Limericks

Dear Friends,

The elites’ urge for control is so greasy,
Their failures though make them uneasy,
Despotism mounts,
Unanimity counts,
In this the Germans can be quite squeezy.

Government passes laws to condemn,
Those bad things that cause mayhem,
But who is subject,
What is the object,
Not government it isn’t subject to them.

Europe has become a violent fray,
Forcing upon them the Marxist way,
Import more lurkers,
Replace the workers
It looks like stupidity won the day.

Life is like a bowl of candy,
Often hard and quite dandy,
Attitude is king,
Empathy’s ring,
And humor is always handy.

Some cultures tend to ________,
Bending to law despite its enormity,
It works for a bit,
Rigid until ___,
But humor undermines ___________.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

Our toxic culture is quite entertaining,
Stupidity soaks us because its raining,
Who chooses,
Everyone loses,
As the lot of man keeps ever waning.

The Epstein clients are now safe from Massie,
They’re going to parties and dressing classy,
Post Constitutional US,
Though I must confess,
It is interesting but also scary corrupt and nasty.

I know of a woman pretty smart and whence,
Her mind is an engine of creative brilliance,
It’s tough today,
That’s why I pray,
She ends up with a husband kids and picket fence.

As mental illness spreads among the left,
Their humanity is corroded until it’s bereft,
A mindless bunch,
Broke before lunch,
With violence and hypocrisy they are deft.

Normalizing a diminishing standard of ______,
Serves the corrupt powerful and ___________,
Stealing people’s _______,
Closing them with sutures,
It protects and empowers bootlicks sniveling.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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The Arrogantly Ignorant

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, most people who have an innate drive to run everything, have no idea how anything works. Their ignorance allows their hubris to believe they can do a better job than those running it today. This applies to machines, businesses, and nations. Moreover, the less knowledgeable someone is, the more confident they are in their ability. This is an example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. From a position of ignorance things look easy. How hard could it be to run an excavator? The same logic applies to a firm, running a fortune 500 company must be easy. Government is the simplest of all. Just order it done and it gets done, how hard is that? Except it isn’t that easy. Someone who doesn’t know what they are doing is a force of destruction, especially in business and government.

Other jobs look easy when viewed from a distance. A good carpenter makes framing a wall look simple. They rip through the job fast, efficiently, and with near perfect fit. The drywaller’s job is another one that appears to be simple. Slapping mud on a wall can’t be that hard, can it? Especially since most drywallers are stoned on pot all the time. Try it though. Framing a wall is not as easy as it appears. The truth is, mudding a wall is frustratingly harder. This is because they are skills that take a long time to master. The unskilled can believe themselves already masters… until they pick up a hammer, tape measure, and speed square. That’s when the job becomes tougher than it looked. This applies to all jobs, careers, and positions.

Someone inexperienced on an excavator or bulldozer can cause a lot of damage quickly. Tens of thousands of dollars in damage can accumulate by the second. This isn’t because an inexperienced operator is malicious. Quite the opposite. Someone who thinks running a machine can’t be that hard, then gets on one, will find out it’s not as easy as it looked. One swing of the boom the wrong way can cave in a house, a turn the wrong way in a dozer can obliterate a bridge, and don’t even get me started on a chain saw. This tells us that when the ignorant get their way, they can become agents of destruction, despite all the noble intentions in the world. If this is the case in operating a mere machine, imagine how much worse it is when an ignoramus gets political power.

An excavator even in the hands of a malicious actor is limited in the damage it can do. True enough the damage can be catastrophic locally, but the damage must be localized. When someone ignorant of how things work gets political power they can destroy on a global level. An inexperienced operator might turn the wrong way and smash into a bridge, but an ignorant despot can start a war, destroy an economy, or lead a nation into chaos. Moreover, someone who has no idea how things run will make stupid blunders, resulting in the opposite of their goals. Their inflated egos can’t admit they made a mistake. Cognitive dissonance ensures that. So they blame everyone else. This triggers a cascade of disasters caused by a blundering angry despot who has no idea how the world works.

In most cases, those who want to rule are always the ignorant. Meanwhile, the wise eschew ruling, as did Numa Pompilius, Solon, and George Washington. People who know how things work are always reluctant to step in and run them. This is because they understand the difficulties, as well as the consequences of getting it wrong… and their conscience hounds them should they fail. This brings us to a fundamental tension in human society, that those who are ignorant want to rule with unlimited power, even as those who are able to wisely rule stay as far from it as possible. The result is that we get people in charge who have no idea how the world works demanding to run the world. Is it any wonder then that the world is in the shape it’s in? Run by the arrogant ignorant it can be no different.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

The rights you have are few,
Much less than you ever knew,
A double standard,
Others they pandered,
Because others are better than you.

A vehicle allows one to go quite far,
Riding in luxury on dirt and on tar,
Try to keep him alive,
Make sure he can drive,
Before giving him the keys to the car.

The globalists in power decried the day,
Threatening patriots who had their say,
They take this approach,
Islam is above reproach,
But attacking Christianity is always okay.

Democrats claim we’re full of hate,
That’s why they refuse to debate,
But its a ruse,
To confuse,
Because it protects the welfare state.

Our Constitution is now a suicide ____,
Driven upon us by rogue judicial ___,
Better not _____,
It irks the elite,
As we collapse and our economy wracked.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Subsidies

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, you subsidize that which you want more of. That’s the rationale of subsidizing industry. Government wants to maintain, protect, and expand industry, farming, etc… so they subsidize them. If subsidies destroyed those who get them, no one would want them. Indeed there is an entire industry that has arisen simply to harvest subsidies from the government. Tens of millions of dollars are spent each year to buy subsidies from Congress. This tells me that not only are subsidies designed to perpetuate that which is subsidized but expand it as well. No where does this logic apply more appropriately than with poverty, crony capitalism, and illegal immigration. These things are so valuable to the rule makers they subsidize them with unlimited funds.

When government spends money it is supposed to be to advance the interests of the nation. The steel industry gets government subsidies to keep it competitive with other nations’ steel industries. Especially from those that are also subsidized. Else tariffs are used to negate the benefit of the other nation’s subsidies. Tariffs could also be called a subsidy if they benefit an industry and protect it from competition. The logic is that a steel industry is critical to a nation’s industrialization. A non-industrial nation is at the mercy of those that produce. It must import everything it uses and so has a perpetual trade deficit, leading to endemic poverty, with social discohesion as a result. That’s the chain of logic that pulls the gravy train. Subsidies are needed to advance the national interest.

A subsidy is supposed to create favorable conditions for the thing subsidized to grow. Farming is subsidized for just that reason. The idea is that there will be more farms if subsidies make them more profitable. It seems obvious that if farming becomes more profitable there will be more farming. Basic economics teaches us that. The counter argument is that if that thing wasn’t subsidized, it could go away entirely. It’s the stick of poverty as opposed to the carrot of wealth via industrialization and cheap food. Remember, every dollar given is two dollars taken from someone else. There is obviously overhead, that accounts for the taxes above the benefit. So the subsidized get a windfall at the expense of the unsubsidized. The extracted from must be sold some benefit for the cost.

That benefit is in the form of societal wealth, stability, and/or a rising standard of living. So when food is cheap everyone benefits, this is used to justify the farm subsidies. Any questions of the profitability of farming absent subsidies aren’t considered. The benefit is all that is seen… the cost remains unseen. They say we shouldn’t feed the deer, bear, and other wildlife in a park because it makes them dependent. This is a real cost of subsidizing poverty. It makes the impoverished dependent on the subsidy. It holds them in poverty. The result is crime, broken families, and dependent people. Giving illegal aliens welfare is a subsidy to protect and increase illegal immigration. It’s the same logic that’s applied to farming. So we can say the government wants more crime, poverty, and dependency.

When government subsidizes something, it wants more of that thing. This goes for steel, farming, and poverty. That the government subsidizes it, is proof the government wants more of it. With industry the logic is clean but with crime, poverty, and illegal immigration the logic is blurry. Why would the government want more of that? Perhaps they serve government’s interest? Crime makes people trust one another less and government more. Subsidized poverty makes the poor dependent on the government. That locks up their vote. Illegal immigration drives down the cost of labor. Especially when the illegal is subsidized and the citizen they compete against for jobs pays for those subsidies. This leads us to an uncomfortable truth. Those in power only subsidize that which benefits them.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

There once was a scandal that couldn’t be exposed,
So they started a war that it wouldn’t be disclosed,
That didn’t seal the deal,
They said UFOs are real,
To keep us in the dark and ensure no one is deposed.

Politicians think themselves wise as Seneca,
While bureaucrats opine in pure esoterica,
Don’t speak the truth,
It would be uncouth,
Here in our post constitutional America.

A limerick is a bit of wit,
Pointing at a social pit,
A cutting remark,
Light in the dark,
Though often it’s quite caustic.

There once was an outfit called the SPLC,
Racist to the core and Marxist as can be,
A swindle in a frock,
A thing we should mock,
And ridiculed to irrelevance mercilessly.

The elite find the Epstein files ___,
A government of hubris and is a cad,
They cant take a joke,
Or a good natured ____,
As their egos make them utterly ___.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Sheeple Are Fed AstroTurf

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, you pasture sheeple on AstroTurf. This is because access to real information would turn them from sheeple to people overnight. So, to keep folks ignorant, angry, and confused, you feed them a constant supply of absurdity dressed up as fact. That it can’t be digested is the problem of the sheeple with indigestion. The beauty of AstroTurf is that it can be manufactured by the yard. The inputs are toxic chemicals, heat, and the Hegelian dialectic. They combine to create an unappealing plastic grass that’s unsuitable for anything but walking on… then they feed it to us. The sheeple gobble it up, but people turn up our noses at it. We see it for what it is. A health destroying industrial agent designed for one purpose, to make and keep us sheeple.

The primary delivery system for AstroTurf is the media that calls itself unbiased. They call themselves fair and balanced so that we will accept their lies with less critical thinking. You see, it’s critical thinking that allows one to recognize AstroTurf from alfalfa. Critical thinking gives the discernment to understand that just because something is tossed in front of your stanchion, that doesn’t make it food. Sheeple on the other hand will swallow anything put in front of them, as long as it comes from their trusted source. No critical thinking necessary. Indeed, the only time they think critically is when they are presented with alfalfa instead of AstroTurf. Just like someone who only eats high fructose corn syrup gets sick when eating cruciferous vegetables, for the first time.

A steady diet of AstroTurf is damaging to the digestive system. One becomes able to stomach the most absurd stuff, but anything of value is thrown up immediately. This is due to the ongoing damage that a diet of plastic grass does. The more someone is forced to eat it, the less palatable truth will become. Eventually, one’s ability to digest alfalfa goes away entirely. That’s where mad cow disease (also called Karen syndrome) comes from. The poor things become addicted to AstroTurf such that real food makes them violent, spastic, and ill. Their digestive systems are evolved only to draw sustenance from plastic. Another problem with AstroTurf as a primary food source is that instead of nourishing human hearted, spiritual, and intellectual growth… it fosters growth in wrath, pride, and arrogance.

This is why sheeple are so angry, filled with pride at their sins, and certain they are always right. The constant diet of AstroTurf has made them so. Eating plastic makes one’s emotions plastic. This is another reason AstroTurf is so dangerous. It affects not only those that swallow it, but those who don’t as well. This is because those that abstain from eating plastic are subject to the insanity of those who do. A herd of sheeple can crush a lone person. This makes them dangerous. Sheeple then, filled to the gills with AstroTurf are prone to rioting, iconoclasm, and arson of historic churches. It’s not uncommon for them to Occupy something or other. Wall Street, Portland, or Canada for example. Occupy Canada was much more acceptable to the elites there than the Truckers protests.

Since AstroTurf is manufactured, distributed, and fed to us by those in power, it’s natural that they support it’s use. That’s why the George Floyd riots were acceptable but Jan 6th was a threat. The George Floyd fiery but mostly peaceful rioters had bellies filled with AstroTurf. That’s why they could engage in iconoclasm with impunity. I suspect the elites that industrially produce AstroTurf for the masses know the damage they are causing. Our collective digestive systems are damaged, and the increase in wrath, pride, and arrogance… but the cost is acceptable. This must be the case, otherwise they would allow us alfalfa now and then. As a result, those of us that eschew AstroTurf for alfalfa must find it on our own. It isn’t going to be forked into our feed trough. Moreover, not everything fed to us is food.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

The double standard is obviously detestable,
But the enforcers do find it quite palatable,
The tension builds,
With fraying wills,
When it blows civil war becomes inevitable.

Concentrating political power is an obstruction,
Blocking justice and truth building a construction,
All powerful legislature,
It’s just human nature,
Because the fact is power generates corruption.

The law can serve justice or it can serve men,
Civilizations rise and fall depending on it’s ken,
It can be exploitative,
And quite extractive,
But in time it always becomes a corrupt little fen.

The oikophobic left is loosing it,
Their minds are rotting bit by bit,
Self-loathing things,
With gold nose rings,
It’s leadership by inept half-wit.

Law used for extraction does pressure _____,
Corrupting the unwise sly and unskilled,
A destroying ____,
A quickening mire,
Showing self-loathing morons are ego ______.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks

Dear Friends,

The elite will never tire of their beloved communism,
About humanity they’re filled with dark pessimism,
We are just too dumb,
So us under their thumb,
Working diligently until the globe is ruled by Marxism.

Cosmopolitan elites tell us we’re on the hook,
For history’s atrocities when they were the crook,
Others are to blame,
It soothes their shame,
To put the UK on the same path Rhodesia took.

There’s one thing we all know,
Republicans go with the flow,
Their voters sour,
Once in power,
RINOs always run the show.

Central planners think they’re smarter than you,
Doing your own thinking is a dangerous brew,
Leave the thinking to them,
Then say amen,
And accept the disasters that come by the slew.

They hate us but need to ____,
Inept at life they are the tool,
Milquetoast kinds,
Compromised _____,
Thinking dystopia would be ____.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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A Bad Donkey

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a donkey that doesn’t protect the sheep isn’t much of a donkey. The reason donkeys are pastured with sheep and goats is for protection from predators. Otherwise the hay and forage a donkey eats would be a waste. This is an example of a symbiotic relationship. The farmer benefits due to having his sheep and goats protected, the sheep and goats are protected, and the donkey gets an easy gig. This is a classic win-win. If the donkey didn’t protect the goats but kept grazing, it would be a liability, not an asset. Profitable farmers get rid of such worthless donkeys. If the donkey turned on the sheep and goats, attacking them and letting coyotes in the pasture, now that donkey would get shot. That’s because it perverted its role and did the opposite.

The leaders of a nation have a first task, that obligation is to protect that nation. Their role is that of a donkey in a pasture. They keep the coyotes at bay so the sheep and goats can fatten up on the plentiful forage. That donkey who allows coyotes into the pasture, then vilifies the sheep who complain they are losing lambs to the coyotes, isn’t doing its job. It isn’t protecting the livestock but instead feeding them to the predators. In such a pasture the replacement rate won’t meet the death rate and the population in that pasture will decline. The truly evil donkey will then import more coyotes to replace the sheep and goats. The coyotes, however, don’t produce wool, nor do they clear brush, they just consume those that do. What do you think such donkeys deserve?

Some donkeys enjoy the chase so much that they chase their charges around the field. If the protector donkey doesn’t protect but instead pursues their charges around the pasture all day, the sheep won’t have a good wool crop in fall and the goats won’t clear the brush. This is what regulation does. It keeps the people running from regulation instead of fattening up on profits. Slowly, the economy becomes overgrown with useless firms that exist only to extract. Meanwhile, the sheep and goats can’t contribute to the profitability of the farm. The donkey still eats its share, even as the ability of the pasture to sustain the herd ebbs away. In this way a bad donkey can destroy not only a productive herd but a productive pasture as well.

In a pasture where the donkey is importing coyotes and is chasing the livestock around constantly, there will be strife. The sheep and goats will start using their horns. They have no other alternative. The system that was supposed to protect them, the donkey, has turned on them. They will reason that they are better off without the donkey than with the traitorous thing. So they might even put the horns to their own donkey. Of course, such action isn’t in the nature of sheep and goats. You really have to torture a ram or ewe before it becomes violent. Starve it in a poor pasture, run it around all day, and feed its lambs to the coyotes… and even the most docile of sheep will butt and bite. Not because there’s anything wrong with the sheep or land… but with the donkey.

This is the reason one must always have a good donkey in a pasture with sheep and goats. A bad donkey is not just worthless, it is a danger. It endangers the livestock, the peace, and the pastureland itself. That’s why when one finds he or she has a bad donkey in their pasture, it’s of paramount importance to replace it immediately before it can do more harm. Remember, the longer a donkey has been in a pasture the harder it is to get it out. Donkeys are after all, the epitome of stubborn. Moreover, I have to send my prayers and support to all those who have a bad donkey in their pastures. May God help you in dislodging them, evicting the coyotes, and getting your land back into production. Otherwise your pastures will become unproductive, overgrown, and crime-ridden.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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