I am a novelist with work published in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and historical "novelized biography". I've won the Prometheus award and the Dragon award. I also write under the names Elise Hyatt and Sarah D'Almeida. http://sarahahoyt.com/
I’ve sensed this coming for months. I could see it/feel it. I didn’t know how to explain what was making me scared, but I could sense it.
We laughed at the empty Biden rallies and gloried in the enthusiasm for Trump, but it should have sounded the alarm.
The Dems were running someone who was barely sentient, and it wasn’t a problem. They barely ran a campaign, and it wasn’t a problem. They were still talking of a blue wave, and of winning.
And all of you were like “oh, they think because of their propaganda machine…”
Sure, their propaganda machine handed them a lot. A lot of idiots — traitors is too strong a word, because truly, they had no clue what they were doing — believed that “Orange man is so rude” and “We need someone like kindly Uncle Joe, who whored our entire country to China.”
And that was what put this within reach of cheat. Mind you, I think at least half the votes for Biden are fraudulent. The vote harvesting, the motor voter, the mail in vote. The last one particularly is basically a fraud machine, and it was intended to cause this.
The military ballots, too, apparently were indecipherable and included a craft project you had to do just so, to create a sleeve for your ballot.
There’s fraud written all over this.
But, and I’m going to quote a friend, because he put it more succinctly than I this is basically what happened:
I am watching something amazing unfold. Something truly bizarre for America. The media and the dems, but I repeat myself, basically just called a time out on the election. An indefinite time out when the other team was on the 5 yard line and had the ball and the clock was running out.
And it was so coordinated, so universal, it feels entirely planned. Stop the momentum, work on where and how we get the votes. And almost all of this is going to come down to PA. And there’s absolutely no reason for it. If Florida can count the vote, so can PA and AZ and everyone else.
I hate to say “I told you so” but I told you so. The lackluster candidate and campaign, the near zero ground game, even to the point of not opening offices in major cities, all indicate that this was always the plan. Virginia stopped counting the vote and hasn’t posted anything in over two hours. There is no real excuse for this.
Damn. I was feeling pretty good this evening, but now I just don’t know.
Fortunately, it looks like Trump will fight.
Look, the fact they were so sure, means the FRAUD was what they were counting on. Which is why I’m calling 50% of stolen, faked and otherwise fraudulent ballots.
But unlike my friend, I’m not reassured because Trump will fight. You see, the left (and this is really the GE, the Global “elites” we’re dealing with. This is not just our dems. This is a play for global control) have circumvented that. Because they were so sure, and they knew they’d fraud, they put forth the Red Mirage lie, about how Trump was going to try to “start a coup” by claiming there was fraud and refusing to concede.
You know they project. They are accusing him of exactly what they plan to do.
And now what comes next?
Very easy. Some of our idiots on the right, the soft heads and fools that they are are already turning on Trump and siding with the left.
More importantly, the swamp will turn on Trump. All the unelected functionaries in all the agencies are going to side with the left and say Trump is trying to steal the election. They are going to order him removed from the White House.
We have maybe a few months, TOPS. Two, perhaps. And then it’s curtains. We’re going down hard and the idea of freedom will be lost except in our hearts.
Our future is to be Hong Konged and Venezueled.
And btw, our left is profoundly stupid. They already say things like there’s no reason we shouldn’t only have electricity two hours a day, look how good Cuba is for the environment. Half the country can count on freezing this winter. Fortunately for the left we’re surplus lives, so they’ll be happy.
Who is running the show? Oh, Soros is helping for sure, a man that wants to hide his hideous visage among worse crimes.
But mostly? Xin. The lab that unleashed Covid? Dr. Fauci helped finance it. He’s Xin’s creature. As are the tech lords, blinded by the idea of the “huge Chinese market.” Our politicians and media are all bought with Chinese money. They’re stupid, short sighted and have no moral compass. They were raised on stories where everyone is crooked, so they’re just “getting their own.” They will die screaming, but that’s very little consolatioon.
Btw that Chinese Market is the true mirage. They dangled it before our eyes for indie, but of course it’s not real. China does not respect IP and even if they did their huge market is mostly penniless and illiterate masses.
And in this I’ll say we libertarians were wrong. We thought free trade would corrupt China. Instead, it allowed a very ancient, very evil regime to take us over by corrupting our institutions.
May G-d have mercy on our souls.
I’ll continue posting as long as I’m allowed on line. I’m sure it won’t be a full year.
No, the dems won’t be able to hold us, but what comes next only G-d knows. And with the world involved the chances of it being anything like our Republic are minimal.
Make what preparations you can for the hard crash. Don’t think I’m being pessimistic. This is your warning. Sauve qui peut.
Remember, as Heinlein exhorted, to keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
And those of you who are believers, PRAY like there’s no tomorrow. Because there might not be.
And now, maybe Benadryl will make me sleep (but I doubt it.)
Those of you in obviously dangerous zones get the f*ck out and go bunk with a friend for the foreseeable. I mean it. You have no idea how crazy this is going to get. I have some.
You’ve heard the phrase: make hay while the sun shines?
VOTE. Get out there and vote. Vote as if you life depended on it. If you are a regular on this blog, it probably does.
Vote if you’re in a deep red area and think your vote doesn’t count. Vote if you’re in a deep blue area and you think your vote doesn’t count. Vote if they call the election before you get out there. Vote. GET OUT THERE AND VOTE.
Yes the third box is woobly and leaky and the dereliction of duty of our journalists and educators (not to mention the invincible ignorance of both groups) means even non-fraudulent leftist votes are UNINFORMED. Which means we might not have a chance.
BUT it is NOT the fourth box. And we know what’s in the fourth. Pandora’s had nothing on it.
So vote while our flag is still there. Get your ass out there, stand in line if you have to, wear the face diaper if you have to, BUT VOTE.
According tot he suggestion of the Wallaby, this is an open thread for Election Day talk.
I probably won’t be back till tomorrow morning. Oh, who am I kidding? I tried that in 2016, and friends and kids started sending me texts around eight pm so I ended up crashing in on Steve and Melissa Green, and huddling in their living room, so I had someone to chatter nervously at.
I don’t know if history repeats itself, but if things are clear by the evening SOMEONE will text and I’ll know. Depending on the result, I might come here to chatter or just got to bed (I haven’t slept in weeks.) or to write a Don’t Jump Off the Ledge, We Need You, post. And pray not a repeat of 2012, where I was talking a friend off the ledge on my phone, another on private messaging, and two members of my own family in the house, all at the same time. This is not something you do to a depressive, btw. Force her to come up with and invent “upsides” to keep others from committing suicide.
I’m going to spend a few hours on my knees, praying to Himself the third box preserves the republic for now, and a fourth is not needed.
And then I’ll probably write a pride and prejudice variation, because it will keep me amused and doesn’t require a brain. (It’s fanfic. Not an insult to those who write it or read it, but it requires less brain than if I do the plotting and characters myself.)
And you mugs, GO VOTE. And then if you’re believers — or even if you’re not. The novelty might amuse Him into listening! — PRAY that when this election is done our flag is still there, and still stands for a Constitutional Republic devoted to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is the day before what might very well be the most important — and disastrous — election in the country’s history. And it if goes that way, the last one too.
Before I woke up I ran through my head the things I should say and cover.
But I’ve been sitting in front of the computer for an hour, staring at the screen, because, what is there to say?
I can tell the people holding back and deciding not to vote or to vote for Biden because Trump is “Uncouth” and “mean tweets” and “not presidential” that they’re idiots. But they won’t believe me. They’ll believe it later, when the boot is on their neck, and they’re starving. Or maybe not, because the media will tell them it is the fault of someone else, some evil person who did something to them to prevent the paradise of free money and not having to work, and everyone loving everyone else from coming about. I’ve seen it before. In Portugal it was saboteurs and hoarders when things got bad. And people believed. The same people who believe that Biden is kindly uncle Joe who will make everything great.
I can tell people screaming that Trump is shredding the constitution that he’s actually been bizarrely respectful of states rights. When Feds went to states it was only to protect federal property. Otherwise, he let the governors and mayors handle it.
They won’t believe me, because the media told them that Trump is an evil tyrant and literally Hitler.
Is there anything more ironic than their calling themselves “woke”when their entire approach to reality is to treat it as a fluid dream, in which they remember nothing and follow whatever the pack leaders bay right now?
For my entire adult life every Republican president has been “literally Hitler” even though since Reagan at least they’ve been for reducing government reach, allowing for more individual rights, and treating people the same regardless of race. So, you know, the opposite of literally Hitler.
So what’s the use of telling people this, when they’re blinded by their own need to belong, to be part of the herd and to believe whatever they’re told is true.
Many of them will die without ever realizing they’ve been lied to, because their memory extends no more than the beginning of the latest screaming.
It’s global too. The left is going crazy in unison. I was flabbergasted, yesterday, to find that those who oppose Brexit blame Russia interference for its winning.
Okay, Russian interference was insane here, originating in a Hilary Clinton favor from the Russians to discredit her opponent Donald Trump. We KNOW this. It’s been proven. It’s only the deep rot of our investigative agencies that has prevented arrests from being made before the election. Having cooperated with Obama and his administration — and speaking of shredding the constitution — to confound and destroy Trump’s presidency itself, those agencies now thing helping Biden win is part of helping their own survival. Besides, every communist regime needs their own secret police, and these people are in line. No more sentimental nonsense about individual rights. They’ll be able to do onto you, until the end of time. They like that.
This is something else that’s no use telling the left here. They know everything they don’t like is Russia. So, Brexit is, of course, Russia.
It doesn’t matter that Russia was much closer to the Obama administration who, after all, were more flexible. And it doesn’t matter that Putin endorsed Biden. And it doesn’t matter– It’s all “Russia.” And when Biden turns on a dime and talks about our friends, the Russians, they’ll turn too, and forget everything.
Sometimes I wonder if there’s hallucinogenics in the water.
But what the long and horrible history of the 20th century showed us is that it’s just humans. Humans are capable of the most horrendous things.
Like, destroying the most successful system the world has ever seen, the one that has fed, clothed and raised the living standards of most of the world, in return for one that has never achieved anything ever except misery, destruction and mass graves.
Above I’ve used Communism and socialism as what will be brought in on us. I know that purists, and particularly idiots of the left will try to argue this on the basis of “economic organization.”
But it really doesn’t matter. Once the system stops being by and for the benefit of the individual who is allowed to make unfettered economic decisions, it always ends up the same. Call it communism, call it socialism, call it feudalism, call it Cuba, call it North Korea.
Once that train is set in motion and people can’t call it back, the people who have the power will work to concentrate more power and more money into their hands. What they call it, and the justification they use to stomp on the human face is irrelevant. Those with power end up very very rich, and the rest of the people end up starving. Until it eventually all collapses.
As for why I think this is what the left proposes to do to America? It starts with removing our ability to protest what they do to us, to defend ourselves from false charges, or even to demand reward for our labor, and decry injustices done to us. All of which is already being done through platforms and press aligned with the left and working to bring on this regime.
Also neither Biden or the functioning brain of the two will deny they want to open the borders, pack the courts, abolish the police (except THEIR police, of course), lock the populace down to defend us from a virus (that’s not how viruses work, but they won’t tell people that) forbid gas-powered vehicles, and generally work to destroy our economy, so they can squat, fat and poisonous above the ruins of our nation.
I could — I have — shouted that from the rooftops. It doesn’t matter. even people on our side don’t realize that this time, this once, the left HAS to play for all the chips. Even on our side people think this is just a game, and if they just sit this one out to punish Trump for “mean tweets” or whatever, they can vote the way they want the next election, and nothing much bad will happen in the interim.
The problem is the left are cornered rats. Not only is the tech going against them, with communications ever more distributed (despite their dominance of platforms) but during Trump’s presidency their ineptness and rage has revealed more about how they work than the people have ever known before.
For now, their captive media is holding back the full deluge of their horrible actions from the public. To do it, they only had to destroy the economy and put us all under house arrest, which is an extreme measure and also a measure of their desperation.
They must win, you see, because otherwise they face dissolution.
And incompetent as they are, they know — THEY KNOW — they must win. While our side thinks it’s politics as usual.
There is nothing I can do or say to change that.
So all I can say is this, should we not receive as a miracle, from almighty G-d that we beat the margin of fraud and all the fail-safe machinations already in place for our destruction, remember:
Even in the depths of tyranny people resist. Sometimes it means dying, sometimes it means working in small and patient ways.
Even if there’s no hope in our life time, teach the children well and send them forth. Ideas are hard to kill. They have no bodies of their own.
Even if we must burn, remember the falling star. It burns most brightly as it is destroyed.
And generations yet unborn will read of it and marvel, and wonder and know that humans, no matter where and how they live, are not just evil and dark, and made to live in mud and vileness.
If we must burn, my friends, burn brightly. Make such a fire in the night that it will illuminate the human mind forever.
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Political upheavals can be a very dangerous time, especially when ideologies are as far apart as they are now. Divided we Fall presents one possible future, one where powerful forces act behind the scenes to effect the change they’ve wished to create for decades, and have largely been held back. What happens when a nation is sharply divided, anarchistic forces allowed to run wild, and the police are held at bay or even defunded? Add in a presidential assassination, and you have all the potential for a world changing situation. In this world, Divided we Fall.
A collection of talented veteran bestselling authors and several new ones join together to paint a picture of the post 2020 election that none of us hope to see come about. But the more we watch events unfold, the more anything seems possible.
(*MY story involves the founding of the USAian religion. – SAH)
An ancestor’s folly, stealing from a dead wizard, left them all turning to crows daily and bitterly attacking any of their number who stole from the dead.
Yet a dying wizard may hold the key of escape. . . .
The ghouls, wraiths, and ghosties had not been part of the job description. Or maybe they had, just not in so many words. The neatly printed sign next to the ornate gates had simply read “Cemetery groundskeeper and caretaker needed. Inquire within.”
Now Chloe’s trying to calm an irascible ghoul, help a lost ghost find his way back to his grave, and get the mowing done before she needs to break out the bush hog instead… Who knew being a groundskeeper meant trying to keep things in the ground?
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
So what’s a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then post it! For an additional challenge, you can aim to make it exactly 50 words, if you like.
We recommend that if you have an original vignette, you post that as a new reply. If you are commenting on someone’s vignette, then post that as a reply to the vignette. Comments — this is writing practice, so comments should be aimed at helping someone be a better writer, not at crushing them. And since these are likely to be drafts, don’t jump up and down too hard on typos and grammar.
It was Halloween night and there was a horse at my door. Or at least a horse’s head. And he was carrying a basket of candy. And he stood six feet tall, wore a wine colored sweater, artistically ripped jeans and expensive tennis shoes.
I sighed and started to close the door, and the horse said, “No, Eileen, listen.” He lifted the basket, “I brought candy for Tori and Talon.”
I sighed again. I hadn’t seen Paul in six months. The lawyers had almost made everything neat and ready for signing. Seeing him at the door hurt. I didn’t want it to hurt. On the other hand, really, he had never been abusive or done anything that justified keeping him away from the twins. Particularly on Halloween.
I was going to do a slightly Halloween-like story, but that and/or the chapter won’t happen, mostly because I slept really really badly and think I need at least a day off today.
I’ll try to do the chapter tomorrow, as well as the promo.
When I said show up for the group photo, who thought that meant “non-humans only”?
And who the heck is the floating eyeball?
The only people I recognize are Paul Howard, Orvan and Bobtheregistered.
I guess the rest of you were too busy for the Hun family photo? How are we going to send a getwell cat to HerbN like this? (And yes, this is me being silly and trying to cheer myself up.)
UPDATE: Foxfier sent this as her pictoral excuse for not being in for the group photo. I don’t believe her. That kitchen is way too clean and there are a bunch of kids missing!
It is becoming clear the left is going to steal this election. Either through fraud(so much fraud), or through their time-honored methods of obfuscating and lying to the population.
Just like Nixon became the greatest crook ever and they preened for years over having brought down this would-be Hitler, they will now for decades shape the narrative to be that President Trump mishandled the virus, and destroyed the economy and therefore deserved to be brought down. And that their savior and spokes- zombie, China-Biden has with the touch of his regal hand, and his harsh and bizarre mandates on who can make a living, and who can’t, and also on no one being able to show their faces to human beings not related to us, saved the nation.
In the mean time, he’ll also save the planet, because of how many people will die of things non-Covidial and probably famine “In these trying times.” “While we’re all in this together.” I mean the fewer people the better, right, since we are after all “a cancer on the planet” and the most important thing, the spokeszombie assures us, is to stop the Earth from “literally baking.”
Yes, I am open to a miracle that will save us, at the last minute. But not hopeful. As far as I can tell, between the media gaslighting the country and the massive fraud they stand ready to deploy, we have not a chance.
It is unfair, unjust, insane, but I’ve studied enough history to think that it needs to make sense, or that vast crowds of people possess some sort of wisdom.
I’ve been very afraid since March, watching the gaslighting and people willingly ceding control of their brains to news stations THEY KNEW WERE KNOWN FOR LYING.
The American people are furious, and as such will lash out. Unfortunately in our times of central federalized power, most of them don’t realize our highly unusual, freedom-loving president did not lock them in; did not slap them with mask mandates; did not make them wear masks in airplanes; did not close their church and make their ministers parrots of min-truth. That was their — mostly democrat, though Lord knows some Republicans are thick as pig shiit as well, particularly in Texas and Ohio — Instead of being angry at their appalling governors, they’re mad at the president. I’ve actually heard people — salt of the Earth, who of course follow the covidiocy with gaping mouths, sure that millions have died in this — say that Trump should not have closed the churches or wonder why Trump won’t let their favorite restaurant open.
Which brings us to…
What next??
And how bad will it get?
Well, one thing is for sure. They believe what failed in Obama’s drive to break us and drive us into socialism was the fact we’re all too rich and comfortable. You see — and this is not strictly true, but it’s what they were told and what they’ve seen in movies, and our would be rulers are not very smart and have the depth of a puddle — in their minds all that stood between them and complete overturning of the American system was enough suffering that the dispossessed masses will “rise up.”
This is not true, but they do not know that. They don’t understand the actual, real mechanics of revolution, nor what happens in them.
Therefore the first thing they’re going to try to do is immiserate the country. No, I mean really immiserate the country.
I’m not afraid of being poor. I grew up being very poor and for various reasons, throughout our lives, we’ve brought ourselves to the brink of utter ruin long enough.
So, this won’t be a big deal. Probably. Though I think we are about to experience this at a level most Americans have never even heard of. (Mostly because most Americans haven’t heard about Cubans peasants (everyone is a peasant but the rulers) having their purses searched for SEAFOOD, which they’re not allowed to have or eat. You know, in a tropical island, surrounded by ocean, laden with food, they keep the peasants starved.)
That’s fine. Yeah, it will probably shorten my life expectancy to 10 years or so, because, you know, that’s the age at which people die in such societies (do not let them tell you that everyone always lived about as long as we do. We’ve almost doubled what people can aspire to living. Mostly through the free market and real, not socialist science.) But then again, as grandma used to say “To a bad life, little time is needed.”
Unfortunately this type of extreme poverty does preclude revolt. Because what we’ve found is that the starved masses don’t rebel. And as we’ve found during 2020 neither do the panicked masses. So as long as our utterly incompetent would-be rulers keep us both starved and panicked, they’ll stay in power.
I’m not sure if they will go for roundups and show trials. I suspect so. I’m seeing rumblings of this, at least. They are positively lustful for reeducation camps, and “truth and reconciliation” commissions. And frankly they’re very angry at us for how long we took to fall. Like the citadel that holds the invaders too long, we are to be destroyed.
I am sure I am on several lists, though it’s entirely possible that I’m small enough potatoes they won’t bother. I’m not sure which I prefer, but my kids assure me they prefer I stay alive. So, who knows?
I believe they will actually not go after their political enemies but after those they hate, which weirdly have very little to do with politics, and mostly with the politics of envy.
If they weren’t about to toss us all in the pot with them, I would laugh, because the darlings of science fiction who sold their souls to Marxism, in an environment that is highly fraught with favoritism and arbitrariness, and therefore filled with envy and malice, think they will be safe and on top, when in face every shrieking little harpy who ever got rejected is just waiting to drag them down and make them confess to privilege, regardless of their color or status as victims.
And it will be like that all over.
Will Lizard Man Zuckerborg and meth addict Dorsey also be dragged from their glittering mansions, their piles of white powder to be hanged in the street? I don’t know. In former times I would say no. I mean, at that level of wealth they can always move to another country and live it up, right?
But what other country? No, seriously. I think most people, American born and bred, have absolutely no clue of what an outsized foot print America has in the world. America falls, the world falls.
More importantly, electing China Joe (and the Ho) will give China control of our nation. While the would be tech lords are convinced their status as prime-vassals entitles them to better treatment and perhaps a sort of vice-roy status, they are dreaming. They should have spent some of the time they spent indulging in interesting mind-altering substances and strange sex acts on reading Chinese history. To begin with, as round eyes, they are de-facto inferior. Second as traitors to their homeland, they will never be trusted.
We might yet see them receive to the hilt what they’ve earned. I wish I could like it more.
In terms of world situation, I beg you to pray for Israel. They’ve seen this coming and they’re a tough people. But they’ll be left friendless and exposed in an hostile world.
What I’m concerned with though is not “mere” survival or even the survival and thriving of my kin. (And part of my fear is that we’re all about to be confined to small areas, and I’m not sure my family will be able to get together, in an area where we can see each other. Because in case you haven’t noticed, over the last 8 months planes became something to look at not ride in — at least not if you can’t endure a mask every day — and they’re about to clamp restrictions and prices through the roof on the oil.) What is acting upon me is deeper and more worrisome: it is the survival of mankind, the survival of the idea of freedom, the survival of enough civilization to allow us to go to the stars.
Yes, I think people should still be marrying and being given in marriage, and having children is perhaps more important than ever, particularly if you’re willing to raise them — really raise them — and inure them against the gaslighting of the mass media. Make them free citizens, able to think for themselves, and perhaps there is a hope for the world. Even if it won’t be easy for them.
It’s going to be hard. It’s going to be really hard. Particularly for those of us who are no longer able to either be any help in a fight or do much of use to society.
Oh, our new self-agrandizing elites (including the ones on the right who are enabling this, and who think they will be a permanent kept “loyal opposition” — and some of them will, but the mask has fallen off and we’re not stupid.) aren’t competent enough to run a brothel with free and ever-renovating beer kegs. But that is actually a plus for their plans.
There is a reason that communist governments only survive when the populace is utterly destroyed, when poverty is rampant, when they can establish a sort of backwards feudalism where everyone is poor save the flea bitten ruler who gets to rule in hell.
They come in on crisis — though if there are historians in the future, they will possibly be amazed at how ably they conjured this one out of nothing — and perpetuate the crisis.
We know they will take the internet down, as soon as possible. Even with it curtailed by their willing lackeys it’s too easy to get around and to communicate with our like.
They need to take us back to the 1950s and the narrative spilling form TV screens 24/7 being the only and the only acceptable history. They have had a taste of how powerful they can be with their gaslighting, and they’re not about to let it go.
Which will of course also mean that all entertainment must be under their control and come from approved voices.
How long do I have? How long does indie publishing have? A year? Two? If we’re very, very lucky.
After that comes control and censorship that will make China look like a playground.
And that’s part of what worries me. When I tell you to build under, build over, build around I am not actually joking. And many of you are qualified and can indeed do it. And are young enough to have kids, and teach them, and send them forward to maintain or re-establish civilization, to carry the banner of freedom into humanity’s future.
Me? What the hell can I do? I can write stories, and I can write blog posts, but both of those are subject to sudden and complete eradication. And have to be paid by trackable means. So–
I don’t know. I’m going to ask you, right now, that those of you who have appreciated this blog copy and save the posts you find most useful. Print them. Print the stories, too, if they amuse you. Perhaps some words will go into the future. Some.
Other than that what can I do?
That is ultimately what is eating at me. It’s come to this: I sit here feeling old and useless.
What good is it to be present at the fall, if I can’t fight it, and can do nothing to prevent it?
All I can do is send those of you who are younger, better educated, stronger.
Go forth. Be not afraid. A just G-d might allow evil to prevail for a time, but He won’t allow it to reign over humanity forever. Be prepared for the fact that it might be a long time, though. (Yes, the scraps of flag will go out. I’ve been stuck in the house, because I don’t do well with cold.) Keep the faith. Stay alive. Do the best you can.
In the time we have left with unprecedented access to knowledge through the internet, buy courses in real stuff, and download them and save them (on CD if you can) or print them. In as long as we have, learn everything you can. If nothing else, it’s knowledge you might pass on, which might be useful in the future.
Build over, build under, build around. Have children and teach them well. Be Americans, even if they take America away from us.
Be not afraid. The worst they can do is kill us, and that’s no final victory.
I might not be able to do much, but one of you might hold the key to the future.
According To Hoyt 