Everything is so stupid now, and I can’t even deal. Yeah, this used to be a functioning country. You used to be able to go places and get things and do stuff, and it wasn’t perfect, but it worked pretty well. Now everything’s ridiculous and annoying. Did you see the NYPD dance team video? The only thing they look like they could bust is the budget of a buffet owner. It’s a bunch of uncoordinated hippos hopping around proud of themselves as the city they’re supposed to protect turns into a bubbling cauldron of social pathologies and crime. This is so typical of our institutions – they failed to do what they’re supposed to do, but distract by doing, and badly, something they have no business wasting their time on. Some people ask, “What’s the big deal?” It’s just some hefty ladies dancing. It’s fun. Lighten up.” But I can’t lighten any more than they can. Cops should be arresting criminals, not doing the electric boogaloo. But, of course, it’s a moot point. The criminals wouldn’t get charged with crimes anyway.
No, New York has real criminals in its sights, like political opponents who pay back every penny of the loans they took out. That’s got to be stopped. You’ve got urban scumbags running through the streets, torturing and threatening normal citizens, and stripping store shelves of basic necessities so the Duane Reades have to lock up the Right Guard tighter than Fort Knox. But that’s OK – at least the Bad Orange Man got slapped with a zillion-dollar fine for a crime no one’s ever committed before.
Oh, and right down the street, you’ve got another judge letting a jury hit that same guy for $83 million because he pointed out how freaking obvious a lie it is that 30 years ago, at a date and time unknown, while she was wearing a dress that didn’t even exist at the time, he somehow managed to rape some nut in a dressing room in a packed department store. You’re supposed to believe all that. You’re supposed to celebrate the rule of law in the jury system and all that. If you don’t, you’re racist or sexist or imperialist or some other Official Bad Thing.
Yeah, they’re driving our country into the ground, and it’s only going to get worse. It’s only going to get uglier. I wrote about it in the “People’s Republic” books, and I hate to say it, but my prognostications seem to be coming true. We’re developing into two different countries, one that’s complete chaos and one that’s less chaos but still has blue spots of urban chaos within them. I just spent about a week or two in Texas and you know what was different than California? It worked. Yeah, there was the occasional degenerate wandering around, but he didn’t get uppity. As one of my neighbors observed, everybody’s got a gun in his car, and it’s perfectly legal. It’s not legal in New York. No, the only crime there is defending other citizens. If you try to stop one of these monsters from hurting other people, you’re going to feel the full weight of the law – and as the dancers show, that’s a lot of weight. But if you’re actually tormenting regular citizens you’re released without bail. Hell, you could beat the crap out of a cop, which is weird because the cops have weight on the criminals, and you’re back out on the street before you say, “Wow, what a great country” in whatever bizarre language they speak in your crappy homeland.
I don’t know how this can go on. Some people seem to like it. There’s this weird sliver of society, including affluent, sexually unsatisfied liberal wine women, who feel that it’s necessary to make normal people suffer. They don’t usually do any suffering themselves because they live in well-guarded enclaves, insulated from the consequences of their bizarre ideology by armed guards, hopped up on SSRI goofballs.
What can’t be sustained won’t be sustained, and this is unsustainable. A reckoning is coming.
I was reading about the death of the Roman Republic the other day because that’s what men do, and I noted some eerie similarities to what’s going on here. The patricians of Rome, the rich folks, the people who ran things, got mighty defensive when the plebs decided they wanted a say in how things were going. Remember, Rome was a republic, but everybody knew where the power lay. And those with the power were intent on keeping it. Any attempts to equalize things were met with hordes of senators breaking up their wooden benches and literally beating their political opponents to death.
Well, we’re not quite there yet. We’re still near the top of the slippery slope, for now. But there’s plenty of political oppression here. Ashli Babbitt got murdered. January 6 dissidents and people praying at abortion clinics are getting thrown into prison forever. The most popular politician in America and the number one candidate for president is being publicly framed in addition to having his livelihood stolen. Yet our trash establishment informs us that we’re supposed to be much, much more upset about the death of a dissident in a faraway country at the hands of a dictator for reasons and shut up because if you don’t agree, you love Putin. Putting aside that when I was in the Cold War, these same voices were sucking up to the Russians. The idea that we’re not supposed to notice the disaster that is overtaking our own country is ridiculous. We’re noticing. And change is going to come.
I hope it’s not the kind of change outlined in my Kelly Turnbull books. And I hope it’s not spurred on by the kind of massive terrorist attack I predict in my latest novel, “The Attack,” but it’s going to come. Just like in Rome, those in power will resist reform and it will get ugly. In Rome, you had massive civil wars where each political faction tried to annihilate the other. People are somehow under the impression that this can’t happen here. Why the hell would they think that? Look at what the ruling class here thinks of you. Look at what it tells you. We have that senile, corrupt, perverted, old zombie telling us he will turn the F-16s on us if we get too rowdy, and is there any evidence that says he wouldn’t do it to preserve what he and his so-called elite compadres believe is theirs? Where are the guardrails? When do the Ted Lieus or Eric Swalwells or Adam Schiffs say it’s too much? Never. They’ll never say that.
Dark times are ahead. Be watchful. Be prepared. Buy guns and ammunition to lawfully protect yourself, your family, your community, and your Constitution. Because no one else will protect them for you
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