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Hello everyone out in the world.\u00a0 Today is June 3rd<\/sup> 2022 and here in Dunwich the weather is changeable.\u00a0 Which just means it\u2019s a normal day in New England.\u00a0 We had clouds then rain and now the sun is pretty hot.\u00a0 The local flora is bursting with chlorophyll and growing like crazy.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard not to feel good on a day like today.<\/p>\n

Of course, today I locked in my heating oil price for the next season and it was north of five dollars.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 But if I didn\u2019t cap it today it would be even higher when I did.\u00a0 So that\u2019s what it looks like when Joe Biden wants us to \u201cgo green.\u201d\u00a0 What he means is go broke.\u00a0 By the time Joe Biden is booted out of the White House in January of 2025 I expect that heating oil cap will be $10\/gallon.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a very pleasant thought.\u00a0 Camera Girl\u2019s food budget is going to be horrendous to compensate for what expensive oil is going to do to food prices.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s not dwell on the negative.\u00a0 Let\u2019s get back to that date in January 2025.\u00a0 Dementia Joe will probably be catatonic by then and strapped to an ambulance gurney for his ride to the third floor of some local nursing home where he\u2019ll be hooked up to some tubes that will keep him clinically alive for a few months more before it will be safe to declare him brain dead.\u00a0 Too bad no one will declare him brain dead now.\u00a0 It might spare us all the bother of letting him rattle on about guns or abortion or his adventures with Corn Pop.<\/p>\n

So, we\u2019re all impatiently awaiting that day in thirty months when a new regime will come in and start repairing the damage Joe has caused.\u00a0 The first thing reversed will be the border.\u00a0 Closing the border will be easy.\u00a0 Getting the funds to finish the wall will be easy too without that nitwit Paul Ryan running the House.\u00a0 Kicking out the illegals will be the hard part.\u00a0 Then all the executive orders and other shenanigans that Biden used to reduce American oil production will need to be undone.\u00a0 That should also be easy.<\/p>\n

What will be hard is what comes next, defanging the Deep State.\u00a0 Through a combination of appointments, changes to the federal law around federal bureaucrats and the reduction of the budgets of the various executive agencies the next president will have to establish control over the Frankenstein monster that is the federal government.\u00a0 And if it isn\u2019t done then we will have to admit the truth that America is an empire ruled over by court mandarins.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen this in action as the bureaucracy selects the judges and jurors that will protect any henchman of the Deep State from accountability for breaking the laws that the rest of us have to follow.<\/p>\n

Can Donald Trump (or his successor) do this?\u00a0 I have my doubts.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen no proof that he can.\u00a0 We have seen proof that the Justice Department and the FBI and the Obama appointed judges will punish with impunity anyone they choose to hold up as object lessons to the rest of us.\u00a0 No one has beaten the Deep State.\u00a0 But one good thing has happened.\u00a0 The Deep State has been clearly exposed.\u00a0 The non-leftist media; Tucker Carlson and a lot of smaller outfits like the Conservative Treehouse have made available proof that the Deep State is real and it is powerful and it is crooked as the devil\u2019s backbone.<\/p>\n

So, there\u2019s a lot of question marks.\u00a0 The first one is whether we can get a fair election in November.\u00a0 If that fails then we don\u2019t have to wait thirty months.\u00a0 We\u2019ll already have our answer.\u00a0 At that point it\u2019ll be a matter of getting out or waiting for the Visigoths.\u00a0 But it is a beautiful day today and I\u2019ll go enjoy a little bit of it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone out in the world.\u00a0 Today is June 3rd 2022 and here in Dunwich the weather is changeable.\u00a0 Which just means it\u2019s a normal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"\n03JUN2022 \u2013 Reflecting on Where We Are - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/03\/03jun2022-reflecting-on-where-we-are\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"03JUN2022 \u2013 Reflecting on Where We Are - 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