In 1914 Albert Lewis Pelton wrote a book called "The Creed of the Conquering Chief." It talks about intelligence and leadership. Excerpt below:
-=-=-=-
*29. A crowd represents a leveling of men - a pulling down of the dominant - a lowering of leaders. Not that the masterful man has committed any crime against the laws of created beings - but simply because he is above the mass, do they seek to bring him down. "If we cannot get up to where you are, mayhap we can pull you down to where we are" is the attitude of the crowd.
In other words, the social leveller's ideal is the annihilation of every-whereactive and always-has-been-active law of LEADERSHIP - survival of the superior.
-=-=-=-
If you look at what the Jews did to Jesus, and what the democrats are trying to do to Trump, you will see that A.L. Pelton was completely correct.
Pelton's book completely predicts "outcome based education" and every other democrat initiative in the past 50 years.
Why is this important? Pelton predicted that mediocre people in power have no other choice than to destroy those who are intellectually superior to them by any means. He easily explains what the modern democrat-socialists are doing today.
Pelton finally says that only by true leadership is anything worthwhile accomplished. That the masses of the crowd would prefer to live in filth rather than lead themselves out of it. If you look at Trump and Biden, then you can easily see that Pelton was correct.
Remember that Pelton published his book in 1914. The leader that he saw rising above the crowd of the average was Teddy Roosevelt, though he does not mention Roosevelt by name anywhere in the book.
Pelton was trying to encourage an embrace of the extraordinary to lead the country. I am sure he would love Trump, Reagan, Kennedy, Truman, while despising Biden, Carter, Johnson, Coolidge and Wilson.
Albert Lewis Pelton "The Creed of the Conquering Chief", 1914, J.F. Tapley Co. Publishing, New York
Of note: Pelton's book was re-issued in 2014 of the later 1917 edition. My readings are from an original 1914 issue. But it is still wonderful reading. Pelton wrote may other "self help" books in his long career.
Chuck Nellis
Mark Knight
Mark Strauss
Unintended Consequences of EVs
Studies from several American Universities were announced in the past couple of weeks. The MSM is completely silent on them, but let me summarize here:
* The added weight of EVs will cause serious damage to the existing road infrastructure.
* The EV weight makes current safety barriers almost useless for common small vehicles. The barriers that would have worked for gas powered vehicles are next to useless for EVs.
* The added weight of EVs will cause 50-75% more wear on highways for vehicles driven the same mileage.
* The gas tax is what funds highways in most states. Since EVs pay no gas tax, there will be little money to keep those highways in usable shape.
* Bridges which were designed to carry the weight of gas powered vehicles may collapse under the weight of EVs. It is estimated that about 35% of all bridges in the USA are in this category.
* EV fires cannot be put out by conventional means and ALL fire departments need to upgrade their equipment to fight these kinds of fires.
The total cost of beefing up the roads, guard rails, and bridges is estimated between 20 and 50 trillion dollars. In other words, more than all the state and feds get in taxes for over 10 years. The cost of upgrading all the fire departments in the USA is another 10 trillion.
And let's not forget that EVs are more expensive, have lower range, and are a serious fire hazard, even when not being driven.
Still want an EV?
Chuck Nellis
Mark Strauss
Robert Brophy
https://twitter.com/i/status/1733575286006976672
while MAGA was crying in their beer - anons recorded and documented everything.
— The Rubber Duck ™ (@TheRubberDuck79) December 9, 2023
nobody was at the last inauguration. nobody.
what you been watching on the TV since then [and before] is just that - only on the TV. pic.twitter.com/PkNySBB2xo