Judging Politicians and People

For all I know if I met Hillary Clinton I might like her. But as a politician, based on her history since 1974, no – not at all (she was fired from her first job during Watergate for lying, breaking the rules of the Democratic Party, and breaking the law).

Donald Trump, if I met him, I doubt I would like him. I doubt I would like him much at all – and that’s based on his personal history and the things he done in his life. Even Reagan apparently didn’t like Trump very much.

On the other hand, Trump has no history as a politician – he went straight from billionaire Reality show star to President.

When it comes to politicians, it’s hard to judge their characters. So I ask, on whom do they blame their problems? Or do they accept responsibility for themselves?

Trump is blaming a lot of things on the Mainstream Media, which makes sense because they are unfairly attacking him – and these attacks aren’t going to stop for the next eight years.

Hillary Clinton blamed her problems on that “basket of deplorables” that to her makes up the country in-between New York City and Los Angeles. When I heard her say that I knew beyond all doubt she was going to lose.

Blaming your problems on other people is the first defense most people use. It’s the first defense little kids use and some people never grow out of it. It’s called projection but the historical term has been “scapegoating.”

Politics is pretty much based on scapegoating, which is why I don’t like it at all. Politicians are always pointing their fingers at their opponents and never taking responsibility for what they’ve done.

I don’t like or trust both political parties. Almost all of the Democrats and some of the Republicans are pointing their fingers at Trump – “he’s the problem!” Pray for him to resign or get impeached or assassinated!

These days the Democratic Party, which has become almost radically leftist, is the party of Finger-Pointing. It didn’t used to be like that in the past.

But then leftists have always been notorious scapegoaters, because it’s based on hate and envy (in the story of the Garden of Eden Adam blames what he did on Eve and Eve blames the “serpent,” a symbol of envy).

Find someone to blame all our problems on and get rid of them! It’s been the history of the world.

Propaganda is based on scapegoating – portray the Other as evil and once they are eradicated there will be end to evil – which will never happen. The last time I saw it happen is when the moronic Dubya Shrub called those who attacked us on 9-11“the evil ones” who attacked us for “our goodness.” A lot of people didn’t fall for it but way too many did.

Fortunately I haven’t heard Trump talking about “good” and “evil” so I don’t expect him to be starting any wars, which I expected from Hillary Clinton with her comments about Russia – and obviously some people are itching for a catastrophic war with that country.

There is something quite wrong with humanity – call it Original Sin if you want. Not so much individual people but the mass of people – oh my God! You can almost lead them around by their noses – just find someone on which they can blame their problems.

“Great Men are Almost Always Bad Men”

Lord Acton said that. He’s was also the man who said, “Power corrupts and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely” (although I think it’s far more accurate to say, “Power intoxicates and immunity corrupts”).

This is the whole quote: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

Bill Clinton was in some ways a great man. He came out of nowhere and became President. He was also a pretty bad man – corrupt in his lust for money, and a chronic liar, not to mention a sexual pervert (his wife is exactly the same way). And both think they should be immune from what they did. Don’t all politicians think they should be immune from their crimes?

Donald Trump has the potential to be a great President. He’s clearly a flawed man but in some ways is heroic with what he’s done so far – he’s done more in a month than Obama did in eight years.

A lot of people already think Trump (“He’s not my President!”) is a bad man – a liar and a con man who hates women. And a fascist! It’s leftists who always think these things. It’s why they were babbling about moving to Canada (but not Mexico – never Mexico). They were hallucinating about “Trump’s America” – which these people think comprises all those ignorant stupid inbred hillbillies in “Flyover Land.”

Even Hitler was a great man – half-genius, half-insane. He was also a very bad man. At first he was praised by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt (themselves both bad men), although that didn’t last long.

Throughout history men who’ve done great things – for good or bad – really have often been bad men. Why this is so I don’t really know, but I have ideas.

Ambition? Certainly. And what is ambition but the desire for power and attention and respect? Not just power, but domination and control. Over people. Who really aren’t human to those intoxicated by power and domination and control. Like children (whom they resemble in so many ways) they can’t handle any power.

The biggest problem is when these people want to do great things politically. Politics, when it turns into laws, are based on forcing people to do things they don’t necessarily want to do – though fraud and force (Dante, in his Inferno, put people used fraud in a lower level of Hell than people who used force – because politically you have to use fraud first before you use force).

In fact, the worst of men are notorious for using immense amounts of fraud and force against other people.

The Founding Fathers knew their history and understood – and wrote often – about what having power does to many people. It’s why they had the separation of powers and wanted a weak government.

Some great men are not bad men – Akbar the Great, Marcus Aurelius. But for every one of them there are twenty bad men who couldn’t handle power.

The good guys you can put into a thimble. The bad guys – an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

On Being Charming

I once had a woman I know tell a friend of mine, “You know, Bob is very charming.” I’ve also had women tell me I’m a doll – twice – and am adorable. And fascinating, of all things. And all of it was the use of words.

I once was standing behind a woman – she didn’t know I was there – and she told a friend of hers I was very funny. I didn’t know what she was talking about since I had just been acting normally. But she still thought I was funny.

Either you’ve got it, or you don’t.

The frauds of the Manosphere tell lies about these things. You know – “Game.” Game doesn’t exist.

When you get some greasy, unattractive half-white half-wit such as “Roosh” writing about he uses “Game” to get all these beautiful women, he’s lying. Same with Roissy.

Either you’re funny, or you’re not.

I might be funny but I don’t have charisma. Bill Clinton had charisma. He still does. Poppy Bush didn’t. That’s one of the main reasons he lost.

I personally don’t fall for charisma. Or charm. They’re superficial things and mean nothing. I might have fallen for it as a teenager but that didn’t last long.

Barak Obama did have some charm. That’s one of the reasons he was elected.

Even Hitler had charisma. I’ve seen videos of his speeches – he was a spell-binding speaker, even though I didn’t understand a word he was saying. But it was easy to perceive the power he had over his audience.

I’ve mentioned before some women don’t like me at all. Every one of them has been unattractive/unmarried/divorced, and full of anger and envy. The women who like me the most are attractive, intelligent and have a sense of humor.

The same thing applies to politicians. The most successful ones are physically attractive, intelligent and have a sense of humor. Again, look at Bill Clinton – a charming man with charisma.

Charm is a kind of magic – that’s why a “charm” has to do with magic, the way young girls used to wear charm bracelets (do they even do that this anymore? I haven’t seen one for years.). There’s even a “Lucky Charms” breakfast cereal.

People, whether or not they admit it, still believe in magic. That’s what the Manosphere is about – learn the magic! How to be charming! Cast spells on women! Buy their propaganda books! Learn how to use words as voodoo!

Propaganda is really about how to manipulate people. Sometimes it works but often it doesn’t. The same with advertising. Sometimes it works but often it doesn’t.

Propaganda and advertising and politics are ultimately about trying to convince people to love me. To trust me – because I have your best interests at heart! The difference is that politics and propaganda is based on hatred but adverting isn’t.

Ultimately all of it is about the use of words, which is why Rudyard Kipling once made the comment that words are the most powerful drug known to mankind – and he was a master at the use of words.

There is something wrong with the human race – people are not rational, not when the effective use of words can have such a devastating effect of them.

We Were Attacked by Saudi Arabia on 9-11

On 9-11 I was driving my car listening to the “Bob and Tom” comedy program. Then it was interrupted.

I knew something very bad was happening, so I parked and went into a local bank. Everyone was standing there silently watching the big-screen TV.

Days later some names began to come out. “Osama bin Laden,” mostly.

Then other things began to come out, such as the fact the outgoing Clinton administration had warned the incoming Bush administration about bin Laden – and it was ignored.

Then other things began to come out, such as the Bush Crime Family had business dealings for 25 years with the billionaire bin Laden family – 25 members of which Dubya Shrub flew out of the country the day after 9-11. What the hell?

Most of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and all were Wahabi Muslims, which came out of Saudi Arabia and is funded by the Saudi government. Osama bin Laden was worth about 20 million dollars.

I realized the incompetent Dubya Shrub was not going to attack Saudi Arabia and utterly destroy the Wahabi murder cult. Instead he and his administration attacked and destroyed Iraq, which was no threat to us at all – and Afghanistan, again no threat to us at all.

I remember seeing yard signs, “No war for oil” and reading articles about how the war was for “oil, empire and Israel.”

Oil I understood, although with all the money we wasted on the wars we could have spent it to become energy-independent. We’re going to be energy-independent anyway in several more years, what with fracking and natural gas.

Empire I understood. Wealthy countries almost always become empires – and they always fall, too. Anyone who doesn’t know that is a complete ignoramus.

Israel I understood. Dubya had a bunch of Jew traitors in his administration that put Israel first – Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle – all gone and I hope Trump has nothing to do with any more of those neocon traitors. He is a patriot, something that the Bush Crime Family never was.

One of the reasons Iraq was destroyed is that the neocons in Shrub’s administration had his jug ear and convinced him Iraq was a threat to Israel. Then Shrub conned himself and said Iraq was a threat to the U.S. – which it wasn’t. So a bunch of Americans were wounded and died for a blasphemous, anti-American, anti-Christian country like Israel.

I always thought there was more to it than that. The Bush Crime Family had made tens of millions of dollars from the bin Ladens. And if Saudi Arabia had been invaded and conquered…goodbye to all that money.

And that is why Saudi Arabia was not invaded and the Wahabi murder cult not utterly destroyed. It was all about money and American soldiers being sacrificed to the Bush Crime Family – and all for a little bit of money.

I knew almost from the beginning that Shrub was stupid, ignorant and uneducated. I knew he was a brain-damaged alcoholic and a coward who refused to fly in Vietnam after all that money was spent training him as a fighter pilot.

But I also realize quite rapidly that not only was he a liar and a war criminal he was also a traitor – he had sacrificed God knows how many lives having the American military defend the country – Saudi Arabia – that had attacked us.

How a Friend of Mine Lost All Faith in the Mainstream Media

I guess you could consider this one of my bizarre cab stories.

Many years ago I owned a taxi. I didn’t just give people rides but also picked up and delivered packages and letters.

One time I was called to pick up a letter from a business. As I was standing in the office waiting for the secretary to get the letter I looked at some pictures on her desk. There were two pictures with a teenage woman in each. I knew the girls but could not think of their names. Did I know them from somewhere? Where?

So I asked the secretary.

I should have kept my mouth shut. She told me they were her late daughters – who had been raped and murdered on a local, closed-down bridge (in high school we held huge parties on that bridge. I also remember my parents driving my sister and me across it when we were little – at that time it was part of Route 66 before the interstate was built.).

I felt like a complete idiot.

I had seen those pictures in the local newspapers or perhaps on TV.

There were four boys involved in this rape/murder – three blacks in their late teens and one 15-year-old white boy. The two sisters were white.

The ringleader, who was judged retarded (he was just stupid) got life in prison. One has since been executed – and he whined he was innocent even when the needle was being stuck in his arm (he was as guilty as hell).

The 15-year-old served 15 or so years in prison but when he was offered parole said no, he didn’t yet deserve it. Some years later he was released. I know he wrote a letter of apology to the parents. I have no idea what has happened to him since then.

The other two are still in prison for life.

When I mentioned this crime to a friend of mine he wasn’t sure he believed it. “Why haven’t I read about something this terrible?” he asked me. He lived only about 150 miles away.

I told him the MSM is dishonest and the only crime it reports is when a white person commits a crime against a black. That kind of reporting has been going on for a long time. Think of potential rapist/murderer Emmitt Till (whose father was hanged during WWII for the rape/murder of a couple of Italian women) – and that was back in the 1950s. Everyone knows about the son but not the father.

He asked a woman who was a mutual friend if this crime had really happened, and she told him, yes, it did. He was stunned.

Since that time, he told me, he has lost all faith in the media. He doesn’t watch the news anymore and doesn’t read newspapers. He reads blogs and that’s it.

His 23-year-old son pays no attention at all to the MSM except for YouTube.

The MSM has bought these problems on itself because of its dishonesty and selective reporting.

I have mentioned before I have a degree in Journalism. I’ve also mentioned I wish I hadn’t got it and left the field decades ago.

By the way, the girls died when they were thrown naked off the bridge and drowned. Only one body was found. They were far too little to swim to shore – perhaps a little over 100 pounds each.

“My God, They Don’t Understand Anything!”

I have a friend of mine who started out who started out with a B.S in Economics but ended up with a PhD in History.

When Dubya and the other incompetents in his administration invaded Iraq and Afghanistan he told me, “My God, they don’t understand anything!”

Every country that has invaded the Middle East has pulled out after massive loss of life and wealth. The Romans pulled out, the French, the English. And even empires before the Romans withdrew.

We’re going to pull out, too. We can do it now or we can do it later after much more death and destruction and loss of wealth.

I’m not a professional historian but after reading about 100 history books I might as well be.

The last country that conquered the Middle East was England. It was there 30 years and then pulled out during the founding of Israel in 1948. One Scottish soldier said, “We accomplished nothing.”

None of the “countries” in the Middle East are even countries with the exception of Iran – which used to be called Persia.

The rest of the artificial borders were drawn by England and France for political and economic reasons. The people over there support their tribes, not their “countries.”

I’ve known since I was 17 that Iraq was never a country but three tribes. Recently it was held together by Saddam Hussein, whose brutality was the only thing keeping this temporary, artificial country together.

Dubya Shrub, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, (Douglas Feith), (Richard Perle), (Paul Wolfowitz)…none of them had a clue. None of them had any understanding of history at all. That made them utter incompetents.

There has been war in the Middle East for 4000 years. And we’re not going to put a stop to it. Not the catastrophically incompetent Shrub, not Barak Obama, not Donald Trump.

The Founding Fathers had it right: trade with other countries but have nothing to do with them politically.

Fortunately the United States is protected by two vast oceans and has an economically and militarily incompetent country to the south of us. No one is going to be invading us for the next 2000 years. We’re not the Middle East – or Europe.

Richard Maybury refers to the entire world except the West as “Chaostan.” He’s right – that’s why I use that Biblical comment about Satan “walking to and fro up and down” the world. And no one - not the United States – is going to put an end to this walking to and fro.

The U.S. is an empire of military bases. Someday, they will too collapse. It has been the history of the world without exception.

What’s that old definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

Again, someday the United States will withdraw and the Middle East can go back to screwing their goats and sodomizing teenage boys.

The Chickenhawk coward Dubya Shrub – and Barak Obama – have been utterly repudiated by the American people. And thank God for that.

I hope that Donald Trump has enough sense not to have this happen to him. At least he’s a patriot – which Shrub and the catastrophes in his administration never were.

Heinlein’s Citizen-Soldiers

I used to read a fair amount of science-fiction between the ages of 12 and 14. Unlike many I was not a fan of Robert Heinlein.

After I read Farmham’s Freehold it was clear he was nuts – and Stranger in a Strange Land was a fraud from beginning to end.

Still, he had some pretty good stuff. Starship Troopers, for one. I was impressed by Heinlein’s idea that you should not be allowed to vote unless you served in the military. For that matter you shouldn’t be allowed to run for office unless you served.

Presidents who never served have been catastrophes. The brain-damaged (from being kicked in the face by a horse), syphilitic, homosexual Abraham Lincoln never served and started the War Between the States, leading to at least 620,000 casualties – about five million today with the increase in population.

Woodrow Wilson, who was as ignorant as hell and so clueless he fell victim to forged maps after World War I – got the U.S. involved in another in a long line of European wars which was none of the United States’ business. WWI led directly to WII, putting the lie to the incompetent Wilson’s desire to impose the left-wing delusion of “democracy” on the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt – World War II. Another European war that was none of our business (by the way, for the historically ignorant the United States had been attacking Japan for ten years before they responded with the attack on Pearl Harbor – that’s what happens when you cut off a country’s oil).

John F. Kennedy did serve but was such a bad officer he should have been court-martialed – and that would have been the end of his political career. Has everyone forgotten he was so incompetent he got his PT boat cut in half by a Japanese ship?

He did get the U.S. involved in Vietnam but it was the never-served LBJ who escalated it (he said he was afraid his critics would call him “chicken” if he didn’t) then declined to run for a second term, dumping the war in Nixon’s lap.

Poppy Bush did serve as a pilot (and got shot down, killing the two airmen on his plane) and started two unnecessary but temporary wars. His alcoholic brain-damaged moron of a son, who hid in a Champaign National Guard Unit (and didn’t even finish his time in it) and declined to fly a fighter jet in Vietnam, is/was a coward Chickenhawk who started two completely unnecessary wars which are still going on after 16 years and have made things much worse over there. That’s what the brain damage from 20+ years of alcoholism will do to you. Shrub, as ignorant and incompetent as Wilson, thought “democracy” could be imposed on a bunch of inbred Arab Muslims – and didn’t deport the Saudis from the U.S. (we were attacked by Saudi Arabia on 9-11, not Afghanistan, not Iraq). Such stupidity and incompetence is breath-taking.

Heinlein, who was in the Navy but invalided out with tuberculosis, had given much thought to the ideas in Starship Troopers. The movie, which is incredibly bloody and violent, has little to do with the novel and I suspect it would have made Heinlein spin in his grave.

Heinlein’s world wouldn’t be a perfect one but it would have kept incompetents such as Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, Kennedy, LBJ and Dubya Shrub out of office – and it would be a much better United States.