All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
I have no idea who this Scot, Neal Oliver is. I guess he’s some kind of media personality but I just listened to his declaration of protest against lockdowns and vax passports and I’ll say it’s beautifully spoken.
I’m surprised that it’s been broadcast. I’ve read that the Brits are even worse on COVID craziness than Biden and Company. Well, whoever he is and however he got this past the COVID Nazis I want to say well spoken, Mr Oliver, well spoken.
A few days ago, I was having a political discussion with someone on our side of the cultural divide. I said something like, “If none of the red state leaders does anything to resist the unconstitutional changes being made then we might as well leave and go somewhere else.” His answer was that maybe we might leave out of protest or anger but we wouldn’t be going someplace where we would have more freedom than we have, even in this diminished America. And that got me thinking, “Is that true?”
Our complaint with what is going on is that we are being cheated out of the freedoms that were the defining qualities of this country. If we cannot have those freedoms here, where can we have them? If the answer is nowhere else then leaving would just be a matter of protest. So, this needs to be determined in order to know what is the reasonable course of action.
Knowing the fellow that I was talking to; I think he was specifically talking about the 2nd amendment. But I thought about all the things that are considered freedom in America. And that is a complicated calculation because some of the most cherished freedoms, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms; are exactly the things that are under assault by the Left. But there are other advantages in this country that we might want to consider freedom. I remember during the Second World War the US government sponsored Norman Rockwell to produce public service ads that highlighted some of the American virtues that we all benefitted from, such as, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. As diminished as some of those things have become it is definitely important to look at what trade offs would exist if an American were thinking of leaving here. After all, as unequal as some of the enforcement of laws has been in the last few years it bears remembering just how non-existent justice tends to be in most of the world outside of the first world. Imagine demanding your rights from the police in Mexico or the Philippines.
So that is the first part of what this post, or these posts are about. But contingent on the answer to whether there is a freer place to go, there is a second question. If there is no better place to go then the next important topic is how can we maximize our freedom while living in this post-freedom America. And surely, I’ve talked about this a million times already but I want to look at it from a different perspective. It’s a new idea I’ve had. I have started calling it the “American Archipelago.” The concept is that we can look at all of our separate lives spread across the length and breadth of this continent as islands of freedom in a sea of darkness that is Woke America. We can walk in freedom on our own tiny preserve and we can visit each other in real life or in digital space and step from island to island and travel over this sea of darkness without being drowned in it. All we have to do is perfect our seamanship to avoid being drowned. I like the metaphor and plan to use it in a story I’m thinking about.
But for now, I’ll think a little bit about the answer to the question. Is post-freedom America still the freest place on Earth?
Yesterday’s visit has thrown me completely off schedule. I just finished off a week’s worth of quotes and photos but I haven’t put together a single post in over a day. Well, a happy get together of friends is always a positive so I’ll have to do my best to catch up as best I can.
I heard some reports on just how awful parts of New York City had become. One particularly disturbing aspect is the prevalence of mentally disturbed homeless men. This has made certain areas of Manhattan no-go zones for women and the infirm. Another report that was interesting is a trend by gang members to perform daytime reconnaissance of likely robbery targets and then perform a coordinated attack at night on several locations simultaneously thus overloading an already degraded police response. In one of these attacks a victim refused to hand over his expensive watch and was shot for his trouble. The police have stopped reporting a lot of the robbery. It’s too prevalent to note. They’re concentrating on the assaults and killings.
There was a spirited discussion about the outcome of the anti-police campaign going on in the cities. Someone noted that even though the cities have changed course and are attempting to fill the vacancies in their police departments, candidates are not forthcoming. Apparently it’s just not worth the risk of being prosecuted by an ungrateful city government for doing their jobs.
I said that regardless of any individual failings of police officers the attacks on law and order were an existential threat to our society. I stated my opinion that the police should walk away from these places all together. I said that complete lawlessness should be fostered in these places for as long as it takes for the people who voted for all this to get all the anarchy they could possibly want and then some. I finished by saying I fervently hope that my home town burns more or less to the ground. That will be the only thing that teaches these people what their philosophy truly stands for.
Then we stopped for a very satisfying meal of spaghetti puttanesca and assorted cold sandwiches. After that we discussed the relative merits of various Humphrey Bogart movies. Yesterday I was partial to, “To Have and Have Not.” Others disagreed and sided with “The Big Sleep” or “The Maltese Falcon.” So we put on the “Big Sleep” and marveled at just how many pretty girls Bogey had throwing themselves at him. Carmen, Mrs. Rutledge, the librarian, the bookstore girl, the cabbie, the hat check girls. Looking at Bogey it seemed incomprehensible. But life is not always sensible. For instance, how could I explain how I managed to rope Camera Girl in? Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
And before the visit broke up we planned some kind of gathering between Thanksgiving and Christmas. After all, family commitments made those occasions just too hard to work around. Whereas between them was a few weeks when everyone else would be reeling from Thanksgiving dinner and unlikely to compete for time.
So, it’s no excuse for my tardiness writing here but at least it’s put me in a good mood for tackling my various on-line and real world chores. Now to dissect Dementia Joe’s latest debacle.
Today is an off day I’m entertaining some good friends but I’ll check back in later. I’ve got some things I’m interested in talking about. So to be continued.
Authenticity in the present-day world seems to be in extremely short supply. News is fake. Some science is fake. Medicine is very fake. The FBI is fake. Now it turns out the military is run by fakes. Elections are fake. The Republicans are mostly fakes.
The Democrats are real. They truly are communists.
But Biden’s brain is fake. Money is fake. Capitalism is fake. The internet is mostly fake. Education is most certainly fake. Most of organized religion is fake.
So, what isn’t fake? I guess the only thing that’s real is what you yourself know is real. For me that is the friends and family that I know are real. They’re living in this funhouse mirror version of reality and they have to make the compromises that we all have to just to live. But they’re not fake. Some of them may be mistaken about what is real and what is imaginary but they’re trying to live their lives the best way they can. They need and deserve all the help I can give them and all the prayers that I can send out for them.
But is there anything else that’s real? Yes, evil is real. All of those things I listed above are fake for a reason. They are part of a plan that is systematically breaking down all the good things that once existed in this place. The system that is implementing all of these lies is very real. The FBI and the military have weapons that are extremely effective. The Justice Department has a federal prison system that can swallow up people and never let them go.
Another thing that’s not fake is the Great Awakening. Not the woke joke but the awakening by normal people to the reality of the system. That’s real too. The Sleepers have opened their eyes and now see that they’ve been fooled. That’s a powerful reality. If the number of these people is large enough it might be a very big deal.
I don’t claim to know that we will be able to turn this thing around. In fact, I’ll have to say I’m more pessimistic today than at any time in the last five years. But they say that the truth shall set you free and I tend to agree with that.
In my essay on someone becoming the leader of the deplorables I talked about him building a platform for the deplorables to call their home. Part of the reason for building a base for us is to give us something that we can depend on to be real. Having something you can depend on is important. Whether it’s a payment processor that you depend on for your on-line business income or a social media site that you enjoy interacting with, people become anxious and confused when the things they think they can depend on fail them. Always having to worry about something being pulled out from under you is a terrible way to live. And so, building something that is real and can be depended on is more than just a luxury it’s a necessity for maintaining the sanity of people in our position. It’s a refuge. And what I was thinking is that if we can build out that refuge into more and more compartments of our lives then less and less of the world would be fake.
And maybe if we could expand that reality to enough of our daily lives then maybe someday the fake bubble will collapse in on itself and disappear altogether. I dream of the day when the Democrat Party, the New York Times, MSNBC and Twitter all shut down and all of the inmates from those asylums are rounded up and sent to Canada where they belong.
India has over four times the population of the United States and medical infrastructure that’s orders of magnitude less capable but India currently is experiencing less than a fifth the daily deaths that the United States is. Here’s what India attributes it to:
“Uttar Pradesh was the first state in the country to introduce large-scale prophylactic and therapeutic use of Ivermectin. In May-June 2020, a team at Agra, led by Dr Anshul Pareek, administered Ivermectin to all RRT team members in the district on an experimental basis. It was observed that none of them developed Covid-19 despite being in daily contact with patients who had tested positive for the virus,” Uttar Pradesh State Surveillance Officer Vikssendu Agrawal said.
He added that based on the findings from Agra, the state government sanctioned the use of Ivermectin as a prophylactic for all the contacts of Covid patients and later cleared the administration of therapeutic doses for the treatment of such patients.
Claiming that timely introduction of Ivermectin since the first wave has helped the state maintain a relatively low positivity rate despite its high population density, he said, “Despite being the state with the largest population base and a high population density, we have maintained a relatively low positivity rate and cases per million of population”.
Last January a local doctor in his mid seventies told me that Ivermectin was the magic bullet for the COVID pandemic. So he knew, India knows and a bunch of other people have been saying it but the powers that be don’t like that answer. So mask up America, mask up.
This is more than shocking. This is grounds for court martial followed by a firing squad. If we were looking for any more proof that this is a banana republic we need look no further. All MIlley needs at this point is a cigar, dark sunglasses and an AK-47 and he can pretend to be Che Guevera.
If the military command is completely rotted out too what’s left? What’s not weaponized against us at this point? It’s pretty damn discouraging.
A couple of days ago a commenter asked why I would write about why we need to get organized since everyone already knows that. And I commented back that it was an open letter to someone powerful to step in and do something. So here I’ll make it more explicit. What we don’t need is a bunch of campaign letters from republicans asking us to send hundreds or thousands of dollars to get someone elected. Nor do we need an outrage list telling us what Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer is plotting. We already know what they’re doing and we know you want money.
What we’re looking for is a plan to do something positive that can’t be undone. We want a win. We want something that tells us that there’s hope. Build up a social media platform that won’t be de-platformed by the Amazon Cloud. Start an entertainment company that produces first rate movies, games, music and books. Charter a bank and a payment processor and a crowd sourcing company that we can put our money in that won’t close our accounts because we don’t bend a knee the LGBTQ mafia. In fact, do all of these things and make a fortune doing it. If you promote it the right way you’ll be swimming in money.
And if you do all that you’ll have an enormous megaphone to talk to the half of this country that is sick unto death with being pariahs in their own country.
In short, GIVE US A HOME.
We used to be considered the owners of this country. Now we’re the dispossessed. Our richer neighbors are working hard to get rid of us and replace us with easily controlled peasants from the third world. Eventually they hope to replace them too with robots or something even more horrible. If one of the rich and powerful wants to short circuit this process, then step in on our side and give us a voice and organize us. We want to be led by someone who believes in the things we believe in. But even if you don’t believe in our values. Do it anyway. You can become an immensely powerful man if you leverage the numbers and the anger that we represent.
And you don’t have to do it all in one day. Just make a start. How about the bank and the payment processor? That’s a money printing business if there ever was one. Just call it the MAGA Bank or the America First Bank. Call it whatever you want just let all of us know it’s meant for us. Say explicitly that you won’t deny anyone service who isn’t breaking some real law like drug running or bank robbing. But explicitly say you don’t care about hate speech or someone’s views on transgender rights.
So, all you people on the right with dreams of being the king. Step up. Build something for us and we will come. We’ll line up around the block just to get on board. Take our money and give us what we’re looking for. Respect. Fair treatment. A home and an identity.
Carlson has become the mainstream voice of the Deplorables. I think he has a future in politics if he decides that is something he’d like to do. In this video he gets right to the point. Only months ago Biden, Fauci and all the other Dems swore that mandating vaccination was unthinkable. Now they’re doing it.
He talks about the dubious nature of the vaccines and their health risks. He identifies the coercive and psychological nature of the control that the Biden administration is perpetrating against us. It’s an excellent indictment of the Biden White House.
I just saw that Norm McDonald passed away from cancer. The story said he was diagnosed nine years ago but he chose not to talk about it in public. Norm was a very funny guy and he also wasn’t afraid of the woke censors. He pretty much said whatever he wanted. I always liked his routines. They were clever.
RIP Norm.