I watched President Biden’s first State of the Union speech (I purposefully see it as a speech because Uncle Joe didn’t address anything, he just spoke lies.). I couldn’t get that nursery rhyme out of my brain. Uncle Joe was standing at the podium in Congress and over his shoulder, one sees Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris sitting, or more correctly jumping up and down, presiding over the House of Representatives.
So before I wander too far, remember that child’s toy that when cranked, played a tune to the British nursery rhyme Pop Goes the weasel (also called a Jack in the Box)?
Round and round the Mulberry bush,
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey stopped to pull up his socks,
Pop goes the weasel!
And to the child’s surprise, the lid would pop up and a cartoon caricature would pop up and cause the child to cackle in laughter.
I’ll bet Nancy and Kamala jumped up to applaud Uncle Joe about 100 times!
So, what’s the big deal? As with alcohol during prohibition and marijuana today, these are victimless crimes, right? As quoted in the previous post, the Cartel’s are mutating. One branch supports or profits another.1
Supply and Demand
Arresting and jailing the demand for drug use and drug related crimes such as robbery, theft, assault, battery, rape, and murder (to name a few of the victimless crimes) has not been a successful solution. Our prisons are as bloated as the average citizen’s waistline. Law Enforcement and Justice have given up in many parts of our nation and are turning a blind eye to crime or refusing to prosecute.
Well, then cut off the supply. A brief look at history shows that Prohibition was discarded because it was obvious that it did not deter alcohol consumption. The USA has spent bunch of gazillions trying to combat illicit drug use in the USA. It has been estimated that the 2021 bill will be $1 trillion. We have fought drug cartels in their own country, we have sprayed poppy fields in Afghanistan, we have attempted to interdict drug transportation on all the worlds oceans and seas and we have failed in every attempt. We might not have failed in the little battles but the offenders have succeeded in thwarting our efforts using creativity and persistence.2
So, what to do?
Not long ago, there was a push to repeal laws that required the use of helmets to ride a motorcycle. The No-Helmeters said it was their personal right to be free to choose whether to wear or not. They said they accepted the risks of injury, should an accident occur.
The Helmeters demanded helmet use because of the extreme expense thrust upon society to care for the head injuries of a, now, non-productive citizen-victim.
Then along came the Don’t-Cares. “Let’em die,” they said. Darwin’s evolution as a solution.
One approach to the drug problem is, Let’em die. Legalize all drug use and let the users assume the risk of their choice. The problem I, and others, see with this approach is that it is not a victimless crime turned not criminal. There will be a fair number of people that would not otherwise use drugs (when they were illegal) that now will use drugs and become socially bankrupt. There will be an increase in accidental injury/death to many non-users. There will be a paradigm shift within existing crime cartels to find another use of their infrastructure, probably illegal. It is already being seen that former illegal drug producers are still producing, but blending in with legal entities to distribute their unsanctioned product. There will be a steady corruption to society/culture from which we will not recover.
To me, legalizing all drugs compounds a problem we see, recognize and ignore, overwhelmingly, in this country. We know of the bad side of alcohol consumption. We have passed a few laws to curb the bad effects (DUI, public drunkenness, drinking at work, under age drinking) but have essentially thrown up our hands in defeat when it comes to alcohol. Now, let’s add heroine, cocaine, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, marijuana, barbiturates, psychedelics and a cornucopia of designer drugs both current and the future to our bloviated collection of laws.
No, we’ve got enough laws as it is.
I, personally, would like to see a more positive solution to the drug problem.
Then I stumbled across this comedian. Robert Mack.3
I really wish you would go to the YouTube site and watch this because he presents the material much better than I. But, for those lazy bums out there, his plan is to move the USA’s southern border south to the Panama Canal. Its only 50 miles long, and certainly much easier to control than our 1,954 mile border. He reasons that the then entire population between the current southern USA border and the Panama Canal would not want to come north because they’d already be in the USA. Problem solved.
Most of the middle east views the USA as The Great Satan and wants to destroy us. Mexico views us as The Big Sugar-Daddy and wants to suck us dry. One an invasive infection like flesh eating bacteria, one a parasite like a giant tape worm.
Since establishing the current USA borders in 1848, the USA has not fought any wars of acquisition. We have fought to spread the concept of democracy but not land acquisition. We have fought to free people of tyranny and despotism. So Robert Mac’s plan to end illegal immigration just seems anti-American.
But, wait. These people want to come to America, so instead we take America to them.
Unfortunately, the results of America’s attempts to spread democracy have yielded some pretty big failures. European countries that dug their collective heels into communism and socialism, South East Asian despotism, Cuban isolationism. There are countries that have, of their own motivation, come around to the idea of democracy, and it seems that democracy (in one form or another) prevails in world countries.4
But see, Mexico is a constitutional republic (an electoral democracy according to Mr. Roser) similar to the USA (which is slightly more free as a liberal democracy). It has a thriving economic potential. It has vast rich resources that are yet undeveloped, or at best poorly developed. It has a rich illegal pharmaceutical empire yet untapped by taxing authorities. It is the southern most country in North America. It’s southern border is 541 miles and encompasses 3 rivers. Longer than the Panama Canal, but much closer and the 3 rivers help lessen the distance needing to be heavily guarded.
So, now that we have pulled out of Afghanistan…
From your grumpy Uncle Dave. Isn’t it ironic how comedy has a bite of truth to it?
This has been talked to death starting within minutes after Kamala uttered this garbage and continues with this statement and others that followed. But, I haven’t seen this rebuttal, so here it goes.
First, let’s look at the facts, or at least as close to facts as is humanly possible.
Pearl Harbor refers to the Japanese bombing of a US naval station in Hawaii causing the loss of 2,403 American lives, 68 of which were civilian. Nineteen US Navy ships and 8 US battle ships were attacked. Four were sunk and 2 others destroyed. 300 aircraft were destroyed. It is estimated to have cost $2.1 million in 1941 dollars for repairs.1
2,977 lives were lost and over 6,000 were injured in the September 11, 2001 attack on the USA by the militant Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda. About 7,000 US service members have died since, adding greatly to the toll caused by these attacks. Insurance costs have reached $40 billion. Intangible losses include those suffered by the Airlines who were shut down and their subsequent financial loss due to Homeland Security regulations, Tourism revenue loss due to fear and restricted/complicated travel regulation, added security issues for immigration, travel, commerce, two wars subsequent and due to the attacks that are estimated at a loss of $6 trillion.2
January 6, 2022, on the 1 year anniversary, “Vice President Kamala Harris compared [the] January 6 [Capital events] to the 9/11 attack that killed almost 3,000 Americans and the assault on Pearl Harbor in 1941 in her speech at the Capitol on Thursday.”
Kamala Harris compares January 6 [which she calls riots/insurrection/and other dastardly things, but which I prefer to think of as protests by disenfranchised citizens] to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, calls America the ‘greatest and oldest democracy in the world’ and criticizes ‘extremists assaulting’ the country’s ‘ideals’.3
It is convenient to praise the USA when it suits your purpose because Kamala and the squad have been trash talking the USA since the first camera appeared in front of them. So are they proud to be American, or not?
One is a lie! And, I’m having a really hard time equating the January 6, 2021 events with the staggering devastation of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
In the January 6, 2021 Capital protests, casualties occurred. Two rally participants died of heart failure, one before the capital breach. Both were in their 50s. One was reported to be trampled in the assault but actually died of an accidental overdose (acute amphetamine intoxication). One was by a Capital Police officer. One died of results of 2 strokes after the protest but billed variably as the result of blunt force head trauma or chemical spray exposure. The death certificate listed the cause of death as natural, the stroke. Four suicides, occurring 3 days to 6 months after the protests, one of which was an after-protest curfew enforcer who wasn’t even present at the Capital during the protests.4
And so AOC and other leftists list 10 deaths due to the protests.
Again, a lie. And, I’m having a really hard time equating the January 6, 2021 events with the staggering devastation of Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
In my day, it was called Münchhausen syndrome. Now it is called Factitious disorder. The Mayo Clinic web site says, “Factitious disorder is a serious mental disorder in which someone deceives others by appearing sick, by purposely getting sick or by self-injury.”5
In other words, lying.
Exaggeration, overstating the truth.6
In other words, lying.
Lying, thoughts or words presented containing untrue statements. 7
In the same words, lying.
Pathological lying, Pathological liars tell compulsive lies without a clear motive. It may be a sign of an underlying mental health condition, such as a personality disorder.8
In other words, lying.
“this is the woman who attacked Joe Biden as a villainous racist and probable sex abuser in Democratic primaries but is now his running mate. She appears utterly without principle save that of self-advancement.”
A lie.
“The president’s mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,”
A lie by exaggeration.
“… there’s a reason it has hit America worse than any other advanced nation. It’s because of Trump’s failure to take it seriously.”9
A lie.
In the medical world, symptom magnification is a real entity. It is an impediment in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of a disorder in a patient that has utter disregard for their own well being. It might be intentional or subconscious. If secondary gains are to be benefited, it may be considered pathological. It was a form of Münchhausen’s syndrome and is now a form of factitious disorder.
Consider for a moment, law enforcement officers may legally lie to a citizen, for any reason and without consequence. But, it is illegal to lie to a law enforcement officer, with charges ranging from a misdemeanor to a felony.
So, why is it perfectly acceptable to repeatedly lie to your constituents?
Me thinks that this party girl, Kamala Harris, has a serious psychological disorder.
Elementary education in the 1950s taught that the Queen of France was reported to have said, when told that her subjects were hungry and there was a shortage of bread, “Then let them eat cake.”
A strong case has been made that Marie Antoinette never said this, but it has been used as a battle cry for those peoples disgruntled with the seeming lack of concern for their plight by their very leaders.1
Supposedly, an early Chinese emperor said something very similar during a shortage of rice about eating porridge.
A similar statement was made in 2016 about unemployed Kentucky coal miners learning to code instead of mining coal.
And along comes Joe Biden. Who, wants to give illegal immigrants $450,000 reparations for being separated from family at the border of the USA.2
The US Census Bureau reported that the poverty level was decreasing due to Trump’s economic policies. Then in 2020, the poverty rose as Joe Biden’s economic policies began to be implemented.3 Poverty, in the USA, is considered when a family of 4 has income of $26,500 or less. In 2020 there were about 37.2 million families in poverty in the USA. That is 1/8 of the population and doesn’t reflect those illegal immigrants pressing at the southern border. As of 2018, it is estimated 2,654 cases would qualify. that would be $1.2 billion and does not include the massive surge of illegal immigrants since. You think our trillion dollar budget deficit is overwhelming now?
Hum, …?
From your grumpy Uncle Dave.
I guess that I’d have to restrain from saying that those that forget history are bound to repeat it. Or maybe change to, those that forget what they were taught, regardless of how wrong, are destined to repeat it. (UD, Ed.)
In 2009, then President Obama considered General Motors and Chrysler too big to fail.
I guess Walmart, UPS and FedEx feel Joe Biden is too big to fail.
…the president said, noting the commitments he had from Walmart and other companies, like UPS and FedEx, to run 24/7 operations to help quell the congested supply chain.1
