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Tom’s World – 30MAR2025 – Human Nature
Even if we had a total rebirth, and somehow had a new constitutional convention attended by intelligent and principled patriots who would write a new constitution correcting the fault lines that allowed to corruption to enter and begin the rot, how long would it last before constitution 2 was also brought to the brink of collapse?
I’m pretty sure that the founders would have become violently ill at the thought of lifelong congressmen becoming fabulously wealthy and self important and totally divorced from the wishes, needs and physical and moral well being of their constituents.
It seems to me that any enduring political structure must be built around just how self serving and corruptible humans can be. But any system created by humans can and will be corrupted by humans. There has to be some robust self centering feedback system built at the absolute core where it will be hard to get to and corrupt. Maybe, that was supposed to have been the function of the Supreme Court but we all see the result that political appointment has had.
Elections can certainly and are easily subverted.
Tom’s World – 28FEB2025 – Photo
Tom’s World – 23FEB2025 – Gold Bricks Off the Titanic
Remember 4 and a fraction years ago during the BLM riots when there were entire city blocks filled with parked charter busses just around the corner from the riot site?
Also, there were Craig’s List recruiting ads for paid “rioters”. Somehow, nobody bird dogged the lead back to the source, not publically anyway. I’ll bet you that the ultimate money source was US.gov very possibly through USAID and a couple of cutout NGO’s.
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The analogy used by a senior EPA employee recently was, “throwing gold bricks off the stern on the Titanic”.
Even now, I suspect that if we ever learn the true scale of the corruption, we will be stunned, at least initially. After the initial shock, I think there would then be some public hangings.
So Joe Biden sold his office of the Vice Presidency for somewhere in the $30 million range?
What a small time piker.
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($4.7 trillion)
“That’s supervillain scale theft.” I don’t think there is even a word for corruption on that scale because the word has never been needed before.
Tom’s World – 22FEB2025 – DOGE, Blessed Be Their Name
I think it amusing/horrifying that the DIMs have finally identified their base principle, their hill to die on that MUST NOT be breached. DOGE has revealed the nature of that principle. And it is not DIE, open borders, green energy, climate change, transgender, etc., etc.
The hill that that they have chosen as the location for their apoplectic battle is the continuation of graft and corruption on the $trillion dollar scale.
Example from yesterdays news- Though it’s difficult, I’ll try not to get too pejorative here but that FAT ***** Black Georgia “woman”,Stacey Abrams, was in the news. DOGE (blessed be their name) uncovered that a PAC formed by Stacey a couple of months ago for environmental justice received a $2 billion (read $2 thousand million) grant from the nightmare Biden admin.
Understand that this PAC was 2 months old and had no employees and had a capitalization of $100 before the grant. Also understand that the grant had no conditions, no oversite, no monitoring, no auditing.
That precisely is the base principle of what the Dims have become and will “die” to protect.
Rebuild the Middle Class
In the comments to yesterday’s post was this one by TomD:
“For a number of years, I saw leftism coming and attributed it to a politically motivated elite with a brilliantly executed long focus political motive. There’s probably at least some of that but the revelations of last few weeks lead me to think that what we have been observing with such dismay over the past decade or so is coming from a much baser motivation: greed.
The revelations coming from DOGE seem to imply a very large and intricate network of NGO’s lavishly endowed from scantily controlled government disbursement programs. Apparently, the amount of money disappearing into these dark and uncontrolled conduits is well into the $trillions.
Everybody close to government is getting RICH and they do not want the trails to become illuminated.”
I think a lot of us who were just plain old patriotic Americans, or what they now call civic nationalists, assumed that the Left really was sincere with all the craziness they preached and that the waste and inefficiency were symptoms of their myopia and unwillingness to use meritocratic selection when populating the federal government with useless people of all imaginable types.
But just like TomD I’ve finally gotten it through my thick skull that for the most part all these people in government are just plain crooks stealing us blind. And I include almost all the Republicans in that category too. All they want is a way to cash in on their positions in the machine that prints money and hands it out to those in the know.
I suppose that I should be philosophical about all this. After all, greed is what makes capitalism work supposedly. And I suppose if they were just wetting their beaks but still doing their jobs to keep this country healthy, rich and strong I’d be inclined to say, “Well, that’s just human nature. They’re just good old boys picking up some crumbs from the floor of the bakery.”
But it’s nothing like that. They’re like Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital. They’re selling off the assets of a company (America) and sending the employees home without jobs and without their pensions. They’re liquidators. It’s a giant going out of business sale with us as the former employees forced to take temporary employment, boxing up the equipment as it’s shipped off to China and elsewhere.
But for as long as the Merry Go Round keeps turning, they get paid by skimming off of the proceeds from the sales of what’s still left.
Eventually, our bodies will be all that’s left. And the only use for those will be as cannon fodder for the forever wars that still bring in value to the people running the show. And that’s why Ukraine and the Middle East and Taiwan are always in the news and why we still have to hear about how important democracy is. They need our sons to suit up and fly to the desert and die in the heat.
And that’s why we should hate these people with all the hate we can manufacture. To them we’re cattle and that’s all. They feel not the least kinship toward us and we should not have the least compunction about them failing, losing their jobs or anything else. Hearing about how NGOs are laying off people means less than nothing to me. In fact, I’m overjoyed to hear about some Harvard graduate who was making mid-six figures working for a George Soros “open society” NGO shocked and dismayed to be out of work and stuck with a huge mortgage on a five-million-dollar house in Northern Virginia.
Compare his plight to a family that’s been living for the last two hundred years in Ohio or Pennsylvania while the industries that were located there systematically relocated to China and left the working class more and more desperate and poor. Trump has looked at what is going on and clearly seen the liquidation game for what it is. If the rest of his team are smart, they’ll see that their only hope (and ours) is to continue this process to force the corporations to invest in us. To quote a mythical small town American, “this rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?”
Call it populism, nationalism, whatever -ism you care to. This used to be a great nation. A balance has to be struck that allows for a prosperous middle class. Instead, the masters of the universe think they can settle into a feudal system with them at the top and us as the serfs. I think it’s time we let them know that if this is going to be feudalism then we might as well bring the time up to the French Revolution and make a big old bonfire out of their cool stuff.
Enough is enough. Empty out Washington, slash the federal budget, lower our taxes, stand pat on the nuclear arsenal, fix all the broke stuff, bring back our jobs, fill up the prisons and rebuild the middle class.
Tom’s World – 13FEB2025 – The Ultimate Pyramid Scam
The Federal Government is history’s absolute worst fiduciary administrator even theoretically possible. SS and Medicare are supposed to be involuntary pay in advance programs for medical insurance and pension. I seem to remember having roughly 15% of my wages deducted throughout my life and sent to the Fed, supposedly to supplement or finance my retirement. So, how did the benefits for which I paid in advance throughout my working career become a line item expenditure on the federal budget?
If you are a pension fund administrator and spend every cent the second you get it and hopefully pay retirees from current funds, there’s a name for that: Pyramid Scam, a felony.
Tom’s World – 09FEB2025 – Photo – A Rose by Any Other Name …
Tom’s World – 07FEB2025 – Photo – Dandelion
Below is my take on a Southern dandelion. This image could have used some focus stacking.
Tom’s World – 28JAN2025 – The Ravages of Time
The place where I grew up, at least from age 5, doesn’t exist any more. The name, Sandy Springs, exists as does the geographical location, north Atlanta metro, both exist. But the reality is long gone, torn down and the replacement torn down and the replacement of the replacement—- You get the idea.
Nothing, absolutely nothing physical from my childhood survives. Dust and dead. The neighborhood BBQ parties where everyone’s Dad was a WWII vet. The neighborhood gone, the street gone. Highrise buildings where the woods with the abandoned POW camp were. An 8 lane road where the old rock quarry was where we used to shoot snakes in the lake at the bottom.
I’m the only one left and I’m not going to be around that much longer either.
And the replacements are far from what I imagined as I read my Sci-Fi. Nobody then wrote anything sufficiently dystopian to include this reality.