Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the quality of the world’s leadership can be judged in three ways, prosperity, peace, and freedom. By all three metrics our world leaders are abject failures. Liberty has become a dirty word to the ivory tower types. Censorship is the norm today, misinformation is deadly… to a narrative. This includes Europe, Canada, and perhaps soon, the US. Open double standards have become the standard. Wars rage or simmer across the planet. Meanwhile, European elites are calling for conscription of the few children that made it past the abortionist’s knife, to die for them. Prosperity is a thing long forgotten in energy poor Europe. Industry is collapsing, not simply due to the cost and unavailability of energy, but also due to the lack of skilled replacements, and rising crime.
Elitists claim we need their leadership because they will deliver the goods… prosperity, peace, and freedom… yet actually always deliver famine, war, and tyranny. They argue that if given world domination, they could centrally plan planetary wealth, planetary peace, and liberty limited by expedient. In other words, a Star Trek like Utopia. A pragmatist might ask, Why then has no centrally planned system ever functioned? Why is it the closer to a centrally planned system we get the worse outcomes for everyone? (Even the elite in the long run).” The idealist might answer, “Because the wrong people were in charge, real communism has never been tried,” or maybe, “it was done on too small a scale…” Regardless of excuse, our centrally planned (soft) systems are failing.
Why do I say Centrally planned (soft) systems? It’s because we live in a largely centrally planned system today. Take the EU as an example. The national governments are subservient to it despite their having armies. Consider what desk-bound despots would do if they had a military? Judging by past behavior they would use it to enforce their will at every occasion. As the EU imports foreign fighters, protects, feeds, and houses them, the situation for natives paying the crushing taxes diminishes. If member states try to elect leaders that don’t believe in central planning the central planners simply annul the election and replace the candidates with more agreeable types. This was done in Romania recently. So Europeans live in a centrally planned system whether they understand it or not.
In the US we have moved all the way to the ten yard line of communism. The progressives have finished their long march through the institutions. That’s why Every attempt to move the ball back down the field is stopped by the referees (the courts) as a foul. We don’t even notice as two hundred and fifty pages are added to the Federal Register… a day. The spirit in America used to be, we’ll make it! Now we ask, is it legal to make it, how much will we have to pay lawyers, and are there any workers who can read and write available? It’s because of the failed centrally planned education system. The administrative state is trying to drag us past that last ten yards. The problem is, we are alarmed at their clear failures as leaders… by every measure.
The US went into free fall under Biden. Even as Canada is in free fall under Carney. Europe is nearing civil war or civilizational devouring. The standard of living in those nations is falling rapidly. Meanwhile the leaders prove their ineptitude or malevolence by calling for war on Russia. The problem has got so bad in Europe and especially the UK, people are arrested for non-crimes. This is a euphemism for punishing wrongspeak that comes from wrongthink. By every metric, prosperity, peace, and freedom, the entire world’s elite are failing. The magnificent deficits every nation on the planet have built up hiding their malfeasance is astonishing. Our elite are exactly what Hsun Tzu was talking about when he said, a terrible person burns down his state to rule over the ashes.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
Deep State Patsies
Dear Friends,
It seems to me, we are almost a year into Trump’s presidency and not one bad actor in the deep state has been punished. Doesn’t that seem odd to you? Had it been the other way around “justice” would have been swift! Democrats would have impeached half a dozen judges, indicted dozens of politicians involved, and smeared the entire republican enterprise as corrupt. Yet the republicans haven’t even cut a penny from the democrat budget? Comey, a republican, was indicted but a judge instantly threw the case out. John Bolton, another republican, is facing real criminal charges and another democrat judge. Yet not one Democrat has been indicted. Bondi claims she is investigating… but we all know the investigation is now the cover-up. Once the clock runs out it will all be moot.
What we have here is an administrative state scandal. The Russia collusion hoax traces directly back to Obama and the deep state. Spying on republicans is another deep state operation. Indicting republicans for perjury when they never lied was an operation to get dirt on Trump. Because they couldn’t get a lever on him. The sex scandal around Matt Gaetz was a failed attempt to put a handle on him by the deep state. In all cases, scandals, the administrative state was exerting corrupt control over the elected constitutional government. So, now the bureaucracy is covering its tracks with more of what it does best… smear mud over them. By attacking anyone with the authority to harm them. The bureaucracy, the permanent government, has rigged the game.
Even if Bondi does her job and indicts a criminal democrat before the statute of limitations runs out… the corrupt actor will be indicted in DC where he or she will face a friendly judge, willing to break all laws, norms, and precedent to forward the progressive deep state agenda. So there will be no punishment for braking the law to pervert justice, our Constitution, and undermine our Republic itself. Yet those who the administrative state targeted, General Flynn, Roger Stone, etc… were bankrupted for defending justice, our Republic, and the American way. This provides a clear example of the incentive structure for anyone who would take on the deep state. Go along and get along… or fight and be destroyed. That’s why bureaucrats perjure themselves before congress as a part of the job description.
Can you imagine the outcry if Trump’s FBI did an armed raid on President Obama’s home? First of all, I don’t think the FBI would have obeyed such an order in the first place. Do you? Making all other arguments moot. The deep state protects its own. Have you wondered why Bondi hasn’t even fired any of the corrupt actors who have abused the Amish under color of law? I mean, the Amish, for the love of Pete! Only the meanest bully on the playground beats up on the pacifist kid. Yet she is keeping it up?! Then there’s deer caught in the headlight Kash Patel. He talked a good game before he came into the bureaucracy, but now, he’s as tame as a puppy. I have to wonder if the administrative state puts a handle on everyone who is assigned to oversee them?
You can count on the fact, the moment Republicans lose the presidency… heads will roll. Trump, Bondi, Patel, and the rest, can plan on instant indictments. The investigations will start right after. The useful idiots who went along will be punished as examples. Machiavelli said a wise prince has another do his evil, then punishes them for it… to garner the love of the people. While the deep state is not wise, nor are their puppets the Democrats, they are quick to act. I wonder if that isn’t what is holding republicans back? Their traditional cowardice notwithstanding. So maybe we have our answer… republicans are terrified of acting. They are afraid of what the bureaucracy will do to them. Remember, someone has all those thousands of hours of video from Epstein’s isle.
Sincerely,
John Pepin