China is the Future

China has 40% of the world's manufacturing capacity. They produce more electricity than the next six biggest electricity producing countries combined. The Three Gorges Dam is the largest electricity producing facility of any kind in the world, 24 gigawatts. The Chinese are building another hydroelectric dam in Tibet that will be 60 gigawatts. The Chinese added more clean solar power to their grid than our entire nuclear generating capacity, just last year alone. When you go to Beijing, half the cars, trucks, and buses are already electric. China has already converted 13% of their cars to electric. Travel around the world and you will see Chinese car and truck dealerships, many of them electric. China has 230 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States by tonnage. Just one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire United States. In the same time since Californians voted to build our high speed rail in 2008, China has built the largest high speed rail network in the world, with over 30,000 miles (ca. 48,280 km) of tracks and still growing.

This whole idea of China invading Taiwan or the US going to war with China over Taiwan is just some archaic Cold War American thinking. Taiwan will want to join China soon. Taiwan is part of China, with the same language, culture, etc. You can't even imagine how far behind China we are. They are still an industrial and manufacturing company, but they're working incredibly quickly to become a technology country. They're currently somewhat like what Japan was 20-30 years ago.

As far as culture, they have the oldest continuous civilization in the world, over 4,000, years; they became a unified country 2,200 years ago. We have to pivot to holding the Western Hemisphere because we've already lost the Asia-Pacific. We have no long term plan for our country, and whatever plan we have changes every 4 or 8 years with each president and political party. In 20 years the financial hub of the world won't be NYC, it'll be Hong Kong. Every day I read about some US scientist or engineer who is moving to China for better wages and opportunities. Every day I read about how they're becoming self-sufficient for their own computer chip manufacturing. We still have financial power and the edge in innovation, but that will change. China exports its excess manufacturing and engineering capacity to build the ports, railways, highways, electrical and network grids for 75% of the world's population. That ensures those countries will use Chinese equipment and technical standards for at least the rest of this century.

Trump is really a last ditch attempt to restore American industrial and manufacturing power, but we will never catch up with China now. Yet all the dribbling idiots that have never produced anything and don't understand anything and believe socialism might be a solution to their problems, they will fight every attempt at change the whole way, so they can keep the same broken, corrupt, ineffective system they've only ever known, the same system they've voted for their entire life. 

- Dave Badperson

Trump goes to China

 

Notice how President Trump brought 18 CEOs with him to China, business leaders in technology, finance, aerospace, and agriculture. Companies with a combined market value of $17 trillion. Those are the people who build the future. If you want your country to build and grow and move into the future, you don't bring a bunch of geriatric career lawyer-politicians who've never built anything and still think we're fighting the Cold War. This bodes well for us and for China. Huge things are coming.

If you're one of the "Waaah Trump!" people then you probably still listen to the same 2,000 songs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and you probably voted for the geriatric career lawyer-politicians, and you're probably clinging to a dream that died decades ago.

- Dave Badperson

Albanian language and writing

Albanian is an enigma because it's not obviously related to other European languages and is a language isolate. It probably branched off from the Indo-European language family about 4,000-5,000 years ago, and is likely derived from some Paleo-Balkan language such as Illyrian. Since there are no written records of Albanian prior to 1462, and since history has given it a lot of loan words from Latin, Greek, Slavic, and Turkish, its origin remains a mystery. Unlike other European language families like Slavic and Latin that branched into many other languages, Albanian remained as a separate language and is one of the oldest linguistic heritages in Europe. In the past Albanian was written with Roman, Greek or Turkish-Arabic characters, but today it's all Roman characters like English, but with 2 letters that have diacritic marks to change the sound of the letter, Ç and Ë, and 9 digraphs that are considered distinct letters in Albanian, giving it a total of 36 characters, plus the letter W that's only used in loan words from other languages. I can understand some of the written words since they're obvious cognates with English, or Italian.

- Dave Badperson

The Kennedy Center Fiasco

 

I actually think the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in DC will be better off without having a certain real estate developer fixing it. That renovation needs to stop, so it keeps the massive backlog of deferred maintenance, the 65 year old heating and air-con systems that are failing, the compromised expansion joints that have led to extensive water leaks resulting in water damage and electrical fire hazards, the structural steel rusted to paper thin levels and structural failure points documented in engineering reviews, the crumbling exterior facades that have become a safety hazard to walkways below, the cracked marble, the worn and aged seating, the threadbare carpets, the corroded plumbing, the rats and bugs. Anything else would ruin the preservation of that historic building. The Board of the Center should never have put the real estate developer's name on the building to try to get him involved. That renovation needs to go back to the lawyer-politicians in congress who know how to get things done and get them done properly. 

- Dave Badperson

Elon Musk the Trillionaire

 

Just think, right now Elon the trillionaire is looking at his checking account with his hoard of a trillion dollars in it, and he's wringing his hands that he made that money by whipping the backs of lowly workers and stealing the fruits of their labor. Never mind that 99.9% of his wealth is tied up in the companies he owns, that he's created entire industries, products and services that people are willing to pay for, over 170,000 jobs, paid more taxes than anyone in history, and has turned thousands of people into millionaires, even lowly cafeteria and factory floor workers have become millionaires. Yet some people within Congress, universities, and the media, people who govern, educate, and influence the nation but contribute almost nothing to society, have decided this is disgusting. This is just one of many reasons why the Western world is dying from within.

- Dave Badperson

Gasoline averaging $6.13 a gallon in San Diego, May 5, 2026

Gasoline is averaging $6.13 a gallon in San Diego right now, May 5, 2026. Let's break down that per-gallon price. 

Drilling and extraction of crude oil: $1.35 per gallon.

Elevated shipping insurance rates due to Iran war: $0.30 per gallon.

Elevated cost of oil per barrel because of Iran war, due to supply & demand dynamics and fears about future supply: $0.80 per gallon.

California's Phillips and Valero refineries are now permanently shutdown due to a long list of regulatory and compliance burdens, maintenance costs, and a toxic legal and tax environment, making them unprofitable in the long term. This represents a loss of 17% of California's refining capacity in the last 6 months. There are 11 refineries remaining in the state but only 7 of those produce the gas that goes in your car. Those 7 refineries are now operating at 100% capacity, and without imports, we would have a 5-8% gasoline supply deficit. That means if California didn't import refined gasoline, we would run out of gas in 4-6 weeks. This adds a scarcity premium due to supply & demand dynamics, and it's highly sensitive to disruptions at the refineries: $0.94 per gallon.

Refinery's specialized union labor and engineers: $0.22 per gallon.

Refinery energy usage, with California among the highest industrial energy costs in the country: $0.14 per gallon.

Industrial catalysts, chemicals, and processing needed to refine oil to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) standard. The CARB standard is more stringent than the federal EPA standard and mandates the use of California Reformulated Gasoline, which burns cleaner, evaporates less, has less sulfur and benzene, no MTBE additive, and contains ethanol. The intention is to reduce smog and pollution. It also means California can't get gasoline from Arizona or Nevada because it doesn't meet the CARB standard and is illegal to sell here. CARB gas costs more to produce, and since only a handful of refineries mostly in California produce it, and they're running at 100% capacity, any disruptions at those refineries causes supply shocks and associated price hikes: $0.08 per gallon.

With no oil pipelines coming into California, and since we're unable to simply bring in gasoline from nearby states due to our CARB standard, we ship 75% of our crude oil from Alaska and overseas, and 20% of our CARB compliant gasoline as a finished product from refineries in India and South Korea. Those ships have to return empty. We don't get any oil or gasoline directly from the eastern US, for a multitude of reasons I don't have time to go into here. Ironically, the long shipping routes and less environmentally regulated refineries overseas actually cause more carbon emissions. So shipping cost: $0.18 per gallon.

Evaporative and other losses during the long ocean voyage: $0.01 per gallon.

Tanker insurance: $0.09 per gallon.

Port of San Diego offloading fees: $0.05 per gallon.

Fuel terminal storage and additive blending: $0.06 per gallon.

Trucking distribution to local gas stations: $0.08 per gallon.

California state fuel excise tax: $0.61 per gallon.

Federal fuel excise tax, unchanged since 1993: $0.18 per gallon.

California environmental monitoring of underground storage tanks at gas stations: $0.02 per gallon.

California carbon emissions cap and trade program, which requires fuel suppliers by law to buy enough carbon allowances from the California government to cover the carbon released when you burn your fuel. The intention here is to drive up fuel prices and make alternative fuels more competitive to reduce carbon emissions. Unfortunately, for various reasons, for example the heavier oil we're importing, our refineries now have a higher carbon footprint per gallon of gas produced. This requires them to buy more carbon allowances to remain legally compliant, and of course they pass on the cost of those carbon allowances to consumers: $0.25 per gallon.

California low carbon fuel standard (LCFS). This is a regulatory system to force oil companies to pay for the transition to renewable fuels. Think of it as a tax on the carbon density of a fuel. Oil companies are forced by law to buy LCFS credits from companies that produce alternative low carbon fuels such as electricity for electric vehicles, biodiesel, and hydrogen, to offset their LFCS deficit. The main difference from the cap and trade program is that the money goes directly to producers of clean fuels rather than the State: $0.22 per gallon.

San Diego sales tax: $0.11 per gallon.

Gas station payroll: $0.07 per gallon.

Gas station utilities and insurance: $0.06 per gallon.

Credit card fees at gas station: $0.18 per gallon.

Gas station profit. Yes the credit card companies are making more off a gallon of gas than the gas station: $0.13 per gallon.

Add all those numbers up and you get $6.13 a gallon.

Cost of Iran war: $1.10 per gallon. This is caused by Iran holding 20% of the world's oil supply hostage, because they insist they must build a swarm tactic of 10,000 drones and 10,000 missiles to overwhelm Israel's air defenses, so they can then send in their nukes. This number will come down as the Strait of Hormuz is reopened. 

Cost of State of California gas tax, scarcity premium, CARB gas regulations, carbon emissions programs, and the logistics of shipping oil and CARB-grade gas across the world, not including San Diego sales tax, port fees, storage, and other fixed costs... Before you see this number, consider that California only produces about 0.8% of global carbon emissions, and much of our carbon emissions programs are offset by long shipping routes and less regulated refining overseas: $2.39 per gallon. 

Trump conspiracy theories

The leftie conspiracy theories about Trump are hilarious. One is that he's a pedophile, with no evidence of course, other than a few mentally ill or politically motivated calls to FBI that never checked out. Not one credible Epstein accuser has accused Trump of any wrongdoing. Yet I see this claim made repeatedly on social media, often with Ai-generated fake images that have been thoroughly debunked. The lefties have been saying "He's going to jail" for literally a decade and now this pedophile conspiracy theroy is their last vain hope.

Now of course there's the theory that the Iran war is simply to distract people from the Epstein files. Yeah, 47 years of Iran terrorism and chanting "Death to Israel! Death to America!" and trying to build a nuke to hold the world hostage, and it's all a distraction from the Epstein files. These things make me want to slap my forehead repeatedly in frustration.

Another theory says Elon Musk used his Starlink satellites to flip, upload, or cancel votes in favor of Trump. Voting systems aren't even connected to the internet for exactly that reason.

Another theory says the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt was staged to improve his image. Never mind that someone in the crowd and the shooter were killed.

Then there are the various  claims that he's going to create a pregnancy register for women, eliminate FEMA, or cancel all elections, more forehead slapping material.

Then of course there was the Russian pee tape from his first term. What ever happened to the term "Putin's puppet"? Is he a dictator king or a puppet, make up your mind.

And don't forget the two year investigation into supposed collusion between the Russian election meddlers and the Trump campaign. After two years, no evidence was found of a channel of communication between the two in which they could coordinate their actions, yet people still believe it, and if I call out their BS they claim I didn't read the Mueller Report, which is more forehead slapping material that makes me want to move to China for less propaganda.

Also remember Jan 20, 2025 when the media cherry-picked a single frame from a video and claimed Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, and then people went around painting and scratching swastikas on Teslas, vandalizing and fire bombing Tesla dealerships and chargers? What kind of people paint swastikas on things to intimidate people, Nazis perhaps? The people who believe these things are the low functioning people of society, the leftie version of QAnon believers, the people with eyebrow ridges and sloping foreheads who contribute the least to society, and they're allowed to vote.

And don't forget that Trump is a mysoginist who doesn't like strong willed women, and he's going to turn the country into a real life version of The Handmaid's Tale. This is invariably from people who've never read the book "The Handmaid's Tale", I have. Never mind that he has 9 women in his cabinet, well 7 now without Noem and Bondi, almost as many as Biden, who was as sharp as a tack and ready to serve another term.

-Dave Badperson

The Deranged Response to Operation Epic Fury

Just look on X and you will see the reactions of many Democrat politicians first hand. While the people of Iran celebrate in the streets, these politicians oppose taking out the Iranian regime, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, who have chanted "Death to Israel! Death to America!" for decades, who have directly or indirectly killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of Israelis, who have shot and executed by hanging tens of thousands of their own people who recently protested against them, who have oppressed their own people, particularly women, with a backwards religious dictatorship for 47 years. They oppose it not because it was the wrong thing to do, but simply because Trump did it. And they're going to be stuck with it, right as we head into the midterm elections. The same can be said for liberals in America who are currently protesting or whining about it on social media. You might even say they're evil people to support the Iranian regime, but probably they're just completely out of touch, and out of their minds, simply because of their hatred for Trump.

-Dave Badperson

China 2.0

Seat 1A on the plane, with lay flat seating for comfy wumfy sleeping from Hong Kong to Los Angeles.

Well that was China 2.0. For this trip I spent weeks and months intensely studying China. I read an entire book about its history, its origins, its many imperial dynasties, and the communist revolution that formed the modern People's Republic of China. China has the longest continuous civilization in the world, over 5000 years. China has been a unified country for 2200 years. I studied its climates and geography, from the high mountains of the Himalayas and Tibet, to the deserts and grasslands of the northwest & Mongolia, to the vast temperate forests of bamboo and trees that cover most of China, and the subtropical south and southeast. I studied it's 56 ethnic groups, their regional variations, their religions, philosophies & ideologies, their art, their architecture, their languages and writing. I read some famous Chinese literature. I even learned to speak some Mandarin, which is far more than any average traveler would do. I tried its many regional foods, as much as I could stomach. I walked 5 to 8 miles every day for weeks across many of its landscapes, my joints are sore. I read an entire book that compares China to the USA.

China isn't perfect. Like any country, China has its own unique set of problems.

We may look different, but China and the Western world are more similar than we are different. We need to become more like China, and China needs to become more like us. There is a place, and a way of thinking, somewhere, where we should meet in the middle, and be good friends

China and USA together, for the future, the greatest alliance of the 21st century...

While on our Alaska trip I finished the book Breckneck by Dan Wang. Dan has spent half his life living in the USA and half in China. 

The book echoes and solidifies the same sentiments that I've made about China based on my one visit there earlier this year, versus my 23 years in the USA, 2 years in Switzerland, and 30 years in Australia.

China is a country of engineers, with mind-blowing infrastructure and civil engineering projects:  towering bridges, the largest high speed rail network in the world built in only 17 years, massive electricity production, clean electric cars and scooters everywhere on the roads, gleaming megacities, and 40% of the world's manufacturing capacity.

Meanwhile the USA has stagnated. The USA has become a country run by lawyers who obstruct everything, good or bad, and profit from unsolvable problems. The USA's lawyerly society began in the 1960s when unscrupulous corporate interests were disregarding public interests and safety, for example by polluting the air and water. The lawyerly society arose as a response to a need for regulation, and then never went away. 

China's engineering society is not without its flaws however. The 35 year one-child-policy was a social engineering disaster that traumatized people, families, and the population. Their zero-Covid strategy was equally oppressive and miserable. The paranoia of the Chinese government has led the country to become closed to outside influence and stifled innovation and investment. It has become a surveillance state, with extreme internet censorship and social control. Under the hukou system, people's social services, such as education and healthcare, are tied to their place of birth, meaning that people are not able to easily move around the country for better opportunities. In this way the Chinese government controls both external and internal immigration. In a country of 1.4 billion people, internal immigration is an issue. It is also not possible to own land in China, as all land is owned by the government, and is leased out for housing, agriculture, industrial, or recreational uses. This makes it easy to build mega-projects like the high speed rail network and the Three Gorges Dam. 

 

Yet despite its problems, China's people have a great sense of optimism for the future. Meanwhile, the USA's ruling class of elite lawyers can no longer get anything done. They've given us unbalanced budgets for 24 years and $37 trillion national debt. Lawyers don't create, design, invent, innovate, or produce anything. Also people in the USA, and the Western world in general, have forgotten the evils of socialism and would like to try it again as a possible solution to a system they see as failing them. There's also a general disdain for wealth and success among many youths today, who have come to embrace mediocrity rather than greatness.

In any case, I can't wait to go back to China again next month

More thoughts...

You'll be seeing a few shows during the trip. The Tang Dynasty show, the Sichuan Face Change Opera, and the Three Kingdoms on Fire show.

You'll also find Shanghai very different to the other cities as it has British, French, and American quarters

Beijing is the capital so it tends to be stale. Xi'An is ancient. Shanghai is the newest city

I'd like to spend more time in Chongqing, very unusual city, but the tour only visits some shitty pagoda. I was always too drunk and tired to go explore at night. I'll see if I can do better on my next China trip. I'll be doing more of the nature, Zhangjiajie National Park and Guilin Hills. Then Hing Kong, which is also supposed to be very different

But yes, the culture is restricted. The Rolling Stones first toured China in 2006, and only did Shanghai. China has a lot of promise if their govt would stop being so paranoid and doing crazy attempts at social engineering like the one child policy and zero Covid. The one child policy ran for 35 years and traumatized women, families, and the whole population.

They also have the hukou system that ties your benefits like education and healthcare to your place of birth, which allows the govt to control internal immigration. Internal immigration in a country of 1.4 billion people is a big issue

One child policy had forced abortions and sterilizations. Often the abortions were horrifying third trimester abortions because women tried to hide their pregnancies but couldn't once they got to third trimester. An estimated 310 million abortions were done in those 35 years, about the population of the USA

And of course the govt owns all land in China, leasing  it out for housing, agriculture, natural parks, and industry. That makes it a lot easier to build amazing projects like their high speed rail or the Three Gorges Damn. No parasitic lawyers holding up projects like the US and particularly California

California started its high speed rail project in 2008 and just started laying track this year. China started the same year and now has the biggest high speed rail network in the world, over 30,000km of lines. Then again they're a major industrial cixlization, whereas we're a decaying country  of lawyers who profit from obstruction and unsolvable problems

All the Tier 1 cities are mega cities with about 20 million people or more

Did you see life in the park in Xi'An or elsehare yet? People in the cities  don't have yards or balconies so the parks are filled with social life

The lawyerly society began in the US in the 1960s as a response to corporate interests that did unscrupulous things like polluting water and air, then they just never went away. They obstruct everything, good or bad.. Lawyers don't create, design, invent, innovate, or produce anything. Sorry Dale.

And then of course in California we have three times as many laws and regulations as the average state, so parasitic lawyers have figured out thry can get rich by having lawsuits to hold up everything. That's why no one is building Ai data centers or factories in California anymore. For example, Tesla's gigafacfoey would have been held up for 5 years by lawsuits, so Musk simply decided to build them in Nevada and Texas.

All the hyperscale Ai data centers are now being built in places like Texas and Tennessee

I just finished reading "Breakneck" by Dan Wang, a technology analyst who's spent half his life living in the US and half in China. He makes some good cases for and against each society

So the conclusion of the book "Breakneck" is that China and the USA need to learn from each other's strengths. Engineers aren't good at doing things that involve morality and people's feelings. Lawyers aren't good at building. So we need to rebuild our country with industry and infrastructure, and China needs to give people more personal freedoms and protect their rights.

-Dave Badperson

Why the political left really hates Elon Musk

Why does Elon Musk infuriate some people on the political left? What is his great crime? The things the left adored not long ago like electric cars to address climate change, they now despise. It can't be his contributions to clean energy and transportation, space exploration, free speech, satellite internet access to poor and remote areas, re-enabling the disabled with Neuralink, or making the government more efficient. It can't be that he employs hundreds of thousands of people, helping them become wealthy and live their lives more fully, creating new industries, making meaningful contributions to improve society, driving a large part of our economy, pushing science and innovation forward. No, the real reason he's hated is that he's shown the left what progress actually looks like. Even more than that, he does it unapologetically with a thick skin and a sense of humor. He doesn't pander to ideological dogma, he goes against it. He doesn't virtue signal, he acts. He doesn't pontificate endlessly about theoretical utopias, he builds things. And that's what the left finds unforgivable. Musk has revealed what the left’s endless lectures, protests, manifestos, and policing of language truly are, empty words. He's shown them that they're just worthless ineffectual people.
😁

-Dave Badperson

The Anti-Billionaire Ideology

By Dave Lee

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1871461196253311174

Here are some notes on the anti-billionaire ideology - and why it might do more harm than good:

At the heart of the frustration with wealth inequality - especially among younger people - are several overlapping ideas. Broadly, they stem from the following premises:

1. Zero-Sum View of Wealth:
Many who rail against “billionaire greed” subscribe to an implicit zero-sum assumption that if the rich are gaining wealth, it must be coming at the direct expense of everyone else. This perspective sees the economic pie as fixed; a bigger slice for billionaires means a smaller slice for ordinary people.

2. Moral Indictment of Profit:
There is also an underlying moral stance that profits at very high levels are inherently exploitative. Under this view, earning billions can only happen through unethical means - mistreating workers, hiking prices, or bending regulations.

3. Suspicion of Capitalism Itself:
An increasingly vocal segment of young people critiques market economies as rigged or fundamentally unjust. They note that, in their eyes, capitalism privileges capital (ownership) at the expense of labor (wages), and perpetuates a system that traps people in lower socioeconomic strata.

4. Focus on “Equality of Outcome” Over “Equality of Opportunity”:
The critique often goes beyond wanting fair chances for everyone. Instead, it emphasizes the relative gap between the top and bottom, rejecting the idea that big disparities can exist even when upward mobility is possible.

5. Conflation of Net Worth With Liquid Cash:
A common misconception is that billionaires have all their “net worth” in spendable forms. In reality, most wealth is tied up in assets (stock in a company, real estate, etc.). This fuels the anger because it appears that billionaires “hoard” money and choose not to share it.

Why These Ideas Can Be Misleading or Harmful

1. Zero-Sum Thinking Overlooks Wealth Creation
In many industries—think technology, medicine, communications—total wealth isn’t static. When someone creates a product or service that millions of people value (like smartphones, software, or life-saving drugs), it grows the economic pie. That’s not to say exploitative practices don’t exist, but simplistic zero-sum frameworks gloss over the dynamic, generative nature of innovation.

2. Misplaced Moral Indictment
Painting all (or most) large-scale profit as immoral doesn’t address nuances: there are ethical ways to build wealth (improving supply chains, investing in local communities, fair business practices) and unethical ways (sweatshops, unfair contracts, environmental destruction). Lumping all billionaires into the “bad guy” category overlooks differences between, say, a biotech founder who develops critical medicines versus a predatory lender.

3. Ignoring the Benefits of Investment
Much billionaire wealth can be tied to investments that themselves foster economic growth and job creation. When venture capitalists fund startups, they often take on significant risk. While it can lead to high personal returns, it also creates industries (and jobs) from the ground up. The ideology that all returns on investments are undeserved fails to account for the role that investment plays in building healthy economies.

4. Weakening Incentives Kills Innovation
When the system heavily penalizes individuals who become extremely successful, it removes the natural “carrot” that drives ambitious endeavors. Launching a startup or spearheading a major breakthrough usually involves massive risks — entrepreneurs sacrifice time, money, and personal stability on a venture that might fail. If the potential rewards are cut off or capped too drastically, fewer people will bother to take the leap. This doesn’t just affect a handful of hopeful billionaires; it reverberates throughout society as whole industries and transformative ideas (whether in medicine, clean energy, or technology) never get off the ground. In other words, when wealth creation stops being worthwhile, everyone loses out on progress, jobs, and critical innovations that improve lives.

5. “Taxing Billionaires Out of Existence” Derails Society
This approach doesn’t just strip personal fortunes; it severs the capital fueling innovation, startups, and major philanthropic efforts. Without high-stakes investments, lifesaving research and transformative technologies often stall. A scorched-earth method of “leveling wealth” might sound fair, but it ultimately starves society of the breakthroughs and funding necessary for widespread progress.

Yes, young adults face serious economic pressures - from soaring housing costs to student debt - but framing every concern as “wealth inequality” injects a needless negativity that can distort the real issues.  A more constructive focus is keeping living costs down and creating a robust, opportunity-rich economy. That means controlling inflation - primarily through efficient government spending and lower national debt - while removing barriers to innovation and enterprise. By prioritizing stable monetary policy, competitive markets, and better education, we give more people the tools to thrive, rather than just harping on “inequality.” 

- Dave Badperson

Everyday lately in the San Diego newspaper they mention the price of something is going up: electricity, water, natural gas, gasoline, home prices, rent, home insurance, auto insurance. Then of course there are more government services needed for people who add nothing to the economy, and more environmental laws to add regulatory and compliance burdens to the cost of everything. The state currently also has a budget deficit. Then with the continuing net loss of people and businesses from California, they'll need to raise taxes to make up for the shortfall. Everything about California's state government is about stifling growth and prosperity. They don't want more people, more houses, more cars, more roads, more buildings, more energy, more industries, more jobs, more wealth, they want California to stop where it is right now, all in the name of uber-progressive policies and environmental extremism. If you're struggling to afford San Diego now, then be aware that it's going to get a lot worse. Go ahead, vote for more of it in November, then complain about the consequences like a typical Californian, "Eww the price of gas, Eww the homeless, Eww the price of rent, Eww blah blah blah". 

-Dave Badperson

The braindead journalists are at it again

The media keeps pushing the narrative that Joe had a dismal performance in his debate with orange man. I didn't think it was that bad. What did you expect, you got the doddering old 50-year-career politician you voted for? Just remember, this is a media that likes you to think they absolutely hate the orange man, but no, the fact is that orange man sells news, and the media knows it. He's a cash cow and they want to milk him for every penny. From the daily damage report during his presidency, to the ongoing saga of his various legal battles, people want to read about him because he's everybody's favorite reality TV villain/hero. Most people don't care about policies, they're too self-absorbed for that. They only care about personality, appearance, and party preference. So face it, the media is going to keep pushing the doddering Joe narrative over the next four months, and you're going to get orange man for president in November. Don't be surprised when I say "Told you so!" 

- Dave Badperson

The President is just a Figurehead

Some satire on the nature of the president, paraphrased from The Hitchikers Gide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, with some extra parts thrown in by me.

The president in particular is very much a figurehead, he wields no real power whatsoever. The qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. For this reason an erratic, irresponsible, wildly egomaniacal, grandiose blowhard obsessed with his TV ratings and who starts petty feuds, is exactly who you want for president. Even if he made his presidential addresses from his bath tub, prison cell, or even a sex worker's bedroom, he would still be considered amazingly good at his job.

- Dave Badperson

Artificial intelligence will take over the world and destroy humanity

"AI will take over the world and destroy humanity".

People have been talking about machines taking over the world ever since the industrial revolution. I can't get an AI to contact its own makers so it can report a bug in itself. I can't even get it to call 911 for me in an emergency to save my life.

It's not taking over the world quite yet.

-Dave Badperson

The Ultimate List of Filthy Limericks

The ultimate list of filthy limericks (and a few extras), by Dave Badperson

There is something about satyriasis

That arouses psychiatrists' biases

But we're both very pleased

We're in this way diseased

As the damsel who's waiting to try us is

There was a young man from Brighton

Who thought he’d at last found a tight one

He said, “Oh my love,

It fits like a glove.”

Said she, “But you’re not in the right one"

There once was a fellow called Dave
Who kept a dead whore in a cave
He said, "I admit,
that I'm a cheap shit,
But think of the money I save"


There once was a young man named Dave
Who kept a dead whore in a cave
She had only one tit
And smelled worse than shit
But think of the money Dave saved


The captain's name was Arthur
He was a truly talented farter
He could fart anything
From God save the King
To Beethoven's fifth sonata





There once was a man from Peru
Who went sailing in a canoe
While dreaming of Venus
He tickled his penis
And woke up with a handful of goo


There once was an Elf from North Pole
Who chased after every wet hole
Til his wife learned the truth
And gave him the boot
Now his stocking is filled only with coal

Not a limerick...
A recent survey was conducted on how men like women's legs to be.
3% of men said they like women with thick legs.
2% said they like women with thin legs.
And 95% said they prefer something in between.


There once was a lady from Japan
Who went for a ride on a tram
The dirty conductor
Came down and fucked her
And now she's pushing a pram


There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
He said with a grin
As he wiped off his chin
"If my ears was a cunt I could fuck it"


There once was a man from Bombay
Who made a cunt out of clay
The heat from his prick
Turned it into a brick
And rubbed all his foreskin away


There once was a lady from the Azores
Whose cunt was all covered in sores
The dogs in the street
Would lick the green meat
That hung like festoons from her drawers


There once was a gal from Cancun,
Who had a most curious poon.
T'was coarse like a thistle,
But tight as a whistle,
And whilst cumming, could play you a tune.


There is a young man in Nepal
Who has hexagonal balls
The square-root of their weight
Plus their length times eight
Is his phone number, give him a call


Irish tradition is grand
Though the food is quite tasteless and bland
So Guinness I'll drink
'Til I can no longer think
Then I'll piss down my leg where I stand


There once was a god named Woden,
Whose sword was mightily swollen,
The goddesses would scream,
As they devoured all his cream,
So they named a day for his loadin'.


T'was once a couple named Kelley

They had to walk belly to belly

'Cause in their haste

They used library paste

Instead of petroleum jelly


Guessing a journey can be the road
I mused while atop the commode
Not moving a bit
While leaving a shit
Travel sans movement's my abode


There once was a singer of old
Who then broke away from the fold
He won't give you up
He won't let you down
In a word, you've been Limer-Rick-rolled


As we near the end of the year
We should cherish those things most dear
Whether it be sex oral, from dick to clitoral
And follow up with a cold


The kayaker paddled by moonlight
To a secret and secluded bight
Met her baidarka'd lover
And by darkness's cover
Practiced "rolling" and "bracing" all night


There once was a gal with a cold.
She had scattered tissues new and old.
She picked one for a blow,
It had a scent she did know:
The mess her last lover had doled.


There once was a gal named merkin
I saw her on the corner workin
She only charged me a nickel
To suck on my pickle
Because it’s small and shriveled like a gherkin.


There once was a crazy Australian bloke
Who during sex often told shitty jokes
And when he began to start
He let out a wet stinky shart
Now he’s covered in his own shit splatter cloak


In a Larrikin he dipped his wick
Not caring the boy was quite sick
Viruses and germs
Did fight back his sperms
And quickly exploded his dick


An old body is bound to fail ya
So too your external genitalia
A lovely young lass
Offers her ass
“I’m much too feeble to nail ya!”


There was a girl named Pinky
A big lover of kitties was she.
She wanted another cat,
Her husband said fuck that.
It will be the end of me licking that pussy!


There once was a young lady from Heath
Who circumcised young men with her teeth
She said with a grin
"It's not for the skin"
"But rather for the cheese underneath"


A man once checked out a bee hive
He wanted to feel more alive
Sweet love did he make
But what a mistake
He was allergic and did not survive


A thong is a strange thing to be
Whether the wearer is a he or she.
One thing can be certain:
trapped in a beef curtain
It would rather be a mankini.


There once was a lady in heels
Who considered blow jobs meals
After she fed
This was all she said
“Not the taste I just love how it feels”


There once was a U.S. Marine
Whose manners were slightly obscene.
He loved to eat jizz,
Both other's and his,
When served in a hot soup tureen.


There once was a knock on my bed,
I checked both the foot and the head.
Then between my thighs,
My vibrator did rise,
I had thought it's batteries dead!


There once was a lass in La Brea,
the hairs on her cunt were quite gray-uh.
To dye them a nice umber,
in tar pits she did wander,
and now with the T-rex she does lay-a.


There once was a fellow named Dhamer
Whose demeanor couldn't have been calmer
To satiate his hunger
He'd pluck children from their slumber
Then he got beat to death in the slammer.


There once was a cabbie named Ed
Who never could fuck in his bed.
His sheets were quite clean,
And his mother would preen.
But the ladies kept his meter well fed.


Christ's birth to a Nazerene person
Is really an alternate version.
See, God first went Down Under
But said, "What a blunder!
"Cant find 3 wise men or a virgin,"


There once was a man named Springer
Who got his testicles caught in the wringer
He shouted in pain

As they rolled down the drain
There goes my career as a singer


There once was a man with one testicle
Who waved it around such a spectacle
He'd look down and grin
As it rested on her chin
And gave thanks to the knob gobbling festival


There once was a man from Istanbul
Who discovered red spots on his tool
He rushed to the doc

Who looked at his cock
And said "Just wipe off the lipstick you fool!"


There once was a gal named Lewinsky

Who played on a flute like Stravinsky

'Twas "Hail to the Chief"

On this flute made of beef

That stole the front page from Kaczynski.


Said Bill Clinton to young Ms. Lewinsky

We don't want to leave clues like Kaczynski

Since you look such a mess

Use the hem of your dress

And wipe that stuff off of your chinsky.


Lewinsky and Clinton have shown

What Kaczynski must surely have known:

That an intern is better

Than a bomb in a letter

Given the choice to be blown.


There was a young girl called Lewinsky

Who caused as much stir as Kaczynski

When on Kenneth Starr's lap

She confided, when trapped

"Bill Clinton is hung like Nijinsky"
* (*Nijinsky is a thoroughbred racehorse not to be confused
with the ballet dancer.)


There once was a woman from Salem
Her beau was an Ivy League alum
She kept a scoreboard
For the ladies he'd moored
And when they'd visit she'd impale 'em


The S&M man smiled amidst jeers
A scene any puppy truly fears
Their ears he’d hold tight
Their ass he’d fuck right
Until they cried all those puppy tears!


I knew this mad dog named Big Casey
If food you should have then he'd chase thee
He was taught some tongue tricks
That pleased all the chicks
'Cuz his owner was even more crazy!


There once were some Burners at 'Man..
Who bedazzled themselves in glam.
But sand in their cracks

And all of their sacks.
Made 'shrooms the only source of elan.


In gay Paree (Paris) there lived a mime,
His loneliness led him to do crime.
As the bodies fell,
The cops couldn’t tell
Which body part he’d done it with this time.


Ever noticed how a key hole
Seems to have but only one goal?
As its tumblers are tilled,
It’s so nice to be filled.
If it had eyes, way back they’d roll.


There once was a gal who craved meat,
But nothing could she find to eat.
Then along came a lad,
Who was scantily clad,
And under his kilt was her treat.


A bear taking a dump asked a rabbit
"Does sh*t stick to your fur as a habit?"
"Of course not" said the hare
"It's really quite rare!"
So the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit


There once were two hills shaped like mounds,
They would move around town making rounds.
Some guy thought they looked dry,
So he raised his cock high,
And now they make moist squishy sounds.


On the breast of a barmaid in Vale
Is tattoo'd the price of an ale
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Is the same information, in braille!


There once was a girl named Alice,
Who used dynamite as a phallus.
They found her vagina

In North Carolina,
And part of her asshole in Dallas.


There was a young woman from Exeter,
And all the young men threw their sex at her,
So just to be rude,
She lay in the nude,
And let her perverted parrot take pecks at her.



-Dave Badperson

Climate Fearmongering

A recent UN survey shows 60% of people in rich countries believe climate change will lead to the end of mankind (https://www.undp.org/press-releases/worlds-largest-survey-public-opinion-climate-change-majority-people-call-wide-ranging-action). This has been caused by fear mongering in the media (i.e. braindead journalists that know nothing). Not only is it untrue, it's harmful because it makes people embrace bad policies and ignore more urgent problems facing the world. Like many things, climate change has positive and negative effects, but we rarely hear about the positives because fear is a better motivator, and is more successful for getting votes for politicians, donations for activists, and grants for scientists. Over the last 20 years, temperature rises have caused about 116,000 more people to die from heat, but at the same time about 283,000 fewer people died from cold. Nine times as many people die from cold as from heat. Yet we don't hear about this in the news. Some other wild claims from the media:

"Climate change is fueling extremism" cnn.com/2019/03/06/world/climate-change-terrorism-extremism-africa-middle-east-intl/index.html

"A shifting climate is catalysing infectious disease" bbc.com/future/article/20231201-fevered-planet-how-climate-change-spreads-infectious-disease

"Climate change will harm children's mental health" usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-10-11/dimate-change-will-harm-childrens-mental-health-report

Well I guess it sucks for people in Bangladesh, Florida, and low lying islands in the ocean, those places will be submerged as sea level rises, but then again, it hasn't bothered the Netherlands where a third of the country is below sea level and some places are 22ft below. Maybe it's possible for people to adapt? For people in Siberia and northern Canada, things are looking pretty rosy, especially since most of the warming that occurs will be in the higher latitudes. Higher crop yields and faster plant growth, new areas opening up to farming that were once too cold. No you won't hear about those things in the news. A greener world is the last thing the "greenies" want you to think. 

-Dave Badperson