Although I’m still capable of writing some excellent rants, when I go back and read some of my stuff when I first started this blog, I seem to have mellowed. Maybe because I’ve gotten older. Maybe because I’ve retired and don’t have to put up with some of the corporate bullshit that is endemic with large corporations like having to attend annual Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) classes or having to function within a bureaucracy and work for and around stupid people.
A person I know started work for a large corporation a few years back and told me she now understands some of the crap I had to put up with when I worked for IBM. Don’t get me wrong, IBM was very very good to me but large corporations like IBM put up many road blocks to productivity one of them being “valuing Diversity (All Hail Diversity!)”.
Many hours were wasted by bullshit programs, like periodic quality programs that management swears will not be like the previous quality programs. This time they really mean it. Six Sigma. Five Ups. Market Driven Quality. All of it a colossal waste of time. All the reorganizations to reflect the latest theories from management schools derived by people who have never managed anything. It is really very simple. Hire the best people, tell them what you want them to do, give them the tools they need, and get out of the way and let them do their jobs. In my 31.5 years at IBM I worked for three managers who understood that.
I’m getting tired of the stupidity of my fellow citizens, citizens who elected an unqualified empty suit to president because of the color of his skin. “Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) and white guilt has been hammered into the American populace for so long it was easy to present a black dude who could effectively (to some people – he has no effect on me – I hate watching his head jerk back and forth like he’s watching a tennis match) read words, written by others, off a TelePrompTer and convince the voters that he was qualified to be president and it was high time we elected a black dude to prove we weren’t racist. And the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party did such a good job covering for him even going so far as taking his side in one of the debates and ganging up on Mittens (Thank you you fat tub of goo, Candy Crawley) even though she was wrong. And Mittens allowed it. He should have jumped right into her shit and said he was debating Obungler and not her.
Dumb voters. One of my IBM buddies told me the day of the 2012 election that he voted for Oblunder because he “kept us out of a depression”. This guy was one of my mentors when I was in the Mattel Office Products Division of IBM. I used to think he was smart. I retired at 58. He’s 68 and is still working but not at IBM. Turns out he’s not as smart as I once thought he was.
Anyway, I saw this post at Daily Pundit which pretty much captures my mood.
And that post bored me blind. Most of what I’m posting these days bores me blind. Our entire public square is consumed with “controversies” that serve only to mask several obvious truths. I’m going to make a list of those, and I could probably simply provide a link to the list for 99% of the “news stories” likely to pop up over the next few years.
1. Television and print journalism are horribly biased to the left. Duh.
2. There is a Ruling Class, consisting of very rich people and corporations, who, in toto, rule America via political surrogates, generally through oligarchic families. Duh.
3. The Ruling Class has a political party, call it the Ruling Party, which is made up of politicians financially and otherwise indebted to the Ruling Class who do their bidding. Duh.
4. George W. Bush was not a great President, and he was a terrible failure in the War on Muslim terrorism – including in Iraq. Duh.
5. Barack Obama is a radical leftist, verging on full Marxist, who is pushing a destructive, anti-American agenda as hard as he can – and, thanks to cooperation from both wings of the Ruling Party, pushing it quite successfully. Duh.
6. Republican and Democrat establishments have far more in common with each other, and are far more comfortable with each other, than either are with their bases. Although the GOP establishment is more comfortable with the Democrat base than with its own. Duh.
7. We have not “won” a real war since WWII, because our Ruling Class has chosen not to win any of the wars that have come after. Duh.
8. The United States government has become, effectively, a tyranny – with the consent of ignorant, stupid, frightened voters whom it would embarrass the Founders and Framers to represent. Duh.
9. A minority-majority of Americans – that is, a majority of voters, but a minority of all Americans – has discovered that it can vote to itself other people’s money – either through direct taxation/confiscation, or through borrowing, or through the creation of fiat money – and is in the process of guaranteeing that American will eventually collapse into bankruptcy. Duh.
10. However bad you think things are now, they are going to get worse – a lot worse, and that worsening is going to directly affect you. Duh.
None of this is anything new. I’ve been writing and saying, in one form or another, these same things, over and over, for years now. Every new year proves them more and more accurate. But eventually, having repeated myself dozens of times, I grow bored. Sorry. It’s just the name of the game. Pointing out that the sky is blue, the sun rises in the east, and that the media is biased toward the left (along with almost all of the Ruling Class) just gets old after a while.
I could have written this exact post. I feel the same way. I’m gonna keep fighting the same fight and writing the same things for as long as I can but sometimes it is boring writing obvious truths. It is so sad to see the United States of America commit suicide due to a biased media, stupid voters, moochers, looters, leeches, parasites, and craven politicians who care more about personal power than they do about this country. But it is so hard to write about this stuff every day and still see things getting worse.
If Obumbler had been white there is no way he would have been elected. That’s obvious. With his record after four years there is no way that he should have been reelected. That should be obvious, but when you have dumb voters, a candidate afraid to really fight and unable to fight against Obummercare since it was modeled after Mittenscare, and a biased media, you get another four years of a SCoaMF. And we see the results of that two years later.
I still feel that within the next thirty years this country will become a socialist dictatorship. Oboner is showing just how easy it will be, just like Sulla did at Rome. Fortunately for me, I won’t see it. It is sad enough watching the beginning of the end.
Re yr last paragraph: Wife and I had a discussion just this morning about what the country will be in 40 years and then another 50 after that. With the Caucs birthing fewer and fewer babies, they’re not going to sustain themselves as a viable factor demographically as blacks, Latinos, and Asians continue to have litters.
What she and I more or less agreed upon is that if the US doesn’t splinter into about 5 regional independent units (West, North, South, Atlantic Coast, and Midwest), it will become a brown nation with Asians in the power positions, Latinos in the manual skills (carpentry, mechanics, plumbing, electrical), and blacks as entertainers, athletes, and general riffraff. Whites will become tutors, then dependents, and finally pitiful nuisances for a while before eventually drifting off into ignominy.
Neither of us sees a vibrant, successful, independent, self-sustaining US in anything resembling its current configuration by the year 2075, and that’s WITHOUT the “Big One” happening in Mexifornia, Jellystone projectile vomiting all over the heartland, AGW turning the Midwest breadbasket into a dustbowl, orbital wobble causing oceans to wash across the continent, or the Canary Island mega-tsunami wiping out all the Gulf and ATlantic Coast megaplexes.
Since we’re both in our mid 70s and all our kids are in their 50s, we’re not gonna sit around and gnaw on our fingernails about it, tho.
Right attitude!
Retirement mellowed me too. And I am depressed by the fact that the country seems to like the handbasket it is headed to hell in.
Hi, Don. Reading your material. George Washington’s French & Indian War post was phenomenal!
My only regret is that my stepson will have to deal with this bullshit. You are 100% right.
I heard it said best; global warming really does not matrter to you if your head has been cut off by a muslim….
Why is it those of us in our twilight years can see the obvious conclusion to the Democratic socialist assault on the American Republic which is destroying it & everything it once stood for while the generation with the most to lose is oblivious to their coming fate?
Some day when a Latino History Major writes “The Decline &Fall of the American Republic” & its sequel “Mexico Reunited”…….. I hope he at least gives credit to Denny & his band of followers being Republic loyalists who tried to warn the clueless majority for the coming end of the greatest country to have ever existed.
Once I thought I could make a difference , then I thought we could make a difference …now I think sadly there is not enough of us & the number dwindles everyday, we are doomed.
Not a perfect analogy but I wonder what percentage of the citizens of Rome had a clue of what was happening when the lower class Plebeians replaced the upper class Patricians as the dominant political power hastening the fall of Rome.
Oh, don’t feel too down about things. McCarthy tried, and got fucked for his efforts, too.
Bottom line, it’s all been a game of dwindling returns. What the current generation tolerates, then next one will embrace. Yesterdays flower children are today’s blooming idiots. Yada, yada, yada. The frog was boiled slowly.
Conservatives, and I mean Constitutional Conservatives – not that Nelson Rockefeller/George Romney Democrat-lite bullshit – have never figured out is the New Left plays smash-mouth, and could care less about debating reason, truth, nor fact to advance their socialist agenda down the field. All that matters is the Progressives get another first down, and the chains move.
Why is it those of us in our twilight years can see the obvious conclusion to the Democratic socialist assault on the American Republic which is destroying it & everything it once stood for while the generation with the most to lose is oblivious to their coming fate?
Because we let the rat bastard commies take over the educational system and turn the gummint schools into little socialist indoctrination centers. Meanwhile the parents were too busy working to see what was being done to the children. Once upon a time in this country fathers made enough money to support the family so the mother could stay home and pay attention to the children. Now the mother needs to work as well partly to pay the high taxes to support the welfare state so leeches parasites, and moochers could trade their votes for more welfare benefits. Also, before the internet people did not realize just how biased the news media was. Rat bastard commie Walter Cronkite was “the most trusted man in America”. When he returned from Viet Nam and told everyone that Tet was a disaster he was lying through his teeth. It was a disaster for the Viet Cong and for North Viet Nam. We kicked ass over there but lost it here at home. In a sane world Jane Fonda would have been tried for treason. That’s what we would have done during WWII, the last war we won.
“Once upon a time in this country fathers made enough money to support the family so the mother could stay home and pay attention to the children.”
Truth, however, we’re so far removed from that and, there ain’t no coming back. Just mention otherwise and rubes come out of the woodwork from all political corners with their “empowering women” bullshit.
Hell, they’re so “empowered” now that the sHims, chicks with dicks, transtesticles, whatever you want to call that dysfunctional faggotry is now beginning to displace women on athletic teams and athletic scholarships.
Yep. You’ve come a long way, baby.
Hell, AD, I’ll believe that they have the same upper body strength as men, as evidenced by bein’ strong enough to actually raise/lower that hinged contraption called a toilet seat. Until then, they must not be equal.
Coming out of lurking mode for a minute to express my agreement, it is a sad thing indeed to witness. Seems everyday I read a news story that only puts another nail in the coffin of this once great country of ours. I want to look away and resign myself to the inevitable, but I just can’t, so I rant and rave, try to vote the “right” way and pray I am wrong about my vision of the future. At this point what else can one do?
With you on this one, Jackie Cate and all the rest. It is indeed truly sad to see the begging of the end of this once great nation of ours. I am 53 and still have some years left in me. So I will still witness more bullshit in the coming years. I am now glad I had no children who live as a white minority under a socialist dictatorship that will destroy what little wealth and prosperity is left. It just makes wish I had lived in an earlier time, before we came under assault by all of these progressive communist scum.
Sorry for the poor grammar in my reply people. I hope you understand what I meant in my previous post. Bottom line, from here on out its down hill for this great nation of ours.