Limericks

Posted on February 18, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

My greed is bad while yours is good,

Capitalism’s iron to socialism’s wood,

A contradiction in terms,

As everyone learns,

Is the hypocrite’s deceiving hood.

 

Elitists thought it was in the pail,

When they lost they began to wail,

She had it in the bag,

There was just one snag,

They couldn’t fathom vote fraud would fail.

 

Totalitarianism’s plain to see,

Why doesn’t everyone flee,

Toys are now illegal,

Despotism’s so regal,

And Britain is now a recognized tyranny.

 

Karl Popper must spin in his grave,

To be misquoted by such a knave,

Divine sophistry,

How can it be,

Falsification is now a pseudo science of Bacon’s cave?

 

Refugees trodding the world filled with care,

It’s rude when they pass and people stare,

With new clothes and cell phone,

Brutalizing people in our home,

But it’s fine because they’re looking for better welfare.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on February 17, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Globalism is a deadly disease,

Infecting whomever they please,

Perverting what they touch,

No perversion’s too much,

Progressivism is plague carried by fleas.

 

The idealists in the greens,

Say to do it by any means,

Results be damned,

It’s a good plan,

Freezing people is good it seems.

 

One wants to ban political speech the other smut,

Both working to make the world better but,

One to protect their ids,

The other to protect kids,

Making one a hero and the other a hypocrite slut.

 

It’s easier for an oligarchy to point to a gnome,

Counting his evils and recording them in a tome.

Distraction is great,

But let’s not prevaricate,

Because the real problem is much closer to home.

 

Pandering to mental illness is now a thing,

The term obese trans Latin X has a nice ring,

They don’t know their race or gender,

And so huge they’re a floor bender,

So their praises the wokester elite do sing.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Distributed Blame

Posted on February 16, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, bureaucracy can never effectively govern, because of distributed blame, its Achilles’ heel. If the bureaucracy breaks a law, ignores a court ruling or abuses people’s Constitutional Rights, who is punished? Moreover, which bureaucrat is going to be the scapegoat? No one, and history proves it. How many bureaucrats are cooling their heels in prison for abuse of our rights under color of law? None, which means, bureaucracy is always and everywhere above the law… except in very egregious cases. Only when someone with political favor is abused does a bureaucrat get in trouble, but by and by, bureaucrats are free to tyrannize us from behind an iron curtain, sitting in a swivel chair. Yet the elitist managerial faction has installed the administrative state by stealth.

The bureaucracy is above laws and Constitutional limits, because of distributed blame, so his or her actions are unlimited. Why not tyrannize the people… for our own good? That bureaucrat epitomizes C S Lewis’ warning, the worst kind of tyranny is that done for the benefit of the tyrannized. Because the tyrant’s crimes are urged on by his own conscience. There are literally billions of dollars in the hands of bureaucrats, so why not let a few fall off the back of the truck, and into their pocket? If someone’s spouse is running around, why not exploit the apparatus of law enforcement to check up? Being above the law, while having such money and power in one’s hands, with no accountability whatsoever… is intoxicating. So the distributed blame of bureaucracy can’t but make anyone corrupt.

Everywhere and in all times bureaucracy has felled unfellable civilizations. Rome was just such a place. The rise of bureaucracy smothered its economy. Leading to its downfall. Is there an example of hyperinflation that wasn’t presaged by cloying bureaucracy? Weimar Germany, Argentina or Czechoslovakia for example? Bureaucracy isn’t only bound to fail, in theory, practice also says it’s a failed system. The problem is convincing bureaucrats and judges of this truth. Because it’s impossible to convince someone of a thing that invalidates their careers. Bureaucrats call themselves experts, and so are authorized to tyrannize us, for our own good. Distributed blame is a power they, nor anyone else, is willing to give up. Even if it leads to the destruction of our civilization.

The administrative state has become the real power in the West today. Supplanting our Constitutions. Elected officials only give the appearance we have a say. The progressive faction installed the administrative state piece by piece. One judge ruling at a time. Until our Constitution’s were null and void. Look at the EU. The UK voted to get out of the EU, and its elected leaders were ineffectual, in the face of the administrative state. The boats are more prolific despite the protestations of the citizenry. In Romania and Greece the EU overturned the results of an election. In Hungary, Germany and France the EU is overruling locally passed laws. While In the US the judiciary is making the most absurd rulings to protect the administrative state. Even as distributed blame abets bureaucrats using taxes to create chaos.

Distributed blame is why bureaucracy, or the administrative state cannot rule effectively, and is in the process of destroying the West. The incentives are all wrong. No matter how wise, patriotic and smart the bureaucrats, it fails. History proves it as well. Rome wasn’t felled by the Visigoths, but by its own bureaucracy. The Visigoths were simply the first buzzards to find the carcass. Because bureaucracy is by its nature unlimited, arrogant and corrupt. A lack of accountability leads to corruption like I89 leads to Highgate. What’s the answer to distributed blame then? To return to Constitutionally limited government and add consequences to violating it. Then, change the political paradigm so government does less. Sure it’s not easy to get consensus to tyrannize under such a system… but that’s a good thing.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Good Action Is Self Interest

Posted on February 15, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the reason we’re good isn’t to benefit others, but for ourselves. The ignorant and foolish believe good actions only serve others. As the wise recognize that right action leads inevitably to right outcomes. Because in the long term and as a strategy, peak selfishness always leads to catastrophe. It can result in nothing else. Even as peak unselfishness leads to an unsatisfying life. We have to strike a balance. One that serves us by us serving mankind, smartly, leading to success. Those who take the wise path have better lives. It’s that simple. As Ben Franklin inculcated in Poor Richard’s, right action leads to right outcomes. So if we define right outcomes as benefiting ourselves, then right action is the means. Therefore, we aren’t good to benefit others, but as a way to succeed.

Aristotle and Mencius both called the right path between good and evil… the golden mean. In that it’s no good to work yourself to death for others, or to exploit others to benefit you. The golden mean is the resonant morality in the society you live. The Overton window so to speak. Within that window of acceptable action, there’s a balance that leads to the best likely outcome for the individual. That good action that leads to success. In our personal life, employers want and seek out honest hard working people. Therefore, honest hard working people get most of the breaks. Lazy, liars who steal from the company, rarely get the breaks. They get the boot. So, the resonant morality in your society is the path to success. The golden mean leads to good while evil leads to ruin.

Even as it appears the selfish get ahead, appearances can be deceiving. The reality is, balance that leads to the golden mean, will result in the best likely outcome. Going above or below that balance, or resonant morality, delivers ever poorer outcomes. The further away from it one gets the worse. Though saints have hard lives, their eternal reward is stellar. While demons live their lives in fear, violence and prison, then spend their eternal reward in less stellar accommodations. Pragmatically then, good action leads to good outcomes. Those who don’t examine outcomes could be led astray. Thinking that selfishness, lies and sloth will achieve success. As the wise understand right action leads to right outcomes. Defined as success.

Our culture teaches that wealth and success is the luck of the draw. Our eyes are carefully guided away from real examples to fake ones. Elon Musk is the richest person living today, yet he works more hours than almost anyone else. He doesn’t work to get wealth, wealth is a side effect of his work. Meanwhile, I bet you can name more than one half wit born to riches, who has never worked a day in their life. Yet enviously complain Elon Musk is greedy. Which is spurious self delusion. Mr Musk is rich because he does the right things. His right actions lead to right outcomes. Ben Franklin, Aristotle and Mencius would agree. Musk succeeds through right action and perseverance, not luck. Showing us how its done, if only we are willing to take that path.

It then behooves us to try every day to self improvement. Move closer to the golden mean. We can follow examples of people who have become what we want to become. All of them worked hard to get there. Be they a billionaire, musician or movie star. Though many a movie star, musician and billionaire has lost it all because they became narcissistic. They moved too far away from the resonant morality or golden mean. History is also rife with examples of people who worked relentlessly to their achieve their goals, for good or evil. Though the evil generally come to bad ends. Suicide, hanging or killed by a mob is the usual path to their eternal reward. Which means, we aren’t good to benefit others, we’re good to benefit ourselves. Succeed by resonant morality… and take the golden mean.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Absurdity; Our Courts In Action

Posted on February 14, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems amazing to me, that the courts claim our constitution protects unconstitutional actions and spending, by our government. It’s a ridiculous stance. The First amendment, pretty important since it’s first, bans government from censorship. Yet USAID was spending hundreds of millions to censor. Even after that revelation, of literal unconstitutional actions, democrats are using lawfare to defend it. While the courts go along. Another thing our Constitution bans is establishing a state religion. Yet the progressive courts have established atheism as the state religion. Again using tax money to violate our Constitution. Freedom of assembly? Well, Jan 6th taught us how the elite follow that edict. Which tells me, our government has become the opposite of the Founders intent. It’s absurdity.

I wonder if USAID paid for the pallets of bricks delivered to street corners during the summer of love 2020. Seems like the type of expenditure USAID is known for. Building consensus to revolution. In 2020 the deep state wanted to get rid of Trump. By Covid, riot and election fraud, the elite made it happen. Then doubled down on their extra constitutional side hussles. Once the globalist elitist faction was back in power. The democrats then handed out even more money in grift. USAID had a budget of forty nine billion dollars a year when Trump took office. Tens of billions of hard earned tax money handed out to NGOs, terrorists and used to violate our Constitution. If violating our Constitution, is protected by our Constitution, as the courts claim, it’s absurd.

I hear USAID was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to propagandize the American people. Through Politico, and other unbiased news outlets, the censors in the bureaucracy were controlling what we were allowed to say. Thereby controlling our thoughts. A blatant violation of its obligation under our Constitution. Moreover, the unconstitutional administrative state is pushing atheism on us. Through the media, courts and in the public schools. Again using our tax dollars to violate our Constitution. Establishing atheism as the state religion. Then, when its pointed out, they claim atheism isn’t a religion! Proving they know they have established atheism as the state religion! But its okay, since atheism isn’t a religion. As the courts go along with this absurdity.

The court system proved itself utterly corrupt when it exposed its double standards to the world. As it was paying arsonists, muggers and rioters millions in damages, because the police stopped them… they were jailing peaceful protesters on the other side, without bail or trial, for wrongthink. Talk about a lack of self awareness! Those same courts, that so violated the Constitutional Rights of the Jan 6th protesters, is now ruling they run the country. In direct violation of the plain wording of our Constitution. The Executive and Legislative are redundant. They have ruled they deserve, need and must have all the power of government. The rest of government is only there to serve the judiciary and bureaucracy. Anything less is a violation of their self serving interpretation of our Constitution.

Our courts claim that a President can create an agency with the stroke of a pen… but another President can’t delete that agency, at the same stroke of a pen. A self contradicting stance that shows a lack of wisdom and integrity. Due to the obvious absurdity. Do you think ridiculous people without accountability should run the government from the bench? With the utter hubris, to claim that our Constitution protects unconstitutional actions and spending. They’ve got away with it, because there’s no cost for violating our Constitution, there’s only benefit. Corrupt courts abet crime, and with censorship, there isn’t even a political downside. It’s time to apply consequences, or the government will destroy itself, and us. Because absurdity never lasts long.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on February 13, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Soros bankrupted the Bank of Britain,

To some that would make him a villain,

But he has political favor,

A darling of globalist labour,

And his image was improved by a billion.

 

Fact checkers are liars who worry about lies,

Prevarication is something they really despise,

The fact checkers check,

Using only high tech,

And then gaslight us back down to size.

 

There once were commy hippies,

Appealing to fallacious theories,

Kick it down hence,

Chesterton’s fence,

So the communists can rule us from the cities.

 

There once was a politician named Durbin,

Often seen riding in a gas guzzling suburban,

He told a few blokes,

As he stepped on some folks,

If I were honest I’d wear a turban.

 

A scientist referencing history would be wise,

To give valid examples of type kind and size,

Did government sail the sea,

Or individuals seeking notoriety,

‘Cause all government does is make war tax and tyrannize.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Mankind’s Dark Side

Posted on February 12, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, on a deep unconscious level, we don’t want peace and prosperity… we crave chaos. Jung warned that those who ignore their dark side are subject to its control. I call this our, “Misery Quotient.” In that all of us have an innate need for a certain amount of misery in our lives. Which, if we don’t get enough, compels us to create turmoil to meet that quotient. Which is one reason there can never be a true Eden on Earth. We would never allow it. These innate drives come from our “dark side,” as Jung called it. Freud called it the id. So, to actually get some level of peace and prosperity, we have to deal with our collective dark side or id. Jung suggested we incorporate it. So we can control our id instead of our id controlling us.

We all have a dark side. Even and especially those who claim not to. PTSD may be the recognition that our dark side is repulsive to us. So much so that we can’t deal with it. Jung said that if we don’t incorporate our dark side, then it will control us and we’ll call it fate. Which means that no matter how much we want a thing, if we don’t get our dark side onboard, it’ll sabotage us. This applies not only to our own lives, but to societies, cultures and nations. All of which have a dark side or id that works under the surface, either helping or sabotaging. Those who pretend they have no dark motivations are helpless to fight their id. Keeping their backs firmly to it, it then manipulates us like a puppeteer. Even leading to total destruction.

In the movie Forbidden Planet, the Krell were destroyed by their dark side or id. Because they had suppressed it for so long, and hadn’t incorporated it into their psyche. So when freed it destroyed them. Because their technology had given their dark sides god like power… to do all the dark things that had festered under the surface for ages. Which is an analogue of humanity. We may want peace and prosperity but our ids prevent it. We’re all at the merciless mercy of the elite’s ids. The more power the elite have, the more power their dark side is given. You and I are no different. Except for the few who have successfully incorporated their dark sides, most of us would be taken over by our ids the moment we were given power. Which is how our dark sides destroy.

Whole nations express their dark side when they choose war instead of peace. History is replete with examples. From Alexander’s conquests to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, nations fall prey to the ids of their leaders. That’s how whole nations go insane. They fall victim to their own dark sides. Which, as in the case of the fictional Krell, leads to their destruction. How did Nazi Germany fair in the war? How was Alexander’s retirement? What about Saddam? Insanity leads to destruction and insanity comes from our unincorporated ids. War isn’t the only manifestation of this fact of human nature. Bigotry, stubbornness and envy also emanate from our ids. All the evils we face as people and as a species is of our own making. Therefore, they can also be solved by us.

If we truly want peace and prosperity, then we must recognize our dark longing for chaos, and incorporate it into our psyche. So we control it instead of it controlling us. We can only work on ourselves however. Others are their own people. Whether or not they decide to incorporate their id in to their ego and super ego. Which means we can only control ourselves and influence our immediate sphere. If enough of us do however, meld our dark side with our consciousness, then peace and prosperity must be manifested. The first step is to meld our own dark sides with our persona. Seeking power to force good however only empowers our id to do evil. So recognize your misery quotient, incorporate your id, and lead by example. Your example has more power then you think.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

 

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The GCC; Galactic Criminal Court

Posted on February 11, 2025 by john

Dear Comrades,

It seems to me, the International Capitalist Party, should start a self appointed Galactic Criminal Court (GCC). The very name makes its rulings supersede those of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Which claims, by virtue of its name, its rulings superseded those of national assemblies, courts and executives. My Galactic court would even overrule solar system level courts. Using the same rational as the ICC and UN, self appointment, my GCC would also be self appointed overseers of the Galaxy. For all species human and alien. Using the philosophy of the day, the GCC can rule on the criminality of anything it sees fit. Holding the powerful to account. Moreover, it can be funded by the grift getting out of such charges would naturally bring.

The ICC is a self appointed entity, so by that standard, set by the experts and elites themselves, my GCC could be self appointed. Same sauce for the goose and gander and all that. Since I’m the self appointed titular leader of the International Capitalist Party… I’ll simply deem a crew, to be doctors of law. They then will have the authority to set up the GCC. Just as the ICC was created, by circular authority. Then the GCC will have authority to poke its nose into everyone else business. Just as the ICC does. What halcyon days they will be. When the rulers of the galaxy, will be controlled by the GCC. Can you imagine the glee? Who wouldn’t want to be, under the benevolent heel of a jack boot or three? The precedent has been set. There is a vacuum. So we better fill it before dust does.

Should we contact an alien species they will of course be offered an appointment to the GCC. If their philosophy is compatible with the philosophy of the day. Diversity only applies to appearances… not opinions. That’s how you know we’re the real deal. We’ll follow the ICC road map. Rule in ways the powerful like, to establish credibility, then go full bat poop. As the ICC did, we can be the tool of a few powerful entities, to gain momentum. Let oligarchs and tyrants enforce our rulings. Then, when the political winds are right, we turn and go rabid. As all courts do, we’ll follow Thrasymachus version of justice. Our rulings will serve whomever is paying us. The GCC has the opportunity seize the day. All I need are a few sycophants willing to sell their souls for power and money.

Being on a Galactic court would bestow honor and prestige. Whether self appointed or not. Just as being in the UN does. Oh, I can hear some complain, but people at the UN are experts, they are appointed by other experts, and the UN was established after the collapse of the League of Nations. All true. Validating my presumption. Did you vote for the ICC or UN? The GCC will be self appointed also, by people who call themselves experts. Having the same legal status as the UN and the ICC, self appointment, the GCC will be able to bring stability to our galaxy. Starting with Earth. We’ll be able to lord over elected leaders with the moral superiority and smugness of a true hypocrite. Making an appointment to that prestigious body, the Galactic Criminal Court, a great honor.

The GCC will obviously be a political entity that serves itself first, just as the UN and ICC do. The grift would be spectacular. Look at the opulence lavished on UN officials and judges at the ICC. That could be ours. Right now, there is no Galactic Criminal Court, which is a void that must be filled. Because as we all know, the more power, the greater the scope of authority and the less accountability… the better. All experts are self appointed if you go far enough back. Then those self appointed experts appoint others as experts, who then maintain the exclusivity. Which is exactly how the GCC will be founded. So will have the same authority as the UN or ICC, but on a Galactic scale. All I need are volunteers we’ll claim are experts, and voila… Galactic power is in our greasy hands.

Sarcastically,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on February 10, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

In every country the deep state is wed,

To the globalist faction they are in bed,

Power is the end,

Elitists don’t bend,

So if they might lose an election they cancel it instead.

 

Her manifesto’s unifying thought was hate,

Tragic for her and her victims parents mate,

Portrayed as a ghoul,

She’s a mindless tool,

Captured by nihilism and made to annihilate.

 

We used to see this in a gossip rag,

UFOs abduct a purple haired hag,

Is it aliens flying fast,

Or just swamp gas,

But most likely it’s just another false flag.

 

Corruptocrats so love their power,

They grow it by making life sour,

Perverting elections,

Conniving confections,

And lowering the lot of Man by the hour.

 

Knowledge and intellect are like a fast car,

They’re an efficient means to get us far,

But without a steering wheel,

They’re not that great a deal,

Because speed without guidance is the way to a scar.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Benevolent Tyranny

Posted on February 9, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, even the most benevolent totalitarianism will result in evil. Because even the most enlightened, wise, learned and beneficent despot can only use the facts as they are known at the time. Facts evolve though. Making his or her efforts fruitless. Moreover, no one can know everything, despite our experts propaganda to the contrary. When an unlimited ruler then makes all the choices, those choices are necessarily made out of ignorance, and a belief in witchcraft. Plus, a despot is as pliable as anyone else. Which explains history. Every time all power has been invested in one person or aristocracy, other than for an emergency, it’s resulted in disaster. In fact the process has become normalized. So much so that the few examples of dictators who didn’t create disasters are notable.

How do we know what people want? Through elections, polls or by where they move given the chance? People can be convinced to vote for communism… but no sane person moves to a communist country. Muslims in the West demand Sharia and a Caliphate… but none want to move to Iran. In both cases, people tell us what they really want by their feet. Which means, our minds can be manipulated but our eyes can see. We become mesmerized by ideas, but we understand examples. Notions can take over our minds. So much so that we become “captured” by them. Instead of thinking for ourselves then, we adopt a programmed philosophy. Yet when given the option of moving to a country that has already adopted that philosophy, the example repels us.

The idea of a wise leader solving all our problems for us is very enticing. We’re often overwhelmed by life, and many would like nothing better than to have a benevolent white knight on a white horse, ride to our rescue. When focused on finding a white knight, examples of other white knights fall away. Castro was a white knight as was Pol Pot, Mao and Lenin. They claimed to have all the answers. Knowing it all they would usher in a golden age for the workers. All they needed was unlimited power. So the people worshiped them as heroes. But once their grip on power solidified into an iron fist, people fled them, and no one immigrates. Showing us the truth of white knights on white horses. The white on the armor is merely paint and a white horse isn’t really a horse.

Even if the White Knight really is a white knight, and not a Black Guard in drag, he’ll be unable to solve all the people’s problems. No matter how smart and wise he is or how unlimited the power in his hands. His best efforts will spin off to naught. Because facts change, knowledge is distributed and we’re easily manipulated. Look at the Covid fiasco. It’ll take decades for the medical community to win back most of the trust they lost over that. Incurious and sheep like, most doctors allowed their medical diagnosis and cures, to come from Facebook and Twitter. Heck, I could bypass the huge expense and go to Facebook myself. The shot they pushed on us, Covid spread in nursing homes, the lies about the origins, and the slandering of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, shredded their reputations.

Which means that even the most benevolent tyrant can only bring disaster and destruction. No matter how saintly her intentions and wise her actions, they will visit catastrophe over time. Because facts change, knowledge is distributed and we’re easily manipulated. Making the idea foolish, though glittering, that a knight on a white horse is able to save us. She may want to in the worst way, but her own ignorance, or perhaps knowledge, will trip her up. Plus, what’s to keep a beneficent despot from falling victim to some manipulation herself? Like our doctors? Then there’s the question of what do we really want? Many of us are tricked to marching to socialism or Islamism, when if given the chance, we flee to free markets and free societies. Showing even the most benevolent tyranny will result in disaster.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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