{"id":13187,"date":"2021-01-16T10:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=13187"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T15:35:47","slug":"the-pause-before-the-plunge-redux-four-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/16\/the-pause-before-the-plunge-redux-four-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pause Before the Plunge Redux – Four Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January of 2017 I wrote a post right before President Trump’s inauguration<\/a>.\u00a0 Re-reading it now I seem to have been pretty accurate about the things that lay ahead.\u00a0 Four years later we are in a similar but much less hopeful point.\u00a0 This again is the pause before the plunge.\u00a0 You know, the roller coaster has reached the top of the rickety wooden scaffolding and even though the car has already pointed its nose down it hasn’t begun its sickening fall.\u00a0 You are suspended in time and space but the anticipation of the horror is actually worse than the thing itself.\u00a0\u00a0Wow, that was overly dramatic.<\/p>\n

In reality, because of the stupidity and ineptitude of Dementia Joe and his lackeys it will be more like a Chinese Water Torture.\u00a0 A slow drip, drip, drip of annoying and uncomfortable executive actions and a slow contraction of freedom and prosperity as the vampires suck away all the life and vitality in the country.<\/p>\n

But at the same time, I remember that the last four years and especially the memory of the election fraud did happen and we will not be going through a redux of the Obama administration.\u00a0 There will be no honeymoon from the Right.\u00a0 There’s no benefit of the doubt left because there’s no doubt.\u00a0 Most of the Left hates Dementia Joe too.\u00a0 He’s their tool but he’s no one’s hero.\u00a0 And Willie Brown’s Ho is no Eva Per\u00f3n.\u00a0 Having to listen to either one of them give a speech will be like listening to fingernails screeching across a chalkboard.<\/p>\n

So, perched here between heaven and hell is an odd feeling but the last twenty years have all been odd.\u00a0 Since 9\/11\/2001 it has never been a normal world we have lived in.\u00a0 That’s probably why the millennials are so messed up.\u00a0 They’ve never known normalcy so they’ve been groomed to believe degeneracy and madness are normal.<\/p>\n

Well, anyway I won’t let this rant turn into a generic rant.\u00a0 The point of this post is to point out to you that there is a little time left before the full brunt of federal power is marshalled against us to get your affairs in order.\u00a0 Maybe there are some financial decisions you want to make based on any changes that might be coming down the line.\u00a0 Or maybe personal decisions like visiting a friend or buying something that may become off limits in the future.\u00a0 If you can think of something that can be more easily accomplished now rather than after Big Brother completely controls us then do it.<\/p>\n

One thing I plan to do is purchase some of Solzhenitsyn’s books and read them carefully.\u00a0 The Soviet and other Eastern European dissidents have an enormous amount of experience that we can learn from.\u00a0 Let’s not kid ourselves.\u00a0 The Left has taken off the mask and at this point we can assume they’ll do what it takes to hold onto the levers of power from now on.<\/p>\n

Sorry if that sounds melodramatic or overblown but after the election fraud, I no longer believe that the restraints that used to be in place exist.\u00a0 It truly resembles the Orwellian dystopia of 1984.\u00a0 The only thing that was needed to complete the picture was the pervasive surveillance apparatus.\u00a0 And no one can doubt that the Patriot Act and the Tech Monopolies have combined to outdo anything Orwell imagined for that facet of the totalitarian state.<\/p>\n

Well, here we go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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