that the planet is able to produce more food to sustain more animal life. In my book, more life, is better than less life. So to have my druthers, I would choose global warming, and avoid global cooling. Especially since we’re not that far above ice age temperatures right now. As they acknowledged in the 1970’s global cooling panic. In many times in the past, the Jurassic for example, global temperatures were so much higher than today, there were forests and dinosaurs living at the Arctic circle!

CO2 is aerial plant food. The more of it there is the faster plants grow. The level today is at a near historic low. Making it harder for plants to create carbohydrates from sunlight. Only recently has the level of CO2 increased due to man’s burning carbon based fuels. That small increase has led to substantial increases in forest coverage on the planet, the Sahara desert appears to be greening, and farm productivity has increased, beyond that which would be expected from fertilizer use alone. If the level of CO2 increased to that of the Jurassic, the fecundity of the planet would rise by orders of magnitude. Benefiting plants, animals and Man. So lowering it, or merely stopping new introduction, is an attack on the ecosystem. By suffocating it of CO2, and possibly cooling the planet.

The only reason someone would want to lower CO2 is to harm the ecosystem. Someone who wants there to be less life, lower fecundity and fewer, hungrier people. Because anyone smart enough to understand the role of CO2, is smart enough to know what reducing it would do. The stupid argument doesn’t hold water here. Since the scientists must know the outcome, and to strive for an outcome of less life, is outright malevolent. All good people want there to be more life, healthier life and increasing life. To be anti life is to be a hypocrite in the most evil way. Because what demon that seeks to end the life of others… would freely give up his own? Personally, I don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, but if I did, I would be firmly on the side of global warming!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on December 2, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

There once was a faction panda,

They only lived on propaganda,

A pleasant sight,

By warm gaslight,

And organ harvested out on the veranda.

 

Beware the intellectual caste,

With egos mighty and vast,

Apt rationalism,

Lacking wisdom,

It’s folly that they broadcast.

 

The insufferable elite are like a Gorgon,

Be silent within their political cordon,

Leftists pretend they’re librarians,

Claiming they’re not totalitarians,

But it’d be easier if they didn’t tyrannize so often.

 

There once was a bureaucracy called the FAA,

Did nothing but play with themselves all day,

Political hacks,

Inept sad sacks,

And so they frittered the future away.

 

There once was an outfit called Space X,

A total utter and complete success,

Indeed visionary,

The coal mine’s canary,

And where the world’s John Gaults can apply their genius.

 

There was a people who turned from God,

Thinking that rationalism was to applaud,

Not empiricism oh no,

A priori they know,

And giving their souls to whatever is mod.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Guardrails

Posted on December 1, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, by smashing down the guardrails, the progressive faction has opened us up to innumerable potential disasters. Now the progressive globalist faction is on the ropes, the unlimited power they’ve amassed around the world, could fall into the hands of anyone. We hope the leaders we elect will be centrist, in an Enlightenment way, but until we have a taste of them, we can’t know. Especially since everyone not to the left of Mao is called far right. Skewing the metric we use to determine a person’s political stance, and hollowing out the middle, to add to the ends. Which empowers radical factions at cost to sanity. That’s why we must limit governmental power, erode the administrative state, and put the guardrails back up.

The swing from the far left, rightward, is a good thing. However, such movements can gain momentum such that they overshoot the ideal… by a long way. An out of balance wheel will wear no matter if it’s tipped to the right or left. The trouble is, we’ve worn down to the steel belts on the left side of the tire. So if we want to stave off a blowout, we need to balance more to the right… but not too far. As is the tendency of people to do. Movements build inertia. That inertia gains as the movements speeds up and grows in mass. Plus, people hang on way past their comfort zone, as we’ve seen with the progressive faction. Eventually rejecting that ideology altogether. So we must control ourselves and insure we don’t let our emotions run away with us. Else the globalists might seize control again.

The repulsive corruption of the progressive globalist faction has only impelled the swing faster. As the scales fall from people’s eyes, and they see the horror that is the globalist vision of the world, and humanity, they flee it as fast as possible. Because once you understand what they mean by, “You will own nothing and be happy…” your blood will run cold. That emotional reaction to astonishing evil is natural but makes people less rational. Running in terror, while screaming and carrying scissors, through a junkyard… is a sub optimal strategy to escape to safety. Which is the natural reaction to a monster in the dark. Once you have some distance though, it’s best to hide and weapon up. In the case of the leftist beast system, our weapons are our voices, just law and public opinion.

No guardrails means no bounds. If we pick up the weapons of the foe, lawfare, fraud and propaganda, then we’ve become unbalanced too. We need to eliminate those things. You get rid of lawfare by charging the criminals, with denial of Constitutional rights under color of law, then try, and if guilty, made examples of. Root out election fraud. By voter ID, paper ballots and same day counting. If an election takes more than 24 hours to count, there are too many anomalies, and it needs to be redone. Mail in voting must be abolished. Then there’s propaganda. Edward Bernays would be astounded at how effective his tool of mass control has become. Pass laws to forbid government propaganda against citizens. Then there’s the administrative state.

Now that people with demonstrated sanity, might be in charge, it’s time to put some guardrails back up. Pare the government back to some semblance of constitutionality. Debate Constitutional changes to get rid of abominations like Wickard v Filburn, Korematsu and Buck v Bell, to name a few. Get a handle on election fraud. Make examples of those who abuse their power, and put the guardrails back up, to prevent it in the future. Remember, the faction in power today, will not be in power tomorrow. It’s up to us then to insure that tomorrow’s ruler’s stay on the road. So they can’t engage in open election fraud, forced medical procedures, or other usurpations of human Rights. But don’t go crazy, going off road on the trail the left cut… and become the faction we’re fighting. Limit government power… don’t expand it.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on November 30, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

As Ukraine fights a now unwinnable war,

600,000 dead and the globalists want more,

Elites thirsting for blood,

Boys face down in mud,

And a nuclear exchange could be next in store.

 

At the polling place read the instruction,

They are in languages not of our nation,

Helping foreigners to vote,

Another thing to note,

Election’s are theater is the communication.

 

There once was a man certain he was right,

Willing at a moment’s notice to engage in fight,

He said with face long,

I’m just never wrong,

And in proving it he accidentally set himself alight.

 

How to reign in corruption and such,

When the elite are so out of touch,

The elite think it’s bats,

You needn’t the bureaucrats,

If your government doesn’t do as much.

 

If the people are sovereign truly,

We shall not be burdened by law unduly,

A jury can thaw,

Usurpation by law,

Until judges take it away rudely.

 

Democrats can’t count the votes on election night,

To do so would be unfair and would start a fight,

So they’ll wait and see,

How many votes they need,

To get their candidate to the highest height.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Appeal To Popularity

Posted on November 29, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the most pernicious fallacy, is appeal to popularity. Edward Bernays liked to exploit that little trick to manipulate people. He used it to con women into smoking, and wearing bras. Even as the new propagandists have manipulated women into eschewing families, and loving abortion. The Covid vaccine is pushed by appeal to popularity. Appeal to popularity is so powerful since we’re social animals. Being social we want to fit in. So if we detect the crowd is going a certain way, we follow, else risk being left behind. This is so ingrained that we are manipulated by it… and we are. Being undetected and effective it’s pernicious. So it’s not likely to go anywhere soon. Making it important for us to become immune to the fallacy of appeal to popularity.

When a thing is pernicious, it’s hard to get rid of. Long Covid could be called pernicious Covid. Another example is Herpes, which is a pernicious disease, as is appeal to popularity. They’re all hard to get rid of. Appeal to popularity is probably the worst. Because herpes dies with the patient, and long Covid eventually goes away, but appeal to popularity will outlast us all. Because it’s used by us all and will be used until time ends. Being so effective and so often hidden. Knowledge is defense. Realize that the popular thing may not be the right thing nor the most profitable means. Like smoking, just because everyone does it, doesn’t make it smart. The answer then, is to inure oneself to appeal to popularity, so we aren’t as effected by it. Dulling its teeth.

Appeal to popularity was used to glamorize smoking in the 1930s, and to discourage smoking in the 1980s. When the popular girls all smoked, all the girls smoked, and when the popular girls stopped, all the girls stopped. Because we often act as a herd. Not everyone. Some are more like cats than dogs or cows. The highly independent, disagreeable and hermit types, tend to go the opposite direction from the crowd. They think for themselves… for better or worse. Because, while appeal to popularity is a fallacy, there is safety in numbers. Even a wrong decision that kills a bunch of people, probably won’t kill you, if the crowd is big enough. Individualists like Dick Proenneke are rare people. Their risks are their own as are the rewards and dangers. Had nuclear war broken out… he would have barely noticed.

There’s safety in fitting in too. Scientists were studying zebras back in the day. The trouble is, they couldn’t identify one long enough to get meaningful data… so they painted one. Then the lions ate it. So they marked another… which the lions immediately ate. Eventually, the scientists figured out individual zebras must blend in to the crowd, so lions cant pick one out. Marking them so one stood out was a death sentence. In some ways we’re like zebras. There are innumerable adages about how high nails are pounded down, the dangers of sticking your neck out, and rocking boats. Even as others urge us not to follow crowds, think for ourselves, and the dangers of jumping off bridges, just because everyone else is. Which means, we need to be zebras sometimes and John Gault others.

Wisdom is recognizing when we should be Dick Proenneke, and head out alone into the wilderness, and when we should blend into the crowd. Though at no time should we allow ourselves to be manipulated by appeal to popularity. No one manipulates us for our good, they manipulate us for their good. That’s as close to the kind of universal the Taoists hate as is possible. The way to do that is by keeping perspective. Try to take a bird’s eye view of the dialogue in the media, the marketplace and at work. There’s always manipulation. Practice looking for it is a good exercise in recognizing it. So we don’t get manipulated. Because cons only work when the Mark is unaware. Learn to be aware and the swindle of appeal to popularity won’t work on you. Be a zebra or a John Gault when it serves you.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Posted on November 28, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Giving thanks shows humility wisdom and cheer,

Thanking almighty God for what we hold dear,

But what a way to celebrate,

Eating turkey wine and cake,

Then watching the big game as we drink beer.

 

Sincerely,

John  Pepin

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