POLITICAL: You can’t reason with crazy

Sunday, September 21, 2025

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/futility-of-trying-to-reason-with?publication_id=1119676&post_id=173510671&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Futility of Trying to Reason With Lunatics

  • Widespread jubilation at the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk reveals not only ideological possession, but also widespread mental illness.

John Leake  —  Sep 13, 2025

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For several years I’ve been turning over in my mind an idea that initially struck me as far-fetched, but now strikes me as a distinct possibility. Could it be that people suffering from some degree of mental illness are now heavily influencing or even directing cultural, political, and economic affairs? To put it more bluntly, are we now being constantly buffeted and even, in some jurisdictions, governed by lunatics?

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I would rather take my chances at bull riding or venomous snake handing than try to reason with deranged college students. 

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I’m beginning to realize that expecting change from lunatics is like “waiting for Gidot”, the second coming, an honest politician, or the Second Coming.

As such, I’m going to stop trying.  Best to keep to myself and my blog.  Not that anyone cares.

Sadly, it’s frustrating to see things that are so OBVIOUS, and those things must be in Panes 3 and 4 of everyone’s Johari window. (the Hidden area known to self but not to others, and the Unknown area known neither to self nor others)

Sadly.

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The Johari Window model is a tool used to improve self-awareness and interpersonal communication. It consists of four quadrants: the Open area (known to self and others), the Blind area (known to others but not to self), the Hidden area (known to self but not to others), and the Unknown area (known neither to self nor others), helping individuals understand their relationships better.

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POLITICAL: When to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew?

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

https://survivalblog.com/2025/09/03/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-228/

SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

James Wesley Rawles September 3, 2025 

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Reader R.W. in Oregon had this comment:

“Well, it took a long time but I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is like the weather. People can bitch about it but there’s not a d*mn thing they can do about it. Politics is gonna happen with or without us.

Our votes haven’t meant sh*t since before reconstruction, the “Parties” and “Machines” captured or created by bankers and industrialists made short work of that. There’s no “Right” or “Left”, it’s just “Us” vs “Them”.

Thank God for people like Smedley Butler who had the courage to call it like it is. What he said applies to the entire world, not just us. Read: “Against the Grain”. Greed and avarice breed tyranny.

The most insightful, wise and thoughtful dissection of that premise, in my opinion, is still the Federalist Papers and various books of the Bible.

Eventually, every corrupt and rotting government finally picks a war (all wars are bankers wars) or drives their economy and culture into the ditch and the people won’t take it anymore. Our job is to know when to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew.

That is the one thing we can do. And, as we are one of the last peoples on this planet to retain that one very important right, the rest of the world is looking to us to do it. 

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A most interesting dictum to us all.  When is enough enough?

Do we wait for “them” to start herding us in to freight cars?  We know from history what comes after that!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

Or do we, like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing”, just refuse to kowtow to ever more increasing intrusive demands, diktats, and “trends”?

I think that ₿itcoin is the first step.  Instead of “saving” in “dollars”, I’m “saving” in ₿itcoins, GoldBacks, junk silver, and gold rounds.  Let them figure out how to “inflate” those.

YMMV

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POLITICAL: The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement

Friday, September 12, 2025

https://reason.com/2025/09/11/after-charlie-kirks-murder-politicians-can-back-away-from-the-brink-or-make-matters-worse/

After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Politicians Can Back Away From the Brink, or Make Matters Worse

  • The political class has been pushing the country towards a conflict nobody should want.

J.D. Tuccille | 9.11.2025 3:00 PM 

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The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement denouncing the murder.

“What happened at Utah Valley University this afternoon is unacceptable,” it reads. “We reject all forms of political violence. There is no place in our country for such acts, regardless of political disagreements.” 

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Finally a little bit of sanity returns to politics.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/quotes/

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    Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying… What do you want?

    Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.

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This quote is preceded.  By a line, something like, “I will fast until the violence stops to atone for my part in stoking it”.  Something like that.  It’s seems that ALL politicians need to take this example and tone down the posturing.

No one should be stoking the flames of violence for any reason.  Certainly not for their political gain.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Tina M. Peters deserves better; “What you do when no one is looking defines your character.”

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

https://joehoft.com/tina-peters-open-letter-to-president-trump-from-prison-one-week-before-her-70th-birthday/

Tina Peters’ Open Letter to President Trump from Prison One Week Before Her 70th Birthday

Guest post by Martel Maxim

    Dear, Dear Mr. President,

    As I sit here in this cell (and notice I didn’t say “my cell” as nothing I have here is mine and can be taken at any time), I’m reminded to be grateful and how blessed we are as a nation, as well as how fragile liberty is.

    I am grateful for the multitudes praying for you, this country, and I am humbled to say for me as well.

    I long for the day I can be free to continue to fight for the foundation of our society:

    Free, fair, transparent elections.

    One week from today on September 11th, I will be 70 years old. Never in my life of 35 years of marriage, a business owner for 32, home schooling my two children, with a Navy SEAL son and a marine husband, did I ever imagine I would end up in prison for following the law and doing what was right.

    This should scare every citizen of this country. It shows how close we have come to losing this nation and our liberty that so many before us died to protect. But God chose you Mr. President, and each one of us that will rise up and answer the call.

    Your good friend, Peter Ticktin, has requoted my standards for those that have once been close as a part of the story in my life. I’ve always said “if one could be swayed by four things: money, power, position, or fear, they can be compromised. What you do when no one is looking defines your character.”

    When I used to speak to audiences about the globalists and compromised ones that wish our great nations demise, I would often say “everyone can do something. There are more of us than there are of them. They can’t get us all.”

    One day when I was telling my story of not knowing if I would die from the lung cancer that took a third of my lung, I looked up to heaven and said “Lord, if this is my time I’m ready…but you know my prayer!”

    I then repeated my life’s prayer to him which is:

    “Don’t let me leave this earth until I’ve accomplished everything you sent me here to do.”

    At that split second, I knew I was going to live. He has more for me to do. That was in 2016, the same year I walked door to door talking to anyone and everyone for you tirelessly from morning until night. And when it got dark outside, I’d be helping others on the phone calling for the vote.

    As a business owner, I knew we needed you to become our president. I never wavered, even when there were 17 candidates. God has his protection over you, as you know, and we are all grateful you took his call. He prepared you for this, and he has prepared me for this.

    Nevertheless, I’m ready to be released because the midterms are close. I feel like a racehorse held back by the starting gate. We don’t have much time. We cannot allow the continued selection of governors, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and fraudulent passage of blils and laws because of the voting machines I exposed. I want to finish the job we started.

    I cannot allow Jena Griswold to be the attorney general of Colorado, or crooked Phil Weiser to be the governor, and many more need to be displaced in this state, country, and in many nations across the world because the voice of the people has been stolen.

    The rally cry of God’s chosen people to stand up and step forward has never been greater.

    Please set me free to champion that call to the people. Use my voice, the reason they put me in prison, to be the clarion call. I didn’t raise a Navy SEAL for nothing.

    I love you, your family, and this great country.

    Thank you.

    Gratefully yours,

    Tina M. Peters

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https://tinapeters.us/

I think this lady has been “railroaded” by politicians and bureaucrats.  I chipped in.  Will you?

<<impressive hand written letter>>

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POLITICAL: 1994 IVF miracle: World’s ‘oldest baby’ born in US from embryo frozen for 30 years

Monday, August 4, 2025

1994 IVF miracle: World’s ‘oldest baby’ born in US from embryo frozen for 30 years:

A baby boy has been born in the U.S. from an embryo frozen for over three decades, setting a new record for the longest-stored embryo to result in a successful live birth.

Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, a baby boy born on July 26, 2025, to parents Lindsey (35) and Tim Pierce (34) in Ohio, is being called the world’s “oldest baby.”

According to the MIT Technology Review, the embryo that he was born from was created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in 1994 and cryopreserved for 30 years.

The parents adopted the embryo from US-based Linda Archerd (now aged 62).

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This will stimulate a lot of “legal” questions: 

  • How old is the child?
  • Is there child support issues?
  • Are there health implications or developmental concerns?
  • Is this “moral”?

And that’s just off the top of my head.

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POLITICAL: Why does the USA fund the Israeli Gaza extermination?

Sunday, August 3, 2025

https://tuckercarlson.com/john-aguilar-highlights-2

Firsthand Witness: They Shoot Into Crowds Of Unarmed Starving Civilians, Highlights
Premiered 1 day ago•13 mins

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-08-02>>

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Tucker and Tony Aguilar discuss the horrific animal-like treatment of civilians in Gaza at the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Ok here’s a post that will probably offend about ½ the country, get me kicked off Social Media sites again, and get a lot of <synonym for excrement> from family, friends, and strangers.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), here goes!

I am moved to almost tears  — and I’ve only cried real tears a few times in my life  — I’m not a “crier” or a “Karen” about most everything.  I try an emulate The Buddha, WWJD, and be the pessimistic optimistic (i.e. plan for the worst and be pleasantly surprised when it turns out better than expected) I think I am.  On most things, I figure “small stuff” “this too will pass” and “it could be a lot worse”.  I sit at my keyboard nearing the end of my adventure and “Face Life”.  Just like this blog’s title “Reinke Faces Life”.  

This <synonym for excrement> in Gaza has got to stop.  Killing starving humans and inflicting savage trauma and death on little children has really gotten to my heart and soul.

While there is little I can do about it directly, other that sit and rant, I don’t intend to sit and let it go on without speaking up. Pastor Martin Niemöller spoke up when there was big price to pay. 

Now I am a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian and think that the “system” is the problem.  But this has gone on too far and for too long.

The President DJT4547 can stop this with a stroke of a pen but seems to be unable to muster up the moral fortitude to say to Israel: “Stop!  The USA is not giving you another dime until it stops.”   (He could do the same with Ukraine but that’s a topic for another day!)

I have never been a fan of the US foreign policy for as long as I can remember.  The Christian Brothers, all vets from WWII and Korea, made me anti-war.  I remember the pro-Israel propaganda back when I first recognized it in the movie “Cast A Giant Shadow”.  Bit I also remember the USS Liberty being attacked by Israel and the US Gooferment didn’t say “boo”!①

Yes, I remember the atrocity of October 7th.  It was horrific.  But, when you have humans in box and are torturing men, women, and children, don’t be surprised when the “worm turns … … into a snake” and bites you.  When you back men into a corner, they will attack with savagery and mercilessness that will stun you.  

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Seems like Palestinians are a lot like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.  

So starting today, I am going to annoy all the politicians and bureaucrats to stop funding Israel.

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FOOTNOTE:

①  USS Liberty. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/were-fed-it-survivors-of-uss-liberty-look-answers-55-years-later.html

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POLITICAL: Is it time to “refresh” the whole SCOTUS?

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/solidifying-president-trumps-judicial?publication_id=779141&post_id=168553287&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true

Solidifying President Trump’s Judicial Legacy

  • The importance of being ideologically earnest.

John Klar
Jul 23, 2025

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It seemed that, when nominated, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was noted for her gender and skin color more than her intellectual prowess. Yet the Constitution registers no consideration of these attributes as necessary to fairly and impartially adjudicate the nation’s laws. Deviating from longstanding precedent, Jackson has a strong ideological bent toward activism. Ironically, her intersectionality includes womanhood and a feminist inclination, but she famously could not define what a woman is.

Several aspects of the modern American judicial system have steadily veered away from its traditional role of simply enforcing laws passed by Congress or issued by the executive in favor of insinuating deeply held political views into a system designed to be apolitical. It is no wonder that public confidence in the courts has declined. Rarely have SCOTUS decisions been as politically predictable as on the current Court, where the left-leaning allegiances of Justices Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan routinely place them in a dissenting face-off against the other six justices.

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Seems like “We, The Sheeple” need a “codification” of SCOTUS.

I’d suggest:

(even though no one has ever or will ever ask how “King Ferd” [me] how I’d have set it up.  I’m sure the Dead Old White Guys would not believe how their SCOTUS has evolved.)

  • There should be a minimum age of 30 and a maximum age of 70;
  • The selection should be limited to sitting Federal Appeals Court and State Supreme Court  judges;
  • End lifetime appointments to SCOTUS and each judge should be appointed for 36 years;
  • Terms should expire at the first anniversary of each Presidential election; 
  • So, that each President will get to appoint at least one judge to SCOTUS;
  • Should a judge die in office, the sitting President should name a replacement for the balance of the deceased judge’s term;
  • SCOTUS should establish “ethics rules” for itself identical to any impose on lower Federal Court judges.

I’d like to see that done and run for a few decades, then evaluate how it turns out.

Sort of like planting a shade tree that you’ll never sit under.

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POLITICAL: Marriage, divorce, Gooferment Courts, and LLCs

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Why is the Gooferment involved in marriage?

Separation of Church and State should be absolute.

Shouldn’t the correct civil form of marriage be two person LLC?

(A church service could be inaddition to a legal proceeding?)

Then we don’t need marriage licenses with all the attending bureaucrats, divorce courts with all the attending politicians and bureaucrats pontificating on marital issues (i.e., race; same sex; different sex).

Child custody issues could be mediated with certain norms (i.e., 50/50 unless one is unfit).

Finances would be just like when a partnership dissolves.

Homes held by the LLC could be sold or “bought out”.

No need for messy expensive public divorces.

No need for “common law marriages” or just shacking up.

Seem reasonable to me.

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POLITICAL: Why are Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats allowed to have “secrets” from “We, The Sheeple”?

Friday, July 25, 2025

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/08/cia_contradicts_obama_officials_sworn_denials_about_russiagate_report_1121513.html?mc_cid=7561fcbec4

CIA Contradicts Obama Officials’ Sworn Denials About Russiagate Report
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
July 08, 2025

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The materials include a secret 200-page congressional audit revealing how the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russia was allegedly rigged to frame Trump, emails linking the CIA’s ICA drafting to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and Special Counsel John Durham’s investigative notes and depositions.

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Why are Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats allowed to have “secrets” from “We, The Sheeple”

Shouldn’t everything “classified” have an automatic expiration date?

Why are the JFK records, the RFK records, the MLK records, etc. etc. STILL “secrets”?

I’d envision an “official” blockchain where EVERYTHING is deposited (i.e., emails; drafts; memos; recordings; executive orders) that “block chain” had a publish date.  Then, when the date arrives, the key is published in the Congressional Record automagically.  Maybe the Congressional Record should be a “block chain” as well.  Along with every bill put in the Congressional “hopper”, and every revision to it.

In short, “We, The Sheeple” are ENTITLED to the “truth” and full timely disclosure.

“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

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POLITICAL: Did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

Friday, July 11, 2025

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https://apnews.com/article/kohberger-idaho-students-killed-91eeb98eebd3d9b007e4a5cae0f81030?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students in deal to avoid execution
By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON and MARK SCOLFORO
Updated 12:35 AM EDT, July 1, 2025

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday.

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I always wonder if he really did it, OR did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I’m against the death penalty for moral and irreversible grounds.  Moral because the Gooferment shouldn’t be able to do anything I can’t do since Gooferment is a fiction and represents a collection of individuals.  Irreverable since mistakes happen and there is no way to un-die someone.

We have the saying that “better a hundred guilty go free that one innocent be imprisioned”.  Plea bargains, regardless of the guilt or innocence, seems to make a mockery of our sense of “justice”.  Any more than poor “defendants” get Legal Aid and rich “defendants” get the best money can buy.  Also, even a rich “defendant” can be impoverished when faced with a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds to convict them.  

Finally, how fair is our “justice system” when some civil and criminal cases “cost” a staggering amount of attention, time, and money?  A Pyrrhic victory is a win that comes at such a significant cost to the victor that it is almost tantamount to defeat.  One has to wonder.

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