As IF Times

Source: There’s a new push to make Obama president again. This time, of France. – The Washington Post

An intriguing story appeared in the news this past week as it was revealed that Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un was apparently the subject of an assassination, courtesy of the brother in power. The deed was carried out in a manner reminiscent of a classic ’60’s style Bond movie.  A female agent approached the hapless brother in a public airport and smothered poison over his face and mouth with her hands.  Since it’s hard to imagine that anyone would be much interested in offing the banished brother, the finger of blame naturally pointed directly at the charismatic Jong Un.  No real mystery there.

I suspect that another assault has happened, on a much larger scale by perpetrators yet unknown, with subtler results, but no less devastating in the long term.  Some may recall years ago a device called a neutron bomb, which when detonated over a city, would leave the buildings intact but would wipe out the citizens.

Given the behavior of people these days and especially post Trump’s election, I suspect a similar device has already been detonated, but instead of a weapon of mass destruction, it was a device of mass delusion. Maybe it wasn’t administered by sudden detonation but instead over time in the  water or food supply, but the tragic effect is manifest in mass delusion rather than an immediate fiery death.  An alarmingly large swath of the west’s population seems to have been affected by the effects of this device, though it’s unclear why it only affects certain people and not others.

The pandemic-like spread of illogical and unreasonable thinking has infected every corner of western society.  For some reason, certain segments of society seem more susceptible to the effects than others.  It’s as if a selective Zombie Apocalypse were upon us.  We can find severe concentrations of the malaise among entertainers, college professors and many students; leftist politicians certainly, as well as most in media. Symptoms of the afflicted are many but include:

denial of reality; belief in fake reality; welcoming of self destructive policies; inflated self importance; illogical and flawed logic; imagined enemies; confusing the ability to speak with the ability to be coherent; and of course the inability of empathy for others whose opinions differ.

It’s a very sinister form of affliction.  With heavily infected news sources such as the Washington Post regularly confirming  the fantasy narrative, most don’t even know that they’re zombies.  Whomever is responsible for unleashing this most dastardly of weapons upon mankind is truly diabolical.  The nature of the attack is sinister and sadistic.  For it’s not the afflicted zombies that suffer, they don’t know they’re zombies; the pain is suffered by the non afflicted!  The non afflicted have to put up with the drama queen hysteria surrounding every issue, regardless of insignificance and bear with the destruction of property left behind by the ‘peaceful’ marches of the zombies.  Some must live with the destructive policies favored by the zombies if they happen to be unlucky enough to be governed by them. As they try to go about their daily affairs, the normal  have to put up with an ocean of horn rimmed glasses, facial hair, man buns and hoodies….and those are the women, protesting the outrage of de day or, ODD.

Eventually, the non afflicted tire of these poor souls and their delusional bleats and ignore them like a street panhandler.  It’s too soon to know if zombie-ism is contagious or if there’s a cure,  but there is always hope that eventually, Darwinism will cull the herd.  That process appears to be finally happening now.

Source: Trump wants to dump the Paris climate deal, but 71 percent of Americans support it, survey finds – The Washington Post

One of the unforeseen benefits of the last election is the enormous favor conferred upon people by the outing of most of the popular media outlets. The already stretched credibility of the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, among others, visibly snapped as their blatantly partisan reportage blew up in their faces like a prank cigar.

The great favor to which I refer is the time that will be saved by the public totally ignoring any articles with their bylines.  When you visit the most popular news aggregator, Google News, the majority of the linked articles are from the above mentioned sources. Once you bypass all of the detritus, spurious spin and manufactured hysteria concocted by these media outlets, taking in the day’s real news should only take 5 minutes.

Now that the initial shell shock of the loss by their favored candidate has subsided, their focus is now on the devastating effect that an incoming Voldemort administration will have on a naïve public.  Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

The surprising shock (to them) of  electoral defeat is mainly attributed to favorable polls, which up until decision day, were convincingly pointing to a Clinton victory.  You can imagine the outraged customers of the pollsters demanding refunds as if they were at Macy’s on the day after Christmas.

Pollsters haven’t had a good time of it over the past while, with the failure to predict the Brexit vote another recent yuuge failure.  Legitimate sampling is an effective statistical analysis tool and properly employed is the basis for many decisions in all industries.  In the case of recent political polling, I suspect that samples were taken from homogenous groups which were likely skewed towards a given response.   I also suspect that the same people were tired of the same pollsters asking the same questions.  After the 10th time, none of your damn business would be the box ticked.

It’s amusing then that in the linked story, a survey of 2000 people, from Chicago, was offered as proof that Americans ‘favored’ the Paris climate deal even as Trump was skeptical of it.

Chicago.  To ask a question of that type to that pool of respondents is like asking frat boys on their opinion of bikinis vs burkas.  The article is essentially worthless.  But rather than having to read the entire story, people can make more efficient use of their time by noticing the source of the story, which in this case is, surprise, The Washington Post.  As noted earlier, they can simply ignore the story and go directly to the football scores.