The night before last, as I tried to write the next installment in the serialized novels, I ran aground on lack of words.

For background, we were on a trip for a week, came back late on Wednesday, had to figure out medical appointments for tomorrow and have (I HOPE) resolved the insurance fight. (I hate it when the insurance tries to provide medical care instead of my doctor, you know? And it’s now the third or fourth time. Being treated by actuaries is particularly bad for Odds because, as Kate Paulk put it, we have bodies as strange as our minds, more likely than not.)

Anyway, in the midst of this stuff, the story is in my head, but words won’t come. Add a dash of ADD and stir well, and what you get is my falling into the first video or article someone sends me, and ending up rabbit holing.

Well, the video someone sent me was Razor Fist. It’s linked in the last post. And then the side bar suggested the Critical Drinker on various Disney flops and Hollywood characters in general, and then —

I have very little control over the rabbit hole, once it starts, particularly past the time at which the ADD med has any effect. So, all I could do was background think.

I’ve been getting very upset at the invasion of “Witch” stuff into cozy mysteries. Not because I have anything about paranormal mysteries, but because these aren’t mysteries in any sense of the word.

And before someone gets very upset, no I don’t want people to stop writing them — I worry about their effect on people’s minds, yes, but I don’t want people to stop writing what OBVIOUSLY has a market — I just want Amazon search to achieve the functionality of Alta Vista search in the mid nineties, and let me have exclusion words. If I can search the cozy mystery subcategory with -witch it will take care of the problem. Instead, they insist on filling my search with pages and pages of books I’m neither going to buy nor borrow. So my grrrr in the search is at Amazon. (No, it doesn’t do to remove “supernatural” — I’ve loved some ghost cozies, which have a LONG tradition.)

Anyway, my husband reads them, because… well, Dan reads everything, and at the rate he reads he runs out of “favorite” stuff and branches out. And Dan reads me passages and tells me plots as a matter of course. (It’s better than telling me movies.) Also, I’ve read a few when in dire need of words in front of eyes.

I’m a little disturbed by most of them, for the same reason I’ve been more than a little disturbed by my son’s generation preferring fantasy over science fiction.

Oh, it’s not the magic, though that’s part of it. Go too far down the reading about magic path, and you start believing you can change the world with a thought or a word. I mean, you can, sort of, but only your internal world, which causes you to see the world in a different light. You can’t actually turn frogs into princes with thought or word, though, and thinking you can is the path to madness.

What really has disturbed me was an early manifestation of what the Critical Drinker described as “The chosen one” syndrome.

And it’s part of the issue I had too with the Snow White actress’s comments that Snow White would be dreaming of being the leader she knew she could be.

We all have dreams. I dreamed I would be a bestselling writer back when I was 8 in Portugal. And in the half-formed, inchoate dreams of a little girl in a small place, who had no clue what anyone did, or how things were made and sold, it was very much “And then I’ll make them amazed with my talent, and voila!”

This syndrome wasn’t helped by my parents religious-like belief in “Talent” which yes, should be written as a capital T. I have no idea where they got half their ideas and stories, but they were — for instance — convinced that Mozart could play the piano flawlessly the first time he saw one. They thought that writers would send in their first novel, and if they were any good, it would be immediately accepted. Etc. etc. etc. It was in a way a cult of the “genius” the person who could flawlessly do things.

I can’t begin to tell you how many times they held their breath as I tried something out for the first time — from archery to music — then informed me I’d never be any good, because I couldn’t do it flawlessly first time out.

I do wonder if it’s a Portuguese thing, and if these stories are in the culture. It would explain much about the country and the culture, if they believe people are either born to do something without learning, or they’ll never do it.

Anyway, I’m very lucky I was married when I started seriously trying to write and publish, and away from the culture. I can imagine what my parents would have done at my writing book after book and story after story for 13 years before breaking in. I suspect they’d have browbeaten me into giving up.

And this is why the “Witch Mysteries” (Most of them. There are, undoubtedly exceptions) and most of the Hollywood stories of “strong women” scare the heck out of me for their influence in the culture.

So, my problem is that most Witch Mysteries are fantasy but not mysteries, not in any classical sense. You don’t give the reader clues and play fair. Not a bit of it. Instead, you set up a mystery, and then the main protagonist — almost always a woman — uses her magic to solve it.

The good ones are amusing and set up “the price of magic” type of problems, but they’re not mysteries, except insofar as there is a murder. This is sort of like calling Heinlein books a romance, because there is pair-bonding. It doesn’t hit the right mark. It doesn’t play the right music. It’s not a mystery.

Anyway, so, after Dan had read me a bunch of bits of them and I’d read a few, I pegged them as “Grown up, female Harry Potter.” Which makes a certain sense, since I suspect most of the writers are generation Harry Potter.

And Harry Potter is of course the least developed of the group of protagonists of the eponymous novel. This is not a criticism. He is the “chosen one” a perfectly acceptable role in fantasy. And he does have struggles, though maybe not enough for the role.

But here’s the thing: you cross that with the “females already have power within themselves, and just need to accept their awesomeness” ethos of our culture, and you get very bad art. Which in turn poisons the culture further.

But of course, this bad art is very popular. And the reason it’s popular is that we’ve already poisoned the culture.

First, let me point out that my last 20 years or so in traditional publishing I was protected. As much as I don’t wish to go back into the fold, Baen is still the sanest house in the field, and I can’t imagine “She’s jut perfect and flawless and things fall into her lap” would be acceptable as a main character, ever. Much less suggested and enforced.

However I hear stories and for at least 15 years it’s been verboten to create flawed female characters (or other minority or “left protected class”.) If you do, you’ll be called misogynistic and cancelled.

At the same time — I KNOW. I had kids in the school system — the schools are terrified of being the “science teacher” all female boomers complain about, who apparently told each and every one of them girls couldn’t do science. (Which amazes me, because in a much more patriarchal and misogynistic culture — a true one — I was never told that by a teacher. Not a single one. And most science teachers were male. Oh, I was told that by peers, friends, family but NEVER BY A TEACHER. Probably because I could actually do the work. Never mind.) So, girls are given all the prizes and the “Lady’s A” and positioned for accolades (positioning for success doesn’t work) and treated as if they’re already perfect and don’t need to learn. (Until they crash as young adults, because they’ve been smothered by the tyranny of low expectations. Which actually does make them incapable.)

At the same time, a girl who argues with a boy is treated as a victim, as though females were predestined to be hurt by boys their own age. Seriously, they’ll put them in counseling, and try to arrest the boy for “sexual harassment” starting at age three.

The result of this is a generation of women on psych drugs, and running from themselves.

Part of me empathizes with them. Who knows? I might have been quite good at sports, if I’d been allowed to try and fail and try again, instead of being told if I failed the first time out, I “didn’t have it” in me.

In the same way even if they’re given the grades or whatever, these girls are failing where it matters: At understanding that skills are something you build. They keep looking inside themselves and finding young, unformed people who can’t do much of anything. And then imagining that boys somehow have it easier. And of course, little boys already have Svengali like powers to hurt them irreparably by calling them poopy-faces or telling them they’re bossy. Because casual playground insults are super serious and determine your course of life.

So, of course, they like reading these non mysteries, where women with amazing powers can do anything by waving a wand. It’s a way to self-soothe their sense of failure.

But at the same time builds on it.

And before you tell me that Heinlein too had chosen ones — waggles hand — kind of, but not really. His characters go through black moments and breaking points, and never get good at some things. A lot of them are bad at math, for instance. And others have friends who are better at what they most wish to do.

But more importantly, struggling and learning is portrayed, however abbreviated for narrative reasons.

The inability to create realistically flawed characters who have to work for what they want does nothing but inject into the culture the poison of the cult of the flawless genius. Which none of us is, being human.

And no, not blaming the Witch Mysteries for that — that’s just a symptom (and some of them are good, again) — but yes, blaming the horrible movies of the last couple of decades.

Perhaps it’s a good sign they tend to tank. Perhaps instinctively they strike us as wrong.

We need more stories of people who struggle, even if they have a knack or an ability. More stories of people who fail, early and often on the way to future success.

And fewer stories where “easy wins” are a sign of being chosen.

That’s not how the world works. The win that’s too easy is often hollow and can’t be sustained.

Of course you can’t make struggles as realistic as in real life. Stories are abbreviated and more dramatic than reality.

However no one, no sex, no race, no orientation, no culture should be exempted and have all their members portrayed as flawless and perfect.

Humans aren’t perfect. I doubt aliens if they exist will be perfect either.

Man (and yes, woman too, for those lacking in ability to read by inference) was born to strive.

Everything else is a lie and a road to nowhere.

Three things to point out before I start the post:

First, the left is acting as though it could lose this coming election. Maybe it’s just their fear and their guilty conscience and they really have it sewn up anyway. This is possible.

Second, if DeSantis were nominated I would of course vote for him over Biden. Yes, I have very profound doubts about him, mostly proceeding from the reason people desperately want him. No, not the reason they say. The reason they REALLY want him, with desperate longing to get him in the presidency. Because he can’t do what they need him to. It’s not in the power of any human. And if he tries, he’s not even going to be a caretaker president. He’s going to be a cork rammed down over the national problems which will keep growing behind it. And the blow up will be epic. (For the record, I’ll vote for anyone against Biden, except Pence and Christie, because we already have Biden. I mean having someone with an R after his name do everything the left wants doesn’t benefit anyone.)

Third: I don’t think anyone but Trump has a chance in h*ll. It’s the name recognition. That was the main reason Trump won in 16. And now he has more.

It’s all very well for us political wonks to whine and b*tch that this one does this, that one does that, but 90% of the time, the reason the incumbent wins is that the people who only think of the election ten days before the vote go with the name they know. That’s it. Yes, it’s a deranged way to vote. Were you under the impression most humans were sensible?

I also want you to rid yourself of the “but Trump is unelectable.” I don’t normally quote Razor Fist, but you really need to watch this, because what you’re saying is literally insane. It is equally insane and laugh out loud stupid the idea the left is going after Trump with everything they have because they want him to be nominated because “he’ll lose.”

He might very well lose. Again, it’s quite possible, not to say probable the fraud is unbeatable, since no one would run the campaign they did in 2020 if they didn’t KNOW that on the basis of fraud alone, they had more votes than Trump got in 2016. I want you to contemplate that. It has to be true, because there’s no way they’d leave that to chance.

Now, that’s a “margin of fraud” no one could beat. And yet Trump did. He got more votes the second time around. Which meant they had to fraud at the last minute, in front of everyone.

Which brings us to: Yeah, could happen again. But if it does, it was going to happen to anyone else. (I want you to write that inside your eyelids so you see it every night when you close them. Because it’s the truth.)

“But he has changed.” “He wasn’t an ideal president” “He– He– He–” You can’t tell me more people have doubts about him than they did in 16 when some of us decided to vote for him hours before, and some never did, because we had no idea what or who he was as a president. He’s much more of a known quantity and less scary.

“But he let them lock us down” “He endorsed the vaccines” “He made horrible choices in people to serve in his administration.” Ah. Yes. Now spin it for anyone else in that position.

The thing about our administration is that it runs on credentials and “experts”. That’s the legacy of FDR. Anyone remember the screaming when Bush fired some people? Yeah. Do you think Trump could have FIRED THEM ALL? Well, he might this time. But not back then. Even he didn’t know the full extent of what he was up against. And if he did, he would not be able to hire new, functional ones. Why not? Because they have to have the right credentials and be approved of or they’ll be “got” on procedure (Steve Bannon has entered the chat.)

As for letting them lock us and the vaccines…. yeah. I know people on the right with Phds who fell for both and the masks too. Heck, I know people who are MDs. And don’t you go pretending a lot of you didn’t come to the comments to scream at me, crazed with COVID fear.

And even then, Trump didn’t lock us down, and he didn’t make the vaccine mandatory. Instead he forbore to tell the governors what to do, which, yes, allowed some of them to go full Hugo Boss uniform and shiny boots (Jared Polis really is too fat for the look. But he would do it, what can one do except advise him?) But that was perhaps more than anything a witness to Trump’s respect for the constitution. He is not, after all, as we all feared he would be, a democrat.

Anyway, so, no, I don’t think Trump rendered himself unelectable for doing what any other president would have done.

Now is he what I would want? Is he the perfect choice?

Are you kidding me? I mean, what are the chances he’ll cut 9/10ths of the federal government and have the worst offenders whipped through the streets till the blood runs freely? What are the chances he’ll disband the FBI and salt the Earth where the Hoover building is?

Not high. No, he’s not the perfect, ideal candidate. Much less is he — as the left amusingly seems to think — some kind of Svengali that holds us spellbound.

In the boundary of possible, I’d prefer Rand Paul, frankly.

But that’s not in the realm of choice. Of the choices offered? Trump will do. I hope he will do. I hope he’s learned something of the treachery of the deep state and the rest of the so called GOP. I hope he goes in prepared to do everything he can to lift our tyranny of bureaucrats.

But that’s all we can do. Hope. If anyone has a chance, it’s him. The rest doesn’t matter much, because we’re not making a presidential candidate to order. As always, we will hope G-d have mercy on the United States of America, because we’re going to need it. But we would under any administration.

Trump has the best chance of winning, and there is the barest of possibilities he has seen the elephant and is ready to shoot it if it goes mad again.

Which brings us back to why a good number of people, even good, reasonable people desperately want someone else, anyone else. Preferably someone with “a different style.”

I find it somewhere between understandable and pitiable.

It always boils down to “Someone else will be more presidential” Or “Someone else will not get the democrats so riled up.” Or the equivalent.

As the people who came here to yell at me that I wasn’t taking Covid seriously enough (Pfui) because we were all going to die, these people think that if only they can elect someone else, the someone else will make the democrats go back to “acting nice” and to behaving as the person speaking perceived them to be before Trump.

The pitiable part about this is twofold: First they have completely forgotten, apparently, that Pierre Delecto, practically a democrat, was called Hitler, and the most appalling things said about him. And that George W. Bush, a “Christian socialist” by his own admission, was attacked and slandered and brought the Democrats to the verge of an apoplexy at least as much as Trump. Oh, sure, the Democrats hadn’t started the lawfare two step. They learned that trick to attack, cause to resign and destroy the life of Sarah Palin, herself, lest we forget it, no party woman, but one who crossed the isle and shook hands which is why she was selected by McCain.

Trump is not the cause for the Democrats going unhinged. They’ve been going more and more unhinged and desperate since the Soviet Union fell.

The truth is most of them were for a kinder, gentler communism. They really thought that “communism with an American face” would be the perfect system, and everyone would love it. No? Read the old science fiction. That’s what all the writers — most leftists — were depicting.

But the fall of the Soviet Union removed the star they were tacking towards. Also a lot of their pocket cash. And Clinton’s fast patch on it, to make it more like China’s frankly fascist regime is breaking apart. And the kids they carefully indoctrinate eventually find out communism hasn’t worked anywhere. Also, a lot of them probably know exactly or close to how much fraud they’ve been committing. The “luminaries” they attract are either insane or dumb as rocks. The control they exert over things like social media keeps having to be stronger and crazier. And everything they try to do slips through their hands.

They thought they had it all sewn up for Al Gore, and then W won. And it wasn’t supposed to happen. They were supposed to rule forever. (Which also tells you how amazing the fraud was back then.) They got back in the saddle with Obama, though I still wonder how legitimate his wins were. To be fair, at least he looked plausible.

Then Hillary…. They’d been waiting so long for Hillary. I mean, I remember a cottery of writers and editors back in 2000 at the Nebulas talking about how long they’d need to wait for Hillary. And Trump — brash, not even a politician Trump — took it from her, when they were so sure that they’d already arranged for the transition with her. (That too speaks to the vast amount of fraud.)

So, now? Maybe they have it sewn up, but they’re scared, jumping at shadows, convinced that Trump — frankly shoved to the head of an existing movement — is some kind of Svengali, and if they only destroy him, they will rule forever.

Frankly, the shakiness of China is making them even crazier. There’s a lot of money they might not get, not to mention other kinds of help. What kinds of help? I don’t know. I know that when the Soviet Union fell, the left got mighty shaky until China replaced it (but not as well.)

And here we are. The left — the true left, which cannot be more than 25% of the population, judging by how much they need to fraud, and how sure they are of wins — is unhinged. And a lot of them still have a lot of power.

They will stop at nothing to enact revenge on everything and every area they control. Look at what they’re doing to cities in their power. They will stop at nothing. Only they know how little they are wanted and the extent of fraud. And judging by their ravening hatred and destruction, it must be fraud all the way down.

They’re going to get worse. They’re going to hurt us very badly before things can be set right. And note I’m not counting on Trump making much difference one way or another, whether he’s elected or not. He might. There is a tiny chance he might. But it’s highly unlikely.

Mostly, the die is cast. The machinery is in motion. The left, having lost its messianic certainty is desperate. Desperate cults will kill their adherents and their perceived enemies in batch lots.

We can all feel it coming, except those who are very clueless or very stupid. Even the optimists feel it, they just refuse to believe it.

Meanwhile, there is a loud group of otherwise sane people who just “want it to go back to normal.”

It’s not going to happen. Or rather, it’s not going to happen till the other side of this.

No president elected will get us to the other side dry-shod. We haven’t been given a Moses who can part these waters of fire.

Not a single one of them will make the Democrats sane as they appeared to be before.

Part of this is that they were never sane. They were simply in control of the media and could make themselves appear as the reasonable, sane ones. Don’t believe me? Read Amity Shlaes The Forgotten Man. FDR would be perfectly at home in today’s Democratic party. He just could hide it, because the mass media was by and large democrat. Not a conspiracy but a prospiracy.

Now Trump has finished removing their masks. Love him or hate him, it would have happened anyway, the next time they were thwarted.

And no one can save us from what’s to come, no matter how “presidential” and “calm” he is. Nothing will make the democrats sane again. Not until they are deprogrammed from their cult, and the scales fall from their eyes. Or they die, which given the age of their leadership is not so far distant.

Until then, we’re stuck in here with them. Then again, they’re stuck in here with us.

Lying to ourselves about their intent and beliefs, their tactics and ideas will do nothing but well…. lie to ourselves and leave us unprepared for the sheer storm of crazy they’re about to unleash.

We don’t need to add to it with delusion and wishful thinking.

The only way out is through.. Let us get through this clear eyed. It’s going to suck like a mother. But there might be hope on the other side, for those who see it.

Ignorance is not Bliss By David Bock

For those that think high school students protesting things they don’t understand is anything new, back in the mid-1980s I experienced my fellow students protest the forming of a military history club. This happened at one of the most prestigious science high schools in New York City.

We were called vile names, our meeting posters were vandalized or destroyed, and the other members of the club and I were harassed on and off school grounds.  All of this was based on ignorance of what our club was about.  Not, as they would have had you believe, in the glorification of war, but in the exploration and preservation of military history.

However, after the first few meetings, the protesters lost interest and the “Military History Enthusiasts Club” met without incident for the rest of my time at that school.

Keep in mind, nothing happens in a vacuum.  Today’s ignorant high school students become tomorrow’s ignorant voters and next week’s ignorant politicians.  These ignorant politicians, supported by those ignorant voters, pass ignorant laws.  Perpetuating the cycle of ignorance and further marginalizing law abiding gun owners.

In the mid-1990s I attended a lecture at Sienna College discussing the proposed federal firearms ban.  The presenter who supported the ban was smooth and charismatic and pushing the same false facts we all know so well now.  He used talking points like “a pistol grip makes it easier to shoot from the hip” and “these weapons serve no purpose but to kill children.”  The college students attending ate it up.

Back then, there was no internet to check facts.  These were new talking points and clear counters for them were still being developed.

The pro-gun rights presenter, on the other hand, arrived late, was unprepared, flustered, and made a hash of the whole thing.

Not our finest hour.

The late-1990s were kind of interesting as a gun owner in New York.  With the burgeoning hysteria about Y2K I had some mildly anti-gun friends come to me for advice on buying their first gun so they could defend themselves when the system collapsed.

I did not ridicule them or dismiss them.  I wasn’t even tempted to do so.  I gave them the best advice I could and offered to take them to the range with my guns before they decided on what to purchase.

Of course, most of them never followed through and the world didn’t end on January 1 2000.  However, a few did become gun owners and after their experiences with the New York legal process, some of them even transitioned to the pro-gun position.  So learning is possible.

Fast forward to early-January 2017.  I was at a wedding reception for a lesbian couple I know.  They had decided to get married because they were concerned that President Elect Trump was going to ban gay marriage after he was sworn into office.

During the reception I was sitting at a table surrounded by good friends.  Some of whom I had known for many years.  Suddenly, one of them called me out as a member of the NRA, implying that this was somehow something shameful.

She then went of a several minute, fact free, rant about “assault weapons” and the need for more and stricter firearms laws.

My response was to tune her out, let her rant, and when she was done I started a conversation about movies or food or something equally innocuous.

Could I have handled this differently?  Of course I could have.  Would it have been productive? I don’t think so.

I could have countered each of her statements with facts.  I could have referenced data from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services, the FBI, the CDC, or some other reputable source. 

However, considering the Gish Gallop of misinformation, false data, and CNN talking points, I would have needed a page or more of notes so I could address each point in turn.

Had I done this, I would not have changed her opinion, nor the opinions of others at the table who were nodding sagely in agreement with her statements. What I probably would have done was set some of them off and caused anger and bad feeling around the table.

I have more respect for the newlyweds then to cause that, so I kept my mouth shut and let it wash over me.

To quote Doctor Thomas Sowell “It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”

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Before I start this, let me explain that “stupid” is not meant to cover “nonintellectual”. There is a tendency among those of us who are good with words to consider anyone lacking that facility “stupid.”

For years Dan and I joked that each of our colleagues thought we’d married someone mentally deficient. I, because Dan is often not verbally fluent (though fluent in writing. Younger son has same problem), his because I can’t do big math off the top of my head.

But even beyond that, I’ve known a lot of blue-collar manual workers who were genuine geniuses. What they weren’t was intellectual. They would solve weird problems in machine maintenance or household organization in a blink, where I plain couldn’t, but when it came to reading some abstract article, they just couldn’t.

Those people aren’t stupid. They’re just not experts on what you are.

There is, however, genuine “stupid.” Like iron class dumb, who cannot solve anything, or think its way out of a paperback, even a very soaked one.

I submit to you that even before he was senile, that’s what Biden was. ROCK BOTTOM DUMB. Yes, possessed of a certain amoral cunning, but note he took payments from places and people no one would half a brain — let alone a moral code — would.

I submit his lack of moral code comes from his ABJECT stupidity.

When you’re that dumb, you are always surrounded by people who are talking “above your head.” And because each person considers him or herself “average” such persons assumes that the people talking above their heads are doing it on purpose. They are being mean, in befuddling our dunce.

Over time, this turns into hatred of everyone smarter, which is to say almost everyone.

I’m not saying Biden is alone. But I’m saying since the left started hiring and promoting based on ideology, not competence, they’ve been going lower and lower on the intelligence scale.

Until now only the Biden administration remains. A concatenation of very evil people whose only saving grace is not being able to think through second order effects. Or sometimes even first.

And all of whom are convinced the rest of the country, aka most normal human beings, are deliberately confounding them.

They hate us with a burning passion, yes.

May the Lord bless us and keep us. This is the shape of the trouble we’re in.

Sorry, was out of pocket all day. Not near a keyboard. Will try to do post tomorrow, but can’t make any hard promises. If all else fails, I’ll do it on Tuesday, I promise.

I think yesterday some of us got a very bad shock. Not what the left thinks. We knew they were deranged enough to arrest Trump for…. doing exactly — and far less obnoxiously — what Hilary did in 2016. But almost all of us had one person, that remaining moderate leftist in our lives who were suddenly filled with glee and couldn’t stop celebrating, as though unaware that the door they opened leads to destruction and death unless a miracle happens.

Let’s be clear here, this is not about Trump. Not for me, not for most people on our side. (Though I’ll also admit seeing the orange-plated-son-of-a-bitch show up on twitter immediately after and post his mug shot did my heart good. Because, well, that’s so American. It’s cocking a snook in the face of a dangerous enemy. It is, after all, us all over. He’s of us, and he’s not going down without a fight. More on that later.) But if our side had conducted war on Obama all through his presidency — for the idiots on the left, no we didn’t. Satire and critical articles isn’t war. Undermining his bureaucracy, countermanding his orders in military matters, and conducting an investigation on the basis of various delusions and made up crap? That would be conducting war on him — and then continued lawfaring him as he was running again? I would hope to G-d I’d have the foresight to be scared and worried. Even if I thought he was the devil. (He’s not. He’s just the devil’s buddy. What? Have you seen his friends.)

I know this gets quoted a lot, From A Man For All Seasons:

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”

But that quotation is still apt. The left in power feels safe doing this, because they think we will never be in power. They think they’ll be in power forever, via massive, pervasive fraud. Sing me no songs of “don’t fall for that” I was sounding the alarm when no one was, after I saw it in action after poll watching in 2012. And when I saw the Potemkin campaign Biden ran in 2020? Just enough to make it look like there was a campaign, to justify the win? I knew the fraud had been amped up through the roof. As it was in my beloved, lost Colorado, when they instituted vote by fraud mail immediately after they won a bare majority through the extraordinary fraud I saw going on under my nose.

And now they think they’re secure, having forgotten the lessons of the age of revolutions, which is that if you don’t let the people have a say in their government, they’ll seize their say violently. (And honestly, in our mother-culture it was always so. English history is more thickly strewn with kingly executions and assassinations and succession wars than any other European country. It always amuses me that the French do it once and get a bad rep while we do it all the time and then forget it.)

What they’re doing bodes badly. The reaction of their co-religionaires is worse.

As a friend of mine recently said, pertaining to the weather in his area, right now “There’s nothing between us and the gates of hell, but a chain link fence, and it’s down some places.”

I confess I went to bed with a sense of pervasive doom and calamity incoming. The fact we had another cat death in the family this last week isn’t helping, no.

But I woke up this morning with something that’s not hope, nor exactly comfort, but a sense we will survive. America will somehow survive this and come back to herself.

Yes, we’re going to have to march through hell, barefoot, clutching what is precious to us and everything we want to keep. Yes, in a way, we will all die in this. Not physically. Hopefully not physically most of us. But what comes out the other end won’t be the we that we’re now. Just like the we we were at the end of 2019 is dead. If we’d known what lay ahead, that New Year’s party would have been a memorial for what we used to be. But we’re still here. We’re beaten, scarred, a little mad and very angry, roaring back at the tsunami of lies and the hurricane of oppression trying to beat us down. In the same way we’ll still be here, when this washes out, but each of us will be different. Going through hell changes you.

But we will come back. America will come back.

All those of you who say the Republic is dead and America is dead. If that were true Woodrow Wilson would have killed us. FDR would have killed us. If America were that fragile, it wouldn’t be worth fighting for.

The Republic is occupied by its enemies, who are doing their best to destroy our visible laws and institutions, convinced that if they do that they’ll end America.

As always, the left confuses the wrapping for the gift. America is not institutions that can be seized by the fraud of evil men. America is not the force of her armies. America is not suborned unjust judges.

America is an idea, codified in her founding documents. America is her people, with an habit of mind that is rooted on liberty, an inability to suffer oppression gladly, and a certainty that all men were endowed by their creator with certain inalianable rigths, among which are the right to Life, Liberty And the Pursuit of Happiness.

The Republic is oppressed, but it is still here, as long as we remember and know what it’s supposed to be. And she will come back. She must come back, because she is that last, best hope of mankind.

So wipe your tears, stop yelling back at the storm of sh*t. Go put back up those sections of the chainlink fence that are down. Where you are, in the measure possible to you, resist unjust orders, refuse to obey their insane and genocidal commands — hey, have you considered a gas stove? — plant a garden, build a green house, start raising hens, do what you can to secure the food supply they’re trying to destroy. Don’t wear the masks. Don’t eat the bugs. Refuse to be moved off your property. Go for a drive with your spare (ah!) cash. Love your kids. Have kids. Teach them the founding documents, and why America is special. Rise the flag (the left recoils from it like the vampire from a cross). Buy a t-shirt with “no step on snek”. Buy another gun. (And take it for a canoe trip, of course. Guns love water excursions.) Go to the range this weekend. Take your wife to the range. Take your husband to the range. Take the kids to the range. Write a subversive tract. Have a steak dinner. Put on Rich Men North Of RIchmond, and sing along. Sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. Loud enough for the neighbors to hear. Make love to your husband/wife. Pet your animals. Be happy. (They hate that.)

The good thing about the totalitarians in power and their fetishistic and pervasive rule is that so many things upset them. We’re spoiled for choice of resistance means.

Do them all. Do as many as you can. Sometimes all at once.

And when they scold you, laugh in their faces and offer to buy them a ticket to the grey, dingy socialist “paradise” of their choice. If you can’t afford the ticket, we’ll start a gofund me. Tell them we’ll help them pack and give them a farewell fruit basket.

We’re Americans. Boot on our face? Ah! We won’t stay down long enough for them to do that. We’ll bite a chunk off the boot twist their ankle till it breaks, and then throw them over as we stand.

It’s going to chaotic. It’s going to be bad. Going through hell is not a picnic. The only way out is through.

We don’t know where and when things are going to go South, but it will be in places, and at certain times, but not everywhere at the same time.

Be prepared. Be nimble. Be aware of your surroundings.

Keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

And be not afraid. Above all be not afraid. Yeah, we’re going to go through hell. Well, hell ain’t seeing nothing yet. It might not survive America.

America hasn’t gone anywhere. The Republic is still here. And we’re doing pretty well for being occupied. And we’ll do even better when this present unpleasantness is done.

The dead end doctrine of socialism-communism is done. It was never very convincing. It can’t survive outside carefully controlled mass communications. Its time is past.

America? America will survive and dance on its grave.

Go fix the fence. And G-d bless you.

Abbreviated Elements of How Democrats Have Ruined Everyone’s Political Prospects

by Bob the Fool

The fundamental issue is that the Democrats have deeply screwed themselves and everyone else over when it comes to dispute resolution.

Succession to a kingship becomes a more fraught issue a) the more power that the old king had b) the more that people fear that one of the potential new kings will be a crazier asshole to them.

The purpose of the American election system and the American formal legal system is in part to avoid all of the eternally returning ills of succession wars.

There are four ways that the current mess screws over everyone.  A.  Making the formal legal system look credible in terms of criminal conspiracy to defraud the public.  B.  Publicly impeaching the credibility of the elections, and making addressing issues seemingly impossible.  C.  Frauding in a shell of a man, who can additionally be seen as a democidal psychopath.  D.  Attempting to deny citizens of any recourse from the caprice of the tyranny.

JFK may well have stolen the 1960 election, but he was less obviously malicious towards Americans then Biden seems to be now.

Every element of this smells of communism.  Communists are zero sum-ers, who see destruction on every path to their goals.  They have no peace in them, and they give outsiders little hope for negotiating an end to communist depredations.

Basically, this is outside of the scope of what the constitution was designed to resolve, and is able to resolve.  Constitution was designed to help resolve disputes of a just, moral, and religious population.  A large enough sub population that is amoral, unjust, and outside of religious practice as the founders understood it is outside of scope.

There are basic questions of security in lives and property in this dispute, that create uncertainty about how little people have left to lose, and to how much they will retain even if they submit.  Policies involved include covid, gun grabbing, climate change and ‘environmental’ constraint of food supply, protection of domestic terror soldiers, importation of foreign terror soldiers, and being investigated for terrorism for speaking criticism of school operations.

This amounts to a dispute between two or more sub-populations each with deeply internalized views.  The communists are troubled by Christians, Jews, etc. not jumping to comply the way that the Outer Party does.  The Christians, Jews, etc. are troubled by the pointless destruction and efforts to interfere with practice of faith.  The Christians and Jews pray.  The communists look for ways of ‘expressing power’ that will make the Christians and Jews turn away from the God of Abraham, and bow down to wind up golden statues.

There are still more available potential remedies than violence.  But it increasingly seems like violence might be a remedy worth its costs, compared to costs of not seeking remedy by violence.

There are two problems essential to remedy by violence.  One is that once continuing violence starts, it is unlikely to end before sufficient communists are dead.  Two is that it will necessarily anger people, inspire more dispute, and then that it may be difficult to come to a peace deal agreeable to all survivors, which all parties will deliver on.

Democrat impeachment of Trump makes the theoretical powers and responsibilities of the presidency even more central to the meta dispute.  Miley’s potential interdiction of Trump’s communications means that we cannot have complete confidence in the total mistruth of the Democrat claims.  We can be confident in partial mistruth of Democrat claims, because Democrat claims are incompatible with the Constitution, and with any reading of Lincoln vs. Davis that is not a pro confederate reading.  In particular, if a state of insurrection existed, the Presidency’s executive power can be used to authorize the unorganized militia to act.  There was no insurrection, and it is unlikely that Trump tried to or wanted to authorize the organized or unorganized militia.  Miley makes it impossible to be confident in this conclusion, because of the precedent of Lincoln authorizing the organized militia through the Department of War.  If Democrat claims are partly true, then the Democrats who voted for Pelosi on Jan. 3. 2021 for the 117th Congress should have been barred from being seated during the 118th Congress currently in session.  This creates significant ambiguity of law, that can only partly be mitigated by Trump serving another term as President and thus by his actions confirming a lack of intent to suppress insurrections on January 6th.

It is quite possible that peaceful courses of remedy may be sufficient to address these matters.  However, a great many persons in a great many offices have contributed to mishandling events.  Peaceful resolution going forward is likely to involve a great many persons, in some of these same offices, carefully and slowly over many years not further violating the norms and not further undermining trust.  Some of these ‘offices’ of ‘power’ or influence are private or semi-private offices, that are currently apparently being held by idiots and destroyers.  Replacement of these persons is a goal that a suitable president would not substitute for.  Changing these persons for other persons is sometimes still open to the public, whether by formal or informal means.

The presidency has some applications to peaceful remedy, but is one necessary element of one of the violent means of addressing the dispute.

If the remedy is one of violence authorized by a president, of hanging many communists, then the public will expect a reinstatement of peace, which will involve resignation by politicians which have taken responsibility for carrying out the executions.  A presidential candidate who is adequately prepared for current circumstances is also prepared to have a fairly early end to their political career.

So, there are basically a few more obvious possibilities with regard to current Republican candidates, based on their plans.

1. Establishment, is planning to resolve things by selling out to the Democrats, and is a moron who fails to understand that nothing delivered to the Democrats will satisfy the Democrats, or stop the Democrats from hammering at people.

2. Is planning to resolve things purely by peaceful means.

3. An actual potential second Lincoln.

Baked into this round of seeking nomination is that a) Democrat perseceutions and censorships mean that no potential Lincoln would be tolerated running on being a second Linoln b) establishment selling out means that many candidates are reasonably suspect as establishment sell outs.  Furthermore, failure to understand that calculus of points 1, 2, and 3, and of public expectations, would itself be a fourth and disqualifying level of planning and preparations.

The Democrats are not willing to let Trump be, he is riding the tiger and cannot get off.

Every other contestant has that strike against them, that they could wait, and the strike of not being able deliver on the Trump third term element of peaceful resolution.  If they do not see those two strikes, too stupid to qualify.

There is a critique of DeSantis, that for one test of making the replacements to allow for peaceful remedy, that he has not yet replaced at least 5 of the 6.  I infer that he is thus establishement.  The defense was made of DeSantis that my preferred level of remedy seeking is currently necessarily politically suicide.  My feeling is that ‘political suicide’ is currently an inherent risk of presidential scale politics, and that a seriously risk averse politician should be willing to wait and let Trump take some of the damage by serving another term first.

The fifth plan is to let Trump go first, but use the opportunity to sharpen him by pettily holding him to account for all of his screw ups.

The cost of this plan is that it would be four more years of opportunity for new governors to make progress towards peaceful resolution, as well as for a potential Lincoln to better position themselves for that. It is immensely costly in opportunity for any governor who currently seems relatively good, but who also has establishment ties and perhaps sympathies.

A politician whose plan is more establishment selling out is the only one who fails to take a great deal of scrum into account.  Planning for such scrum includes pricing Trump comments into things.  Appeals to ‘muh gravitas’ are inherently invalid for any of the plans besides establishment sell out.  Thus, those who are already appealing to ‘muh gravitas’ can go frustrate themselves.

Trump’s comments are because DeSantis is using proxies.  The choice of proxies to me sounds a great deal like the ones an establishment candidate would choose.  See ‘Mike Miller’ at Red State.

Peaceful remedies are preferable.  Constitutional remedies are preferable.  It is not clear that they are possible, nor will it be theoretically clear before the remedies are actually in place, and the disputes are again mostly resolved.

Post Script on the Intellectual Forecasts

I am greatly frustrated by all of the theoretical discussion which fails to give appropriately measured weight to a) Democrats have pretty badly screwed us by creating a difficult situation b) there is absolutely hope and the theoretical status quo is badly bankrupt, because many of ‘our’ theoretical spokesmen got us into the problems by being willfully blind.  Any given theoretical explanation of a specific remedy is suspect. 

Additionally, we should not first be taking counsel of trust in theoretical models, because the opposition is a cult of theoretical models.  We should not first be looking to aggregate scale type answers, because the opposition is a cult that drives themselves nuts by obsessing about aggregate conclusions or guesses.  One of the first steps to dealing with opposition information warfare looks a lot like ‘seeking spiritual remedy’ or ‘trusting in The Lord’, because we internally search for the Enemy’s hooks in us, try to remove them, and try to understand reality in light of having removed those hooks.  The results of this industry are emotional, and become quite difficult to express in terms of purely intellectual theory.  When you do express them in those terms, they very easily become a trap for the unwary.

Fundamentally, tertiary education is a major center of gravity here.  Something like 60% have bachelors degrees, 30% have masters degrees, adn 2% have doctorates.  The insane and out of contact with mainstream American culture producing the ‘scholarly’ results foundational to one side of these disputes is at the very most 2% of the population.  In practice, it is a great deal fewer than 2%, because of a combination of discrimination in hiring faculty and in awarding tenure, and because of self selection by scholarly minds, who may conclude that either studying their problem of interest makes sense outside academia and no sense inside of academia, or that they will never be hired and retained for any faculty position, so that trying for such career is stupid.  (The idjits who whine about 1% or 2% of wealth, and who are cheerfully silent about rule by a 2% of formal education can go frustrate themselves.  (Modern tech has allowed, even when limited by leftist lawfare, a great and unusual amount of wealth, which combined with wealth of information makes independent scholarship far more practical than it previously was.))  The general assumption is that you invest, or waste part of your life on, a formal education, and then it ties you to a career path, the one it lets you start.  Establishment theory intellectuals may be rote, have probably gone to university, may consider themselves deeply tied to the ‘conservative intellectual’ career path, and may be frightened of losing that career and of having to start another from scratch.

These would be the last people to have an accurate explanation if they have screwed themselves over by too obviously collaborating with Obamist Democrats to preserve the Bush faction inside the Republican Party. 

Appendix: Notes on questions considered too briefly.

1. JFK’s margin of ‘victory’ includes states where the Democrats may have been murdering to suppress the Republican vote.  JFK ran on a pro segregation platform, to appeal to people who may have stolen elections by such means.
2. The mainstream narrative is that the parties ‘switched places’.  It is not clear that this ever actually happened.
3. Modern historical narratives are carefully curated to ignore that the Democrats who implemented Segregation and Jim Crow had a massively partisan grudge against the Republican Party, and understood those policies as serving a partisan goal.  The story often told is purely of racism, and no other motivations for the political actions are provided. 
4. Even if the murders with official sanction had ceased, people may have believed them still possible, and might have thus not cast a ballot for a candidate of their choice. 
5. The integrity of the 1960 election is in doubt.
6. Soviets may have murdered JFK.  Possibly to try to kill the space program. 
7. I’m angry about many of these basic questions of security, and more.  I may have more to say in other essays in the future. 
8. Civil Wars suck.  They really really suck.  Once started, very difficult to start a really binding peace again. 
9. The test applied to DeSantis may be expanded on later, in another essay, for incumbent Republican Governors.  This is about the letter signed by many Law School heads on January 12, 2021.  Paul Caron, a Republican I now realize to be Establishment, bragged about signing this letter as a head of a law school.  This was one element of my becoming extremely disenchanted with the Establishment Republicans, and becoming convinced that they are backstabbers, who would cheerfully see us all murdered.  The theory of professional liability in this letter seems novel; Law faculty would have been widely condemned if in the aftermath of the Rodney King Riots, they had proposed that lawyers would refrain from defending blacks for fear of inspiring riots.  The failure to also mention Marilyn Mosby’s misconduct (similar to the alleged misconduct) makes the ‘bipartisan’ letter a deeply partisan document.  Furthermore, while as lawyers they may not realize this, they are likely not competent to know the facts of any electronic system’s security.  (Without sufficient physical security chain of custody, verification of hardware and software security can be impossible if hostile state actors may be involved.  Failure to ensure physical security directly made election integrity impossible to verify.)
10. Another element was following several Republican Party aligned activists on Twitter.  In particular, baseballcrank, and esotericcd, who are lawyers.  I came to understand that their political messaging operations were a side gig, and always secondary to their ability to make a living from practice of the law.  Which primarily depends on having judges willing to listen to you, which requires that you very carefully curate all of your statements.  This is a problem when a major political question involves case law that is a result of a consent decree that restrained one point of view, and allowed the opposing point of view to operate through an officially sanctioned proxy.  This consent decree was also improperly premised.  (The parties switched places, my ass.)  Additionally, covid lockdowns were effectively a criminal conspiracy.  Additionally, the restraint on police force by Democrat Mayors, DAs, and Governors in relation to the violence by BLM and anti-fa seems to be effectively a criminal conspiracy.  Many Republicans would prefer to accuse judges of criminal conspiracy, well in advance of being able to prove that conspiracy in criminal court.  Especially in combination with an industry attempt to blacklist provision of services to these views, the attempt by lawyers to remain credible to judges can seem to Republican laymen like a willful and dishonest betrayal.  This impeaches the credibility of the courts in being able to formally resolve these disputes.  The courts will be properly looked upon with skepticism until the case law provides a clear and equally available ability to contest suspect elections. 
11. Nancy Pelosi was daughter of a mayor of Baltimore.  The Democrats whose use of power she would have grown up admiring, most likely included Virginian Democrats and other Democrats who may have been approving of white supremacist terrorism.  The ‘switched places’ narrative is not sufficient given her leadership of the Capital Police, that the Capital Police allowed the scaffolding to be readied outside Mitch McConnell’s office, and that 2020 was perhaps the most concentrated terror campaign in about forty years when it came to burning black neighborhoods.  The MO of 2020’s riots seems to be extremely similar, and might have instead been carried out under Woodrow Wilson. 
12. The academic experts are wrong, and have been avoiding criticism by sticking to curated places of discussion. They may have made themselves extremely vulnerable to counterargument.  It is early days yet, and too soon to call every roll of the dice. 

Before I post this, I’ll not that I’m not holding THE OFFICE in Colorado as guilty. Maybe, but this was, at least until recently, the most conservative small suburban town in Colorado. It might have changed, but their elections were scrupulously clean before. In fact, my DIL worked for them in 2018 as a temp and was impressed with how thorough they were, for vote by mail. In fact, our younger son’s signature got flagged while living there because he had done something stupid to his hand and signed with his left.

Now, I don’t know if that particular office is still that scrupulous. But even if it is, all it takes is one person going through old voter records and reviving a few.

The staging for this: BEFORE LEAVING COLORADO, acutely aware of how corrupt our voter rolls are, and that vote by mail is essentially vote by fraud, and while knowing it meant nothing in the vast sea of fraud (people dead forty years are still voting in Colorado Springs, of all places and we won’t talk about the machines.) However, let’s say that I didn’t want it to be done in my name, so I carefully withdrew my voter registration and made sure there was no active registration for me a few months later, when they had a local election. There was no record for me, it was absolutely clear.

So, imagine my surprise when I received this amazing email yesterday:

Note, I’ve thoroughly anonymized this email, because I’m assuming no malice on the part of the office itself. I’m assuming this was some clerk deep in the bowels of the bureaucracy, not the office itself. And I don’t wish to dox innocents. That’s not the way to proceed.

Note also that there’s a reason I call this thing “fraud by mail.” They obviously sent at least a ballot to the house after I’d cleared the voting registration. Probably for 2022. It was the right-hand marine’s assessment of the buyers that they weren’t leftists (he did this whenever anyone moved to the area. That’s what he did.) So, being not-leftists, they sent the ballot back to the office with “doesn’t live here anymore.” Why it took them this long to contact me is something else yet again.

At any rate, being placed on inactive status is not the security you might think, because what it actually means is they don’t mail the ballot but someone can show up with a fake ID or a bill addressed to me at that address — and note the later is trivially easy to do — (or perhaps the ballot can be harvested. I don’t remember if they now made that legal) and vote that ballot. It’s actually more reliable for fraud than mailing it out and risking an honest new owner.

The first thing I did, of course, was go to the site (no, not by clicking. The address seems legit and all, but I wasn’t born yesterday) to search for and withdraw my registration. This amiable intention was thwarted by the fact that proving my identity requires me to log in with my Colorado Driver’s license…. Which I no longer have.

So far I’ve sent back the following response:

Attached find the notice I received today.

Be aware that not only have I been residing outside the state for almost two years, but – before leaving – withdrew my voter registration and made sure that it didn’t show in the searches.

Having received this today, I can only conclude it was fraudulently recreated for the purpose of electoral fraud. I am neither amused nor tolerant of this nonsense.

On visiting the indicated website to withdraw my registration – again – I found that I cannot do so since I – obviously – no longer possess a Colorado driver’s license.

I hope this flagrant attempt to create a fraudulent registry is deal with forthwith, and look forward to your assurances it has been. After which I will search the site to ensure it was indeed removed.

Sincerely,

Sarah A. Hoyt.

I have not heard back, but then again it’s only about 10 am in Colorado and it’s entirely possible they have a massive batch of these, and the area doesn’t keep a lot of clerks. It will hire a lot of them just before the elections, of course, temporarily, but not now. So it’s entirely possible it will come later. If it does not, I will call them tomorrow, and try to resolve this. If I don’t receive an answer or receive a scathing one, then it will be time to post about this again, perhaps with slightly less anonymity.

In their SLIGHT disfavor, my attempt to anonymize my registration, so it doesn’t show in searches and it didn’t reveal my then address, was thwarted in 2019 because even though it’s a slight fee, you have to prove there is a need. While they were sympathetic to a blogger being at risk, the particular employee — one hates to judge by appearances, but blue hair, nose ring — refused to believe a registered GOP voter, and therefore a “right wing” blogger could be at risk. After all, we’re the Man, you know? We intended to come back later, but then I got what was almost surely the first wave of wu-flu which floored me for a month, and just as I emerged from it, the lockdowns slammed shut.

Anyway, note how completely, bizarrely insecure our elections are. This has been a point brought up often. See Francis Turner’s article here. The fact that they’re not supposed to make you feel bad or excluded (this is ridiculous for adults, btw) has morphed into not asking for proof of citizenship when your ID is a foreign passport, for instance.

In fact, being as insecure as they are, the only way to prevent fraud — yes, in enough numbers to sway elections — is for 90% of the people to be saints. And by saints I mean the sort of people who would not take a twenty dollar bill, left on the pavement when they were in dire need of a meal. (A thousand dollar bill a lot of us would balk at, that’s evil. We might take it to the store or bank and let it be there for someone asking for it. Have done it. Once they even called to give it to us after a month, as no one had claimed it.) Because the fraud is built in and throughout.

All it takes is an unscrupulous home-owner who votes the previous owner’s ballot. A mother who — yes, there have been cases — stands over the adult children living at home, to make sure they vote the “right” way. A caretaker who votes for the demented elderly.

While I’m sure some of this goes both ways, the overwhelming majority of such cases, or at least the ones who brag about it on social media, but also the cases we all know of — my house in Colorado Springs, downtown, the first elections, I received voter cards for some improbable number of people, all registered D (I want to say it was 90 people, but you know, it’s been 20 years.) The previous owner had been leftist and in fact an activist — are leftist.

This by the way makes perfect sense. For the right at least right now, politics is a nuisance rapidly becoming a life-threatening one. Most of us, in every election, vote not for a messiah — and for the leftists reading this, no, Trump is not and never was my messiah. He is right now, IMO inevitable, but also probably the one most instrumental to my purpose which is to metaphorically put a stake up the deep state’s tuchus because rule by bureaucrat is beyond the pale — but for the least of all evils. We pinch our nose every d*mn election.

Meanwhile, the left is convinced that they’re one messiah away from that perfect communism where they can all live off their “not for sale” art or poetry, or smoke pot to oblivium, or whatever. For the older and more proactive, they’re one election away from showing us all how STUPID we are for not appreciating the genius of the Marxist crap they’ve been spouting since they were 12. (And some of the later are older than I.) So, to them it is vital — vital — to harvest every vote and fraud every possible ballot. They are absolutely sure the invalid or absentee voter would vote their way if they were in their right mind or “educated.” They’re only doing it for the person’s own good after all.

If you sincerely believed you could usher in paradise with one (or a thousand) fraudulent vote(s) wouldn’t you do it? If you were absolutely sure? Think carefully, because I myself am not sure. Not if I KNEW absolutely that by doing it I’d make the world utopia.

My only defense against it is knowing that paradise is impossible, and there is no messiah that can save us from our mess. Oh, and that perfect systems never are, because humans aren’t perfect.

Anyway, I want to take a little cheer from the fact that, with vote by mail and SO MUCH baked in fraud in place, they’re still scrambling for more fraudulent registrations. They really are panicky and “couldn’t pass a bean.”

Which is — I think — good and bad news, since the wounded beast is the most dangerous.

But there’s no way out but through. Buckle up, buttercup. There’s fuckery afoot and we must cope with it.

Or in other words, everything is proceeding as I expected and may G-d have mercy on our — but particularly their — souls.

On their other attempt at fuckery: I will NOT wear a mask, part two.

I’m with him. I will not wear the mask. I will not be shut down. I will not be shut up. I will not move to your 15 minute hellholes, I will not eat the bugs, and I will not submit.

Or in other words, dear left FAFO. …. And being unable to learn, I’m sure you will.

I’ve been wondering about the undeniable prevalence of “pedophiles in high places.” Undeniable because underneath everything there is still the fact that our “elites” not only aren’t interested in destroying networks of trafficking, but are openly hostile to any attempts to expose their existence: as their screams at Sound of Freedom showed. It’s not a good look.

It’s puzzled me, because such a fixation is by its nature anti-evolutionary and it’s a weird thing to be coveted by those who achieve money and power.

I mean, yeah, it happened throughout history, but lots of things happened throughout history that don’t happen and are unthinkable in the Western. However this seems to be something those in (at least the left) circles view as the ultimate delicacy and reward.

Sure, the forbidden, something not of mere mortals, blah blah blah. However this fixation and the attempts to make it “normal” seems…. bizarre.

I even understand ephebophiles, those who are attracted to the very young but who have passed puberty. (Note, understand, not approve of, particularly in our society when true maturity is delayed– not to say withheld by various societal mechanism — till the mid 20s or later.) Evolutionary males are attracted to very young, but fertile women. (And yes, gay guys once that mechanism misfires, are attracted to very young, post-pubescent males.) Absent mental control, the “legal” age becomes just a number, and the groin wants what the groin wants.

Epstein’s island from what I understand was not all ephebophiles. Oh, well, technically all had begun puberty, I suspect. But really, what sane male wants to consort with 12 or 13 year olds? What sense does it make.

It was a (very creepy) puzzlement, until I read a completely unrelated article about the actress (non-gendered names for things that you use your body to perform are bullship) in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves woke magical creatures. And it clicked with something in the back of my brain that has been grinding for a long time. Since I was in my twenties in fact.

The article which is here for those interested is about the son of the designer for the original Snow White animated feature disapproving of the new vision, as any sane person would.

But in the middle of it there were comments by the hapless actress Zegler about how they’re folding, spindling and mutilating a German fairytale which was always about the transition to adulthood and its relationships including, yes, marriage. When I read it it, something at the back of my brain clicked, including a lot of really bad advice I received (and ignored) in my twenties. And suddenly pedophilia as a creme de la creme temptation made perfect sense. Sick, twisted, but perfectly clear. Here is the passage:

When asked if the prince would even be in the film, Zegler answered, “We have a different approach to what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because like we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude.”

Gal Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen in the upcoming live-action adaptation, interjected, “–She’s not gonna be saved by the prince.”

Zegler then affirmed, “She’s not gonna be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love.”

Zegler elaborated, “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be. The leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, brave, and true.”

“And so it’s just a really incredible story for, I think, young people everywhere to see themselves in,” she concluded.

First, i want to point out, yes, it’s an incredibly dysfunctional story for people to see themselves in. I’m so very tired of the new Disney fixation on every woman and every little girl becoming “a leader.” And note they always find this power “within” themselves, with no effort, no growing, no practice, no misses and stumbles and getting up again. It’s all there, within themselves.

The advice it tied to was when I was … 24? Dan and I had been married a little over three years, and we were … um…. derpish. There were some issues of course, because different cultures. And we had discovered the child thing wasn’t likely to happen. Which brought a certain tension. BUT overall? We were young, stupid and stupidly in love. (We just argue like we do everything. Intensely.)

My SIL divorced her husband, and when I was talking to my MIL at one point she told me if I divorced, I could come live with them. And I was like “Uh” and she went on about how much I could grow and reclaim my power. And I’m going “The power to be alone and lost?” I think I just stared at her in horror. (I never had her approval after.)

I’d like to say my MIL was insane, but if so, she was representative of her generation all the way to women ten years older than me. I had variations of this conversation, every time a woman found out — after we moved to Colorado and we could (by the skin of our teeth) live on one salary –Dan had given me the great gift of being able to pursue my writing. Look, it’s not like he didn’t want to do writing and music. It’s that my one attempt at making enough for both of us had failed, so…. (And also we didn’t know how little writing would pay, once I broke in, but that’s another story. Most people not IN writing don’t know. And yes, there are exceptions. I wasn’t one.) I kept being told I needed to work so Dan didn’t have “power over you.” Some people decided he was an abuser, trying to gain “power over you.”

And there — yeah, this is crazy feminist stuff but the thing is, it’s in the whole culture, corrupting everything — is the crux of the problem.

We’re no longer allowed to “dream of true love” and men aren’t allowed to “rescue women” or have any power over them. While women are told they have to have “power” and be “leaders” all the time.

This is impossible and untenable. Particularly when coupled with “you don’t learn anything to do this. It’s just inside you.”

Both men and women are looking for ways to have power in a relationship. Because in deranged Marxist terms everything is about power relationships. Oppressed and oppressor. EVERYTHING. Even the most intimate partnerships humans yearn for instinctively. (Shut up. We’re not Bonobos. It’s a flawed model.)

So–

So, it’s power. And who do you have more power over than a helpless child? Particularly one imported from the third world or otherwise powerless?

Hence this has become the sin of choice of our so called elites. And btw, they think everyone is doing it.

It’s abysmal, horrendous, filthy. It’s the sort of thing that calls down the vengeance of heaven in the Bible.

It’s also the result of our very twisted mechanisms of thought and emotion. The result of not being allowed to simply be lovers and partners who raise a family.

It’s the result of the same insanity that bubble headed feminists like Zegler spout.

And there will be hell to pay.