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A proper breakfast for
your Citizen Journalist.
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The Most Brilliant Woman in the World
April 29, 2018, 7:30 AM. It is a Sunday morning and it is cool on my balcony. I eat a breakfast of uncured bacon, grilled sourdough toast, and two eggs over medium. Strawberry jam is there for the spreading. Enjoying my cup of made-from-scratch hot chocolate and reading an invigorating book, I realized something about a friend of mine and I got quite sad.
This realization came as the absolute proof of something I've said for years: Stupid is bone deep, and we all know you can't cure stupid.
Now, my stupid friend is as nice as can be. And caring. But so, so stupid when it comes to the world. My friend is a P-HWPCDLRSFC*.
I know! You are asking how it is that your Citizen Journalist could have such a friend, but there is something to say for pleasant company as long as the conversation stays on men and music and cocktails. Besides, we have something in common and this friend is very good at that thing, so...yeah...there is that.
However, it dawned on me that it is because of people like my friend that dictators rise to power. See, stupid people believe everything they hear. No matter what. As long as they believe it to be caring. Stupid might be another name for sucker because suckers never think to question.
There are some very smart stupid people out there, let me tell you. In the business arena I'm specifically thinking about investors in Spotify, UMG, and WorldCom, to name a mere handful. Relying on numbers given them by the very people asking for money, investors believe the lies shoveled about — let me stop choking on the irony here — earnings reports.
In investing, you can lose your shorts. In politics, you lose your freedom. Which, of course, is exactly what dictators want. So how does a dictator rise to power? Here's the how-to list:
Of course, what all dictators know, whether they admit it or not, is that they are bullies. And all bullies understand power when they see it. Which is why bullies stop moving forward when real power faces them down.
Real power won't budge. Kim Jong Un — for the first time in his life — came up against real power in the form of the Trump Administration that said
No games. No playing footsie under the table. No winky-winky "this is for the camera, business as usual later" styling and profiling for the stupid people lined up for their chicken and phone.
Ah! 3gDL swallowed hard and took a look around.
This realization came as the absolute proof of something I've said for years: Stupid is bone deep, and we all know you can't cure stupid.
Now, my stupid friend is as nice as can be. And caring. But so, so stupid when it comes to the world. My friend is a P-HWPCDLRSFC*.
I know! You are asking how it is that your Citizen Journalist could have such a friend, but there is something to say for pleasant company as long as the conversation stays on men and music and cocktails. Besides, we have something in common and this friend is very good at that thing, so...yeah...there is that.
However, it dawned on me that it is because of people like my friend that dictators rise to power. See, stupid people believe everything they hear. No matter what. As long as they believe it to be caring. Stupid might be another name for sucker because suckers never think to question.
There are some very smart stupid people out there, let me tell you. In the business arena I'm specifically thinking about investors in Spotify, UMG, and WorldCom, to name a mere handful. Relying on numbers given them by the very people asking for money, investors believe the lies shoveled about — let me stop choking on the irony here — earnings reports.
See? Stupid! Same in politics, but a whole lot worse.
In investing, you can lose your shorts. In politics, you lose your freedom. Which, of course, is exactly what dictators want. So how does a dictator rise to power? Here's the how-to list:
- Put on a rally and invite everyone.
- Make big promises (chicken in every pot, phone for everyone).
- Identify who lines up for the chicken and phone.
- Identify who walks away muttering under their breath.
- Tell lies so big they just have to be true.
- Say you care more than those mean ol' hardworking stiffs.
- Tell folks you will solve all their problems.
- Subliminally reiterate "It's too complicated. Let the smart people do the thinking."
- Take away or severely limit rights and freedoms.
- Kill or otherwise silence those who mutter.
- Tell those who lined up for the chicken and phone that those who want them to earn their chicken and phone are evil and should be mistrusted, if not destroyed.
- Get stupid people to show up for a riot.
- Disappear into a penthouse suite high above the fray as the stupid people riot.
- Avoid most of the initial dictator-setup messiness by inheriting a dictatorship from Daddy and then do all the above some more, including killing your uncles who also want to be dictator.
Of course, what all dictators know, whether they admit it or not, is that they are bullies. And all bullies understand power when they see it. Which is why bullies stop moving forward when real power faces them down.
Real power won't budge. Kim Jong Un — for the first time in his life — came up against real power in the form of the Trump Administration that said
No games. No playing footsie under the table. No winky-winky "this is for the camera, business as usual later" styling and profiling for the stupid people lined up for their chicken and phone.
"Stop it...or else."
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| 3gDL Kim Jong Un |
Our third-generation Dear Leader (3gDL) found himself in an awkward position. His country was not nearly as isolated as he thought it was. Even though he outlawed technology and told his people they could not talk to their neighbors in the world, he was beginning to be ignored.
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| Tourists pose with North Korean soldier on the North Korean side of the DMZ. |
We know this because pictures of North Korea began to surface from tourists who went there. Pictures that showed what the real country looked like. Documentaries about South Koreans being kidnapped and brought to North Korea to perform functions their uneducated masses could not do were distributed around the world.
Then, when 3gDL acted all tough by rattling his nuclear sabers, and the P-HWPCDLRSFCs quaked in their little jackboots, that is when the Trump Admin said...
Stop it. Or else.
And what happened then. Why 3gDL huffed a bit more and poked out his chest and said
And the Trump Administration took another step in his direction, stared hard, and said:
His nukes aren't working. His concrete is failing. His country is crumbling. His people are starving and have nothing left to lose. His good Chinese buddies pretended not to know him anymore.
The rumblings of 3gDL's slave class finally made it through the fog of his upbringing and personal delusions.
And there was Donald "The Hammer" Trump fixin' to put the beat down on his sorry little ass. So, what happened?
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| The DMZ: Soon to be a museum visited by tourists. |
Why, 3gDL decided it was time to join the 21st Century and make nice. And so, for the first time he crossed the DMZ and he signed the guest book at the Peace House and had dinner in South Korea with his wife, and the president of South Korea and his wife.
But do stupid people understand any of this? No, they do not. They call bullies their friends and call tyrants those who fight to protect them.
And that, dear friends, is why we, who do understand, must be ever vigilant. We may be doomed to watch history repeat itself, but we don't have to let it go on as long each time.
* P-HWPCDLRSFC is Pussy-Hat Wearing Politically Correct Democrat Liberal RINO Socialist Fascist Commies
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