The Invasion of the Control Freaks
It’s impossible to turn around these days without being beset by control freaks.
Exhibit 1. Michael Bloomberg, who is running for president. Bloomberg is infamous for his desire to control everything, from what you eat to what you drive to how you defend yourself. Bloomberg thinks taxing “sugary drinks” (among other things) is a great thing, despite the regressivity of this tax, because it’s good for the poor:
And if you buy a gun do defend yourself, you’re pretty stupid–so he will take them away:
Pretty sure his security detail is heavily armed. But that’s the credo of his ilk: for me, but not for thee.
Bloomberg also sucks up to the world’s leading control freaks, the Chinese Communist Party. When (amazingly) confronted about this by (amazingly) a PBS interviewer, Mikey totally flacked for them:
And behold the stunning dishonesty here–the lengths to which he goes to avoid criticizing the CCP. Bloomberg wants to control the entire energy system in order to reduce the emissions of global greenhouse gases (GHG). The Chinese are building coal plants at a frenzied pace, yet when confronted on this, Bloomberg treats the Chinese coal plants as merely an issue of local particulate pollution in places like Beijing.
As an aside on this issue: the silence of the Davos Douches (control freaks all) who sucked up to Xi on this issue, and so many others involving China, is deafening.
Exhibit 2. Elizabeth Warren, reprising her “you didn’t earn that” bullshit:
What pretzel logic. Because you might have benefited from some public goods, you are obligated to let Lizzie decide what she will take from you in order to pay for all the non-public goods that she wants.
I have a better idea: I’ll gladly pay taxes for public goods that earn a return in excess of the cost of capital, and Lizzie can STFU.
Exhibit 3. Angela Merkel. Zere vill be NO free speech for you!:
Nice hand gestures there. Wonder where she picked those up?
Such a good little Ostie, ain’t she?
Exhibit 4: “Scientists”:
The irony of this is that those so wise in the ways of science
are obviously lecturing the developed world, which in their wisdom they apparently haven’t recognized is depopulating. Population growth is overwhelmingly concentrated in very low income Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Subcontinent, whose peoples (a) will never hear what these scientists are demanding, and (b) would ignore it in any event.
So what are these scientists proposing? What coercive powers will they deploy against brown people in order to achieve their vision?
No doubt Bloomberg has the answer: if they don’t submit voluntarily, kill them. You know, for their own good.