Running Midair

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Or, if you prefer “Don’t look down. We’re over this part now, and those rocks are going to hurt, as we fall.” Or if you prefer “what can’t go on won’t” “But there’s a lot of ruin in a nation.” And “No one knows what will happen when the break starts, it can go any direction.” And, to quote the late, great Jerry Pournelle, “Despair is a sin, and we don’t even know if it’s necessary.”

What can’t go on, won’t. We all know that. I mean, that’s life. The toddler’s tantrum ends, it doesn’t just go on forever. Pregnancies end one way or another, they’re not a permanent state. Our lives too will end, because we’re not eternal. (Parts of us might be. I will not push my belief on you though. There is no objective proof. But we’re not eternal in this world.)

Good things come to an end, and bad things too. And human arrangements come to an end when run by people either insanely ignorant or malicious enough to want to break everything.

I think — maybe — my feeling related to the border. Maybe. Or just to a lot of things that we’ve run off the cliff on, and are now running midair trying desperately not to look down. Because if we look down we fall.

I’ll list a few below but this is not an exhaustive list and honestly you guys will probably add to it in the comments.

1-The border situation. I mean, at this point it’s outright nuts. People are flying across half the world to come in at our Southern border and most of them we don’t know why they’re coming in, and I doubt they do. I suspect some have been ordered to come. Some have the whole bizarre idea our money is limitless. They can come here, and get money for free forever, and send home, and then everyone will be rich, rich. And some … heaven knows? Escaping situations at home. Coming because they think they can set up a criminal empire. who knows.

The one thing I’m fairly sure is that various leftist and communist front organizations are recruiting them and/or kidnapping them because they think they’re gathering themselves an army to throw against us. And I’m absolutely sure that won’t work. It won’t work amid people from different villages, much less people from different races. The left thinks all races unite against ‘whites’ but the left has a narrow definition of whites. Most of South America consider themselves whites. And you’d be shocked how many people who look black to us, from Africa, consider themselves “Arab” and therefore white. On top of which practically everyone from elsewhere in the world is “racist” in a way that the left can’t comprehend, but would if they realized foreigners are human and watched them.

In most of the world race is equivalent to nation. Or part of nation. Or small group of villages. Or– And everyone else can’t be trusted and is the enemy.

The grand army of the left will be shooting each other within minutes. And running away screaming the first time they meet resistance from Americans.

What I don’t know is what comes from this. The fantasy of the left doesn’t work — day ending in y — but what actually happens. I have no idea. I have a vague idea we’re going to hit a period of really high crime for… a little while.

Look, the thing is, these people are completely unvetted by us, and I’d be shocked if they’re not “undesirables” their government is trying to get rid of. Some will be or pretend to be convinced communists and there’s a non-trivial overlap of that and violent criminals. So likely a large group of them is here for free benes, plus to terrorize the locals and steal from us. Partly because they resent and envy us and — because of our media — think us soft.

But here’s the thing: they are used to a disarmed and submissive population, partly everywhere else in the world. Peasants, you know? We’re not that. Not even in the big cities. They’re going to try their games, and it’s going to blow back, and then it’s– I don’t know. I know they don’t win, but I don’t know what comes next. I know the places controlled by the left will go from treating them as pets to concentration camps by any other name. Which would be bad, because once you have the camps– Well, people become numbers to run through.

But I don’t know how all that breaks in the end. I know there is almost no way it won’t be very bad for the people coming in by the tens of thousands per day. NO. Possible. Way. They’re dumb as rocks. And really misinformed. The signposts are there already. They should be scarpering back as fast as they can. Or faster.

BUT what I don’t know is when it breaks, and how bad it will be for the rest of us. I don’t know if the backlash will go crazy and a lot of good people die. I don’t know how much societal trust breaks, or how rigid society after.

I just know it breaks.

2- The vaccine covidiocy ….

So this week this came out in more than one source: Researchers Warn Molnupiravir Causes New Variants; mRNA Shots Contaminated with DNA Fragments.

For the TL:DR crowd:

Back in June, Microbiologist Kevin McKernan, a former researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Human Genome Project, announced that he had discovered simian virus 40 (SV40), a virus found in monkeys and humans, in the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. SV40 has been linked to cancer in humans, including mesotheliomas, lymphomas and cancers of the brain and bone.

Cancer genomics expert Dr. Phillip Buckhaults, a former proponent of the mRNA shots who received the Pfizer Covid vax himself, confirmed the presence of DNA contaminants in the vaccines during a Senate hearing in South Carolina on September 15.

“I’m kind of alarmed about this DNA being in the vaccine – it’s different from RNA, because it can be permanent,” he said.

Two points on this:

One:


“There is a very real hazard,’ he said, that the contaminant DNA fragments will integrate with a person’s genome and become a ‘permanent fixture of the cell’ leading to autoimmune problems and cancers in some people who have had the vaccinations.” The doctor noted that these genome changes can “last for generations.”

Two:

Another expert panelist, Dr. Janci Lindsay, argued that the contamination of the DNA in the shots was not an accident, and had to be due to nefarious intentions.

“The SV40 sequences, they should not be there. They don’t need to be there to grow this in bacteria. I don’t think it’s an accident. They could have chosen another plasmid that did NOT have the SV40 sequences,” Lindsay said.

“If these sequences sit above an oncogene, and they are promiscuous, that means they are likely to integrate in places, more likely then other generic inserts. Then they can cause cancer,” she added. “There is something very unusual going on here.”

This stuff beyond the neglect and insanity and the propaganda used on us, the silencing of sane voices, the fact people had to and some people are again being forced to take the vax or boosters to keep their jobs or to have medical treatment, is a level of monstrous that as it comes out and breaks (And things always come out and break, sooner or later) has the potential to make the Nuremberg trials look like time out in kindergarten. Because at least the Nazis, horrendous evil that they were, didn’t try to genocide the HUMAN RACE. All of it. That’s a level of evil never before seen in the world, or outside certain more extremes work of fiction.

And if the rest of the world catches on that the entire virus mania was dreamed up by the left to tank the AMERICAN economy and mess with OUR elections. (No? Wanna bet? The measures taken against the virus certainly were designed for that. Whether the virus was made and released on purpose, I don’t know. However given the stuff above, I’m agnostic, not disbelieving. Evil that evil…. well…) and that their people were just carried along for the ride to strengthen an otherwise thin and unconvincing narrative, well… Hell breaking lose is not the half of it. And no, I don’t know if they’ll ever catch on. Their media and culture are not ours and most of them haven’t undergone a new media revolution. But if they do…

This can’t go on. The left knows it can’t go on. Their running around asking for amnesty, while at the same time trying to get these “vaccines” into babies is a measure of how crazy with fear they are.

What happens next? I don’t know. How do we fix the harm to the human genome? I don’t know.

I do know their attempt to gin up a second panic is only taking with those captives who can’t talk back, or with the very out of touch with reality. They keep pushing, but it’s a string.

3- Our money situation.

The government spending is now just outright silly. Printing new money to look after the illegals they’re letting in — their imagined grand army — is not going to stop inflation. And raising the interest rates will not stop it, because the government will keep spending.

The end result is– unpredictable.

The US dollar is the de-facto world reserve currency. No, I don’t think that will change. Not because we’re great, but because everyone else is unimaginably worse.

Without that last factor, we would just have crashed. But we haven’t. And we might not be able to. On the other hand, the crazy spending can’t go on.

So, when does it break? How does it break? How can it? And what the heck should we do to prepare?

I don’t know. Neither do you. Neither do the “experts.” We’re running mid-air. Don’t look down.

4- Into this throw a reducing population. Yes, it’s entirely possible the idiots in power are letting in the illegals ALSO because they think that it will boost the population.

Except this is not — by and large. There are always exceptions — a population that can work/be taxed/ spend. They are not a population that can integrate in America and make up for the babies that weren’t born and have been lied about on the census for … 50 years at least, and maybe more.

Falling populations are deflationary. (Less demand.) But the government spending like drunken sailors on non-productive population is inflationary.

HOW does it break? When? What to do? Keep running. JUST keep running.

4- China. China is breaking. Economically they’re more of a mess than ever, and they were always a hidden mess, with a veneer of prosperity.

The veneer is breaking. The mess is unimaginable.

What happens to our — and all over the world — politicians they’re buying when they stop paying? What happens around China itself? If it collapses, will it stay relatively contained? Will it result in death for its neighbors? (I don’t think they can or have the capacity, but who knows?)

Add in that totalitarian regimes can stave off collapse by lying. Until they can’t.

I don’t know. You don’t know. Don’t look down.

5- The economy is spiraling down. As it does under Democrat influence.

As Americans tighten their belts, and most of us already are to one degree or another, jobs are lost. Stagnaflation sucks for everyone, and we’re starting into it.

But it’s worse abroad. Because we stop buying what we buy from them. We tighten. And even if it’s minor for us, it’s their livelihood. There are several nations that don’t have the ability to attack us. But they have terrorists…

The list is not over. I just don’t want to go on. One of these situations is enough to keep a person awake and worrying at night. But there are…. probably dozens of them, where it’s already impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube, but… it hasn’t broken.

We’re running middair. We don’t know what comes next.

Here’s the important thing: Don’t despair. When I say no one knows how it will break, I don’t mean “the worst will happen.” I mean “no one knows.”

Part of it is that the examples from history apply weirdly to us, both due to our size, our variety of subcultures, the fact our “governing elites” are their own culture and have no contact with most of us (or reality) and the fact that … well, there is not something quite like us in history.

We are not, no, despite the attempt to organize like it — sort of — like the Roman Republic. We’re even less like the Roman Empire. The organization and functioning of that was closer to the USSR. And our people…

Well, we’re different.

Does this mean with all this against us, we can get by?

Oh, not in this way. Something will break, and after that things will change.

And the break will hurt. Even good breaks, society wide, hurt. We’re still processing the internet and everything it broke.

Does it mean we can get past this mess without violence, or at least a civil war?
I don’t know. I can’t see it, but then again, I can’t see a lot of things in this mess. It makes no sense. Not to me, and not to anyone else.

Anyone pretending they can see exactly how this breaks, and what comes next is either deluded or lying.

Two things we know:

The left’s plans will fail. They always do. Even in smaller and simpler countries, their stranglehold is always limited in time and scope. And we don’t have a USA to feed us. So their plans fail faster.

The future isn’t written in stone.

Hey, maybe we can build a bridge, while running midair, and get somewhere else.

If anyone can do it it’s us. No. Not betting on it.

But also not betting we fall and die forever. Of the two, the first is more likely, to be honest.

And at any rate, despair is a sin.

And it might not be needed.

In the end we win they lose. The only doubt is the messy stuff in the middle.

Grab a parachute or two, will ya? And pass me some planks for the bridge.

232 thoughts on “Running Midair”

  3. How do we fix the harm to the human genome? I don’t know.

    This I actually have an uneducated but nonetheless SWAG. We humans have been pretty good so far about outlasting plagues. But I still want heads on pikes.

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    1. I suspect that this crap would cause you to be more likely to catch certain illnesses. It wouldn’t guarantee it, and you might have another gene that would cancel out the meddling. But I’m guessing that it would worsen your chances.

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    3. The human body is very well designed. I give it two generations to fix the problem naturally. If doctors and scientists try to rush the solution, it may be 5 or 10 generations before the body can get past their well intentioned meddling.

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    5. In the end nature always eliminates culls, but the downside of modern medicine is that it allows culls to reproduce before getting eliminated. But medicine as in so many other institutions is being affected negatively by the same progressive liberal rot so eventually things will come acropper and even out.

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  4. “China. China is breaking. ”

    This CANNOT be understated. There are reports that government workers aren’t getting paid. I haven’t looked further, and suspect that these are all local as opposed to national civil servants, but this is still earth-shattering for China. Additionally, I see a mention that China is simultaneously suffering from a rapidly aging population, and young adults who can’t find work. The adults are aging out of the workforce… but it sounds as if the employers aren’t looking for replacements for them.

    It’s unheard of.

    Compounding the above, China is suffering from deflation right now.

    /sarcon
    But don’t forget, folks! BRICS is going to replace the US Dollar!
    /sarcoff

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    1. One hopes (prays) that China might crumble before the West does. And I’d be curious to see in that event if the propaganda overload we’ve been subjected to abruptly diminishes.

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      1. Comparisons between crumbling of China and the US are like comparing a dam with a couple of small cracks versus a dam that’s seconds from giving way. If the right people were somehow put in charge tomorrow, the US would rebound very quickly.. it’s the same with other Western nations. It’s not likely, and things might not be so great in the meantime, but it’s possible. There is no scenario – including Xi suddenly resigning in favor of the greatest economic team ever to walk the face of the Earth – that sees China come out of this in any sort of remotely reasonable shape.

        It’s that bad.

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          1. Sure, but that doesn’t change my basic point – that China’s decline cannot be compared at all with current Western decline. The important thing is that short of divine intervention, all signs are that China is too far gone for any sort of intervention, no matter how improbable. There are plenty of interventions that could conceivably recover the US in fairly short (if painful) order.

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              1. Unfortunately, as those mounts can both walk on water and fly, distance is no longer any assurance that the rest of the world will not suffer right along with East Asia. Consider the vast amount of stuff critical to our home infrastructure is still currently supplied by Asian factories, electronics and pharmacuticals in particular.

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                1. Except that…

                  One (and only one) of the reasons why China is having so much trouble right now is that vast swathes of foreign manufacturing are pulling out. I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. There are reports that China’s most important port sometimes has days with zero ships docked. That indicates that shipments are down dramatically, which suggests that the rest of the world isn’t nearly as reliant on China as it used to be.

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                  1. Junior said “There are reports that China’s most important port sometimes has days with zero ships docked. ” If true (and I see no reason to expect that it is NOT) that is seriously bad. Combined with a replacement fertility rate that make Japan and Italy look like they’re reproducing like bunnies that suggests China is well and truly whitefish (schrod). Like Japan they are VERY race sensitive, they’re not going to solve their issue by importing folks (nor are we as we aren’t merging them into society anymore but thats a different issue). Add to that they have gotten expensive for labor without adding much value and they have a real issue as they are export heavy. BRICs is nonsense, Brazil has Lula back in power, he’ll Venezuala the joint in short order, Russia is run by a insane Despot, He and his cronies hie back to the failed CCCP for their model it won’t take them 70 years (or even 5) to fail this time, India is scrabbling as they’ve found their tech prowess is (and always was) a house of cards and China? China is launching themselves into a deflationary spiral that makes Japans Lost decades in the 90’s and 2000’s look like a joy ride. Honestly the world is in its usual SNAFU state, we just got a couple decades where things looked like maybe we’d kind of figured it it out, but we didn’t.

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                    1. One thing –

                      I suspect that China’s birthrate could right itself if the communists were kicked out of power. China’s low birthrate is a combination of two things. Part of it is the changes to cultural expectations due to the One Child policy. That part is admittedly hard to change. But the other part is the weird dynamics about real estate.

                      Land isn’t owned by citizens; it’s leased for several decades from the local government. For reasons that make sense if you live under China’s government and its rules, real estate has been the primary investment instrument for the vast majority of citizens. This has encouraged the crazy building bubble that’s now in the process of collapsing. And at the same time, if you want to raise a family with more than one kid, you need a larger place to live. This is a bit of a problem when you live somewhere filled with cramped apartments.

                      Get rid of the government’s rules, and the deformation around the real estate market will resolve itself. Money that was invested in real estate will get invested elsewhere, bringing prices to levels that would be more appropriate. People might be able to afford larger residences, and thus have space (and hopefully money) for a larger family.

                      It’s not foolproof, by any means. But I think there’s a very good chance that it would help with the demographic collapse.

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                    2. Also, I misspoke about the port –

                      I shouldn’t have said China’s most important port. What I meant was the most important dock in Shanghai (which I suspect is quite possibly China’s most important port, though one of the southern ones in or around Hong Kong might be more important).

                      It’s still important, but not quite as bad for China. We’re not talking about all of Shanghai’s port being empty of transport ships at once. Just important parts of it.

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          1. I’m not betting on it; I’m quite sure I’ll go to Jesus before He comes again. I have long maintained that the LORD will come again when we have (FINALLY!), by the power of the Holy Spirit, built a Kingdom worthy of Him.

            It’ll be a while yet.

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            1. Whereas I believe quite the opposite, that it’ll happen just as the other side thinks it’s on the verge of victory…

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              1. And I’m in the middle, that the LORD will come when ever He so pleases and that is not going to be after 7 years of hell, or unknown time period of unicorns and rainbows. :P

                Now, let’s have everyone hate on the amillenialist. ;-)

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                1. Nah, I’ll only hate on the full preterists:)
                  ‘Cause, if you think this is heaven, you must be delusional or blasphemous.

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            2. Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.

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    2. The WSJ reported China has told an American CEO he can’t leave the mainland…and it’s not the first time. A “don’t know if they have a clue or not,” site posted on Twitter that Chinese “banks/funds have been forbidden to sell stocks.” What the –?

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      1. There’s been a lot of reports of banks in China taking deposits, and then not letting the customers withdraw their funds. I suspect what you heard is related. I’m guessing that it’s a way to reduce the number of people who are upset that the money they left with their bank inexplicably can’t be retrieved.

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        1. When I was there in ’97 my friend withdrew some money from her bank. Counted among the bills were blank pieces of paper that had been cut to size.

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          1. Teller tried to shut the window then, which I held open by force until the issue could be straightened out.

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        2. Bank runs start that way, and Tamquam’s info make it worse. I don’t know if we’ll see a Romanian Xmas soon, but its sounding like China might get a very Romanian flavored Chinese new year come February (or sooner) next year. The sooner it happens the better as China has been increasing their nukes by at least an order of magnitude and I wonder if Xi might not try and make the whole world burn if he goes down.

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          1. There’s a lot of stuff going on in China right now at the upper levels, as well. For instance, there’s a military purge among the generals. It started when the son of the head of the Rocket Force (i.e. the arm responsible for all of the ground-based missiles and rockets – both conventional and nuclear) released classified information in the US. So it started due to confirmed espionage. But it might have moved beyond that.

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            1. I’d heard the head of the rocket forces was sacked, but not why, dang that is interesting. I now kind of wonder of all those new silos their digging aren’t “potemkin” silos. Sadly we won’t see that stuff for 60+ years if that soon, so I am not going to find out. Fascinating.

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      1. Given the stories I hear about the number of Chinese women who can’t find a husband, the gender imbalance doesn’t seem to be as bad as was once feared it would be.

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          1. If a country has an imbalance toward men, women should have a larger pool to choose from, which would suggest more decent men to choose from. If they can’t, then the logical conclusion would be either the search parameters are too restrictive… or the men aren’t really looking.

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              1. So we have natural human tendency to hypergamy combined with the basics of economics driving bride prices up due to limited supply and crappy economy reducing money the men/their families have to spend on such. On top of that it has become standard to have one child and more than that is hard to support, China really is demographically caught between a rock and a hard place… that really is an epic fatal own goal.

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    4. China is running in midair too, only they already looked down. At this point they are hoping that they can get us to go SPLAT! before they do.

      China is repeating their historical cycle of collapse, chaos, warlords, rise of a totalitarian dynasty, decay and back to collapse. We don’t have any such cycle.

      I don’t think we will have a Great Reset, maybe a Great Revolt. Or we might have another Great Awakening.

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  5. When I was diagnosed with a stage 3, high-grade, aggressive myxofibrosarcoma in my cheek, it was after the doctor who informed me had failed to remove all of it.

    If I knew ahead of time all of the pain and suffering that were to follow, I might not have gone through with the various treatments and additional surgeries that saved my life.

    And there are many people who are now my friends who I might never have met.

    Don’t assume you can, even with “perfect” knowledge, see the future. And don’t assume what you like now will be what you like when you meet the future.

    May the Lord bless you this Chusok weekend.

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  6. I think the outcome will be parts of what many expect but with weird and/or odd twists. There will be (and currently is) pain involved and in some places it could be extreme. The bozos who are working for and supporting the current insanity are deluded and think that they have already “won”. The significant inflow of illegals will turn out to be a bad mistake on those pushing open boarders. Then when winter comes (seasonal and political) it will be discovered that the mass of imports are not controllable, won’t work together and will quickly find they are in a situation they have never considered where there are very few victims to prey on and a whole lot of well equipped “flip the switch” violent folks who just won’t put up with it.

    When it does break – it will not be a clean fracture but a messy fragmentation. While I do think that we win and they loose, it will take some time, effort and unpleasantness to fully resolve. I am not looking down but ahead. I’ll also gladly hand you boards for the bridge and will supply hammer and nails.

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      2. That should be…interesting…for all those in northern “blue” cities who came from tropical and sub-tropical climates and think 50F is bone-chilling cold… :twisted:

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    2. Because they are very stupid and also racist, they lump people into unworkable categories. They think by importing “Hispanics” they have this homogeneous mob that can rise up against the whites.

      Homogeneous my eye. The Costa Ricans
      despise the Mexicans, who hate the Venezuelans, who hate Uruguayans, who can’t stand Columbians, who likewise despise Panamanians.

      They are not going to unite against the white guys that are paying for their hotel rooms and food.

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      1. And the “white” Mexicans hate the meztisos and indigenous Mexicans. (Mexico is far more racist than the United States has been in sixty years.) And I think the Puerto Ricans may hate everybody, not sure about that one.

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        1. In boot camp, we had a gal that could have easily played Storm from the X-men.

          blooping gorgeous.

          She was scandalized they classified her as black, because sickle cell.

          She was PUERTO RICAN, not BLACK!!!!

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          2. Which inexplicably reminded me that the guy who created the comic book character Bishop modeled him after a dark-skinned Filipino.

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          1. Or Tom Lehrers ever green National Brotherhood week.

            Once long ago the liberals could laugh at themselves…

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        3. I lived there (Mexico) for 14 years growing up. They are indeed racist, they hate Mexicans, some more than others. Each of them knows that none of the others can ever be trusted. Been living in El Norte for 50 years now. New arrivals from Mexico don’t trust me, those that have been here at least 10 years are happy to do business with me because they know that gringos are more likely to be trustworthy.

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          1. The Chinese guy (lived in Taiwan and Hong Kong before coming to the US) who runs my local gun shop snarked about how his customers who immigrated into the US from Mainland China are pretty much “racist” (taking into account it’s basically Han on Han) about people from other parts of their own country.

            :P

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            1. Tribes have little tribes
              Within their ranks to fight ’em,
              And little tribes have lesser tribes,
              And so on ad infinitem.

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  7. Just imagine a novel where the villains decide to mass murder huge numbers of humans by infecting them with cancer via a bogus vaccine.

    Those are long, slow, painful deaths. The victims have quite a bit of time to contemplate their demise. They however, will remain quite capable until nearly the end.

    Literally they have the rest of their lives to contemplate what to do.

    Assuming starting from “I need a gun, and have no clue”, it takes about a week to learn that a) drug dealers also often sell guns, b) where can I find such an entrepreneur, and c) no paperwork other than several copies of form C-note. Ammo also thus.

    Assuming survivak and success, another week to learn how to use it.

    Another to practice using it.

    Another to restock the ammo and other useful stuff.

    So a victim starting with six months left now has a gun, ammo, skill, supplies, and plan, and five months to act.

    And some folks will have a couple of years.

    And some will start the ball with “combat arms” and/or “competitive action sport shooter” and perhaps “stockpile”.

    Multiply by some fraction of “mass”, from para one above, say 1 to 5 percent.

    Would there be a single culprit left in a year? Five at the outside? What could possibly deter those 1-5 percenters? Some of the would-be victims will survive their cancers. Darwin nods. The perps, however, face near- total extinction.

    And some folks will, of course, utterly fail to assist the perps escape justice. And some might even make themselves helpful.

    Hm. Hope the villains’ guild has some forward-looking folks. I don’t need that sort of drama.

    In that novel.

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    1. In my book there is also the sons and daughters who served in the military and learned from the terrorists they fought against. Can you imagine one to two hundred 60+ year old suicide bombers hitting the elites in their clubs, golf courses and businesses. Not to mention IED’s at the end of their drive ways or the roads they drive on. They will have the trials to save their own lives. And it doesn’t take a grand conspiracy to do it either, just a couple of guys or gals. They have no idea just what kind of monsters they are about to give birth to.

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      1. My guess is that the IEDs will be far more common than the suicide bombers, though anybody with a not-Vax induced terminal diagnosis might be willing to consider the Sampson option. No 72 Virginians at the other end in our culture…

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        1. The Iraqis and the Afghans were able to tear up our guys pretty well. I’m absolutely sure that our guys will be able to be far more ingenious and destructive.

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      1. What really worries me is some of the folks I know who have stopped talking. Still running around bring themselves, but quietly.

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        1. I can’t shut up entirely. Fortunately, bitching, complaining, and grousing about it isn’t a crime, yet. The problem as I see it is that even if I were to go rogue one wolf, I simply can’t do it all myself. One or two bad actors, sure, that’s doable. Hell, that’s what the SEALS and other special forces are good for, although who chooses the targets and what their criteria are not the ones I’d be making. But even the snipers work in teams most of the time, and they still don’t go in for wholesale removals. The LIST in the U.S. numbers not in the tens, or hundreds, but in the thousands. And it becomes too easy to make a mistake and harm an innocent when applying “a final solution” like that. I have a conscience that won’t let me jump that ‘energy threshold’ without someone first actively trying to harm me. But there’s a whole lot of people in elected and other offices who don’t have any conscience (Merrick Garland for instance), and don’t care about right or wrong; only about their own power and who’s a threat to it.

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          1. Even those that don’t have a conscience generally have lines they won’t cross. Those lines might be a lot smaller and a lot further away than polite society would like, but they’re there. Every man must have a point at which he says “thus far, no further.” Every man has a point after which precipitous action will necessarily follow. Or at least, every man should.

            Then you have those with a conscience, but a corrupted one.

            The sort that have a set of beliefs for themselves, and a completely different one for everyone else. The sort that believe other people can be shaped, molded into a perfect form. The sort that are willing to do “what is necessary” to achieve some seemingly laudable goal in this life.

            Climate change. Race relations. LGBBQery. Class restructuring. A Great Reset.

            The world is full of men who, through training, experience, or just plain bad luck DO NOT follow a moral code that you or I would recognize as acceptable. Many are either in prison or politics.

            I do not want America to become a country where political change routinely happens because some dumb politician assumes room temperature permanently. I much prefer a nation of laws that hangs the bastards when they go too far.

            But that’s just me wishing for too much again, isn’t it?

            It might take a lot to push a man to take such drastic steps. But there IS a point that, past which, Bad Things happen.

            I hope we are not past there. Things get awfully messy when the common agreement on polite society gets completely effed.

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          2. And when they make the average Joe angry, FTS angry, that is when folks forget restraint, forget principle, forget tolerance.

            They spit on their hands, hoist the black flag, and start the harvest.

            Not yet. Hopefully not ever. The system still works, and most trust it still sort-of works.

            I remain hopeful. But a Feast of Bones awaits us all if cooler heads fail.

            Chillin.

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          3. ” But even the snipers work in teams most of the time, and they still don’t go in for wholesale removals.”

            “Wholesale” is not required; 1, maybe 2, dozen long distance cancellations who get replaced by dedicated high competency individuals would be quite adequate for turning our domestic mess around, and probably much more quickly than most realize.

            And, as the U.S. gets turned around, so do a lot of the others. Not all, certainly, and few to the degree necessary – some simply will refuse to learn – but enough to matter.

            Picnic it wouldn’t be, tough times a’comin’ no matter what, but even quadruple bypass is better than attempting a heart transplant.

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      1. Just imarine the consequences if there was a major scandal revealing a major breach of trust by a major Donk against Donks in general.

        Something like

        “Bernie admits taking bribes to sell out his rube followers” in explicit contemptuous terms.

        A Cap “hail hydra” moment.

        Yeah, only happens in comic books. But imagine someone managing to tap Donk rage, with a sense of betrayal by Donks.

        Like some wild disruptor turning the UAW against the donks…..

        Popcorn?

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          1. I suspect it’s the inflation suddenly driving up the cost of living. People are used to living at a certain level. When they suddenly find it difficult to live at that level – particularly if they were skirting dangerously closing to the edge with their finances earlier – then the most straightforward way to resolve that is to get more money.

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        2. The John Edwards baby momma scandal disillusioned a lot of his Dem supporters. But they just switched to a different Dem.

          Something on the level of what you’re looking for would need to indict pretty much the entire party apparatus, from top to bottom. Otherwise, as happened with Edwards, the disillusioned will merely find a new individual who claims to follow the same basic ideas.

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  8. One point I can completely agree with, without any ifs, ands or buts; the future ain’t cast in stone.

    Meanwhile I’ve got my firewood stacked for the winter, fish and moose in the freezer, things and whatamabobs I can find them in the dark.

    Midair? Nope. Feet on the ground. Looking forward to tomorrow. Whatever it brings.

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  9. They keep trying to predict us. When everything says we have to fail, we break the rules. And survive. And thrive, beyond all expectation. We turn our enemies traps against them. They stomp us, we abscond with the boot.

    We terrify them. And what terrifies them more, our attitude is contagious. Anyone who “becomes” American gets infected. Which means that they have to destroy us, at all costs.

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  10. Just had a thought. It’s very likely that a mob that looks to the media propagandists (god damn them) like BLM May rise up and totally route a large number of refugees in certain lefty cities soon. I wonder what the god damn media liars will have to say about that.

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    1. As little as possible. In their circles it will be a sigh of relief and a return to business as usual. If it does hit the media and there were no deaths they’ll brush it off as enemy propaganda.

      If there were deaths, they’ll play the Righteous Wrath card and suddenly some horrific crime will come to light in that particular city and it will be played that the Helpless Victims spontaneously rose up. Someone will be arrested for the crime of self defense. Then after a few brief stories, it will disappear again.

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  11. …we live in a world that is run by paste eaters.
    Trump was never my first choice, but the current people in charge are so completely below “my choice” that it’s not even funny.
    China has always been a disaster waiting to happen. Now, it’s going to happen, probably sooner than later, probably not how we want it to happen, and I suspect that either during or before the final crash, they’ll try to take Taiwan and fail. Cue “failure of the Mandaite of Heaven” and a massive diaspora.
    Because of my Mom’s health condition, I had to get the full COVID vaccination. I couldn’t get a job without proof of COVID vaccination. If what I’m reading is true (I’m not doubting you, Great Aunt. I’m doubting the people writing these stories), there’s a case to be made for Team Heads-On-Pikes.
    Bad Democratic economies mysteriously get better when good Republicans get into government (just how much better things were, even during COVID under Trump alone vs. the Bidenstein’s Monster administration).
    And the efforts to “flood the zone” with illegals has just made the border issues so apparent that even Blue-state politicians are trying to get out from under it ASAP.
    We aren’t going to have a fun two-to-four years. That much is true.
    And when it breaks, it’s going to break VERY quickly.
    But it’s not going to break bad, the way they want it to break.

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    1. …we live in a world that is run by paste eaters.

      Worse, we live in a world run by hysterical, frustrated, frightened old women, with a few eunuchs thrown in.

      And if you don’t believe me, just imagine how Patton would have reacted to literally any public utterance of Marjorie Mark Milley.

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    2. I suspect Fauci is too damn stupid to even consider that if anyone finds definitive proof of deliberate maiming of the general population by this treatment, he’ll be the first one they impale. Of course, maybe he’s hoping he’ll be long dead by then. He’s not exactly a young man.

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        1. When you travel in his circle, you have no friends when the mob comes for you. They will toss him to the wolves in an instant to save their own skins.

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          2. That, and there really isn’t anywhere on the planet he can go to completely disappear, that he’d be willing to endure for the rest of his life. I can’t see him in a hut in the remotest parts of the Amazon, Himalayas, or Mindanao.

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            1. And even that might not work. Like everyone else, he has things he won’t do without. and a connected supply chain means that someone will be asking “Why is there a case of Product X being delivered to Mindanao?”

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          3. Nevertheless, people keep joining up even when it’s clear the wolves are hungry. Obviously, people don’t learn from history.

            What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
            ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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  12. China, Poland and Germany having a tiff [how well did that end last time?], Russia being Russia, immigration, crime, inflation … Something will snap.

    As you say, what can’t go on, won’t. And to use a New Mexican proverb, Con la boca adorando y la mano dando. Praying devoutly while hammering stoutly.

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    1. China and Poland? Did I miss something?

      Poland is about to start spending more on defense as a percent of GDP than even the US. That’s unheard of in NATO.

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      2. No, you didn’t miss anything. Although it wouldn’t surprise me, since China pretends to be friends with Russia, and Russia and Poland … I should have used semicolons for clarity instead of commas.

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  13. On whether #2 was deliberate or not:

    A. Fauxi the Lying Lawn Gnome absolutely did pay the communist Chinese to monkey with bat viruses in a Chinese bio-warfare lab that had a long, long history of failing to keep its germs from getting loose.

    B. That monkey business absolutely did result in the COVID19 virus, which got loose in mid-to-late 2019. Was the release deliberate? Maybe not, but it was predictable.

    C. Fauxi predicted in February 2017 that there would be ‘a pandemic’ during President Trump’s term of office. It ain’t a prophecy if you’re the one making it come true.

    D. Fauxi (and others) first denied that there was a new virus going around, then flipped over and whipped up hysteria over the ‘pandemic’, then seized dictatorial power in the name of ‘Public Health’. They mandated masks and ‘social distancing’ they knew were worthless.

    E. Fauxi, the WHO, and other ‘Public Health Authorities’ conspired to cover up the fact that COVID19 originated in the Wuhan virology lab.

    F. There were concerted, coordinated efforts to prevent anybody from using any ‘unapproved’ form of treatment, especially when those treatments proved effective. (Anyone remember the ‘horse dewormer’ lie?) When vitamin D proved effective at reducing the severity of COVID19 they tried to make that a controlled substance, like crack.

    G. The ‘COVID19 Vaccine’ was not a vaccine, not approved, not safe, and not effective. Nevertheless, they imposed draconian ‘mandates’ which resulted in thousands of doctors and nurses being fired in the middle of a ‘Public Health Emergency!!’ Hint: If doctors and nurses would rather be fired than take your ‘vaccine’ something is rotten in the state of Socialized Medicine.

    AAAUUUGH! I’d run out of alphabet if I tried to list everything that stinks about that whole ‘pandemic’ racket.

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    1. Someone told me that if Fauci suffered a car explosion, like the mob boys used to arrange as a message, that the rest of the criminals involved in the attempt at decimating humanity would get the message and back off.

      I dunno they seem pretty dumb.

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      1. I keep expecting certain individuals, like the Black Rock CEO who talked about how it was his job to force people to change, to getting sniped. And the murder never solved (because it’s never the same person twice).

        A few exploding “elite” heads not caused by the CIA among the “elites” would cause a certain amount of introspection. But only after the gestapo started failing to provide enough patsies for the media to blame.

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        1. I’m sure some people have considered it. But then what?

          It gets classified as “MAGA EXTREMIST HIT!”, which justifies all the claims of right-wing terrorism that the left has been going on about, and almost certainly triggers a crack-down on the right. And it’ll almost certainly drop some sympathetic lefties who might have otherwise been inclined to stay out of it.

          If things go squirrelly, sure. I wouldn’t want to be one of those guys. But until then?

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          1. One, maybe. If it kept happening, and nobody got caught, or if somebody got caught, prosecuted, then the jury declared “Unbelievably Not Guilty”? Again, I’m not saying deep thinking would occur, but sooner or later the smarter ones might start to think “oh, shit, they really mean this.”

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          1. They might.

            Then they’d look very confused when it fell apart as everyone on non-government-controlled platforms kept pointing out that J6er was documentedly in solitary confinement before and after the incident.

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                1. A lot of them believe even more ridiculous crap. But I think we’re making progress [crosses fingers, toes, eyes…].

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  14. The first thing that has to happen for any positive change to be possible and lasting is to break the Karens and the putative ruling class of the idea that they have a right to monitor and control everybody and everything at all times.

    Unfortunately, they have successfully indoctrinated generations into the idea that government control is good, and liberty is scary and irresponsible.

    And I have no idea how we get past that.

    The collapse of China might not kill me. I’ve watched as Hong Kong bled to death over seven or eight years, and I’m still here. HK’s bones are there, but the spirit is dead, as far as I can tell.

    Is it bad that I think Atlas Shrugged is one of the better possible outcomes? ‘Cause it feels bad. (Although, ye gods, the number of con men who will try to be John Galt and get people to follow them might just boggle the mind.)

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    1. Easy to tell.

      The ones persuaded by Galt will simply quit, no fuss. If not vanished, then remarkably unproductive all of a sudden.

      No one will know who is doing the persuasion. Anyone claiming to be Galt is obviously not. Anyone doing productive creative work obviously isn’t going Galt.

      Heh. Almost worth it….

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      1. Didn’t say it wouldn’t be easy to tell.

        Then again, look at how many supposedly rational people have been hoodwinked by utter irrational nonsense in the past few years. And don’t think the sociopaths haven’t noticed that.

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  15. But here’s the thing: they are used to a disarmed and submissive population, partly everywhere else in the world. Peasants, you know? We’re not that. Not even in the big cities.

    The slow ramp up is in our favor– and they’ve been doing this stuff my whole life, at least.

    Even in WASHINGTON, the Seattle blob, folks who are freakin’ terrified of guns… probably have a gun.

    Just not legally known to have a gun. My folks got a lot of panicked phonecalls with the Seattle freeway shooting and I know several followed through.

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    1. And this isn’t a series I can write, for various reasons, but the first novel in a series about the world collapse based on this scenario should be titled Every Blade Of Grass. Because the invasion force (or whatever it is best called) will be far more surprised than the Japanese to find a rifle hiding there.

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    2. Apologies in advance for a longer than usual reply.
      We are, unfortunately, living the statement (attributed to Neils Bohr) that “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”. I agree with Sarah and other posters that anything that lowers social cohesion will affect all of us to some degree, sooner or later. How soon, to what degree, nobody knows – yet.
      One thing that I think is often overlooked is that the conflicts of the future will involve (at least) two sides, each acting as if it’s life-or-death (and for many, it will be). Any ‘us good, them bad, they gonna lose’ narrative isn’t going to help us live through the times to come. We need to make plans, but we really need to factor into our plans that the enemy gets a vote, too.
      Going back 10 years (to reduce the effect of today’s demonstrated loss of obedience to ‘the experts’), a PEW survey (surveys – spit – but what else do we have?) found 51% of households self-reporting as Republican owned firearms (hmmm – could there be some under-reporting?) AND that 37% of households self-reporting as Democrats owned firearms (hmmm – could they be under-reporting, too?). Assuming that any (cough cough) shading of the truth by the respondents is small (yes, it’s just an assumption), this sounds to me like 6 of 10, or more, of small-c conservatives are armed – but that 4 in 10 small-c liberals/communists can shoot back. So Team Heads-on-Pikes doesn’t have to be on ‘our side’. Even when you’re in the majority, there’s always the potential to be overwhelmed by a concentration of opponents locally.
      We don’t know what, exactly, is coming our way – yet there are some indicators from our history that we can, for lack of better, use for planning purposes. America was a frontier society, but that didn’t mean that we’re all descended from a bunch of lone wolves who pushed westward in isolation. Actual records show that the better part of our expansion was a result of collaboration in small groups, working together on maybe-limited-but-certainly-common goals, even before any sort of local government and law arrived. Yes, we needed the frontiersman / mountain man to blaze the trail. But the people who actually settled the land were simultaneously fiercely independent and incredibly cooperative. Going forward, I suggest that we can’t go far wrong by building strong relationships at the local level (something that Sarah’s talked about before). To stretch today’s theme almost beyond recognition, if we start to re-build close to home, there won’t be so much empty air below our feet when we finally do look down, and that bridge can be a lot easier to put up.

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      1. Be careful, but be open to bridge building.

        I suck at actor names, but the guy who played Hawkeye for the marvel movies?
        He was scared of guns.

        ….then some folks were just decently friendly to him. They geeked out with him.

        And now he’s not scared of guns.

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        1. Also, going back a few years, there were some ordinary (for values of) people who identified as Democrat. Going back much further than a few years, an uncle was a Dem, and also an avid hunter.

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            1. Which accords more with my reading of the man (I knew people who knew him before he got Oscar nominated; there was nothing but respect, because he was a quiet, humble pro and “paid his dues”) than “scared of guns” did.

              Also keep in mind, I’m grading on the “he had a career in Hollywood for decades” curve.

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        3. Jeremy Renner, I think.
          He was badly hurt in a snow removal accident last year. I’d like to know how he’s doing.

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            1. He’s been working his butt off in therapy. He wants as much of his physical abilities back as possible. And that’s the kind of attitude you need to do it. He may never be 100%, but at least he’s trying.

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    3. It has to be a slow ramp up, though. The only way it works is by gradually building it up. Do a fast ramp up, and you risk people suddenly getting shocked hard enough to freak out against you.

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      1. Ah, but that “works” because folks who object can, and do, move.

        If there’s no place for them to move to– which is the case for a national influx– it doesn’t work.

        Because shock isn’t the only thing that will make folks respond, it’s just the one they have the hardest time dealing with.

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    4. My local purveyor of boom sticks tells me that during the Orange Man Bad administration most of his customers were lefties freaking out about MAGA men coming to get them.

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      1. We get those at the range. Many are nibbling red cookies.

        Wait. You’re MAGA? But you are so reasonable.

        Yup. Have another cookie.

        Uh…

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    2. I like carpentry the way a fat kid likes cake. I’m also tooling up to build my own windows, doors, etc. The Knowledge is there (also here). And is free, as long as you actually Listen. ;-)

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      1. Amen.

        I prayed and asked God to send an angel to protect myself and my environs. Then it occurred to me that He could just send a legion or two, He has plenty to spare.

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        1. :Shoves glasses up nose:

          Cultural differences.

          If you have the aid of the leader of the legion, then you have the aid of the legion as well. If it’s the leader of all the legions, ditto.

          There’s also that someones “messenger” meant that he was officially supporting you.

          And angel means….. :big grin:

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    1. Well, it certainly opened an entire generation of parents up to exactly what was being pushed in school, and just how lacking the education is. Thus, homeschooling exploded… and so did school boards calling the cops on upset parents daring to object.

      And it taught a large swath of a generation or two that if they didn’t spend so much time, money, and effort on the rat race, the family could survive with one playing offense and earning it, and one playing defense and keeping house / raising the kids.

      We saw what happens when a lot of families actually spend time together instead of using the house as a communal crash pad, while distracted by their schedules and devices. (For good and for ill.)

      It also reinforced learned helplessness on a very vulnerable generation of children, who then fell further down the rathole of crazy until they’re running the trans-trender baton in the cray-cray olympics.

      I’m waiting to see if the vaccination rates for other diseases (you know, vax that are actually vax) takes a hit. I note that previously, if anyone objected to the frequency and delivery method of the current vaccines (which do have a deleterious effect on a a small percentage of the population, which is no factor if you’re not… but life-threatening if you are), they used to get screamed at and immediately labelled “anti-vaxxer!”

      Haven’t heard that screaming lately.

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        1. I have had numerous vaccinations because I was a military dependent and also served in the military. Never had a problem with any of them. Since mRNA vaccines, no more. I’ve heard that the flu vaccine is being diddled into an mRNA “vaccine.”

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            1. I’ve heard they’re working on it, but not for this year. We’ll see; as an over-75 I usually get the flu shot every year, even if it’s not likely to be perfect. But if I ask the pharmacist and he says it’s an mRNA shot, no more.

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              1. If you ask and he says No — can you believe it? After the last 3 years, color me extremely skeptical of the whole Government-Medical Conglomerate.
                ———————————
                A good Zombie Apocalypse novel is at least as believable as anything we’ve heard out of the ‘Publick Health Authoriteez’ over the last three years.

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                1. You can’t trust any of them anymore. It’s not that the local doc or pharmacist would lie, but has the bottle been properly labeled in the first place?

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              2. You can ask your pharmacist —- do you think he’s more concerned with you or his paycheck?

                “Nope, no Mrna here!”

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                1. Since he doesn’t work on commission he has no reason to lie. But you’re right, there’s no way to determine what is true. I can’t even tell if the “sealed” food and drink products I buy have been contaminated with botulina toxin. But if I step on a nail I’ll get a tetanus booster and take my chances.

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      2. First, I am of a generation that young children were still being killed by measles, rubela, whooping cough, and mumps. My parents, and grandparents, of the generation, who lost even more young children and friends from the same and more. (Grandfather was semi-crippled from polio).

        What I am afraid of is people will not get the standard vaccinations and we’ll start seeing these diseases and deaths return. I’ve had measles, rubela, mumps, and whooping cough. Old enough to remember having the first three as a child (not fun). Too young to remember having whooping cough as a toddler. But I remember having it as an adult, in my 40s. It was no joke then. I was fully vaccinated. (So, was my 12 year old. He caught it from me. I got it when it was going around the, open cube type, office I worked in.)

        Or worse, TPTB will start making the vaccines with the mRMA material. Then I can’t blame people for opting out, for their children and themselves. I will. It will not be good.

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        2. The vaccine “schedule” needs to be pulled back to only the traditional vaccines, and no combinations. None of this 150 vaccines by age two, plus boosters.

          And yes, they are working on mRNA replacements for many of them, starting with the animal vaccines. Chickens and horses so far, although there may be others I haven’t heard about.

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              1. Which, again, gets you back to trust, because there are already accounts of medical people combining other vaccines with clot shot.

                I despise these people with a passion.

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                1. When I was in for my annual (way overdue), the shots recommended were the 10-year tetanus/pertussis, annual flu, and current (bi-monthly?) clot shot. I declined the latter with prejudice (stating it is *worthless). Latter two, being given at the same time, but not combined into one, yet. Interestingly enough, insurance didn’t pay for the tetanus/pertussis.

                  (*) Got the “if you hadn’t had the prior shot and booster you’d been sicker when you caught it. Saying I’ve had it twice and I couldn’t have been any sicker either time, first time before any shots. Just as sick second time. Worthless. Unfortunately doctor follows the party line, verbally anyway. Can’t blame him (don’t like it). Know he is prepping to retire, and won’t rock that boat.

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                  1. “Can’t blame him…”

                    Why not? If he’s a medical “expert”, and he gives bad advice, how can you not blame him? His retirement overrides his duty to his clients? I don’t think so…

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                3. Someone slips me unauthorized juice and I will go medieval.

                  You stick me,
                  I stick back. Meet my Bowie vaccine.

                  That bullshit is in “rape” territory.

                  Seriously? Documented cases? Lawyer up and destroy them via litigation.

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          2. Not sure if the combinations are better than no vaccination at all. For the majority of children vaccinated over the past nearly 100 years, that doesn’t seem to be a problem; some are always going to have adverse reactions, including maiming and death. As long as the number of bad events is significantly less than the number of bad outcomes of catching the diseases, you’re good to go.

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            1. The problem with combination shots is it lowers how effective they are– causes more vaccination failures. (This is a big deal with cattle– because working cattle causes them to not grow as well, so it’s a balance of loss by disease vs loss by trying to prevent it.)

              If it’s not that important that you actually get resistance, why is it in the shot? If it’s that important, why the resistance to spacing for better take?

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              1. Excellent questions. I suspect they combine them because of the trouble with getting people in to get any shots in the first place. Plus the amount of time any provider has to spend with any patient, when time = money.

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                1. I’ve heard the “people won’t bring their kids in” excuse my whole life, it stands up very poorly to the way that nurses are able to give shots and I have gotten them in walk-ins that took more time to greet the receptionist than to finish up.

                  There are even walk-in doctor’s offices in malls, exactly for vaccinations. (They are sometimes limited in what they can carry, depends on the support.)

                  So while it may have worked back when we had far fewer vaccinations being given, the benefits have aged out and the costs are going up.

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                2. “…the trouble with getting people in to get any shots in the first place.”

                  I tend to refer to this as a variant of the “evolution in action” effect. Cold? Yeah. But “experience is a harsh school, but a fool will learn in no other”. Or, if you prefer, the maxim about leading a horse to water. Adults are supposed to be capable of making rational decisions; it’s part of the definition. If they can’t, c’est la vie.

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      3. Though school boards have also been snapping back in more sane directions. There have recently been some school boards here in the news in California for basically flipping the bird to the state regarding the “No telling the parents!” rules that the state is pushing for students who decide that they’re transgender.

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          1. Unfortunately, not all that surprising given that any school boards that tell the parents are breaking a recently passed state law.

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  21. Don’t forget the Green Leap Forward insanity the left is pushing as well. Once each part of the infrastructure for coal, oil, gas and nuclear is eliminated, getting it back up and running again will be very hard work, very expensive and very lengthy.

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    1. Which is what the ecoloons are counting on. as Don Surber puts it, here:

      https://donsurber.substack.com/p/just-say-no-to-battery-operated-cars

      “I suppose we bitter clingers can hang on to our Mustangs till hell freezes over but tell me, where will we get the gasoline or the oil filters we will need? What happens when all the parts manufacturers fold? What happens when car companies give up on servicing gas-powered cars?

      There are two ways to get the USA to 100% battery-operated cars and trucks. One way is to force everyone to buy an electric car.

      The other way is to eliminate the gas-powered cars and trucks by not building them and dropping the system of support we built over the last century.”

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        1. Sarah, just where do you think you will get enough used fry oil to run even the number of cars in your neighborhood? Now apply that 1 million times. Yeah.

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          1. Used is a thing. But Steve, we can get a lot of grease. Yes, food will have less. But…. there’s a lot of grease. And any grease will do. it’s just not CLEAN and not good for anything.

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            1. Really only works with diesel engines and what was once waste is now guarded and protected back of commercial kitchens. Not to mention all levels of gubmint having hissy fits because fuel from grease and cooking oil does not typically get hit with road taxes which are a fair percentage of what we pay at the pump for traditional petroleum products.

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              1. And you do have to do some mild chemistry to the fry oil (and tweak the diesel engines parameters, but that is a Small Matter of Programming these days) to get it to burn well. Oh and filter out the french fry crumbs :-) . Diesel is mostly C12H23 with parts as short as C10 and as long as C15. Gasoline is supposed to be primarily Octane (C8H18) but can have chains as short as C5 and as long as C10. Ethanol MIGHT work some, but that rots all sorts of things in an engine so it wont work for long (and tends to pre detonate i.e. ping). Darn shame the turbines never worked out for vehicles (unless you happen to have a spare M1 tank) they’ll burn darn near any hydrocarbon…

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                1. Newer gas fuel vehicles, since 2010, or before, while will not take diesel, are rated for “Flexfuel”. Generally from the top performance expensive fuel (no alcohol added) to lower fuel grades (higher percentage of alcohol). If the used vegetable food grade oil can be spun into regular type fuel, to combine with alcohol, it will happen. Already a diesel substitute. Since diesel is a precursor to regular fuel, why not?

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                  1. as noted its a different hydrocarbon. Not sure how you’d crack from longer to shorter chain, I think real cracking of straight petroleum uses heat, high pressure and complicated catalysts so this is NOT easy chemistry.

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        2. The problem with modern cars is all of the computerized stuff. The real trick will be to get around that. I’m not saying it’s impossible. But it’ll be trickier than just making a similarly-sized part at the local machine shop.

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        3. Consider the first automobiles and engines were build by BLACKSMITHS. We can do it again, better than the early tractors, trucks, and cars, and without as many false starts. The problem is keeping the damn government off our backs. And since we don’t have as deep pockets as they have, the ammo box is a lot cheaper in the short run, and a break even in the long run.

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          2. “Consider the first automobiles and engines were build by BLACKSMITHS.”

            And consider the slight difference in dependence on a motorized supply chain / transportation net between then and now, and how long it took to ramp up to now. Sure, it can be built back, but depending on how long we give them to wreck it, think decades, not years.

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            1. Assuming we are driven to rebuild, The Reader thinks it might be easier to repower old vehicles with simple diesels (minus the crazy level of pollution control they have now). There are a lot of improvised things that can be done after the oncoming unpleasantness.

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    2. Ditto the solar and wind farms, though. And because of materials, the “renewable” options are much harder to fix if they break down. The only truly renewable options we have right now are nuclear and water, and the idiots are more incensed by those than by coal. It affects their search for the holy grail, you know.

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      1. “Renewable” in the way they mean it is a denial of thermodynamics.

        I’m sure there is a possible meaning which isn’t. But it is at best a niche topic.

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  22. “5- The economy is spiraling down. As it does under Democrat influence.”

    In the late years of the George W. administration, some very authoritative person whose name and credentials I almost instantly forgot told me that the economy works on a two-to-three year lag, such that the improvements Democrats made only ever showed up in the early years of a following Republican administration, and that the economy invariably suffered under Republicans, with the lag time ensuring that their malfeasance only showed up when Democrats were in office. Not sure what excuse he had for the crappy economy under Obama; it’s likely that the lag time magically increased as necessary. It was pretty amazing how quickly things revved up when Trump came in and said America was open for business again…and ACTED like it.

    “1-The border situation.”

    My aunt and uncle are on a church mission in a Texas border region, and they report — no surprise — that the people flooding over the border are generally just…people. The church’s charity mission is to make sure nobody goes hungry and make sure kids are cared for, so they’re not seeing only robust young men or the criminal-minded. They interact with a lot of people who are somewhat confused, don’t speak the language, don’t understand how things work here, and don’t really have any idea how they’re going to survive and take care of their dependents in this foreign land. The evil here isn’t only what they want to do to this country; it’s also what they’re doing to a huge number of innocent dupes they’ve imported who are going to pay a very heavy price.

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    1. I’ve said that. I know what my image of America was when I came in, AND I WAS LITERATE, HAD READ AMERICAN NOVELS MY WHOLE LIFE, AND NON FIC HISTORY TOO.
      And yet the “everyone is rich in America” was so ingrained, that early eighties America was a shock.
      Not to mention the fact no one was desperate to give ANYONE jobs. You had to be competent. Etc.
      These people are in serious trouble. And they have to be stupid to stay. HAVE TO. You can sniff the air and feel it coming.
      However, take what your aunt and uncle say with a grain of sand. there are a lot of entry points. The people approaching the nice religious charity workers aren’t the boat loads of overwhelmingly male people coming in. I’ve seen the pictures. And movies. Seriously.

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      1. Right, they are in serious trouble. All of them, but especially the women and anyone with dependents. That’s what I was getting at, is that in addition to the ones who are being brought in because of their potential for violence, there are also a lot of people who are harmless in themselves, and just being used as cannon fodder. They’re dead weight. Literally. Aside from the illegal crossing, these are otherwise innocent people; dumb, maybe, but not criminal-minded. And all they’re meant to do is tug at decent people’s heartstrings…and die, if and when things get really bad. In trying to destroy us, the left multiplies its evil by condemning helpless, ignorant people to death (how many? thousands? a million?) only for believing the lies they were told.

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        2. When the rich, stupid, and helpless fail to appear, the lawless element turns on the helpless among them. Who have often been stupid enough to shield the idiots while they searched for the streets of gold.

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        3. AND they are being brought in. And they should perhaps suspect that being flown in isn’t a good thing. BUT it’s obviously the American government and “Important people” doing it, and these poor people trust.

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      2. When I was job hunting in the 80s credentials were the important thing. I saw many incompetent people hired because they had the right credentials. Most didn’t last long. I couldn’t get work doing things I had serious experience in because I didn’t have the union card. I ended up changing course into what I do today.

        I laughed at the ads with requirements like “CRT experience.” I grew up with TVs, so I had a lot of CRT experience.

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      3. Marxist maxim: history uses people then discards them. Besides the semi- para- quasi- military types there are lots and lots of poor dupes servicing the Cloward Piven schemes.

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    2. I had a guy in Jersy explaining the Republicans ran a crappy candidate so the Democrat could be in place and take the blame for the bad economy. Never mind how Democratic the legislators were.

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  23. Now is the time to remember who you are: American. Remember your heritage. Stay based as F. No to all stupidity at work, regardless. Don’t be a simp or a weak baby. Stand up like generations before us.

    America. F, yeah!

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    1. Irish-American, thank you very much, so both types of Republicans. And I’m specifically talking about the IRB/A during Collin’s era, not more recently. Although I do have many friends who still say “up the RA”.

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  24. So…

    Arizona’s “governor”, Katie Hobbs, apparently announced on Wednesday that she was temporarily stepping down as governor. Apparently it lasted for less than twenty-four hours, but what the heck!? No explanation was given.

    And while she was temporarily out of office, she appointed the Treasurer, not the Lt. Governor, to run the state in her absence. Apparently the Treasurer is third in line, and so not the person one would have expected to run things while the governor is away.

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    1. There was some talk that this was because the Turnip in Chief was going to be in town and the 3 democrats from governor down found they had critical things to do like brush their cats teeth or catalogue their belly button lint so they didn’t have to be seen with Biden. If so it is interesting that he is seen as such a hindrance.

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      1. Might explain it. The Treasurer is a Republican, and so wouldn’t be required to be seen in public with an unpopular Democratic president.

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    2. emporarily out of office, she appointed the Treasurer, not the Lt. Governor, to run the state in her absence. Apparently the Treasurer is third in line, and so not the person one would have expected to run things while the governor is away.
      ………………..

      Not in Arizona, because they have a Lt. Governor. How does that happen? Only 24 hours so probably not long enough for someone to complain.

      In Oregon, the Treasurer is second in line, as there is no Lt. Governor.

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      1. Sorry, but AZ does not have a Lt. Governor; the AZ SecState takes over when the Gov is unavailable. That’s how Jan Brewer became Gov. when Janet Napolitano ran away to join Team Barry-the-Bozo.

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