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Another Psycho-Killer, Another Book Lesson

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Another day, another psycho leftist shooter.  As I said the other day, be prepared for an almost endless sequence of these suicidal people.  Their lives are a misery to them so they want the rest of us to suffer too.  Only in addition to everything else that was wrong with this guy he even failed to accomplish what he set out to do.  He wanted to kill ICE agents and instead he killed and wounded illegal alien detainees that were in an ICE van.  Now that level of incompetence and stupidity really does deserve the Darwin Award.  And right there with the shooter’s idiocy, the Left is trying, once again, and to no effect, to question whether the shooter was a Leftist.  Well, give it a day or two and they’ll settle for, “He wasn’t a card-carrying member of a terrorist left-wing organization, which is another way of saying these organizations don’t have cards.  Their badges are the crazed looks on their faces and the social media memes and buzzwords of the left.

Well, enough of that.

Some of the results from the beta-readers of my novel are coming in and the consensus is that this guy photog must be out of his mind if he thinks anyone is gonna read his awful book.  As reader after reader disparaged its characters, plots and even adverbs I was like a cornered wild animal looking for some way to escape the tsunami of negative results.  I yelled, “Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!”  Well, maybe there weren’t that many exclamation points in real life.  But I was pretty busted up.  So, I took a bottle of Tylenol and washed it down with a gallon of grape Hawaiian Punch and pretty soon I was really sick.  But that took my mind off my book problems while I headed to urgent care.  Now that I’ve mostly recovered, I’m happily in denial and working on an alternate reality where I’ve sold more books than James Patterson and am twice as handsome as Brad Pitt but somehow it turned out backwards.  I’m unfortunately, twice as handsome as James Patterson and have sold more books than Brad Pitt.  You know it really is important to work these things out ahead of time.

I have an appointment to talk with a marketer who specializes in self-published books and I’m trying to put together a list of questions to ask.  At the moment all that comes to mind is, “How can I become fabulously wealthy from my book without putting in any effort at all?”  And I think I’ve nailed it.  That is exactly what I want an answer to.  But I have this nagging suspicion that there may be more to it than that.  I seem to be confusing marketer with the genie from Aladdin.  Well, you can hardly blame me.  Both of them are in my mind, mythical creatures with supernatural powers.  But seriously, this whole book thing has been an interesting experience.  I’ve learned that writing is a craft that requires lots of work and especially in the planning stages.  Writing a story by the seat of your pants seems more intuitive and natural to me but I now understand that building the story ahead of time saves time at the end when re-writing is extremely painful and maybe impractical.  Well, the journey continues.

Watch Your Back

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So, they murdered Charlie Kirk.  They assassinated a guy who debates with dumb college students on college campuses.  Could you think of anyone less threatening than a debate team nerd?  Well, I guess when the previous victims are Catholic grade school kids then there is some room there.  But it does give you pause to imagine exactly what kind of people the “average” progressive zealot must be.  We are dealing with social outcasts so bereft of connection to normal society that prison or suicide seem like career opportunities.

So where does this go from here?  And that is the question.  The FBI, as usual, say they’re working diligently to find the narrative that led to this “heinous act.”  But why do I think all we’ll ever here will be “lone wolf” and the old reliable; schizophrenia?  What is needed is to find the circle of psychopaths that egg each other on until the craziest one takes the bait.  And when will we find out that the shooter worked for Black Rock and his father was a CIA contactor?  And of course, we’ll hear how all of this is just some crazy coincidence.  Oh, my aching head.

I thought our guys are in the FBI and CIA now.  Why isn’t there a report about the psycho kid who shot at Trump in Pennsylvania?  What’s taking so long?  It seems like just the same old story; “We’re following every lead!”  Well, bottom line; they’ve unleashed their crazies on all of us.  Between the trans crew and the rest of the Antifa crowd I expect to hear about a new murder every week for the foreseeable future.

Now Charlie Kirk’s mode of operation; large crowds of college kids on campus is obviously especially dangerous when a sniper can get you from a couple of hundred yards away.  But it would behoove any conservative that will be running or involved in public forums or debates to take very seriously the risk that now exists.  A piece of very thick, transparent, bullet proof plastic would have been a very valuable precaution for Charlie Kirk’s operation.  Of course, no defensive plan is perfect and a determined assassin can thwart any and all precautions.  But based on what we saw on Wednesday, conservatives are now targets for insane leftist sociopaths.  They really should consult with security experts before exposing themselves to the tender mercies of people who don’t have any.

I followed Charlie Kirk’s career haphazardly.  I saw several examples of his debate style and I could see how it would have a profound effect on young people unused to a non-leftist opinion being expressed out loud on a college campus.  I think he was having a good measure of success debunking leftist doctrine on campus.  It seems Gen Z (especially the boys) are quite receptive to right leaning ideas.  So, the maniac who killed Charlie picked a valuable target.  Let’s hope a Utahan jury finds him guilty and the death penalty is assigned and carried out as quickly as humanly possible.

But none of this helps his widowed wife and orphaned children.  Their misery should be blamed on the Gavin Newsom’s of the world who said attacking the right must be violent.  I think he should be on trial too.

Real Hate

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More than a hundred Americans lose their lives in a weather catastrophe.  And what is the reaction of some of their fellow Americans:

Now this a female pediatrician.  If you were to guess what profession and which sex would score highest in empathy for children, I’d assume she’d be near the top of the list.  But in her case empathy is very clearly a politically dependent emotion.  Twenty-seven children wiped off the face of the Earth by a raging flood in her home state is merely a good way to score political points on a man thousands of miles away in Washington.  Well, it’s a remarkable insight into the humanity of these Democrat activists.

Here are some more reactions from Democrats in Texas:

I guess it’s some consolation that the pediatrician’s employer terminated her for this horrifically cruel and psychotic crowing over the deaths of children.  But it does provide a reference point when considering how we stand as “fellow citizens.”  You watch these videos and you are hearing the true feelings of these people.  If our children die then we are getting what we deserve.  When those two Minnesotan law-makers were attacked by a psychotic man no one was saying “they got what they deserved.”  No normal person would be stupid enough to say something like that.  Displaying your inhumanity like that is reserved for psychopaths who have no empathy and don’t even know how to fake it.  Normal people understand that regardless of differences on political policy we all have human feelings and wishing evil on children based on ideology is a sickness.

But here are people totally comfortable doing it.  One of them was actually a political leader in Houston at one time.  Now I make an exception for Rosie O’Donnell.  She is a well-documented imbecile and allowance has to be made for those who have been afflicted in this way.  But anyone of somewhat normal intelligence (and a medical doctor should fit that description) who wishes ill on innocent children should be shunned as a pariah.

Of late the Left has been rallying their psychopaths.  Antifa and especially the transgender core of antifa have been taking to the streets armed now with guns and knives.  They’ve decided they can come directly against ICE and other law enforcement agents.  Luckily, they are ill-equipped to be shock-troops and in the last few days a bunch have been arrested for attempted murder and one of them got himself killed when opening fire on peace officers.

But apparently not all of the psychopaths are armed with guns and knives.  Some, as shown above, are armed with hate of a particularly disgusting sort.  Laughing at the death of someone else’s children is so callous, so subhuman, that it deserves a special recognition.  And as it stands, there is one.  Dante identified the seventh level of hell for that kind of cruelty and specifically for those violent against their neighbors they were submersed according to their level of guilt in a river of boiling blood.  Well, that sounds about right.  Mocking the pain of a parent who has lost a child should be recognized with something awful.  Let’s hope Dante had the details right.

It Just Seems Too Easy

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Regardless of whether you watch left-leaning or right-leaning news outlets you can’t miss the fact that Trump is bulldozing the Washington establishment into the ground and increasing his popularity from day to day.  And both sides (when they’re being honest) agree that they’ve never seen anything like this transition.  Trump is getting his people confirmed by the Senate and he’s removing people from the federal bureaucracy that he sees as impediments; prosecutors, inspectors general, generals, you name it.  He’s even going after birthright citizenship.  His deportation initiative is going full speed ahead and has found allies in some blue cities.  Nothing seems off the table.  He’s a juggernaut.  So why does this make me think there’s a George Floyd or a COVID pandemic about to be unleashed on us?

I guess I’m surprised at how smoothly it’s all going.  Could the Left have been so completely flummoxed by Trump’s victory and his organization that they can’t fight back at all?  I have read that a network of antifa and LGBTQ freaks are communicating on TikTok about attacking ICE agents doing their jobs.  I’ve also read that they’re discussing assassinating Trump.  And if I’ve heard these things then obviously everyone on the Left knows about it already.  This jibes with what’s already going on.  Apparently the two assassins who killed the Border agent in Vermont were transgender freaks of one sort or the other.  So, there is some stuff going on.  But all of this seems pretty tame compared to what I imagine the Left could put out on the street if they unleashed all of the psychopaths they command.  So that is what I’m wondering about.  Is this the calm before the storm?

Now maybe it’s the case that without the FBI and Justice Department running interference for them, that antifa and the other leftist goons aren’t a very effective force.  I’m assuming the FBI is right now in panic mode wondering when their jobs are going to be pulled out from under them.  That might be the simple answer.  Or maybe it takes time to plan and organize a color revolution in 2025.  Maybe they’re looking to publicize a mistake made by ICE agents during a deportation arrest.  Possibly a child hurt or killed during some firefight with gang members or drug traffickers.  Or maybe they’re looking for a valid US citizen accidentally mistaken for an illegal alien.  Possibly that’s what they’re looking for to spark a firestorm against Trump’s administration.

Of course, it’s also possible that the popularity of Trump’s agenda will protect him from even some problems and mistakes that inevitably will happen in something as massive and difficult as finding and deporting tens of millions of people hiding in the general population.  The scope of such an endeavor is sobering to consider.  It will consume enormous resources in dollars and man-hours.  It will not happen quickly or easily.  But so far people are increasingly supportive of this project as it becomes a reality.  Especially as we see him going after gangs and cartels that are wreaking havoc in cities across the country.

So maybe I’m wrong.  Maybe it’s just winning all the way down.  But for some reason it seems too easy.

May You Live in Interesting Times

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Isn’t it the case that the only times we feel incandescently alive is when things go very, very right or very, very wrong.  At other times, even when things are going well, we’re mostly running on autopilot.  Most of our brain is asleep or distracted by all the minutia of modern life; the internet, the office gossip, all the gnawing worries we have about family problems, money, politics, world affairs and health.

But on those days when we meet a stunning woman or get hit by a car or win the lottery or get arrested by the cops our brains are lit up like the Fourth of July.  Every fiber of your being is jazzed.  Even when you’re just thinking to yourself, the voice of your own thoughts is a roar in your head.  You feel almost painfully alive.

Think about what it must be like to be a condemned man on the day of his execution.  Adrenalin is coursing through his veins and the sound of his blood pumping is pounding in his ears.  His muscles are tensed for flight but there’s no way out.  Or think about one of those ancient armies that was in pitched battle when suddenly the enemy line breaks and turns to flee the ground in a rout.  Think of the sense of triumph and relief that death has been avoided and instead the spoils of victory were imminent.  Maybe you’ve saved your native land from rape and plunder by an army of marauders.

When we’re living our normal lives routine and a sense of moderation is the rule.  Don’t eat too much, don’t drink too much, don’t stay up too late, don’t get too excited.  Don’t live too much.  I guess we don’t want to use up whatever we have left until the end.  And that is the sensible way to do things.

But it’s not very Homeric.  If you read Homer or even Tolkien you hear about the joy of battle or the battle frenzy.  And I think it’s this same idea.  It’s a heightened sense of existence.  It’s an adrenalin rush.  In our modern world only soldiers and police and firemen are likely to experience this sense of heightened existence from contact with existential risk.  Maybe add prizefighters and athletes at the very peak of performance.

What about the rest of us?  As I said, when the day is very, very bad or very, very good.  I guess a lot of people might have had some sense of this on September 11th 2001, especially if they knew someone who worked in the Towers.  I did and it was terrifying until I knew that they were safe.  Maybe you can count a sort of minor rush from something like a favorite underdog sports team winning a championship or maybe Trump winning the presidency in 2016.  But these are of course just tinges of exultation.

But the world is becoming a more dangerous and uncertain place.  It’s part of the fundamental change of America that Barack Obama initiated.  And as it becomes more dangerous, we will experience a heightened sense of being alive.  We will live in interesting times.  And we will by default become more interesting ourselves.  And as risk becomes more and more a basic part of our lives, taking bigger risks will become less “unthinkable.”  And then change will come from those who used to be oh so careful.

Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump

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Above is a video of a witness who saw the shooter crawling up on the roof of a nearby building who got the attention of law enforcement and told them a sniper was on the building and they did nothing.

Well, the crazies are now out in full force.  At a rally in Pennsylvania Donald Trump appeared to be grazed by bullets as he was talking to the crowd.

So much for the peaceful, law-abiding leftists.

Update:

Bigus Macus

This is the picture of President Trump we need to keep showing.

https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1812263848751349892

 

Looks Like SCOTUS Needs Body Guards

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So a madman called the police from nearby Justice Kavanaugh’s home and told them he was preparing to murder him.  Of course, he was from California.  And I assume he’ll be kept in a madhouse for a short time before being released.  Apparently this is deliberate judicial intimidation.  I wonder if the FBI will provide assistance to keep the justices safe.  Or are they in on the fun?

Will we get that same line from Dementia Joe’s new henchwoman that she hopes the protestors remain peaceful?

Kavanaugh must appear to be the weak link.  Fascinating to watch the gestapo tactics broken out by the Left.  What’s next, kidnappings?

Minnesota Wants Federal Money to Rebuild Minneapolis

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Minnesota’s Governor Walz has requested President Trump to declare a national disaster and bail out Minnesota to the tune of $500 million for the damage which he himself caused when he allowed the rioting thugs to burn down Minneapolis.

I think the correct response is to respectfully ask Governor Walz to go pound sand where the sun don’t shine.  The first thing that should be done is to cut off all federal police funding to Minneapolis and institute a DOJ investigation into the civil rights violations inherent in a city knowingly allowing a mob to terrorize American citizens based on their racial identity.

The Consent of the Governed

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The Fourth of July is an especially relevant time of the year to discuss the idea of a government’s legitimacy.  After all it was the Founding Fathers’ dissatisfaction with George III’s unaccountability to his American subjects that led to the founding of our country.  Such slogans as “taxation without representation is tyranny” show that the colonists were acutely aware that they did not possess any mechanism to make their wishes known to their king.  Parliament may have been at that time much less powerful as a democratic force in the British monarchy than it currently is but it did represent the common Englishman at the highest levels of government.

The principle involved is that consent of the governed is necessary for a government to be considered legitimate.  Whether that consent is grudging or enthusiastic is a matter of degrees and in either case recognizes that the governed concedes to following the laws provided by the ruler.  In the ancient world before democracy was a thing often the legitimacy of the ruler was wrapped up in divine right.  This assumed that the king was of the same people as those ruled and his relationship with the culture of his people was deep and meaningful to them.  In such a situation the people would endure quite a bit before they would revolt because they assumed that their gods had their best interests in mind and so they trusted in their greater wisdom, even when the results were brutally hard.

But when the ruler was a foreign conqueror, an emperor of some other nation then consent was the choice between slavery and death.  But even that is consent.  It is recognition of the balance of power.  It is choosing life over freedom.  And to the extent that you want to spare your children it is a long-term agreement.

In the modern era representative government provides much more scope for consent.  The formation of a strong middle class has made democratic governments more stable and produced a society where the governed feel that their leaders are accountable to their needs.  But with the introduction of socialism and communism  in the late 19th century forces have been unleashed on democratic societies that empower the most radical and least disciplined portion of society and turns it into a tool that can be manipulated by demagogues and even powerful elites that see it as a weapon with which to subjugate the middle class.

We are in such a situation now.  The Constitution with its enumerated Bill of Rights is being ignored by the elites and their toadies in the government.  We are being stripped of freedom of speech and religion and the right to bear arms.  What is occurring is a coup d’état facilitated by the elites and empowered by the mob against a middle-class people too habituated by order and stability to react as forcefully as is warranted.

What remains to be seen is when or if the American people withdraw their consent.  If they don’t then they’ll become a conquered people no better than the Roman citizens who slowly by degrees became serfs indentured to the Roman nobles and then Germanic chieftains who owned them.

But if instead they come to their senses, they can pretty quickly re-establish their rights.  When a court, even the Supreme Court clearly breaches the Constitution it’s time to start ignoring the decisions of that court.  It’s time to withdraw consent from that government.

If a state declared itself no longer bound by clearly unconstitutional laws it will be very difficult for even the mighty United States federal government to uphold that law.  Much of the enforcement of even federal laws depends on the good will of state and local law enforcement.  Without that good will it becomes a struggle just to know if the law is being broken.  And if the State government is actually hostile to a law it could become virtually impossible to enforce.  And if the federal government is under the leadership of a conservative president it would be simple for enforcement of unpopular laws to fall completely by the wayside.  A really far thinking conservative could dismantle whole departments of the federal government whose only job it is to harass the American people with all sorts of bureaucratic restrictions on their liberties.

So, it remains to be seen if the present American nation has as much courage as their colonial predecessors.  Patrick Henry said, “give me liberty or give me death.”  We can get away with just pointing at the Constitution and saying, “freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, leave me alone.”

Which way do you think it will go?

 

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