Taiwan is a sovereign nation and Hong Kong should be one as well.

In the 1960s, Ronald Reagan defended America’s involvement in the Vietnam War by citing the Domino Theory – if South Vietnam falls to the communists, he reasoned, the rest of Asia was next. It was 1973 before America retreated from that war, ceding the whole of Vietnam to the communists. Millions of citizens who had lived under relative freedom in Vietnam and neighboring Cambodia were subjected to death and hard labor after we abandoned the fight. Years of turmoil followed. Only now that the iron hand of tyranny has taken complete control do the peoples of those countries have peace – at the price of freedom.

The good thing was, the Domino Theory did not play out. The rest of Asia was so repulsed by what happened in Vietnam that the communists could not get a toehold anywhere else.

The flag of Hong Kong.

But today the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ruling Red China is on the march again. It has already pushed the first domino over. A once thriving, vibrant jewel of the South China Sea, Hong Kong was an autonomous province of the United Kingdom for over a hundred years before the U.K. stupidly ceded Hong Kong to Red China in 1997. The understanding was that Hong Kong’s relationship with Red China would be “one country, two systems” for fifty years – in other words, Hong Kong could operate autonomously as a free market democracy without interference from Red China, though Red China would own it.

For some time the CCP let Hong Kong be. But no more. In the past few years the hammer has come down. Red China has made it clear that Hong Kong will operate under its command with only token democratic representation. This is why you saw literally millions of protesters fill the streets of Hong Kong over and over again in 2019. The people of Hong Kong knew what was coming and they would not abide it.

Only they did not know quite everything that was coming. Was it the hand of Providence working perversely for the CCP or contrived coincidence that in early 2020, the Wuhan Virus was unleashed on the world from Red China? Either way, the first mortality was the freedom movement in Hong Kong. Where force and persuasion had failed to stop the protesters, fear of the virus was used to shut down the street protests. The Red Chinese Gestapo got busy rounding up the leaders of the opposition movement and throwing them in jail, meanwhile setting up a puppet legislature.

R.I.P. Hong Kong.

The flag of Taiwan R.O.C.

So if you believe the Domino Theory…. Taiwan is next. Taiwan, the other China. The non-Red China. The China that was set up by the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek when they retreated from the Red Chinese Army to the island of Taiwan off mainland China after World War II. Taiwan is the free and freedom loving Republic of China that is prospering and progressive, with in fact the best track record in the world for fighting the Wuhan Virus.

For decades now, as it ascended via capitalism from the extreme tyrannical grip of Mao, Red China has insisted that Taiwan is not an independent country, that it is a wayward province of mainland China. Red China has forced feckless, spineless diplomats throughout the world to treat Taiwan as if it were not an independent country. Even the U.S. does not have an embassy in Taiwan so as not to provoke the CCP. The situation is a shame on the free world.

If the Biden administration proceeds true to form re Taiwan, although they will give lip service to preserving democracy there, you will see a lot of shucking and jiving as it gradually backs off our commitment to defend Taiwan against military aggression from Red China. This must not be allowed to happen. Taiwan’s democracy must be defended. Even discounting the importance of democracy, if the Taiwan Strait ends up under Red China’s control, Japan is subject to their whims for getting their goods to market.

We must see Taiwan as the sovereign nation it is, and defend it, no ifs, ands, or buts. And we must work to free Hong Kong from Red China’s grip by promoting its aspirations to independent statehood as well. Otherwise, there is no doubt we will see Ronald Reagan’s prophecy about the Domino Theory finally come to pass.

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4,000 new Wuhan Virus deaths? No. Wuhan Virus “vaccine” deaths.

While we all held our breath as the Wuhan Virus first slammed into the population, anyone bitten by a rattlesnake , struck by lightning, or killed by a bullet who also had cold symptoms, or who had been near somebody with cold symptoms, was counted as a virus death. The media, health authorities, and politicians stoked up the mortality rates to make a damnpanic out of the supposed pandemic. Ultimately the fear mongers and petty tyrants took down a president sure to be re-elected if not for the vote fraud enabled by mail-in ballots and other deception covered by the chaos of the virus fear.

So now the Wuhan Virus deaths have waned, but there’s another bona fide mortality total that is being totally ignored. It’s the number of deaths as a result of taking the “vaccines.” It’s now over 4,000 in the U.S. – not to mention over 12,000 hospitalizations and nearly 30,000 urgent care facility visits. The most current statistics can be seen by clicking here.

If these so-called vaccines were a new toy or tool or car, or say an exercise machine, sales would be stopped immediately. It would be all over the news. Lawsuits would be flying into courts. But of course, vaccine manufacturers are protected from liability lawsuits by federal law. That’s why kids now have to take some ridiculous number of vaccines before they can even enter kindergarten.

But what if you are an employer who requires your employees to get the vaccine, or even induces them to do so with cash payments or some other benefit? What if you have a business that requires customers to have the shots? Or worse, what if you run a college that requires students to take the shots? And meanwhile, these shots are killing thousands of people, causing many more to be hospitalized, and many more to suffer so much with the side effects that they see a doctor.

Better talk to your lawyer.

And worse, now the new fascist tools, our formerly respected and even beloved public health authorities, are pushing these shots on kids as young as twelve.

Let’s think again. The shots do help the elderly and the sickly survive the virus, and let’s hope that local public health officials everywhere have done every possible thing they can to offer the shots to that population. But it appears the young and healthy, and especially kids, have virtually nothing to fear from the virus. The shots do not stop the virus; they only reduce the symptoms. And evidence is growing that there are unintended consequences for many, many people young and old who take the shots. Just ask the kids with heart inflammation disclosed this week. Or, ask Eric Clapton.

So next time you hear somebody preaching that everyone – especially kids – should get “vaccinated” against the virus, tell them to shut their pie hole. And should you be asked if you’ve had the shots, tell the snoop it’s no more of their damn business than for you to know if they’ve had a face lift, a boob job, a viagra prescription, or an abortion. After all, if you are going to be a statistic, better to be in the “survivors” column than in the “victims” column whether from virus or vaccine, and it ain’t nobody’s business but your own how you got it done.

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Flat-Earth Thinking Identified

Our wheezy ol’ President, addled Uncle Joe Biden, really hit the nail on the head when he lashed out at Texas for their “Neanderthal thinking.” They were opening up too early, dropping mask mandates and crowd restrictions and so forth in their mad rush to get back to normal. Those darn Texas Luddites just weren’t following the science.

Except that they were. It’s Biden and vast numbers of the left, assembled conveniently as voting blocs by the DNC and treated as chattel by the government, who don’t follow the science. Instead they have a pronounced tendency to make up science, then cram it down everyone’s throats to achieve one nefarious end or another under the guise of “saving the planet,” for example, or “defeating the virus.”

Nothing exemplifies this better than ethanol laced gasoline. For years and years, we Americans have had to put up with “whiskey gas” as it’s called derisively by those who think about it. Whiskey gas is the kind with 10% of ethanol made primarily from corn. The idea was sold by making people believe that replacing a “fossil fuel” with something organic was better for the environment. Now, unless you hunt carefully for a station that sells pure gas, whiskey gas has to be the tiger you put in your tank because the federal government subsidizes stations that sell it.

The problem is, whiskey gas is actually worse for the environment. It reduces miles per gallon by burning hotter and providing less power. Getting it to the refinery is totally by truck because it can’t be centralized in pipelines like oil. All those trucks burn a huge amount of fuel getting it there. And then there’s all the fuel and other resources like pesticides and fertilizers used in producing the corn. So the science says, whiskey gas is a loser. Even Al Gore has admitted it.

But the farmers – or more accurately, the big agricultural corporations – in Iowa and Kentucky and such states love it. And it just so happens that anybody wanting to be president had better win the Iowa primary. So the winners in Iowa always endorse continuing ethanol mandates and even upping the mix to 15%. That’s following the science, all right: the science that money buys votes.

What is not science is mask and vaccine mandates. Masks provide zero protection from viruses in the world at large. There is not one legitimate scientific study that says they do. Thank God someone at the CDC finally had the cojones to force the issue and get them to drop the “guidance.” The guidance was no science at all, but pure politics.

So why are kids still forced to wear masks in schools? Why is California hanging on to its ridiculous restrictions of personal freedom through June? Why are the vaccines – a Godsend for the elderly and sickly, but increasingly being shown to have serious problems for the rest of us; just ask Eric Clapton – being forced on teenagers, for God’s sake? (Wanna go to college? Better get your vaccinations!)

The answer is, such politics is not science. It is the Flat Earth Society of Leftists at work. It’s the new religion. Ironically but not surprisingly, it is not the Texans and the Trumpsters who are Neanderthals, but the leftists who are the the very thing they love to accuse the right of being – Flat-Earthers.

The freer states – Texas, Florida, Tennessee – are the ones that are prospering the most. Freedom leads to prosperity. That, indeed, is proven science. It is the story of America, at least up until now.

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The Big Lie + the Big Sleep = One Big Cluster Bleep.

In the great American novel All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren proved that great fiction reveals the greatest truths. The story was inspired by the Louisiana populist governor Huey P. Long and written as Mussolini and Hitler were taking power in Europe. The novel’s narrator Jack Burden is a cynical reporter taken by the Long character, the fictional Governor Willie Stark, as he rises to power on the strength of his connection to, and eloquence speaking for, the common man.

If you’ve never read it, snap this book up now. The cancel culture will soon do it in if the cancel culture doesn’t get done in first, which is not looking likely. And it will be one more shame if All the King’s Men is book-burned into oblivion, for the story is less about politics – and it is great at that, resonating nearly a hundred years later in the politics of today – and more about the individual’s search for truth, and the hard reckoning that comes when all pretense is stripped away.

It is in the moments when the truth looms clearest that Jack Burden indulges in what he calls “the Big Sleep.” In today’s terms, he tunes out. He runs. He hides. He stays in bed days and nights and barely eats. Only when he hits rock bottom does he resurface to deal with reality.

America is in its own Big Sleep. It is failing its Founders and it can’t deal with it. It came to a head in 2020 as it cowered in fear before the Wuhan Virus in March and silently accepted a fraud election in November. The leftists constantly repeat that Trump is telling the Big Lie about that election, yet Trump insists the election itself was the Big Lie. The truth may very well come out in the ongoing election audit in Maricopa County. But the DNC is fighting tooth and nail to have it scuttled. Wonder why? And yet most Americans are asleep at the wheel and if they even know about it, couldn’t care less and would rather live with the lies than face the truth.

Wake up, America. A great democracy cannot live on lies. Not 3/5, not Watergate, not 2020 and all that came with it. The truth will set us all free. Let’s get on with it and do the check of the count and audit of the machines. If there is no crime, it will shut Trump up with his Big Lie. But without a full and fair audit, at least half of us will never trust elections again. And we will all end up like all the king’s men, unable to put Humpty together again.

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America’s most important ally.

It’s not Israel, actually. When it comes to third world down-and-dirty mechanics, Israel may be our closest ally, but in today’s Realpolitik, India is the most important.

If you hear anything about India right now in the national media, it is about the spike in Wuhan virus cases and deaths. The health stats from India are even more unreliable than U.S. numbers. The fear mongers are having trouble finding spikes and disasters at home. Curiously, the bad news mostly happens in blue lockdown states like Michigan. So they pepper the news with runaway virus stories from places we can’t check so easily – like India. The Indian people will deal with it. India’s significance is far greater than the scare stories designed to discredit it as one of the world’s great democratic republics.

In the 1960s, India was somewhat frustrating to the U.S. Both India and Egypt were third world developing countries that were courted heavily by, and flirted heavily with, the Soviet Union.

Neither took Kruschev’s bait. However, while Egypt has remained under a dictatorship, India followed the path of democracy. Interestingly, two of the most influential world leaders from that period were women – Indira Gandhi from India, and Golda Meir of Israel.

Until the Obama administration, Egypt was poised to become one of America’s most important allies. For all his faults, then-President Hosni Mubarak did keep Sadat’s peace with Israel and resisted the theocrats who are now busy destroying women’s rights and religious freedom and hope for democracy in that pivot point of the Middle East. Obama encouraged the mob to overthrow Mubarak. Today Egypt’s President el-Sisi is dancing a fine line between the Islamists and the secularists, both of whom have the long knives out for him.

So Egypt is weak, and Libya and Syria are still wracked by violence wrought upon them by the Obama administration’s so-called “Arab Spring” which should have been called “Ayatollah Spring.” And still we’re trying to get the heck out of Afghanistan, meaning we will also have little influence in Pakistan. And Iran is loving every minute of it.

But there, sitting quietly nearly in the middle of all this, with its one billion people, its multiracial, multi-faith society, and its democratically elected, vigorously free-enterprise government, sits India, counterbalance not only to ugly, backward China to its north, but to the hate filled Islamists to its west. With Hong Kong subjugated and China’s sights set on Taiwan, we can only thank God that India, Thailand, and Japan sit stalwartly on the Chinese Communist Party’s doorstep. India is our last best hope as a stabilizing influence in both Asia and the Middle East.

(India, by the way, has already dealt with its Islamists, ceding Pakistan and Sri Lanka to them. India had the good sense to amputate before gangrene set in.)

There are over three million American citizens in the U.S. of Indian ancestry. Bobby Jindal, former governor of Louisiana, and Nikki Haley, first female governor of South Carolina, are two famous ones that come immediately to mind. And there are hundreds of thousands more here in the U.S. today on work or education visas. Many run our hotels and convenience stores and other small businesses, inspiring examples of work ethic and the pursuit of happiness in America.

So find one and hug an Indian today. We need to appreciate them. India is our most important ally.

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Scared witless.

It was understandable that the country was essentially shut down for a few weeks at this time last year. This crazy virus came out of China, seemed to decimate the population of Italy, then in fits and starts spread all around the world. Who wouldn’t be scared? Already in January before it was widely acknowledged or even supposedly had reached our shores, we were hearing that it was deadly, that it mutated, that it compromised the immune system, and on and on.

But here’s some news for addled old Uncle Joe Biden: by Independence Day LAST year, well informed Americans were already gathering in their back yards for a cookout. That is to say: Americans who did not automatically believe the network news, CNN, NPR, and the other fear-mongering outlets that seized on a crisis of confidence to keep the fear going, the ratings up, and mail-in ballots a sure thing.

Unfortunately the fear persists, at least in cities, long after the threat has passed. Driving into Nashville from the country this weekend, it was as if a wrong turn was taken in the Universal Studios parking lot. Virtually everyone was wearing masks. OUTSIDE, for heaven’s sake. We might as well have stumbled onto the set for “The Omega Man.”

By contrast, also this weekend in Nashville, the little woman – who is far more prone than her prickly husband to go along to get along – forgot her mask when she entered a store. It was a local, family-owned favorite. There were no other customers at the time. All the staff dropped their masks when they saw her beautiful smile. Only Papa kept his mask on. No doubt his lawyer has read him the riot act about avoiding frivolous liability lawsuits.

Also this week, a customer from Nashville was planning to pick up an order here at the shop way out Charlotte Pike. She gave assurances that she was vaccinated and practiced social distancing. When we replied no worries, we are not maskers, there’s a different mind-set about all that out here, she chickened out and asked us to ship her order instead!

God help these poor people who have been scared witless about flippin’ everything. The pandemic damnpanic has worked best in the cities. In a city, once germs are said to be spreading, everyone feels as if they live in Bombay – even in Nashville, where there is no subway system cramming people together like sardines and social distancing is a cinch on the buses because no one in their right mind rides them anyway who doesn’t absolutely have to.

We have seen that the government authorities have been wrong about just about everything. Even M.I.T. now has come out with a study that essentially says the wearing of masks to prevent spread of the virus is a canard. The FACTS show that only the sickly, the morbidly obese, and the elderly need fear this virus, and now there is a very effective injected palliative that protects them – although many health authorities did not protect them, closing schools to no purpose while leaving the virus free to rage through senior care facilities. And if you are young and healthy and there is any chance a “vaccine” might kill you, why take it? The virus virtually certainly will not kill you. Yet the authorities push the shots not only on the vulnerable old, but also the healthy young.

Instinctive fear is a good thing if something goes crash in the middle of the night, if you hear that freight train sound in the middle of a violent thunderstorm, or your fever spikes for no apparent reason. But cultured fear – that’s no way to live. The most troubling aspect about all this is the seemingly epidemic lack of curiosity. Has our generation – generation used in the Biblical sense – lost a healthy skepticism about authority? Have we lost the capacity to compare and contrast conflicting opinions? Have we been scared so witless that we accept as real whatever boogieman is thrown at us without using discernment, discretion, common sense? Common sense, it seems, really is the most uncommon sense of all these days. The fear that’s been inculcated in this generation seems to have all but snuffed it out.

The late Little Richard performing at “A Capitol Fourth” in Washington, D.C. John Arra was there. It was a great show!

Buck up, you city-dwellers, and young people especially. Stop cowering. Live life. Breathe free. Take in the sunshine. And Uncle Joe, stop with the preaching about wearing masks and getting the so-called vaccine being everyone’s “patriotic” duty. We are not all scared stupid, and we will be celebrating Independence Day AGAIN as true patriots this year whether you give your blessing or not.

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Don’t foist Trump’s Wuhan Virus vaccines on young people.

Early in 2020, President Donald J. Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence set in motion a logistical miracle that resulted in the creation and distribution of vaccines (or at least, what the CDC is calling vaccines) that are saving thousands if not millions of lives of elderly and sickly people.

There is, however, a great deal of misunderstanding of what these injections do. They are, in effect, not really vaccines in the sense we’ve all understood the word. They do not prevent spread of the virus. You can have the vaccine, still get the virus, and still pass it on to someone else. What these injections do is reduce the severity of the symptoms so that elderly and sickly individuals have a much better chance of surviving an infection.

When you hear, for example, that the Pfizer injections are 95% effective, it does not mean that they are 95% effective at keeping you from getting the virus. 95% effective means that in 95% of cases, the injections will keep you from getting as sick as you would have gotten without the injections.

It is sinful that health authorities have allowed the public, especially the elderly and the sickly, to think that once they getinjections, they are protected from the virus. No one is protected from getting the virus by the injections. Even more, it is the height of cynical absurdity that the Dr. Fauci types promote the notion that the “vaccines” lead to herd immunity and greater freedoms. They do not.

In fact, the opposite is true in both cases. By reducing symptoms the injections increase the likelihood that someone will not know they have the virus and so through carelessness pass it on to a vulnerable person. And now the C.E.O. of Pfizer is telling us that a third injection is really necessary. And as for freedom? Just try to do business with these “woke” corporations once they get the logistics of vaccine passports worked out. Some already go into Inquisition mode if you have the temerity to forego a mask in their businesses.

These cynical manipulations of a traumatized public are bad enough, but it gets worse. The most prevalent injections – Pfizer and Moderna – use a manipulation of your RNA code to do their thing. This type of manipulation has never been administered helter-skelter to human beings before. Tests in animals have provided some troubling results including negative effects on the immune system and cancers. For further information on this topic, see Dr. Ryan Cole’s testimony to the Idaho state legislature in the video at the bottom of this post.

How do we know what the long-term effects of the RNA gambit are without long-term studies? How do we know that if it has an unintended consequence in your gene sequence, one that may well be tragic, that it won’t be passed on through sperm or egg and have even worse consequences on the next generation? The answer is, we do not know. *

There is tremendous social pressure on younger people to get the shots now. To a startling degree, they – who have virtually zero risk from the virus –  have already been brainwashed into thinking they are somehow “not a good person”  or “don’t care about others’ health” if they do not wear masks everywhere they go, yet masks worn in the world at large have been shown by study after study to be totally ineffective. They are being led to the “vaccines” in like manner.

There is absolutely no good reason for young, healthy people to get the shots. We’ve done enough to them already with the unnecessary mask mandates, lockdowns, quarantines, social distancing, and school closings. They are growing up in an environment where they are told they should be terrified of the world around them.

The shots will not stop the spread of infection. And young people don’t suffer dangerous symptoms from the virus anyway. President Trump did the world a favor by mobilizing pharmaceutical companies to come up with these antidotes, but allowing the Biden Junta now to cram them down everyone’s throats (or more specifically, into their bloodstreams) is a sin against humanity and worse, against our children.

* The debate still rages about the origin of the virus. While hardly anyone seriously disputes its origin in the Wuhan region of China, the Chinese Communist Party insists it sprang up out of nowhere from a meat market while evidence suggests it was leaked from a biowarfare research lab – whose work was funded in part by grants from Dr. Fauci’s organization, by the way. The injected antidotes Dr. Fauci pushes were available in theory within weeks of the reported outbreaks, leading some to question whether the outbreaks and the “vaccines” were a coordinated effort. There are massive amounts of money involved. And the RNA manipulation? What if the “vaccines” that use that method to reduce symptoms are providing a convenient, known back door for a more devastating future virus release, just as computer viruses exploit back doors in Microsoft or Apple software. After all, the shots that don’t use that method – Johnson & Johnson and Astrazeneca – are now under attack for being defective.

These are questions worth having answered before rushing headlong further “vaccinating” the population, especially children.

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A country without a man.

Even a democratic republic needs a guy at the desk in the Oval Office where the buck stops. Perhaps especially a democratic republic, and especially the first and greatest democratic republic in the history of the world.

(And such “a guy” does not have to be a biological male. Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Gold Meir were showing us forty and fifty years ago that women have what it takes to be great leaders as much as men. Compared to the real achievers of the generations before, this current crop of “feminists” look like whiners and priss-pots )

What if Harry S. Truman had not been there to make the difficult decision to use the atomic bomb to end World War II? Truman, the small-town, obscure vice president who inherited the realm upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt, whom Roosevelt’s team had largely isolated from responsibility and involvement in the actual leadership of the country up to that point, was no washed-up, spineless swamp creature. He captained the ship with moral ballast, sound mind, and unwavering patriotic fervor.

What even if Roosevelt, the starry-eyed elitist who prolonged the Great Depression with socialist economic policy and who interred citizens of Japanese heritage in xenophobic excess, had not been there to guide the American people to defeat Hitler’s fascist ambitions in World War II? Whatever their missteps, if there had been no Roosevelt and there had been no Truman, there might not be a Jew left in the world and we might all be goose-stepping through life to this day.

So now, you’ve got to wonder. Who the heck is in charge of this country? Does the bumbling, stumbling, barely intelligible Joe Biden really have the reins? The only thing he has going for him is that his staff hates Kamala Harris’ staff and know that if Biden goes down, they are out of a job and off the gravy train. Kamala Harris, meantime, has Hillary Clinton to thank for being only the second most hated woman in country (and perhaps Meghan Markle eclipses them both for the world title). Biden’s one clear directive as chief executive – that Harris bring order to the border – has been completely ignored by the Vice-President.

(By the way, are there any pictures of Kamala Harris and Barack Obama actually in the same room? Could it be that Harris is Obama in drag? Just a thought.)

It is clear that “who’s in charge” is no guy, no one guy, but some sort of junta calling the shots. It is clear because only management by committee – perhaps one populated by zealots like AOC, for example, or a spin-doctor like the Orange Woman, Jenn Psaki – could incite such a disaster at the border, and then do nothing to resolve it. One has to worry, when Russia decides to take Ukraine, or China to take Taiwan, or they do it simultaneously, that such a no-name, no-face junta with an empty suit as POTUS, can only make the worst possible decisions in response to such a crisis.

If you are a Democrat who voted for this mess, or one who continues to sit silently by congratulating yourself for supporting the electoral coup of Orange Man while watching for three months now as this junta has weakened and sabotaged its own country… the coming wars, the economic blight, and the social violence are on you.

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Even dumber than New Coke.

Millennials probably don’t know of Coca-Cola’s other apostasy, that in the 1980s it abandoned its traditional formula in favor of one the company hoped would compete better with Pepsi for “modern” taste buds. It was dubbed New Coke. Thanks to public backlash, within three months the company brought back the original formula, rebranded as Classic Coca-Cola.
Eventually New Coke went the way of the Edsel.

Many have speculated that it was all a marketing ploy to bring attention to a waning brand. Most likely it was an idea spawned by a new species of corporate animal at the time, the MBA. To shirtsleeves business people, MBAs were an annoying class of resume-padders who got a masters degree in business with little or no actual experience. Colleges around the country were pushing the degree as a new revenue stream. Corporatist public companies were snapping them up with outrageous opening salaries. Many dumb ideas still floating around free enterprise came from these degreed know-nothings. Still when someone who’s come up through the ranks finds a new MBA in their department, maybe even in charge, stomach cramps ensue. New Coke may very well have been spawned by just such a “little knowledge is a dangerous thing” hire down in Atlanta.

Perhaps most likely is that Coca-Cola saw the whole New Coke episode as a means of diverting attention from the fact that they were replacing sugar with high fructose corn syrup as the sweetner in the formula. Experienced Coke drinkers know that there was a certain something lost when this happened, even in Coke Classic.

Whatever the truth is, New Coke was a bust and proved that even the biggest, wealthiest, most powerful companies in the world can lose their way. But Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, and Major League Baseball, among others, have done the New Coke fiasco one better by showing their collective keesters over the new Georgia election law. No matter how you package stupidity – i.e., calling voter I.D. requirements voter suppression, or Jim Crow, or Jim Eagle per ol’ Uncle Joe – it is still stupidity.

No one is hurt by Georgia’s new law, but the corporatists, Hollywood airheads, and left wing radicals who oppose it are doing direct damage to the greatest black-majority city in the country by championing MLB’s move of the All Star game from Atlanta. They are endorsing corrupt elections. And they are hurting thousands of small businesses and workers of every stripe with their virtue-signaling, spineless, dimwitted vapidity.

Is that redundant? Perhaps. Just like New Coke and other brands we can do without.

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Fake Everything

President Trump put out a warning buoy when he nailed fake news.

He has a genius for capturing the essence of a problem. But is fake news a surprise to any thinking person? Increasingly, quickeningly, western civilization has embraced all things fake. Fake jewelry, fake tans, fake lips, fake eyelashes, fake boobs, even fake badonkadonks leading up even to completely fake women – forgivingly called transgenders, and with special rights to boot. Fake highs, fake erections, fake orgasms, and robotic fake girlfriends and pets. Who needs AI as a threat to humanity when humanity will do itself in just fine with its own fake smarts?

Children are now cultured in this fakery. It is every child on a team getting a trophy. It is biological boys beating girls at sports by “identifying” as girls. It is helicopter parents creating achievements out of whole cloth for their children to get them into the right schools. It is pretending that children become adults at 18 but keeping them on their parents’ health insurance until they are 26. And meanwhile letting them borrow for college tuition via loans that no sensible parent would ever cosign when they are pursuing fake degrees that will not make them productive individuals signified by something not fake at all: a good job.

Meanwhile, if the child is any conceivable minority or target of some concocted oppression, he is immersed in a fake cult of victimization with set-asides and affirmative action so that whatever he might achieve on his own is cheapened, and everything he doesn’t achieve is someone else’s fault.

The end result of all this fakery is the destruction of the individual. Faked out, people cannot think for themselves, live in the real world, make a difference. It is delusional. It is living life as an avatar rather than a human being. It is the extinguishment of the idea of every person’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No wonder drug abuse, suicides, and mental illness rates are at epidemic levels.

Such dimwitted adults are just what the doctor ordered for fake news. Fake Russian conspiracies. Fake impeachments. Fake whistle blowers. Fake pandemics that turn out to be no worse than a bad flu, easily overcome by protecting the vulnerable, but instead used to scare the hell out of everyone, kill independent small businesses, and provide cover for the stealing of power in a fake election.

And now all this has culminated in a fake presidency, resident in a man who is pitiably so far past his use-by date that – as he demonstrated in last week’s fake press conference – he freezes and lapses and stumbles and mumbles for all the world to see. Yet unabashedly through him his handlers – whoever the heck they are – push fake borders, fake humanitarianism, fake domestic terrorism, fake insurrections, fake anti-voter-suppression legislation, fake stimulus spending, fake solutions to a fake pandemic like mask mandates, and fake vaccines that are no more than injected palliatives and one more means to limit freedom via “vaccine passports.”

What is not fake is the destruction being wrought by America’s capitulation to this unreality. A wag once said about fake boobs: “They’re not fake if I can touch ‘em.” Well, it was pointed out, he could not touch ‘em. But we’re all fixing to be touched by real pain – higher taxes, higher prices, more rules, increasing threat of war, and less freedom in this oppressive, punitive tyranny called the Biden administration. And feeling empowered by their successful coup over the Trump second term, they are just getting started. We will need a lifetime supply of warning buoys to navigate their perfidy.

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