Hi, I’m Ferdinand Bardamu, and I’m running for Governor of New York in 2010.
Why have I decided to toss my hat into the ring? I could give the same reasons that every sociopath candidate running for public office in this cesspit of a state gives, all relating to how I’m tired of how Albany is running things and how I’m an outsider who’s going to overhaul everything and take out the trash. And while I DO think I can do a better job than the other idiots running, I have another motivation. It was during the election four years ago when I discovered that this guy, name of Jimmy McMillan:
…was not only running for Governor, he’d managed to get enough signatures to get onto the ballot. And he’s going to be on the ballot again this year, complete with a website that’s straight out of 1998, an endlessly looping rap song, and a new platform:
No word on where he plans to get the money to finance free college tuition when he wants to cut property taxes. Also no word on how he plans to win when his central issue has no relevance to the 60 percent of the state’s population that doesn’t live in the Five Boroughs.
And he also has a part of his campaign website dedicated to what he thinks about transsexuals:
Transgender
(pronounced /trænzˈdʒɛndər)
Born with a chemical imbalance they are not;
GAY
And neither are they
HOMOSEXUALS
From the species of Homo sapiens they are. They should be given a separate identity within the species of Homo sapiens.
They are normal human beings just like me and you they were just born different.
Chromosome
xx – Female
y – Male
THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY FOR YEARS HAS BEEN / HAVE BEEN MAKING THE DECISION WHO IS TO BE MALE AND WHO IS TO BE FEMALE IT’S TIME FOR THIS ATTITUDE IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY TO COME TO AN END.
I’m not making any of this up. You thought Alvin Greene was bad? At least he’s running a multi-issue campaign.
I’ve got nothing against McMillan. I’m sure he’s a nice guy, and I like his style. But if he can run for Governor, why can’t I? I can write complete sentences, I have a better looking website, and my proposals, inspired somewhat by Brett Stevens’ 2012 presidential platform, will benefit ALL New Yorkers. If elected, here is what I will do to make the Empire State a better place:
Independence: Secede from the United States of America, in association with other separatist groups like the Second Vermont Republic and the League of the South. It’s plainly obvious that the constituent peoples of the U.S. no longer want to be in the same country, so why force them to remain under one roof? Individual state governments are much better equipped to deal with the problems of our society than the clowns in Washington. And if you’re worried about a long and punishing civil war, fuhgeddaboudit – the troops that D.C. needs to crush our uprising are all stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’ll be like the collapse of the Soviet Union! Besides, you liberal pussies made a lot of noise about seceding from the Union when Bush was re-elected…now you’re getting EXACTLY what you want.
Crime: Bring back capital punishment to include white collar criminals. Arrest, try, and execute if found guilty the entire boards of Goldman Sachs, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and other parasitic corporations. Remove Bernie Madoff from prison for a public hanging in Times Square. Limit appeals for criminals sentenced to death to one, and require that they be executed within one year of their sentencing to cut down on the cost of imprisonment. False rape accusations become punishable with the same sentences that the accused would have received if found guilty. Frivolous lawsuits outlawed, with fines for those who file them.
Government: State senators will no longer be popularly elected, but be appointed by county governments for six-year terms however they see fit – the way the upper house in a bicameral legislature is supposed to work. Institute a two-term limit for the governor and senators and a six-term limit for assemblymen. Lobbyists and “riders” on bills banned. Electoral district redrawing and corruption cases will be handled by external agencies that do not report to elected officials.
Voting: Prospective voters must pass a literacy test in order to vote. If you can’t read, write, or don’t know what’s going on in the news, you have no business having a say in how the government operates.
Economics: “Too-big-to-fail” banks dismantled Standard Oil-style, with laws preventing the formation of large banks who can tank the economy if they fail.
Bureaucracy: Repeal the law requiring public sector workers to join a union as a condition of employment. Gradually fire all state employees not working in a field vital to government operation, such as the police, education, or healthcare.
Welfare: Replace social welfare programs with a basic income guarantee along the lines of Advocatus Diaboli’s Minimal Consumption Entitlement, as described here and here.
Education: Reorient grade school education to teach students at their level, with less gifted ones being steered towards vocational training and retards put in separate schools. Provide free college education for all students with a track record of academic success. Announce a jubilee for all student loan debt.
Marriage: Marriage is recognized as an economic contract for the purposes of raising children in a stable environment with a mother and father. Abolish no-fault divorce, alimony and child support. Child custody always goes to the father except in extreme circumstances.
Affirmative action: Abolished in all forms.
Immigration: Restore the National Origins Formula. English becomes the official language; legal citizens who don’t like this will be paid to emigrate to their ancestral lands. Only immigrants with necessary skills are considered for admittance – no more refugees or unskilled laborers. End birthright citizenship. Illegal aliens are deported to their country of origin, no exceptions. Business owners that knowingly employ illegals will be fined heavily; repeat offenders will have their assets seized by the government and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Transportation: Turn all Interstates and other highways into toll roads, with tolls doubled for highways that go into urban areas (such as I-81 in Syracuse and I-787 in Albany) to encourage people to live closer to their workplaces. End the I-86 construction project – it’s an incredible waste of money. Create a new passenger rail service and fund it to implement high-speed rail service throughout the entire state.
Conservation: All previously shuttered public parks reopened and more created across the state; littering on public property and other violations of conservation law become felonies.
Foreign Relations: Declare official neutrality.
Military: Retain a small National Guard for defense.
Trade: End all free trade agreements. Reinvigorate local manufacturing by implementing a sliding system of tariffs, adjusted based on the GDP of the nation in question. Products from backwards, low-wage shitholes like China or Mexico will receive punishing tariffs – labor-friendly countries like Germany or France will receive comparatively smaller ones. De facto free trade and open transit with neighboring countries like the People’s Republic of Vermont, the République du Québec, and the Commonwealth of Guidostan (formerly New Jersey). End all farming subsidies.
Vice: Legalize prostitution and all drugs, and repeal all blue laws as well as open container laws. Allow individual municipalities to regulate these vices as they see fit. Lower the age of consent to 14 for girls and keep it at 17 for boys. Replace statutory rape laws with age of impregnation laws as detailed here.
Royalty: Bring back the monarchy. North America is in need of a true, cultured aristocracy with a sense of noblesse oblige, as opposed to the vulgar burghers who currently constitute our ruling class. Monarchs would serve in a capacity similar to the Queen of England – no real power, but nonetheless playing an important role as symbols of nobility and arbiters of good taste, and holding reserve powers in the event a Mussolini-type gets into power and screws everything up. I personally recommend Princess Madeleine of Sweden to be crowned Queen, and not merely because I’d like to put my scepter in her Royal Court.
Destruction: Demolish the Empire State Plaza – it’s a fucking eyesore. Sell it back to the city of Albany to be developed into Italian restaurants and kosher delis.
My plan, radical as it may seem, is the best way to restore peace, progress, 
and prosperity to America, or at least the best slice of it. So on November 2nd, don’t waste your vote on establishment hacks like Andrew Cuomo or Rick Lazio, or phony populists like Carl Paladino who’ll betray you as soon as they get inaugurated. Vote for me, Ferdinand Bardamu, your favoritest blogger in the whole wide world!
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I’m torn.
On the one hand, I have to pay rent, and that sucks.
On the other hand, I have student loans, and they suck, too.
[Since you don't live in NYC, Jimbo's reforms won't affect you at all. - ed.]
Leave us out of your shit.
[You'll get dragged into it whether you like it or not. Remember what Trudeau said about sleeping with an elephant... - ed.]
You’d have my vote, but Her Royal Highness stays here.
Ferdinand, you crazy bastard, your policies actually (mostly) make sense. That’s why this will never work. There are too many people with a vested interest in things not making sense. Not that that makes sense, which is what I keep telling them; but there’s no use in trying to reason with crazy bastards.
Snark is correct. People like me, for example. How am I to take over the world and crush it beneath my fist if people can figure shit out? Under no circumstances, Ferdy, should you consider simply giving park rangers the ability to hand out tickets for littering and funneling the proceeds from such into the park’s trash service, ensuring a clean park. That would make far too much sense, do no such thing!
Government
I’d rather just eliminate the upper house of legislature, and move to a parliamentary system with five year terms.
[Even parliamentary systems have upper houses. Indeed, the purpose of dividing the legislature is to give regional governments/nobles and the populace equal say in government. But I agree that a unicameral legislature is more sensible than a bicameral one with both houses popularly elected. - ed.]
I do agree that redistricting should be done with a non-partisan commission. FWIW, I’ve never understood the love of term limits. In most cases, it makes the machine slightly more creative where they simply put up a new puppet to take the place of the old puppet.
[It forces new blood into the system, and sets a natural check on idiot constituencies re-electing idiot politicians.]
I’m also surprised that you’d ban lobbyists given free speech issues.
[Free speech is for individuals, not corporations.]
Voting
I live in a “white” country, so I cannot support such policies. The right to vote is a critical element of democracy and should not be abridged because you don’t like the result of how the proles vote.
[If the proles were smart enough to vote properly, this requirement wouldn't be necessary. Anyhoo, when they start getting their monthly MCE payments, they'll stop caring about suffrage.]
Economics
Somebody lives in a fantasy world…
[You don't think shutting down banksters is possible?]
Bureaucracy
Except where does this put those that work in regulatory functions or other functions like employees of the DMV or transport workers for NYSDOT and the transit agencies?
[Like I said, workers vital to maintaining the operations of the government get to keep their jobs. My plan is aimed at useless bureaucrats (like myself, incidentally) who get paid salaries in the mid-to-upper five figures to do nothing but push paper. With the consolidation of all social welfare into the MCE, a lot of social workers will become redundant.]
Transportation
I’m amazed that you’d support tolling urban interstates and using the proceeds to pay for public transport.
[The current way most states deal with increasing traffic congestion is to build more and bigger highways and bill the federal government for their upkeep. This is fiscally and environmentally unsustainable. Making everyone who uses the Interstates pay for the privilege and investing in European-style high-speed rail is the only sustainable way to keep them maintained. I could go radical and argue that existing highways be torn down (like some people in Syracuse are doing by trying to get rid of the stretch of I-81 that goes through the city), but we need the Interstates for transporting goods and materials.]
FWIW, that plan to get people to live closer to urban cores won’t work as long as zoning is still done at the local level, and done to support current land use policies.
[Probably not, but it'll slow down the cancer of suburbanization.]
And how is I-86 a waste of money? It’s effectively some reconstruction of sub-standard interstate sections of the road. Although, I’m surprised that you’re even aware of it, but then this blog can be interesting at times…
[I-86 is a waste because it's a highway running through the armpit of the state. There's nothing there but trailer parks and inbred hicks. Binghamton, the most important city in the Southern Tier, is already hooked into the Interstate system by way of I-81 and I-88. Not to mention that it'll undercut Thruway profits by giving truckers a toll-less way to cross the state easily.]
Trade
But I want my cheap Chinese made shit! Ultimately, are we as a society willing to pay more for the electronic goods that we’re fond of purchasing in order to employ our fellow citizens? There’s a part of me that feels ultimately, nobody reall cares as they’re far more interested in buying a laptop for $300.
[They'll care because it'll mean their jobs will be next on the chopping block and foreigners will get to dictate how they do things. You want to stay free and independent, you'll be an economic nationalist.]
I’m also surprised at your implicit support for a Quebecois state, which I’ve always found to be a romantic, yet, highly unsustainable idea even in the long-term.
[I don't really care about a free and independent Quebec - it was a rhetorical flourish. In any event, if states were to begin seceding from the Union, you can bet that the Canadian Commonwealth would unravel in short order. Like Trudeau said, you can't sleep next to an elephant without being affected by its twitches and grunts. An independent Quebec would basically be a semi-dysfunctional second-world country, the Thailand to our Singapore.]
Royalty
I’m a royalist in Canada, and a republican in France, so I feel no need to return to that form of government. Besides, there’s no guarantee that the royal family would promote the values that you’re looking for.
[Even if they don't do that, the ultimate purpose of a ceremonial monarchy is to check the power of the elected executive. Bad prime ministers get fired before they can destroy everything. Contrast the deposition of Mussolini by Victor Emmanuel and Hirohito's forcing the Big Six to surrender to the Allies to Hitler and the Nazis fighting on until Germany was completely devastated. Anyone else would beat the sociopathic plutocrats that we have.]
Destruction
I like Empire State Plaza!
[You don't have to stare at it on a daily basis.]
I have to say, Her Highness has an impressive pair of knee-breakers.
Like Snark and Ancel said, FB: way too much common sense in your platform. You’d have to have some tac-nukes handy to force the marching morons of our society to comply.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knee-breaker
???
Governor Bardamu, what is the plan to deal with things like the Feminist-Marxist indoctrination in public schools?
[Like with other public employees, the power of the unions - the source of that insanity - will be smashed. Private schools that teach that BS won't receive any government funding. Rich bastards want to waste their money on that, they can knock themselves out. - ed.]
Or blights upon the sight like the parades of decadence (PRIDE/BDSM parades and the like)?
[Let local governments deal with it. The ones who don't want it will ban it, the ones that do won't, and everyone will be happy.]
Or degrees in useless crap?
[The government will only fund your education if you're pursuing a useful degree, like engineering or mathematics. Liberal arts degrees will return to being the province of shiftless rich kids, as they've historically been.]
Even parliamentary systems have upper houses.
I was actually using the example of provincial legislatures in Canada which have done away with their upper houses.
[Ah, I see. - ed.]
Of course, if one believes in the swift passage of legislature like I do (the slowness of our Congress makes one want to puke at moments), then an upper house is effectively a waste of time and a dumping ground for third rate politicians in countries where the upper house is there, but has little effect on passage (i.e Canadian Senate). FWIW, if you’re bored, look at the model of the Bundesrat in Germany for a modern upper house that has the capability to slam the brakes on any legislation.
[That's the whole point. Upper houses make sure that change is slowed down and the main parties can't screw their political opponents over completely - which the House Republicans and Democrats would do if they could. They also put a halt to the growth of government, which is part of my plan - returning many government functions to individual counties and cities.]
It forces new blood into the system, and sets a natural check on idiot constituencies re-electing idiot politicians.
I think that’s a bit premature. If you fear idiot constituencies re-electing the same idiot politicians, then one should fear said idiots voting for the proteges of said idiot politicians.
[I live in Albany, where no term limits and one-party rule has gotten us muggings and shootings in "good neighborhoods," a skyrocketing murder rate, and urban blight. No protege is completely identical to his idiot mentor and this fact alone provides for better government.]
You don’t think shutting down banksters is possible
I live downstate. Our economy relies on this part of the rent seeking economy being large and flushing itself with bonuses. Regardless, I’m just hesitant to muck up with this sector of the economy too much, and for some reason playing bailout seems easier than trying to figure out the unknown of what would happen if we did smash up large banks.
[The rent seeking economy is due to collapse, and all the bailouts are doing are making the inevitable blowup bigger. Best to shut it down with a minimum of bloodshed and replace it with industries that actually create value.]
This is fiscally and environmentally unsustainable.
As I stated earlier, you do not come across as the type of person to care about such things, but that’s because environmentalism and even to a lesser extent, conservation reeks of a certain degree of leftist politics that I just don’t see in your writings.
[What, I can't want to preserve nature and be conservative? (Google "Madison Grant.") A lot of environmentalism (read: global warming) is loony Marxist nonsense, but conserving natural spaces is important if we don't want to make the planet uninhabitable. There's no need to keep tearing up forest for roads when we can accomplish the same goals with public transportation.]
My personal preference for gas taxes in lieu of tolls, and I’d like to see more high speed rail and urban transport because it helps to get the questionable drivers off the roads.
[The problem with gas taxes is that they disproportionately hit people living in the country because they need their cars more than the urban degenerates.]
I-81 that goes through the city
Is Zerocuse large enough to even have a rush hour?
[Just barely, and it's largely due to all the construction that's always going on.]
FWIW, you can just re-designate I-481 as I-81, and just eliminate the elevated stretch downtown which probably the expensive part that NYSDOT is leery about maintaining.
[Had the morons in charge gone with my plan thirty years ago, they wouldn't have NEEDED to build I-481. Have all the individual commuters on trains, and leave the Interstates for long-distance travelers and truckers.]
Probably not, but it’ll slow down the cancer of suburbanization.
Again, another surprising phrase from you. I’m rather agnostic toward the idea of suburbs. I’m not fond of the large 3,000 sq ft homes on large plots that have been seen in new suburbs, but I’m attached to my 1500 sq ft home on a small suburban plot on Long Island. Some would argue that railing against the suburbs is “un-American”, and that Americans don’t want to live in urban areas, and that urban areas are filled with the dirty NAMs that nobody wants to live with.
[I understand the reasons for suburbanization, but that doesn't make it an acceptable solution for the long haul. Conservatives want to accelerate the growth of sprawl, while Jim Kunstler and his acolytes want to forcibly relocate middle-class whites with the unruly NAMs they're fleeing from - neither will solve the underlying problem. By overhauling education and welfare, said unruly NAMs become un-unruly as they are integrated into society with a meaningful role. Or you know, we could just get inhumane and deport 'em all.]
I-86 is a waste
Except it’s been complete for years as NY 17. The money we’re spending is merely to upgrade certain sections that don’t meet current interstate specifications, primarily due to at grade intersections. The general theory behind this re-designation is so that more traffic will funnel through the region since people freak out about driving on state highways, but anybody with half a brain knows that it’s a great way the save money even without the upgrades. Hell, if you’re not in a rush, the Taconic is a great way to cheat on the Thruway tolls…
[I can see possibly, POSSIBLY a reason to upgrade the part that goes from Binghamton to Erie, but Binghamton to Woodbury? What's the point? Why does that section of NY-17 even exist? It's literally a highway to nowhere.]
Contrast the deposition of Mussolini by Victor Emmanuel
The same Victor Emmanuel that let him take over the country in the first place?
[His slowness in firing the bastard was, I imagine, part of the reason why the Italians voted to abolish the monarchy a few years later. But still, he did it. Consequently, Italy remained a united, free, capitalist country while Germany was cleaved in half between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. and utterly ruined. And I note you didn't touch my Hirohito example. The Big Six would have fought the Allies down to the extermination of the Japanese people were it not for his intervention.]
I’m tempted to argue that may be the worst case that one could pick out in terms of promoting the viability of a monarchy.
[If that's the case, I'll try the King-Byng Affair and the Dismissal.]
Have you even remotely considered a presidential system like Germany’s or Israel’s as an alternative? It allows for a highly ceremonial position, but with out the expensive trappings and elitist sentiment of a royal family that isn’t even native to the country.
[The German and Israeli systems are acceptable alternatives, but are tainted by their dependence on the legislature. A hereditary monarch is insulated from the machinations of the democratic process, provided he/she does his/her goddamn job. And we need an elitist sentiment! I want to inspire the proles to greatness, not have them wallow in their mediocrity like self-satisfied little shits.]
Education
Even if we discount the people who’ll call your plan racist, you’ll have to deal with the white proles who will magically see their children shunted off to “dirty” work, or middle class whites watching their kids go to “special schools”. Former will complain, and the latter will fight you tooth and nail.
[Well, they're just going to have to deal. American Dream or not, somebody's got to clean the toilets. And retards aren't "special," they're retards. Doesn't mean we don't treat them with human decency, but they aren't mentally capable of being full citizens, with the rights and privileges that entails. - ed.]
Admittedly, your jubilee would probably end up being a de facto stimulus on the economy freeing up lots of spending, especially for those with sizable debts. Hell, I could easily buy more crap with the $125 that I currently send to my lenders.
[Bingo! No more debt means college grads can get back to the business of starting families and fueling the wheel of consumption.]
Marriage
I’d rather keep no fault divorce than go back to a regime where people will simply fake their way out of a marriage.
[The MCE precludes that, because guaranteeing everyone a middle-class income will eliminate the need for people to marry for economic reasons. Only those who truly want children will get hitched.]
If one complains about family court judges granting custody to awful mothers, what’s to prevent the same courts from basically turning at fault marriages into “no-female fault” marriages?
[Enough stories of female misbehavior, pushed by blogs like this and the Spearhead, will force people to re-examine their view of the fairer sex.]
If anything, I’d argue for itemized expensive reports for child support, mandatory shared custody and registration for divorced couples with children to prevent spouses from magically disappearing with children.
[Too egalitarian. My scheme will basically be Marriage 1.0 - patriarchal marriage with the added safety nets of the MCE and legalized prostitution to keep people from marrying out of economic or sexual desperation. Women will likely choose marriage due to the absence of affirmative action and other government programs that give them an artificial economic advantage, but guys like you will still be able to opt out to watch porn and get your knobs polished by escorts if you like. We get the best of both worlds.]
Immigration
I think you’d have to just openly state your aims in lieu of hiding behind old immigration laws that don’t affect those from Latin America and Africa. It’s obvious that you want a Canadian style immigration system with even further restrictions, but if you also are interested in restricting for racial identity purposes, you should be honest about it.
[You can't get much more obvious than a policy that restricts immigration by tying it to the existing ethnic proportions of the population and demands linguistic assimilation. Plus, the "soft eugenics" of the MCE will give the middle and upper classes and the best of the lower classes an advantage in breeding.]
I’d probably want to keep an open door for refugees, but that’s because I operate out of guilt…
[The road to hell is paved with guilt.]
You don’t have to stare at it on a daily basis.
There’s nothing more glorious than a brutalist monument to the State.
[Fascist.]
I see that you have become a supporter of the MCE idea. Why not write something about legalizing voluntary prostitution- in a bit more detail than you have until now.
[In the queue. Just need a bit more research. - ed.]
Goddam. You should run for real.
@Advocatus Diaboli
The same deal with drug legalization. As long as buyers for a product exist (and they will always exist), sellers will try to make a profit with said product.
Supply and Demand.
At declaring a market illegal, you only create a black market which is a)Non-taxable, b)Of lower product quality and c)Run by mafias, guerrillas and other criminal syndicates.
Also, in the case of cuntries in which prostitution is illegal, the reform was always pushed by the female voting bloc in an attempt to make pussy a commodity, hence increasing its value.
which the House Republicans and Democrats would do if they could
Somehow, I don’t mind that. I’m far more statist than you, so anything makes government move faster is a positive for me, and admittedly, in my drunker moments, I do have revanchist dreams.
No protege is completely identical to his idiot mentor and this fact alone provides for better government.
For somebody that has little faith in the people, I’m surprised that you’re putting so much hope into individuals. NYC has term limits for the City Council, but I personally have yet to see the advantage that it brings. Hell, I was one of the few people that wanted the term limits law to be overturned because I’m freaking about who’d become mayor after Bloomberg. I don’t want some pander bear that’s going to drive the city into debt or “open the prisons”.
FWIW, despite being a DNC loyalist, I’ll admit to being a supporter of non-partisan elections to at least create some degree of competition.
The rent seeking economy is due to collapse
And I don’t see a viable alternative to it…
I can’t want to preserve nature and be conservative?
As I’ve noted, you don’t tend to see such a desire within conservative circles. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s just highly unusual given the stereotypes in the media. Of course, there is a difference between opening a state park and believing in the need to cap carbon emissions.
The problem with gas taxes
The problem is that RFID devices end up requiring installation at every entrance and exit, and a lot of people don’t want GPS units for perceived privacy concerns (read: the government can measure when I’m speeding). Gas tax avoid the privacy issues, uses a current mechanism for revenue collection that doesn’t require data dumps at inspection time, and it creates a market based incentive to use cars that are fuel efficient.
Just barely, and it’s largely due to all the construction that’s always going on.
Retarded Idea: Zerocuse Streetcar…
Had the morons in charge gone with my plan thirty years ago, they wouldn’t have NEEDED to build I-481
Actually, ideally, one would want to bypass the cities as much as possible to avoid the need to build expensive structures needed to cross through them. In lieu of I-81 and I-690, you’d just have urban boulevards to accomplish the distribution functions for auto traffic.
unruly NAMs become un-unruly
But how does handing large sums of money make NAMs “civilized”? We didn’t fix their low IQ, nor do they have any appreciable middle class work for them to do to allow the middle class to accept them as true equals. They’re always going to be disdained by the upper classes, and their low IQ won’t will lead them into questionable circumstances.
Or you know, we could just get inhumane and deport ‘em all.
I’ve argued that the human thing to do is to kill them off and spare them from living a life as poor citizens who are derided by those who are better than them or as beings stuck in their ancestral homelands with out the luxuries of the first world.
Why does that section of NY-17 even exist?
NYC’s access to the lower Catskills Region, and coincidentally, NYCDEP access to the reservoirs. Otherwise, it’s one of the most beautiful stretches of highway in New York, but it has relatively low traffic counts, especially given that many people use the I-80/I-380/I-81 combo to Binghampton. The original impetus was admittedly to improve safety when compared to the original NY 17 which it has done, but once you’re past Liberty, there isn’t much traffic. My employer covers roadside service on some of that stretch, and I think one can count the daily road service calls there on one hand.
Re: Mussolini & Hirohito
But again, as monarchs, why did they allow their nascent democracies to be hi-jacked by dictatorships unless they themselves saw little benefit to such a government. They’re not to be admired for their principles, but they’re simply men who recognized which groups to back at the right time. If we’re going to play monarchy, I want somebody who will preserve the democratic system at all costs, not a bunch of opportunists. Yes, they skated off lightly when compared to what happened, but had they acted much earlier, their countries would have avoided war entirely.
If that’s the case, I’ll try the King-Byng Affair and the Dismissal
The former isn’t that bad and merely a weak political crisis. The latter is rather questionable in its motives, but still not the worst thing to happen in parliamentary democracy.
I want to inspire the proles to greatness
How can one aspire to greatness when the person in question merely inherited their position and wealth? And as a believer of HBD, one would suspect that they wallow in mediocrity because of their low to middling IQ. There’s a reason why I can’t finish school, and it’s HBD. Besides, given the tradition in the last thirty years away from meddling in the affairs of the legislature, I think it’s highly imprudent that the monarchy will act in such a way, and given American tendencies, I don’t see us ever adopting a royal family, especially one that’s foreign born.
Doesn’t mean we don’t treat them with human decency
That’s the problem. I don’t think it’s possible to treat them or anybody with low IQ with human decency because they have lower value as people. We’ll implicitly see them as inferior while bestowing pity upon them.
but guys like you will still be able to opt out
That’s the problem. To opt-out, I need women to stay single, and affirmative action ensures that my female friends will stay single and have jobs while I get the advantages of having single women to keep me company without having to do repulsive things like have sex with them. Married women won’t bake brownies for me, but single women will so I admittedly do need men like Roissy and Roosh V to suck up the sexual energy from the market place while suffocating the other beta males. Thus, the women complain about not having any good men around, while they keep me company and feed my ego with their presence.
Besides, forcing them to marry men is still slavery for men even under Marriage 1.0 because the men have to take care of these women, and they’re not offering anything of value in return.
existing ethnic proportions of the population
I suspect such a policy presuming it would magically pass would have some interesting effects on immigration. Caribbean immigration would probably slow down as everybody with skills and high IQ is either too comfortable to leave, or has already left, while Latin American immigration will shrink to basically university graduates lacking in opportunities at home, while Asian immigration will probably max out its numbers. I suspect you’ll see more Africans with university degrees, especially since those without skills are left out of the immigration process.
The road to hell is paved with guilt.
I like to think guilt is what makes white people superior to the Asians. It’s what makes us human, and smarter than the savages.
Besides, who doesn’t want to give a free plane ticket to any Arab woman that sneak into our embassy?
Fascist
I am a dirigiste. The seduction of state capitalism, but without the mucky dictatorship.
@DA
As all the cute people on the Internet that asks for the death of other people (including, at a point, myself) are told at some point, unless you are disposed to get your hands dirty, you can’t talk much.
About the monarchy idea, they are there as a source of style, because the leaded-by-womens-and-gays fashion industry has failed on that, a source of gossip, because the proles need to be entertained, and as an opposite force to any government that doesn’t give them their fair share or, less likely, treat the general population as shit, which megalomaniac dicktators will often do.
Fred I cannot vote for you because you want to string men up by the neck like piñata. If you want non-violent financial hucksters dead then I don’t want to know what you’ll do to the sex criminals.
unless you are disposed to get your hands dirty, you can’t talk much
I’m black, so somebody would have to be willing to do the dirty work upon me.
About the monarchy idea
The British have a monarchy, and Ferd basically rants about how they’ve become a nation of a decadence with fat, ugly, poorly dressed women. Hell, the Eastern European nations that have the women that the PUAsphere foams over haven’t had a monarchy in nearly fifty years. The monarchy is not going to magically save you, and there’s nothing to prevent them from become allied with the rentier classes.
Dear leader,
You would have my vote, except I live in the ideal consitutional monarchy. The monarch lives in another country. And we only have one house, proportional representation and no gerrymandering.
And are neutral. But NZ is in the corner of the world. New York is somewhere near the centre. You all will need some form of department of war. To keep the crazy quebecers over one border, and the californicators off the others.
DA:
“Besides, who doesn’t want to give a free plane ticket to any Arab woman that sneak into our embassy?”
Why would you want to do that? This just shows how widely divergent you and I are, DA. I couldn’t care less about Arab women and their problems. Not my woman, not my problem.
IHTG: The definition that I was thinking of had more to do with her royal assets.
The neutered Monarchs of modern Europe are an embarassment. The position they occupy isn’t that of a Monarch, but that of any government appointed official like the AG, et cetera. It’s like the actual rulers of society have as a symbol of their power something that is currently Impotent that was once Absolute.
A similar arrangement to a neutered Monarch would be like the daily burning of the American flag instead of the National Anthem at schools, the American Bald Eagle being replaced with Rage Boy, all restrooms on public property being stocked with novelty Constitution toilet paper, and on the 4th of July we gather round to watch the POTUS get held down and fucked in the ass by our foreign debt-holders.
HRH Madeleine has been going downhill the last couple of years. Her fiancé had an affair with a younger woman on a ski trip, who sold her kiss-and-tell story (cheaply) to a Norwegian tabloid.
Except for the part about making littering a felony, this is rather good. But most can’t be done at the state level. You will need to run for Congress or President.
Would totally vote for you, but I don’t live in New York.
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