Month: August 2021

I have been raised to respect authority and my elders. I remember, even as a young child, I naturally assumed that every adult — teacher, doctor, professor, lawyer, newscaster, politician — was infinitely smarter than I was. They had to be. It was the natural progression of things:

more age + more education = more wisdom

A fundamentally flawed math equation that I started to catch a glimpse of when I was 5-years-old and my kindergarten teacher gave me a snowman to color — on white paper, with a black outline. I handed it back and said it was already done. She fought with me and called me stubborn until I yelled, “snowmen are white because snow is white, the paper is white! It’s DONE!”

My mistrust of those around me that were supposed to be “in the know”, actually knowing started young and continued throughout the years. And, I’m not talking about an intellectual arrogance. I am certain there are millions out there that could breeze through a quadratic equation or fully explain why the fundamental constituents of the universe are one-dimensional “strings” rather than point-like particles. I know those people exist. I am talking about the people with basic, common sense. Where the Hell are they? I’m talking about the ability to look at a situation as a whole and perform a predictive analysis on it and act accordingly. Where are THOSE people in leadership?

I have come to the sad conclusion … they clearly do NOT exist.

I struggle with worrying that the leaders are actually this dumb or if they are playing this dumb and I can’t reconcile in my head which is worse. Think I am wrong? Let’s go through the insane list of intellectually sound conclusions they try to talk and dance around trying to make the truth … not the TRUTH:

1. Viruses spread. It’s what they do. At rallies OR protests. Once you ignore that fact, you are either dumb or corrupt. Choose one.
2. The most likely source of the CORONAVIRUS was the stinking virology lab in China that was studying CORONAVIRUSES … you morons. You were either painfully dumb or woefully corrupt to even try to float that one.
3. Mail-in votes were going to welcome cheating, chaos and confusion. Say I am wrong? No one, no ONE with half a brain has confidence in elections anymore. Say I am wrong, you are either dumb or corrupt. Choose one.
4. If you censor only one group of people because you don’t like what they say, you are a tyrant and a bigot by definition. If you say differently, you are either stupid or corrupt. Choose.
5. If you think voter ID’s are racist, but vaccine passports are cool … you either ride the short bus or are crooked as a scoliosis spine!
6. If you say “follow the science”, but think there are more chromosome pairings than TWO … XX or XY … you are either can’t add 1+1 or are corrupt. Choose one.
7. If you PAY people not to work, they won’t. Say I am wrong, you are either dumb or corrupt. Choose one.
8. If you pay people not to work and they don’t work, then it creates a work and supply chain crisis that creates inflation. Say I am wrong and you are either dumb or corrupt.
9. If you have perhaps one million people descending on Washington D.C. to protest an election result … you MIGHT want to assign additional security (PELOSI!!!!). Say I am wrong, you are either dumb or corrupt. Choose one.
10. The term “insurrection” is reserved for an armed overthrow of a government. No one that isn’t dumb or playing dumb on tv thinks a group of unarmed people were going to overthrow the damn government. No one think Horn Hat Guy was going to end up our new supreme leader. Use a different word for January 6th (like riot) or you look dumb or corrupt. CHOOSE one.
11. If you think Burisma paid a known crackhead millions for his in-depth, non-existent, knowledge of the energy sector rather than for INFLUENCE with what is now the most powerful person on the planet … you are either dumb or corrupt. Choose.
12. If you think Hunter Biden’s paintings are selling for $500,000 or more because he is talented … well … then you are just an idiot.
13. If you vaccinate the older population, it will then jump to the younger population that has a higher survival rate because (I REPEAT) … viruses SPREAD … it’s what they do. If you report only cases and not deaths you are either stupid or corrupt. Choose one, please. Choose one.
14. If you open the borders during a pandemic to over 2 million people, it’s going to look like you don’t care about the spread of the virus. Say I am wrong and you are most definitely either dumb or corrupt.
15. If you COMPLETELY pull out of Afghanistan while the Taliban were literally standing by licking their lips to takeover … you might be the biggest, dumbest, corrupt idiot of all. OF COURSE they were going to overthrow it!!!

So, here we are … living amongst the decisions made by either the dumbest or the most corrupt government we have probably ever had. What I fear, is it is probably both. It isn’t even political at this point to say this. We undeniably have people with IQ’s ranking somewhere right under that of Forest Gump with the ethics of Bernie Madoff running the show. The “political” argument that can be waged is whether this is all planned OR the end result of dumbing down America, giving everyone an Iphone, Instagram and a trophy for being mediocre.

Are we this dumb or this corrupt? And, does either answer really matter now? Because with the Taliban releasing all imprisoned Al Qaeda members and our border being quite notably open … it SHOULDN’T take Stephen Hawking to figure out what comes next.

Because whether dumb or corrupt … the end result is going to be the same.

Do you want to tell me again which lives are mattering here? I don’t want to hear it, not for one more second, that we are trying to save lives. How can anyone say that when we all seem awfully concerned about who dies from this virus but not so concerned with people getting shot in broad daylight by kids on scooters or people overdosing alone in the streets!?!

Do those deaths COUNT?

The whole world seems to have gotten collective amnesia since the goal of “flattening the curve” was promised as the goal for the lockdowns. Look at the chart above, that curve is beyond flat. It’s bottomed out. More people are getting murdered weekly than dying from COVID. It’s a fact! It isn’t political, it isn’t partisan, it isn’t twisted. It is MATH, the universal language and the most basic of truths. So, if 230 deaths is going to scare you into your house, are you going to hole up to avoid being the next mass shooting casualty? Are you never going to go to New York City, the South Side of Pittsburgh or NOLA? Because just last week, more people died of violence there than of COVID. Does only one kind of DEATH scare you? And, if we have decided to all live so afraid of death that we have become afraid to live and emboldened to tell others how they should live or die … then, I need to be informed that everything that was said previously is a lie and that I no longer have one ounce of freedom.

Which deaths matter?

The media keeps talking about increased “cases”. But, they are also saying that the Delta variant is more highly contagious, testing has increased and the vaccinated can get sick, but not so sick they will die. These are THEIR talking points. THEIRS. And, by their own words, freaking people out with words like “surge” or continued threats of additional lockdowns and the return of the masking is absolutely ludicrous and people are beginning to see it. Bring the tickers back on the side of the broadcasts. But, don’t track COVID cases, track current COVID deaths. And, while you track those deaths … track the murders, the drug overdoses, the car accidents, the lightening strikes, the cancers, the heart diseases, the diabetes.

Track ALL the things that people do to themselves and one another that can cause their deaths. Track it ALL. Numbers and math never lie, but people do in the way they present them.

And, this is what the math tells you … you had more of a chance of getting shot last week than dying of COVID. A sad reality brought to you ironically by the hatred, division and chaos the virus, the policies and the lockdowns have brought us.

Which deaths matter? Which numbers matter? How much more are we willing to sacrifice to get to zero deaths from COVID? Because zero was NEVER the deal. And, if you lied about that, too … then, it’s time to be honest and give people the choice on how they want to live and die from this point forward.

I choose life, I have always been on the side of life … it just seems we all have different definitions of what living really is.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/gun-violence-rising-united-states-archive.html

https://health.ri.gov/data/drugoverdoses/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/nation-fire-weeks-glance-gun-violence-ripping-america/story?id=78852666