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Issue: 19 December 2024
The Rise of the New Technocrats: Trump, Musk, et al.
(Some Orwellian quote here.)
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighy-Four
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
In the lead up to the election we were pounded nearly senseless with inflammatory rhetoric aimed to steer the electorate away from a second term of Trump as our chief executive. Words like Nazi and Dictator were pitched feverishly by our more Left-leaning media as the momentum edging toward the Vote approached. The Artificial Intelligence SteamPunk machines worked nonstop grinding and churning, blowing sparks and smoke from their funnels, forging newer and better slogans and ideas, designed to shape the views of the younger voter - Left, Right, and Undecided.
Disarmingly, Trump did the unthinkable: to a large extent he aligned himself with those who give the appearance of being progressive; people who value the environment; who seek equitable treatment of workers; those who strive to guarantee freedom of speech and sanctity of opinion; people whose commitment to egalitarianism is evident and pervasive as evidenced by their words, deeds, and, most importantly, by their all-too-crucial and highly-significant Tweets and Facebook posts overseen by the Barons of technology today, most of whom rose to the position of boardroom chief by virtue of OPM (Other People’s Money, through Venture Capitalists or heredity, like Trump and Musk), or as Barnum said, through the ignorance of the masses.
Of course (arguably) P. T. Barnum was right. But by today’s standards, given our overwhelming population, there is a fool born every nanosecond. And thanks to this robust population growth of unread, uneducated, unthinking, technological dipsomaniacs who march through their daily lives with their faces buried in Smartphones treasuring every social media post as though they were the Words of God, Donald Trump, and his Cheerleader-in-Chief, Elon Musk, pulled it off, having won over the heavily-indebted younger voters and billionaire-wannabes: those who, as you read this, are feverishly coding, or pitching newer, better online nonsense destined to suppress and guide tomorrow’s thinking in ever-pervasive ways.
(As an example, there are now platforms that offer a specialized Rent Payment alternative to handing your landlord a check once a month, because that can be just soooo ponderous: https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/new-california-trend-pay-rent-get-rewards-19944735.php)
And, as if to prove my hypothesis that no college graduates more dipshits than Harvard, Zuckerberg has joined forces now, too, with Trump. And there is a long list of Technocrats lining up behind our next president, ready to control the most popularly accessed platforms of social media to the benefit of the government and the very wealthy who administrate each.
And while I know it’s hard to keep up with the whirlwind and strangeness of likely appointees to the Trump cabinet, today we learned that Jared Isaacman will lead NASA: our nation’s space program, because through the facility of his personal wealth derived from founding a credit card processing company, he was able to afford two trips on Musk’s rocket (not a metaphor). To that end, I’d like to recommend that President Trump appoint me to head the FCC having watched television occasionally until more than 20 years ago when I stopped in disgust.
From all that the future promises, all the Uber-rich want in return is… your obeyance.
Their goal is Internationalism through the introduction of a worldwide non-representative government. All that’s getting in their way at the moment is a series of non-aligned democracies, dictatorships, totalitarianist regimes, and theocracies. But these recalcitrant others can be dealt with easily and relatively quickly once their Technocratic Utopian influence spreads, as it is destined to do, given the continued downward trend of intelligence: a by-product of unchecked breeding, and television, and the Internet (see Musk, below).
The New Fascism
Technocracies are by their very construction, fascist states. There is no room for negotiation and Rights, as we see them in the United States, are illusory (not that they haven’t been so since our founding). The word of the Technocratic state’s leadership is absolute. There is no variation permitted except that which results in the elimination of the recalcitrant. All decisions are empirically-based and derived without emotional context. In our case, it will be through the contrivance of AI.
The Transition: In our initial Technocratic society before AI is fully synthesized into decision-making, leadership will consist of a panel of experts who view themselves as enlightened and superior, as their longer-term vision of what must occur in society to meet future challenges to them appears obvious, although many of us may not see it the same way.
This overseeing hierarchy will share a common view of how technology must advance to replace deficient human actions with a higher-level of capability and productivity, just as Musk employs Technology to obviate the need for assembly line and information technology workers, the same as every major manufacturer in every industry in America (and much of the balance of the world) today.
For those industries who resell products made elsewhere, but warehouse here, Technology is destined to eliminate virtually all jobs involving physical involvement with the transport, receiving, storing, packaging and subsequent shipping of those products to the ultimate human consumer. Financial Accounting, too.
The ultimate goal is to eliminate the human factor completely.
Take Amazon, as an example: At this writing, Amazon workers are threatening an international job action to frustrate the process of product delivery during a very busy season: one that could impact profitability greatly.
1) Daily, Amazon workers are either genuinely injured, or allege to have been, on the job and seek compensation.
2) Any sales volume change, following the ebb and flow of normal business, results in either increased hiring or layoffs at a substantial cost to Amazon in either case.
Switching “Off” machines is far simpler and cost-effective. I am frankly surprised that this vast sea of low-wage workers fail to see this obvious and intractable eventuality.
In very short order (a decade or a little more?) Coding and Scripting, AI Development, Raw Material Procurement, Manufacturing, Product Delivery, Warehousing, Advertising, Sales, Financial Accounting and Reporting, Delivery, Warranty Service - virtually all aspects of our economy will be assumed by Technology. Even getting your butt rubbed, per this article:
Robotic Happy Ending, Anyone?
We’ll always need somebody to dump the garbage…
No, we won’t. As a generality it held true: We have always needed people of lesser intellectual capabilities or inclinations to perform the menial tasks necessary to sustain our lives, at home and at work: jobs of this basic nature, though, are all likely to collapse and become automated, from collecting the garbage, to George’s favorite trolling ground for sex…
Elon Musk: US Copulator General
Elon Musk doesn’t subscribe to Eugenic thinking, as evidenced by his actions, and would like you to believe that having many, many babies is a good idea. He sees the world’s resources as never-ending, and that is why he is a one-man, copulating disaster, having already given us at least 12 more of something akin to him because he thinks it is good for the world to have many, many little Elons controlling global thinking and actions. Now that’s how a Nazi would think!
New Slavery
If you can’t visualize this reality, you will be one of those destined to be washed aside economically by the flood. Your job, then, as it will be for the multitude of others, will be to live in a yet-to-be-defined level of basic comfort supported through various supplanting income programs financed likely by the government, and your duty as a former-American will be to acquire the myriad things manufactured by Robotics, both here and in other parts of the world, as many are today, and to bury yourself in debt-servitude. More so than today…
As we die, we will likely be replaced by the eugenically derived, balancing population growth to economic and societal need. Those who replace you will be “positioned” either above or below your present position - replaced by a more fitting version of you.
To facilitate buying these newly-essential items online, a continued loosening of laws restricting the availability of existing and developing drugs will occur. You will be subject to online promotional and advertising campaigns that will stimulate your need to intake these drugs, and will thus, drunk- or drug-shop your way to happiness, putting far more money in the pockets of the already-wealthy. And you are not expected to brave the elements when doing so.
Headline: Cyber Monday shoppers expected to set a record on the year’s biggest day for online shopping. (And they did!)
Financial Transactions:
To facilitate this New World Order, Crypto-Currency will come to the fore as the dominate underpinning of our economy because it is Global. It makes all things easier without the messy exchange processes and the frequent imbalance and vacillation in rates between currencies, based on their singular enhancements or retrenchments. The playing field is always level, no matter in which Global Sector you dwell.
The new Fascism will not work without a unified currency. Trump knows this. Musk knows this. Hell, even I know this. So, although I do not subscribe to Crypto as a money, you may wish to.
Employment in the Near Future: Robotics and AI
Robotics development, like AI will be assumed in short order by AI and other higher-level, assembly robots. There will be no jobs: not in Healthcare (except for an opening for Pediatrist in Zimbabwe), not in Finance, not in Manufacturing, not in Law Enforcement, not in…
Employment will be a thing of the past, except in a leadership role as a member of the Global Central Ruling Committee.
Maybe it’s for the best. I’ve often said that we are incapable of functioning within a Democracy: We’re unread, unschooled, and lethargic in thought, made more so everyday by Social Media, Television, and in our day-to-day interactions.
Certainly, we are not the people our Founding Fathers had in mind, and that’s the takeaway from our last few elections. It is time to give up the illusion.
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Ukraine’s use of (Lockheed Martin’s) “Long-Range Missiles”
I Could Throw a Rock Farther…
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
It’s all about the money! If you are old enough, or at least sufficiently lucid to recall the Iraq War debacle, then you may remember the use of the laughable SCUD missile by Hussein’s military. It was a Short-Range armament of negligible impact against our Coalition of the Willing(ly) stupid, being led by our fuzzy-headed Supreme Commander, one George W. Bush, whose primary interest was in acquiring the Majnoon and West Qurna oil fields under Iraq’s control on behalf of Exxon, Shell, and the usual. There was (and is) a fortune in Oil in the balance. Killing a few hundreds-of-thousands was well worth the effort.
The SCUD was the equivalent of a Civil War cannonball with slightly greater destructive capability, and scarcely improved accuracy.
Ukraine is using Lockheed’s Atacms system against Russia. It is being called Long-Range. Yet, it travels, perhaps, a little less than 200 miles, not appreciably more than s SCUD. It is being called, “difficult to shoot-down” for some cryptic reason, yet Russia has handily downed five of six fired as of this writing, and could count six-of-six if the falling garbage from the sky hadn’t caught things below ablaze, thus linking some level of damage to the sixth missile.
This Atacms system is a .22 caliber bullet. It is a blind, mentally-challenged gnat to an eagle. It has virtually no useful range except on a concise battlefield. Many of my fellow Arizonans carry greater firepower into Walmart when shopping for groceries.
So, it’s much ado about nothing, but it does allow a lot more of our tax money to filter through to Lockheed Martin in the form of replacement “ammunition.” It’s not an effective weapon against Russia, a major Nuclear power. But, Ukraine doesn’t have nuclear weapons… supposedly.
Buying weapons from Lockheed on behalf of Ukraine is good for the Economy!
More so, it’s good for Lockheed Martin and people like James Taiclet, the guy who runs Lockheed, along with many individuals and institutional investors, resulting in 4Q23 sales in excess of $19 Billion. (2023 total, $67 Billion.) Your tax money at work…
Much of this money is due to the sales of out-dated, ineffective weapons, like the Atacms system so that Biden can say he’s doing something about the Ukraine War.
He is! Make no mistake, people are still dying from the Atacms weapons in Ukraine.
Personally, I think that we are overpopulated to the tune of about 6 billion people, but you may not agree. Thinning the herd couldn’t hurt. But, perhaps we’d be better off, in all ways, by just providing .22 rifles to everyone in the world, with several hundred rounds each. At High Noon on the first day of the New Year 2025, we just start blasting away at each other. Natural processes and Rats will take care of the carnage.
Problem solved. Eventually we’d have clean air and water. Enough food to feed the hungry, and we’d be back on the Malthusian slope heading upward for a few years until we Wash-Rinse-Repeat.
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President Trump and the Great Immigrant Worker Roundup!
Timing is everything
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
In a prior life, more than 30 years ago, I worked with numerous manufacturers whose reliance on immigrant labor was extensive. Everybody benefited from the relationship: Workers had jobs; Employers made products; Consumers saved money. It was an effective homeostatic balance that worked well until the economy began to lag, as it always did from time-to-time, and production needs were reduced, in some cases to the extreme resulting in a plant’s complete manufacturing closure, as an example, or just an inordinately large layoff.
In 1988 the US Congress passed a law that specified briefly that if you, as an employer, have foreknowledge of a layoff that will result in a plant closure or the reduction of about 50 or more of the company’s workforce, a notice must be filed with the (government) specifying, when, how many, and the dates at which time the actual layoffs will occur. (And other sundry things of importance.)
Fingers crossed, it was a way to prepare government, workers and the public to expect a change in their community’s quotidian activities. As a result, maybe someone, somewhere will pickup the gauntlet and take some action that may possibly mitigate this portending layoff through funding resources, tax breaks, or other incentives.
When an employee becomes unemployed, through no fault of his own, he is likely eligible to apply for - and receive - Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. Over the years, Through no Fault… has taken on a complex and fractured definition that is no longer as simple as it was many years before when the entire system was styled. A simple, unproven, and perhaps unfounded, allegation can turn anything short of murder into a no-fault circumstance.
Be that as it may, when a former employee receives UI benefits, that amount is accrued against the employer’s account in a way that impacts the employer’s Experience Rating. The more benefits paid, the higher the tax rate the employer must contribute to the UI fund, up to a maximum, which as a whole can be a substantial ding on below-the-line profit.
How to avoid this?
This revealing advance-notice process was called the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN. But, it does nothing to mitigate UI tax increases for the effected employer, unless through some sleight-of-hand an unemployment mini-catastrophe is averted resulting in fewer UI claims.
What to do? Sometimes, some of my clients pursued a fairly innovative alternative approach called, Confess My Sins to the Immigration Service, mostly anonymously. In this way, the client company was shortly thereafter raided, as a result of this guilt-motivated tip, by the INS resulting in an abrupt loss of employees through not fault of the client company, thus making WARN moot. (There is no Mexican office for the California Employment Development Department (EDD), thus no claim could be made.)
How on earth does President Trump figure into this?
I’m not being pessimistic when I predict that there will be a substantial downturn to the economy. I’m a realist. And as a realist I cannot foresee a level road to maintain the inflationary characteristics today impacting real estate and significant consumer items, such as personal automobiles. As we said shipboard, “N. F. W.”
Post-inauguration, President Trump will begin rounding up the usual suspects starting about two months from today. There are something like 17 million illegal immigrants (thankfully I no longer have to say, “un-documented workers”) floating around our country in fear of deportation as I write this sentence. Some/many currently work full-time in any number of our immigrant-friendly industries. That’s far more than can be accommodated in a single raid, so it will have to be staged and progressive.
So, will President Trump authorize the coordinated raiding of our employers after consulting with the company to understand who would like to be raided first, given prevailing economic conditions? Time will tell. Only the careful reader will know for certain.
Don’t look to the DOGE for insight. Musk, like all Silver-Spooners, is part of the machine.
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Crime: We all knew better, yet many were pleased to be lied to.
FBI quietly revises Crime data earlier released that had supported the Biden-Harris practices of emasculation of our nation’s Police.
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
FBI: The Biden-Harris Secret Weapon to Defeat Trump
So why did the FBI lie to us about Violent Crime?
Like many of us I thought that allegations of the weaponization of various agencies of our government was a falsehood: It was a baseless claim being levied by those who were on the target end of an inquiry or judicial action of a legitimate nature who were attempting to mitigate the “bad news” by falsely charging government officials with malfeasance.
Now it comes out that the FBI compiled and published false national crime data to the benefit of Biden-Harris. In short, we cannot believe our own government. Whatever its representatives say must be regarded as suspect.
2021 and 2022 National Crime data was initially forged by the FBI to show a substantial drop shortly after Biden-Harris took office. A few days ago - nearly four years later, mind you! - without fanfare or apology, data for this recent period was revised, and clearly demonstrates what you and I knew: violent crime is substantially up. More everything. More Murders, Rapes, Burglaries… A scan of the local newspapers told you as much. It was foolish to lie. Yet, they did.
As a society we are done: We are corrupted beyond comprehension. We are not America the Brave; America the Righteous. Today, Uncle Sam is a soiled old man trying to coax you to sit on his lap in exchange for a piece of candy while his mud-caked hands grope your crotch and his gaping maw enshrouds you in a miasma of whiskey breath. There is no happy ending waiting for us. It’s too late.
Sounds like a suicide resignation, doesn’t it? It’s not: I have the advantage. As I approach LXXV years, my future is limited, and apparently so is yours.
Fortunately, our time is drawing to a close as the November election looms. If we live through this, as a nation, we really must make an effort to elevate qualified candidates to national leadership, rather than the assortment of misfits available today. Here’s one of many articles regarding the FBI’s edit. And, here’s one of many videos:
And, why is it that in every image of Musk campaigning for Trump he looks rather like a 13 year old girl getting her ass tickled for the first time? I confess that I am very confused by this election, as I have been for nearing 30 years. I mean, Who are these people? Where on earth did they come from?
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Who lost the Great Debate?
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats.
Former President Trump on Haitian immigrants residing in Springfield, Ohio
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs...
Dogs, maybe, but everyone knows Black guys don’t eat...
How to prepare a Dog:
Bosintang (boshintang) or gaejangguk or in North Korea called dangogiguk is a Korean soup which includes dog meat as its main ingredient.
Ingredients:
100 g. of boiled dog meat, and other yummy things…
I am uncertain which breed of dog might yield up maximum servings at 100 grams each, so let’s find out together:
When boning your dog (which sounds just wrong, and is likely illegal in many jurisdictions), Fido will yield about 30% of its weight in edible meat. 100 grams is about 1/4 (.25) pound of meat. If McDonald’s Quarter Pounders were made of meat, this recipe would approximate that fast food product.
So, a 20-pound dog - a dog of relatively small size - should yield about, if 20X.30=7.2 pounds of meat, net, and thus you would have harvested enough meat for about 29 servings, at a little more than1/4 pound (visually depicted at this site, since “servings” is not annotated).
I would invite Springfield’s Haitians to add their comments to the recipe and describe any side dishes appropriate to enhance the culinary experience. Also, for Californians, I don’t have any idea as to which wine to pair with this dish. Maybe Thunderbird or Ripple, or something from a box, might setoff the gastrointestinal experience, or maybe just chronic flatulence. One of the two.
We’ve written before about a time coming in the United States when eating the family Chow Chow as chow will lose its veil of opprobrium as a result of survival necessity. Perhaps as a result of this seeming inevitability other animals will drop off our “No way would I eat that list” and become family delicacies gracing America’s tables with aromatic splendor.
Take Rats, as an example. In the aftermath of whatever calamity awaits us, there will likely be an abundance of corpses requiring disposition. Neighborhood Rats tend to this splendidly, and if we view them as very-mini-cattle, Ranchable in a plethora of environs, then we will have created a very sustainable food supply to see us through whatever travails may follow. Imagine the Urban Ranching opportunities! Little Round-Up festivals. Open pit roasting. Square dances. Violin, uh, I meant fiddles scratching away into the evening while children wipe Rat grease from their chins and beg Mommy for just one more Rat.
India is very keen on Rat meat, as is Cambodia and numerous other countries. The idea is to advantage from the nutritional aspects of the meat, while eliminating these otherwise ponderous vermin from the environment. Below is a YouTube video where a Rat-on-a-Stick vendor tests his culinary product on a White tourist. He claims that most say it tastes like chicken, which everything other than chicken seems to (except for what Black guys don’t eat).
In the United States right now there are about 90 million dogs, most of which live on my street…
A little less than half of dog owners own more than one dog. Coincidentally, most households in the United States keep more than one gun per household, which ought to make Fido a bit nervous.
Pew Research released survey data a while back where they had asked those who didn’t currently own a gun if they had considered buying one. They published the following laconic summary, “Many adults who don’t currently own a gun could see themselves owning one in the future.” Today, I would imagine the most likely response received to their telephone survey as, “I’m heading out the door to the gun store right now. Can I call you back?”
Rat and Dog Meat. Guns. Complete societal collapse. Now you’re talkin’, Padner. Think I’ll rustle up another Rat-Stick.
And, who lost the Great Debate? We did.
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Paris Hands-Off the The Olympic Torch to Los Angeles
Now, use the flame to burn down LA and start over...
Quick!
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Here are the names of those for whom I feel the deepest sorrow, all listed are responsible for the success of the 2028 Olympics to be held somewhere between crime scenes, fires, earthquakes, civil unrest, Smash & Grab robberies, rapes, assaults, car-jacking, drug dealers, the myriad proned under the influence of fentanyl-alcohol-cocaine or other drugs, through the labyrinth of tents and derelict motorhomes sprawled along residential blocks, and, equally as importantly, finding someone foolish enough to occupy the many boarded over and long-defunct businesses located, previously, in sometimes very fashionable neighborhoods the names of which are foremost on the minds of many visitors to the United States.
Specifically, they are Messrs. Salomon, Siegel, Simon, Knox, Turner, Rosas, and someone who appears to somewhere south of 13 years of age, Michaela Reynolds. Keep them in your prayers: Or, at least, laugh discreetly.
How about a tour of tour of Los Angeles today?
How about Hollywood? Everyone wants to see their favorite movie star’s name on the famous sidewalk. Just keep your head down and don’t look left or right.
When I was a kid in the 1950s, no place in the world was more exciting than Downtown LA. Her’s what it looks like today:
So, with less than four years to go - much less than four years - they have a job of monumental proportions, exclusive of the event itself, which, really is nothing compared to the job of getting that fat, sloppy-drunk, ex-con, booze-hound old broad to look, if not appealing at least less offensive. O, and don’t forget about places to dine and relax and shop and do what I used to be able to do 40 or so years ago before the privileged Left ran the show.
By-the-bye, San Francisco is just as bad off... And that really breaks my heart.
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Household Debt: Good Job, America!
Consumering your way to Happiness…
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
At the start of the year, U.S. household debt reached a record high of $17.3 trillion, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NYFRB).
Marketwatch
And, I feel certain it was for the best possible reasons you increased your personal indebtedness by nearly Five Trillion US Dollars in the last 14 years. Probably a direct result of the greed so prevalent in our country today… Inflation, as it is rather benignly monikered, rather than gouging, rampant avariciousness, and a complete disregard for our fellow astronauts, is primarily responsible for today’s situation.
But, it’s hard to remember all the way back to 2007: Gosh! That was 17 years ago! You’ve posted so many important things on Facebook since then. If you were born after 1995 I could almost forgive your stupidity. Perhaps just demented?
Around the world today we have joined hands in our pursuit of economic happiness. We are currently holding the hand of, among others, a giant Asian guy with sweaty palms whose Real Estate market is somewhat very south of where it was just a few years ago. China’s property market has, in fact, launched itself over the precipice in a free-fall that will undoubtedly lead to a hard landing.
International news reports (not having anything to do with sponge-headed Americana), are saturated with articles from various resources all concerning the same subject: What is China going to do? Here’s an example from CNN:
The (Real Estate government fix program) is centered around Beijing’s adoption of a policy that has already been tested in a major city — asking local governments to buy unsold homes from developers and convert them into social affordable housing. It also features a reduction in mortgage interest rates and downpayment ratios, and more importantly, 300 billion yuan ($41.5 billion) in cheap central bank cash to fund state purchases of unsold properties. (Note: Yuan projected to fall by 20% or more to USD by end of 2024.)
CNN, May 21, 2024
For yet more fun watch one of the many videos, by the many purveyors on YouTube, currently posted, regarding the financial crisis gripping China for the last three or more years. Lots of tearful people of both sexes distraught over the loss of jobs/home/cars/family. It’s what we endured during 2007, and…
…Everyone else in the world followed suit. Nobody’s immune any longer from the house of cards that stretches from Beijing to Los Angeles to New York to London to Moscow to Rio to Riyadh. If someone pulls on that one thread sticking out of the world’s sweater, the entire economy unravels, to some extent.
When you’re done watching the above, search China’s Housing Crisis for insight into how many Chinese are reacting to their loss of housing and/or life savings, and although the destructive acts of some may appear deranged and unlikely to occur here, let me assure you they are no worse than what many evictees did in our country in the three/four years surrounding the Housing collapse.
What can you do?
Stop buying unnecessary things.
Pay off your Consumer debts.
Buy a good used car when you need another.
Don’t pay inflated prices for a home or car.
Avoid Public Toilets.
(The last was sound advice from my other 60 years ago…)
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The Purportedly Evil
Project 2025
(Or, as entitled by the Heritage Foundation:
Mandate for Leadership
The Conservative Promise 2025)
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
July 31, 2024 Addendum: I got through it! I have not changed my mind regarding the opinions I expressed earlier in this article regarding Project 2025. Those who have rescinded support, including the Heritage Foundation, are bending to the path of the weak-willed masses hoping to stave off defeat in the coming election of their preffered candidate(s).
Straight-away I’d like to say that I have not yet finished all 922 pages, combining this manifesto with my other typical reading, but I have gleaned a great deal from a review of each segment and a detailed reading and validation of the first 250 pages: 1) It is not as painful as Proust’s Remembrances…; 2) It is a scant 25% of the volume of Proust’s underwhelming epic; 3) And, of course, Donald Trump knows about the report. He must and it is a lie to deny it. And, to the point, there’s no reason why he ought to deny an affiliation with the plan: it’s a logical, analytical, truthful rendering of where America is today, and, more importantly, how to get us back on track.
How could he not know of it? Its authorship lies with the combined experiences and perspectives of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank whose membership has been at the helm of the Republican Party for years. It also includes numerous members of former President Trump’s staff, executives, and his various minions who characterized the years of his administration.
It proposes to bring about change to a very decided degree, and perhaps one might even say, Revolutionary changes but not in armed conflict, and it was irresponsible of Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, to even imply that this was a potential outcome.
Have you ever said, What’s the difference? Republican or Democrat: They’re all the same…
I have. I’ve said that. I bet you have, too. It’s one of the reasons I’m an independent. Many others I know are of the same opinion. They too are independents sort of blowing in the direction of the least offensive candidate being offered by either party who at least suggests a promise of integrity, intelligence and change directed to re-stabilizing America.
But Change is impossible to achieve in our government today as it currently functions: Every election it’s as though there is no Executive difference being offered to the American public. It’s the same bologna sandwich in a different wrapper. And the cause lies within the government itself: we all know that.
A bloated bureaucracy comprised to some extent of half-wits and others who would otherwise be deemed unemployable. This rather acerbic definition likely applies to a significant portion of the US Congress, as well. The Civil Servants, though, are another matter indeed owing to their likely longevity and fairly immutable employment. And, they - this consistently the same, languorous, unelected bulk of Civil Service - are those responsible for the constancy of idiocy overwhelming our government and frustrating attempts to manifest actual change.
They are the proverbial Swamp to be drained, and until articulated in Project 2025, no one seemed to address this issue.
Throughout history the preferred method to eradicating those who were reluctant to carry forward the message of new leadership was through Purge. It remains a handy and useful device for introducing sweeping governmental changes while promoting philosophical alignment. Many countries still practice this remedy to recalcitrance. We do not. Even Churchill suggested using this method instead of trial at Nuremberg, “Just shoot them.”
Project 2025, if enacted all or in part, will do much to change the mechanics by which leadership controls our country. And I like it. The reasonable changes it will bring about will set the country on a course more familiar with its founding and return us to some semblance of order. It will not be favored by some, especially those who control the majority press. It will be vilified by those whose lives are anchored to pedaling influence and persuasion to those who may be jobless following subsequent elections. It will be disdained by the Left, because they will fail to see that their turn in the barrel may shift the influence to polar-opposite. It will stabilize our country internationally and lend predictability to our actions. It will do much to place us on an economic path of sound fiscal practices, rather than our present downward spiral to inevitable doom, because to there we are certainly headed.
And, yes, we will lose some of our currently warped egalitarian perspective, what is excruciatingly referred to as Woke culture (in complete disregard to the precepts of Gurdjieff).
Project 2025 will likewise place control of the country in the hands of the person we elect to office every four years, and perhaps, will draw to the process men and women with the intelligence and acumen necessary to lead us into a more cordial future, because at the moment, I wouldn’t want the job and apparently few others do.
Who the hell would?
More on this issue later as I plod through this Himalayan document while continuing my other, far more salient reading.
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Phoenix Police Department:
Chastised by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for Effectively Doing Their Jobs
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2024
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
At home: Every year hundreds of Arizonans - mostly women - fall victim to Domestic Violence. Most of this abuse occurs in the greater Phoenix area. Every year more than 100 Arizonans are killed as a result.
Annually, hundreds of these abuse victims are sent to the hospital to be treated and released after recovery: in some cases back to the same environment in which the injuries were sustained. Some never recover completely from the severity of their injuries. Some sustain additional harm. And for some, the cumulative effects of beatings, and worse, result in death.
In many cases, the person who stands between Death and Life is a Police Officer. Sometimes it’s too late:
Headline: A Mesa husband convicted of killing his wife after she said she wanted a divorce will spend decades behind bars…
On the streets: Every day in Phoenix, and around the country, our police officers are assaulted with firearms, fists, feet, vehicles, sticks, rocks, profanity, knives, and hate. Every day: 365 days of every year until they retire or quit. Some are terminated for cause owing to a complaint or action which the department, for which they work, deemed grievous enough to sever their employment.
Sometimes these claims of abuse by cops are contrived by those who hope to profit by them, and they very often do: It’s Lawsuit Lottery and, evidently, pays well if the media can be certain to video the right number of minority members tearfully and somberly gathered together with the obligatory religious leader providing comfort during this “difficult time” while an array of her surviving children lend her support on the flanks. Interestingly, none of the deceased former victims are present at these woeful events.
This, unfortunately, will likely happen much more until we learn that the police, too, are humans and not devoid of frustration and anger: An anger that may result from a cynical and condescending public.
When I catch body-cam footage of a cop interacting with a thug I think, OK. If I were the cop, when would I just shoot this guy and call it a day?
It seems as though I’d be reacting much earlier in the event than the actual officer. Thus, I am not a cop. I have too little tolerance for aberrance and stupidity. Youtube is filled with clips of speeding drivers evading cops at very high speeds endangering countless civilians. When, and if they relent, the drivers appear startled when they are withdrawn brutally from the car. They see it as abuse: I see it as a direct result of the preceding events. Most normal people would and do.
Brutality: As I scan the news daily, I am taken aback by how frequently our cops are assailed by people who have lowered their thresholds for civilized behavior to Subhuman. I wonder, How can this be?
How is it that our society has devolved to such an extent that we have reached the point knowing that any time we walk the streets or visit a store or enter a restaurant we may have to defend ourselves from elements of society bent on taking something from us, from a few dollars to our lives, because that is what is happening in our country today:
A Street War between every American who isn’t a deviant or criminal, pit for survival against those who are.
And, the numbers of criminals increases everyday as the effectiveness of the Police is constrained by the clamor of those who support the actions of the criminal through contrived excusability. Some of us even support the denigration of the Police profession by furthering Defund rhetoric proffered by those whose heads are securely stowed elsewhere.
Look: no job today is likely lonelier than being a Personnel Recruiter for a police department. Very few of us want the job. Very few of us qualify any longer owing to disqualification for prior criminal activities, drug use, obesity, or just the realization that one can earn as much doing any number of other jobs that don’t require the level of commitment or danger of being a cop in America today.
Because I was discharged Honorably in 1972 my driver license carries the identifier, “Veteran,” and store clerks will sometimes say, “Thank you for your service” when I offer my I-D for whatever reason. They are always so sincere and it is with reluctant truth that I reply, “I did nothing for three years, but thank you for saying it.”
Nowadays, I think, we need to elevate our view of the world, and realize that those who are doing battle today on the Home Front that is America, are our Police: all 700,000 of them.
So, thank you for your service!
And continue to do what you do without regard to (Merrick Garland) Biden’s DOJ. The vast majority of the public support you.
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Pfizer Vaccine: It’s nice (and sadly unfortunate for some of our fellow-citizens) to be right!
From the office of the Attorney General of Texas:
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Pfizer for Misrepresenting COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Conspiring to Censor Public Discourse
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Deleted because as a society we longer care...
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The “Mexican Button”
and Uncle Sam
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
It all started about three years ago while Uncle Sam was at his little vacation home in Bisbee, Arizona. It’s a small, adobe-style home built in the late 1890s of traditional materials situated perfectly in the Old Town section of Bisbee near restaurants, shops, and old cowboy saloons and (former) whorehouses (not housing former whores today, but previously housing actively involved whores), that served the multitude of miners who frequented the once-remote mountain community just a few miles up from Mexico. He has off-street parking and no stairs to climb: both premiums in the vastly over-priced hamlet.
Although modernized, Uncle Sam has kept his old adobe true to original appearance with subtle touches of technology that do not intrude on the home’s historic appearance. Nice. It’s also on the Historic Registry so there are some aspects of the house he cannot change, principally concerning the front elevation: windows, doors, and the like, so that from outside when viewed from the street, the home must appear much as it had for more than one-hundred years past. And, in fact, it looks very much as it did in vintage black-and-white photographs taken by Mr. Fly when he wasn’t preoccupied by events in Tombstone...
Read the entire article here in .pdf
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Who Will Win? Trump or Biden?
Well, I Don’t Know About You, But I’m Voting for...
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
From the Desk of the Editor:
The last four years haven’t been nearly as enjoyable as the prior four, and all I have to show for it is a lot more Mexicans.
Some short time ago, before taking a trip to to the circus with our two frozen embryos, Myron and Eugenie (in keeping with Alabama law), I was reviewing the statistical data on our site - the one you’re looking at right now. I belatedly noticed that an incredible number of our visitors every month enter TheIndependentDaily.com via a file called, “Old Index” which is accessed through, http://theindependentdaily.com/oldindex.html. So, I went to the page and reviewed the very aged contents.
It’s all about Trump, post-election 2016, and long before today’s iteration of Tammany Hall Democrats descended on Trump to beat him senseless (and out of existence as punishment for his perceived transgressions against the Left Wing, Democratic Party’s Best Practices and Acceptable Language operations manual). His betrayal drew their wrath and he is now suffering the consequences of his peccadillos.
Some of our comments regarding those Knee-Slapping, Belly-Laughing, Hilarious Years early in his administration, and really, throughout his term, are worth reliving because they truly were exceptional and heady times for Americans as we wrestled with our quickly changing path of government. It was a fun time, no doubt. Who’ll ever forget the remonstrance offered by Jerrod D. Tatum, PhD (‘12, Trump University) defending our new Commander-in-Chief? Or, our intended regular feature, Who Said It? Donald Trump or Josef Goebbels? which fell appropriately by the wayside.
So, owing to my lack of enthusiasm or creativity at the present moment attributable to an aching tooth, we invite you to relive those Magic Moments as you recall Trump’s assemblage of characterful personalities and events like Betsy DeVos, Kellyanne Conway, James Comey, TrumpCare, Paul Ryan, Cayla the Chinese Spy Doll, when we first learned that Torture really does work, and a host of lesser and greater people and events. With the benefit of hindsight, it was all so entertaining, although at the time I recall that I found myself deeply concerned about the state of our country. How foolish of me for I now see after four years of Joe Biden how much fun we were actually having during the Trump administration! And, after all, isn’t that point of life? (And Democracy?)
The good news today? I’m more worried about the state of our country, but I think we should go down laughing: As Sartre said, there’s No Exit, so why not?
Here’s a teaser of what you’ll find at the Old Index link:
Betsy DeVos… probably went on to say that Slave Ships similarly were the early pioneers of true choice in international cruises, permitting intercontinental excursions by their passengers at an affordable rate. Here’s an early image from Betsy DeVos’ presentation to the Association of Travel Agents touting Slave Ship Tourism:
“Our passengers retire to the opulence of their cabins after enjoying a spirited game of shuffleboard. Dinner at 6! Formal loincloth required!” Captain Phillips of the Hannibal says, “Join us on your next voyage. You’ll be treated like (a Negro’s) family!”
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Washington DC Lies and Half-Truths:
No. 1: Mexico Overtakes China in Imports to the United States
No. 2: Violent Crime is Down
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
From the Associated Press:
For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported by the United States. The shift reflects the growing tensions between Washington and Beijing as well as U.S. efforts to import from countries that are friendlier and closer to home.
“(Democracy is based) not so much on any rational theory as upon the organized hatred of the lower orders.”
- Henry Mencken
The US Department of Commerce has released data supporting this truncation showing simultaneously the value of China’s exports to the US dropping to $427 billion while Mexico’s exports to the US increased to $475 billion, annually. Maybe I’ve just been spending far too much time lately in the intimate company of HL Mencken, but this disclosure has a fragrancy to it that seems more appropriately emanating from a Los Angeles Skid Row alleyway than from our Department of Commerce. It’s a spurious summary of the actual truth.
Clearly, Mexico is not producing the products we buy in lieu of those produced previously in China. China has not furloughed 600 million workers leaving them to languish in the equivalent of 1930s American breadlines awaiting the beneficent doling out of a cup of Wonton soup. And, while Mexico may be geographically a lot closer, their relationship with China and Russia in the last several years ought to be considered by many US citizens as suspicious and, perhaps, not as friendly as the Biden administration portrays it to be, notwithstanding the occasional Bidentoben when the subject of China surfaces...
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Mein Kampf:
As updated by Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel’s “Super-Secret Guide” to Extermination of the Palestinian (Semitic) People
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
You won’t grow horns and develop a bifurcated tail if you read Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Instead, you’re likely to clearly see that Israel’s Netanyahu is following Hitler’s path for the systematic destruction of Europe’s Jews, as applied today to the Palestinian (Canaanite) people. One bad turn deserves another, I suppose.
Ironic? I don’t think so. I think Netanyahu is well read, and in Hitler’s epic work he found a tried-and-true strategy to change his region of the world for what he calculates, the better – an End that justifies the Means to the same extent as his “Uncle Adolf” did 80 years past. (One man’s vermin is another man’s repast.)
The Learned Elders of Zion
Mein Kampf is not exactly an obscure treatise on Hitler’s eradication of the Jews. It isn’t a vague work like, The Jewish Peril, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. It isn’t even in Sanskrit. Mein Kampf is an easy-to-read treatise on one sociopath’s view of Germany at a most uncomfortable time in the world – in the wake of the very punitive, and thus untenable, Treaty of Versailles...
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I Do Not Appear in Anything Henry Miller Wrote…
But, “Little” Bruce and Jacqueline Springer do, and not in a “Dirty” book.
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2023
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Regarding Bruce’s sister, Jacqueline, carried along by Miller as the three returned from a visit to the Albuquerque Zoo...
Her little arms! The feel of them melted my heart completely. Of course, she wasn’t as tired as she pretended to be.
Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
I think it was Ford Madox Ford who initially got Miller on the road to success when he passed off a manuscript of Tropic of Cancer to his publisher in Paris and said, “This is a dirty book. You should publish it.” He did, and thus was born a genre of literature that would include Bill Burroughs and other creators of literary smut of every imaginable variation that would eventually encompass a fairly substantial collection that I consider still worth reading; the practice of sex remaining unchanged the past one-hundred years or so (maybe more?). In an old film interview I recall Henry Miller saying, “We f**ked just as much back then. We just didn’t talk about it.” (Of course, the genre extends back thousands of years: We’ve always been fascinated by the subject given there’s so little else to do in this mortal form that generates as immediate a sense of gratification.)
But who was Bruce Springer? Other than being the reason for this article, here’s an excerpt from his obituary appearing on Legacy.com:
Bruce Michael Springer died peacefully at home on September 20, 2022, surrounded by his family. He was born in Albuquerque New Mexico on October 6, 1935, to Lowell and Lona Springer...
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Two Years Ago I Suggested a Fifty-Cent Bullet to Remove Putin
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2023
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Instead, today, we’re subventing the slow, painful execution of the Ukraine and Russian population to further the wealth of our Merchants of Death, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Just as we did (or are currently doing) in Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq and Israel and... Do you not see the insanity and vulgarity of our actions? How could you not?
While I applaud every effort to reduce global population and reintroduce some manner of homeostasis to our environment, my suggested approach would have eliminated the first problem: Putin’s war of aggression fueled by his long-standing psychosis. Then, ideally, we look at controlling and reducing our run-away global population by more scientific means other than through the invention of conflict and its associated misery and trauma, fueling violence in America as we continue to teach our younger generations how conflict is resolved: by violence, all to benefit the vast web of those who make the world’s killing machines.
As Dwight Yoakam’s character said in the movie Slingblade, “Exactly how retarded are you?” (Directed to anyone who supports our actions regarding the myriad countries where we wage or support war and despotic control.)
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How to Fight the Fentanyl Epidemic
Stop Using Narcan:
Problem Solved.
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2023
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
A Modest and Painful Proposal.
Every reference I’ve read speaks to the repeated use of Narcan (or one of many alternatives) as a means of curtailing the effects of Opioid overdose, Fentanyl and otherwise, many times on the same Abuser, Junkie, Addict, or as we are led to believe, “Poor Weak Souls.”
I understand its use keeps many people happy and employed, including, particularly, Emergent BioSolutions (Narcan’s maker) and competitor products made by Teva Pharma, and others, as well as various government entities who can thus speak to the number of lives saved and justify their existence. And Drug rehabilitation and treatment facilities that very much want to treat-release-treat-release…the same users to perpetuate their client and funding base. And Homelessness housing solutions (very often related to active Drug use and Alcoholics) so that they may continue their efforts to house many of those who seemingly do not want to be housed.
Everyone benefitting is enthusiastically embracing Narcan’s use...
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The Plug-In EV Charging Station:
Killing Fields of Tomorrow?
WaterWorld of Today?
Dawn of a New War?
(You get the idea...)
What a piece of work is man...
- Shakespeare (Shakspere), Hamlet
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2022
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
The behavioral problems of our society are not negated by the introduction of alternative fuel vehicles, notwithstanding how Peace-Loving they may appear. (You can almost see the little Peace signs and sticky flower decals pasted on the sides, along with a Deadhead sticker in the back window, à la 1968 can’t you?)
No amount of Peace and Love though can negate the fact that people have always behaved badly when driving; when parking; when fueling; when doing anything remotely related to cars – fossil fuel or electric or a hybrid combination. As the necessary popularity of EVs and commensurate charging grows to complete one’s tasks, we can safely expect violence to ensue. It’s already happening.
Freud famously said, All humans are assholes when not being video-taped, but he was wrong (see below), and what will happen tomorrow when the competition for EV Charging really heats up as some percentage of the more than five or ten-million EVs then to be on the road compete for charging at an estimated 300,000 individual charging stations, sometimes obstructed or occupied by conventional car owners who simply want to make the EV owner pay an added emotional tariff for owning a Tesla (or other perceived expensive or exotic electric car)?
Every Tesla owner knows what happens when they drive their Tesla, occasionally confronted by irritated non-EV people who see the Tesla owner as a threatening example of arrogance and affluence. To many they’re like a vehicular Mark Zuckerberg: There’s something about him that just makes you want to punch him really hard in that stupid little face, for no really good reason other than that he is an existential annoyance. In a real world, he (and EVs) are something that should not be, in the ontological sense of the word. They are in opposition to the nature of the universe. Nietzsche wouldn’t be caught dead in a Tesla or with a Facebook account in the MetaVerse, or whatever these dweebs are calling it.
“Charging at home overnight makes charging while underway for daily, mostly local tasks unnecessary!” you say?
According to AAA Public Relations Manager Andrew Gross, the organization responded to precisely 194,317 out-of-gas calls from January to April 2022. This does not include other roadside help resources: other insurance companies, a friend easily imposed upon, or your Mother.
Your Mother: Happy that you made it home safely, “Baruch HaShem!”
As to an EV, your Mother cannot deliver a bottle of electrons, and neither can AAA although they do have limited mobile charging services, which means EVs will require a much higher level of discipline than currently apparent in our society. That said, emergency roadside charging is being expanded in preparation to take on the many who live like Cosmo Kramer thrilling to the challenge of squeezing out the last mile from their local dealership demo car:
Companies like SETEC Power, currently operating in China, are starting up to provide roadside recovery charging, including the venerable and reliable AAA, and developing business models for economically feasible where-you-end-up assistance, and when you get a gander at the rig required to deliver roadside charging, you’ll sense correctly that a pizza will not be sufficient payment.
194,317 out-of-gas calls from January to April 2022
In just four months time, that is how many people ignored their gas gauges (or the equivalent of the Charge Level gauge in an EV) and called AAA for assistance: just AAA. Consider that unlike EV Charging, Gas Stations are everywhere. They are as ubiquitous as hookers on Market Street in San Francisco, or so I’ve been told regarding the hookers. It’s hard to miss a Gas Station and they far, far outweigh EV stations of comparable purpose. So do the hookers, for that matter, but neither Sonni nor Tempest can blow up your battery, although if you need a ride, they’re available.
Then, combine the time it takes to recharge an EV to an acceptable extent – enough to get you another 50, 100 or more miles down the road, compared to that of a fossil fuel conventional automobile, and the real problem becomes clear.
EV charging time varies from about 15 minutes, at the very least at a superfast Tesla charger, to as much as several hours at home. (Filling up with gasoline is about a five minute process except for the most addled fidgeting with their supermarket discount cards or trying to decide if they need a car wash.) Some non-Tesla fast chargers can do the job in an hour or more, but that is a very long time to sit at a charging station while the line behind your EV continues to grow, particularly if you – the driver – don’t appear busy tending to the charging process even though the least sentient person ought to know that there is nothing you can do to speed the process along, short of shouting encouraging words to the little electrons as they move down the wire and into your battery. “C’mon little guys… You can do it!”
What will happen tomorrow when the competition for EV Charging really heats up? This is what will happen:
It’s our version of today’s human condition. It’s deplorable. It’s insipid. It’s hateful and violent, and it is who we are, generally. Already the numbers on the tote board are spinning as more and more of us find our way into EVs during this last spate of exotically-priced petrol continues into the foreseeable future.
When 50% of us drive EVs will gun violence increase proportionately? Or will the lessened consumption of hydrocarbon fuels yield greater placidity veiling us with a diaphanous cloak of true peace and love? My money’s on the former. And, lastly, if you drive an EV, this may be your future:
The race to build more and better charging stations is on as recognition of the immediate and future needs of EV owners becomes more apparent. And in their recklessness, municipalities and up are hell-bent, in some cases, on mandating charging predicated on square footage of the facility or as a percentage of parking overall, placing the cost of developing charging stations on the Small Business person whose goal is to realize an American dream: preferably one that is fueled by petrol, and not at $5,000 or more out of her pocket per charging station. The math doesn’t work...
Note: Neither Warren nor Hill drive an EV. At 3,000 miles per year, it doesn’t pencil out, and you can only have my Jaguar XK8 after you pry my cold, dead fingers from the steering wheel.
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Drug Use, Homelessness, Crime, Vast Overpopulation, and Societal Collapse
Look on the bright side: Biden’s staffing up by 300,000 troops for a war in Europe. Maybe Putin-Xi will blow us off the face of the earth! Problem Solved.
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2023
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water...”
- Vice President Kamala Harris
In today’s radically strange world, our Vice President was condemned for this supposed slip-up. Not oddly, I consider it to be one of the most truthful statements uttered by a politician over the last several decades. It may have been a deviation from her script, but from such “unintentional” words the truth lurks within. You may call it a Freudian slip or a parapraxis, but she is a schooled orator, Howard University graduate, and a graduate of Hastings Law: neither of which equate to Trump University, by the way, and require rigorous focus and academic excellence.
Take a moment and recall the outside world during Covid lock-down: Clean Air...
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Thinking About Replacing Your Current Car with Another Used Car?
Some thoughts on Greed and Debt
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Those sons-of-bitches over there ain’t buying. Every (car dealership) gets em. They’re lookers...take up your time. Over there...Get ‘em in a car. Start ‘em at two hundred and work down. Get ‘em out in a jalopy. Sock it to ‘em! They took our time.
Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, Oklahoma Car Lot, 1930s
It wasn’t too bad until the Great Pandemic struck and Greed really took over: It’s pervasive. Today, Private Seller asking prices are half-again or more over what they ought to be, given normal value enhancement. Now, values are based on Scientific-Seller-Price-based-Research that looks something like this:
The potential seller has a “Completely Restored” 1978 Todesfahrt SS he would like to sell. (Todesfahrts were German vehicles produced prior to 1978. Google it.) “Restored” means that he painted over the body rust after adhering a few pounds of Bondo, and steam–cleaned the engine, spraying the block, the pipes, the inner-fenders – everything really, with a shaker can (or four) of paint, because taping off what you do not want to paint is just too tedious. Besides he was busy on YouTube at the time trying to find out if he should wear his ball cap completely backwards or off to one side, what t-shirt to accessorize with, and how to say, “Waazzz up YouTubers!” with the proper ignorant inflection...
Read the entire article here in a new page.
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The Great Covid Pandemic:
Pfizer, BioNTech, Paycheck Protection Program, CARES Act
And Hypochondria
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
“Data, data, data. I cannot make bricks without clay.”
- Sherlock Holmes
I’ll begin this article by saying that I strive to examine every bit of data (within the scope of what is available) to completely understand why people do the things they collectively do. It’s a reflection of my education and interests. And, like President Trump on camera when we were being briefed on the impending Covid apocalypse we faced as a nation, I think I wore the same look of confusion as he, finding myself completely and rationally disconnected from the hysteria of the moment as the words of the many “experts” marched before us and the mania took root and grew.
Those who denied the severity of the disease were cast by the Popular Media as fools or right-wing anti-vax crazies who, for some dark and unknown nihilistic reason privy only to the condemning, wished to see humanity suffer for its foibles: a Divine retribution. It was as powerful a response to the opposition as it was in March 2003 against those of us who opposed the invasion of Iraq, and about this I know much, personally and deeply, and to today still carry an abiding hatred for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of the co-conspirators...
Read the entire article here in .pdf
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Mass Shootings:
Achieving Population Reduction, or a Terrible Waste of Good Ammunition?
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
It’s certainly a very painful way to go about it, but let’s take a moment and recall what Jesus said, “Wherever four or more of you gather in my name, there is a likelihood of a mass shooting.”
The Guardian reported recently that the US is currently on-track to set a new record for mass killings estimating a number of events equalling sixty for the year 2023. That’s plainly not good enough. With a worldwide population of more than eight billion quickly dissipating natural resources, continuing food shortages, ignorance and illiteracy on the rise to levels not-seen in our country for many decades, failed educational systems, a pandemic of debilitating social media, pervasive greed, malignant hate, and cancerous ennui regarding our shared state of being, we need to focus on reducing the number of people sharing our crowded little dirt-ball Earth.
Piecemeal, onesie-twosie assassinations won’t achieve the needed reduction...
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Our Uncle Sam Buys a House
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Uncle Sam is at his desk in the dark, cavernous reaches of his office in Washington, District of Columbia, his face aflood in light from his iMac’s 27-inch computer screen driven by the simultaneously-opened windows of Zillow, Trulia (one-in-the-same, but he is unaware), Coldwell, and Craigslist, too, for safe measure and not to miss the likelihood of an FSBO opportunity, while stirring a large red-white-blue mug of coffee perched precariously next to his keyboard tipped awkwardly by a pencil caught between cup bottom and desktop: he is oblivious though to this pending consumer disaster, shocked as he is by the continued drive to higher prices in areas of his country which should have by now, owing to the untiring efforts of the Fed to drive down inflation, and other phenomena, dropped far more than they have.
Although Uncle Sam is vastly in debt, as we know from the uncomfortable credit interview during his last car purchase (see below, TheIndependentDaily.com), and notwithstanding mortgage rates that have exceeded the wildest expectations of the average consumer of today, hovering around 7-1/2 percent, and although his savings passbook rate remains at far less than 1 percent, he, because he is Uncle Sam, after all, remains optimistic about America’s future.
And, since being unceremoniously thrown out of his basement digs with Kamala Harris at her Naval Observatory residence, he’s been sleeping in the back seat of the car he bought on time in Kingman, Arizona, being rousted every night by Capitol Police for vagrancy and misdemeanors. (Being ejected from Harris’ home was not all bad since he was tiring from the constant blast of James Brown and Drifters’ music droning through the ancient floorboards until three in the morning and waking to find the lawn riddled with broken, empty Thunderbird wine bottles and the front windows shot-out.)
“I got to get the Hell out of here!” he thinks as...
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Our Uncle Sam Buys a Used Car on Time
But Finds that Our (National) Debt makes it Difficult.
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
Our Uncle Sam is looking over a few cars in the auto sales lot of one of the “Auto Row” dealerships clustered along Stockton Hill Road here in Kingman, Arizona. He’s not certain which car he wants but is drawn to a sexy, older-model V8 dating from the 1990s before we began to worry excessively about Climate Change sometime 30 years from now in the middle of this century when it’s far too late to do anything about it.
The salesman approaches. “That’s a beauty, ain’t it?”
Uncle Sam casts a nervous glance. “Yes. I guess. I mean, it depends on the price.”
“O, don’t fret that none.” He studies Uncle Sam for a moment. “Say, that is some hat you’ve got there!”
“Thanks.” Uncle Sam fiddles with the hat brim a moment then steadies his gaze...
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We Must Accept Who We Are
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
…a fragmented society, a mountain of conflicting interests, a nation which appeared to share nothing save poverty and the hatred of each against each…
From The Literary World review of Rudolf Ditzen’s (ndp, Hans Fallada) Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann, Was Nun?)
Reproduced in the book’s Afterword commenting on Nazi Germany
If the words above sound like an adequate description of our world today, here, in the USA, and you too have asked, What Now? as I have many times in the past 20 years, then you will have discovered the timelessness of Ditzen’s book.
- Editor
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Pandemic Puppies
by Joseph Warren, Editor
http://TheIndependentDaily.com
The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gambolled up;
They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised;
It wasn’t disinfected and it wasn’t sterilised.
- From the poem Strictly Germ-Proof, by Arthur Guiterman.
(Recited by our publisher, Greta Warren-Hill, 1965, Second Grade, at Four Corners Elementary School, Salem, Oregon, before a live audience.)
Immersed in a plethora of advertisements for guns and drugs, Craigslist, Facebook, and all other social media, is staggering from the weight of ads posted by those who during the Covid Pandemic elected to supplement their income by encouraging animal fornication in the jejune belief wealth would follow.
Many were (and are) asking extravagant sums for designer dogs following breed lines hitherto unknown, mating the most unlikely together to conjure what they assumed would be exotic and desirable objects of affection to the multitude of shut-ins and otherwise lonely-hearted who just needed a more organic “Like” than what might be achieved in the festering fetid swamp of popular online forums. New breeds emerging: Puginese, Schweenie, Pithuahua and countless other neologistic approaches...
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How to Install and Use a Toilet Seat Bidet
(and Eugenics!)
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by Joseph Warren, Editor
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…in the merciless struggle for survival the unfit were doomed anyway and the fit destined to prevail.
Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics, on Karl Pearson
One year before the current COVID-19 pandemic began, very fortuitously we decided on a bidet toilet seat from Home Depot: it was the cheaper and easier way to approach a higher standard of hygiene and consequent evolution compared to the many space and plumbing challenges associated with a separate bidet commode, and far more commodious since it did not involve moving one’s tuchus from one pot to another. (Tuches, Tochas, and in the plural, Tuchii, are all transliterations, so don’t bother writing and criticizing my spelling.)
Our decision was made in November, 2019. It was the less expensive model without water heater: winter temperatures are frigid in northern Arizona at that time of year. The bidet seat’s instructions read something like, “T” the seat water line into your toilet’s cold water pipe, which I did.
Our water temperature averages about 40 to 45 degrees (Fahrenheit) during winter. At 8AM having your sphincter blasted by near freezing water...
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What Hitler (and California) Got Right and Wrong:
Eugenics and Euthanasia
by Joseph Warren, Editor
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
(We’re quoting Hitler? Well, even a stopped clock...)
If more than 47% of white army enlistees were feebleminded that would make the United States, as one critic observed, ‘a nation of morons.’
Adam Cohen, Imbeciles:
Maybe so, or at least seemingly quickly becoming so. The former formal progression was Idiot, Imbecile, Moron – through to an IQ of about 80 (and less) under the Stanford-Binet test. Above that threshold – 80 – one is considered leaning toward “average” and only slightly impaired. People of average intelligence ranged (and range) from 90 to 110. We often meet people of the Moron persuasion, functioning within society to varying extents and performing tasks (currently) critical to our economy. We thank them for their help, smile, and walk away mumbling, “Jesus, what a moron.” Now, empirically, you may better understand the subtext of your comment.
The problem we have, though, is that with increasing rapidity the jobs currently fulfilled by these people are going away: disappearing into the abyss of technological advancement. Combine that with out-of-control population growth and the future looks, at the very least, bleak...
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On Reading Marquez and Saroyan
by Joseph Warren, Editor
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Earlier this month my copy of Saroyan’s The Gay and Melancholy Flux (on the recommendation of a writer-friend, Bruce Janigian, read, Persona Non Grata: End of the Great Game) arrived post from the United Kingdom. I was able to read through about the first two-thirds of it before becoming miserably mired in the profundity of Saroyan’s many commentaries on humanity then (circa 1930s), as now. I see it all around us everyday; I see the reflections of Saroyan’s words in our society as we lope along unforgiving and lost in the madness of what has become a parody of itself in a world stampeded by souls unable to inhale and yet always hoping for a continued life among the living.
“…you can’t be born again until you die, and you are afraid to die, you are afraid to live…to look and talk and speak and move…who are you anyway?” (From the story, The Drunkard.)...
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