Don't blame the puppet - Follow the strings

Who's in charge - the Red Queen or the Mad Hater?

We’ve gone down a rabbit hole. Or through the mirror. Speaking of mirrors, once I put a note on a mirror: “Caution - may contain images some may find disturbing.”

My next post (writing is still in progress) was supposed to be one of MY favourite topics, sub-atomic particles. But, as per Steve Bannon’s suggestion in 45’s office, the best way to confound the media is “flood the zone with shit.” So that’s what tRump has been doing - flooding everything with s--t.

Here is Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” as found at interestingliterature.com

“The sun was shining on the sea,

Shining with all his might:

He did his very best to make

The billows smooth and bright —

And this was odd, because it was

The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,

Because she thought the sun

Had got no business to be there

After the day was done —

‘It’s very rude of him,’ she said,

‘To come and spoil the fun.’

The sea was wet as wet could be,

The sands were dry as dry.

You could not see a cloud, because

No cloud was in the sky:

No birds were flying overhead —

There were no birds to fly.

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Were walking close at hand;

They wept like anything to see

Such quantities of sand:

‘If this were only cleared away,’

They said, ‘it would be grand!’                   ( GAZA )

‘If seven maids with seven mops               ( 7th October )

Swept it for half a year,

Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said,

‘That they could get it clear?’                   ( genocide )

‘I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter,

And shed a bitter tear.

‘O Oysters, come and walk with us!’

The Walrus did beseech.

‘A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,

Along the briny beach:

We cannot do with more than four,

To give a hand to each.’

The eldest Oyster looked at him,

But never a word he said:

The eldest Oyster winked his eye,              ( Biden? )

And shook his heavy head —

Meaning to say he did not choose

To leave the oyster-bed.

But four young Oysters hurried up,

All eager for the treat:

Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,

Their shoes were clean and neat —

And this was odd, because, you know,

They hadn’t any feet.

Four other Oysters followed them,

And yet another four;

And thick and fast they came at last,

And more, and more, and more —             ( MAGA voters, alt: Palestinians )

All hopping through the frothy waves,

And scrambling to the shore.

The Walrus and the Carpenter                 ( USA & Israel )

Walked on a mile or so,

And then they rested on a rock

Conveniently low:

And all the little Oysters stood

And waited in a row.

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,

‘To talk of many things:

Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —

Of cabbages — and kings —                     ( Cabbages and Kings, a 1904 novel by O. Henry )

And why the sea is boiling hot —             ( global warming )

And whether pigs have wings.’               ( tRump in Air Force 1 )

‘But wait a bit,’ the Oysters cried,

‘Before we have our chat;

For some of us are out of breath,

And all of us are fat!’

‘No hurry!’ said the Carpenter.

They thanked him much for that.             ( all those 2000 lb bombs )

‘A loaf of bread,’ the Walrus said,

‘Is what we chiefly need:

Pepper and vinegar besides

Are very good indeed —

Now if you’re ready, Oysters dear,

We can begin to feed.’

‘But not on us!’ the Oysters cried,

Turning a little blue.

‘After such kindness, that would be

A dismal thing to do!’                     ( MAGA voters and/or Palestinians will despair )

‘The night is fine,’ the Walrus said.

‘Do you admire the view?

‘It was so kind of you to come!

And you are very nice!’

The Carpenter said nothing but

‘Cut us another slice:

I wish you were not quite so deaf —

I’ve had to ask you twice!’

‘It seems a shame,’ the Walrus said,

‘To play them such a trick,

After we’ve brought them out so far,

And made them trot so quick!’             ( but even the MAGA folk are expendables )

The Carpenter said nothing but

‘The butter’s spread too thick!’

‘I weep for you,’ the Walrus said:

‘I deeply sympathize.’

With sobs and tears he sorted out

Those of the largest size,

Holding his pocket-handkerchief

Before his streaming eyes.

‘O Oysters,’ said the Carpenter,

‘You’ve had a pleasant run!

Shall we be trotting home again?’                ( Neither MAGA voters nor Palestinians )

But answer came there none —

And this was scarcely odd, because

They’d eaten every one.                                 ( total genocide )

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February 4, 2025 -

The tech bros have dismantled,

The Government all at once,

All done in one swell foop, by incels backed by Musk,

Naught remains but oyster shells

And the trumpster playing King,

Yet MAGA folk will rue the day the voted for the jerk.

The planet is not an existential threat to the planet. The planet will be fine, it is in an interglacial and yes, we have speeded up that warming, but the planet will be just fine (after us). If we finish poisoning the oceans, it may take 5 million years to recover, but recover it will.

However, for humans, I rank the existential risks to humans in this order: nuclear war, then various forms of poisoning: plastics, chemicals solid and liquid, and gases polluting the atmosphere, of which there are many. The existential threat of climate I would represent as this dot “.” compared to the world-wide threat of the jerk next door, represented by this line “___________________________________________”

Yet people think there is just 19 months until mid-term elections. So says Joyce Vance, for one. That is just wishful thinking. Remember what Dear Leader said: “you will never be bothered with voting again.” or very similar words. Just write that mid-term notion off, it has little value, especially with DNC and RNC in charge of the stools that you get to vote for. With the waves of death coming thanks to the appointment of RFK Jr., the world’s largest debtor nation truly will soon despair.

My January 26 post, “Poisoning ourselves to extinction,” was talking about stress. This tRump regime is laying the biggest stress trip on the entire world and especially for Canada as well as on Americans themselves. High stress levels are bad for your immune system, making resistance to disease more difficult. The overall effect will be yet more shortening of American’s life expectancy.

And the increasing cancer rates in 30-40-year-olds I think can link to the increase in overall plastics and chemicals usage after the 1950s. There is a chart in an article in Globe and Mail, January 25, 2025, p. A12, “Gen X and millennials blindsided by rising rates of cancer.” If you consider the charts representing the rise of plastics pollution beginning in the 1950s, and use of noxious chemicals about the same time, give a few year’s delay for them to work into life systems, then overlay the chart in The Globe, it is a good fit. The colorectal cancer birth cohort trends begin a rise about 1960, then trend upward at increasing rates in 1963 and more again in 1983. This could indicate that we are poisoning the entire environment, for profit. And it’s coming back to bite us, the snake eating its own tail.

So, you can see an ever-increasing stress level by governance deficiencies, along with ever-increasing environmental toxicity. What is the LD50 of Trump?

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But here’s the thing - Don’t blame the puppet, follow the strings. Each one since JFK have been puppets with hidden masters: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump. The most powerful masters control the Republican puppets, although the Tri-Lateral Commission (Carter) was a significant outlier. The Heritage Foundation is the Republican’s puppet master. It was in early 1979 that the Foundation launched the “Mandate for Leadership” project, and had their first presidential transition schema in the hands of Ronald Reagan for his transition to power. And likely, their fellow travelers in England handed a very similar mandate to Margaret Thatcher in the UK.

So here are the people responsible - The Heritage Foundation. Many are university professors - if I found myself in one of their classes, likely in the middle of a lecture I might slam my books onto the floor and walk out. So blame these people and these colluding organizations, their puppets are there to act as lightning rods, to deflect your anger away from these perps.

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise. Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project, ©2023, by The Heritage Foundation

Advisory Board:

Alabama Policy Institute, Alliance Defending Freedom, American Compass, The American Conservative, America First Legal Foundation, American Accountability Foundation, American Center for Law and Justice, American Cornerstone Institute, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, American Legislative Exchange Council, The American Main Street Initiative, American Moment, American Principles Project, Center for Equal Opportunity, Center for Family and Human Rights, Center for Immigration Studies, Center for Renewing America, Claremont Institute, Coalition for a Prosperous America, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Conservative Partnership Institute, Concerned Women for America, Defense of Freedom Institute, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Family Policy Alliance, Family Research Council, First Liberty Institute, Forge Leadership Network, Foundation for Government Accountability, FreedomWorks, The Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, Honest Elections Project, Independent Women’s Forum, Institute for the American Worker, Institute for Energy Research, Institute for Women’s Health, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, James Madison Institute, Keystone Policy, The Leadership Institute, Liberty University, National Association of Scholars, National Center for Public Policy Research, Pacific Research Institute, Patrick Henry College, Personnel Policy Operations, Recovery for America Now Foundation, 1792 Exchange, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Teneo Network, Young America’s Foundation.

Authors:

Daren Bakst, Jonathan Berry, Lindsey M. Burke, David R. Burton, Adam Candeub, Dustin J. Carmack, Brendan Carr, Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD, Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Dearborn, Veronique de Rugy, Donald Devine, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Thomas F. Gilman, Mandy M. Gunasekara, Gene Hamilton, Jennifer Hazelton, Karen Kerrigan, Dennis Dean Kirk, Kent Lassman, Christopher Miller, Stephen Moore, Mora Namdar, Peter Navarro, William Perry Pendley, Max Primorac, Roger Severino, Kiron K. Skinner, Brooks D. Tucker, Hans A. von Spakovsky, Russ Vought, William L. Walton, Paul Winfree

EDITORS - Paul Dans, Steven Groves

Foreword by Kevin D. Roberts, PhD

"This is an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to save our country from the brink of disaster.

“... the authors express consensus recommendations already forged, especially along four broad fronts that will decide America’s future:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect

our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the

American people.

3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution

calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”

Contributors:

Mark Albrecht, Chris Anderson, Jeff Anderson, Michael Anton, EJ Antoni, Andrew “Art” Arthur, Paul Atkins, Julie Axelrod, James Bacon, James Baehr, Stewart Baker, Erik Baptist, Brent Bennett, John Berlau, Russell Berman, Sanjai Bhagat, Stephen Billy, Brad Bishop, Willis Bixby, Josh Blackman, Jim Blew, Robert Bortins, Rachel Bovard, Robert Bowes, Matt Bowman, Steven G. Bradbury, Preston Brashers, Jonathan Bronitsky, Kyle Brosnan, Patrick T. Brown, Robert Burkett, Michael Burley, David R. Burton, Jonathan Butcher, Mark Buzby, Margaret Byfield, David Byrd, Anthony Campau, James Jay Carafano, Frank Carroll, Oren Cass, Brian J. Cavanaugh, Spencer Chretien, Claire Christensen, Victoria Coates, Ellie Cohanim, Ezra Cohen, Elbridge Colby, Earl Comstock, Lisa Correnti, Monica Crowley, Laura Cunliffe, Tom Dans, Sergio de la Peña, Chris De Ruyter, Corey DeAngelis, Caroline DeBerry, Arielle Del Turco, Irv Dennis, David Deptula, Donald Devine, Chuck DeVore, C. Wallace DeWitt, James Di Pane, Matthew Dickerson, Michael Ding, David Ditch, Natalie Dodson, Dave Dorey, Max Eden, Troy Edgar, Joseph Edlow, Jen Ehlinger, John Ehrett, Kristen Eichamer, Robert S. Eitel, Will Estrada, Jon Feere, Baruch Feigenbaum, Travis Fisher, George Fishman, Leslie Ford, Aharon Friedman, Bruce Frohnen, Joel Frushone, Finch Fulton, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Caleigh Gabel, Christopher Gacek, Alexandra Gaiser, Mario Garza, Patty-Jane Geller, Andrew Gillen, James S. Gilmore III, Vance Ginn, Alma Golden, Mike Gonzalez, Chadwick R. Gore, David Gortler, Brian Gottstein, Dan Greenberg, Rob Greenway, Rachel Greszler, DJ Gribbin, Garrison Grisedale, Joseph Grogan, Andrew Guernsey, Jeffrey Gunter, Joe Guy, Joseph Guzman, Amalia Halikias, Gene Hamilton, Richard Hanania, Simon Hankinson, David Harlow, Derek Harvey, Jason Hayes, Jennifer Hazelton, Lou Heinzer, Edie Heipel, Troup Hemenway, Nathan Hitchen, Pete Hoekstra, Gabriella Hoffman, Tom Homan, Chris Horner, Mike Howell, Valerie Huber, Andrew Hughes, Joseph Humire, Christopher Iacovella, Melanie Israel, Ken Ivory, Roman Jankowski, Abby Jones, Emilie Kao, Jared M. Kelson, Aaron Kheriaty, Ali Kilmartin, Julie Kirchner, Dan Kish, Kenneth A. Klukowski, Adam Korzeniewski, Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, Bethany Kozma, Matthew Kozma, Julius Krein, Stanley Kurtz, David LaCerte, Paul J. Larkin, Kent Lassman, James R. Lawrence III, Paul Lawrence, Nathan Leamer, David Legates, Marlo Lewis, Ben Lieberman, John Ligon, Evelyn Lim, Mario Loyola, John G. Malcolm, Joseph Masterman, Earl Matthews, Dan Mauler, Drew McCall, Trent McCotter, Micah Meadowcroft, Edwin Meese III, Jessica Melugin, Frank Mermoud, Mark Miller, Cleta Mitchell, Kevin E. Moley, Caitlin Moon, Clare Morell, Mark Morgan, Hunter Morgen, Rachel Morrison, Jonathan Moy, Iain Murray, Ryan Nabil, Michael Nasi, Lucien Niemeyer, Nazak Nikakhtar, Milan “Mitch” Nikolich, Matt O’Brien, Caleb Orr, Michael Pack, Leah Pedersen, Michael Pillsbury, Patrick Pizzella, Robert Poole, Christopher B. Porter, Kevin Preskenis, Pam Pryor, Thomas Pyle, John Ratcliffe, Paul Ray, Joseph Reddan, Jay W. Richards, Jordan Richardson, Jason Richwine, Shaun Rieley, Lora Ries, Leo Rios, Mark Robeck, James Rockas, Mark Royce, Reed Rubinstein, William Ruger, Austin Ruse, Brent D. Sadler, Alexander William Salter, Jon Sanders, Carla Sands, Robby Stephany Saunders, David Sauve, Brett D. Schaefer, Nina Owcharenko Schaefer, Matt Schuck, Justin Schwab, Jon Schweppe, Marc Scribner, Darin Selnick, Josh Sewell, Kathleen Sgamma, Matt Sharp, Judy Shelton, Nathan Simington, Loren Smith, Zack Smith, Jack Spencer, Adrienne Spero, Thomas W. Spoehr, Peter St Onge, Chris Stanley, Paula M. Stannard, Parker Stathatos, William Steiger, Kenny Stein, Corey Stewart, Mari Stull, Katharine T. Sullivan, Brett Swearingen, Michael Sweeney, Robert Swope, Aaron Szabo, Katy Talento, Tony Tata, Farnaz Farkish Thompson, Todd Thurman, Brett Tolman, Kayla M. Tonnessen, Joe Trotter, Tevi Troy, Clayton Tufts, Erin Valdez, Mark Vandroff, Jessica M. Vaughan, John “JV” Venable, Morgan Lorraine Viña, Andrew N. Vollmer, Hans A. von Spakovsky, Greg Walcher, David M. Walsh, Erin Walsh, Jacklyn Ward, Emma Waters, Michael Williams, Aaron Wolff, Jonathan Wolfson, Alexei Woltornist, Frank Wuco, Cesar Ybarra, John Zadrozny, Laura Zorc.