“Where has my country gone?”

Mr. Garrison on South Park

“You got to keep em separated”

Come out and play, Offspring

This has been a hell of a week for the media and the State. To paraphrase Tywin Lannister, it seems that everyone has gone stark raving mad. It began with reports of INS separation of families who crossed the southern border illegally. This brought on a virtual telethon of wailing on CNN and MSNBC. How could our government separate families from their children. The progressives overlooked the fact that if a citizen is found guilty of a victimless crime such as has using or selling a plant forbidden by the State that the government bloody well separates that family. I mean what do they want, a children’s ward at Leavenworth? The problem was “solved” when President Trump issued an executive order that the families would be detained intact. Of course this was not exactly what the progressives wanted, was it? Or the migrants for that matter. Oh, my child and I will be detained together? Actually, I think it would be much better if both me and my child were released from this detention center that used to be a Walmart.

Of course there was mass stupidity on the Republican side. Why would you detain persons that crossed the border illegally for weeks and months? If you are going to grant asylum go ahead and do it. If not, would it not be easier and a hell of a lot cheaper to put them on a plane back to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. It’s a valuable lesson to see the countries where they are coming from in comparison to free market friendly countries like Costa Rica. The whole immigration debate is quite wrongheaded. If it was not for the welfare State, there would be no need for closed borders. If you moved to a place and could not find work or start a business, you would just move back where you came from or to some other place.

Equally stupid is the current trade war that is getting hotter and hotter. The tariff is a tax that is paid for by the citizen consumers of a country. I actually think that I am paying quite enough as it is. Tariffs are stupid. It is like on the Soprano’s when you see the mob guys sitting in lawn chairs drinking beer in front of a construction site. It is exactly the same thing. The price of construction increases so that Tony Soprano and the Capos can have their take. The tariffs results in inefficiency and higher prices with the take being kicked up to Uncle Sam.

Also this week, truthdig.com issued a report saying that the military under President Trump drops a bomb on somebody every 12 minutes. Never fear there is true bipartisanship at last in that they also reported on the hundreds of drone attacks by the military under President Obama. You really have to take a moment and think about just the cost in dollars. A google search indicated that the M.O.A.B bomb that was dropped earlier in the Trump administration cost $170,000. A tomahawk missile will run you about 1.4 million in today’s dollars. Their report indicated that only 2% of the persons killed in the bombings and drone attacks are on the “kill list” (can you imagine what the founders would think of that?). Now that is a lot of collateral damage. Does anybody really think that killing, maiming and destroying people in another country is going to make anyone in the U.S. safer or freer? On Morning Joe, Miki Brzezinski lamented about how the separated children will be traumatized and permanently injured. I agree with her wholeheartedly. Can you imagine how traumatized children who were dismembered in a drone attack are? Oh, I’m sorry, Mika. Its completely okay if it is your team and not Trump that is doing it.

Another intellectual on Morning Joe said that it is not enough to grant asylum but the U.S. has to go to Central America and fix the police forces, the economy and culture of those countries. Now that is an insane imperial notion. These are sovereign countries. May as well annex them and add 3 stars to the flag. You know Venezuela is pretty messed up too. Better plan on adding them too.

The lesson I take from all of this madness and stupidity is it totally does not matter who or what party you vote on. The result is always the same. It is the system (State) that is screwed up. It makes me think of the Lonely Island song “I’m not going to be part of your system”. Would it not be better if the 50 states decided to “throw it on the ground” and just dissolve the federal government?