It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

It’s always darkest before dawn is a funny statement. Is it? The few times I’ve been awake before dawn, it was a gradual lightening, so actually it was a little lighter, though I grant you it might appear darker, in the shadows, in comparison to the growing light.

Yes, that is a fine example of how my mind works. It’s also very relevant to our situation, because a lot of the things that people freak out about in societal and political matters are only visible because we have the net, and we have social media where we can talk back (thank you Elon) and we can see how dark things are in spots because they’re getting light in others.

For contrast see Europe where they’re sleep walking in utter darkness and don’t seem to notice anything is wrong.

But that’s not the point of this post. Or perhaps it is — sorry, I slept about four hours, and once this is up, I’m going to nap — because we are now in a changed information landscape, one for which none of us, not even broadly speaking the two political sides (there’s more than that, but broadly) have any referent or any model.

Which means that you can’t really know what will result from this or that, and only fools think they do. However, due to the fact things are changing towards greater individual knowledge and information (not to mention choice) technologically, the collectivists keep getting their asses handed to them by what they think are their greatest victories.

In a way Wile E. Coyote has become their spirit animal. Their plans are ever more elaborate and infallible. And they bite the planners in the *ss every time.

I’m writing this today because of Virginia yesterday. Fraud? Stupidity? I don’t know. And yes, there will be legal cases, but– Given that and the willful stalling of the SAVE act it’s putting the midterms in jeopardy.

Which normally wouldn’t freak me out AT ALL because well, it’s two years, we’ll come back. Except that the left is so rabidly insane, two years can be near lethal, and also they’ll try to rig everything so they never lose again, and so much of our electoral map is already f*cked beyond belief. And they really are going to try to push for executions and who knows what this time.

BUT then again, they already wanted to criminalize opposition during the reign of the auto-pen. And they wanted to do all manner of horrible things to us. Mostly they managed to do horrible economic damage to the point I was wondering if we’d survive, and we’re relatively economically secure with no kids in the house. And even if they don’t steal any more elections for a while, it’s going to take a long time to come back from it. Worse if they get another turn at the levers.

On the other hand, guys, I was pretty despondent and broken after watching the 2020 election stolen. If I could go back, would I go and fix that, given the power?

Not on your life. As much as it hurt and as much as it cost us, it changed the political landscape completely. Without 2020 2024 and everything that happened since would be impossible. It was their rigging of a color revolution that revealed who they are to a point everything changed.

Will it suck living tadpoles if they win the midterms? Oh, heck, don’t get me started. I saw my beloved Colorado stolen and despoiled.

Will it be the end?

I doubt it. Their time has passed. The tech is ranked against them. And they’re snakebit, anyway. Reality fights on our side, and they can’t find reality with two hands and a seeing eye dog.

It will be tough. Horrible. But it might prove their final undoing.

Be not afraid.

It’s always darkest before dawn.

Go light a fire.

33 thoughts on “It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn”

  1. Hah, I saw your headline and was about to complain that the stupid cliche is exactly wrong, and lo, that was your point after all. (Sticks hands back in pockets. Guess I can’t complain about that, can I?)

    I agree with you about the FICUS interregnum. If Trump had merely been reelected in 2020 as he should have been, I don’t think he would have had the time and energy to see how to keep his new administration from being sabotaged by Washington insiders.

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    2. I think the crux of the issue with this metaphor is that dawn is actually a drawn-out process that takes hours, but everyone tends to picture it as a singular event, as if suddenly the sun rises and the darkness becomes light all at once. Before the dawning process begins, it is indeed very, very dark. You won’t even notice it getting lighter at first because it’s so gradual. And then there’s the wolf-light (is that the proper term? came across it in Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe novels), where you can see, but everything’s still very gray and dim, the sun won’t be up for a good while yet, and what you’ll probably notice most is what you *can’t* see yet. (No ’tisms here, no-siree; just your garden variety pedantry.) :)

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      1. BMNT. Before Morning Nautical Twilight, just before that first hint of the light of dawn appears on the horizon. AKA Oh-Dark-Thirty. AKA The time before God gets up.

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  2. With credit to J.R.R.Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien, I prefer “‘Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!’:

    “Last of all Húrin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Húrin cried ‘Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!’ Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive.”

    —J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, “Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad”

    Okay, maybe not that very last line, as the left may have the morals of a Morgoth, but nowhere near the brains or power.

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      1. I probably, nay definitely, can’t swing an axe. But I am totally up for stabbing the back of some fell being’s knee with a dagger from behind.

        I’d most likely to have already tripped over my tennis shoes and be laying on the ground anyway.

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    2. The lack of Morgoth’s brains and power can only be seen as a good thing, given what happened to Hurin after his capture.

      /sigh

      About the only good that can be said about that is that Morgoth’s curse on Hurin’s line ended up costing him one of his most capable subordinates in the being of Glaurung. I’m not at all surprised that one of Tolkiens ideas (subsequently dropped) was for Turin to eventually return and finish off Morgoth.

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  5. fren, I was just thinking that there are so many relatively novel plays being made, that forecasting the game of this cycle is beyond me. Exactly because of Virginia.

    Of course, my reaction is not entirely independent from yours. Whatever correlation between our views would tend to motivate me to continue to self select myself here.

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  7. One thing I can say is it always COLDEST right AFTER dawn. A couple years leaving for work at 5 AM tells me that.

    So even if something seems at its lowest ebb, it might be the tide has already turned but the wave hasn’t come in yet.

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  8. One of the things that’s blown my mind is discovering that the left is doing the same thing everywhere. Same playbook, same cries, everything, against wildly different cultures and peoples.

    And it has worked to date because everyone thought it was just them.

    Then there is the revelation of everything the SPLC has been finding and doing over the last several years. It is horrific, yet, at the same time, it is all jamming as many fingers in the dikes as they can manage. Same with Virginia. And the exit taxes, and everything else they’ve done over the last few years.

    At this point, I don’t think they can actually stop their losing power short of erasing, well, everyone. But I’m also not sure they wouldn’t try amyway.

    They accuse Trump of reaching for nukes when they say he is losing in Iran. Makes me wonder if it is because they would, or will, in that position.

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      1. Plus you have two groups of religious fanatics, with one group vehemently denying it (green/progressive/LBGT-whatever) and the other group proudly proclaiming it. Both, of course, plan on betraying their “ally,” as soon as they gain power.

        Lot of black-pilling going on out there. Some of it’s sincere, some of it is a psyop. Either way, hang in there. It drives both groups crazy.

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  9. That cliche was simply a bad translation of the theme from that popular song, “O amanhecer é a parte depois de ficar mais escuro.” But aside from that, you’re right – the dark side is under so much illumination lately that it’s beginning to sizzle and pop like Klaus Schwab’s snacks, and little wisps of smoke are curling up everywhere.

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  10. The lies of the Enemy come at increased pace and intensity. “Doom!” they say. Because they only win if we quit. Whatever minor setbacks they may arrange pale in comparison to what is coming for them. It will take a while. That just means you have more time to savor the screaming.

    Never quit.

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    1. I was laughing so hard yesterday. Some add, I believe on YT, for some politician or other. He said he would secure the elections by requiring an ID copy be sent with your mail in ballot!

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  12. The Reader isn’t feeling so hopeful today after finding this in the midst of all the other crap the Democratic legislature rammed through this year. Spanberger actually tried to moderate this one with the governor’s amendment process (here in the Commonwealth the governor can propose changes to a passed bill that the legislature can accept or reject. If they reject it the governor has to sign or veto). Today the legislature rejected her changes.

    “Affirmative defense or reduced penalty for mental illness, neurocognitive disorder, or intellectual or developmental disability. Provides an affirmative defense to prosecution of a person for assault or assault and battery against certain specified persons for which the enhanced Class 6 felony and six-month mandatory minimum apply if such person proves, by a preponderance of the evidence, that at the time of the assault or assault and battery (i) the person’s behaviors were a result of (a) mental illness or (b) a neurocognitive disorder, including dementia, or an intellectual disability or a developmental disability such as autism spectrum disorder, as defined in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, or (ii) the person met the criteria for issuance of an emergency custody order.”

    https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB335?

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  14. Go light a fire.

    Emperor Nero had a useful torch design. And some of the raw material will take days to use up all the potential fuel.

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  16. note that a court has ordered that the results in Virginia cannot be certified. unless the Virginia Supreme Court overrides him, it’s halted

    expect more court fun in the near future.

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