Lem's Levity

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Mama should like this

OK, tripped over this piece, thanks to a very provocative headline.

So, is there a tidal wave of deaths from The Shot coming at us? Many would say it's already here. And, if so, is this a good or bad thing?

Since many of the Left got The Shot because they were told to do so and many on the Right were castigated for refusing on the grounds they'd read the not so fine print on what was going on. The fact that Big Left (Pharma, Gov, Media, Guy) was making tons of money on more and more boosters for more and more variants and Fake News was telling us how the stuff that really worked was no good simply served top reinforce the idea we were being had.

So we are left with several philosophical questions.

First, as I noted above, is this a good or bad thing? I take WWII as a cue on this because, in defeating Fascism, we unleashed (and strengthened) something even worse, Communism. Being careful of that for which we wish has always been good advice and is so here. Is depopulating the world and the country of Lefties automatically a good thing? The Christian ideal that every life is worthwhile would say, "No", but the pollution of the world with an ideology, as Napoleon Solo once so deftly put it, "believes in the 2 party system - tha masters and the slaves", is a lousy alternative.

There's also the fact that such a die-up would play into the hands of the Davos crowd, which can't wait to rid the world of about 7B or so otherwise useless (in their eyes) lives

Second, a lot of otherwise good people had to take The Shot. if they wanted to keep their jobs or go to school. Are they just collateral casualties (and there were plenty of those in WWII) or should something be done to save them (which, of course, the Lefties would demand be used on them, too)? The business of the ants and the grasshopper enters the picture.

Then there's the issue the Demos either hope will save them this Fall or will be used as the blind when they steal (or try to) the election as I think happened in several contests in '22. Brandon has been thumping the tub for the right to abortion so far this year, even though most polls seem to indicate its popularity has ben sliding for a couple of decades. Is this their just deserts, after all the lying and name-calling and murder, and should we feel sorry for them since Conservatives seem to be making good little Trumplicans like it was going out of style? Or do we rejoice because demography is destiny?

Finally, assume there is a big die-up a-comin' and suddenly the Right is in charge and whomever on the Left is left is in a position to get what's been coming ever since the '64 election. Is it justice or retribution? Think Nuremburg.

Stalin never paid for the 53 million he murdered. The Nips never paid the way they should have. And, of course, Mao never paid for the 67 million he murdered.

Robert Taft disparaged Nuremburg because it was the victors persecuting the vanquished (and ex post facto, at that). Who put the 8th Air Force and RAF Bomber Command on trial? Or Winnie Churchill for Dresden?