George Rebane
Twitter’s poison pill to dissuade Elon Musk from taking the company private and making it truly a universal platform for free speech. Democrats and other socialists are mortified, with many of their media lackies quickly declaring that only with more “mediation” (aka censorship) of online speech can we sustain democracy. Not long ago such a statement was palpably unbelievable; today not so. Here is a link to find out more about the types of most commonly used poison pills.
RR’s characterization of the liberal mind is confirmed multiple times daily. Here is one from this morning’s letters to the 15apr22 Union by a Ms/Mr/Xcritter Nory Fussell – The year 2021 ended with 745 billionaires, up from 614 in 2020. Many billionaires pay little or no taxes. We suffer the lie of backbreaking “inflation” while corporate profits skyrocket. Progressives don’t cause this. Wars continue to break out, the military budget continues to grow, and our chief export is weapons of war. This is not the work of Progressives but of soulless men, put mildly, suffering an acute anti-social personality disorder. Infrastructure crumbles. You lose power, heat, and essential services. Look what you pay at the pump, while oil executives laugh and rake it in. The economic war against you is raging — it will only get worse. Progressives, perhaps imperfectly, work toward health care, education, and basic human needs. The oligarch party (you know who they are!) rages flat-out lies about race, class, gender, even about a violent insurrection. They offer no solutions to your needs. Apparently (unbelievably!), a fairly large percentage of you are moved more by fear, anger, victim-hood and divisiveness. In one generation, how did the USA lose so much?
[16apr22 update] Our economists and other economic analysts are hyper-ventilating about 3.5M workers they claim will not re-enter the post-Covid job market. They tell us this deficit – consisting mostly of lowly paid women with no college – will be permanent. Rebane Doctrine advises them not to worry. As we have repeatedly noted, systemic unemployment has been slowly growing for years, and will continue to do so as cheaper and more capable technology replaces more expensive and unreliable workers. And even the short-term deficit will be easily handled by the influx of illegal aliens as they get settled into their new homes and look for work. From my perch, our continuing problem will be to mollifying the growing horde of the chronically irrelevant and systemically unemployed from revolting to relevance. (cf rising crime rates and more here)
Giving until it hurts? FN and The Blaze cite IRS records (here) showing that Bumblebrain and FLOTUS gave $17,400 or 2.8% of their 2021 income to charity. Kamala and SHOTUS upped them a mite, and gave $22,100, but only 1.3% of their 2021 income to charity. These laughable amounts are not all that laughable as records have shown for years that leftwingers don’t give much to private charities – their charity operates with OPM. This has been much studied (here). And as socialists they believe that government should be the sole provider of succor to its citizens. Nevertheless, Americans continue to give through private charities amounts that are multiples of what the deficit-spending, vote-buying government dispenses. For the record, as grateful entrepreneurs we, and many of our friends, are blessed to be able to give up to 40% of our earnings to worthy causes. This tallies to several times the amounts that our progressive elites and leaders let escape from their tightly zipped wallets.
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