Guest Contributor – ArthurinCali – 26JUN2023 – Not Forever

 

As we cannot see what the future holds for America, the historical record is the best we must go by. Numerous empires in the world have risen and fallen to ruin due to internal hubris, and my thought is that ours will be no different. All the signs point to decline, from moral decay in society and financial overstretch, to military misadventures overseas. Looting the treasury phase as Zman points out, is an apt description of what we are currently seeing. TPTB are more concerned with what happens thousands of miles away vs. what can be seen only a few states from our nation’s capital. How long can it continue? Another decade? A few weeks? It is hard to describe just how out of touch the ruling class is with the people they lord over. This alone might be a godsend as when the collapse finally happens (without a nuclear fireball, hopefully) there will still be pockets of sanity and quasi-civilization around the country. My current reading list includes a lot more historical instances of these periods; Weimar Germany, England, and France after ruling class collapse, and of course, the time of Reconstruction after the American Civil War. It will NOT be pleasant, nor easy during these times. Many first-hand accounts attest to this. But, I stay hopeful that a sort of rebirth can occur. We cannot be ruled by idiots forever.

Life Imitates the Babylon Bee

My state has one upped this gag.  We have bridges that have been declared dangerous for decades but the state mechanism for repairing them is completely impenetrable.  Eventually the state will have to be permanently divided along the lines of all the small streams that traverse it.  Soon regional dialects will develop and eventually mutually unintelligible languages but the bridges will just become place names that adorn maps as we stare across these small bodies of water that will forever divide us.  Damn you Mayor Pete.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 26JUN2023 – Watchlists

In reply to Ed Brault.

Whoo, yeah. Several years after I retired we had a nutcase wannabe who was called the Freeway Sniper. He shot at cars and even a schoolbus on the beltway of Columbus, Ohio. He eventually managed to kill a woman after several failed shots at random vehicles. I got a call from Fred’s Boyish Incels. “Hi, we’re just checking in to see how you’re doing”. I knew why they had called. I told them no, it wasn’t me, guys, and it was not a trained sniper. The guy was missing baby crap shots from under 400 meters. He was caught about a week or so later. They keep you on their lists, alright.

Did you know they also monitor seismographs? Me again. The blaster for a local quarry had to have a gall bladder removed on an emergency basis. This put them behind as their backup was a rookie. So the boss asked me to help the rookie and offered a gee-whiz daily rate. Heck, yes! We were making excellent progress as I prefer larger charges spread out a little more. Soon enough, Al’s Tree Family showed up. The seismograph at Ohio State University noticed an increase in vibrations and triangulated the source. All was kosher. The rookie was licensed, just green, and I was not doing any actual blasting, I was just advising. Spooky that surveillance now extends to stone quarries by remote triangulation.

Can This Go on Forever?

So, Yevgeny Prigozhin bailed.  The neo-cons are heartbroken and the coup has been put on hold until Blinken finds another oligarch to bribe.  Well, sure.  Color revolutions are all about bribing your enemy’s friends.  This was a favorite tactic of the Byzantine Empire, resorted to once their enemies were too powerful to beat on the battlefield.

But really, nothing that happens anymore can seem too outlandish.  We’re firmly entrenched in bizzarro world.  Just look around at our government.  Right at the top we have Joe Biden.  Everything about Biden is screwed up.  He’s a mental midget.  He’s morally corrupt in multiple facets of his behavior.  He’s an influence peddler, a sexual deviant who preys on women and children.  He compulsively tells absurd lies that everyone sees through.  He’s an awful human being.  And he’s noticeably suffering from senile dementia.

And below him he’s assembled a cast of characters that staggers the imagination in its ineptitude, creepiness and dishonesty.

There’s the nuclear engineer in the Department of Energy that cross-dresses and steals luggage from airports to rifle through other people’s clothes.

Then there’s Admiral Rachel Levine, a fat bald guy wearing a wig and a badly fitting skirt who used to be called Richard Levine, was married to an actual woman and fathered two children.  He’s a medical doctor so we know deep down he knows his whole existence is a sham and probably a scam.  Just his expression alone tells you he’s insane.

There’s Merrick Garland, the failed Supreme Court candidate who now uses his position as the Attorney General to enforce the two-tier justice system that the Democrats maintain.  He tortures the regime’s enemies and seems to really enjoy it.

There’s Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary.  He looks like Mad magazine’s mascot Alfred E. Neuman but dopier.  Listening to Pete talk about any situation under his purview is to realize that he hasn’t got a clue as to how his job is done.  This is a man who strapped fake breasts to his chest to allow him to “breastfeed” the infants he adopted.  There was a picture on-line of him wearing this monstrosity.  Suddenly Rachel Levine seemed much less abnormal by comparison.

And of course, we can’t forget Vice President Kamala Harris, possibly the stupidest person to ever serve this country in elective office.  Proof of her mental deficiency is reinforced every single time she opens her mouth and speaks.  It’s so bad that even I, an implacable enemy of Harris and her whole party, feel pity whenever she’s forced to open her mouth and prove once again that she’s a moron.  I feel she should be in a setting where she can smile, work on coloring books and eat mush.

This is a representative sampling of our national leadership.  We are literally commanded by morons, real morons.  Now I understand that our system of government is really run by bureaucrats and corporate interests that decide policy behind the scenes according to what will make the elites the most money.

But the country is noticeably descending into a death spiral.  The economy is unwinding, the cities are death traps the infrastructure is crumbling and the young people can’t even decide if they’re men or women.

Can this go on?  I ask that as a question.  Maybe there is some method to this madness.  Maybe the powers that be are five-dimensional chess masters that know exactly how crazy the dopes they employ are allowed to be.  And they prevent them from stepping over the line.  I guess that’s possible.

But somehow, I don’t believe it.  Innately I feel that this whole insane carnival act; the Green New Deal, the trans-madness, the forever wars and the de-industrialization of America; that sooner than later all of that is going to come catastrophically crashing down around their ears.  And yeah, I know it’s going to destroy my life too but I feel somehow it will be worth it to see these people get dragged off to the guillotine.

What do you think?  Can it go on endlessly or not?