Month: January 2024

The Venetian Gambit

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Well, here I am at 10 pm writing a post for the morning.  And that is the worst possible circumstance.  Creativity and even sentience is at a low ebb.  But life finds a way.

So, our insect overlords have decided to turn the United States into Brazil.  Well, I guess the odds are in their favor.  They’ve got all the money and are already in control of all the levers of power.  So, let’s assume they get their way and succeed in flooding the country with a hundred million random third-worlders and their offspring over the next four or five years.

Okay, so that will make things very different from even the mess we have now.  The level of chaos that will introduce into day-to-day life will be impressive.  Crime, of course, will become an omnipresent part of life.  And the ability of communities to provide first world amenities like utilities, paved roads and emergency services will become extremely difficult.  More and more, these atributes will be restricted to islands of affluence and order in an ocean of poverty and chaos.  And these islands will need to be self-sufficient and extremely well-guarded.

So, this will be the future.  It seems to me that the best outcomes will be realized by those who organize early and begin to build an infrastructure that creates one of these islands.  Maybe the island will be built around a factory that can employ some significant number of people and then build a “company town” around it.  The important thing is that the entire community is owned by some corporation that has enough clout to prevent the area from being infiltrated by a federal program that seeds prosperous areas with Section 8 housing and introduces drugs and crime into the community.

In a red state the state government can encourage the establishment of these islands as nuclei from which larger functional areas can be created by their natural growth.  You might think that red states can just maintain a healthy society based on their laws but I tend to doubt this.  Every state has one or more highly dangerous urban center that will act as a locus of crime that will spread out into the suburbs and even the rural areas surrounding it.  All that the state government can do is try to limit the exportation of this crime.  But it will be many years before all of this dysfunction burns itself out.  In the meantime, it is a choice for those living here whether they will find safe places to live or just sit there and be drowned in the coming tide of barbarism.

I realize I’m being optimistic here.  Perhaps the only islands of affluence will be those that have already been formed by the elites.  Maybe the red state leaders will just sit on their hands and allow the tidal wave of poverty and crime to overwhelm everything.  That wouldn’t be entirely unexpected.  But if so then those of us who have families will be forced to flee farther afield.  After all, even in Fifth Century AD Italy, a few safe havens were formed to avoid the rapine and pillaging of the Huns, Goths and Lombards.  In fact, Venice was specifically founded for this very reason.

So, I guess the idea is to look for places where efforts are being made to create areas of restoration and revitalization.  The chief indicator will be the imposition of strict law and order.  The tell-tale sign I’d look for would be the liberal use of the death penalty to restore order.  It is a very effective methodology.

The Christmas Truce

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A fellow on X had this clip pinned on his feed.  I think the WW I Christmas truce was probably one of the truly lost opportunities to change the world for the better.

https://x.com/Resurrec_Ted/status/1727552093991641216?s=20

Imagine if hundreds of thousands of soldiers had just refused to go back to the trenches and formed a united front to end the war there and then.  What might the world look like today?

Just my emotional response to the idea of common people revolting against madness.  Maybe some day we’ll find ourselves in a slightly similar situation if we all revolt against our masters in Washington and tell them we won’t dance to their tune anymore.

Guest Contributor – War Pig – 04JAN2024 – Military Preparedness

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We may not have to wait. We may be pimp slapped by the Chinese, Iranians, Russians and NK working together. At the rate the youth is quite rightly refusing to enlist, our personnel shortages may prevent us from fighting in two places at once, let alone three or four. Say, the Red Sea and the Taiwan Straits, then Europe and the Levant. If Putin strikes for Poland or Romania or any other NATO member, even as a feint, we’d find ourselves stretched too thin with too few troops to do it all. The left is treasonous and purposely degrading our military. The single objective of the US military is to deter through intimidation. “Come get some!” If that fails we MUST prevail on the battlefield, whether air, space, land, water or cyber. The US military is expensive, but the most expensive thing is a second-rate military. To wit: we must get rid of wokeness and timeouts in training. We need tough sonsofbitches that will wade in and force the enemy to surrender or die. Throat stabbers. Our Secretary of Defense should be an R Lee Ermey sort. Our drill instructors/sergeants/chiefs should be profane, rough, demanding and not afraid to put a recruit in their place by a swift kick in the ass if necessary. Worked for me. Better to train them with stress than bury them because they could not handle stress. There are no time outs and no safe spaces in combat.

Waking Up to Brutal Reality

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I was having a discussion with a good friend who currently is about where I was in 2016.  He’s seen how fake the GOP establishment is but he thinks things are so bad, based on the polls, that Trump has to win.  He talked about the drift of black and Hispanic and youth voters either slightly or precipitously away from Joe Biden this year and he feels that this has guaranteed the election for Trump.

So, I asked him what happens if two weeks after election day Joe Biden wins in the usual places; Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia?  “Well, then it’s over.  We might as well look for a new country,” he said.  Based on my conversations with this friend over the course of over twenty years this is a seismic change.

2020 was a wakeup call for the normie-cons.  And no one can claim that in the world that we inhabited in 2000 or even 2008 that an economy and a social environment such as we have now would possibly have allowed for the incumbent that caused these conditions to get reelected.  It just wouldn’t have happened.  Everyone knows that election results no longer track with public opinion polls or even reality.  I’m convinced that if Joe Biden “wins” the 2024 Presidential Election the last remaining holdouts on the Right will be fully awakened to truth about American elections; that they’re fake.

Now this is a limited observation and conclusion.  I don’t claim that this realization will have any effect or result on our situation.  The only thing that will happen will be a collapse in trust in the federal and blue state governments and a search for some other power center that can be invested with whatever monetary and social support these people can provide.

People like DeSantis and Abbott will be looked to for protection against Biden and the unconstitutional power grabs that he and his cronies will enact.  It might even come down to a showdown over something like illegal border crossings in Texas.  But at the very least most people will finally agree with the statement that “we can’t vote our way out of this situation.”

And that’s huge.  This collapse in trust by the least political portion of the population is the death knell for the establishment Republicans.  Creeps like Mitch McConnell and Nikki Haley will be recognized for what they are; patsies for the Left.  Brave men who are willing to strike out in a new direction, to take matters into their own hands and force the federal government to accept the rights of Red State Americans to the constitutional freedoms that we were promised generations ago will be the true leaders and they will find enormous support from the people who are impatiently waiting for some kind of resistance to the unrelenting attack against us by the Left and their minions in Washington.

I look forward to the day when a whole generation of men who recognize what Trump did and use his example to replace the RINOs in state and federal offices and begin the process of defining and acting upon a concerted program to push back the outrages that have been perpetrated against the good people of this country for generations.

But all this supposes that such men exist.  What if they don’t?  Well then, if after the upcoming 2024 debacle no one steps forward to lead the remaining people of this country who want to be free, then I agree with my friend.  We’ll need to find a new country.