From thr once great paper of record.

“I don’t want to give birth to a kid wondering if it’s going to live in some kind of ‘Mad Max’ dystopia” https://t.co/juYLCBqUI8

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 5, 2018

First of all, any rational person would notice that every apocalyptic prediction since the 70’s has failed to materialize.

Mad Max was filmed in 1979 and should have taken place by now.  Soylent Green takes place in 2022.  Escape from New York takes place in 1997.  Death Race 2000, well, takes place in 2000.

The only Sci-fi move from the 70’s and 80’s that hit anywhere close to reality was Robocop because Detroit is a shit hole of gangs and murder. 

But if you are the kind of person who thinks Donald Trump is going to make the Handmaid’s Tale a reality (as opposed to mass Muslim immigration imposing Sharia law on Europe) you might buy into the idea that too many SUVs are going to turn America into a desert wasteland.

If you are that unhinged, you probably shouldn’t be having kids.

I love my children.   I will educate them in the ways of the world.  If it looks like the world is coming to an end, I will prepare them for that too.

If the planet does go to hell, it will be my children asking “Who runs Bartertown?”

Of course the answer is “J.Kb Jr. runs Bartertown.”

Watch this.

The Ritz canopy has collapsed pic.twitter.com/9LBolLtIPY

— Busted Coverage (@bustedcoverage) February 5, 2018

A bunch of idiots in Philly were on top of the canopy at the Ritz Carlton and it collapsed.

I GUARANTEE you that at least a few of them will sue the Ritz. 

There will be attorneys who will take the case.  They will argue that the structure should have been able to support that weight or that it should not have been that easy to get on top of or there was a flaw in the design or manufacture of the awning.

Someone will say the steel wasn’t up to spec or the welds were bad or the whole thing had a design flaw.

The Ritz will get sued, so with the awning manufacturer, also the supplier of the steel.

The attorneys will hire consultants to write reports and testify that you should be able to park a car on a good awning and everything about this awning was a death trap.

Attorneys for the defense will hire their own experts to write and testify to the opposite, that an awning isn’t a balcony and it’s not supposed to hold people.

If nobody settles, it goes to a jury.  The jury may look at the evidence, or they may just listen to the crying testimony of a victim who says how having the awning collapse on him has put him in too much pain to play catch with his kid and make love to his wife, and decide in the favor of the plaintiff.

After only a couple of years I learned that there was no amount of bonus money at the end of the year that made me want to participate in this shit fest anymore.  

“Hoory, I got $53,000 at Christmas for being a fithy whore to lawyers.  I feel so empty inside.”

I ran away from that screaming.  

I make less but am a much richer person for it.

I know somewhere, sombody is going to make a lot of money because some drunk fucks climbed an awning.

I am very glad that won’t be me.

One of the problems with Europe is that the European governments largely do not represent the will of their people.

Europe is the land of royalty.  Even when the monarchy has been disbanded for centuries (France) they still have a cultural sense of caste systems.

European leaders are the elites.  They all attended the same schools, same universities, had the same professors, were taught the same things, and became the European bureaucratic ruling class.

This is how the Swedish government can keep importing huge numbers of refugees, to the detriment of Swedes (needs Google Translate), when the Swedish people hate the refugee policy.  The Swedish elite don’t care what the provincial people of Sweden want.

This model had taken root in the US, with Senator and President after Senator and President going to Harvard or Yale.

Still, in the US there was room a Representative to not be one of the self appointed elite.  Representatives are just that, they are supposed to represent their district, and should have some commonality with the people they represent.

Devin Nunes is the Congressman from California’s 22nd district.  The 22nd is smack dab in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, America’s “land of a billion vegetables” and California’s dairy lands.

Nunes is a third generation dairy farmer from the San Joaquin Valley, educated in agricultural science.  He represents the people and major economic power of his district – farming and agriculture.

He is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Being a farmer from the San Joaquin Valley and on the Intelligence Committee was just too much for adopted New Yorker, Joe Scarborough.

In retrospect, Nunes would have been better off remaining a dairy farmer instead of coming to Congress and wrecking the US House Intel committee. https://t.co/d27MzpLpQA

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 3, 2018

Joe obviously doesn’t believe that a non elite should be in any position of authority in the government.

At this point I need to remind Joe that he’s from Georgia and went to the University of Alabama, despite years of living in New York and being an MSNBC host.

This is a message to Middle America that they have no business REALLY meddling in Government.  Their representatives should just sit quietly and let the elites be in charge of everything that matters.  This is the elite’s world and were just serfs to them, given enough representation to keep us happy, but nothing more.

This is EXACTLY the reason that New California wants to leave the rest of the state.

This is EXACTLY why we got Trump.

The people are tired of the elites using the goverment to protect and enrich themselves, and when a non elite exposes it, we are told he shouldn’t be in the Congress in the first place.

Those are fighting words.

The Soviets killed anywhere between 20 and 60 million people.  There were so many people killed in so many different ways that historians have a margin of error of 40 million people.

Let that sink in for a second.

Given the enormity of that, one might think that it would be impossible to say one death out of those tens of millions is more notable than the others.  But out of all the millions killed by the Soviets, one stands out in my mind.

The assignation of Leon Trotsky.

Trotsky was a revolutionary.  He was a Soviet from the very beginning, before the Soviet Union existed.  He was a Red Army commander, fighting along side Lenin to win the Russian Civil War.  He was a founding member of the Communist Party.

He was murdered in exile in Mexico City, on orders of Joseph Stalin.

I keep this in mind because of the importance of this lesson.  It doesn’t matter how vital a man was to the Communist movement.  Arguably, without Trotsky, the Communists may not have existed as they did.  Once he fell out of favor with the party, his days were numbered.

Rare was the Communist who died of old age, peacefully in his bed.  At some point, as revolutionary as he may have been at the beginning, he was declared  traitor to the cause.

Enter Rose McGowan.

Rose McGowan was  leading Hollywood Celebrity voice in the #MeToo movement.  She was unabashedly calling out Hollywood on their hypocrisy on sexual harassment and why Hollywood women protected powerful rapists. 

This should have solidified her pro-woman bone fides.

Rose McGowan was not going to be allowed to die of old age, peacefully in her bed.

Simply calling out sexual harassment of women wasn’t enough.  She committed the mortal sin of not specifically calling out the harassment and rape of trans-women.  In Progressivism, woman are second class to trans-women, so just speaking on behalf of women isn’t obsequious enough of the hierarchy.

Some angry trans-woman decided to heckle McGowan at her own event.

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/959218557946155008

Social Justice responded exactly as you might expect.

https://twitter.com/thisisblayne/status/959453063969898497

the end meltdown is literally the embodiment of white feminism…this is so ugly. https://t.co/FnoLgRfLZ5

— unknown (@glittervolcano) February 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/cryoslime/status/959892763641860097

https://twitter.com/Carofineisfine/status/959481761263685633

The subsequent backlash against McGowan’s “transphobic,” “white feminist,” “TERF” (trans exclusionary radical feminism) opinion has caused McGowan to cancel her remaining appearances.

Rose McGowan was a revolutionary against Hollywood abuse.  At the speed of today’s new cycle, she outlived her usefulness in a couple of weeks.  The party moved on and Progressive Social Media decided to stick an ice axe in her skull on Twitter in a bookstore.

This is the critical lesson for anyone who thinks of aligning themselves with this movement.

No matter what you do, or how important you are today, you will eventually fall out of favor with the party and will be destroyed by them.

One of the Super Bowl commercials not leaked in advance was one from Ram Trucks.  It quotes part one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speechs, known as the “Drum Major Instinct.”

Part of motivation of the use of this speech was that it was delivered 50 years ago to the day of the Super Bowl.

This is the ad.

The text of the section of the speech used is below.

If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.  That’s a new definition of greatness.

And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.  You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.  You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. (Amen) You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

Personally, I thought the commercial was excellent.

The social justice warriors of America had a hissy fit.

Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep always does the best Super Bowl ads.  They try to do something inspirational.

The 2013 Super Bowl ad for Ram used a speech by Paul Harvey about farmers.  It was brilliant.

Then there was the Clint Eastwood “Halftime America” ad from 2012.

The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee ad was a testimony to the greatness of American manufacturing, and was aptly named “manifesto.”

Then, there was the Dodge Challenger “Freedom” commercial.  True is was not a Super Bowl ad, but it was for the World Cup.

I think this year’s Ram commercial followed well in the footsteps of other uplifting commercials.  That the progressives hate it, at this point, is a sign of a job well done, because those same people have everything else good in life.

Bravo Dodge.

A video was released of a plain clothes police officer being run over by a suspect in San Francisco.

Disturbing video shows auto burg suspect backing over plainclothes SFPD officer during bust Thurs near Alamo Square pic.twitter.com/7e4PRwTTQ8

— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) February 3, 2018

Do SFPD rules, police cannot shoot at moving vehicles, even if their lives are in danger.

Note the cop pointing his gun at the driver while the driver backed over the other officer.

I think there is a better way for the non ranking brass of the SFPD to handle this situation.

Make it very clear, with a public release of information, that the current constraints on police make it too dangers for the police to patrol or engage in any law enforcement of any kind in Outer Richmond, Haight Ashbury, or any of the other super wealthy districts in the city.

A former CIA official admitted on CNN that the un-elected, career employees of America’s federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies do not see themselves as subordinate to the Executive Branch but a separate and wholly unaccountable part of our goverment.

Former CIA counterterrorism official Phil Mudd: The FBI people "are ticked" and they'll be saying of Trump, “You’ve been around for 13 months. We've been around since 1908. I know how this game is going to be played. We're going to win" https://t.co/5x39x20g3e pic.twitter.com/fByOLNrh0I

— CNN (@CNN) February 2, 2018

I’ve never liked the term Deep State.  It sounds very tinfoil hat conspiratorial.   Not quite to Bilderbergers level, but bad.  It’s like when I hear someone say “military industrial complex” I have to roll my eyes a bit.

I have talked about the Iron Law of Bureaucracy before.

The Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

The statement by Phil Mudd means that the FBI has entirely succumbed to the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.  It is no longer a law enforcement agency at the DC level.  The management of the FBI exists ONLY to reserve the their jobs and the funding of the Agency.

What is so scary is that rather than simply graduating students with zero proficiency in math, as the education bureaucracy will do.  The FBI has the power to destroy politicians that get in its way, and if protecting the FBI bureaucrats requires a bloodless coup, so be it.

This is horrifying to the future of America, that the  bureaucrats are so beholden to the  Iron Law of Bureaucracy, that they are willing to throw an election away to stay the kings of their little fiefdoms.