Let’s see: A gun-grabber nominated to head the BATFE. (Stopped.)
An ecoterrorist confirmed to head the BLM (Bureau of Land Management, not Black Lives Matter.)
An actual Marxist nominated to be Comptroller of the Currency.
Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal now acknowledged, and nothing is done while he sells his “artwork” to wealthy Chinese for exhorbitant sums.
President Biden goes incoherent during addresses, and the media covers for him.
Crowds at sporting events chant “F— Joe Biden” and outside of Social Media, it gets no attention.
The Northern border is closed to Canadian citizens (80+% vaccinated), Border Patrol officers face firing for not getting vaccinated, while literally tens of thousands of illegal aliens stream across the southern border and are relocated by the Federal gov. without so much as a COVID TEST.
A $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill that includes language directing banks to report all account transactions over $600, a “pilot program” to start billing cars by the miles driven, and adds 87,000 new IRS agents to enforce these rules.
Honestly, if you wrote a novel with all these plot points no one, NO ONE would believe it.
What else ya got?
Yep, we are in a death spiral now. It will ONLY get worse as the spending increases.
I actually do believe that things will get better.
The bad news is that, at 63, I don’t believe that I will live to see that day. Not that I have any serious health issues, just general life expectancy, I don’t think my odds are good.
Oh and, we’re over a million through the southern border so far this year.
They are in a hurry as they figure they might lose the house and the senate so do it now or forget it. Problem is the GOP in the senate are squishes
Mark Steyn’s recent article “The Shadow of Your Stall” seems like something the readers here would also appreciate.
https://www.steynonline.com/11740/the-shadow-of-your-stall
They always say fiction has to make sense; reality doesn’t.
How about dumping 13,000 Afghan “refugees” (all unvetted) into a town of 10,000?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/afghanistan-grows-wisconsin-daniel-greenfield/
And of course, they will be given the right to vote … presumably to impose and live under Sharia Law on the town.
Oh, the .gov has assured us that ALL Afghans have all been vetted, just ask them.
How IS it that you can vet someone from a country with no records of any kind (the illiteracy rate is also astonishingly high), where almost every male uses the same name (SHOCKER), and probably has only the one, and also doesn’t even know what his own family tree looks like?
HOW?!?
Sounds like an opportunity to introduce afghanis’s to the cold bitter truth of Wisconsin winters.
Let’s not forget as well:
1. A series of “vaccines” that do not produce immunity nor prevent transmission, which
2. Have a rather deeply obfuscated record of injury and death as a direct result of the jabs, and
3. Are still under Emergency Use Authorizations, as the only FDA-approved jabs are not available here, which
4. Makes all the jabs actually available “experimental treatments,” thereby
5. Indemnifying the manufacturers from claims of liability because experimental treatments are just that, except,
6. The federal government, numerous states, and countless employers are playing the FDA shell game of approved vs experimental in order to require a jab, all the while
7. Pretending that medical and religious/personal beliefs which are codified under federal and state laws as valid reasons not to get jabbed do not exist, and all for
8. A virus that at face value of reported numbers has a far higher survivability rate than the regular flu, even before you take into account the fact that
9. The “tests” being used for diagnosis confirmation were never intended to be used that way and have a massive false positive rate, meaning
10. The reported numbers of fatalities due to the virus is almost certainly not just wrong, but inflated by an order of magnitude.
And all that for what is almost certainly a bioweapon accidentally released before it was ready, made in labs by an enemy of our country, and funded by our country through subverted enemy agents within our own government.
My own employer is so far refusing to admit that Executive Orders are not law, that the federal govt has no authority to mandate shit in this field, that no employer has the right to view private medical records not directly germane to job, that every prophylactic jab available is NOT FDA-approved, that requiring experimental treatments as a condition of employment is against multiple laws, and that denying the existence of legitimate exceptions to any vaccine requirement is also illegal.
And all the while demanding we do more with fewer people, as folks quit or get fired due to this illegal and unconstitutional mandate.
Everything listed is ACTUALLY happening. It’s not fiction, it’s not fantasy, it’s real.
Why? Because the commie left succeeded in their decades long plan to infiltrate, subvert and suborn EVERY meaningful part of American society. They OWN the media, Academia, the Judiciary, EVERY single Federal LEO agency and a firm majority in Congress. And that doesn’t include the countless marxists holding lower level bureacratic offices at the state and local levels. They succeeded in implementing “mail in voting” and getting their PET software company Dominion put in place as the major vote recording mechanism….which THEY TOTALLY CONTROL. Thanks to that there will never be another honest election in America again. And because they cannot be voted out of office, they will never be arrested for their ongoing crime spree and there is NOBODY left in a position to hold them accountable that they don’t own they are going full speed ahead with the plan to destroy America. TINVOWOOT people.
Just when you think we’ve reached peak Clown World…
Something prompted me to start having hopeful thoughts, and it occurred to me that you guys might enjoy this.
The subject was “the financial surveillance state,” with the IRS tracking every transaction of everyone in the US, which is the obvious goal of the $600 red flag. Someone made a remark about how 100 million gun owners might make it a real problem, someone else said that tanks and gunships would make it shooting fish in a barrel. Moreover, “the urban areas will be in support of the totalitarian elites as long as the gravy train keeps running.”
But here’s the rub, and my response:
And when things start to become unavailable *at any price,* because the people who actually produce things refuse to be treated as property?
We’re already seeing that. Southwest Airlines is losing its shirt right now, because they thought they could treat their pilots like serfs, and the pilots decided there was no amount of money and perks that justified putting up with that.
How much damage does it do to an airline’s “gravy train” when they can’t put planes in the sky, *no matter what the inducement?* What does it do to “the gravy train” as a whole when you multiply that across the board, hundreds of companies involving every sector of the economy?
They can tax as much as they like, and print all the monopoly money they choose. And when people decide their yards can be made into food gardens, and that the currency with *real* value is trading for seeds and skills, all the elites will get really desperate really fast ANYWAY.
I know how to make alcohol from compost, biodiesel from cooking waste, and an electric generator from an old car alternator. I’m willing to bet that not only does Joe Biden not know how, he doesn’t even *know* anybody who does. I seriously doubt he even knows anyone who could figure it out *given a book on the subjects.* That’s not how they think. In their world, goods come *from shops,* not from skills.
I’ve been thinking about this, too. I have tagged it #WithdrawConsent. The government serves by consent of the governed. We’ve about had it with them. We withdraw consent by not complying with their edicts. Southwest Airlines, FAA air controllers, health workers, cops, solders, sailors, airmen and Marines, and new groups join the walkout almost daily.
#WithdrawConsent. It will definitely get their attention. Question is, will they buckle or double-down? I’m betting on doubling down.
They can try. But just as an example, there are about 3.5 million truckers in this country. I don’t know how many of them have gotten the jab. I suspect most consider it unnecessary, considering that extreme social distancing is their normal daily routine. Those that have are likely to be in situations like mine, where my 82-year-old mother-in-law, who is immune compromised and has other serious health problems, lives in the same house with my wife and me. If my wife or I get COVID, it’s likely as not to be an annoyance, albeit possibly a sever one. If mom gets it, she almost certainly dies.
That’s why I got the jab, not because anyone told me to. But okay, if Biden demands that every trucker in the US get the jab or get fired, what happens if even as few as one million of them walk out? Personally I’d expect closer to 2.5 million. The supply chain crisis immediately becomes a food and fuel shortage, that’s what happens, and anything less essential than food and fuel becomes flatly unavailable at any price. You may also have people like me, who just might walk out along with them as a matter of principle, vaxxed or not.
So what are they going to do? Force us at gunpoint to drive trucks? Good luck with that. Watch me spend 5 hours just getting out of DFW metro, because I suddenly forgot how the accelerator works. Watch me have a rash of breakdowns, because belts, hoses, and anything else that can be seriously damaged with nothing but a pocket knife and 2 seconds work suddenly go bad at an amazing rate. Watch me suddenly forget that if you happen to mix DEF in with the diesel, you’ll end up having to replace the entire fuel system, from tank to injectors, and might end up sending the whole truck to the scrapyard.
If you decide to get into an asshole contest with me, you’ll be unhappy when it’s my turn. I promise.
Note: The truck driving profession is hardly unique in this respect. Imagine the damage IT people could do. Imagine the damage accounting people could do. Imagine the damage customer service people could do.
Pick a profession, nearly any profession. If it’s people who make well over minimum wage, you can get seriously horrified once you start thinking about what would happen if they rebelled.
Oh, I’mma quote that.
Here’s something else you can quote. I know you’ll recognize it, because you’ve quoted passages from this book before:
“In a few hours, the shops out there were expecting deliveries, and they weren’t going to arrive. The government couldn’t sit this one out. A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.
Every day maybe a hundred cows died for Ankh-Morpork. So did a flock of sheep and a herd of pigs, and the gods alone knew how many ducks, chickens, and geese. Flour? He’d heard it was eighty tons, and about the same amount of potatoes, and maybe twenty tons of herring. He didn’t particularly want to know this kind of thing, but once you started having to sort out the everlasting traffic problem, these were the kind of facts that got handed to you.
Every day, forty thousand eggs were laid for the city. Every day, hundreds, thousands of carts and boats and barges converged on the city with fish and honey and oysters and olives and eels and lobsters. And then think of the horses dragging this stuff, and the windmills… and the wool coming in, too, every day, the cloth, the tobacco, the spices, the ore, the timber, the cheese, the coal, the fat, the tallow, the hay EVERY DAMN DAY…
And that was now. Back home, the city was twice as big…
Against the dark screen of night, Vimes had a vision of Ankh-Morpork. It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d never see it in their whole life nevertheless spent that life working for it. Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed…
…and gave back the dung from its pens, and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also clothes, and fashions, and ideas, and interesting vices, songs, and knowledge, and something which, if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That was what civilization meant. It meant the city.
Was anyone else out there thinking about this?
A lot of the stuff came in through the Onion Gate and the Shambling Gate, both now Republican and solidly locked. There’d be a military picket on them, surely. Right now, there were carts on the way that’d find those gates closed to them. Yet, no matter the politics, eggs hatch, and milk sours, and herds of driven animals needed penning and watering, and where was that going to happen? Would the military sort it out? Well, would they? While the carts rumbled up, and then were hemmed in by the carts behind, and the pigs escaped, and the cattle herds wandered off?
Was anyone important thinking about this? Suddenly the machine was wobbling, but Winder and his cronies didn’t think about the machine, they thought about money. Meat and drink came from servants. They happened.”
– Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
The countrys’ most powerful law enforcement agency raiding a bunch of reporters over a year-old lost/stolen diary. Something that doesn’t even approach said agency having any jurisdiction.
Then said agency, after the head of the reporters organization dares to tell about them being raided, his home is raided.
Suddenly a powerful newspaper, who- coincidentally, I’m sure- is being sued by said head in an unrelated matter, starts publishing stuff that could ONLY have come from said LE agency, despite it being horribly illegal and unethical to do so.
And most Professional Journalists don’t give a damn.