If I were to recap the first 18 parts of this series-it would take up most of the space of what constitutes the desired article length, while also being depressing enough that I might just stop right there. The amazing part of the story is that as bad as I and many likeminded individuals thought it might get under the Biden administration as he formed a team in his image-but in actuality revived the failed and ruinous policies of the Obama administration, with the Junior Varsity team now elevated to the “big boy offices”-in position to do the “big mess-ups,” I think “we” grossly misunderestimated just how fast delamination can occur when you have ne’er-do-wells whose sole talent seems to be incompetence and low regard or borderline hatred for our American system.
Hiring in so many inept incompetents (the worst kind) rendered moot the attempt at hysteria mongering by the LSMBTG* under the right wing “conspiracy theory” category, with the left accusing conservatives of all manner of the equivalent of “ism-fever,” harboring paranoid, delusional and racist thoughts over the idea of reviving and perpetuating failed globalist, ruinous policies under a shell Biden presidency, that in actuality would continue things temporarily interrupted as an Obama third term. As bad as I and others thought it might get, we were pikers in that regard-far too optimistic-hope is not a plan, or a strategy-disasters can occur much faster on a much greater scale than even the most paranoid and optimistic pessimists among us predicted.
That was the point of this series in the first place-to do somewhat of a walk down memory lane to remind people just how bad things had gotten under Obama. People aren’t stupid, but they often don’t pay attention to the things our government does until the policies have a direct, often in your face, deleterious effect on their lives. Virginia has been a textbook example in that regard. When the Virginia school system-motivated by the teacher’s union-who was benefitting bigly from democrats and rewarded their benefactors with campaign donations and some good ole rump snuggling in return-suddenly began championing Islam and the Muslim “religion of peace” by including educational aspects in curriculum in the 2006-2010 timeframe-use of prayer rugs in classrooms, teaching phrases, learning aspects of life, customs and beliefs, while also starting a policy that looked upon our military personnel in uniform at schools as “intimidating or frightening to some students,” the relatively few military families were the only ones that seemed alarmed by such policies. At the same time there was a concerted effort to end Christian prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance and the playing of the National Anthem at school events, which many schools quietly eliminated. The school-aged kids in our family were spread across 3 different school districts in 3 different counties-so maybe we were just unlucky.
Our family reacted by questioning these policies, shortly thereafter making the decision to homeschool as the school systems in our communities’ made choices and implemented policies that disenfranchised many but empowered the few for reasons that did not have anything to do with educating our children. Many later reacted to emerging events in Virginia in the runup to the 2020 election season gubernatorial race -things like gender, Critical Racism Theory, LGBTQ issues that were being pursued policy-wise without regard to or input from concerned parents. These issues were highlighted nationwide as new “news,” as if started out of the blue, and came to the forefront for any and all reasons-mostly touted as “ism” prejudices and problems from conspiracy theorists, but in truth the roots of the discontent started during the aforementioned period. I’ve often wondered if some of the children who experienced this overt double standard from the earlier period-now parents themselves-had enough of the madness and the burgeoning power of the teacher’s union and school boards that seemed to have wide and varied interest for all manner of topics-with the exception of the performance of the education system in doing what constitutes their one job: caring for the health and welfare of children during the school day, and educating our children.
What changed so dramatically during this period that empowered and emboldened entities like the teacher’s union and school boards to do a 180 on things like the idea of teaching about religion in school-but not that religion-or abandoning some of the traditional customs that had gone on for generations with relatively minor issues-like school prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, the playing of the National Anthem at sporting events, etc.?
My premise is (danger Will Robinson, conspiracy theory warning) that beginning with the runup to the 2008 election there was a concerted effort by the LSMBTG* that started out as a relatively minor trend that grew into an almost raging mandate as the election date drew near where we started to see the emergence of the LSMBTG picking sides and playing gate keeper through somewhat of a “Katie bar the door” approach to the things deemed of interest and those matters considered off limits-by this new and evolving standard-regarding the candidates. There was a veritable plethora of juicy tidbits with potential for further development, but even Obama’s opponent self-censored by declaring many of these topics off limits-including a straight answer on birth information, birth certificates, religion, the inimitable Reverend Wright, relationships with people like Luis Farrakhan, college transcripts, suspicious unsealing by a California court of an opposition candidate’s divorce papers in the Illinois State senatorial elections, relationships with former Weather Underground members, suspicious funding for houses, etc.
This was somewhat the start of an incurious LSMBTG who suddenly became advocates and propaganda arms for candidates, rather than serve as information resources for we the people. They made choices and created narratives. Remember all the calls and outcry by the LSMBTG for Obama to just produce his birth certificate to settle matters once and for all-just show the darn document: didn’t happen. Nor calls to come clean on any of the controversial information for all of the above issues. This was the debut of the release of the hounds-if you expressed an opinion about or had a question about Obama-like his relationship to Weatherman terrorist William Charles “Bill” Ayres-you must be a racist.
This is a topic for a different article, but there is perhaps no better exemplar of the malfeasance-thumb on the scale, acting as the proverbial information “decider-in-chief”-of the LSMBTG during this period-often self-adopted or anointed-than this picture of Barrack Obama and Luis Farrakhan taken in 2005, but not publicly released until after he left office. It’s just a harmless picture, but it represents an entire campaign of “hide the donut” or memory holing that took place starting as early as 2005 that continues to this day. Of course, with friends like these (Farrakhan-Obama is a murderer….)
I’ve often quoted Robert Gates by now infamous observation that “Biden has been wrong about every foreign policy issue for forty years.” Well even he was physically sick for several days after the precipitous and mind-numbingly dumb withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite already having such low expectations for the decision-maker-in chief. He hasn’t commented on Ukraine lately-but word is that he is not feeling well…the bigotry of low expectations lives but is no consolation.
I don’t think there is anything worse than when the government we elect and whose salaries we pay with our tax dollars to do the things we grudgingly give them to do, lie to us (or cheat and steal.) I think the most disturbing part of the Biden administration is their propensity to gaze right at the camera-look you in the eye-and with great sincerity and false enthusiasm-spin and lie like some 7-year-old with crumbs on their lips denying a broken cookie jar. Its as if they believe we the people won’t see the physical evidence, aren’t savvy enough to see through it or have no alternative information against which to judge their pronouncements. These aren’t political niceties or spins or little fibs, but rather just total pants on fire whoppers.
What is more shocking is the fact that our government has become so adept at lying that it is the first tactic they go to in a pinch-as if we the people haven’t heard of this search-engine thing called the internet. Or is it worse for the LSMBTG failing to call them out on it-or worse, singing the doowaps right along with them as if unaware of it-or patently incurious? Or maybe it’s the fact checkers who-rather than call out such blatant lies (save for rare occasions)-often debunk protestations via straw man tactics reminiscent of Obama techniques-or reference things that weren’t actually said or by pointing to things that aren’t actually facts-but might be truths?
My favorite tactic that has emerged from this silliness is the LSMBTG headline “conservatives or republicans pounce” as the lead headline when some entity like the Lincoln Project creates whole cloth fake narratives with shills, actors and over the top stories (nice touch here with known democrat operatives with hipster Wal Mart Tiki Torches-particularly the black-white supremacist, about as natural as a lumberjack at Drag Queen Story Hour,) or in spite of their self-described “moral and ethical stand” against the Bad Orange Man, they tolerated a pedophile-grooming colleague in their midst while attempting to preach from the political high ground invoking the memory of Lincoln. We well know Weaver was a “republican”-it is in the lead statement on every story, but what is less trumpeted or less well known was his strong ties to McCain. Superman Bizarro-World-like.
Anyone paying attention recently has witnessed some of the most mind-blowing silly rhetoric coming out of our government imaginable. Not quite culminating (because I think they are just getting warmed up) in recent efforts that just boggle the mind that thinking humans (albeit, a huge assumption) could offer such shallow and juvenile explanations to this nation.
These are not the “Little Lies” sung about by Fleetwood Mac, but rather big old furry whoppers that shred asunder their credibility into dust and fertilizer and inflict painful experiences on friends and foes alike (cosmic Adam’s Family Lurch groan.)
One of the biggest and worst whoppers of the last several months has been this consistent theme of blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for any and all of the bad things happening in America right now. Oil prices, inflation, transportation woes, goods and service shortages-my chickens not laying enough eggs in freezing temperatures-he is an easy boogey man to take issue with: basta.
C’mon, man! One thing many of us share who served in the military during the formal cold war period and the luke-warm period that followed since is a hatred of the Soviet and Russian government and systems. It should be easy for us/me to adopt this mantra of blaming Putin for not being able to buy a staple like bacon under $5 a pack that we used to pay $~3 something for just a scant time ago, so-oh yea, I would ordinarily be all in to blame what I’ve referred to as the “F-bomb Russians” for three decades-and the Soviets for the prior two.
The problem is it’s not just these lies being touted, spouted and sold by our government: it’s their actions in many areas, and inactions in others. Biden had a somewhat “get off of my lawn moment” yelling at the paperboy when he ranted off topic about we the people blaming the administration about inflation and rising prices for-well-everything. Biden is back to what he seems to do best, which is to get cranky when his silly pronouncements draw fire and ire, spout inanities and scold we the people, who theoretically gave him the most votes in American history: the most popular president in American history.
Since when-and how-have the very well-understood fundamental causes of inflation rooted in money supply practices that have been studied assiduously since Greek and Roman times become a mystery of life? Economic policy and money theory behave in such regular ways that we’ve almost come to understand financial issues in near physics terms, where every government action has an equal and often opposite (to what was intended or sold to us) reaction.
Just by coincidence (and there are none, by the way) the January 2022 Imprimis publication from Hillsdale College, Inflation in the United States, is a lecture on inflation from renowned and prolific economist John Steele Gordon. The bottom-line basic principle of money policy is:
Money is just another commodity, no different from petroleum, pork bellies, or pig iron. So money, like all commodities, can rise and fall in price, depending on supply and demand. But because money is, by definition, the one commodity that is universally accepted in exchange for every other commodity, we have a special term for a fall in the price of money: we call it inflation. As the price of money falls, the price of every other commodity must go up.
And what causes the price of money to fall? The answer is very simple: an increase in the supply of money relative to other goods and services. As the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman explained, “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”
The above tells you all you need to know about the roots of inflation-the lecture traces problems created through bad or ill-advised policies starting in 248 A.D., to America’s founding on up to the present. The US deficit reached $10 trillion in 2010, doubled by 2017, and with the onset of COVID and all manner of government spending like big buck cash giveaways during bingo at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars Friday night dinner, recently surpassed $30 trillion dollars. The administration is apparently just getting started, with talk of some $5 trillion more in spending being touted. Merely increasing the money supply is not enough to spur inflation, but it is a bit like that little ant or a small amount of snow dislodging high up in the mountain that starts sliding down gaining size, speed, momentum, girth and attitude.
Take no solace in Biden’s pronouncements that it is untrue that government spending is the root cause of inflation-nor in his retort that “Milton Friedman is no longer in charge:” we noticed. As Gordon points out:
By December 2021, consumer prices were up seven percent on an annual basis, the highest in 40 years, while producer prices were up 9.6 percent, the highest since that statistic has been compiled. And the expectation of further inflation is now deeply embedded in the economy.
And we are just getting warmed up on administration “little lies.”
Max Dribbler
16 March 2022
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I think we are well warmed up, and are in for more whoppers, and not from Burger King, but the faux king in the White House and his minions.
Awesome article!
Thanks for reading-that Burger King dude creeps my wife out (but so does Biden.) The good news is people seem alerted to and are not accepting much the lamestream says at face value anymore-and “they’ve” managed to “jolt” average Americans out of their comfort levels into action–as we’ve seen in Virginia. The bad news is who in the administration is savvy or smart enough to give the order to “stop digging, put down the shovel?” Finally, Americans all across this nation should be looking at the “man in the glass” and asking if stopping a few mean tweets was worth this carnage-like burning your house down because of a termite or gnat problem…
As is usual, if only enough are alerted enough…
I hope so.
First thing–good article.
All of us know that politicians lie regularly. I suppose that we really should not be surprised that a government composed of those politicians lie a lot as well. This is a problem that we allowed (I certainly include myself in the guilt) to sneak in by not holding each of our locally elected officials to a standard of truth. I don’t see a solution.
“I think “we” grossly misunderestimated just how fast delamination can occur when you have ne’er-do-wells whose sole talent seems to be incompetence and low regard or borderline hatred for our American system.”
Two events shocked my out of that mode–I have been warning about this in various places for a while. Those two events were the suddenness with which the old Soviet Union collapsed from a major world power to next to nothing and the equally sudden collapse of Venezuela from a moderately wealthy country into a total economic wasteland. It can happen to us–and in the space of a single presidency.
Thank you for reading. Very good points about the Soviet Union and Venezuela-both for very different reasons, but both self-inflicted.
We don’t often hear about what I think is the best example of the above problem in America-which is mitigated to a degree by “free and fair” elections (another topic….)
We have somewhat of what I call a reactive or knee jerk election where there is a strong sentiment and anti-vote against a candidate, rather than for one-which begat Biden post-Trump and Obama post-Bush. In both cases economic havoc resulted.
I believe we’ve gone through 3 such elections in my lifetime, the most instructive from the study of “what now” might be Jimmy Carter, as we suffered economic malaise for long after he left office-stagflation, mortgage rates above 14% in the late 1980s.
America is like an SR-71 to turn around (takes several states) economically once ill-considered and disastrous economic policy takes hold-one term is enough to infect the whole system.