Competence

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“They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.”
― Hyman G. Rickover

Where are all the competent people? Something began to happen in late 2019. Over a thousand chief executive officers retired or resigned by the end of that year. Thousands more in 2020, even more in 2021, about the same in 2022. Not only chief executives but chief technology officers, chief marketing officers, everyone tasked with running different aspects of companies all over the world. They were briefed. Many of them wanted no part in what is happening. But they were compromised, so they went away.

Ayn Rand was a competent writer when her family was driven from Russia by the Bolsheviks. She came to New York and began writing. “Rand” was the name on her typewriter, and Ayn is an Arabic word meaning “fountainhead.” She worked as a copy writer and editor for radio plays and other media. Eventually her first novel was published. The world hasn’t been the same since. She not only believed in competence, she believed that competent people don’t owe anyone else a living. So in her most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, she has her protagonist, John Galt, talk to the people who are making the world run. He tells them to stop.

Why? Because he was betrayed by the people he worked with. They wanted the technology he had invented and proven, but they didn’t want to pay for it. So he left them. And they had no idea how to make his engine work. Soon, their company was bankrupt and they were all out of work. Before he left, he explained to them that he would stop the motor of the world. And stop it he did.

Which brings us to a part of today’s topic. Competence is important. It is especially significant in a technologically advanced culture. If you don’t have competent people showing up to work every shift at the boiling water nuclear reactors, you are going to have a bad day. It might not be this day, but it is going to be. (Hat tip Dan Sullivan for this important observation.)

Harvard’s Gay

One of the things I did in high school was cross-ex debate. I was very good. President of the debate team. Degree of distinction from the national forensic league. We took the first place trophy at Newton in four-man debate, me and Larry Lawrence, John Young and Wendy Cole on affirmative. The following year Scott Sehon and I took first place at the championship division of Shawnee Mission East tournament. After that, I matriculated at Columbia, Larry transferred during his sophomore year from Columbia to Yale, and Scott attended Harvard. At the time of our admission Columbia was still all male - Harvard went coed in 1977 and Yale in 1969. Undergrad ladies at Columbia could attend Barnard or the Columbia engineering school until 1983 when coed freshmen were accepted at Columbia college.

One of the people who attended his last two years at Columbia was Barack Obama. He went on to Harvard law school. At Columbia he was a part of the gay community, though I was oblivious to the people in those groups. I had three concentrations and didn’t have much time outside class, term time work, and studying to keep my scholarship. But I did have time for two anti-war groups on campus my freshman and sophomore years as well as for the joint L5 Society and Planetary Society chapter that I started in 1982 with Carmi Weinzweig.

In the Autumn of 1982 the anti-war groups on campus held a die-in. We were protesting nuclear war. We thought it was important to let the world know that many people in New York city would die if there were a nuclear weapons exchange between the USA and the Soviet Union. So we made plans to have thousands of students and visitors lay down on campus at noon one day, for about ten minutes. There were camera crews from all over the world. It made some newspapers and magazines. It was considered a big event as such things go. Barack hated it.

He was already working in the military industrial complex. He was already doing the bidding of the cia/fbi/nsa deep state. So he attended meetings of the two anti-war groups in the 11th and 12th month of 1982 and the first three months of 1983 and posed as a student journalist for Sundial magazine. He published as much ‘dirt’ as he was able to find on each of the major personalities of the anti-war groups, except me. You can still find his article on the web at various places.

God had other plans for me. I was walking down the hall in the dormitory where I lived, named after John Jay, the author of some of the Federalist Papers and a chief justice of the USA supreme court. It was early in the 11th month of 1982. Shawn Bender was unhappy at work and was talking to pre-med Jerald Block. Shawn was lamenting how boring his work was. He would clock in about noon, work for half an hour, wait around for the shift to end after four hours, and go home. This set of facts seemed intriguing, so I asked him how much the job paid.

“It’s seven dollars an hour,” he replied. The current minimum wage job I had on campus was paying $3.25 and involved flipping a lot of burgers and dropping a lot of baskets of french fries. Grease spatter and the joys of a whole new level of teenage acne. Shawn was determined to give up the job, but his boss was a really great guy so he wanted to find a replacement. Naturally, I expressed interest.

This led to an interview and a job offer. So I was not on campus three afternoons a week and all day on Friday. After that I organised my schedule around work. Within a year I was weekend shift supervisor. By the end of my career at the bank, I was leading a team of thirteen clerks, processing $45 million in cheques every weekend, and balancing the accounts for some of the biggest names in commerce. Fun gig.

It left me little time or energy for student activism. Also, I attended a meeting in Spring 1983 of the bigger of the two anti-war groups and found out that the new chairman chosen at the previous meeting who would be leading the group the following school year was a graduate student in Chinese language studies and a committed Maoist. I didn’t think he was a good choice, but I had missed the meeting where he was chosen.

So it was in the fifth month of 1983 that I was walking across campus. As I recall, it was the beginning of “stop week” before final exams. I was going to Furnald Grocery to get some supplies for a late night study session. Pulling all nighters was a routine thing by this point in my academic career. Furn-Groc as I called it was a student-run store in the basement of one of the other dorms on campus. And as I was walking across one of the quadrangles, I hear my name called. “Is that you Jim Davidson?”

To people who knew me, this question would have seemed stupid. I was wearing my dark blue baseball cap with about fifteen political buttons. L5 Society, committee against registration and the draft, no nuclear weapons, 59 cents for the “equal pay for equal work” ladies to start conversations with women, numerous peace symbols. Yeah, I was in plain sight. Anybody who had ever met me would have been able to tell Barack what to look for, and he did. Which seemed odd.

The whole conversation seemed odd. I had no idea who he was and nobody had shown me his hit piece on the anti-war groups. I was busy studying. And here was this guy wearing a red white and blue foraging cap walking quickly my way wanting to start a conversation. When he showed me his handful of lapel pins from military contractor companies (one featuring a Stinger missile) and telling me he was planning to put them all on his hat, I thought it was very strange for an upper classman to be ingratiating himself to me. What was going on? He had already explained that he was graduating that year and wouldn’t be on campus the following year. But he wanted to talk to me about my experiences with the anti-war group Students Against Militarism (SAM).

There were all these silent alarms in my head alerting me to the oddness of this encounter. Who was this guy? Nobody I knew. But he knew my name and he knew I had been not only active but effective at organising one of the anti-war groups and he had a bunch of fancy lapel pins from military contractor companies. Did he know that I recognised Boeing and McDAC and the others from my work with the L5 Society? Probably.

One of his early questions was why he hadn’t seen me at any of the meetings on campus of SAM. So I explained that I had a job off campus, it paid well, I needed to supplement my scholarship money, and it left me little time to attend student group meetings. After some other discussion, he asked whether I planned to be active in SAM the next school year. I said no. He asked why not. I remember this part pretty clearly because it made an impression on me.

I said that I was still working at the bank and expected to work there over the Summer and into the next year. Also, I had met the new chairman of SAM and he was a Maoist, so I didn’t think I could be a part of it any more. Barack looked at me and asked, “What’s wrong with Maoism?”

There was this pause as I looked at him. I remember scowling a little bit, wondering if he was being sarcastic. But it looked like he was sincerely mystified. So I said, “You know, all the dead people.”

He was, “Oh, right. The people Mao killed. That bothers you.”

I stared off at Furn-Groc and started walking around him. “Yeah. It bothers me. The dead people thing bothers me. That’s why I joined Students Against Militarism. Because of the dead people.” I don’t remember what he said after that. I had stopped listening.

So it seems that Barack is still very active in American political life. He is the great individual supporter of Claudine Gay, the plagiarist who is minimally capable of publishing a few papers, might be able to meet classes, and wasn’t competent to be president of Harvard. From my perspective, Harvard’s problem is that they rejected all the other possible African American professors who were competent and would have made excellent presidents. Harvard deliberately chose someone to curry favour with Obama, perhaps, or to push the gay agenda to defy God’s commandment to be fruitful and multiply, or for other reasons. Gay is probably a committed communist like the two Obamas and Bill and Hillary.

How many organisations in America are run by people who are willing to work with Barack and “Michelle” Obama? I don’t know. But it is quite a few.

You can ask yourself why certain policies are big right now. Who is pushing the transgender agenda? Well, sure, hospitals are making huge amounts of money mutilating children, but there are other ways to make money. Someone wants to see thousands of children mutilated. Is it Joe Biden? He has an evident interest in sniffing and touching children that is not in the least wholesome. But he also seems to have the kind of disconnectedness associated with significant dementia. “Michelle,” on the other hand, is clearly trans.

Is the most corrupt president in American history Joe Biden? Or Barack Obama? Where did Obama get all the wealth after he left the White House, to buy that really fancy home on Martha’s Vineyard? I suspect from selling the policies of his administration to people who wanted to buy influence. Joe was doing the same thing, much more openly and without any discretion about waiting until he was out of office to get paid.

Where did they go?

Where have all the good, hard-working, competent people that were leading companies in the USA between 2010 and 2018 gone? I’ve pointed out that a lot of them left, and you can corroborate that with your own research. If you think I’ve erred in my assessment, please bring up your thoughts and information in the comments. The search for truth is found in the heart of the debate, as TIKHistory says on YouTube.

I myself believe that a series of conversations were had during the time after Trump became president in 2017. The fbi has had the goods on a great many people for a very long time. They have had an enthusiasm for eroding the popularity of certain people by exposing their misdeeds and adulteries.

If you doubt me, consider the Gramm Rudman Hollings act and the determination of Newt Gingrich to enforce it, to reduce the deficit, even though the deep state hated the idea. The government was actually shut down, and it was glorious. Because the gooferment is full of foolish and incompetent people who hate humanity and want to enslave mankind. Gooferment offices are full of nephews and cousins who not only have jobs on the govt payroll but indoor jobs in air conditioning. They do nothing, think nothing, create nothing, and are nothing but trouble. And oh how they make trouble for people who are creative, thoughtful, and productive. So Newt was destroyed, politically, by various smear pieces to discredit him and the revelation of some information. It worked the same with Ross Perot. It worked the same with John Anderson in 1980. It always goes the same way.

So from 2017 to 2019 a lot of senior executives at a lot of companies were told that if they didn’t take retirement or resign by the end of 2019 they would be exposed. And this continued into 2020 and 2021, at least. Today those who oppose the evil plans of the Obamas who haven’t ever done anything wrong are shown deep fake videos of their faces where actors in green screen masques are seen doing terrible things. The tech savvy jerks in Hollyweird and Arrakis bay area have joined the conspiracy to create convincing lies. Thousands and thousands of competent people were, have been, and are being chased off. And they have not gone to Galt’s Gulch. There isn’t one.

They’ve gone home, where they wonder about what might have been. Maybe a few of them wonder about the things being done, the violent riots, the buildings burnt to the ground, the monuments to peace and reconciliation torn down and thrown away, the poison vaxxajabs, the replacements, the violent raping at the rape trees near the border, the cartels and gangs, the plan to slaughter tens of millions of Americans and force millions more into “re-education” camps to be worked and starved to death. But few have the courage of their convictions, and many have no convictions at all. Only cowardice and greed, upon which no civilisation has ever been built.

What would I say to them? I would say good riddance. If you aren’t willing to fight for freedom, decency, and humanity, if you acquiesce in the enslavement of mankind because you don’t want to look bad or be embarrassed, I’m sorry you were ever our countrymen. Bow down and lick the hand that beats you and may your chains set heavily upon you, may they chafe and bind. May history record what you did and everything about you that you feared would be exposed. And may God have mercy on your souls.

To the Stars

We live about a third of the way in from the edge of the galaxy, along one of its great arms of star systems. Jesus gave us a great commission, and Jesus wants us to carry it out: tell the gospel to every creature in God’s creation and those who believe may be baptised. God loves you and wants you to live in joy with God in heaven forever.

These are not burdensome tasks. God is with us to be our comfort and salvation. We can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens us. Looking at the life of Jesus we can walk on water, raise the dead, heal the sick, cast out demons, turn water into wine, and do anything else we want, if we have but faith the size of a mustard seed. Looking at the life of his apostles who converted multitudes, baptised in water and in the Holy Spirit, healed the sick, raised the dead, and did many other miracles with the power of God through the Holy Spirit, we know it is so. So be of good cheer.

A reckoning is coming. Some organisations were infiltrated by demon worshippers. Much of this began in 1717 when the current crop of freemasons’ temples to demon worship began manifesting. They paid Jean Jacques Rousseau to tell his lies in The Social Contract. Which led to the worst excesses of the French Revolution and many deaths. They paid Karl Marx to write his lies in The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Hundreds of millions have been murdered by communists. The Vatican has been infiltrated and corrupted. It will soon fall.

Cecil Rhodes took all the gold and all the diamonds in South Africa on which he could lay his greedy ugly hands. His last will and testament founded the Rhodes scholarships to convert souls like Bill Clinton to his work. His will founded “round tables” to pretend to have the strength of spirit and wisdom of Arthurian legend. His executor Alfred Milner conspired with others to profit from world war one and from the feral reserveless scheme and the income tax. The Rhodes conspirators sank the RMS Titanic to get rid of the opposition to their schemes. They helped Philander Knox defraud the American people by claiming the income tax amendment was ratified. And they have done many other terribly evil disgusting things. And failed.

Everything they have done has been for nought. Their prostitution of children through Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for mossad, fbi, cia, gchq, nsa, mi6, and other disgusting agencies has been exposed. Julian Assange and Bradley/Chelsea Manning exposed their war crimes, Assange and Seth Rich exposed their political crimes. The Anthony Weiner laptop exposed Huma and Hillary torturing a little girl and flaying the skin off her face so when they killed her she was so terror filled that her blood was full of the adrenochrome they crave. Hunter’s laptop exposed more crimes and more corruption. We know what they are, who they are, and where they live. And a reckoning comes.

We are involved in a spiritual war, fighting against wickedness in high places, against powers and principalities. They may seem quite clever, insidious, and strong. But there are more on our side than on theirs, for God and the heavenly hosts are with us.

So I invite you to pray: Eternal Father, please help us to free the slaves, stop the wars, and end tyranny. Please help with guidance, resources, ingenuity, endurance, fortitude, and patience. Please show us the little fires so we may pass by them. Please bring love into our lives so we remember what we have to live for. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Mother Mary please intercede with your powerful intercession. Amen.

Please join me in that prayer. All you need do is say “amen.”

God bless you all. Happy new year. Next year in a free country. Amen.

That’s all I’ve got for today. Come back next time when I’ll have something new. Or old.