Will Corona Improve the Lot of Man or Lower it?

Posted on March 27, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there could be some encouraging outcomes of this kung flu panic, in education, manufacturing and the destruction of people’s complacency. Some unfortunate outcomes might be heading our way as well. Government has used this emergency to move the Overton window towards autocracy. The money printing is epic, having ramifications no one can tell at this time, and social distancing has put electronic communication between all of us… with all that implies. There is good and bad in everything, if you look for it, and some of what we might consider good or bad may turn out to be the opposite. Rest assured though… this panic will eventually be nothing but a footnote in history books. Until then, we’ll have to wait and see how this turns out.

In education, the ubiquitous use of telepresence and teleeducation can only show the cracks in the facade of higher education. Why take on unforgivable debt for an “education” that teaches you not how to get a great job, nor how to manage money, and certainly not how to be an entrepreneur, but instead how to alienate potential employers, the art of suicide bombing a conversation and three easy steps to staying in your parent’s basement forever. That, ahem, “educators” openly worry their content will be available for anyone to see, I wonder if the real fear is that the parents might discover the drivel they are paying tens of thousands for, and recognizing there is a quality alternative… once and for all breaking the mystique of university education, and it’s socialist indoctrination.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US can only help the US economy, drug epidemic and pandemic of hopelessness. This could only happen by the Wuhan Corona jarring people out of their normalcy bias. Instead of hording toilet paper, maybe people will store a month’s worth of food in their basement. Practice first in first out, and next time be in the position of laughing at those with a shopping cart full of toilet paper, instead of being that panicked person. Waking the American people up is always a dangerous thing. It is like awakening the Kraken. In this case it will probably result in a clawing back of manufacturing and a few people keeping a bit of extra food on hand, in case of an emergency, but it could always end up in Godzilla like destruction.

Those who favor arbitrary rule, and make no mistake, there are many, have used this crisis to grab a few more powers, for our own good of course, “temporarily.” Like the payroll tax. By doing so they have changed what is considered acceptable use of government power. The stimulus that they have passed will keep the printing presses red hot, then the IRS will get busy taking it all back. Maybe the most insidious thing is social distancing has put electronic devices between all of us. Many if not most of our communications have been over such devices, but now they are for those ordered to shelter in place… their only means. Which gives the government, (NSA) or any other hacker sufficiently adroit, to monitor everything said. Not just a portion, but everything, by everyone… not at all dystopian.

How this all plays out, we’ll have to wait and see, but it is best to use it as a learning experience. Some people won’t learn, others will, and still others will wake up for a moment then go right back to sleep. Lulled by the drone of daily life once everything gets back to normal. If we can bring back some critical manufacturing to the US, break the back of “higher education,” and jar enough people out of their complacency, the lot of mankind will have been improved. If we act with intent, to make this turn out to be a benefit, it will. So, instead of becoming irrational, angry and destructive, let’s pull together, grow as a people and make the world a better place because of this virus… released upon the world by a careless or criminal Chinese Marxist government.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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On The Crono Stimulus.

Posted on March 25, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, government money always has strings, and those strings are often more like fly paper. It appears the government is going to “give” us $1,200 each, bailout the airlines, provide loans to business and save the world from the Kung Flu, in an 889 page document, filled with pork, fly paper and wrapped up like a pig in a poke. Governments around the planet and across time have used the public purse to get things done, that otherwise couldn’t get done. Typically, usurpation. Attracted to the sweet looking paper, the people will see the “stimulus” as a life saver. Especially those unfortunate ones put out of work by this panic. What it will end up doing is transferring huge amounts of money from savers and workers to spendthrifts and layabouts.

A pig in a poke is an old adage, that means to buy something you didn’t expect, Caveat Emptor, or buyer beware. We are being sold on this “stimulus package” by the money we will be getting from the government. That sounds great, who doesn’t want money! Like the guy in Idiocracy said, “I like money…” But where is the money coming from that the government is “giving” us? It is either taxed from us, mostly by the payroll tax, else it is printed by the Federal Reserve, then loaned at interest to the government to give to us. Now that first way shows clearly that we are not being given money… but a liability. One we will have to pay back in the future, plus interest, overhead, shipping and handling. The second way, once you understand it, is truly diabolical.

The second way, by printing it, loaning it to a bank then the bank buying government bonds, doesn’t seem so clearly diabolical at first glance. Unless one is aware of economic history. The dollar is a fiat currency, it isn’t backed by gold or silver, it is backed by the full faith of the Federal Reserve, a private company that protects the banks, one that pretends to be a government organization. That means the dollar has elasticity. Unlike a metal backed currency, a fiat currency, like the Greenbacks, of the US revolution, are only based on the number in circulation. To print and buy government bonds is called monetization of debt. It has a long and storied history of destroying nations. There is a story of Wiemar Germany, if you bought a beer, by the time you finished it… the next one was more expensive.

The take and give, or print borrow and give, are both sufficient to prove the pig in a poke allegation, but there is more. All those loans to “help” come with some pretty sticky strings. The nationalization of the airline industry. Any airline that takes out a loan will have to allow Uncle Sam as a silent owner. Since every airline will need loans to stay afloat, voila, The airline industry is nationalized. No muss no fuss. That is some very adhesive tape. Corporations will not be able to buy back shares, (embezzlement as far as I am concerned) or pay dividends, (the only reason to invest in a company if you ask me). Don’t worry though, rest assured, politically favored CEOs will get their bonuses and perks, it will just be the pensioners, IRAs and savers who take the hit, in losing their dividends.

Government never wants to let a crisis go to waste. This one is no exception. The progressive faction will do everything it can to use the panic to limit the power of the people and grow theirs. Remember, there are progressives on both sides of the aisle. The naked power grab of nationalizing the airlines is one step in the direction progressives, and socialists would like to take us. The real prize though is to use this crisis to create the next one. That way there is always another crisis to exploit, so progressives can move the ball down the field, ever closer to utopia. It is a very long shot, since the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, but hyperinflation is always possible, once people lose faith in their currency, As Germans did in the Mark in the 1930s. Now that is a pig in a poke!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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University Education?

Posted on March 22, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, truth tellers want their message out in the light of day, both so others can hear it and be swayed, as well as to test it’s veracity. A concept is tempered in the arena of ideas. They are forged and hardened by argument, consideration and insight. For any idea to be compelling it must have something good about it. That good sounding thing may, sadly, electroplate arsenic. Such can only be discovered if the idea is scratched at by society as a whole. Moreover, if someone has an idea that is solid through and through, they want it discoverable by everyone, to sway them. On the other hand, those who are selling dross, would seek to keep their ideas, teaching and actual proselytizing, hidden and targeted. So… why would university professors worry about their lectures becoming public?

If a truth is indeed truth, it can withstand the eyes of many. In fact, I believe it was the inventor of Linux, Linus Corvallis who said, given enough eyes any flaw becomes obvious. He of course was talking about code, but that same insight holds true of ideas as well. Unlike code, that must go through registers, gates and down buses, proving it clean or flawed… ideas are run on the complex system of humanity, economics, culture and under the operating system of the pathological order. This is no great secret. Those most learned among us must know this, if I do, so one would think that if they want to purge their ideas of flaws, they would expose them to the eyes of the world? Cleaning their concepts of bad code so they can run perfectly in the morass of humanity.

Pragmatically, if an idea is sent through the complex system of humanity multiple times, and it always produces calamity, resulting in millions of deaths, gulags, oppression and want, one would have to deem that idea, bad. If one is pragmatic, that socialism is a bad idea since it has always led to disaster, is the only conclusion possible. Pragmatism is why you don’t throw good money after bad, you cut your losses, keep friends out of your business… and you don’t give government unlimited power. Now, one could argue, why didn’t people see that socialism would lead to such terrible outcomes, if Linus Corvallis was correct? Well, they did. Edmond Burke called it, and is hated to this day for being right. Showing the pathological nature of human governance fights the truth… even after it’s proven.

If you believe in what you are saying, you want others to hear to convince them of that truth, and thus improve their life outcomes. That which is truth, when known understood and practiced, always improves life outcomes, and those who are human hearted seek to improve the lives of others. Because it is manifestly obvious that the improvement in the lives of others, added up, results in the improvement of everyone’s, and therefore ours as well. On the other hand, if you are indoctrinating and manipulating people into self harm, you would want your manipulations, lies, and conniving, hidden from the world. Those engaging in manipulation of people into self harm must follow a different philosophy. Destroying the life outcomes of others gives the worthless a sense of self worth.

There is a news story going around, that the Wuhan Coronavirus, the Kung Flu has caused colleges and universities to go online, to practice social distancing. Several professors have voiced concern that “right wing” websites could get a hold of their lectures and post them. Personally, I would love it if a left wing website posted my articles, so if you run a left wing website, please feel free to reproduce my articles, in their entirety and unedited. These university professors worry that exposing their lectures to the world could undermine their “lessons” to the youth. This could only be done if their lessons contain manipulations or deceptions. I would hate to think multitudes of people are taking on unforgivable debt, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, only to give the worthless a sense of self worth.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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US China Relations

Posted on March 18, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the relationship between the US and China, could be set up so that both nations benefited optimally, but that can never happen with a Marxist one party state in charge of China. If, on the other hand, the government of Taiwan were to become the government of mainland China, the trading relationship could be set up so that the next century at least, would have high and rising standards of living… in both China and the US. That is because the government of Taiwan is not expansionist nor is it authoritarian. That difference between the Maoist state that is totalitarian at it’s core, and the Taiwanese state that has adopted the same principles of government as the US founders, is night and day for the interests of the people and the relationship with it’s neighbors.

Mainland China has to pay for some pretty hefty sins. The one child policy, for example, that aborted millions of children, at the demand of the government. That policy has led to an upside down pyramid demographic. As Peter Zeihan says, “because that is the way math works…” They cannot become a consuming society for at least two decades at the minimum and probably much longer. They must therefore export the surplus goods of their economy, else it will collapse like a house of cards. Moreover, China has few natural resources, other than rare earths, and so it is reliant on outside sources for it’s energy needs. Natural gas is the most efficient fuel today, yet the Chinese burn coal, because gas is not available in sufficient quantities, but the US is awash in the stuff. A natural partner.

The US has an insatiable demand for goods. Americans didn’t care where they were made, just that they worked and and are not dangerous. That demand, along with the US guaranteeing safe passage anywhere on the planet’s navigable ocean waters, allowed China to export. If the US stopped patrolling the waterways, China would instantly have to create a deep water navy… to protect it’s energy imports and it’s exports. Even the Chinese investments in Africa to secure access to natural resources would become irrelevant should the US pull up stakes. Since the Maoist government of China is intent on expanding, thus endangering the very paradigm that has allowed it to thrive… this shows it cannot ever be a partner, only an adversary. Unlike Taiwan or Japan which have limited governments.

When power is concentrated in the hands of a few, and those few are unaccountable to the people, as the Chinese Maoist government is, it can pass all sorts of very disastrous policies the people are forced to suffer. The Chinese Maoist rulers at the time thought it was a good idea to lower the population, so, after they killed forty five million by starvation during Mao’s lifetime, they decided it would be a good idea to tell people how many children they can have… at the point of a gun. The one child policy was birthed. Maoist China invaded Tibet in the fifties and is eradicating Tibetan culture as I write this, no different than the Muslims did Egyptian culture, after they conquered it. As long as there is a totalitarian government in mainland China, it will engage in crimes against humanity, it is their nature.

That mainland China is still ruled by Maoists is a tragedy for the human race. It certainly has been for the people of China, Mongolia, Tibet and others under the jack boot. Not just the tens of millions starved to death, beaten, shot and used for spare parts, but the untold millions of babies aborted, shows that regime cannot be trusted by their own people, let alone humanity. That is sad because if China were ruled by sane people, limited in power, the US and China would complement each other perfectly. US LNG, food and natural resources could flow freely to China while finished products could flow to the US. Everyone would get rich. That can never happen while an expansionist Maoist regime rules China. Japan was once a mortal enemy, now a vital ally, let’s pray it doesn’t take a war this time.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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It’s Time to Panic… or Not

Posted on March 15, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, it’s time to panic, completely freak out, set your house on fire, get a shopping cart and load it with toilet paper, then hide behind the seven eleven… or not. From the headlines in the papers, and to hear the talking heads on TV, mindless panic is the only rational response to this extremely bad cold that is going around. Every news site I peruse is wall to wall doom porn. Basketball is not being played, (or at least the audiences are home watching on TV), the economy is going to crash, (even though the stores are packed with people shoulder to shoulder buying toilet paper and hand sanitizer), and everyone will get it within a month, (even though the spread has been arrested in China and South Korea, and it isn’t spreading in Australia or South America). Clearly, it’s time to light our hair on fire.

I have always advocated for people to keep at least a month’s worth of food on hand. Even if it is just survival food. Because, those who do, don’t have to go shoulder to shoulder during a pandemic, in a frantic hunt for hand sanitizer. We have plenty of bar soap at home. If a natural disaster hit, the people with food in their pantries give humanity some elasticity to disaster. The food supply doesn’t immediately run out, the fuel supply is less volatile and there is plenty of toilet paper to go around. How many people who have extra in their homes for emergencies, do you suppose, are fighting hand to hand over a roll of toilet paper today? A little preparedness gives a person a great deal of calm… in the face of the media and elite demanding we all have a communal conniption fit.

Those who keep so little in their homes that in an emergency… they would starve to death before the day is over, have reason to panic. The mindset that goes along with having nothing in reserve lends itself to a thoughtless reliance on the system. If your life is totally dependent on the system, any hiccup in it, and you better flip out. If on the other hand, you are even a little bit self reliant, snafus, epidemics and recessions are far less terrifying. Being totally reliant on a system, they have no idea how it works or the mechanisms that run within it, makes someone dependent. These are the people most easily manipulated into self harm for the benefit of psychopathic elite. You see them at the stores today, going toe to toe over a sanitary napkin.

Of course this could lead to the extinction of the human race, which is the scenario that is being considered the most likely by the media today, but the better bet, is that it will not. Ebola and SARS, were far more scary than this bad cold. Which could follow the same course as the 1918 pandemic, a mild version goes around in the spring and the following fall the deadly strain ravages humanity. Although the 1918 pandemic had little long term effect even on the war. To rationally justify the amount of panic and fear that is being promoted, this must be far far worse. Then again, to bet against the human race is always a lose lose proposition. Like Pascal’s Wager… because if you bet for our extinction, who will pay off the bet? If you bet on our survival, if the bet can be paid off, it will be.

The one thing about a panic, is that those who don’t, can scoop up tons of deals. During the depression, bankers who kept their heads became the next generation of uber rich, the traders who held onto intrinsically valuable stocks came out ahead, and the people who bought up the land of their neighbors at fire sale rates, expanded their farms. The secret is to have some extra set aside, so that in the case of panics, you don’t, and can take advantage. Moreover, by doing so, you help stem the panic, saving those dependent on the system much sweat and tears. Today is no different than all the panics that have come before. It is an opportunity as much as a disaster, and this may not even be a disaster at all. So, take advantage of the deals as best you can, but be careful not to buy flashy tulip bulbs.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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On the Concentration of Crucial Manufacturing

Posted on March 13, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the height of absurdity to concentrate the manufacture of antibiotics in one nation, let alone compound it by concentrating that production in an expansionist empire. The susceptibility of that crucial supply to natural disaster is increased as the area it is manufactured decreases. Moreover, that an expansionist empire has seized the monopoly on it’s fabrication, gives that expansionist empire an ace. How do you go to war with the people that make your antibiotics? That, in and of itself is suicidally stupid, but as it turns out, China is the world’s pharmaceutical supplier as well! Got High Blood Pressure? No soup for you! Along with everything else made there… If, God forbid, a real disaster, far more destructive than coronavirus were to hit China, the world would be out of luck.

China is the world’s factory because of it’s political stability and the laissez faire regulatory environment. In China, it is easy to start a business, get a loan to buy plant or equipment and the tax system is conducive to capital use. It is, however, difficult to go to church, have an opinion or defend yourself… but that is a different topic for a different blog. The cost of labor has also been historically low. Now, these are great things for an economy, but add in the government requires foreign businesses, as a condition of doing business in China, hand over their Intellectual Property, (IP), then passed to their Chinese competitors, that is a winning hand. An entrepreneur will not hand over IP they created, but a corporate psychopath CEO will gut the company he runs for an extra buck, all day long.

The ironic thing is… the only reason China has been able to become the manufacturer for the world, is because of the US hegemony since WWII. According to Peter Zeihan, the US cobbled up a coalition to fight the Cold War, by bribing it together. Part of the bribe was that the US would protect the sea lanes, and allow everyone access to everyone else’s goods, products, services and natural resources. Upending the prior paradigm of colonial nations vying for natural resources against each other… usually at gunpoint. This new system has allowed China to get past the First Island Chain that has historically enclosed China. That is why China seeks to control the South China Sea as a national lake, and then most of the First Island Chain… to plan for the post US paradigm.

Wuhan Coronavirus has shown us the danger of concentrating the world’s manufacturing in one place. If it had been an asteroid that hit Wuhan we wouldn’t be talking about temporary disruptions in supply chains. It is common sense not to concentrate manufacturing of anything crucial in one place. How many people are saved every day by antibiotics? We will never know, but we do know they save billions, if not trillions of dollars in hospital stays. If that supply was cut off for a few months, let alone forever, the toll on humanity, and economically would be profound. To a lesser degree, the Rare Earth minerals are only mined and processed in China, along with so much else… that if China were devastated today, the world would be shunted back half a century or more, technologically.

The argument China is ruled by an expansionist one party state becomes redundant. The answer is not to vilify China, they have acted in their own self interest, their rulers have no obligation to act in the world’s. Not by their world view. The first thing to do is recognize the predicament we are in. The second is to formulate a plan to get out… then take action. The central part of that plan should be to claw back some manufacturing, of at least crucial products like antibiotics, back to the West. To do that, Western leaders need to cut regulations, so plants can be built or even restarted, stop keeping zombie corporations alive, apply law equally no matter which party has political favor, put restrictions on transferring IP, etc… Start making things in the US, Russia and Europe again.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Taught to be Ignorant

Posted on March 11, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, our schools are doing a terrible job of educating our kids, in every way possible. Our schools teach children what to think, not how to think or how to get ahead, instead focusing on making our kids good little slaves. In the 1980’s the public school system eliminated industrial arts and home economics. That tragedy led to generations of kids who need to be taught, by their employers, how to turn on a table saw or make a biscuit. What is most tragic is that our schools inculcate a sense of hopelessness in our children. The amazing thing is that even as our schools fail our children, they demand ever more money for the failing educators, that are teaching foolishness, hedonism, Marxism and gender studies.

Ask any graduate of high school about Stalin’s purges, the gulags, the extermination of the Kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, Mao’s Great Leap Forward that killed 45 million Chinese, Fidel Castro killing 50,000 when he came to power, Pol Pot’s killing fields, Kim Mentally Ill’s regime of three generations of punishment or that the Nazis were the national socialist party… yet they all have a great deal of admiration for socialism! Talk about educated to be ignorant! The singular lesson of the 20th century was that socialism fails… economically, human heartedly, and culturally. It fails at every level of examination and is pathological. Yet the conclusion of our educators is that it must be taught as morally superior to capitalism. This has let our kids down in a big way.

Everyone has a stake in society. This is because we are a social creature. Everything good that comes to us as individuals comes from other people. How many times have you been talking to someone about a problem, and they tell you their friend had the same issue, and solved it… Then you apply that same solution and voila, your problem is solved. That didn’t’ come from government, it came from other people, interacting as individuals, sharing our common stake in society. Even the poorest person has a stake in society. How long will welfare checks keep coming in if our society fails? How much food will be available to charity if everyone is starving? Who will be the most harmed by a collapse… the rich? Of course not, they have the self taught ability to get ahead in any circumstances.

Money is the spring from which our lives are improved. Those with more have longer and better lives. This is no great insight. We all know this to be true, yet our schools teach nothing about money. Seriously? Why not? Every kid should be taught the difference between a liability and an asset, they should know how to create a balance sheet, understand cash flow and calculate profit loss. That they are not is an indictment of our government monopoly school system. The damage to our economy, society, students and culture is incalculable. Imagine how many people could become entrepreneurs if they were given the tools to be in school? Imagine how much our gross domestic product would be increased, if more people became rich, because it is the core curriculum of our schools?

We live in a technological age. Every contraption we enjoy comes from our forefathers invention. They knew how to weld, turn steel on a lathe, fix a lawnmower, make furniture, grow a garden, bake biscuits and cook a roast. Today, these things are not taught, so high school graduates don’t know the difference between a monkey wrench and a boxed end wrench. How are they supposed to advance our technology if they don’t know the basics of it? They cannot. It is truly pathetic that students have to learn the important stuff after they graduate the public school. Obviously this will only lead to chaos in our society. Those who have read my articles before know what chaos is to progressives. Which makes me wonder… are they doing a terrible job on purpose?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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All The Lonely People

Posted on March 8, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me… our culture is creating a generation of Elinor Rigbys, and Father Mackenzies. This is accomplished by undermining traditional marriage, vilifying Christianity, manipulating children into self sterilization for the benefit of perverts, pushing kids to try homosexuality by the public schools and alienating us from each other. All very progressive goals. They will of course inevitably lead to millions of lonely people, so you see, we do know where they come from, it’s just that we don’t want to speak up and be labeled a bigot. So we look around at all the lonely people, know where they come from, and figure they must belong alone. I wonder if it isn’t some mass pathological experiment to see how many children can be fooled into living a lonely, unfulfilled and tragic life?

In Europe, I hear, church attendance is almost non existent. As suggested by the line, “writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear.” Which is saying, the community that a church provides for it’s parishioners, is not being provided. The people who would otherwise have a place to go, and be part of a community, are instead staying home, alone. This is not conducive of a life that is full and where people are beloved. Instead, such a destructive attitude towards Christianity leads to people who are marginalized, alienated from their fellows and profoundly lonely. Of course, church can be alienating… for those who do not participate. Hiding in a corner, not talking to anyone but instead giving anyone who comes close a dirty stare, is a form of self ostracism.

One of our modern crimes against humanity, the transsexual movement, can only lead to alienated, unfulfilled individuals who commit suicide at alarming rates… due to their loneliness. Because the number of men who would date, and indeed marry a man, who has transitioned into a woman are extremely few, while those women who would date and marry a “man” who was born a woman, are just as rare. This can only lead people who have “transitioned,” to live without anyone significant in their lives to lift them up, hold their hand when they are sad, nurse them when they are sick or bring them to the store when they need a ride. They will miss out on the humanity we are all called to participate in. They are the victims of our fascination with girls with penises.

I am of the opinion that homosexuality is both a born trait and a learned one. Some are born with that propensity, just as some are born with the propensity to be alcoholics. The first attribute is harmless with out the second to trigger it. Someone who would be an alcoholic, who never tastes beer, will never destroy themselves by it. Our public schools today teach our children to at least try homosexuality, before deciding to be heterosexual. They might as well force every child to try crack cocaine, liqueur and heroine. They all lead to the same place. A person who is all alone in the world, unfulfilled and sick, mentally, spiritually and physically. Homosexuality is not like those things you say? Statistics might enlighten us on this matter.

People who have “transitioned” attempt suicide at the ripe old age of thirty at upwards of 54%! The life expectancy of someone who is openly “gay” is also much diminished. Studies of people who are atheist show they have less life fulfillment and are more angry than those who regularly attend church services. The lack of community might have something to do with this. We are social animals. We need companionship. When denied companionship we become angry, sad, self destructive and bitter. All lead to diminished life outcomes. If we really care about humanity, we will stop the foolishness, point it out, embrace and love everyone, while helping others to become the best they can be. To do otherwise is to participate in making a generation of Elinor Rigbys.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Covid 19 Scare

Posted on March 6, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, this Covid 19 “pandemic” is as overly hyped as it is a flash in the pan. Simply put covid 19 is a form of the common cold, a coronovirus, at least it is in the same family. We all know what happens to the common cold once warm weather hits… it goes away. I predict Covid 19 will as well. Once June and July get here the cases will fall off the table. In the meantime it is a very effective weapon the media that calls itself unbiased Is using against the Trump administration. The pandemic scare has shaved better than ten percent from the stock market, which makes the democrats ecstatic. Their politicization of this disease, shows their absolute lack of human heartedness, and duplicity. Such people belong behind the operating end of a mop, not at the levers of power.

The Covid 19 disease may or may not be from a bio weapons lab in Wuhan China, or it may be from a bat, who knows, and furthermore, who cares? It is not as deadly as SARS was, and the Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to control it’s outbreak in the US. Unlike the EU, where the boarders are kept open at all costs… even the potential deaths of millions of Europeans, Trump took the hard step to stop incoming air traffic from the effected areas. In doing so he received the ire of the progressive faction that would like nothing better, (judging by their actions) than a widespread epidemic that kills millions of Americans. In acting insane, claiming it is out of control and urging panic, democrats have shown who they really are.

During the Obama administration there were at least two deadly diseases that ravaged people around the world, that Obama did nothing to stop. The Ebola disease that kills eighty percent of those infected, bleeding out their eyes, nose, ears and mouth, was allowed to spread to the US by unlimited air travel. The media however didn’t have anything bad to say about Obama’s handling of that disease. The SARS epidemic, that killed over a thousand Americans and was allowed to spread to tens of thousands of Americans, didn’t elicit any negative response from the media. It was not hyped nor was Obama vilified for doing nothing to stop the spread. In the end, it was the onset of summer that stopped SARS from killing many more Americans… not the response from the Obama administration.

Oh, I am not saying this is not a deadly threat, to not only the US, but the world. I am saying it is not the threat the 1918 Spanish Flu was, nor is it the danger that SARS was. The primary problem with this disease is the world’s response to it. China has gutted their economy by quarantine, California is in a state of emergency and Europe is in a panic. That panic has effected the stock market and may lower economic output for the world this year. Not due to the deaths, or disease, but because of the over the top response, designed to damage our economy, and thus elicit anger against Trump leading the way for a Marxist or progressive to take the reins of power. To them, human suffering is a tool, a means to power… not a thing to be avoided.

If progressives really did worry about disease, they would not promote disease where they live. Take San Francisco, human feces lines the streets, in LA all the once eradicated diseases have made a comeback, leprosy, tuberculosis, plague, even measles, mumps and rubella, due to the anti immunization movement. Showing progressives don’t worry about disease, unless it can get them more power over others. Then progressives project terror, to create a panic, which by any measure is very progressive. Sure, Covid 19 will kill people and it will be a problem for the next few months. By early summer it will be relegated to the history books as another feckless panic. So, wash your hands, keep safe and stay vigilant, but don’t panic, that is Henney Penney foolishness that will only make it worse.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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A One Way Dead End – Democratic Socialism

Posted on March 4, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the thing about socialism, is that you can vote yourself into it… but you have to fight your way out. History has a very strong opinion about this. Once socialists gain control of the levers of power, they control the levers in the voting machines as well. As Marx is said to have said… It matters not who the voters want, it matters what the people who count the vote, want. Which is openly saying that once socialists gain power they must subvert democracy to their own ends. Being the guru of all socialists his word must be taken seriously. Another thing history informs us of, is that a people who vote themselves into socialism fare better than those forced into it. Because when force is used, tyranny is the immediate result, but when voted in, it takes a decade or so for real oppression to kick in.

Their ideas are so good they must be mandatory, as the saying goes. Socialists are the ultimate in hubris. They believe themselves so wise, enlightened and sublimely intuitive, they have the ability to know, without question, that their ideas are for the best of Mankind. They are so certain they are correct, that violence is acceptable to force, others to comply. The platform of every socialist party across the planet highlights this ugly truth. They openly call for redistribution by force, regulating entire industries out of existence, (coal, and fracking for example), state control of the youth, one size fits all healthcare, regulating every aspect of our lives, (for our own good of course), and disarming citizens. All by people who can’t tie their own shoes.

There is a psychological point of the Big 5 personality traits, Introversion, Openness to new ideas, Conscientiousness, Orderliness, and Neuroticism, progressives tend to be high in openness to new ideas and low in conscientiousness. Conservatives tend to be low on openness to new ideas and high in conscientiousness… the people who get things done. We all know people who are not conscientious, their bills are unpaid, their houses are a mess, they are always late, they borrow stuff and either don’t return it else it is broken if they do, they take two parking places, their shoes are untied, etc… none of which makes someone a bad person, they are in fact the innovators… it does however, point to the fact they probably shouldn’t be ordering everyone else around at gunpoint.

History’s strong opinion is that socialism leads to communism, which leads to oppression. The chain of events is inevitable once it has got underway. The 1917 Revolution was led by “moderate” socialists, but Lenin perverted the vote to name the factions, to get the name “majority” in Russian… Bolshevik. While the moderate socialists, who were the actual majority, were slandered as the minority… Menshevik. The communists have the stomach to make the hard decisions, like in the factional fighting between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks would kidnap a Menshevik at night. They would take him, or her, to the woods, cut a small slit in the victim’s side and pull out a bit of intestine, and nail it to a tree. Then whip the Menshevik so he, or she, would tie themselves to the tree.

Oh, socialists chant in monotone about their commitment to democracy, with platitudes like democratic socialism, which upon close examination differs little from National Socialism, except the nationalist part. You see, once socialism has started, it must devolve to communism, because once the distribution of goods is by political favor, people must use violence to gain political favor. Therefore, the most violent will win. Voting under such circumstances is a table without a top. The most violent faction gets the most power, not the suffrage of the people. So, for a nation to extricate itself from socialism, some faction that seeks freedom must fight their way out… dragging the rest of society with them. Those virtuous revolutionaries are rare though, 1776 was such a time, but there hasn’t been one since.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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