We Railroad!

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before
Robert A. Heinlein

Some of you are looking at that and wondering what in heck is going on in my head. “Is this something to do with the Trump Train?” Well, yes, in fact. Kind of. Sideways.

Don’t expect me to remember where, but sometime this weekend I came across an article saying how strange it is that it is actually a good thing the left frauded themselves a win in 2020. The author of the article as kind of fear of saying it, and though I fully agree with him, let me tell you right now that that night in 2020 if you’d told me that the fraud was a good thing because of what it would set up, I’d have said you were insane. Okay, I probably would have straight up shivved you because 2020 was a difficult year and tamping down the berserker was so much work. But–

On the political side, a lot of what Trump was trying to do in his first term, we weren’t yet ready for. It wasn’t just the deep state resisting him, but the fact that what he wanted to do — what he was elected to do — seemed loony, probably even to himself.

To explain, in 2016 — and 2020 before the fraud — though a few of us were starting to intuit it, we really didn’t have the full idea of how rotten everything was, how corrupt, how counterproductive: from the architraves of our governance to the step stools of our professional organizations.

It took a lot to show us how bad it was, because it is the nature of humans to do what they’ve done and which has worked before. We can take minor innovation at a time, which over time will change things utterly, but that’s not what we need right now.

Our entire structure of “modern life” largely put into place in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century and made pervasive in the FDR imposition of top-down rules and regulations and concentrating of power in DC, is rotten. Like Terry Pratchett’s throne of Ankh-Morpork, it is a beautiful gilded structure that looks imposing and impossible to defy, but which is, inside, rotted and will fall at a touch.

Well, we didn’t know that. We knew there were failures. That’s what led to the Tea Party and then to electing Trump when that failed. But we couldn’t imagine the rot and the corruption. We just couldn’t. Why the throne was so golden and shining….

Who could imagine they were founding research to create lethal diseases in an enemy land, or that they intended to release one upon us, to steal back their power, or that they would lie about it, when the disease was not as lethal as it promised, or that they would cause people to die, just to scare us into a lockdown — all over the world — so they could fraud elections here. Who could imagine the courts one after the other turning a blind eye to glaring corruption of our system? Refusing to even look at it on procedural grounds? Who could have imagined an AMERICAN inauguration under guard, with barbed wire around our capital? And this being treated as normal? Who could have imagined a mildly spicy demonstration being treated as the equivalent of 9/11? Who could have imagined an outgoing president being persecuted on crazy grounds, anything to keep him from running again?

This is the stuff of the USSR not the US.

Who could have imagined giving money and weapons to our enemies? Who could have imagined abandoning our people to die in Afghanistan? Who could have imagined opening the borders to the poorer, most criminal portions of the world, indiscriminately? Who could have imagined burdening us with regulations that dissolved the economy like water into sugar?

Who the hell could have imagined the last four years? And the choir of trained seals from the traditional media, even those we thought still had a shred of integrity?

Richard Fernandez said what they’d planned for us was what we see unrolling in Great Britain, the fear stalking everyone who posts anything on social media, the trials without a chance to face your accusers: justice system by Facebook moderators. And the freezing in the dark to change the weather. The sacrificing of the vast majority of us to their implacable Earth goddess and the vague ideas of “niceness” instilled on them by the “good people.”

It’s not going to happen. Not yet, at least. We have stopped that. For now.

And it’s time to railroad. Even the normal people have seen how rotten things are. Even they got scared enough, by seeing the path we were on.

If things can change it is now. The right and the left — but not the institutional commies of the supposed right and left — are both terrified, and putting their differences aside in order to fight the monster state, the monster structures that almost devoured us.

In the desperate fight for survival, I’m willing to trust RFK Jr. to take apart the rotten core of the FDA. I don’t know if he’s willing to trust me in anything, but I suspect he’d agree with my desire to tear it all down and build smaller, more local, more individual.

And at the same time, the technology is there. We can now have private space companies, unimaginable in the sixties or seventies. We can now do a lot of things with distributed computing, distributed fabrication, and new materials that were impossible even ten years ago.

Free the people. Remove the boot of government from their pockets and their minds. Allow people to learn outside the rigid structure of the educational system that has made people stupid and blind (which arguably it was destined to do.)

Let our people go, and watch them go. There are a lot of things coming together. In four years, we could well be on Mars. Could well be. Though I don’t know where the innovations and industries would come from to make it that fast, I’m sure they are just waiting to spring up.

Stop feeding our money, our blood, our brains and our love into a machine that beats the life out of us and our country. And free the bureaucrats too, so they can do something useful for once.

We can’t know how. We can’t know from where. But we know as the barriers fall, America will rise. And the rest of the world might just watch and follow.

We’re here. We’ve been given a chance, and a little breathing space to work.

Each in your own space, tear a bit of the old, build a bit of the new. And ready your shoulders, because the world is about to drop on them. And you must not shrug. This time you must not shrug, until others grow learn and come relieve you.

Now, in this blessed time, things are coming together, half felt, in the dark, that can lead to the birth of a new and as yet unimaginable world. All it will take is blood, sweat and tears. And that we have. That we have in plenty.

Don’t look. Running along our side is an abyss so deep it would swallow all of civilization. Don’t look. Just lift up your shoulders.

It’s time to railroad. Everything is coming together. Everybody railroads.

Through virgin intellectual lands. To our future in the stars.

168 thoughts on “We Railroad!”

  2. It’s why monikers such as “Green Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution Redux” are so appropriate for what the modern left and statists seek to impose.

    Remember that Obama appointed as a key “intelligence agency” head someone who had voted for the communist party candidate for POTUS and had people who had written in praise of Stalin and Mao in key positions in his administration. Many of those carried over to the BidenHarris regime. We of course know about all the raving antisemites they gave key jobs to.

    This of course was on top of a bureaucracy that had already been captured and was controlled by globalist statists who thought that the actual constitutional branches of government exist to serve them rather than the citizens of the USA, and who thought nothing of engaging in tyranny, both petty and otherwise, simply because they could.

    Trump had to be destroyed, and they still seek to do so, because he stands against this entrenched cadre that believes that they rule over the USA and that the people serve the government, not the other way around.

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  3. a 2020 Trump would be a wounded, tired man with the whole establishment in full cry against him, a 2024 Trump is a wiser, energized man with a mandate that puts the establishment at risk. Many’s the slip twixt the cup and the lip as my mum used to say, but I’m feeling good that something might come of this. Burn it down to the ground. Sow the ground with salt.

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    1. And it appears the near-miss may have affected his character for the better. (Just realized a fictional analog would be King Richard the Lionheart in Lord Darcy’s universe – the divergence point being Richard narrowly surviving the wound which killed him in our timeline).

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      1. Evil will oft doth evil mar. Trump has certainly been purged by fire,and returned greater than before. It is like a story, isn’t it? Gandalf comes to mind carrying Narya to inspire us to resist tyranny, domination and despair.

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  5. When the topic of colonies on mars came up, my sister immediately declared that she would volunteer for the first colony ship. Her sons were astonished. “But mom, that’s going to be so much hard work, and you’re old.”

    “Yes, but I’ll get to enjoy the results.”

    They don’t understand that as mountain brats, that’s how we grew up, working hard, and then enjoying the fruits of our labor instead of having it taken from us by government fiat and redistributed to the freaking grasshoppers of the world.

    I look forward to our colonies on mars and the rediscovering of true freedom. I look forward to seeing what we can achieve when we ignore the people who are constantly on about how it’s impossible, or impractical, or any other naysaying. Humans are scary and awesome and I wanna see what happens when the hobbles come off.

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    1. I look forward to learning what the space equivalent of sailing vessels on the Atlantic that sailed to settle the Americas is going to be. The Conestoga of the stars.

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    2. Oh that sounds wonderful….

      And it would have good effects on people staying on Earth, because a frontier people can up and light out for means governments have to back off, or their tax base evaporates!

      (Which I think is why those who consider themselves the “superior class” are so against space colonization. Hard to be superior if there’s no one to order around!)

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      1. I recall a sci-fi novel from the 1960s or 70s where the environmentalists/“human rights” types were opposed to space flight, to the point of staging human-wave attacks against a launch to Jupiter, because humans needed to spend all those resources on re-greening the planet and feeding people. It had the first suicide bomber I recall reading about, a woman who murdered a US senator who spoke favorably about space exploration.

        For some reason I’ve been suspicious of everyone who opposed space exploration since then. The book made quite an impression.

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        2. I’m old enough to have seen the launch of Apollo 11. I remember Ralph Abernathy who had one of his marches on poverty to the launch site to protest spending so much money on NASA when there were poor people right here. He was interviewed on TV right after the launch and even he began with, “It was magnificent! I couldn’t help but feel special in that moment…, but now I’m back here on Earth and….”

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  6. Well said! Trump has nominated the very people that each bureaucracy has persecuted as their enemy to head them up. They scream, “We’ll quit!” and we say, “Faster! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
    The lamentation of our enemy’s women is glorious. This new movement among deluded women insisting that they won’t participate in hook-up culture anymore and won’t have sex until they’re in a committed relationship with a responsible partner, is amazing. They think doing exactly what we’ve always urged them to do will punish us! WOOT!

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      2. I suspect this is a lot like the progtards’ repeated “threat” of moving to Canada. They don’t actually have what it takes to break off and do something new. They’ll cling to their ill-gotten sinecures like barnacles and will have to be removed with scrapers and acid.

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        1. Oh, the latest thing is that they’re going to stock up and buy nothing for the next four years, to trash the “Trump economy.” I predicted elsewhere that this will last until January 23rd, when their Starbucks latte withdrawal symptoms become too much to bear.

          (Funniest thing about the one rant I saw was that xit was going to stop using that far right-wing fascist search engine – Google…)

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            1. Saw that one on Instapundit. Libs of Bluesky was the account taking the screenshot. The post that claimed that NPR had, and I quote, “spent the past 3 years pushing extreme right wing Covid denialism,” yes those were her actual words, came (assuming the screenshot is accurate) from none other than the infamous Taylor Lorenz.

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            3. Bluesky is, from all reports, what Twitter had devolved into. Without the large base of customers that Twitter had before it became a trash heap of porn, hate rants, etc. that Musk walked into (and has only partially managed to clean up). I don’t expect it to last all that much longer.

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          2. I also love how these nitwits think the economy depends entirely on them buying or not buying stuff…

            And there is NO way these idiots can figure out a single year’s worth of food storage, let alone four, between now and Inauguration Day.

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            1. Just think of everything they will need to buy to set it up! Then we all run with the cash and invest and buy and all that.

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        2. I judge it more likely than the Move to Canada or Move to Europe fits… Mostly because it doesn’t depend on Canada or anywhere in Europe being willing to take them. (Which several actually ran into the LAST time Trump was president.)

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          1. The Hollywood and H’wood-adjacent “move to” types are oddly never moving across their closest border, to Mexico. Hmph. Wonder why.

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          2. Canada would be a good choice for them; there’s this program called MAID… :twisted:

            Also, all the “Queers for Palestine” idiots could move to Gaza. Or to Yemen, for a rooftop party; “As Allah is my witness I thought they could fly!”

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        1. No.

          Not surprised either. OTOH they may learn “ghost jobs” is a huge problem. May want to wait around for a package rather than bailing.

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          1. My daughter has been looking for work since May. She can’t physically do the average retail job, and so far everything she could qualify for as a bilingual humanities graduate has turned out to be either a black hole that eats resumes or an outright scam. I think I’m going to have to spin up a freelance writing gig where I use my credentials & experience to reel clients in and she does most of the actual writing (and gets the money) to build experience and a portfolio.

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            1. My beloved and our son (who simply takes for granted that he will not be hired many places because he is white and male (also in recovery)) are working on a project involving a small business. Son to run it, father to provide starting fund, accounting and advice. Fingers crossed.

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              1. Good on both your families, Ing and Dorothy. It used to be a given that family members were supposed to be the ones positioning their younger members for success.

                No good has come from abrogating all parental responsibilities to the state from educating, feeding and so on.

                We now have young adults with no prospects and their older family members with no idea how to help launch them.

                Sad.

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                1. I want the next book to do well, so I can help the kids. That’s my main motivation for everything.
                  D*mn it. I promised to do a winter fundraiser, didn’t I? I hates it, my precious.

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            2. I feel her pain in a way. I am 58, male, White, and work in IT (testing software). That’s a lot of strikes against me right there if I need to switch jobs. And with all our department management becoming Indian in the past five years and showing incredible preferential hiring of Indians only, I get the feeling that I’m screwed if I stay and screwed if I leave. Can’t retire early (hell, probably can’t even afford to retire on time at this rate), don’t have the technical rote skills the new crop of imports have, and the fact that I can write and speak rings around them doesn’t matter at all anymore. I have been in this industry for thirty-seven years and I have lived long enough to become not only a minority, not even a dinosaur, but a dinosaur fossil. An evolutionary dead-end, if you will. And I get the feeling that my management is just looking for a reason to throw a Chixculub impact at me to finish me off.

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              1. Apply for a job for a DoD contractor, so you need a clearance. That eliminates all the H1B folks cuz u haz 2 B a citizen. Given the F-22 disaster, they could some good quality assurance guys. (That’s what they call testers in the gov’mnt.)

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                  1. The OPM hack a few years ago? The contractor hired two Chinese nationals and made them the administrators on the production database servers, and no one checked them.

                    You know, where ALL THE BACKGROUND CHECK DATA IS STORED.

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                  2. There aren’t enough asterisks to disguise all the swear words that just came out of my mouth. First Clinton and his dual citizenship crap. Now WTF, you don’t even have to pretend to be a citizen to qualify to get a clearance?!!! How do they do a background check on someone who’s spent most of his life in China? They used to ask me if I had any bonds of family or friendship with non-US citizens. Now if I talk to my co-worker, I have to say yes? I guess as long as I check the non-binary box on my “gender” question, they disregard everything else and just hand me a clearance.

                    Arrgggghhh! I need to stop. My blood pressure!

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              2. Right there with you, but I found that the credit card, banking, and similar financial industries really seem to like having people who show up at the office, can pass a background check, know what they’re doing and are quite competent and experienced so, you know, a billion dollars doesn’t get wired to a bank in Trashcanistan by accident the first time your new automation process runs in production because the wire file wasn’t formatted correctly from the customer. You may need to look at smaller community banks, credit unions, credit-card processors, those sorts of places, but your strength is experience and ability to mentor and guide the new crop in IT on work ethic, proper testing, code that never makes assumptions (for every action in my code I typically add two error checks following just so the poor sap who runs it knows what really caused the failure), and above all these industries run on technology that is proven, which means old, which means it’s not click-and-drool and you better know how to read a logfile and use a terminal emulator. There are plenty of jobs out there for folks with these talents. The down-side for the coastals is they’re mostly in the Midwest, but if Sioux Falls SD, Lincoln NE, Minneapolis MN, Dallas TX and Kansas City MO aren’t to your liking I suspect you’re where you are for a lot more than job availability.

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                1. That was my problem.

                  All the places you listed, plus other large tech areas, including *Portland and Seattle, don’t have *Log Scaling. Not a problem, as long as any position either included what hubby got paid ($50k base minimum) on my salary, or the cost of living was that much less than where we are. Not likely. The larger salary areas are also in the high cost of living areas where the math just never added up (plus other intangibles).

                  (*) Only a PNW and Alaska, mostly I-5 and coast job. Yes, Seattle and Portland are in the PNW, but nothing close enough for both of us to commute to respective job locations.

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            3. There was a reason I refused to answer online ads, use employment agencies, or answer po box ads with no company name, the last time I looked for work. Broke down and did send resume to the last, to get my last job. When they replied, it was a company I’d walked a resume into (stumbled onto them dropping off a resume at a different company I knew). Note, this was 2002 – 2004.

              Now? Most jobs are through employment agencies, both online and walk in. Six months to hire. Professional jobs or not. (If doesn’t work out for employer, they aren’t the ones letting you go. Employment agency, depending on the reason, may never “find anything”. The change is good for those looking for remote work from home positions. Unfortunately it is still “who do you know, or who knows you”.

              Son didn’t get either of his jobs by just applying to the employment agency. He got them because company employees (another Eagle out of his troop first one, second one was former supervisor at first company) had him submit to the appropriate employment agency, then the company explicitly asked for him from the employment agency. Same process was in the process when he was looking for chemistry (his degree) positions. Two companies (well lab managers) were headhunting him, helping with company targeted resumes, to submit to the company used employment agencies (neither completed. Both companies got bought out for patents, the lab managers were suddenly scrambling for their jobs. Both had to move their families out of the state to take jobs with the purchasing company.) This was 2012, and later.

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    2. Frank said

      The lamentation of our enemy’s women is glorious.

      Well yes it is but it is also ludicrous. How has the mean/median of female behavior been moved so darn far? In WWII large numbers of women (often in that late teens early 20’s demographic) girded their loins (so to speak) and started attaching rivets to aircraft, welding on ships, working dangerous munitions lines and twiddling dials in the (then) middle of nowhere Tennessee in a city that didn’t exist doing something they didn’t even understand. And the gentlemen (and I use that term loosely) are if anything worse. Yes there are still sturdy folk out there, some even flow out of the Ivy Leagues on occasion but not in the sheer quantites that once existed

      The system has made a group of intentionally fragile personalities as those that break easily can also be redirected/remolded easily. Also those crippled by early dependency on constant praise and success become quickly dependent on the “system” for their self worth.

      There is a quote often attributed to G.K. Chesterton “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” although probably not Mr. Chesterton’s the truth of this aphorism seems to speak to the failure of these crippled folk. They had chosen to believe in the Woke Gods. Unfortunately for them the Gods of the Copybook Headings have chosen to return and slain their false idols. I suspect they are now returning to their mire… poor sad creatures.

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      1. I re-watched an anime series recently. There was one character so desperate for approval she sabotaged a perceived rival, then allowed herself to be used by the Bad Guy because he told her what she wanted to hear. She turned against her former friends, killed a couple of them in battle, and refused to listen when they told her “[$Asshole] is just using you, and will dump you the instant you’re no longer useful.”

        And she was Shocked, Shocked! when that was exactly what happened.

        If your sense of self worth depends on the approval of others, they own you.

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      2. In spite of appearances, it’s not the mean/median. That’s the far tail of the bell curve, just the loud parts

        You are seeing these because they are so out there. Plus, a video of a normal woman having a normal reaction to election results would be pretty boring to watch.

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        1. Depends on where you are FM. Here in deepest blue Massachusetts it is pretty much all I see. Sadly many of these “ladies” like our governor have their hands on the reins of power here. There are clearly sixth column partisans like myself here but we tend to be under deep cover. That applies to most of New England, and pretty much any of the high population cities.

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          1. I’m in CA. Had to give a consoling hug to a friend of beloved spouse the day after, so yeah, I know.

            And I am sympathetic: I was just looking at a red/blue results by county, and one of the states that stood out with not one spot of red was Massachusetts. At least CA had other than the heavily populated coastal counties go red.

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            1. There is Red my town on the north shore went Trump the last 2 times and likely did this time. But the counties (we’re in Essex) Often have large cities with populations of blue “voters”. The districts are intentionally Gerrymandered (I live in one of the towns from the ORIGINAL Gerrymander :-) ) such that they are almost unwinnable. 6Th district where I an has come close a couple times but this time there wasn’t even an opponent for Moulton. South shore also has Red as does parts of the low population cowns West of Worcester and North of Springfield.

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              1. And for those with morbid curiosity here are the town by town results for Massachusetts

                https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/11/06/town-by-town-results-these-are-the-towns-trump-won-in-mass-including-10-he-flipped/

                My town was

                Trump (R) 3077

                Harris (D) 2549

                Oliver (L) 37

                I am kind of surprised that there were that many deluded libertarians, and no Green or Socialist votes.

                The 6th District was 39% for Trump putting it 5th with the max being the 9th at 45%. Essex County was essentially also at 39% Trump, Closest was Bristol County where Harris won by slightly over 300 votes. No Republican has won a MA county since Bush the Elder in 1988.

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            2. Same here in Oregon. Portland, Salem, and Eugene, counties were blue (and the latter two would only be 1/3 or less if that info actually available). Elsewhere, solid red.

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  8. I didn’t/couldn’t vote for Trump in ’16. My trust in any institutions was close to existing in the minus category. Honestly, I didn’t trust him and he’d been buddies with all those that turned when he got elected. The sting from the murder of the TEA Party was still fresh and I was turning away from the GOP. They were dishonest and ineffective, what was a Conservative Libertarian to do?

    I watched the antics of 2017 with some amusement, a bit of hope and an almost childlike sense of wonder. I imagined 8 years of swamp draining and though I suspected it wouldn’t make DC arid, at least we’d know where it needed attention and another sump pump or two. I used to caution folks that wanted to burn it all down and start over, but after 2020 I was holding five gallons of gas and a Zippo.

    These days, Raze The Swamp is the cry. I hope he and those aiding him show up with a Komatsu D355a, a couple M1 flamethrowers, plenty of Stihl MS 881’s. Leave nothing standing or growing. till the land, keep it divided and begin again. We’ll never need to worry about watering what we grow there. The tears being shed by lunatics is more than enough to irrigate a reborn America.

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    1. I know how you feel. I didn’t really want to vote for Trump in 2016, I actually liked Jeb Bush (shows what I know) but, even when I feel the worst about the process, I vote. And, I would have voted for a dead dog over HRC. But in 2020, and again in 2024 I voted for Trump with pride.

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      1. Trump got a lot of “hold your nose” and “not for him, but against HRC” votes in 2016 – and he really was a pig-in-a poke candidate back then. But I found it notable that the “I voted for Trump in 2016 and now I regret it!” movement in 2020 was tiny to the point of invisibility, and astro-turfy to boot.

        Or maybe it should be “Consider the curious incident of the remorseful 2016 Trump voters.”

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      2. I’ve said the same thing a number of times on Sarah’s blog. Others here have said the same. Almost the exact same reasons. In 2016 I thought Trump ran to give the democrats and HRC the win at the primary process. That he was just a shill. I was wrong. For the record, I voted against HRC, not for Trump in 2016. 2020 and 2024 I had no problem giving him my vote.

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        1. 2016, I went through the gamut of GOP wannabes, from Cain & Scott and so on. They kept falling by the wayside, so we ($SPOUSE was a recovering Democrat–even held her nose and voted for McCain) would pick another. Near the end, I was leaning towards Cruz, but some of his maneuvers didn’t sit well with me (I felt he was channeling a GOPe candidate, and some of those moves seemed very establishment), so I went for Trump by the time of the Oregon primary. Not sure the outcome was in doubt for the nomination by the time we had our primary, but I was happy with the choice.

          I used to listen to Hannity at that time, and Trump was a frequent guest. I noticed that he showed a love of America and the people in it. So, I never got the sense he was a shill. I did have the sense that the Hildabeast was going to win, but I wasn’t going to help her, even though the Portlandia fraud machine has the state sewn up.

          Never regretted my votes for DJT. (I love the “Silver Blaze” reference. :)

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          1. I voted for Trump on the advice of L. Neil Smith, Jerry Pournelle (both of blessed memory) and younger son. But only made up my mind 3 days before. And never realized how much I wanted him to win until I was so relieved the day after.

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          1. I have said here before, 2016 for me was a “crawl over broken glass to vote for a syphilytic camel over the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua” election.

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      1. Yep, same. My vote makes not the slightest difference in this stupid blue state with its urban fraud machine, but I do it anyway. This year I colored in that ridiculous little oval on that useless mail-in ballot harder than I’ve ever colored anything in my life.

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        2. Re wasted bubble-filling: Here in the Hair Gelled People’s Bear Flag Republic I am getting the distinct impression the powers in eternal power are just a bit freaked out by the 5.8 million California votes (so far) here for DJT. They obviously won, but there is a vague scent of fear in public pronouncements since the election.

          And if nothing else, such “wasted” blue state votes add to the national “popular vote” totals, about which I could distinctly hear the stutter-stop as the media and the left’s (but I repeat myself) “But he didn’t wi…” whenging died in their throats.

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          1. And we know Trump’s votes were cast by actual American citizens, with a pulse. Even the cheating Democrats don’t know how many of the ‘votes’ for Kackling Kamela don’t meet that standard.

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          2. Right, that’s one small thing that even a forlorn Trump vote in a fraud state can achieve: a landslide needs a *lot* of pebbles to become what it is. Shoving “but muh popular vote” back down their throats was a glorious thing.

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            1. “Shoving “but muh popular vote” back down their throats was a glorious thing.”

              Yes. It is, isn’t it?

              I might have laughed out loud at the possibility. Also will laugh out loud at them invoking the “out” clause scramble.

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          3. I am pretty danged certain that him winning the popular vote is why the blue cities aren’t currently on fire. I think riots are still likely, but him not only winning the popular vote, but enough to blow out any protests of “margin of error” seems to have stolen the wind from their sails.

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            1. “I am pretty danged certain that him winning the popular vote is why the blue cities aren’t currently on fire.”

              That, and a tacit understanding on both sides that the Normies are fed up with that $#!+ and won’t tolerate it again.

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                    1. I mean. There’s election officials in PA (for the Senate race) who were OPENLY AND ON VIDEO admitting that they were gonna count invalid votes anyway, and that they knew very well it was illegal.

                      These people are not smart.

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                    2. Void the votes since it was called. Lock their asses up and throw away the key, after the area citizens get their pound or two of flesh (what? too much?)

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                    3. Apparently the PA Supreme Court has told them *twice* to knock it off, and is gearing up for a third go. And the spineless governor finally weighed in with a weak “Gosh, guys, that’s not okay, you shouldn’t undermine faith in the system” three weeks after it all started (after, I expect, he determined it’s likely the court is going to win this one).

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              2. I honestly don’t think the other side actually understands that. Note that the “elites” of the democrat party are doubling down on what didn’t work, and continuing with the whole “and you are all just stupid/racist/sexist/etc” crap. There’s a few in the party who seem to have some glimmers of realization, but they’re still being shouted down or ignored (and may they continue to do so,

                The media is only backing off on it because some of them are about to lose their jobs, and they know it. (ie, Comcast buying MSNBC, suddenly they’re trying to act impartial. But not TOO impartial, mind. May it bite them in their collected a**es.)

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                1. Fetterman is the reasoned voice of sanity among the in-power class, and they are ignoring him with extreme prejudice.

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  9. I hope that we can be let go and we’ll run as far and as hard as we can.

    It’ll surprise everyone what we can do, just like how the dull and dreary ’70s became the bustling ’80s and the wonderful ’90s.

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  10. Speaking of Great Britain, The Guardian ran an article stating that farmers have been “hoarding” land, and that’s why the UK government’s new confiscatory inheritance tax on farmers is a good thing.

    I’m curious to see what Jeremy Clarkson will do about this blatant attack on farmers.

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    1. It hurts me deeply to see what is happening now in formerly-great Britain. My family came from there, my paternal grandparents recollected the place with love mixed with nostalgia, and I adored everything English. And now their ruling class hates the ruled class with bitter passion and is doing everything possible to grind them into serfdom. I’m glad that they immigrated all those years ago – at least in the US we have a better chance to fight off the hateful ruling class.

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        1. It is distressing. The whole of our basis of law comes from Great Britain and the Scottish Enlightenment. That folks are being charged anonymously without being able to confront their accusers for mere offensive statements is utterly against the traditional rights of Englishmen. Our founding fathers revolted for far less, but the rather gruff and tough Englishmen (and women) seem to have faded like the morning dew. Australia, New Zealand and Canada are no better and who would have thought that a nation founded as as prison state would have turned into such milquesops. Should we manage to save our own sorry backsides (and that is STILL in the balance) then we need to help our Anglosphere one time buddies. Canada first, its West is probably amenable to fixing. Unfortunately unless things get really bad Quebec is probably beyond rescue as is Ontario, The Maratimes as ever (for like the last 100+ years) are an absolute mess and have become dependent on Government largesse. Perhaps Argentina can help us fix Central and South America? but for the next 12 to 20 years we have far bigger fish to fry.

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          1. No. None of that will work if imposed from the outside. They have to fix it themselves. We can offer what non-military nudging we can from the sidelines but if the locals don’t want it enough to take it we can’t make them take it at bayonet point.

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            1. I had no intent to waste the effort of the military. But given the UK felt free to interfere in our elections perhaps we can pay them back? Also create Radio Free America sections for Canada/UK etc. Their state propaganda seems nearly as bad as that of the old USSR.

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              1. Sorry for misreading you initially. I agree with Radio Free Whatever (Internet Free Whatever?). As for the election interference idea, it’s a fun fantasy, no denying that.

                But the reason color revolutions have bad results is not just because they’re instigated by ill-intentioned people or stupid people, but because very few people outside the culture/country targeted understands the culture/country well-enough to be able to even vaguely predict what toppling a given regime will actually do. (Besides chaos, and usually the culture/country targetted can gin up chaos well enough on their own). And the outsiders who do end up understanding the culture/country targetted well enough to see what’s next, are generally not in a policy-making position.

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      1. I laughed so hard and loud at that epic Metalhead Megameme that Miz Kitty hunkered under the couch for most of an hour.

        Good article. Back soon.

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    2. The page seems to be memory-holed. Other places say there is still some censorship on X, and this might be one of those.

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      1. Remove the “mediaViewer” part of the URL and everything after it, so that the link ends in “status/bunch-of-numbers”. Then it will load.

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      2. Not memory-holed, X just has problems with some URLs. Specifically, depending on what you’re doing, the URL in your status bar might be a URL that won’t load for other people. Which I consider a bug, but they have other things they’re prioritizing.

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        1. The shorted version worked, as did this. Not usually a fan of heavy metal (though Sabaton is turning into an exception :) ), but this was the Chef’s kiss.

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      1. Remove the “mediaViewer” part of the URL, along with everything after it. The link should just end in “status/bunch-of-numbers”. Then it will load and you should be able to watch the video.

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        1. Yes! That works!

          Now I suppose they will get bent about having their meltdowns made fun of, then someone will make fun of that too….and so on.

          Endless entertainment for the whole family!

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          1. Speaking of which, if you haven’t seen Michelle Bateman’s tweets where she provides editing critiques of post-election melt-down videos, you should check them out. They’re fun.

            Bateman has indirectly been a topic on this blog in the past. She played Malory on the 80s sitcom “Family Ties”, which our hostess has mentioned. Despite the critiques, she’s not conservative. My understanding is that she’s a fan of Shanahan, which means that she’s onboard due to Trump’s big tent this election cycle.

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  12. I believe Title IX says that you have to set up a sports program for each sex and those programs must be equally funded. Well Universities time to stand up and do your job. So you have to set up programs for every sex, that means Tranny’s who are boys, get Tranny boys programs, Tranny Girls get Tranny Girls programs and every pro noun has to have their own programs. So all 64 variations you believe in and told us must be respected, have to have their own programs. Now let’s see how long your money lasts you lying Liberal Bitches.

    Bwahahahaha

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  13. One correction: “that they intended to release one upon us” I cannot buy. The reactions from China and from the US in the first few months after the virus leaked were totally, 100% consistent with people who’ve been caught by complete surprise. Notice, for example, how the Democrats at first claimed that Trump was being racist for wanting to shut down air travel from China. (Too late, as it turned out, but nobody knew that at the time). It was only a few months later, when they figured out that the threat of the virus could be used to set up mail-in voting everywhere and steal the election, that they all changed their tune on a dime (if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor). But the virus release wasn’t planned; if it was planned, they would have had their messaging consistent and ready to go from day one.

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    1. The Reader has trouble believing the Chinese didn’t know what happened. He did from the beginning of Covid. The Democrats were purely opportunistic.

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      1. There’s a big difference between “instantly understood it was a leak and decided to capitalize on it” and “intentionally released the virus”.

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        1. I very much doubt that the Chinese intended to release their Franken-germ where and when they did, so I will accept that the initial outbreak was the unintentional result of stupidity and incompetence, which have never been in short supply at the Wuhan bio-weapons lab. But when the commies banned travel from Wuhan to other parts of China while simultaneously shipping thousands of disease carriers to dozens of other countries, that was a deliberate act of biological warfare — or, in the absence of any announcement of hostilities, an act of state-sponsored bio-terrorism. Heads must roll!!

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            1. WPDE just did a funny thing. (Surprise!)

              We’ve all seen it repeat somebody’s comment a dozen times. Well, I just got a cascade of ‘Like’ notification E-mails for this one, all with the same time stamp. Only 5, but it’s still…funny. As in weird.

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    3. Regarding votes, the following must be done:

      1. States must be republics with electoral votes to determine all issues, governor is voted in, etc., and how state electoral college votes are voted. No more of this dictatorial democracy crap from the heavy population centers. Just like states at the federal level, every county/parish gets two (senator) + # of state congress representatives (high populations will still have an advantage, just like CA/NY, etc., now) votes.
      2. Eliminate early voting; except for demonstrated hardship.
      3. Eliminate mail in voting; except for military, or demonstrated hardship.
      4. Counts must be tallied and turned in by midnight of state time zone. Only exception is triggered recounts. Or, hey, federal level at least, state vote doesn’t count.
      5. Voter ID with current address, required.
      6. Dominion voting computers, and their ilk, are illegal.

      If the SCOTUS has ruled against any of these, reverse it, including federal interference at state level. Beyond these 6, state can handle elections however they want. But these 6 must be standard among all existing 50 states and territories, and implemented in any new future states. No exception.

      (I can dream.)

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        1. I’ll have to see which of our Oregon federal reps are republican, otherwise it will be circular filed and flushed.

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          1. I hereby give permission, especially those of you who aren’t deep blue state (still can’t believe Oregon is casting for the idiot, wouldn’t be if items #1, #3, and #5, were in place) to submit via your representatives, even to Elon and President Trump. Please. I do not need credit (besides not the first). Do It! Multiple sources!

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        2. Amen! The R Party has GOT to spend the next session on 2 crucial projects: Making the ELECTIONS trustworthy (with paper ballots ONLY, cast by ID’d citizens ONLY, counted IN PUBLIC at the polling place THAT SAME NIGHT), and assuring reliable ENERGY (mostly nuclear, with fossils reserved for applications (like transportation) where electricity just ain’t (yet) up to the job.)

          Elections and Energy must get Top Priority. There are other issues (like lawyers overrunning the ecosystem like deer), but working out bag limits and issuing Lawyer Tags can wait a bit.

          There was a recent Babylon Bee headline saying (according to my leaky memory) something like “Republicans In Talks To Determine How To Squander Congressional Majority”

          Keep the heat and pressure on them!

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    4. The Chinese videos with people “dropping dead” on the street indicate something fishy, and it’s not fish-sauce. Compare that and the “discovered” high usage of crematoria in Wuhan to the numbers from the Diamond Princess and mull it over.

      I suspect the US participants/conspirators/opportunists might have been taken by surprise, but not so much the Chinese. I can’t discount a leak/release slightly before the US side expected it, but there were signs in Summer 2019 (purchases of mass quantities of PPE by the CCP) that they had something more or less ready to go.

      I can’t remember: was the October 2019 Military Games in China a spreading event?

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      1. Freshly vaxed soldiers. I think I recall that it was a new vax being tested and it was never considered by mainstream as a spreading event however, all one needs is the hotel and hospital admissions for 2019 for the inbound air travel on the return trip that was the spreading event. There was a statical bump noticed that was reported on Twitter where I picked it up. Can’t remember who was looking in that anymore. I knew things were going south Nov of 2019.

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      2. I work on the theory the first leak was accidental, but the Party immediately went, “If we go, you go!” and, “Never Let A Crisis Go to Waste,” and began the psyops.

        And there is the possibility it hit them harder than us due to pollution, diet etc.

        Also, they gave bad treatment advice. -I remember Galaxy Jane saying she believes the course of steroids she received made all the difference in her recovery from original WuFlu, but the Chinese were recommending against using steroids as treatment.

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      3. There are hints that something was going on well before word officially went out in China. In particular, satellite photos apparently show an increase in cars in the Wuhan hospital parking lot in September (IIRC) 2019, vs September 2018. Not conclusive, but it does suggest a jump in people feeling sick that month.

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  14. Just checking, since I think it’s still afternoon in Nevada: Is the promo post still scheduled for today, or has it been pushed back again?

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        1. Kzinti are overly optomistic pushover pussycats (as long as the Puppeteers feel threatened). Now Berserkers or Moties are bad news. Bug things are a mixed bag.

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          1. Oh and lay off the Eddorians unless you have several L3 level beings with a few trillion L1 and L2 Lensman to back them up. Trust me on this…

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            1. I just reread the Lensman series via the Project Gutenberg publishing the original Astounding versions. And the originals are, on the whole, better than the paperback versions.

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              1. The paperbacks are not “the originals”? I had no idea. I’ve read that series many times. They’re in a box in the garage with 1000 other paperbacks. I’ll have to check out the Gutenberg version.

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        2. Also Daleks and Cybermen, Ryqril and Trofts. And beware the Shadows. If somebody asks you “What do you want?” don’t ask for a return to the glory days of empire!

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  17. …Way back with railroading, a train with the private car of Jim Hill (President of the Great Northern Railroad) attached was stuck in snowdrifts in a blizzard with the train crew and a section crew working to dig it out. Hill would spell each man, tell him to go in his private car to warm up and get some coffee and sandwiches while he shoveled for him. He kept it up until the train could move again. Something of Trump in him…

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  18. Dear Sarah, My calendar says it is the time to wish you Happy Birthday (11/18). I hope that is neither a malicious nor an impish computer error. If so, then Happy Belated or Prospective Birthday instead !

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      2. Physics is a bitch. Flying cars will remove those Darwin Award contenders far faster, and far more permanently, than the highways. And we’re not really at any more risk from them in the air than we are on the ground.

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  24. To pick a nit with your metaphor, the barriers to railroading before railroading time are almost entirely technological (e.g. cheap steel is required). The barriers here are entirely human (to be fair, railroads also require right-of-ways). One would think that would be easier to deal with.

    I’m not sure that’s true. Hopefully, it is, but all those iron rice bowls being broken is going to create quite the cacophony, to stretch another metaphor.

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