Will History Repeat?

Posted on January 17, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when someone who has a history of violence, tells you they are going to do violence to your person, only a fool doesn’t take them seriously. History contains many ugly truths and repudiates all of the glistening lies we are supposed to believe. That is why we are so loathe to remember it… and is the reason it repeats so often. As in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, the person who understands the past, is a prophet to the future. In most cases, when a great evil was done to a people, the evil doer announced it beforehand, but was laughed at, the truth was far too ugly to behold. Especially when a glittering lie caught the eye. Today history is repeating itself, or at least rhyming, we have politicians and their minions echoing the statements of the past, that resulted in so much suffering.

Bernie Sanders is arguably the front runner for the Democrat ticket today. Who knows what tomorrow brings, but we are given a hint by the Project Veritas video of a Sanders campaign operative. He says if Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, Milwaukee will burn. He openly claims the police will get the brunt of the anger and violence. When asked what they would do if Sanders won the Presidency, the Campaign aid said gulags would be set up to re-educate Trump supporters. Yes, breaking rocks for 10 hours a day will give Trump supporters an attitude adjustment. Teach them not to be Nazis. Said the 20 something child in a man’s body. Thus displaying his ignorance, arrogance, egoism and violent temperament. A carbon copy of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Tamerlane and Pol Pot.

Elizabeth Warren, the used to be native American when it was expedient to get her a gig at Harvard, has come out as another full blown Marxist, er, socialist. The poor woman cannot tell the truth even when it benefits her. It must be hard to live life when your first intuition is to lie. Like when she was confronted by a voter who wondered why Warren sent her children to private school, but advocates for the hoi polloi to send our children to the failing government monopoly school system… Warren’s first impulse was to lie and claim she sent hers to public school. An easily verifiable lie. Yet she mostly got away with it because the unbiased media, an arm of the progressive faction, covers up for progressive faux pas. For all her faults, Warren, if elected, will accept her role as a face for the Administrative State.

Virginia today is an example of what the democrats under the stern tutelage of the progressive faction will inflict upon the United States, if they regain the Presidency, House and Senate. The open attack on the US Constitutional Right to keep and bare arms, along with the draconian punishments for law enforcement that refuse to follow their unconstitutional orders, removes the mask altogether. Showing the hideous visage that lay underneath. The black face governor of Virginia has openly threatened the citizens, that seek to stage a peaceful open carry protest, to protest the unconstitutional usurpations of the progressive faction in Virginia, with violence. Very progressive. We will have to wait to see how this plays out but rest assured, the same playbook will be used across the nation should they get power.

If we look at history through the lens of the rhetoric, actions and aims of the democrats this election cycle, the landscape is littered with ugly truths. Lenin said largely what Sanders says, and the 70 year slaughter that followed is the stuff of horror films. Hitler had the same arrogance, ego and violent temperament as that Sanders follower, and we all know how his election to Chancellor turned out. We even have an example of how the progressive faction will rule if in power. They will come for your guns, as they are doing in Virginia, they will not brooch any “Sanctuary” policy to protect Constitutional Rights, only to create chaos, as the path to utopia. This election, a vote democrat is a vote for the Administrative State, to take your guns, Rights and re-educate you if needed.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Our Corruptocracy

Posted on January 15, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, our collective noses are being rubbed in the government’s corruption, and many still refuse to acknowledge it! They stand there, faces covered in filth, and claim there is nothing to see here. Either they are blinded by their zealous affection for the good that can be done by an Administrative State, with unlimited power, else they are too stupid to operate their heart and eyes at the same time. Today, we are surrounded by obvious evidence of out of control corruption in the bureaucracy and government, from Suicides that are clearly not suicides, people who are obviously above the law, the Constitution used as toilet paper and every other crime you can imagine covered up. Which makes it amazing that some refuse to see.

Lets face it, Jeffery Epstein did not commit suicide. No reasonable person looking at the evidence could conclude that… unless he has an interest in finding it was suicide. Let’s run down a few facts… The camera’s outside his cell were turned off, the guards that were supposed to keep watch mysteriously fell asleep, he supposedly self strangled with paper sheets, so hard he broke and slit his own neck. Yea, not at all suspicious. Even the NYC medical examiner threw up red flags, but was told it was a suicide… so they dutifully claimed it was suicide. Never mind the fact that the entire global power structure trembled at the information that would have come out had Epstein gone on trial. Moreover, had the whole thing been on the up and up… it wouldn’t have been papered over.

Hillary Clinton is clearly above the law. Her crimes are numerous and storied. From White Water, where their business partner went to jail and their “best friend,” committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head, through the FBI files scandal, to her server, mishandling classified documents and finally wiping a server under indictment, all without consequence. She is not the only democrat that is above the law. The Awan brothers were allowed to leave the country with a trove of top secret data gathered while they worked for the DNC managing their House servers. Adam Schiff lies on the floor of the House like the rug he stands on. Holder lied under oath to congress with only the merest slap on the wrist and Lois Lerner walked even though she used the IRS to silence conservatives.

Obama weaponized the bureaucracy, the Administrative State, against his political foes… to the cheers of the unbiased media. He put malware on reporters computers to spy on them, he used the IRS to silence conservatives, and he abused the FISA process to spy on his political foes, (I wonder if he did it to Romney in 2012 as well)? Many heinous crimes point to Obama. Like Fast and Furious where he was letting guns walk into Mexico, thus arming the drug cartels, even as he was trying to shut down gun shops along the boarder, by claiming it was them who was arming the drug cartels. Thousands of people died in Mexico and the US because of that criminal broadside against the Constitution. Obama even authorized a US citizen murdered by drone… without trial.

The list of crimes unpunished grows every day. This impeachment that is not based on high crimes or misdemeanors, but on a policy argument between the Administrative State and the Executive, the open sewer that is the State Department, protecting George Soros NGOs and Hunter Biden as well as Nancy Pelosi’s son, rather than forward legitimate US foreign policy as stated by the President, The judiciary acting as a defacto Executive, over ruling every action the President makes until their judicial over reach is overturned by the Supreme Court, the stench of rot emanating from the DOJ, FBI and CIA over Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the list goes on and on, but I have limited room. The only people to see but not acknowledge, are the media and those with a dog in the race. Can’t you smell that smell?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Who Should Rule?

Posted on January 12, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when progressives are in control of government, they believe there should be no limits, but when anyone else has power, progressives strongly believe in limited government. Even the authority justly given under the US Constitution is withheld by progressives. You see this clearly in the scorched earth policy democrats are using to destroy Trump. The attitude that leads to such hubris is a total lack of self awareness and a blind faith in the moral superiority of their position. Only a zealot is unable to see another as having a valid point of view, and only a zealot will deny another the very right, to that differing point of view. In this we find that progressives cover both bases. It’s self evident that someone who denies another the very right to a point of view… shouldn’t be in charge of anything.

The progressive Obama, a sycophant of the Administrative State, could do no wrong in the eyes of progressives. His railing about the Constitution as a set of negative liberties, showed not only his antipathy for it, but his arrogance as well. Weaponizing the bureaucracy, that was all too willing to go along, against his political foes was a level of criminality unseen in the US to then. When he was caught arming Mexican drug cartels he exerted Executive Privilege and the matter was dropped. When Obama spied on reporters personal computers the progressive media gave it a good leaving alone. Examples abound where Obama was allowed to surpass his authority without consequence, but when Trump tried to reign in those extra constitutional acts, the courts stopped him. So progressive!

Now that Trump, a non progressive, who is not in love with the Administrative State, is in charge, his every action is litigated and stopped by some bench seat driving judge. Then, the entire mechanism of government must grind to a halt until the matter is litigated to the Supreme Court, where Trump has won almost every time. Nevertheless, he is severely hampered from even executing the basic prerogatives of his office. Meanwhile, he has been impeached for “Obstruction of Congress.” For exerting Executive privilege, something Obama did on many occasions, to cover up obvious crimes. Voted on a party line to impeach and bipartisan not to impeach, showing that progressives deny any other faction the legitimate right to govern… even as they demand unlimited power themselves.

Can you imagine the lack of self awareness this requires? Not only are progressives acting as hypocrites, they are doing it publicly, and lack the ability to see it. To demand unlimited power when one wins an election, but denying others even the basic right to govern when they win, is not only hypocritical, it is psychotically pathological. Which seems to be a quality of progressive governance, psychopathic manipulation of people into self harm, for fun and profit. Fortunately, psychopaths always eventually get discovered and have to move, this has been the progressive faction’s downfall before. The reaction to the progressive era’s indulgences forced progressives to change their label to “liberals” for decades. Since our historical memory is that of a guppy… progressives have reemerged.

The hypocrite is the epitome of hubris. When Obama said, “Elections have consequences…” apparently he meant only when progressives win. The hubris in that attitude is clear for anyone with eyes to see. Moreover, the progressive faction’s machinations since the election of Trump, prove their hypocrisy. Progressives went on and on, that when Trump lost, he would endanger democracy itself if he called the election into question… then went on to do exactly that. The latest stunt, impeaching Trump without letting a single witness for Trump be called, and now holding the articles, show utter contempt for the rule of law, Constitutionality or even moral and social norms. In this, the progressive’s Administrative State has shown itself to be unfit to manage a deli on 7th street… let alone rule the world.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Who Should Pay the Cost of War?

Posted on January 8, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, war should have a cost, to the people that declare it, not just some janitor’s son. War, as I have said before, is a way psychopaths manipulate good people into killing someone, who otherwise would be their best friend. Instead, wouldn’t it be more human hearted to place the real cost on those who connive, manipulate and pull the strings? Instead of the bodies burning, maybe the generals gathered in their masses should experience white phosphorous, rather than children sleeping in their beds at night. In that, Trump’s liquidation of that subhuman leader of the Al Cuds forces of Iran was pure genius. Let the dirt bag who orchestrates the deaths of other people’s children reap his well deserved eternal reward.

Any argument that he was going to do such and such, is absurd, since it has to be based on information from the CIA, MI6, NSA, etc… and they have shown themselves to be liars of the highest order, over and over. They have proven themselves worthy of our absolute antipathy and disdain. No, the culling of that man was just retaliation for the many injuries he and Iran has meted out to civilization. As the leader of the Al Cuds forces, the special forces of Iran, he was by definition, involved in Iran’s obvious backing of factions in the Iraq war, that were responsible for many US deaths and injuries. Not of psychopaths but of baker’s and bus driver’s sons and daughters. Which, had Bush or Obama been Americans, not shills for the Administrative State, would have resulted in his death back then.

The Administrative State’s proxies have been advocating for attacks on the oil infrastructure. They apparently think killing a roustabout, scratching out a living filthy and covered in unwashable paraffin, on an oil rig in the middle of the desert, will have a significant effect on the Iranian regime. I have also heard a cyberattack would have been better in retaliation for the deaths of Americans. The Administrative State appears to hold the value of human life very low, unless that human is a psychopathic dirtbag, then they value it’s life highly. The one thing every suggestion of the Administrative state is that it would increase the cost of energy and plunging us deeper into war with Iran. Which suggests it believes killing thousands of cab driver’s sons will improve the lot of Mankind.

I am more of the opinion that the people who hide behind oak doors, in walnut paneled rooms, banked with books and setting behind large intimidating desks… should be the ones to pay the price for their ideas, not the kid of a farmer in Wisconsin or Khorasan. Since the psychopaths setting in those rooms in Iran seem to like inflicting suffering on parents across the world, perhaps their own parents should experience that suffering for themselves. If we accept the concept of reciprocal attribution. Those kids sitting in bunkers in Iran needn’t die for some Ayatollah’s fantasy. The Ayatollah should be sent to meet his god. What I am saying is that the only correct response, one that even Mo Ti might agree with, is an attack on the Ayatollahs themselves, and perhaps the Iranian parliament in session as well.

This is of course sacrilege to the psychopaths that run the world. They like setting in a safe place, orchestrating the deaths of thousands, it is cathartic to them. They are what Thrasymachus would call, Great Men. The kind of person who believes Justice is a means to oppress, not a means to human heartedness. To actually threaten them… is to threaten the very paradigm that makes war possible! After all, what person, even a psychopath, would start a war if they knew they would be the first to die? After all, in the rotten core of their hearts they know who and what they serve, and where their eternal resting place will be. Why go there without the reward of creating suffering on a global scale first? Cut off the head of the worm… and let it squirm until it grows another.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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On Legalized Abortion

Posted on January 5, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, by having abortion “safe” and legal, more women are harmed by abortion than would be if it were illegal. As with most things there is the seen and the unseen. The most important factor, according to pro abortionists, is the welfare of the mother. If we accept this as the standard, for reasons of argument, it is clear that if legalized abortion is shown to harm the woman more, especially if the harm to women is much greater, then in the interests of women, abortion must be made illegal, as is rape, battery and DUI. I would further argue that anyone who doesn’t accept this standard is a zealot, who’s concern is not for the woman, but that abortion be performed for some nihilistic pathologically sick reason. So… does legalized abortion protect women?

There is that which is obvious to everyone, but other factors that are only known to a few people, these factors often change the entire profit loss of an endeavor. In his seminal book, that remains unread for the most part because it contains ugly truths, Bastiat’s example of the broken window in his, Things Seen and Things Unseen, illustrates the point. A boy breaks a window. The baker has to repair the window. The people watch and admire that the broken window has generated such economic demand. What they have not seen is that the money the baker uses to fix the window came from the money he had saved to buy shoes. The Baker will have to forego new shoes. So, what is unseen is that the window repairman’s windfall, came at the cost to the Baker and the cobbler.

The legalization and implementation of a national infrastructure, to facilitate the clinical slaughter of unborn babies, has resulted in many unseen negative incentives. For good or bad, Nature has hemmed us all in, in a myriad of ways. The danger of sex to a woman is both venereal disease and pregnancy. As innovators have made venereal disease less of a burden, and nearly eliminated pregnancy as an impediment to unlimited sex with random partners, not surprisingly we have seen an explosion of out of wedlock births, divorces and abortions. This was predicted by a Pope in some Papal Encyclical in the 1960’s… and was widely condemned at the time. Ugly truths and those that tell them are most hated, especially when they deny a glittering lie. These are things we courteously avoid seeing.

That explosion of sexual encounters has resulted in millions of unintended pregnancies and an epidemic of venereal diseases. The pregnancies can be “taken care of” by killing the baby and most venereal diseases can be solved with penicillin… but many cannot. This reduces our innovators to an arms race, and war, against pregnancy and disease… so our kids can have sex constantly with whomever they want. There are statistics that say that as many as 90% of Americans have at least one permanent venereal disease. Most being genital warts… that can lead to cervical cancer. The virus being so small it easily passes through a condom. Scientists have created a vaccine that protects from some varieties, giving those with that vaccine a false sense of security.

All resulting in over 70 million abortions since Roe V Wade in the US alone. Even as the out of wedlock birth rate has risen! Because so many more woman are getting pregnant out of wedlock due to the pernicious incentives of abortion. The number of woman harmed by abortion has also risen. The danger of any medical procedure cannot be removed, and so many more women and girls are getting abortions, the number of women harmed is way up. Add in the unseen… how many abortions were done to cover incest and rape, the objectification of women and the sexualization of kids… and we can only conclude that abortion on demand has harmed women and children in our society very much. Therefore… since the welfare of the mother is harmed by legal abortion, it should be illegal.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Progressives Radiate Hate

Posted on January 3, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, many progressives radiate hate… like a fire does heat. One only need listen to them with an open mind to feel the hate. Ask them what they hate and a progressive will harangue you for hours with everything he or she despises. They husband and nurture their hatred like one does a child. Seething inside and despising anything that they have identified as hateful. This makes progressives dangerous, because those who dwell on hate, become angry, bitter and most importantly… vengeful. Their hate fulfills their morality. To a progressive, the morality they create, based on hate and envy, is the highest and best. Since it is the epitome of all morality it justifies any action. That hate empowers a progressive to lie, cheat, kill and sterilize, because the “greater good,” the ends justify the means.

Examples abound of progressives who seethe both inside and out. Recently, a US congressman said he would bulldoze Jerusalem… how hate filled, and progressive. Bernie Sanders is a very bitter, angry, hate filled man. He supported Mao, Pol Pot and Castro, even today he will not condemn the slaughter they inflicted. Listen to the race baiters like Kamala Harris, Obama, Elizabeth Warren, etc… they cant help but expose their naked hatred for the American way. Their loathing of our Constitution cannot be denied, and their contempt of us filthy masses who live in fly over country couldn’t be made more plain, when they try to eliminate the electoral college. Can anyone argue that Hillary Clinton calling half the US population “deplorables,” was an act of love?

George Orwell said, it is not that socialists like the poor as much as they hate the rich. In fact, in Orwell’s day, and ours, socialists despise the poor and hold the unwashed in utter contempt. This is what explains their hypocrisy. Sanders would never be caught on a commercial airplane, nor would Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, or Adam Schiff. They fly private jets so they don’t have to smell us. What is perhaps most telling is that wherever progressives get power, the poor get poorer, even as the politically connected get richer. Actions and results speak louder than words, and progressive actions bespeak highly of their hatred of the little guy. Yet, they seek to garner our support by claiming their harming those they hate… will somehow help us.

Hate inevitably leads to vengeance. Nothing good comes of hate, bitterness, envy, and vengeance. They all lower the lot of Mankind. Hate diminishes the person who husbands it in her heart. That hate must destroy the hater’s soul… leading to vengeance. Couple hate with atheism and anything becomes possible. Because vengeance is righteous… or at least it feels like it to the hater. Even and especially when the innocent are punished, because once hate and nihilism have hollowed out a man’s soul, he finds joy in the suffering of others. Vengeance leads to more vengeance, an eye for an eye until everyone is blind. Anger, bitterness and vengeance never built a civilization…. it only rips them down. Those consumed with hate only serve to break, never to build or renovate… only destroy and oppress.

Stand next to a progressive as he or she is spouting their hatred of the patriarchy, or whatever boogeyman they hate today, and you can feel the hate radiate from them, as if you were standing next to a bonfire. Listen to the speeches of the democrat candidates today for President and feel the hate radiate from your TV. They hate Jews, Christians, capitalists, the rich, the poor, Americans, patriots, white people, Asians if they get too uppity, the Founding Fathers, the unborn, children, conservative blacks, in fact, anyone who doesn’t serve their power. On the other hand, they profess to love illegal immigrants, especially when they rape, kill and steal… and the “oppressed.” Progressives do not oppress to help the oppressed, they oppress because they are hate filled, and love to oppress.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2020 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, this year, 2020 is going to be a rootin tootin year. There are so many swinging swords of Damocles with fraying threads, no one knows which one will fall, the election should turn out to be quite a show stopper what with the open vote fraud, rigging, busing voters and tampering that the democrats will do. In space the paradigm could be shifted again with more companies entering the commercial space economy. With the economic expansion being the longest in history, will it continue expanding in 2020, or has it already began to go into recession? This year starts with riots across the planet. Even as war rocks the Middle East again. Every year portends to be momentous, but I would say that 2020 is shaping up to be a bang up year for the news cycle.

Politically, the impeachment of Donald Trump will get all the news at the beginning of the year, but will be relegated to a side show later on. The real show stopper this year will be what will Barr and Durham do? Will they charge the too big to be charged, with the crimes they are obviously guilty of, or will they cover up for them… as the Inspector General did? If Charges do flow from the Department of “justice,” will they hold top officials accountable… or make examples of the janitors? If top officials are charged, there will be a firestorm. The media that calls itself unbiased will lose it. They will scream like scalded cats, but in unison, at the outrage that people who are too big to punish, are being punished. Then there is the election… politically, 2020 will be a watershed year, for good or bad.

This year will be the biggest in history for vote fraud. The democrat’s scorched earth policy against their political foes leaves them no choice. They have alienated the American people, and so they will need fraudulent votes, busing voters, election tampering, hacking… and have a few boxes of ballots already filled out like 2018, if they need them… to drag the democrats over the top. In places like California where the one party state has codified election rigging, democrats will again win in a landslide, regardless of the votes of the people. I predict this year will expose the open hatred the progressive faction has for the voter. So. look for huge scandals to break after the 2020 election, regarding every means of election tampering there is, as the media ties to cover them up.

If we are to believe the numbers, and we know what Wikileaks said about government economic numbers, we are in the longest economic expansion in history. Since it is the nature of an economy to expand, retract for a bit, then expand even further, we can expect a recession sometime… no matter what the people in power do. It is like jumping off a cliff and expecting to fly. Even as many economists claim the planet is already in recession. With record money printing by the central banks of the world, coupled with mind boggling debt, both government and private, we could be looking at a major correction in 2020. Nevertheless, if a recession does happen this year, the government’s response will be critical to the next economic expansion.

On a more positive note, in space, we stand to watch another paradigm shift happen before our very eyes. Space X has completely upended the old paradigm of throwing away rockets after the first use and has made them reusable. That paradigm shift hasn’t even penetrated the marketplace and Space X is doing it again. If they can bring off Starship and Superheavy, Musk will have in one step made Heinlein’s Space Family Stone possible. There will be inventions that we cannot imagine, crimes against humanity, and there could be natural disasters. The small waves that propagate history, sometimes combine to make a tsunami of change, 2020 may be such a year. The US election, Pacific tension, economy, space, Middle East wars, European collapse… all say this will be an interesting year.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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How To Become an Innovation Nation

Posted on December 29, 2019 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, since the US is at it’s core an innovation economy, the best practice would be to remove all barriers to innovators. From well meaning regulations that protect entrenched corporations, to crony capitalism, all the impediments to entrepreneurs should be removed. If this is done, the US economy will go into overdrive, both in GDP growth and in the standard of living of the American people. Moreover, this is not a singular American possibility, it could be replicated across the planet, by any nation that was willing to make the difficult choices, politically deadly choices, that would eliminate the barriers to innovators. Because the drive to live a better life is a basic quality of a human being, to harness that into a means to improve the lot of Man may be genius… but is political suicide.

Innovation is where the real money is. Banking is obviously lucrative in that a banker can steal money from everyone and create money out of thin air… but that money is not from economic improvement, it is parasitic. As Lawyers have become. Parasites on the corpus economic. There is of course a valid role for both banks and attorneys, to facilitate economic activity. Instead, these two have become huge obstacles in starting a business, operating a firm and especially innovating. Lawyers have created a morass of laws and regulations that, as Madison said is tyranny, in the Federalist Papers… when the law is so circuitous that even a learned man cannot understand the laws, there is tyranny. How can one start a business or innovate without millions of dollars to pay the tyranny of lawyers today?

That is where banks come in. They will lend 100 Grand to a child to get a degree in advanced underwater basket weaving, with a minor in gender studies, but deny a young man a 20k loan to buy a 3D printer to start a business. This is because of the pernicious incentives government has set up. These incentives hinder innovation by making non economically relevant debt, government backed, and economically valuable debt, dangerous. As a result banks loan to government, students, and hedge funds but not entrepreneurs. Making lawyers and banks a huge road block to innovation today. These two important sectors of the economy need to be addressed, to make the environment more conducive to innovation, both in the US and anywhere a transition to an innovation economy is sought.

The culture is of the utmost importance to fostering innovative and entrepreneurial people. If the culture says it is impossible to get ahead, you have no stake in society, you are held down by the man, etc… the people will not be entrepreneurial, instead they will be angry, bitter and vengeful. Not the best recipe for a functioning economy let alone the improvement in the lot of Mankind. Education is another place where an economy is made or broken. Children have to be taught reading, writing, math, history in context, and philosophy, but most importantly, agriculture, industrial arts, how to write a business plan, and home economics. Not everyone will be an innovator, as not everyone will be an architect, give everyone the opportunity though… and some may excel who otherwise would be on the dole.

The basic ingredients are in every nation… to become an innovation nation and reap unlimited riches. The problem is that entrenched powerful political forces’ will not tolerate it. Corporations make good money from cronyism… by paying bribes, lobbying and graft. Lawyers make gobs of cash from frivolous lawsuits, entrepreneur crushing regulations and an arcane legal system that requires an attorney to brush your teeth. Banks have no interest in helping the little guy, they make much more money loaning to governments, students and hedge funds. No need to sully their portfolios with small business loans. To change the paradigm will infuriate many powerful factions, yet if any nation seeks to become an innovation based economy, politicians need do just that… as Trump is doing.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Appearance of Constitutionality as the Constitution is Gutted.

Posted on December 27, 2019 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the elephant in the room of this impeachment, the thing no one talks about and carefully avoids seeing, is that it is a struggle between the deep state and the constitutional government. Since Woodrow Wilson, the progressive faction has been intent on replacing the constitutionally limited government, with an unlimited Administrative State. The Administrative State is the bureaucracy, the permanent government, that has all the power of legitimate government invested within it, run by professionals, and tasked with improving the lives of everyone. The Administrative State has no need of limits, because it is benign and run by kindly masters, who only seek our best interests. Progressives believe in this vision as rabidly as members of the People’s Temple believed in Jim Jones.

The struggle between the Administrative State, or the deep state as it is often called and the constitutional government, has been going on since Woodrow Wilson, but the war really got underway when the Supreme Court ruled in Wickard V Filburn, that the federal government has the authority under the interstate commerce clause, to regulate any action possible by a human being, because it may somehow tangentially or ephemerally effect interstate commerce. Filburn was a farmer who was allotted 10 acres of wheat to grow. He planted 22. Filburn argued he wasn’t selling the wheat on the open market, he was feeding the wheat to his cows. The court ruled that since he would not buy feed for his cows, because he grew the food himself, he would thus effect interstate commerce.

Under the US Constitution, it is the President that sets foreign policy, but as we saw in the recent testimony, now if the President runs foreign policy that is counter to that of the state department, he is running a, “rogue foreign policy….” This is a clear violation of the US Constitution. No where in the US Constitution does it invest any power over foreign policy to the state department, bureaucracy or deep state. The Constitution gives all power in international relations to the Executive. This is unacceptable to the administrative state and it’s proponents. They truly believe that a President has no right to upend longstanding policy, set in place by professionals, who know far better than some beauty contest winner what US foreign policy should be. This is a fundamental conflict in philosophies.

In the struggle between the Administrative State and the constitutional government, the courts have played a pivotal role. As we saw in Wickard V Filburn, the Supreme Court made the Administrative State possible in the US. Recently, the Supreme Court saw a case that challenged the constitutionality of the bureaucracy itself, making regulations that have the full weight of law, in clear violation of the US Constitution that invests all law making power in the Legislative branch alone. The Supreme court ruled, the Legislative Branch had willingly ceded that power to the Executive, and so that makes it Constitutional. Furthering the power of the administrative state over the Constitutional one. Showing the Judicial Branch of government has taken sides in this war.

In the war between the Administrative State and Constitutional government, (that the Administrative State is superimposed upon now), not only has the Judicial Branch taken the side of the Administrative State but so has a majority of legislators, along with every President since Reagan… so, for decades, all three Branches of government favored the Administrative State. Giving the bureaucracy a string of victories that made it complacent. They forgot about the people though, that maybe the people might not like total government, benign though it would be, which is why they were blindsided by Trump’s victory. Trump favors the Constitutional government, so he must go, by abusive impeachment if that is what it takes, else the Constitutional government might get a Branch or two back.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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