The First Of May

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

When I was young — at least after the revolution — May day was international labor day, and the entire TV was given over to people draped in red, wearing uniforms, carrying the flag of butchers, and parading endlessly past dais draped in red. On the dais (daises?) sat senilocrats (totally a word) trying to look dignified while they plotted how to put a knife in the other’s back.

They did it all, constantly, for a little bit more of foreign goods purchased at the state store, another dacha for their protracted vacations and, the worst part, all the treachery and everything they got for keeping other humans enslaved mind and body? Got them a lifestyle about the level of middle-middle class Americans or the inhabitants of any other relatively free country.

The truth is that tyranny is the fast track to starvation, while freedom produces so abundantly that even the poor, even now, in our country, live a lifestyle that would be the envy of the richest in eras past.

And yet, like the senilo-kakistocrats of the past, our own would be forever rulers prefer a regime that enslaves all and makes all poorer, in exchange for their being just a little better off than, say, a steady-working craftsman in the US.

I think they prefer to be somewhat poorer provided they are envied, because the rest of the country is starving and grubbing in the dark.

I don’t understand it. Perhaps because I never cared how well others do, provided I can do fairly well myself.

But some people can’t enjoy their good, unless others are destroyed.

Which is what those endless parades meant. “Look how strong and wonderful we are. Look at our might and despair.”

Don’t despair. Those parades were a lie, complete with recycling military vehicles, etc. to pass before the podium.

Tyranny is always weak. In the process of starving everyone, it destroys its own strength. So it can’s last.

Sure this is more comforting when watched from across the world, in some place of warmth and abundance.

But it is still comforting nonetheless. The dark times don’t last. They can’t. The boot can’t stamp on the human face forever. we’ll chew through the leader and bite the foot well before that. But also, the leg has no strength because it hasn’t eaten in several days, and the foot in the boot is a skeleton.

Years ago — and you’ll have to forgive the slightly hallucinatory tone of this post. For some reason ear infections always make me not quite able to focus. Right now literally, I believe due to fever — a friend said that the left always screams loudest and appears strongest when it’s losing.

Since then I’ve seen no reason to doubt him. In fact, I believe the more they try to appear powerful, the more insecure they are.

And I think the current insanity is a mark of how scared they are. They’ve glimpsed the abyss, and it’s a long long way down.

Does this mean I think they’ll lose the elections? No. Unless something very strange happens. We should still vote — against them — in case a miracle occurs.

But at this point people are saying and seeing things that were literally hidden and hushed up before. We’re thinking things that were unthinkable.

They’re not winning. They’re making a much bigger display of control, precisely because they lost it. And they know it.

We’re not losing. We’re coming back slowly from the totalitarian folly of the 20th century.

It takes time.

I don’t like it any better than you do. I likely have less time than a lot of you.

But would you rather, like Moses, perish having seen the promised land of freedom,or be one of those who lived in calmer times, and died without ever even knowing they were prisoners, body and soul? Or that the future wasn’t endless red parades forever?

I’ll take our fraught time, our chance at freedom, our chance at rebuilding an imperfect Republic that cherishes individual freedom.

And that’s a labor I can believe in.

104 thoughts on “The First Of May”

  2. Somehow I remember that Portugal went through a revolution something like that in 1974. But that was 50 years ago now (!) and you may not remember much. Portugal is such a different concept from America; you have a VERY different background!

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    1. I remember. Turned everything even stupider. Which considering it was national socialist before, took effort.
      International socialism is worse. Both suck, note. but international socialism at the height of the cold war sucked way worse. Everything for RUssia, nothing without Russia — spit.

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  3. Some of my friends despair because they are convinced that what happened elsewhere will happen here. What I think they miss is that for the last century America has subsidized tyrants around the world. The USSR would have collapsed decades sooner if they were not being fed by the US. The US also developed technology for the world – China is where it is because of theft of US patents.  Nobody is going to subsidize our senilocrats (my new word of the day). You can already see middle class people backing down in their work output and innovation. So if the senilocrats do manage to come out on top, their reign will short, probably brutal but short.   

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  4. “We are not losing. We are coming back slowly from the totalitarian folly of the 20th Century”.  And like any coming back, there are going to be leading and lagging countries and people – those that went the deepest in and strip mined culture, economy, and anything else they could get their hands on will be the longest in returning.

    It is noticeable that the more extreme the positions become, the less and less support from the regular folk seems to be forthcoming, perhaps because it is now (or finally) impacting their own lives as well.

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  5. I did not know this until I saw it on Wikipedia today, but today is an officially legally defined holiday here in the US… Loyalty Day (36 USC 115). By statute, Loyalty Day “is a special day for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.” Let’s see if POTATUS, or one of his handlers, issues the typical proclamation that’s been issued by every President, regardless of party, since 1955 to reaffirm the holiday.

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  6. Happy International Victims of Communism Day!

    I was happy to see that Columbia University finally dealt with it’s demonstrators last night. Hopefully at least a few of them do time. It’s pretty clear to me what the general public – even the parts of it that are inclined to vote Democrat – think of the demonstrators.

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    1. Saw a link over at Instapundit. A group of pro-Palestinians at UNC Chapel Hill took down the US flag, and replaced it with a Palestinian flag. A local fraternity saw this, put the US flag back up, and then defended it from the crazies.

      UCLA has a demonstrator encampment. The administration has huffed and puffed and allowed it to stay. Last night it got attacked by “counter protestors”. If TPTB won’t do their job, vigilantes will start to appear…

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      1. Read the cops have gone in, after video of “protestors,” beating a Jewish girl unconscious got out and various gentlemen (Jewish? Gentile? Embrace the power of “and”?) counter-attacked.

        At UNC, the “interim president,” went out and put the American flag back first, followed by the frat Boys. Rally ’round the flag, boys!

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        1. No one seems to be mentioning anything about a Jewish young woman being beaten. It took the cops two hours to arrive at the UCLA fight. The university cancelled classes today.

          The independent local news channel here in LA is being approached by students who are fed up with the UCLA encampment, and are frustrated that the university leadership hasn’t had it removed.

          It is interesting seeing that some of the universities have been willing to drop hammers over this. And no one – in the general public, at least – is upset.

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        2. ….this puts a rather different spin on the predictable a-holes that were making much of how the fratboys defending the American flag were all male.

          Especially combined with the activists claiming that the “protesters” are the ones who have been assaulted.

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          1. Yeah, the usual “He hit me back first!” whines when FAFO becomes reality. Aside from the Alphabet Agencies, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.

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            1. >Aside from the Alphabet Agencies, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.

              Ah, but where do you think the KGfBi draws its recruits from?

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        3. There’s a GoFundMe up to raise money to throw a party for the Fraternity brothers. So far it’s raised over $200,000.

          :D

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  7. I remember reading ‘Inside the Aquarium’. They told him that most of the agents who turn on the Soviets for money either came back or committed suicide because once they had their house with a pool, they couldn’t stand the idea that everyone else had one too.

    Suvorov defected because they demanded he betray his own friends too many times and he could no longer take it.

    I don’t doubt there are enough of the former to populate the ranks of The Party, just as I am certain most people of of the latter category instead.

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    1. Choosing to frame envy as a virtue really twists people up inside. It’s one of the worst things about leftism.

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  8. “They did it all, constantly, for a little bit more of foreign goods purchased at the state store, another dacha for their protracted vacations and, the worst part, all the treachery and everything they got for keeping other humans enslaved mind and body? Got them a lifestyle about the level of middle-middle class Americans or the inhabitants of any other relatively free country.”

    I’m sure there’s an Uncle Screwtape quote about this, but the words aren’t coming to mind.

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    Don’t despair. Those parades were a lie, complete with recycling military vehicles, etc. to pass before the podium.

    And indeed the Soviet May Day parades were used to confuse the NATO folks watching the parades. A classic example is the 1954 May Day parade where 18 M-4 Molot (NATO name Bison) bombers were carefully cycled around over the Kremlin parade grounds to give the appearance of 2+ regiments (48+) of Bison bombers. Also stats for range and speed were “leaked” showing higher top speed and decent intercontinental range rather than the pitiful 3000 nm (and I believe that is the improved Bison-B range, the original -A model would be outranged by a WWII Silverplate B-29).

    This demo caused the US to perceive a bomber gap. In 1954 US had 700+ B-47 and 200+ B-36 and a few (<20) B-52 by the end of 1954[1]. The soviet Union had 20 TU-95 (Bear A) and 20 M-4 Bison A as of 1956[1]. Thus no such gap was present. However, by 1957 the US had almost 1300 B47 and 250 B52 [1] making me wonder if the Politburo and the KGB hid this failure of their strategy from Kruschev. Meanwhile large finned cars, refrigerators and every other modern convenience were still being cranked out (as well as brand new thermonuclear weapons such as the MK 15 to put in the B-52/47) from the US economy with nary a glitch to be seen.

    It is no wonder the 50s/60s Soviet leadership were so paranoid. They knew what the US had and what they had and the Politburo knew what they would do if they had said advantage. They figured they would end up literal ash in the historical trash pile.

    [1] All numbers this source: Robert Norris, and Thomas Cochrane. 1997. US – USSR/Russian Strategic Offensive Nuclear Forces 1945-1996. PDF. NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. Tables 7 (us Bomber forces) and 8 (USSR Bomber forces). I’ll put a link to the PDF if requested in a reply to this post lest I tick off Word Press (Delenda Erat) with two links.

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    1. “Look how strong and wonderful we are. Look at our might and despair.”

      I saw the other day a YouTube of a collision between a Chinese Coast Guard vessel that had been harassing Philippine shipping, and a Philippine Coast Guard ship.

      Of particular interest, the Chinese ship was a converted Chinese missile frigate. Big ship. The Japanese-made Philippine Coast Guard ship PUNCHED HOLES IN IT. As in, more than one hole was torn in the hull from the collision.

      If a Philippine Coast Guard ship hit a US Navy frigate, I think it would bounce off. Navy types on here are welcome to correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s what I expect would happen.

      So clearly the Chinese have built a bunch of missile frigates with hulls like sardine cans. Because they don’t give a single s- if every one of them sinks in a battle. Quantity has a quality all its own, right?

      Chinese Navy ships and crews are consumables to the CCP leadership, the guys making the decisions. Lose a squadron in a storm because all the hulls were breached? No problem, just draft a couple thousand more peasants and crank out twelve more crappy tin-can boats.

      And everybody knows it, apparently. Starting to see a lot of traffic about the younger generation of Chinese kids stepping off the Promotion Bus to be slackers. Because when you know the government thinks of you as a consumable, how hard are you going to work for them?

      Entire industries are consumables. The big Foxconn plant in China that was cranking out iPhones? EMPTY. Because why? Politics! Evergrande Group? Toast! Hasta la vista, baby! Because CCP politics.

      How long can they keep doing that sort of thing to the biggest and most dense population in the world? Probably not much longer, would be my guess. Once you’ve allowed the peasants a taste of indoor plumbing and cellphone service, they’re going to come for you if you try to take it away.

      Got a ringside seat for the same thing here in Canada. Government corruption and buddy-buddy insider trading have created a nation of iron rice bowl monopolies and an imported underclass of wage-slaves. How long is that going to last? -Maybe- until October 20th 2025.

      Or until the government starts deporting semi-legal immigrants back to India. Once that starts for real, I expect things will get spicy here pretty quick.

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      1. Ships don’t have armored hulls any more. Modern weapons can punch through any amount of armor it’s practical to put on a ship, so it’s better to save the weight and gain speed, maneuverability and longer range. Several U.S. Navy ships have been involved in collisions — I was about to say recently, but they’re not recent any more. I’ve been out of the Navy for more than 40 years!

        Anyway, it all depends on how they collide. USS Cook pretty much T-boned USS Mars back in the 80’s. Tore a humungous hole in Mars, and twisted Cook’s bow all to hell. Pretty sure both ships made it back to port under their own power. Repairs took months.

        So, if the Philippine ship’s bow hit the Chinese ship’s flank, I’d expect massive damage to the Chinese ship and moderate damage to the Philippine ship. A ship’s bow is much stiffer and tougher than the sides, just because of its shape.

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        1. This is supposed to be the collision. If that put three holes in the Chinese boat, that thing is made of tofu. IMHO, I’m not a boat guy.

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          1. I didn’t see any holes in the video, though, on either boat.

            There were apparently two collisions that day, when another Chinese ship collided with the supply ship that the Coast Guard vessel was escorting. Is it possible that the holes occurred during the other collision?

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            1. The one with the holes in it is the frigate with the green deck. I saw it pointed out in a video I (naturally) can’t find now, the result of a glancing contact like the one in this video.

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      2. I heard that Pierre Poilievre roasted Trudeau so badly in Parliament the other day that Pierre was kicked out.

        😅😅

        From what I was told, Trudeau started it. And Pierre’s response was utter and complete humiliation of Trudeau – at length.

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          2. Maybe not, but apparently getting pretty close. According to a Canadian that I’ve been talking to, Trudeau and his allies are doing *really* poorly in the polls. I’ve been told that they’re doing so poorly that the Partie Quebecoise is currently in second place in the polls right now. And PQ *only* gets votes in Quebec.

            If the numbers hold until the election next year, the Conservatives will win in a landslide.

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              1. Dominion originated in Venezuela; the machines were designed to rig elections for Hugo Chavez. After Chavez got terminally retired, the company officials left Venezuela for their health and settled in Barcelona. Dominion has been bought, sold and traded around until now it’s near impossible to figure out just who owns it. We do know they use servers in Germany to tabulate American election results.

                The machines still retain all their election rigging features. That’s why the Democrats get so hysterical when somebody wants to examine them, or audit the results. Their security is a joke, too. One investigator cracked into a whole room full of them from the parking lot with a tablet computer.

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                1. Also, from what I understand, Dominion’s agreement prohibits you from trying to hack their machines (even as a test of their security), and they use this to ruthlessly pursue anyone who demonstrates that there are security holes in their voting machines.

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                2. I read SOTI that Dominion machines were being used in Canada, thus that question. OTOH, I suppose Shiny Pony can get reelected with 110% of the registered voters going for him. Sigh.

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                  1. 110%? Is that all? Some precincts in Detroit had over 200% voter turnout in 2020, and that includes the dead voting twice! There were thousands of ‘voters’ over 110 years old.

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        2. If you watch the video of this exchange, where Poilievre calls him a whacko, you’ll hear the Shiny Pony talking about white supremacists, Diagolon, and Alex Jones.

          If you look up Diagolon right now, you’ll find the Wikipedia entry calling it a right wing extremist organization and suuuuuper dangerous. In fact, ALL the Canadian media sites right now are carrying news about how doubleplus bad Diagolon is. Amazingly Soviet, yes?

          Diagolon was investigated in depth by the RCMP. Jeremy MacKenzie, the so-called “leader” of Diagolon, was arrested in 2022 and held in jail for some considerable time on various charges, including gun charges.

          Which were all dropped, because they were BS. Diagolon is in fact a meme that MacKenzie made up on his phone and posted as a joke. Because he’s a comedian. Diagolon is the diagonal ‘nation’ that stretches from Alaska through the Canadian West, all the way down to Florida.

          This is identical to the idea of Larry Correia being arrested and tossed in the slammer because Monster Hunter gear patches turned up at the January 6th guided tour of the US Capitol.

          So these days you see the meme popping up all over the place, just another way Canadians are calling BS on the Pony. That and F- Trudeau flags. Those things are everywhere.

          This is what passes for “debate” in the House of Commons lately. Diagolon, and Alex Jones.

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          1. From what I was told, Pierre’s response was to point out that Trudeau puts on blackface, and invites actual Nazis to Parliament.

            🤣🤣🤣

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            1. It’s worth watching the video of the whole exchange because among other things it reveals the partisan behavior of the Speaker of the House. Ad hominem comments from the Pony, the Speaker is deaf. Ad hominem from the CPC, the Speaker has the ears of a rabbit. There is also the muting of the microphones, and the lack of public footage of the Conservatives standing up and walking out.

              And yes, Mr. Poilievre did mention the blackface and the Nazi thing. Which was sweet. >:D

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  11. Mayday! Mayday! Need More Coffee! 

    (Yes, I’m feeling a bit crazy.)

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    1. Speaking of coffee.

      Got my King Harvey Coffee order. Brewed my first cup. Fast heading toward being very spoiled and a coffee snob. “Coffee for All Seasons” (not what king calls it) for first brew. It’ll be awhile before I get to the other 5 types in the low acidic package.

      Here Paul, I’ll share 🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵😁😇

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  12. Me, I will spend the day in remembrance of the crew and passengers of the free trader Beowulf, lost with all hands after an attack by unknown parties somewhere in the Spinward Marches some forty-seven years ago…

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    4. Traveller may have been the G.O.A.T. of Science Fiction Roleplaying Games – heavens, of any roll playing game. Three starter books, only three 6-sided dice and you were off. Even with some of the additional later rule books, they were not too intrusive. And all in those easy to handle size category.

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  13. Yes, this is hard, and ugly, and discouraging. But it’s also glorious and grand, and I’m glad I’m here to fight through it.

    I dream of the day little kids can walk to the other side of their neighborhood, alone, and get help going into the 7-11 to buy a quart of milk for Mom. Without hassle. That’s how I grew up, and these kids deserve it, too.

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  14. I got your May Day celebration right here, Commies:

    A bunch of black policemen in NYC -rip- down the Pallie flag and throw it on the lawn, before putting the US flag back up again.

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    1. Speaking of which, I heard just a bit ago that the Arm of St. Jude is currently on display at the Diocese of Orange, in California.

      I’m not a Catholic, so this isn’t of interest to me. But if there are any in the area, this is a friendly heads up.

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      2. It’s also the old feast day of St. Walburga. She was… formidable. She and St. Lioba were English Saxon women who went to the German lands near what is now Fulda and Heidenheim to run the missionaries’ base of operations and do all the logistics back in the late 700s-early 800s.

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  16. I used to very much subscribe to a sort of “live and let live” philosophy when it came to the Left, assuming that they, like us on the Right, were honest actors in the whole political arena. I used to say, “they think we’re evil, we just think they’re wrong.”

    It’s taken me less than ten freaking years to go from that philosophy to wanting to explore opportunities regarding opening up a franchise of Pinochet’s Helicopter Tours.

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    2. I wonder what it would take to get the Cincinnati franchise….

      You’re far kinder than I am. I’m swiftly approaching the point of wanting to see the hashtag #teambluejinn trending sharply upward.

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  17. Today is the day we mourn the victims of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and every one of their red-headed stepchildren (Mussolini and Hitler).

    May their particular bit of Hell be a lot more uncomfortable than usual.

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  18. It’s taken me less than ten freaking years to go from that philosophy to wanting to explore opportunities regarding opening up a franchise of Pinochet’s Helicopter Tours.

    I’ve felt that way since Waco and Ruby Ridge.

    In the last ten years, I’ve realized I begun feeling the same way about 85% of the Republican lickspittles as well.

    Betrayal by the Left is just business. Betrayal by the so-called Right is personal.

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  20. Sure, they’re losing. But they are not going to let go of control quietly or peacefully, and since the ruling class was “joking” about nuking fly-over country before they had clearly lost…

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      1. It’s going to get bad. Really bad.

        Yeah. I suspect that it will. But I intend to live my best life until then.

        What I think of as my best life has evolved a bit in the last decade. I used to think it involved travel and entertainments. Now it is a quiet day in my garden, helping those in need, and prayers for my family and friends.

        I’ve become very Hobbit-like. No adventures, please, just a quiet life with my hubby and visits from such friends, children and grandchildren as come by.

        But, someone, somewhere, is hauling that cursed ring up the mountain and it will seem as if all is lost until it gets tossed in.

        Then the work of rebuilding and tidying up can begin. If I live long enough to see that, perhaps I can be of help there.

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      2. Probably starts with a false flag racial massacre or two with FBI wind-up toys or such since they have been trying to kick off a race war since 2009. Or a dirty bomb false flag against a city. Or poisoning a water system with large amounts of toxins/fentanyl.

        Anything action big enough to declare an emergency and cancel all of those pesky Constitutional rights.

        I don’t think people are going to buy yet another medical emergency or “Climate Change”, but I wouldn’t bet on it. They probably have more than one Wuhan and the old nuke in a volcano trick might work if applied correctly.

        Or they can keep boiling the frog and wacking the occasional nail that stands up.

        I really don’t want to know, but the author has scripted such a crazy plot, I need to order more popcorn and keep on watching…

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    2. Which is a large part of why I advocate nuking them first. Society for the Thermonuclear Eradication of Marxism really does need to be a thing. Let the cleansing purity of thermonuclear fire wash the taint of Marx from the land. I mean, just hitting DC and similar cesspits, like Moscow, Beijing, Berlin, Ottawa, Caracas, Pyongyang, etc. would go a great distance to improving political hygiene on Earth.

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      1. They are already destroying their own cities and states, while we in Red Land are just fine. The sane are fleeing to be replaced by illegals who won’t hold back like american citizens, nor will they be able to produce the revenue of those who have fled. And without the revenue source from all those rich and middle class fleeing they have no money to keep the population bribed, Reparations and Welfare will have to be scaled back and they won’t even have Reparations, which will further erode their power base. The gimme gimme part of that sub-culture will not take kindly to that, you promised after all. The woke they have created are not smart enough, to be the army of conquest, and that is exactly what the majority are fleeing, being conscripted into some Latin/Chinese/Russia/African/Muslim, nutjobs army of conquest.

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      2. “Society for the Thermonuclear Eradication of Marxism”

        So that’s what STEM means! 😆😁😁👏👏

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          1. Glory, glory hallelujah!

            Glory, glory hallelujah!

            Don’t let commies here subdue ya.

            Let’s fight until they’re gone! 😃

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  21. Currently trying to think past the hot breath of insanity on our necks and keep writing. Part of a draft I was trying to fill in feels like I overdid it; trying to leave that part alone at the moment and work on other bits, even other ideas, in hopes my brain will come up with a solution that doesn’t involve anything too drastic.

    An element of the trouble we’re dealing with re progressives is, there’s a certain subset of people who just enjoy other people’s pain. We’d like nothing more than to be left alone, and that in itself is intolerable to them – because we are not in pain, meaning they can’t get their fix watching us suffer. How dare we.

    I’m not sure there’s any way to solve that beyond violence.

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  22. We’d like nothing more than to be left alone, and that in itself is intolerable to them – because we are not in pain, meaning they can’t get their fix watching us suffer. How dare we.

    Living well has always been the best revenge.

    And living well with a smile on our lips and a song in our hearts….

    😂☺️🤣😂

    And we have MANY songs from which to choose.

    Theirs are all dirges.

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    1. “…MANY songs…”

      March of Cambreadth

      Winterborn

      Men of Harlech

      ..and many more.

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  23. This is an off-topic request, but since our hostess is far more familiar with the area than I: in Colorado Springs, was the area around Continental Heights and Briargate a decent area?

    (My niece skipped her college town 2 months before her getting her Master’s degree – transferred herself into an online only program as she doesn’t need labs- without telling anyone, and at least 2 of the paid records search sites put her in that area – 2000 miles away. We are just hoping her supposed husband (they supposedly got married a year ago, also without any advance notice to anyone, although they had been living together a couple years by that point) actually graduates with his Bachelor of Engineering in a few weeks and they both end up out there safe.

    I know she really dislikes her father (but even after he might be on the hook for some of her college loans, and signed the forms for hubby’s green card application (Japanese engineering student who his father sent to school in Canada and US as Japan SOOOO expensive), but she has just gone 100% dark on everybody for 3 months now, even on her autistic half-brother who she regularly chatted with online. Her parents drove 300 miles to do some poking around, and one of her ex-employers advised “they were moving across country.”)

    She could at least let us know she is alive and not in any danger, ya know?

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      1. Thank you. For all my niece’s intellectual smarts (she started as an engineering major but switched to psychology and managed to get a Bachelor degree in 3 years due to her taking AP in high school; hopefully that was some plan they had after becoming a couple) , she is still only 23 years old and until she went away to college led a fairly socially sheltered upbringing. (Continental Heights is near N Union Blvd and just to the east of N Powers Blvd, the area being a bit northeast of the UC Memorial Hospital North and Briargate proper. Maybe the proper civic designation is Cordera?)

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  24. All the campus Marxists cheering Hamas should take a close look at what Turkey did to the Marxists there who decided to celebrate “May Day”; it did not go well for the Marxists. 

    The Jihadists will do in the Marxists the same way they will all others they consider infidels and heretics.

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  26. Senilocrats! I have always heard that language evolves, and now joyously have proof that it is not only because the left changes meanings to suit their current favorite fetish/cause. Thank you for the word I had been searching for but did not have the mind to create. It so perfectly describes what I see in our, oh so lovely elitist leaders, and the government we have allowed them to create.

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