Greetings, Dear Reader,
Today’s one of those days where I just have no idea what to write for you. There’s a lot going on and just not much of it really hits the bar. I’m also a bit time constricted. I gotta get these out in an hour or less every morning.
So here are a few things I find interesting this morning.
FREERIDERS, PROFESSIONAL PROTESTERS, AND IQ
The misshapen ‘Mad Max’ weirdo who went viral during “No Kings” weekend for her motorized wheelchair, prodigious size, and public exhibition of apparent sex slaves followed up her performance with one of the most self indulgent, narcissistic, divorced-from-reality whine fests I’ve ever seen.
Commenters who saw her performance, which she surely put on in order to be seen, referred to her as a “welfare warrior from Mad Max” for obvious reasons. For one, on its face, it’s obviously true.
She called that “offensive on so many levels.”
“I actually receive very little government assistance,” she said, and then followed up in the very next sentence by outlining the nearly half a million dollars in yearly assistance she receives. “In fact, I receive Medicaid and Medicare which helps with my medical costs, which actually, when I last totaled them up, costs about 330, 360 thousand dollars a year.”
I personally can’t even fathom that amount of money. I’d like to think of myself as productive and contributing, and I’m not even close to that range.
Here’s the kicker, Dear Reader. She went on to say how she had been trapped by the benefits America’s charity so graciously provided, inadvertently making the case they should be cut off. She said she really wanted to be a contributing member to society, she wanted to do constructive work, but couldn’t, because if she did, her benefits would be threatened.
I’m certainly not one who believes in government assisted suicide, but the benefits heaped on this woman do seem to be suicide masquerading as empathy for the disabled.
How about we do government unassisted suicide. If you want to eat yourself to death, by all means.
America shouldn’t have to foot the bill.
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I want to say from the start we should not make this man our version of Colin Kaepernick, because there are some key differences.
Jaden Ivey was just waived by the Chicago Bulls. The organization explicitly said it was his criticism of upcoming Gay Pride functions the team had planned (presumably for the summer).
Ivey cited his Christian faith as he criticized the team and the league for adopting LGBTQ propaganda.
Kaepernick, if you recall, got in a heap of trouble with the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem as a form of Black Lives Matter protest. Before the trouble actually came, however, the Niners had benched him for lack of performance. He was also a huge drag on their salary cap for a guy who never played.
Kaepernick, in my opinion, sensing his time was up, decided to make a show of himself protesting for BLM. Later, after he opted out of his contract with the team, other teams opted not to sign him. This led to a bunch of speculation in the media over his protests being the potential reason.
Ivey might be doing the same. He’s been lackluster lately with the Bulls and plagued with injuries. He might be ultimately done, which, like Kaep, freed him up in some key ways intellectually speaking.
But there are some crucial differences between the two.
One, in Kaep’s case, leadership’s official position was he was not a good player. Obviously they were more gracious than that, but that’s what all the euphemism meant. He was not worth the money they were paying him, his performance was bad. So that’s what they cited.
In Ivey’s case, the Bulls could have told the truth. Instead, in a league that’s overwhelmingly liberal, they took the PR cop out. The moment he said he was against the LGBTQ propaganda, they nuked him from orbit and made a big show of how wise they were to do it.
If we want to make more of the differences, I’d be willing to bet that Nike isn’t going to sign Ivey to an eight-figure contract like they did Kaepernick for his Black Lives Matter “believe” endorsement.
I guess belief in Christ doesn’t sell shoes as well as belief in gay race communism.
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Jordan Peterson is going viral again this morning for comments he made several years ago.
“You can’t induct anyone into the armed forces if they have an IQ lower than 83,” he said during a panel discussion. He then applied that to the general population.
“That’s one in 10 people. And what that really means, as far as I can tell, is if you imagine that the military is approximately as complex as broader society – which I think is a reasonable proposition – then there’s no place in our cognitively complex society for one in 10 people.”
Peterson called this “the most terrifying” statistic that he’d come across. He said this in 2018. A lot has happened since then.
Just two weeks ago, an African study group surveyed IQs in Nigeria. The median was 69.
If you look at IQ maps of some of our biggest diasporas in this country, legal, illegal, trumped up “asylees,” the results are staggering. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, are all topping at around 90 in the most forgiving tests. Much lower on some others, around 70.
Somalia is around 80, according to the most forgiving tests. Others track it around 65.
This isn’t a race argument. It’s in part an immigration argument. Mostly, I’m just concerned about the most foreseeable labor catastrophe imaginable.
Ask yourself this: Has modern society become more or less complex in the time since Peterson sat on that panel?
The question has prescient implications, especially considering how much demographics have changed in western cultures.
As technology advances at unfathomable speeds, as IQ requirements for even basic jobs creep skyward, what do we do with all these people?
Can Walmart hire 50 million greeters? Does the TSA really need more stupid people piling up bins and checking IDs? As farms further automate, I’m not sure we need tens of millions more strawberry pickers.
Meaning participation in the market of the future is going to leave behind a few percentage points of the labor pool. We’re talking 15-20%. We’re talking 15 years of runway, maybe, if we’re lucky.
What happens when 80 million people in this country alone no longer have the IQ capacity to do basic, entry level work without being a net negative?
MORE LINKS
‘I’m Killing My Child On Thursday’: Famous Actress Begged For Forgiveness In 1991 Diary Entry
She’s still popular, but she was the “it” actress in the ‘90s. Also, “Anchorman” anyone?
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Every High School Student In One Country Forced To Learn How To Use Gun
Keep ‘em locked and loaded.
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State Democrats Want To Ban Restaurants From Putting Napkins In Your Delivery Order
What’s next, they deliver the food directly from their hands, no containers?
"What happens when 80 million people in this country alone no longer have the IQ capacity to do basic, entry level work without being a net negative?"
Now factor in that they WILL still be able to vote, and that vote is their sole thing of value to trade for existence.