Tomorrow is election day. There are many candidates and issues on ballots all across the country. The leftists in media have been haranguing Americans with the notion that “our Democracy is on the ballot.” They’re lying, and their lies are extensive. What you must know going into tomorrow’s election is that among all the things on the ballot tomorrow, “our Democracy” is nowhere among them. There are many reasons this is true, but chief among them, apart from all the other dire foolishness, is that the only “democracy” on the ballot is a fake, contrived notion of government that very few Americans actually accept. The reason for this is simple: We don’t have a democracy. Our nation is a constitutional, representative republic. This means our laws are published and known or knowable in advance of any controversy for all to understand. This means we don’t live under a fiat rule or governance, where laws can be changed at the sheer whim of our rulers. It also means that on the federal level, voters do not vote for legislation of any sort. Ever. We elect Representatives and Senators who go to Washington DC with at least a general set of instructions given them by the people who elected them in their home districts and states. We don’t directly elect our President either, nor do we have a direct say in the nomination or appointment of our federal judiciary. We have elected office-holders who participate in that process with our advice and our consent via our votes for them. We do not have a democracy, and our founders were clear on this point, in Article IV, Section 4, in which the Constitution guarantees to the states a “republican form of government.” This means that our fundamental rights are never to be subject to the vote of the people, and that the several states retain sovereign control over the union thereby constituted. This is critical to understand, because when they say “our democracy is on the ballot,” there is no such creature in our system, but that’s not to say they don’t want it to be. Democracy is almost always the forerunner to some sort of tyranny. When they say “our democracy,” they are not speaking about our current form of government, but instead the bastardized catastrophe they hope to trick you into accepting. It is time to reject their offer, veiled in egregious lies and deception.
When these duplicitous monsters talk about their “democracy,” you may have noticed that you’re not included in it. They don’t want your involvement in the governance of our country, or even your households. Instead, what they desire is a form of government in which all such decisions are left to them. The “democracy” they want is merely a superficial instrument to be used to steal from you your sovereignty over your own lives. One clear example of this is the so-called “Green New Deal,” which is merely another contrivance intended to provide them more control. First, they concoct a crisis, in this instance, the “climate crisis,” for which they naturally have a solution. Of what does such a solution consist? Their solution consists entirely of wrecking your standard of living. Their goal for two generations has been to mis-educate your children into the belief that the climate crisis was real, and that people are its proximal cause. At the same time, by this mis-education program, they have undertaken an effort to leave most of your children without the intellectual means or moral courage to question any of it. Innocently in many cases, you thought you had been paying taxes to fund the schools to educate your children, but in fact, your exertions have been turned against you, and what you’ve been funding is a machine bent to the purpose of indoctrinating your children with an anti-ideology to which you’re not only opposed, but also condemn outright. As this was done, your children were likewise taught to condemn you.
Climate is just one of many issues they’ve used to dissolve the bonds of family. In point of fact, any significant issue you might choose to examine will exhibit similar patterns. The people who’ve done this are not just the enemies of your family, but the enemies of our country. What they will not tell you about what’s really on the ballot as you choose your candidates and make decisions on various ballot initiatives, bond issues, and states’ constitutional amendments is that America as you’ve known it, and as you knew it in your youth, has been placed there for elimination. Your constitutional, representative republic is on the ballot. The future of your children is on the ballot. The maniacs in various states want to mandate COVID vaccines for your children, despite the intense threat to their health. If you permit these people to remain in office, they will destroy us all. That’s because when they speak of “our democracy,” you’re not going to be part of it. It’s theirdemocracy, not ours.
The other thing they’re keen to accomplish during this election cycle is to prevent you from learning before the polls close tomorrow evening how catastrophic will be the fruits of their rule. If you think you’ve seen the worst of their economy, you’re quite wrong. The worst is still coming, and they’re hiding it from you so you’ll be unaware as you head to the polls. How does “Global Societal Collapse” grab you? Naturally, they will be just fine. You? I regret to inform you that they simply don’t give a damn about that. As I said, you’re not part of their democracy. It’s time to call everybody in your contacts, talk to all your neighbors, and make certain that they at least know what’s at stake tomorrow. It won’t be an easy recovery, because the collapse is not nearly finished, but armed with the truth, you can at least begin to hold those responsible to account tomorrow at the polls. Our time is running out. “Our Democracy” is not at stake tomorrow.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain
If you have a degree in the hard sciences, you already know what I’m about to discuss. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and there’s no such thing as perpetual motion machines. If you want to do work of any kind, it requires energy. One must create that energy, or at least convert it from another form, in order to do that work. Most forms of energy production we do are chemical transformations of some sort. When you eat food, your body chemically decomposes the meal into a form it can use to drive your muscles, and keep circulating your blood, and so on. When you pour gasoline into your fuel tank, and it goes forward into your engine, where it’s ignited and turned into a forceful combustion, to push pistons that reciprocate, turning your crankshaft and so on, you’re also doing a chemical transformation. When you store energy in a battery cell, then retrieving it to drive your electric motor(s), you’re again doing a chemical transformation, in reverse of the sort of chemical transformation that occurred when you charged the batteries. Before you could charge the battery, however, the current with which you charged it had to be generated somewhere, and in a few cases, that was accomplished by nuclear reactions, or thermal, wind, solar and hydroelectric power generation, but throughout the world, the main source is through the burning of some sort of fuel in another chemical transformation into power to generate electricity. This is reality, and even(and especially) Elon Musk knows it. This poses a serious problem for the scam artists. They can fool you on the front end, but in the long run, you’ll eventually convince yourself that you’ve been fooled. Electric vehicles, as they’re being proposed to consumers, are a complete, utter scam, and every serious scientist knows it, and every engineer understands it.
I want you to watch the video below. It’s just less than sixteen minutes, but it’s worth it. I don’t know whether he’s exposing insanity or possibly suffering from it. There are important lessons to be garnered here, but most importantly, you can finally put to rest the insanity of the electric vehicle scam.
The gentleman who made this video seems earnest enough. My point here is not to criticize him, personally, but to confront what this video lays bare about electric vehicles. His chief complaint with his Tesla EV seems to be that he doesn’t like the lengthy charging sessions, or the lack of availability of charging stations, but he also mentions his dislike of stopping to refuel a gasoline car. i suppose he wants a forever-mobile, a kind of perpetual motion machine, that requires no charging, no refueling, and presumably, no maintenance or much of anything else. He wants to be able to get in and drive until he’s ready to stop, to re-commence his travels at any time he pleases. Who wouldn’t like that?
Obviously, he’s noticed that his Tesla requires recharging ‒ lots and lots of recharging. If he only drove a few miles per day, he might well be able to subsist with his Tesla, at least until the very large, very expensive battery inevitably dies permanently, no longer able to be re-charged. His solution here is to take a generator, driven by a 13HP gasoline engine, install it under the hatch of his car, in the area usually called “the trunk.” Along with this, he’s also installed a gasoline tank, and all the plumbing and wiring to make this work. He removed his rear window, created a weather-exposed zone in his trunk, hooking it all up so that the generator will charge his Tesla’s batteries, even while riding down the road, thereby extending his range, and giving himself a built-in charger. I’ve seen others try similar approaches by simply pulling a small trailer with a generator bolted-down, accomplishing the same thing, but adding the problems associated with a trailer. I’ve seen others put a portable generator in the trunk that they can simply pull out and run to re-charge the car if they completely discharge between charging stations, but that cannot be run going down the road.
In the video, he takes this contraption on an 1800 mile journey of several days, the goal being never to stop for a charge. Along the way, he stopped by a friend’s house, a friend who has a jet engine mounted on a pontoon boat(and I’d urge his friend to rethink the simple flat screen guard on that engine,) but a couple of things become apparent through the course of the video:
His generator is insufficient to keep up with his Tesla’s power consumption at highway speeds.
He is forced to refuel his “Cordless Tesla” several times, probably daily.
He has this noisy contraption running everywhere he goes, and must leave it running overnight while he sleeps in hotels.
It’s so noisy that people call the police.
The police stop him once because he’s driving too slowly on the highway as he attempted to match consumption to his insufficient generation.
While he was considerate enough to park it well away from the hotels so that it probably wasn’t too annoying to guests, he stopped at one restaurant, and I’m pretty certain that if I had been the owner of said eatery, I’d have asked him to shut it down while he dined. At the end, he summarized his experience, and also displayed the mileage his “Cordless Tesla” was getting:
This is not MPGE, but actual mileage at the speeds listed
With all of this said and done, at the completion of his trip, he notes the shortcomings, and since along the way, he visited a Kohler Engines facility, I can only imagine that he intends to install an even larger generator in an attempt to improve his results. What he may achieve is to extend his duration, but what he will not change is the left-hand column on the chart above, except perhaps to worsen it with a larger, heavier generator installed. A larger generator will likely necessitate a larger fuel tank or severely reduced expectations, but what I must say is that I truly want to congratulate him.
He’s built an undisguised fossil-fuel-powered Tesla EV.
He undertook this project apparently to address the shortcomings of his Tesla, and all EVs in general. What he succeeding in doing is to prove that only larger internal combustion engines can actually accomplish his desired outcome. He still has the fuel stops. He still has the noise(much more, actually.) He has a doubling of the expense. He still has a giant battery pack that when it dies, will cost more than his eventual final generator, fuel tank, plumbing, and wiring, and he’s still burning so-called fossil fuels for the pleasure. I don’t think his rig would be legal in California, either for the noise, or for the fact that they’re banning all outdoor gas-powered equipment like chainsaws and lawn-mowers and generators, so not much use there. And then there’s this:
My last long trip in our 2013 Ford F350 Crew-cab, diesel 4WD truck was around 1250 miles each way. On the highway, I averaged 70-75mph, depending on the speed limits, of course, but on that trip, the diesel truck managed to get 19.3 MPG. I stopped twice for fuel, each way, topping-off a little before hitting the road for the return trip. At roughly the half-way point on the way home, after topping off, my range said 647 miles. Of course, it also sips diesel exhaust fluid. That’s a truck that likely weighs well beyond double what the diminutive Tesla weighs. I made the same trip a couple years before in my Mustang GT, which is probably closer to the same weight. I averaged, well, let’s say “the same speed.” In that car, I managed 23.7 MPG, though in honesty, if I’d made more judicious use of my accelerator pedal, I might have done somewhat better. The point is, neither of the vehicles I mention are “fuel misers.”
The truth of all of this is that you can’t hide from reality in the end. Physics is. Chemistry is. Math is. Some people need to spend a good deal more time at all three. The truth, however, is more plain when it’s undisguised. That’s the one thing this gentleman, the owner of the Youtube channel Warped Perception has fully exposed. I’m not sure if that had been his motive, but if so, he’s succeeded. His other Youtube channel is called Matt’s Lab, where he describes himself this way: “I’m an Engineer, lover of Science and Mechanics and also a Filmmaker.” If he’s an actual engineer, he surely knows all of this, but again, that may have been his point: All EVs are at least in part powered by fossil fuels. That’s because the electricity being generated elsewhere to charge the EV is probably burning fossil fuels. You can’t escape it. The idea that we can replace internal combustion engines in any practical sense with EVs is simply madness. In his attempt to make his Tesla EV more practical, what he’s done is to simply unmask the whole EV scam.
The one thing that actually is more efficient about his mobile power-generation, at least theoretically, lies in the fact that there aren’t many miles of cabling between the source of the energy and its destination in the Tesla’s batteries. You see, much energy is lost in the transportation of energy because of a little thing called “resistance.” Measured in Ohms, it’s a measure of how much impedance a given current encounters while traversing a given conductor or device. Rubber is a very poor conductor, which is why it’s often used as an insulator on cabling, while copper and gold are excellent conductors, as are most metals. Aluminum is common in transmission lines, but one of the problems with aluminum is that it has higher resistance to current than copper, but because it’s lighter and much cheaper, it’s used there. Chances are, the power cable that runs from the transformer on the pole near your home is aluminum. In any event, for every mile and foot of cable between the power plant and your home, energy is being bled-out by this resistance in the form of heat and electromagnetic radiation. It’s one of the costs of an extensive, lengthy distribution grid. You’re bleeding energy all the way from the source to its point of use. In this sense, his “Cordless Tesla” exposes another problem people don’t understand in this discussion generally: In most instances, it is far more efficient to generate power where it’s being used, rather than to generate it at a distance, transmit it over miles of cable, through transformers, and ultimately into a chemical storage device(battery) from which it will be again transformed back into current on demand. At each transformation along its path, and in the process of storing it and then pulling it from storage, there is a certain amount of loss built into each step.
He could make his generation more efficient by getting an even larger generator, and just driving the electric motors directly from the generator. To get the acceleration he sees now, however, he’d need a really large generator to produce the bursts of current he’d need, and transformers, as well as more weight and more fuel. At that point, he’d be better off simply getting rid of the generator, keeping the motor, and hooking it directly to his transmission, and then do you know what he’d have? A standard gasoline-powered car. In the end, you have a vehicle just like the ones we’ve been driving for generations. Problem solved. Genius!
The most efficient solution that would also be as practical as gasoline or diesel engine is something else entirely, assuming you’re dead-set on getting rid of fossil fuels: Hydrogen. You can even keep the internal combustion engines. All you need is hydrogen, which is in every molecule of water on Earth. The problem is storing it. You can derive hydrogen by simply using an electrical process to split the water molecule into its constituents, using electrical current. The tricky part is that hydrogen in any quantity is quite combustible, and explosive. There are methods for storing hydrogen that would be completely safe, or at least as safe as gasoline. If the society used primarily nuclear power, augmented by wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric, the problem becomes much easier to address. You could have a hydrogen station anywhere you have a supply of water and electricity, which means they could be as widely distributed as gasoline, diesel, and other fossil-fuels. Gas stations would be replaced/upgraded to hydro-electrolysis stations. The best news is that the exhaust from your car would be heat and water vapor. Quick fill-ups, back on the road in minutes, with the convenience and range to which you’re accustomed, with the added benefit of a mostly clean exhaust stream, all of which could be yours without the EV scam, and reliance on China for rare Earth minerals and the ecological catastrophe of battery disposal for the cells used by EVs. You’d still need your common lead-acid batteries, just like the ones you use now, but that’s not an obstacle.
People buying into the Electric Vehicles are being scammed. There are many hidden costs people don’t yet see, although the impracticability of these EVs becomes pretty plain to most folks who buy them. Early indicators are that many people who buy one EV are unlikely to buy a second. This is a bit like Biden voters: Having chosen him once, many aren’t apt to do so again. Obviously then, while it’s harder to convince people they’ve been fooled than it had been to fool them in the first instance, it’s clear that one’s wallet is a powerful persuader.
Last week, a collection of Democrats introduced something they’ve dubbed the Green New Deal. Sounding innocuous to those who have accepted the original “New Deal” of FDR, it was assumed that this legislation would merely provide some updates(as if the original wasn’t horrendous enough.) Instead, it contains provisions that responsible adults would call “preposterous,” or “fanciful,” or even “maniacal.” Despite this fact, many of the would-be Democrat contenders for the presidency in 2020 raced out to latch onto it, endorsing it explicitly, or at the very least, endorsing most or all of its alleged aims. What’s most amazing to me is how thoroughly we have betrayed our youth by letting these sorts of things get so out of hand. The “Green New Deal” isn’t flawed, or farcical, or foolish. It is the ultimate expression of statism’s true goals. If implemented, it would accomplish the one thing that the radical left has wanted to enact for more than a century, but it is also the one thing the American people have been too innocently naive to believe the left could truly want: It is the legislation that would make human life in the United States impossible to live, and its chief public advocates are our young. None will suffer more for the attainment of this green nightmare, but having been thoroughly betrayed, they’re too foolishly naive to know it.
This set of fiendish notions isn’t a collection of naive ideas propagated by childish intellectual rejects. This is a collection of ideas that has been intentionally crafted so as to appear too foolishly farcical to ever take seriously, but every word of it is what they actually intend. Every word. Its original version was so honest that on Friday, it had been withdrawn, to be replaced by a slightly watered-down version, but the truth is that if they ever achieve sufficient power to enact such a law, they will, and they will do it because they hate human life, they have been educated to hate America, and they intend to destroy it in order to punish Americans.
This isnota joke. None of this is tongue-in-cheek. These people hate you. They’re so thoroughly hateful that they’re willing to commit suicide on a societal scale in order to punish you for the ills they believe exist. The saddest part of this is that all the things they’ve been indoctrinated to believe in our public schools and universities is absolute nonsense. We turned education over to the worst nut-jobs in academia two generations ago, and they have built a kingdom in which this kind of garbage is considered normal. If you send your children to a public school, since at least 1980, after the creation of the Federal Department of Education, your children have been affected. They’ve been exposed. Unless you spent an hour or more deprogramming them faithfully every evening, or simply withdrew them from public schools, there’s no chance that they have avoided being propagandized to their own detriment to some extent.
If the Green New Deal is ridiculous, then the Frequently Asked Questions document that accompanied it is the height of villainy, although some will contend that it seems like a college prank. Here are both the documents, from the NPR page linked above, placed here for your convenience:
Among other things, this FAQ outlines more of their intentions, including “building on” FDR’s “Second Bill of Rights” (effectively, the communist agenda for America), by guaranteeing the following:
A job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical leave, vacations, and retirement security
High-quality education, including higher education and trade schools
Clean air and water and access to nature
Healthy food
High-quality health care
Safe, affordable, adequate housing
Economic environment free of monopolies
Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work
We are already largely a socialistic country, despite President Trump’s recent assurances that the USA will avoid that fate. We print money like a socialist country, we monetize our debts like a socialist country, and we provide ludicrous welfare benefits and commodities just like a socialist country. In fact, the only things necessary to convert the USA to a complete communist slave-pit like the USSR would be to compel labor at the point of governments’ guns. You might contend that we still have freedom of movement. I would respond simply by pointing to the pair of documents linked above, wherein you will find that their intention is to completely eliminate air travel and 99% of privately-owned cars and trucks within a decade. How’s your freedom of movement looking if that tidbit is implemented? You’re under surveillance every moment of your day. Your smart-phones microphones are actively monitoring(and at times recording) whatever you do. Your other “smart” devices are spying on you as well. The companies that collect this data sell that data to others for the purpose of advertising, and they also sell it to government. In many cases, government collects it directly, also. What part of an infernal communistic slave-state doesn’t yet exist in America? You are taxed on your labors to pay for the lack of labor on the part of others. You provide food, clothing, housing, commodities, utilities, transportation, and healthcare to people who cannot do so for themselves, but much more frequently, who are unwilling to do so themselves.
Our young have been propagandized into thinking this is normal, right, and proper. They’ve been taught that it’s moral.
Our young people have been betrayed. They haven’t been taught the difference between right and wrong in the way we were taught, so that the resulting vacuum has drawn in an ethos that is in direct conflict with traditional American values. They have been deprived, all too often, of the simple but necessary skill of critical thinking. The list of things to be guaranteed by the “Green New Deal” are preposterous, of course, but they don’t generally see them as such; what is self-evident to you and I about the absurdity of guaranteeing “Clean air and water and access to nature” doesn’t strike them as unusual at all. They don’t see anything wrong with it because they’ve don’t know why nobody can guarantee any such thing. “Economic security for all…” is something they think they can mandate. They don’t understand that no government on Earth can guarantee such a thing in the long run, which of course means they can’t guarantee it at all. Even the idea of “guaranteeing” a “high quality education” should be as dubious as anything else on the list, because as you and I are well aware, we can send students to all the best schools with all the best faculty but none of that can overcome the student’s unwillingness to learn. Anybody who can permit themselves to believe this list of preposterous, foolish, and even undesirable “guarantees” hasn’t the ability to evaluate even the utility of any of this.
Ladies and gentlemen, we can laugh and mock the poor fools who believe this “Green New Deal,” but that misses the point. The fact that this foolishness is so wildly obnoxious to the entire body of human knowledge gained since the enlightenment makes no difference to a tribe of primitives who don’t know or care about the enlightenment in the first instance. Far too many of our young have been left in a state of feral, atavistic savages, among whom logic and syllogisms have no meaning and no weight. I have a hard time blaming them, knowing the sort of monsters to whom their minds have been too frequently entrusted. What strikes me is that this had been described all too well five decades ago:
If men have grasped some faint glimmer of respect for individual rights in their private dealings with one another, that glimmer vanishes when they turn to public issues – and what leaps into the political arena is a caveman who can’t conceive of any reason why the tribe may not bash in the skull of any individual if it so desires. – The Objectivist Ethics in The Virtue of Selfishness – Ayn Rand
The situation in which we find our nation is far more dangerous than most dare whisper. We have young people who have been preyed-upon by a statist fifth column that has converted them into the instrument of their own, and our own destruction. The children who will bring us this “Green New Deal” are the tools, the instruments who will be made into a terrible weapon against us, just as was done in other places and times throughout history, particularly in the twentieth century. This “Green New Deal” is evidence of our moral abandonment of them. It’s our job to reclaim them if we can. If we lose them permanently, we may well discover that we’ve likewise lost ourselves.
Last week, a collection of Democrats introduced something they’ve dubbed the 
