Essays in Idleness

To return to my celebration of Donald Trump — and why not, it gets a rise out of people — I actually disagree with the man on approximately nine out of ten questions of public policy. However, I disagree with his adversaries even more, and to clinch the matter, I find him brave, humorous, entertaining, and charming. He rules, largely, by giving affront, and it is those to whom he offers this service who are most indebted to him, for by rendering them powerless, he is saving them from the eternal fire they deserve to be pitched into.

Which is to say, perhaps his largest single achievement, is his overthrow of the scientific ochlocracy. (Peace is nice, but seldom lasts.) Faced with the mob that was costing the society of the West countless billions then trillions, in climate mitigation (“ninety-seven percent of scientists agree”), he did not waste our time further, but rather sounded an angelic trumpet — a deafening tootle over the whole affair. The enemy disintegrates, not only in the United States, but in Canada and Europe, too, as the bewildered masses ensorcell what I first smoaked about thirty years ago, i.e. that we were dealing with a scam, which, like every other audacious swindle in history, was designed to fill the depraved with tax money, for “research.” What perhaps made it special was the extraordinary scale on which this diddle was performed.

Still, “climate change” makes relatively modest claims on our lives, minds, and pocketbooks (compared, for instance, to Islam). And as I say, it is already passing, as things do pass, when they are met by men who defend the truth boldly, and will suffer a few martyrs. Our ochlocratic rulers — the smug mandarin elites above the mob — have not killed nearly as many as their predecessors through the centuries, and those only indirectly. This is perhaps because, before their time, civilization had “progressed” so far, as a Liberal might argue. Whereas, I think that climate scaremongers are, as we used to say in the colloquial, “pussies.” Now, happily enough, their threat is evaporating.

But our foe will be back for more.

Never declare Peace when you are up against the Devil.