The Sunday Snewz Issue No. 8
February 26, 2023: Across land and sea.
We’re taking a tour around the world this week and there were so many things to write, I hardly knew where to start. If I covered all that is on my mind this issue would a 20 minute read. I wouldn’t do that to you, so I picked the best of the best.
Before you read any further, I want to point out a very important principle that seems to have been lost in our current way of thinking - two things can be true at the same time. We have slipped into an either/or mentality when the truth lies in the both/and.
“I want to have the body of a 50 year old Goddess and I love tacos. I want to read all day long and I want to make a lot of money. I cherish being in my pajamas and I love to wear couture.” See, all of these things are true, even though they may not be compatible. Lack of compatibility doesn’t mean something is false - it just means they aren’t compatible. And the solution isn’t meeting somewhere in the middle, it is blending the two together. I don’t give up my pajamas and my couture to meet myself in the middle - wearing ugly Banana Republic sweaters and never being happy. I wear my pajamas until noon one or two days a week and slip into extremely over-priced blazers that make me feel powerful and better than everyone when I conduct business. I employ the both/and mindset. I hit the gym 5 days per week and eat tacos once or twice and I work for several hours per day, seven days per week and reserve my reading for lunch time and evenings. I blend the two - not ditch both for an arbitrary middle that makes me miserable.
Until we accept that either/or thinking is the root of our problems, we won’t find a solution. Which is one of the main reasons I write this publication - to help you get back to both/and thinking.
In honor of President’s Day, our President did a very Presidential thing and headed off to a foreign land to pour more fuel on what is seeming to be a nuclear powder keg. In all honesty, I’d just as soon have Joe in the Ukraine as I would have him here, defecating on all that makes America great. Walking around heavy-footed, like my grandfather in his final years of dementia. Randomly yelling out in anger, again like my once gentle natured grandfather, who near the end would embarrassingly gripe at waitstaff on his rare outings to a restaurant. How many times can this guy fall UP a set of stairs and people still deny he isn’t fit to chew oatmeal, let alone lead the free world? A world indisputably in a hell of a pickle.
I have stayed mostly quiet on the Ukraine war because I try my best not to have opinions on things I know very little about. As serious of an issue as this is, I have to admit I’ve been lazy about doing my due diligence. Between saving my business, raising my family, watching my retirement accounts slide backwards, funding a $900 per month electric bill and forking over $12.89 for a eighteen pack of eggs - researching the likelihood of World War III hasn’t made the top of my priority. The way I see it, if nuks are dropped, I’ll find out sooner than later. Not much I can do about it from the comfort of my office so why bother really. I sort of jumped on the right side of the bandwagon when things first kicked off. I threw eggs at houses flying Ukraine flags -not really, but in my mind - and got a good laugh at the Vogue photoshoot with Zelenskyy positioned so fashionably in his fatigues set against the monochromatic army green furnishings in his home. This guy is made for war - especially those fought in the pages of high fashion magazines and on a David Letterman set.
But as my tax dollars continued to pour into the hands of Ukrainians without much oversight - to the tune of $75B according to the latest numbers provided by The Council on Foreign Relations and news broke of Russia deploying ships carrying tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in 30 years, I moved the topic higher up the list. If I’m going to die in a nuclear war, I want to see it coming. Now, I won’t pretend to understand more than I do, but my stance has shifted- slightly.
After listening to an enlightening conversation between Peter Zeihan and Joe Rogan, I better understand the necessity of our involvement in this war. Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, non-partisan in his views and worth listening to on this matter, as well as the issues we face in ignorantly creating a global economy.
My official stance is that I do not support the endless spending, I think Zelenskyy makes a handsome leading man and I doubt we will ever really know the truth of what is happening. There is no reason to think our government is telling us the truth because they never do.
And as for Biden making a surprise visit to an active war zone on President’s Day in his own country, I find it the opposite of audacious, as described by the BBC.
Appearing in a war zone under regular attack, White House officials describe Joe Biden's unexpected visit to Ukraine's capital Kyiv as "unprecedented in modern times".
They say previous presidential trips to wartime Iraq and Afghanistan had the back up of a heavy US military presence…
…The sight of him appearing beside President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the heart of Kyiv and under the sound of air raid sirens, makes a louder statement than anything he can say in a speech in Poland.
"It was risky and should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that Joe Biden is a leader who takes commitment seriously," said White House communications director Kate Bedingfield.
Even CNN called a mild “bullshit” on the air-raid sirens. And if in fact this is an active war zone, it’s quite irresponsible not brave for our President to be on the ground. The visit smells a lot like the Vogue photoshoot.
Back at home, MGT is making her way into The Sunday Snewz once again - my apologies. She along with others on the Right are treading far too closely to the Fascism of which they are accused. Ms. Greene seems to have forgotten that voting rights aren’t doled out according to political beliefs and people get to “bring their values” with them wherever they choose to go. This is America you bimbo.
Even those Conservatives I align well with are walking into territory they best not venture into. Ron DeSantis is about the only person, as of now, I would support in a bid for the White House in 2024 but his ban on CRT from Florida schools is a slippery slope and one I won’t follow him down. Conservatives seem to forget we believe in limited government. Limited government applies to all issues and we don’t get to exempt those we choose to heavy hand. While I believe CRT is a massive step backwards, creates further separation, is based upon lies and ultimately encourages racism, the government doesn’t get to make these decisions for the people. We are adults - we don’t need big brother stepping in to protect us all the time. Matters of education should be sorted out between citizens who are directly effected by them. What we need is for citizens to get more involved and all this “I’m telling the government on you” strips all of us of our responsibilities. Jordan Peterson said it best, “You cannot regulate against bad ideas, you have to create vision.” Vision is what the conservatives are lacking. It’s not their fault, it’s their nature. Being conservative is about preserving, not creating which is why we need conservatives as much as we need liberals. Again, both/and not either/or. People don’t like what is going on around them, but just pointing out how bad it is isn’t going to do anything. People need to see what else is possible and what is better. The person who creates a new vision -without lying, being bought, or being corrupted by power - can turn this country around in 2024.
It looks like Larry Elder might be off the hook as the black face of white supremacy. Back in 2013 Don Lemon, when he was still speaking intelligently on occasion, called out the obvious to the black community, which by today’s standards makes him a racist. I’m going to exert my narcissistic presentism and demand he publicly apologize for his comments and attend re-education courses to learn how to be a good little boy and follow the narrative. Oh -I guess he’s already in a CNN re-education program. Not for his 2013 racial gaffs but for his recent misogynistic statements that “women are past their prime by age 40” and mansplaining to his female co-host. Dear Mr. Lemon - the internet is forever.
But do I think he should be subjected to re-education or any sort of training program to reprogram his thinking? Most certainly not. Considering the clear lack of thinking being done by most everyone these days, the idea of thought-training someone is off the table.
And last but not least, First Lady Jill Biden got caught glitching in the Mine Craft matrix, breaking every international fashion law on the books. Can’t the Dems take some cues from the impeccably dressed gays all around them and learn how to dress? Maybe they think disguising themselves as frumpy, disheveled intellectuals actually makes them intellectual? It’s not working - for them, or those of us who have to look at them.
Rather than report more bad news, I’ll just leave this here. The healthcare systems across the world accurately depicted in one cartoonish meme.
Rather than culture, let’s talk lack of culture - Meghan Markle. In a fantastic display of comedic genius, the creators of South Park did a fine job in The World Wide Privacy Tour episode. If you missed it, your life isn’t what it could be. Go watch it.
Meghan has expressed deep pain as a result of the episode and states she may have to take legal action. Which in the UK might be successful considering hurting someone’s feelings is now a criminal act. We’ll get to the details in the next section.
Yes the letter posted below is real and yes, this sort of thing is the result of the either/or thinking I described above. Here is how the process goes - you think you’re right. Then, you stop listening to other people’s points of view. Next you confirm you are always right by surrounding yourself with others who think just like you do - both actively seeking like-thinkers out and unknowingly surrounding yourself with them thanks to algorithms. Before long, you refuse to accept other points of view and demand other people stop listening to other opinions too. But that’s not enough, so you ask the government to silence those who disagree with you. And before you know it, someone doesn’t like what you say online and the police are at your door to investigate your Tweets.
You become so sheltered in your thinking that you lose sight of the fallibility of humans. Your sense of self becomes threatened by anything that doesn’t adhere to the protected world you have created for yourself. Words become disconnected from the human who is saying them. You dehumanize others at the peril of all mankind.
It is no longer the fringy isolated woke left that is partaking in the forced cancelation of others. In our country, 103 people called the FCC in response to Rihanna’s half-time show at the Super Bowl and I assure you those people aren’t on the far left.
In Communist Canada, Dr. Jordan Peterson is at risk of losing his clinical psychology license for conversations he had on the Joe Rogan podcast. Out of his millions of viewers, twelve filed anonymous complaints about him for comments he made on Twitter that they found “hurtful.” People who are NOT nor have ever been his clients putting his professional license at risk for his political views. He is facing indefinite re-education camp or loss of his hard earned privileges as a clinician. Blue-haired, non-conforming college dropouts witch-hunting a highly respected Harvard Professor and world renown scholar because they think they’re right and he’s wrong.
We are walking a road that leads to our demise.
What laughably started as the “I’m telling mom” nanny state of our youngest generation has morphed into a world of adults who behave like children. It is up to you to stop perpetuating this catastrophic thinking. Speak your mind even if you aren’t sure if what you say is correct. We need opinions and we need dialogue.
We are facing complex problems across the entire world and I am not confident we have enough complex thinkers to solve them. I hope I’m wrong. I consider myself a hopeful pessimist at this point.
You can’t wait for someone else to speak up. If we’re going to turn this ship around, it’s going to take all of us adopting the both/and mindset. Refuse to be quiet. Ask questions - lots of questions. And recall my most favorite quote of all times…
Let no day pass without humbly remembering that everything has still to be learned.
Carl Jung
I thought about ending today’s issue on a more positive note, but then I realized you don’t need me to babysit your emotions. We have the government looking after those.
Priceless🙂!!