Remember: Your Mission Isn’t Done

“Santa Maria! Captain, you cannot punish the crew like this. They will mutiny!” – Sealab 2021

The big problem with the French Revolution is that lots of folks lost their heads.

One winter, while hunting elk up on Wilder Mountain, we had, well, an issue.  We were about fifteen or twenty miles in from the nearest pavement, and headed home.

It was overcast.  It was lazily spitting snow, with a breeze that was slowly picking up.  Looking to the west, where there should be a resplendent sunset, the sky was dark, heavy, and pendulous with brooding storm clouds that blotted out even a hint of the winter Sun.

That was when the problem hit.  Pa Wilder, while driving over a “road” that was little more than a common path cut by four-wheel-drive vehicles over the course of decades of hunting and firewood gathering, drove over a small branch that had fallen in the road.  Not a problem, right?

Well, it was a problem.  In this case, the branch had the stem of a broken off limb, sticking straight up.  Pa drove the GMC Jimmy® right over that sharp shard of limb.

In the span of a dozen or so feet, we had lost not one, but two tires.  It penetrated the center of each tire, poking a hole the size of a half-dollar coin in each.

Amazingly, we had lost another tire already that day, already.

Ahhh, I remember this trip.  Those were the Goodyears®.

We now had a four-wheel drive with five tires and three flats.  In winter.  As a blizzard approached and night was setting in.  And all of this was in country where it could easily hit -40°F as night descended.

I bring this up to say that we had a mission.  Our mission at that point in time was to get home.  There were several challenges, and I’m pretty sure if most people were in the backcountry as a blizzard was descending that the last person they would choose would be a 12-year-old boy to be a guy on the team.

Which is sad.

Children can have missions.  Children can face danger.  Children can do important things.  We forget that because we’re in a society that doesn’t give children important things to do, mostly.  Midshipmen in the Royal Navy were as young as 14.

I hear the Russians just canceled their Penguin Army program.  Now all they have left is Navy Seals.

To be clear:  Midshipmen in the Royal Navy were 14.  A midshipman is an officer.  If you were unaware, the Royal Navy wasn’t a social club, and often those boys fought in wars.  As officers.

So we forgot that boys can be given real, substantial responsibility.  But there’s also the chance that we forget something else:  that each of us is on a mission.  And each of us has a role to play.

We currently are in a place where freedom is an increasingly precious and rare commodity.  It’s not just in the United States – Trump may have said, “Make America Great Again” but down under they seem to be following the “Make Australia A Prison Again” plan.  And Canada?

I love our Canadabros that come by regularly (Canada is the second-largest readership here), but Canada seems to be determined to become the Soviet Above the 49th Parallel, led by that Tundra Trotsky, Trudeau.

Pictured in background:  the only two Canadians Justin’s mother didn’t have sex with.

It seems like in this day and age we all have a mission.  Just like 12 isn’t too young, 80 isn’t too old.

Frankly, we need all hands on deck.  The size of the mission is the largest on the North American continent since 1774.  I almost wrote that the idea was to preserve the Constitution and the Republic.  Seriously, I’d love nothing more than to write that.

I’d love for that to happen.  I’d love for us to come together.  I’d settle for the laws to look like they did 90 years ago.  Heck, even 70 years ago.  That would be preferable to today.

A reversion, sadly, is impossible.

Whatever will come from tomorrow will not look like the past.  It may be a shadow.  The Holy Roman Emperors weren’t Roman.  And the Holy Roman Empire wasn’t the Roman Empire.

And I hear that soon enough he’ll be sending ambassadors to the Ottoman Empire, too.  Can’t you just sniff the leadership?

Or it may be something entirely different.

I think it will be entirely different.

And that’s where you come in.  Yes, you.

You have a mission to create a new nation here.  It won’t look like what we have today – it simply cannot, since we have created a situation that is at the far end of stability, but more on that Wednesday.

I assure you, you play a part.    The initial conditions of what happens are crucial to the final outcome.  If George Washington had wanted to be King?  If Thomas Jefferson had been a Martian Terminator Robot like the one that keeps triggering my motion detector lights at night even though the sheriff won’t believe me?

Things would be entirely different.

And you are important.  Your actions in the next decade are critical to the creation of what will come after.  Do we want a nation that will be based on slavery, control, and that eternal boot stamping on a human face?

I’d vote no.  If you’re a regular here, I’m betting that’s your vote, too.

I think everything he wrote was Orwellian.

If so, let me shout as loudly as I can:  You Are Not Done.  This is Not Over.  What is it that you can do to create a world where freedom beats slavery?  What can you do to create a world where children can run free from the indoctrination of an all-powerful, all-regulating state?

There’s a lot.

Our nation was, thankfully, built on the consent of the governed.  Most things that local government provides, we want.  To quote Python, Monty:

But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

To be clear:  the Federal government does very little to make anything in the list above better, and often does a lot to make them worse.  Except for the interstate highways.  Those are actually pretty cool.

But I will tell you – you are the seed of the future of this country.  You are the seed of the future of this continent.

Never cross a Scrabble® player.  They’ll send you threatening letters.

You are the seed of the future of this world.  It doesn’t matter how old you are.  The time is coming, and coming quickly where great injustices will be attempted.  And you are the seed to make what comes after better for humanity.  Would the world rather live in 1950’s America or 1930’s U.S.S.R.?

The choice is stark.

Your mission is clear.  How will you act to make your county, your state, your country one where free men can walk?

It’s up to you.

Back to the mountain.

For me, it was a game.  That’s the advantage of being 12.  Pa Wilder and my older brother (also named John due to a typographical error) and I wheeled the tires so we had two good ones in front.  We locked in the hubs on the four-wheel drive.

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to drive up a mountain path in a car with only two tires in a snowstorm as it got darker every minute.  It doesn’t work very well.  The flat back wheels couldn’t push the Jimmy® up the hill.

That’s where I came in.  It was my job to take the winch cable, run up the hill, and loop the cable up the base of a tree.  Pa would then use the combination of the winch and the two front tires to pull the Jimmy© up.

Tree by tree, cable length by cable length, we worked pretty flawlessly as a team to get the Jimmy™ to the top of the hill.  Thankfully, for the most part it was downhill from there.  Although Pa was driving on the rims, we got it home.

Don’t let the jack slip on your foot when you’re changing a tire.  You might need a toe.

Was there danger?  Certainly, there always is.  We had snow, so we had water.  Ma would have called the Sheriff not too long after dusk, and even though the mountains were a labyrinth of roads, people had seen us.  We also had matches, hatchets, wool blankets, gasoline, and a mountain’s worth of firewood to keep us warm.

But we also had a mission.  Each of us served our purpose, and we got home.

Pa was a bit raw about having to buy two new rims and three new tires for a day’s worth of not seeing any elk, though.  For the record, I never saw a single elk when hunting with Pa.  I’m telling you, that man knew how to hunt.  Finding?  Sometimes I think he just wanted a good drive in the woods and hike with his boys, teaching them about living.  Teaching them about missions, and the part that they play, whether they know it or not.

In this life, we all have a mission, and we all play a part in it.  I can assure you that your part is not done, because you’re above ground, breathing, and reading this.

I hate to repeat something so trite, but in this case, it’s true:  you are not done.  This is not over.  And the whole world depends . . . on you.

It’s up to you.  You will create the future.

So, go do it.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

71 thoughts on “Remember: Your Mission Isn’t Done”

  1. When the President of the United States says “it doesn’t pass constitutional muster,” why should I, or anyone, obey any law? Obey speed limits? Hell no. The 2003 F150 gonna go as fast as that 4.6 liter V8 will take it then. Pay my taxes? Nope. I have better things to do with my money. Gonna shoot my AR-15 in the back yard, OK? I’m not trying to kill anybody. Yet.

    1. I am hoping you forgot the Sarc Tag in your comment SWVaGuy.

      Why should I or anyone obey any law? Maybe to maintain Good Neighbor status in an increasingly crazy world?

      1. Biden told the Supreme Court, “Come over here and make me!” last week.
        The Democrats blatantly stole the election last November.

        Laws are for suckers and peons.
        “Optics” don’t matter, because the media is the propaganda arm of our enemies.

        1. McChuck the Wise (meant in all seriousness!), coiner of the “mountains of skulls, rivers of blood, & oceans of tears” phrase from which I shamelessly quote without attribution at every opportunity (I mean come on, it’s a great phrase!), I can only disagree on one point. The theft was Uniparty in nature. It could not have been accomplished without the willing & EAGER assistance of Republicans, most nearly all of them. There is no true difference in the parties.

          A pox on ALL their houses.

          This shall not be forgotten. And it most certainly will not be forgiven.

    2. Well, they should just tell people that don’t take the “jab” that they aren’t able to use the government’s services, like taxes, police, and courts.

      Hmmm.

  2. Hey
    The time isn’t coming, it’s not soon. It is now. It’s here. This is it.

    For a thorough look at the opposition I recommend this video by Doctors 4 Covid Ethics. It is a symposium with many qualified presenters that covers most of the aspects of what we face. In the 4th meeting, they even manage to offer a slender reed of hope. It is 10 hours of video in 4 parts. They put the pieces together better than I have seen it done before.
    https://doctors4covidethics.org/symposium/

    The next battle is the mandated Vax. Immediately following that is the ‘Passport’. That is the game over condition. No appeals, no replays.

    This is it.

    1. On further thought, the .223/.308 option is still available, although it will be difficult to prosecute because that’s not the field they are fighting on. When you can be economically erased at their keystroke everything becomes more difficult. Still, it’s what we have as a plan B.

    2. [“Horseless Headsman” – Great name!]

      Thank you for the links. Getting good information out there on the covid-vax fraud & all the interrelated issues has never been more important.

      Best series of videos I’ve seen explaining the truth, science, & facts about “the coof” & why “the vax” will never & CAN NEVER work:

      Dr. Dan Stock gives a 6 minute talk to a school board explaining the gist of his points.
      https://rumble.com/vkxedl-medical-experts-methodical-deconstruction-of-cdcs-botched-covid-response.html

      4 more videos at the link below, all excellent, where Dr. Stock goes into more detail, enumerating points & giving info you may not have heard before.

      There are also links to the research he references.

      https://truthreciprocitysovereignty.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/truth-science-facts-from-dr-dan-stock-on-covid19-hands-down-the-best-series-of-videos-you-will-see-on-the-subject-time-to-end-the-lies-fraud-fearmongering-the-perverse-i/

    3. Yup, the passport is a bridge they don’t want to cross. 30% of people not showing up? That will leave a mark.

  3. Your comment about 14 year olds is apt. Amish kids stop school around 14 and those kids are out on roofs or putting up siding or framing houses the day after school is out (and all summer until 8th grade). They are out of the house before sunrise and work all day, often coming home to chore for an hour or two, or even making hay all evening until it gets dark. The are also earning money at that age, which is why lots (most?) of under 30 Amish men around here already are married with several kids and live in a home they paid half a million bucks for. We don’t expect nearly enough from our adults as well as our kids.

    1. Sure, but on the other hand, their kids don’t get to learn about white privilege or that boys can become girls just by wishing. (When I was a kid, you had to kiss your own elbow if you wanted to change into a girl. Much easier now.)

    2. The Boy was commenting on running into a kid who was (I believe) 9 or so. He was amazed at how helpless that child was compared to him at that age.

      Parent card? Punched.

  4. Hit submit too soon. As for our mission, it is what keeps me going when it seems like everything is lost. My mission is to secure the existence of our people and a future for my children and those of my people. That is why I don’t just get the jab and live in pod, keep my head down and mouth shut just to get along and hope they don’t notice me. Screw that, my posterity deserves a chance to live like I did when I was younger.

  5. Hah! That reminds me of a situation I got into at about the same age – out in our ’63 Willys with my Dad and younger brother on old logging roads all day. Headed back toward civilization late in the day to find that rain had turned the steep climb back to paved roads into a near-zero traction clay soup. We spent quite a while winching from tree to tree, driving limbs behind tires like spikes to keep her from sliding while we reset. It was a major, disgustingly muddy PITA but a nice example of “adapt and overcome” for a kid.

    1. Yes! I was wearing a snowsuit, so, no biggie for me. A bit messy, but no big deal.

      I love adventures.

  6. My mission of working for the US Air Force will finally end on 31 Aug 21 (25 years Active Duty and 20 years Civil Service). We decided I could not serve this illegitimate Government we were saddled with on 6/7 Jan 21, but now have to wait 6 months instead of 2 weeks notice in the recent past, once you send in your application to retire. Finally approved this week, you got to love the way FedGov works.

    Now for the next one, which has been to get out every bit of information I can get out to family and friends about the not-vaccine and the harm it is doing. Don’t plan on putting this poison in our bodies and sure as hell will not comply with their mandates. Already well prepared for when the system seizes and the financial collapse the morons from Mordor on the Potomac have been engineering for decades.

    Beware the man that just wanted to be left alone. Spicy times are coming!

    1. After T.L.’s post the other day I emailed him, “not all of us” and added “I want to be this guy”, with a link to Whitmore’s story

  8. Most people thrash about looking for relevance to their lives. That is one facet of the “mission” that you describe. Finding something you are pretty good at doing and enjoy doing are blessings from The Almighty.

    Having a strong faith will assist in finding your path through life.

    Too bad our schools don’t teach this essential life knowledge, and what’s worse, parents dot teach it either.

    I always thought it was cheap propaganda, but our high school auditorium, where assemblies, plays and daily study halls were held had emblazoned in 18 inch high letters the following reality:

    WORK IS HEAVEN’s BEST GIFT TO MANKIND

    ( located in the former Highland Falls NY high school)

    1. I love that motto. Work is a gift. Purpose is a gift. Life has meaning. We just have to work to find it. Faith has purpose, but that’s on Monday’s post.

    1. Thank you! But it’s you that’s the one who is going to go on your mission. My mission is to help.

  10. Just an FYI, as of a little while ago, the Navy is blocking your site under “Hate and Racism”. Not their NMCI VPN but the newly deployed system that keeps an eye on all internet use.

      1. Navy Censors gone WILD!

        Here’s the blog that was TOO HOT for the Navy, because people just CAN’T be allowed to think! Only one set of ideas is ALLOWED!

        (Sorry, got caught up in an infomercial haze)

      1. They’re programming those they can program. Keep facts away from the rest. Despite being de-tuned by Google, and banned, my readership goes up.

        Huh.

    3. Wow. When I read this comment I was sad. I’ve thrown shade on pretty much everyone, myself probably most of all (because I deserve it).

      I suggested to The Mrs. we sue, but she said, nah, why bother.

      I just wanted to have a humor blog. *sigh*

  11. Michael, I guess the NSA and the other alphabet agencies will come knockin’ any second now. If what I said can’t be seen as sarcasm, all I can say is I’m responsible for what I write, not what you read. I’m guilty of minding my own business, but on the other had I subscribe to the axiom “don’t poke the old men. They will hurt you.”

    1. I have a friend, a former special forces NCO. He has bad knees and hips due, he says, to several tens of nighttime, low level, parachute jumps into and undisclosed location in south-east Asia. He recently got into a little disagreement with a much younger guy who was harassing him for some reason as he was trying to eat out with his wife. When the younger man challenged him to step outside to settle it, his response was, “Hell, I can’t fight you. I’m an old man and I could end up seriously injured. Instead, I’d just have to kill you quickly and neither of us would want that.” After seeing the look in his eyes, the younger man stepped back and stood down.

    2. SWVaguy the sarc tag helps. If you had been sharing it over a coffee or better a beer at my BBQ we would both laugh. But I suspect you realize good neighbors are worthwhile, thus self imposed rules seem to help. Like for example after drinking all my beer you go get some more for my fridge. 🙂

      But the alphabet crew and nasty (but I repeat myself) cancel crowd don’t have a sense of humor.

      Too many folks in DC’s special grey hotel are there for Internet comments ABOUT the Jan 6th “Event”. Most have been there in solitary confinement for 7 months until they break down and cop a plea for some minor crime (and lose their rights to the 2nd Amendment BTW).

      Sorry to say currently the 1st Amendment is dead in our courts of mis-law. They just use the magic words “Hate Crime” and even Snow White is in the grey hotel for something she did or didn’t do with the 7 dwarves.

      When things get real, you’ll know your real friends. The rest will sell you out for a lesser charge I fear.

  13. Groupthink-psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups.

    Irving Janis, 1972

    Avoid the comfort and safety über alles herd as much as you can and trust no one.
    Longing to exit the burbs that is being absorbed by the CPUSA capitol city blob but I can’t bail on an elder who took the jab and is in serious decline as the area gets enrichmentated.
    The Long Marchers are full of hubris and arrogance as they flail and fail everywhere because they are feckless faculty lounge freaks stuck on an obsolete 19th century ideology.
    Witness Saigon in Afghanistan as the Taliban enjoys free gear and sets up their sex slave harems and decapitates all the “interpreters” who weren’t able to read the tea leaves.
    Marxism is really about destroying working societies and systems while the true believers loot everything down to the foundations.

    1. Bring the elder with you. Sell now, the market is high.

      Stay away from crowds. The looting will start soon.

  14. You’re so right, John. None of us are even remotely done yet. In fact, we’re just getting started. I also believe we’re all connected. Not just by the internet, but in a more ethereal sense. And that, I believe, is where our power and sense of worth originates. Like your story suggests, we’re kinda jammed up on the mountain in bad weather. When we work together and utilize our talents, there’s not too many obstacles we can’t overcome. Now, let’s get back to the lodge, warm up the stove and have a sip o brandy.

  15. Damned inspiring, sir. Much appreciated.

    If you’re still above ground, still breathing, you are not done.

    This should be among our rallying cries.

    As Ohio Guy says, we’re just getting started.

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    The “Doomer” sentiment that is all too common is the work of the enemy, meant to demoralize.

    Most of us who are paying attention have already made our decision. There is no talking us out of fighting for liberty, whatever that may look like, & whatever the cost may be.

    For those who have made the other choice… “may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

    We will be the authors of our future.

    We will write the history of our times.

    We are not done.

    We are many.

    And we are just getting started.

    1. We can’t control everything around us. But we can control ourselves. Well said sir, we are our authors, we will write that history.

      We are not done. This is not over.

  16. Sir,
    Your comments about Canader are always appreciated. The BullS***-Artist-In-Chief is a real piece of work, but we shall see what happens in the upcoming ‘election’ here (Sept 20???)
    I have been thinking about the differences a lot lately; while the words and actions of my American brothers are inspiring and resolve-inducing, the fact is Canader is a rather different place. We do not have rights, enshrined in a document that everyone knows about (if not always agrees with). We have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but there is a notwithstanding clause in that document that enables any of the measures so enumerated to be abrogated at the whim of the government.
    Those, therefore, are not “rights and freedoms”, but “duties and privileges”. Very different things. The fact that they are sold as being equivalent is extremely disappointing.
    Since my government can act against me at will, the courts are no longer a place of redress, and the election system has now been shown to be, at the very least, a bit suspect, there is only one course left to me in case of serious oppression.
    And that time seems to approach a bit nearer with each sunrise.
    Since Justin has made most things into ‘hate speech’, and any dissent from the narrative is now considered evidence of the need for further re-education, an intolerable situation is slowly being assembled from the various components already created. Inch by inch (or silly-metre by silly-metre, for those in Quebec), ratchet-clicking itself into existence, the bricks are being placed in the Wall.
    And there is nothing to stop it. Not in Canader. The usual sources of help are themselves beset, and the process of marginalization is daily portrayed as just desserts because we are too stupid to get the shot (although this has not always been the explanation for this process; in other times, it was portrayed otherwise).
    What is to be done, then?
    My first duty is to my children. They will not get the shot. If I have to keep my son from school for longer, to eliminate any sneaky antics ‘for his own good’ on the part of the school, so be it. We are stocked and prepped to reduce our need to shop, if it comes to that. We have done everything we can to ensure our security.
    As horrible as the implications are ( and may God forgive me), our salvation lies in the onset of the consequences of the vaccination. When those who chose begin to die, the control group will remain as a source of comparison. The truth will then be in plain view and undeniable, although certain projections suggest we will be in limited company.
    When TPTB begin to be overtaken by events, as the crises converge, there will be great change. It’s direction, extent, and character shall only be clear at that time.

    Until then, we will stay beneath the radar as we can. When that is no longer possible, well… Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas.

    Thanks John. We really appreciate your site, and the form your part in this is taking (for now). God Bless America, and all who would stand with Her.

    Mike in Canader

    P.S. A review of A Time For Choosing (27/10/64) is most illuminating. Reagan knew, even then, where this was headed…

    1. I think we are not in such dissimilar situations. We, in the US, share many of the same problems you lay out in your post. Laws, rights, institutions, all must eventually be defended, or else they can be taken by whoever has the power & boldness to *attempt* to take them. In reality, you only *have* what you are willing to defend. This is true for all people everywhere.

      So, sadly, I believe we liberty loving people of both nations are in the same boat. All safeguards that were meant to protect & defend laws, rights, institutions, & liberties have been corrupted & failed, save one. The final & most expensive one. While this is undoubtedly lamentable & not what any of us would prefer, there may be an as yet largely unrecognized opportunity that this otherwise unwelcome situation presents.

      One could write volumes on the details around this subject, but I’ll try to lay it out as succinctly as I can.

      .
      Some, such as Peter Zeihan, have suggested that the middle portions of Canada have more in common with the US than with the other coastal areas of Canada. It was even suggested that they might at some point have the desire to join the US. Alberta, in particular I believe it was, should they so choose, has the right to secede from Canada, as it is already written into their law. Perhaps offers of union will be proffered or requested in the future? Perhaps in the upcoming “festivities”, the liberty loving people of this continent will chose to unite with ALL of their neighbors in mutual defense of their “rights & freedoms”, whether that be officially or unofficially. They might choose to develop agreements, formal or informal, to join forces against ANY who would seek to abrogate their rights & freedoms, whether those threats be foreign or domestic. If governments choose not to respect liberty, these people might indeed decide they have more in common with each other than with their governments. These citizens might choose to reform those errant governments, in any number of different ways. They might choose to alter or even expand unions. They might take a number of measures to protect their security & their liberties. Even as governments may need to be reformed to better represent their people, instead of balkanization, maybe our union grows.

      There’s even been talk of the potential for a circumpolar civilization, an alliance uniting all of the civilizations that descended from the great Western civilizations, since we’re already culturally similar. That entity, a loose alliance of civilizations with a mutual interest in preserving the values & liberty common to all Western civilizations, would be the largest collection of people on the planet. (It would positively dwarf all other competitor cultures & nations, even the most populous.)

      All the people who are currently having their liberties taken from them in all of the Western civilizations around the world might be particularly amenable to such an alliance given the most unwelcome climate of tyranny being forced upon them. The world is already protesting & rioting intermittently in reaction to losses of liberty (scores & scores of videos showing this from around the world are posted here: https://twitter.com/ATLEASTDIETRYN – there were tons from the July 24th & 25th weekend in particular). Chirp Chirp Chirp!, as Hoyt might say.

      Of course, I’m just spit balling here. The point is, even though TPTB think they’re going to shred the old social & political order, they may not like what a liberty loving people with a shared cultural history in Western civilization choose to replace it with. They may believe that they’re weakening us, but they might simply be pushing us to choose to be stronger. Much stronger. And MUCH less tolerant of treachery, from anyone, anywhere. It wouldn’t be the first time in history that has happened.

      Mutual defense of liberty & self-determination & mutually beneficial trade alliances (reciprocal trade policies) between freedom loving peoples who already share a common history in Western civilization as well as similar values – Well, that doesn’t seem like such a crazy, far-fetched, or unworkable idea.

      How far Western civilizations with a common heritage & similar values, liberty loving peoples, might want to expand these alliances is an open question. In the current climate, facing what we face, I think it’s one worth asking & exploring.

      Maybe it’s time to restore liberty throughout the whole of Western civilization.

      .
      We are not alone. People want liberty all around the world.

      This fight is local, regional, national, continental, & global.

      There is no reason freedom loving peoples can’t, or shouldn’t, support one another in the fight for liberty.

      We’re just getting started.

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      Moreover, there is an undercurrent to this whole situation that often goes, either unrecognized, or insufficiently discussed.

      In an increasingly fragile world, a world purposely designed without redundancies, the power to disrupt is king. Opportunities to disrupt are nearly everywhere. Those with superior numbers have superior power to disrupt, & as such, superior power, should they choose to exercise it.

      The petty tyrants who wish to extinguish the flame of liberty are weak & vulnerable & they know it. Control is slipping through their fingers. This is why they grow increasingly reckless & strident. They are in an existential fight that they know they are losing. It will be us or them, & they know it. This is why it’s getting ugly & will only get uglier. It’s why they openly break the law, do everything with great haste, perform sloppily, & project a never-ending stream of propaganda that is in not even remotely believable or effective. These are their death throes. But they will most certainly try to take us with them. Wounded animals are dangerous.

      And one final thing which arouses their hatred, pettiness, & contempt perhaps more than everything else; the one thing for which they can never forgive us because it reminds them every second of every day how useless, undeserving, & loathsome they are:

      We make things run. They do nothing but suck up useful resources that would be better spent elsewhere. If they disappeared tomorrow, the world wouldn’t even notice.

      They need us. We don’t need them. We know it. They know it. And they know that we know they know it. And *that* terrifies them. The great replacement is going to end up looking a whole lot different than they envisioned.

      1. Chris, wow. I met Peter Zeihan a few years ago. Nice name drop.

        Okay, I went over to your blog. Drop me a line if you’d like my commentary.

        1. Will do, sir! You can give me the scoop on the real Peter Zeihan.

          I hear he’s actually a tall Asian women in person.

          1. With six fingers on each hand.

            Nah, it was on the rubber-chicken circuit. Show up, make speech, get $20K, yak with the conventioneers.

    2. Thank you, Mike, my Canadabro!

      The time is coming closer. I only wish it had come when I was 18 or 20. But that is not my mission. This is.

      Again, thank you.

  17. I always think of the exploits of your very young (later admiral)David Farragut during the actions against the Barbary pirates and what he was expected to do as a young teenager.Research it .Times have changed.

  18. Good Morning John,

    I would like to say “Thank You”. I believe you are doing the Good Work and helping us understand by providing perspective and insight. There are so many voices that have gone silent over the last five years that I make it a point to share my appreciation. I suspect it will only get harder to say “Good Job” and “Thank You” in the coming months.

    One day, I would love to take y’all out for some Goode Company BBQ or Lulling City Market BBQ in your old stomping grounds. Two engineers talking over pounds of brisket and a gallon of ice tea can be mighty bit of fun. If you are in the Houston area, please let me know because I’d seriously like to buy you dinner. Drop me a note if you would.

    You are a sane voice in an increasingly chaotic world. Once again, thank you and you make a difference.

    – Brian

    1. Goode Company! I’ve been there with a buddy. You’re on. I’ve not been down that way in a year or more, and don’t see that it will be on the agenda soon. If I do get that way, though, I’ll hit you up. (you’ll have to send me an email)

      Thank you for the kind comments. Writing this keeps me sane in that insane world. Plus? I get to watch movies that The Mrs. doesn’t like while I write.

      F=MA

  19. Conspiracy is so essential a condition of an organiztion of this kind that all other conditions…must be made to conform with it.

    What Is To Be Done, Vladimir Lenin, 1902.

    The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag…the Americans Will hoist it themselves.

    John Stormer, None Dare Call It Treason, 1964, Page 9.

    I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are communists.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  21. “Except for the interstate highways. Those are actually pretty cool”.

    The leader of that creation and Smedley Butler said the same thing, “beware the military industrial complex”.

    I wish I had the motivation to add up all the wasteful trillions of taxpayer dollars put into infrastructure spending bills passed in congress since Ike, only to end up with the shit we have now.

    It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.

    1. You have to beware of concentrations of money and power. They will never be on your side.

      I wish we had the money we spent in Afghanistan and Iraq back.

  22. Late to the party here and haven’t the time to read all the (no doubt) great comments.

    Here’s my (non-exhaustive) list of actions to (eventually) re-build a free nation:

    1. Start local by paying attention to who you vote for. Find out where they stand on freedom and liberty (everyone, from dog catcher to school board to mayor). Don’t just take their word for it. Be suspicious of their answers. Due diligence is required on your part because these are politicians, which means they will usually lie if it helps them. Pay particular attention when electing county sheriffs because if they are strongly on the side of liberty it means you already have a base upon which to build a safe and free region

    2. Get out of large cities. Cities are dangerous places these days, and if yours isn’t yet, it will be soon.

    3. If you can take the heat, run for office and establish your credentials as a freedom supporter, moving up from there.

    4. Engage people in discussions when possible. Forget the nut job activists, there’s no point talking to them. But there are LOTS of people keeping quiet these days who are naturally inclined towards freedom, they just need to be awakened.

    5. Stay off social media. It’s a cesspool, and you don’t win converts there, you only get monitored and “friended and/or followed” by Feds on fishing expeditions.

    6. Get armed and trained.

    7. Get/Stay fit.

    8. Lose weight, you Fatty! (talking to myself here)

    9. Build up supplies.

    10. And if it comes to it: S.S.S.

    1. Steve, you’re never late. You have the Wilder Hall Pass of Never Late. I’ll emboss it with something you draw.

      1. In Mayberry, I know personally all of the elected city officials by name (and they me) and more than one school board official (who texts jokes to me). Know them.

      2. YES!!!!! The best time is 10 years ago. The second best time is tomorrow.

      3. Please do.

      4. Find our people and bring them together.

      5. Yes.

      6. With lots of ammo.

      7. I’m in shape. Round is a shape. But I agree 100%.

      8. Round is still a shape.

      9. And then build up more supplies.

      10. Pull the spent bullet first. Shotguns have some advantages there.

  23. We here can all be considered domestic terrorists according to US intelligence’s latest proclamation. I suppose I definitely am, since I bought two My Pillows and three Dr. Seuss books.

  24. Thank you for writing this John. I firmly believe that for a lot of people, this weekend has served as a Rubicon which, once crossed, will never be the same again. In point of fact more and more will realize that there is no point in trying to rebuild the old; it is worthless and failed. Only the new, the future, hold hope – in a real way like the explorers of old.

    Here there be monsters indeed.

    I am trying to reacquaint myself with strategy and am rereading Truppenfuhrer, the German Army’s field manual. This quote spoke to me – it is in the very beginning, in the introduction:

    ” The first criterion in war remains decisive action. Everyone, from the highest commander down to the youngest soldier, must constantly be aware that inaction and neglect incriminate him more severely than any error in the choice of means.”

  25. #2 funniest thing I ever heard at work… Was working in service dept.at a GM dealer. Older guy walks in and says…”I’m havin’ trouble with my Jimmy.” How am I supposed to respond to that without making it worse(better)? My response…”Sir, are you having your Jimmy serviced regularly?”

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