{"id":25071,"date":"2023-08-06T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25071"},"modified":"2023-08-05T23:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:29:45","slug":"the-best-part-of-living-in-a-banana-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/06\/the-best-part-of-living-in-a-banana-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Part of Living in a Banana Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J Jonah Jameson Laughing - Spider-Man 2 (Bluray version)\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6M1OF_E0IA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are lots of really terrible consequences of living under a tyranny where none of the protections of a free society exist.\u00a0 And when you happen to be a despised minority in that country it\u2019s even worse.\u00a0 At any moment you can be stripped of your privacy, your dignity, your livelihood, your possessions, your freedom, even your life.\u00a0 You have to watch while those in charge break their own laws and suffer no consequences while innocent men are persecuted and hounded out of public life just because they speak the truth.<\/p>\n<p>But one great advantage of living in clown world is that you get to laugh at all the clowns.\u00a0 And what an array.\u00a0 Joe Biden.\u00a0 Now there\u2019s a rich vein.\u00a0 Any and every day that he\u2019s on video is comic gold.\u00a0 Will he fall down, break into gibberish, wander off stage because he\u2019s befouled himself?\u00a0 Or will he just lie so outrageously that his handlers will have to pretend that he didn\u2019t say what he obviously said.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about his press secretary?\u00a0 That vacuous nitwit who has to deflect half the questions because there\u2019s just no sane answer that doesn\u2019t include admitting that her boss is a crook.<\/p>\n<p>And what about Hunter Biden?\u00a0 A man who beds his dead brother\u2019s widow and smokes crack on video while being serviced by underage prostitutes while acting as the bagman for the influence peddling of his corrupt father.\u00a0 Oh, and he gets like a half million dollars for his finger paintings too.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about the voters of New York City or LA or Chicago or any of the several dozen big cities that have voted in mayors and district attorneys that are now reducing those cities to crime-ridden hell holes in the name of \u201cequity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And how about Anthony Fauci?\u00a0 That\u2019s the best one of all.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a man who could switch from swearing that vaccines were a panacea to admitting vaccines protected no one at the drop of a hat.\u00a0 He could say that there was no chance the virus came from a lab and then say there was a very good chance it did.\u00a0 This man is a consummate liar and he even does it with a smile on his face.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is the silver lining in living in the gulag.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to pretend to believe any of it.\u00a0 Not one thing.\u00a0 If someone defends the dear leader or talks about the great economy we enjoy or cheerleads for Ukraine there\u2019s one universal reply.<\/p>\n<p>Laughter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as simple as that.\u00a0 No anger, no denial, no argument.\u00a0 Just derisive laughter and walking away.\u00a0 Nothing else speaks as clearly and powerfully as that.\u00a0 It\u2019s the perfect retort when a patently absurd statement has been made.\u00a0 Obviously, it is being made by a partisan hack.\u00a0 It\u2019s like when that CNN stooge started talking about how family values were a cornerstone of Joe Biden\u2019s political persona.\u00a0 This was being said about a man who showered naked with his teenage daughter and raised up Hunter Biden to be a crack-smoking, stripper-banging scumbag.\u00a0 When someone says something like that, derisive laughter is the only reasonable reply.\u00a0 Well, at least short of violence against the perpetrator which isn\u2019t allowed in a banana republic against one of the regime toadies.<\/p>\n<p>But there are limits.\u00a0 If the one making the statement is an FBI or IRS agent you might want to keep a straight face and remain silent.\u00a0 After all banana republics have notoriously dangerous dungeons where enemies of the state sometimes end up.\u00a0 But if the regime toady is just your neighbor or some rando you ran into then have at it and enjoy yourself to the max.\u00a0 Let a few tears leak out and slap him heartily on his back to show you appreciate the hilarious joke he\u2019s just uttered.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is our only pleasure.\u00a0 And they say laughter is the best medicine.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna need it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of really terrible 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