There’s nothing wrong with diversity - it can make life a lot more interesting - but there is plenty wrong when diversity is essentially a thick club used to beat the designated non-diverse into pitiful submission. That’s one lesson of my recent trip to Hawai’i.
Another lesson is that there’s now an ' in Hawai’i for some reason. And that it should be the language of stand-up comedy because there are so many words with K sounds.
And finally, America’s woke military has failed to learn the lessons of Pearl Harbor. We’re due for a rerun, and at this rate the woke Pentagon will be busy clapping at drag shows while Oahu burns.
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE
That seems like a ridiculous thing to say, but if you look at the premise of the kind of diversity the wokes push upon us, it presumes that people hate anything different and have to be forced into tolerating it. Of course, the most intolerant people out there are the wokesters, which is why they have all taken the vaxx against hypocrisy. At least that vaxx works.
But Americans don’t hate different people. They hate jerks, and every group has them. Don’t get me started on affluent white women of pallor - if they didn’t embrace dumb ideas they would have no ideas at all. But Hawaiians seem to have significantly fewer jerks than other groups of folks. Note that this is geographic, not ethnic - Polynesian, Asian and white Hawaiians are all similar. America used to have many different trans-racial geographic groups, but TV and easy travels have smoothed out the differences. Southern hospitality, New York attitude - they still exist across ethnic groups and encompass not just attitude but food, arts, and lifestyle, but it’s hard to have true culture shock when you’re almost always within range of an Olive Garden.
Hawai’i feels more different than other regions despite the chains and brands, probably because of that huge ocean. It’s moist and languid. The people are slower paced - okay, slow. I come from LA - get a move on, people, I gotta get home and finish my screenplay. Waiters and waitresses seem genuinely happy to see you, and they’ll talk to you - one guy chatted up a nearby table for 15 minutes. They go out of their way for you. It’s lovely, even if not quite as rapid-fire as I usually prefer.
And these seem to be sensible folk despite electing Democrats, including the dumbest woman in Congress, Mazie Hirono. That’s a high achievement in a body that includes Ted Lieu. Obama's chill vibe is very Hawaiian. Note that they did not always elect pinkos - their long-standing senator was Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, who lost an arm killing Nazis. Do not mistake the smiles and joy for weakness - Hawaiians are flat out warriors with an amazing combat record. When in Waikiki, check out the Hawaiian Army History Museum- it’s not yet woke and pretty great.
And these are family-oriented folks. Not one damn pride flag in sight, except at a corner of a park where are few - very few - folks spent a Saturday morning blasting out the most cliche disco music imaginable. By the time we came back from snorkeling they were packing up. No hate, just no interest.
I like that I can go to different parts of my country and be around different kinds of Americans. I like an America with Hawaiians in it. And they seem to like an America with everyone else in it. That’s diversity as it should be. I do not like leftists trying to use the concept to leverage power for themselves. We need to tell them to buzz off. Aloha, jerks.
PEARL HARBOR REDUX
Of course I visited Pearl Harbor again - I’m an American and when in Hawai’i you damn well visit Pearl Harbor. For those of you who attended public schools, on December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, Imperial Japan sent waves of aircraft numbering over 300 to attack US military installations across Oahu hoping to knock us out of the war they had just started. But God looks out for America - our precious aircraft carriers had left port and survived. Within the year, their aircrews would sink four of the six Japanese carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor during the Battle of Midway, the turning of the tide that eventually led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the utter defeat of Japan.
Fool around and find out, as the kids who don’t swear say.
Our enemies should learn the lesson that you don’t screw with America, but they might not. The guy who planned the raid, Admiral Yamamoto - who we hunted down and killed in an aerial ambush - knew Americans and knew what he was provoking. He warned his bosses. The Japanese decided to play anyway. China should look at Pearl Harbor and think hard before getting uppity, but they are more likely to look at Afghanistan and the vacuum-skulled nitwit in the White House and think it’s go time.
We Americans should learn the lesson that Hawai’i - hell, our whole West Coast - is the frontline if we fight China. And like in 1941, we refuse to accept that fact. “At Dawn We Slept” is a classic Pearl Harbor history, and the title is right on the money. In 2023, we’re sleeping and dawn is coming.
I have no access to classified info or war plans - this is all open source and the Chinese sure know it. A kinetic Pearl Harbor 2 (we’d be cyber-struck too) would not start with a military fleet sailing for the islands but with a rain of hypersonic missiles. Where from? The Chinese mainland, the islands they have fortified, and from subs and aircraft as well. If I was Chi-Con trash, I’d put dozens of launchers under tarps on “commercial” vessels too. Then I’d get close and launch.
At what? Any capital ships in port, obviously - destroyers, subs if possible, carriers if they are lucky. There are airbases that a few cluster munitions can clear of aircraft. There’s a relatively small commercial port - take down the loading cranes and you can’t feed the islands. And at Pearl itself, there are dry clocks, including one - one - that can repair a carrier. Why does that matter? Because the next closest is in Seattle - if the EPA will let it operate. We won Midway because USS Yorktown, damaged at the Battle of the Coral Sea, was miraculously patched up in days and able to launch its air wing into the fight.
Oh, and Hawai’i is not the only target, just the closest to home (unless they hit the West Coast, which Commie Kurt sure would). The People’s Liberation Army Navy will smash our ships at sea, our bases in Guam, Okinawa, mainland Japan, everywhere to try to pull off the coup Yamamoto couldn’t. And this time, thanks to satellites, there’s no hiding our carriers.
But the big threat is traditional Americans and drag queen story hour makes us stronger.
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