“Kent Brockman here reporting on a crisis so serious it has its own name and theme music.” – The Simpsons Movie
If a Higgs boson kills someone, does that make it a mass murderer?
Problem-Reaction-Solution has been the playbook of the Left for a long time. What’s that? First, there’s a problem. It may be a real problem, or it may be entirely invented, like my résumé.
Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, was famous for saying “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” In his own words, Rahm explained, “ . . . what I said was, never allow a good crisis to go to waste when it’s an opportunity to do things that you had never considered, or that you didn’t think were possible.”
Yes. He said that. It is probably not true that he stood next to a South American quadruped and a doorbell for his senior picture, because that would leave us with Rahm, a llama, ding-dong.
Rahm’s crisis is really just a way to restate the Problem-Reaction-Solution paradigm. It’s a way to make people do things that were otherwise unthinkable. Why?
Because some leaders want their people to accept what would otherwise be unthinkable. This has long been the playbook of the Left.
It has been used by the Left since, well, forever. The problem-reaction-solution is often called a Hegelian Dialectic, but that has too many syllables for 1:43AM. And Hegel died in 1831, so I’ll just leave it that this sort of crisis-seeking isn’t a new thing.
Apparently, Hegel didn’t have a side that flattered him.
The Left turns out to be pretty good at this stuff. Examples? Well, in Australia, all it took was one mass shooting and the politicians convinced the Aussies to turn in their guns. The problem was that single shooting. The reaction? A well-formed media manufactured panic. The solution was to turn in all the guns. The Australian Leftists certainly didn’t let that problem go to waste.
The end result? Australia had some of the most oppressive COVID-19 restrictions on the planet including concentration camps. Which is just what government wanted – to turn citizens into subjects. Taking guns away is a good way to do just that. The joke is that everything in Australia can kill you easily. Now that includes the police.
The same attempts were made in the 1990s with the assault weapons ban in the United States. It went into effect. Without the Internet, I imagine it would still be in place. But, luckily, there was a way to bypass the media, and people got together to push back. I’m not sure that George W. Bush was in favor of rolling it back, but every Republican that had a job and wanted to keep it knew that making it go away in the next election was in their best interest.
People say that Democrats and Republicans can’t work together to accomplish anything, but I’ll remind you, Jeffrey Epstein is dead.
So the problem wasn’t big enough, and (at least so far) hasn’t been big enough because events like Uvalde proved one thing: waiting for the police to come and save you isn’t a good strategy. In a way, using the Australia example just isn’t going to work in America.
But what about other things, like money?
It has worked before. One of the first things that Franklin Roosevelt did after becoming president was to confiscate almost all the gold of American citizens and then make the dollar worth less. It was the same formula. The problem was the economy had cratered. The reaction was that people were panicking. The solution? Almost anything Roosevelt wanted to try, he could try, up to and including taking the country (eventually) into a World War.
Whereas Americans seem to have a strong distrust of government taking their guns, the distrust with politicians destroying our money doesn’t seem nearly so strong. Which brings us right back to today.
The economy has been a mess, for quite a long time. I could delve back into history even more than I’ve done so far, but I don’t want to write a 20,000 word post.
Moses went to Mount Olive. Popeye was furious.
But where we are today is precarious. It is certainly the problem unfolding. In 2008, when inflation was “tolerably” low, the Federal Reserve® could print money at will. This allowed bankers to keep the profits that they had made, while the financial system used the Bounty™ Currency Quicker Printer Upper® to socialize the losses.
This wasn’t without creating ripple issues, but it kicked the can down the road for more than a decade. Then, COVID. Same playbook: print all the cash!!!
This time, however, the cash didn’t just go to cover paper losses at banks. People got the cash, and did what people do: they spent it. Another part of the idea was to inject as much money as is possible into infrastructure projects.
Now, I like roads and bridges as much as the next guy, but when all that money chases concrete, it pushes the price of concrete up – that’s supply and demand. And whatever the government was buying went up in price. Now, decent cigars haven’t gone up much in price, but eggs, bacon, and gasoline certainly have.
If I want to light a cigar but don’t have matches, I just cut the end off. Then it’s a little lighter.
So the Fed© can’t print itself out of this one. Heck, every time the Fed® tries to stop, the economy lurches like a Pelosi getting out of a Porsche™.
So, the problem is here. The reaction is going to be significant as the economy continues to wobble and waver, and I believe is headed for even darker days. Forget Netflix™ and avocado toast: people get grumpy when they can’t afford to eat or buy gas. The normal solution (printing cash and making it rain) can’t be used.
That leaves us with a crisis that would make Rahm Emanuel drool. The idea from the government will be to create a solution that, right now, we’d consider unthinkable.
I hear that atheists own more cats than Christians. Apparently, owning Christians is illegal.
Just like our pushback on the unthinkable banning of guns, it’s our job to push back on whatever nonsense is coming, because I can assure you that it will leave most of us poorer and with less freedom.
Why most of us? Remember, there’s a reason why people like Rahm Emanuel look forward to things like this. And it’s not because they lose power or money.
John – – IMHO the Swampian WEF-ers have the Big Solution and are slowly rolling it out: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
Your readers might want to check out Xao BuyDem’s Executive Order 14067 issued last Spring.
Here is a short video & article by a bought-and-paid-for guvamint shill touting E.O. 14067 as meeting the nation’s need to prepare and research how crypto currencies could be used by the guvamint. Of course, this DemonicRat pseudo-journalist-wanna-be sees no difference between guvamint controlled digital currencies and those in vogue that are totally anonymous & unable to be controlled by guvamint tyrannical pogroms.
Article link:
https://lisaremillard.com/what-is-executive-order-14067-and-why-are-people-talking-about-it/
Don’t know how much you will learn in this article and her very short video, but it indicates to me that the swampians actually are planning on instituting social credit controls over the Sheeple via CBDC.
In Other Words: controlling what and where you spend your “money”, and what you spend it on (That is, if the guvamint goons will even let you get access to your account….example is Canadian PM Turd-oh’s closing access to bank accounts of anybody who supported the Trucker’s Strike).
Note yesterday’s report from Germany of one of their banks that is going digital by New Year’s. Probably the Beta test for full rollout a year later of all German banks….. Dutch are already getting carbon footprint measurements on the bottom of receipts from purchases of groceries….to see how well they worship Greta’s Swedish Gaia Religion, or not !!
China’s credit scoring will be applied in conjunction with CBDC access to kept all the US Sheeple in line.
This horror show will shortly be coming to a theater in YOUR neighborhood……
NEVER EVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS !!
Never give up your guns. The Woke-Fem Politburo will be all over you in a jif, the moment that they feel invulnerable from dissent and consequence. Then they will herd you around like they did in Australia — all to serve their vision of Perfect Safety (for themselves) and Control (over you).
Given the slightest opportunity, they will strip the last of your masculinity and freedom from you, because that masculinity and freedom come from our Father in heaven. Who is the ultimate target of their Safety Thug totalitarianism.
That has been the case throughout history – a disarmed populace is a controlled populace. They will stop at nothing to get them. What were the British trying to do that ignited the Revolution? Collect guns.
After closely following things in Russia, from Russian sources, I constantly find that there, too, all points of the globalist plan are being implemented, point by point; at the same time that all the mass media and the vast majority of the alternative media regularly tell us that Russia and the West are fighting a civilizational battle.
Extra class fun for the devil.
Except that Russia and the used-to-be-Christendom West *are* fighting a civilizational battle.
If I had to guess, their post-Soviet populations are worse off in prostitution, bastardy, and the sex-trafficking, but unlike our fedgov and assorted institutional monsters, view it as a bug, not a feature. So *their* gang are opposed to *our* gangsters. And their gangsters publicly, and legally oppose child-grooming and cultural annihilation, and promote the opposite.
Russia is no friend to our gummint, of course: they’d be nuts to be so. But that’s true for most ordinary decent Americans too, so I try not to indulge any nonsense that Rusgov is our friend on the strength of it.
Also: curious as to your-in-Russia sources. (See above)
“If I had to guess…”
And in the rest of your comment, you’re really guessing. While I, as I said, follow developments from Russian sources – open, official, including the most reputable press, including government websites and sources; including the competent opinion of normal, conservative Russian patriots who follow things much more closely than I do; and everything they say is supported by links to sources.
How is the Russian technocracy going with the digitalization, the implementation of AI in society? What are the plans for the future, do they resemble the plans of the West and China for a digital concentration camp? Especially for kids? What are the plans for transhumanism, are there documents, road maps for this? How are the biotechnology programs going? Is there an upcoming biodigital convergence? Leaving aside the more innocent: will Russia eat bugs? Is Russia on the green agenda? Does SDG work? Etc.N. Please show me sources from Russia if you claim to know what’s going on there better than I do. No philosophizing and sophistry – just facts with sources, please.:)
Yeah, the Digital Currencies are making me quite nervous.
The worst of it is I’m collecting Social Security, and my Teachers’ Retirement pensions (from OH and SC). It may be that I will not have an option to collect them in dollars anymore.
Most people get a significant percentage of their income in e-money. It’s still in dollars, but it goes directly to the banks via Direct Deposit. Only a small percentage of the workers get actual cash money for any portion of their pay.
Now, add to that number of people, all those who get government pay or benefits in one form or another – EBT, VA, etc. That’s probably 80-90% of the public that can be forced to accept that not-a-dollar payout. Once in the system, you will be forbidden to convert your money into untraceable cash. You will only be permitted to ‘withdraw’ your own money via a trackable card/account linked to your phone.
I’m going to price those home distilleries again – I have a feeling that they’ll be handy as a cash substitute.
And, by handy, I mean their end product.
My WV ancestors would be so proud!
Yup!
Digital is scary. It means utter control, and they can also discourage savers (more) by adding in negative interest rates.
What is more dangerous than an OZ scarecrow for President?
A population that thinks it has nothing left to lose.
That is exactly correct. And one thing I’m thinking that they forgot . . . .
the woke left are on a mission to remove the Lord from everything. It started years ago, as they did their best to either remove “dad” from traditional families, and if they couldn’t remove dad, they would make him the subject of ridicule and/or derision. (Archie Bunker, Homer Simpson, Al Bundy, etc.) They’ve been successful in many ways. The divorce rate in this country is evidence. Women are no longer “wives”, they are empowered – hear them roar… The result is children with no discipline, no moral compass, rampant STDs, and… well, what the eff we have now. But, there are still men in this country, not soi boys, but men. Men who work the jobs that keep this country running as best they can. Being retired, I get to travel by ol’ diesel SUV, and I speak with other guys like me. Libtards, if you read this, take note:
We are angry. Very angry. And, many of us go into the woods every fall, and kill a large mammal. With a rifle. You left wing morons are worried about my M4… I have 3 scoped rifles, you’ll never make it close enough to be concerned about the M4.
Y’all have a good evening, while we can.
Original Grandpa
The Left has been quite effective at destroying the family – they’ve won some pretty significant battles.
The removal of Christ began in the late 1800s via children’s literature. The kids so raised (c. 1900) cemented it, while leaving God in place.
But no-one comes to the Father but through the Son, and we ate our seed corn. One can track it through the stories targeted to girl-children.
” but I’ll remind you, Jeffrey Epstein is dead.”
Bridge for sale. If You act before Midnight, option to purchase prime beachfront property in Florida*
OR, is it even REMOTELY possible that jeffy & kenny (enron) are playing footsies in the Mediterranean. While simultaneously playing Chess?
Wonder who the Cabana Boy is?
*For a nominal Fee.
Ha! No, they wanted Jeff gone.
Government was correctly fingered in 1975 (just as in 1775) as the problem, not the solution:
https://youtu.be/IRnC-IGnH_M?t=450
The lesson now, just as in 1775, is going to have to be delivered at the end of musketry before the trouble-makers truly learn the lesson and take it to heart.
This next time at something like 3000fps.
Yup. Come and take ’em.
I’m with Pogo. We have met the enemy and they are us.
You were all in on muzzling kids and the mask lies, Mr. Aesop, which was everything required to set up the medical rape via the fake vaxxes. Just as I was all in on the Iraq War for Freedom(TM) that set up My Little Colonized Police State to run medico-facism down the road. Mea culpa.
It ain’t gummint, it is us.
We fix us, and we can fight the various oligarchs and wannabe aristos who think they were born booted and spurred, and we were born with saddles on our backs.
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.
Joseph Stalin
And the playbook has not changed.
Uh huh.
How’s that theory worked out in Lebanon? Iraq? Yugoslavia? Ukraine? Georgia? Chechnya? China? Vietnam? Korea?
Just wondering.
Leave it to your friendly neighborhood atheist to remind you that your Moses joke was funny but incorrect because according to the Bible, Moses never entered the holy land and therefore could not have gone to Mt. Olive (I’ve been there, by the way). Therefore Olive’s virtue was intact and never in danger. Popeye could have avoided getting angry if he had only read the Bible.
Also… NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS.
Who said Olive was in the promised land? Or are you saying she was the promised land?
Olive the promised land? Nah. I think Moses could do better.
But what if . . . Moses is Popeye? Think about it . . .