Posted On: Wednesday - March 4th 2026 6:54PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Student and other Snowflakes Race/Genetics
Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.
The title of the first 2 parts of this series is more explanatory, Governor Mike DeWine, his wife Fran, and the Haitians of Ohio. Peak Stupidity spent a few minutes looking into the background story of the Governor of Ohio, his family, and their connections to the Haitians they've been helping import to Ohio.
The DeWine family are good, caring people. They must feel that they are doing a lot of good per their intentions, but do they understand that saying about the make-up of the pavement on that Highway to... OK, road to hell? One can do good, and evil may still result. I just wonder if this 80-y/o guy with 26 grandchildren is really that stupid?
If not, we can assume that he is just greedy and lustful for power, as he pushes this cheap labor, never mind the social costs, for the Big Biz factory owners and donors of his State. Greed doesn't have to be evil, such as in the Libertarian free market sense*, but greed at the expense of one's family, town, State, and country is.
I don't know what goes on in Mike DeWine's head. No matter what, his and others' actions to replace the Americans of Ohio is sickening. The consequences are already being felt, but, barring the ending of these programs and serious deportation numbers, there will be much worse to come.
I mentioned the Ray Bradbury novel (set of short stories, really) Dandelion Wine in part 1. If I recall a book I read over 30 years ago, the idyllic small town it was set in was Green Town, Illinois. That was fiction, and also we don't stay innocent children, but I bet Mr. DeWine's original hometown of Yellow Springs, OH in the 1950s was the closest people in history ever come.
I know, you can't go home again. Your grandchildren and (likely for him) dozens of great-grandchildren can't live that same life in Green Town, Illinois or Yellow Springs, Ohio.
You don't need to make it suck ass though!!
What kind of life would Mike and Fran DeWine imagine those little White kids of theirs will have when strange dark, ignorant, and violent foreigners fill up their classrooms and playgrounds?! Have they never thought of that, or do they figure the DeWine family will be able to escape all that with their money? Do they care about the REST of the White children of Ohio? I mean, he's the Governor!
Long ago, during a summer job, I played pool at lunch hour for a few weeks at this particular bar and grill. It had a really good jukebox. One song on it that I was very impressed with was a B-side of a single record by The Pretenders**, the A-side being Back on the Chain Gang. That A-side had been overplayed on the radio (and MTV!) anyway, but I'd never before heard My City Was Gone with that most excellent bass line of Tony Butler's. Many Americans would only know the song via that bass riff as the opening theme of long time Conservative talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh's show. (R.I.P., el Rushbo.) Some might recognize the original song and think of it as "Where did you go Ohio?", repeated in the chorus of sorts. I just now tried to look it up that way.
I've written here long ago that it's the melody and sound that make a song, not the lyrics. This one's got that good melody and sound. The lyrics are very meaningful too. Singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde wrote and sang about returning from her time in London to her childhood hometown, Akron, I believe, and seeing so much change for the worse. She bemoaned her favorite places having been all built up, "erased by shopping malls", "from Seneca to Cayahoga Falls".
Well yes, America keeps growing, so we all feel for Joni Mitchell in Big Yellow Taxi, when "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot". The exodus to the suburbs and the ages of malls started over a decade before Miss Hynde wrote My City Was Gone. Part of the reason for those changes is something Chrissie Hynde may not even want to discuss today, cough, race, cough, cough. However, it was still America.
For Americans at the age of Mike and Fran DeWine's children, there is a lot of nostalgia for even those shopping mall days, having missed the days of those older favorite places and "paradise". Things have gotten much, much worse since. People like Mike DeWine are changing the country such that we really WISH we could go back to the days even after Chrissie Hynde's Ohio city was gone.
I went back to OhioThanks, Governor DeWine, you destructive bastard.
but my city was gone.
There was no train station.
There was no down-town.
South Howard had disappeared,
all my favorite places
My city had been pulled down,
reduced to parking spaces.
Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?
Well, I went back to Ohio,
but my family was gone.
I stood on the back porch.
There was nobody home.
I was stunned and amazed.
My childhood memories
slowly swirled past
like the wind through the trees.
Ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?
I went back to Ohio,
but my pretty countryside
had been paved down the middle
by a government that had no pride.
The farms of Ohio
had been replaced by shopping malls,
and Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls.
I said, ay, oh, where did you go, Ohio?
PS: Amazing! All the song lyrics sites think that the line is "Way to go, Ohio." Is that AI? That doesn't make near the sense as the way I've hear it for nearly 40 years. I don't care if Chrissie Hynde herself wrote and sung that, "Where did you go..." IS the line! (I just listened again - I'm right.)
* I'm ambivalent about the "Greed is good" ideas of Gordon Gekko (see Wall Street).
** Peak Stupidity has featured a lot of the songs from The Pretender's album Learning to Crawl, in or about Spring of '24.
Comments:
M
Friday - March 6th 2026 4:03AM MST
PS
"What kind of life would Mike and Fran DeWine imagine those little White kids of theirs will have"
Why, they will never have to deal with those strangers of course.
What's their net worth now?
How embedded within the NGO complex are these children and grandchildren?
Sure, maybe somewhere down the road there will be a reckoning, but these types never think it will happen to them. And if it does, they'll have the resources to flee.
Rather like the Californian locusts are beginning to do.
Meanwhile, they have private schools, progressing to gated communities, and/or the governor's mansion (guarded by police and/or military). Or a car with a driver and bodyguard to drive them to their NGO job from their compound.
No need to ever deal with the hoi polloi.
"What kind of life would Mike and Fran DeWine imagine those little White kids of theirs will have"
Why, they will never have to deal with those strangers of course.
What's their net worth now?
How embedded within the NGO complex are these children and grandchildren?
Sure, maybe somewhere down the road there will be a reckoning, but these types never think it will happen to them. And if it does, they'll have the resources to flee.
Rather like the Californian locusts are beginning to do.
Meanwhile, they have private schools, progressing to gated communities, and/or the governor's mansion (guarded by police and/or military). Or a car with a driver and bodyguard to drive them to their NGO job from their compound.
No need to ever deal with the hoi polloi.
Moderator
Thursday - March 5th 2026 9:46PM MST
PS: That’s surely worth it for the peace, Possumman!
Possumman
Thursday - March 5th 2026 6:04PM MST
PS. Unfortunately we don't live there but there are lots just like it. Just make sure you are a couple hours from Cleveland or Cincy or Columbus and realize you will smell some fresh country air in the spring when the liquid manure is spread on the nearby fields. Stinks for a week or 2 but that is the smell of $$$ for farmers!
Moderator
Thursday - March 5th 2026 10:46AM MST
PS: That's fairly amazing to me, Possumman. I understand why you wouldn't want to reveal the exact location, haha!
Possumman
Thursday - March 5th 2026 9:02AM MST
PS Thanx for this Ohio series. My wife of almost 50 years is from a small town in northwest Ohio--practically in Indiana. Town has a couple of stoplights- a Mickey Ds-couple of bars and restaurants--big Catholic church etc. Still has Friday night football and a large town park with pool -football stadium-baseball and soccer fields and now some pickleball. What it does not have is black folks--maybe a couple Asian docs from the local hospital and a couple of Hispanic folks that came to work in the nearby farms and managed to stick around but the the town still looks like it did when my wife graduated from highschool there in the early 70s. Plenty of jobs in the area or in the nearby similar small towns--machine shops -small manufacturing plants etc These places do still exist and continue to be successful. They have not ruined them all. Kids still ride bikes to school and leave them unlocked in the racks--they are sill there at the end of the day.
OK, but for all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren too? How can he be so sure some of them won’t get mixed into modern Ohatian society? (Ha, I should insert that one back into this post!)
Where would they flee to, those small towns Possumman brought up, or much farther away?
You are probably right though, that this is what’s in the back of the minds of Mike and Fran DeWine.
Thanks for the comment, M.