A question. What exactly is “total systems failure”? – Star Trek, TNG
Joe Biden doesn’t know the meaning of the word “failure” – dementia already got to that one.
Over my life, I’ve seen some things go well, and I’ve seen some things go bad. In many cases, I’ve seen them go spectacularly bad. In one particular example a zillion years ago, the ground was muddy.
Mud wasn’t that bad, right? Except that the railroad ties the diesel tank was sitting on sank in a bit too much. The 500 gallon diesel tank then tipped right over. Okay, you can clean diesel up, right?
But the tank nozzle fell on onto a hard object, which snapped it right off. The diesel began to pour out of the tank. What had the diesel tank fallen on? An oxygen cylinder from a welding rig. Snapped that nozzle off, too.
What luck!
So, now, I’m 40 feet away from pure oxygen being slammed into diesel fuel, and creating a fine mist of oxygen and diesel in the air.
That’s what’s generally known as a fuel-air bomb, if only it had an ignition source. Oh, and there was a red-hot air compressor exhaust pipe not 20 feet away.
I always stop my microwave at 0:01, so I feel like a bomb defusing expert.
It was weird, standing there in the mud as the diesel mist spread out. Everyone just stopped and stared. I didn’t.
I’ve always had this weird thing – whenever there’s an emergency my emotions shut down and I become focused on one thing only: the emergency. No fear, no hesitation, just action. It’s like the world becomes exceptionally clear. Time slows down. My mind focuses.
I yelled and pointed, “Turn off that air compressor. NOW!”
I’m not sure I’ve ever yelled louder before or since. The spell was broken. The guy near the compressor heard me above the engine and the hissing, and shut the compressor off.
Thankfully, the high-pressure oxygen wasn’t just pushing the diesel – it was also pushing the mud and water into the air, too. So it wasn’t just a thin mist of atomized diesel – it was a thin mist of atomized diesel, water, and mud.
That small bit of luck (which caused the problem in the first place) might have saved us all.
After the tank stopped hissing, they started cleaning up. Then, the emotions came to the forefront. I went back to my office and took a deep, deep breath, and let it out very slowly and cleaned the oil the thin mist had deposited on my glasses.
I had nearly become thin mist myself, but even then I still would have been more coherent than AOC’s understanding of economics.
I only make AOC jokes Ocasio-nally.
Often, there’s just a single path to success. It takes a lot of work to get everything working, all at the same time.
Failure isn’t that way. Often, just a single failure when almost everything is going right can cause a cascade of failure.
But we’re beyond that as a nation, and we’re beyond that as a world.
In my list, the items are sometimes causes, and sometimes effects of other causes on the list. It’s probably not as relevant today as to what caused the crisis, but what the effects of the crisis are. In many cases, the effects are wildly larger than the initial cause was. I mean, all she did was ask me if those pants made her butt look big.
For example, I think we can all agree that COVID is bad, but the loss of freedom caused by COVID has the potential to be much, much worse.
- COVID – this is the grand-daddy of the current crisis, or more accurately, the spark that lit the fire of 2020. Many of the following issues are the result not of the virus, but from our reaction to it. At every step, it seems like the official response has been misguided, and has created innumerable knock-on effects. Just like eliminating warts with a welding torch, the cure has been much, much worse than the disease.
We knew COVID was dangerous right off the bat.
- Inflation – This was going to happen even if COVID never showed up. In the last fifty years, the national debt has doubled just about every eight or nine years. Doubling is a great thing if it’s my bank balance. Doubling is not a great thing if it’s how much I owe, especially if I’m not doubling how much I make. But to add ten or so trillion dollars in six months? Yeah, that’s going to show up somewhere. And it’s now.
- Supply Chain Issues – This was started by COVID, but is now exacerbated by inflation and international issues. Who knew that the United States manufacturing economy was almost entirely dependent upon chips from Taiwan? Who knew we could make trucks and tractors but we couldn’t make them run without those chips? Oh, and the cost of those chips is going to go up by at least 20%. Why? Because they can, and because they want to have a good cash balance in their accounts when they flee after China is done measuring the island to see if their stuff fits.
Taiwan gets in trouble because it has a Taipei personality.
- Reserve Currency Status – As I’ve established before, the ability of the United States to just print money at will and have people in the Ukraine take it and send us steel slabs is like alchemy. We’ve even turned it more modern – we don’t bother to print the money, we just electronically wave it into existence. We send those digits to Ukrainians, and they give us stuff. If the Ukrainians and everyone else decide they don’t believe in magic? You know what they call a magician without magic: Ian.
- Loss of Freedom in the “West” – I look at the news out of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia and think, “Seriously? You’re putting up with that?” And they do, mostly. The Aussies use drones to find people camping far from anyone so they can arrest them for not being under lockdown. I could go on and on about this topic (and will in the future) but Claire has a great summary here (LINK). This is especially weird to me, since here in Modern Mayberry life is, more or less, exactly like pre-‘Rona life. High school football game? Zero masks. Except for my duck. I bought him one. It fits the bill.
- International Breakdown – Afghanistan is a sign to the world – the United States has no military ability, or at least no military ability that it’s able to use effectively. Leaving bases (and the main airport) under the cover of darkness while abandoning American citizens to the Taliban? What does Biden call that? I’d hate to see his version of failure, since it would likely involve him somehow figuring out how to crack the crust of the world open so he could sniff a little girl’s hair.
At least we know one group that Joe is willing to fight for.
- Immigration – Millions of illegals have streamed over the borders like there was a Black Friday sale on. Does the Left require COVID vaccination for them? It’s not only illegal immigration, it’s legal immigration. In 2021 the United States has the largest proportion of newly arrived (first generation) citizens in history. Ever – as near as I can tell (based on things like MIT studies) something like 17% of the people in the United States weren’t born here. Some, I assume, are nice people. But how many can we take in before the United States ceases to be the United States?
- Loss of Social Cohesion – This is an effect, but it’s got tons of causes. Changes in technology. Changes in demographics. Changes in beliefs. A group believing what nearly every (90%+) American did in 1990 or 1890 or 1790 would be considered a “potential domestic terrorist” today.
- Increased Polarity – Partially a result of the Loss of Social Cohesion, but also a result of decades of indoctrination of teachers by Leftists.
- Demoralization – I’ve sensed a greater degree of resignation that it’s “over”. It’s not over. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
- Moral Collapse – It seems like the current worldview is, “if it isn’t illegal, it’s moral.” And anything that was illegal? There’s a group trying to make it legal. Shoplifting? It’s fine in San Francisco.
In the fall of 2021, the situation for the world is dire. Some of the threads of this web were woven over 100 years ago, some this year. Together, though, they form a pattern that will be hard to escape.
Back when NASA® had a countdown that didn’t go . . . 6…5…4…3…2…1…LUNCH!
When the diesel tank fell on the oxygen cylinder, in most normal worlds I would have become a diffuse cloud of Wilder paste. Not that time. Even though the world would never be the same as it was before the diesel tank fell, my world didn’t end.
Life will be different. Some of the chaos listed above cannot be avoided: many bills will have to finally be paid.
Don’t cry for the civilization we lost.
Times of change like this have come before. Collapses have occurred. People carry on, and in some cases produce better, stronger civilizations than ever went before.
The world that emerges will be a new one. Let us make it a great one.
FYI: This will be the topic of a livestream with Mark and The Mrs. on September 1, 2021 at 9pm Eastern. It will be here: (Bombs and Bants Livestream).
You wanna talk about impending total system failure in America? Think water.
https://www.progress.org/articles/us-agriculture-will-collapse
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-04-17/us-west-prepares-for-possible-1st-water-shortage-declaration
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/groundwater-decline-and-depletion?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/west-snow-fail/
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/11/can-water-megaprojects-save-the-us-desert-west-part-1/
By “West” they really mean California. (California has three seasons – Spring, Fire, and Mudslide. This comes as a surprise every single year.)
The solution to this is to cut off the water to California and put troops on the border with “shoot to kill” orders.
“By “West” they really mean California. (California has three seasons – Spring, Fire, and Mudslide. This comes as a surprise every single year.”
It’s mainly only ever a surprise to the misbegotten millions of toothless banjo-playing kinfolk, primarily Leftards (both the country club variety, and the trailer trash genus), from the Other 47 who’ve latched on here like leeches, and from Points Farther Afield. Boo frickin’ Hoo. They provide entertainment to natives hereabouts in the same way people from Bahstun and NYFC entertain the locals in the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, etc., and flatlanders entertain the local hillfolk from the Canadian Border to Southern Georgia. City bumpkin dumbasses suffering for their stupidity are a tale as old as time.
But the drought is affecting every state that draws water from the Colorado, for openers.
Lake Mead, last I heard, is at record lows, and about to cease power operations via Hoover Dam.
Ask Vegas what that means for power prices for The Strip.
Four Corners farming? Maybe not so much of that either.
And I hear rumblings and grumblings that things in the normally wet and wild PNW aren’t so nifty either.
Mostly total watershed mismanagement in all cases, not least of which is the utter foolishness of importing the rest of the country westward for decades, but still a problem everywhere.
“cut off the water to California“.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in eons! Seriously.
Were you going to put up offshore nets to catch the clouds drifting in off the Pacific, and giant fans to blow them elsewhere, or what?
I only ask because that’s where CA gets 95% or so of its water supply, ultimately.
And when Mexico (let alone most of western Arizona) points out the problems with that plan, were you going to invade there next, or just wait for the revolution to percolate all the way to whatever idiot’s hometown thought that one up before you step in?
And didja figure you’d start unloading all those container ships and tankers in Nebraska? Or did you imagine that when water gets cut off, food and supplies from CA, and the rest of the world, would continue to flow eastward unimpeded?
Troops on the border? Shoot to kill? Pffft. You can’t even pull that off now, in by-God TEXAS. Good luck anywhere else. If you can’t get ‘er done there, that idea is over anywhere. That’s before we talk about you being outnumbered by about 40:1. Trying this from outside isn’t going to go the way you envision, but you’d cement the entire state, including the part east of I-5 that votes redder than a sunburned pig, into something you saw last month in Afghanistan. So probably not the sort of cunning plan you were looking for.
You may as well propose sawing the state off by hand, and letting it drift away in the Humboldt Current. It’s about as likely or sensible.
Sorry to point it out, but if you’re going to try satiric hyperbole on the order of Swift’s A Modest Proposal, you’re going to need a bit more literary polish, and maybe think it through just a tad farther.
Just saying.
Reminds me of this classic:
http://stonetoss.com/comic/triggered/
Water is the one that scares me on a personal level even though we have had an extremely rainy summer and there are bodies of water all around us.
The elephant in the room is importing new Americans in record numers to require that water.
So yeah. Things are goung to get interesting.
Codex,
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As a kid during the 1960s, we loaded vans with kids to explore Baja California.
Kayaking, hiking, then later, SCUBA and sailing.
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At the north end of the Sea Of Cortez, the Colorado River estuary was hundreds of square miles of rich diversity, a healthy eco-system developed over millions of years.
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As early as the mid-1990s, that former feeder to many thousands of Mezkins and uncountable millions of migratory birds — a barren sand-dune, the only movement… dust-devils.
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The culprit for this economic, cultural, and eco-system apocalypse?
Americans pulling water from the Colorado to drench the booming metropoli of Phoenix and the never-ending san angles / los diego conglomerate.
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An aside:
Any dam is engineered to create a reservoir.
As rivers slow behind the dam, sediment drops.
The former floor of the canyon rises, decreasing the storage capacity.
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Near Sacramento California, Folsom Dam is millions of tons of concrete.
Viewed from downstream, the canyon is imposing, unscalable without mountaineering skills and specialized technical equipment.
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Looking up, anybody would believe the reservoir behind that dam could contain decades of drinking water for the Sacramento region.
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A few hundred yards upstream of the dam, Beale’s Point campground offers a different perspective.
Miles across that former canyon, the reservoir is filled nearly to the top of the dam by sediment.
Anybody can easily walk shore-to-shore across gravel dunes.
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The reservoir capacity is a tiny fraction of the original specs.
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Six miles east of Cottage Grove, Oregon, Dorena Dam is a yuge earth structure across a canyon.
Two miles upstream at the closed Rat Creek boat-ramp, the reservoir is filled with sediment, the Row River a tiny creek-size trickle.
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I can reasonably surmise similar decreases in water storage happen behind every dam.
This hidden catastrophe is rarely mentioned during drought discussions.
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Show of hands:
* how many remember the Bush Family purchase of thousands of square miles in South America (Uruguay?) because of the limitless drinking water sources?
Paraguay. Largest untapped reservoir in the world. Lots of the megarich have been investing as if they think water and food will be in short supply soon…
Added to the livestream. Great point.
It’s a bit curious that flu cases are in the low thousands during the covid pandemic. Why is that? There’s been no explanation as far as I can tell. Lockdowns sure as hell didn’t work, so now we’re looking at more of the same. Oh yeah, it’ll work this time. Sounds a bit like socialism not being done right, but we’ll do it so it’ll work this time.
I think UV lighting would go a long way toward controlling the Kung Flu. An NP of my acquaintance says surgical instruments are disinfected using UV at the medical facility where she works. Any thoughts on this would be welcomed.
Boeing has tested applying UV to aircraft. I don’t know that any airline has bought a system. Works quite well although is hazardous to skin and eyes (polycarbonate stops it). I have surprised the plastics tolerate it since the intensity is fairly high. Of course it only works on what the UV directly strikes. The CDC finally came back and said that surface transmission is not a serious risk. UV is effective on the particles in the air such as within the air handler. Equally important is the air flow, either from above and down, or the other way. Most air systems are largely laterally which is effective at contaminating everyone.
“flu cases are in the low thousands”
More like low hundreds hereabouts.
“no explanation”
Masks, hand washing, social distancing, and manic use of surface disinfecting wipes makes respiratory viruses lonely failures.
“UV lighting”
Been in place for years in some hospital waiting rooms. Dunno about efficacy, though.
Masks, hand washing, social distancing, and manic use of surface disinfecting wipes makes respiratory viruses lonely failures.
…But not the Severe Acute Respiratory Corona Virus 2019
Huh.
Funny old world.
It helps that the PCR test to detect Covid can’t distinguish between colds, flu, or the Wuhan Gurgling Death, which is why the FDA (might have been the CDC) is retiring it at the end of the year.
Not an endorsement, just his theory is interesting (and reasonable)
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-disappearance-of-influenza
It does not account for all the people PCR’d with Coronachan, who turned out to have the flu (H1N1 was rampant in early 2020)
In one case (Aoril 2021), a woman spent ten days in hospital, tested several times for the CCPox, (this was pre-PCR) and barely survived. Today, she would have been slaughtered by The CDC Protocol getting PCR’d with Wuhan Gurgling Death, and had her ‘flu untreated.
Wierd times.
“It’s a bit curious that flu cases are in the low thousands during the covid pandemic. Why is that? There’s been no explanation as far as I can tell.”
Srsly?!?!? No Explanation? Other than shutting down all schools and businesses nationwide for months (keeping tens of millions of human not-so-smart-bomb pandemic petri dishes aged 3-70 confined in their own domiciles instead of spreading virus like Johnny Appleseed with a backpack leaf blower and a coal sack chock-a-block full of virus), requiring face masks, social distancing, and using hand sanitizer and disinfectants nationwide for months on end by the literal millions of rail tanker car metric fucktons, there’s no wild idea how the flu might have been scotched last year into single digits locally, and few thousand total cases nationwide. Mirabile dictu! Almost as though Pasteur’s Germ Theory might have been onto something.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
“So, besides aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths, safety, order, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?.”
The comedy scenes write themselves.
Nothing personal, SWVaguy. But the next guy anywhere seriously musing “I can’t figure out why last year’s flu numbers were so low…” needs to be set on fire whilst still breathing, and the flames beaten out with sickles, hammers, and fire axes, to save the human race from their further procreation. And then go after their families, plus whatever incompetent imbeciles were entrusted with teaching them basic middle school science and health, who so abysmally failed to do so. It’s a national scandal, and at least half of the exact reason this nonsense hasn’t abated after a year and a half of Stupid Human Tricks, by an unbelievably large number of the entire population. Add in the maleficence of the perennially Power Hungry, and you have a perfect storm of endless catastrophe.
“But Mrs. Johnson, what good is any of this pointy-headed edumacation jazz ever going to do me for the rest of my life?”
“ Never mind all that book learning, Timmy. Go outside and play in the sandbox instead. Civilization always needs someone to dig the ditches and scrub the toilets.”
(/rant)
Flu was rebranded
A tiny bit of grammar Nazi-ism here: there’s “diffuse” and “defuse” (or “de-fuse”). A bomb usually diffuses itself just fine, with bits going everywhere. To defuse it is a job for an expert. Or a really lucky guy. I wouldn’t bring this to your attention, except that you say you want your readers to do so. Happy to do a little copy editing, assuming you’re collecting these excellent pieces for publication under the title “The Best of Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise, Volume 1.” You’ll make a gazillion dollars, which, next week, should just about cover the cost of a delicious Waffle House breakfast.
Fixed. Thank you!
Hear! Hear! Wilder collection FTW
Hahaha! (again, thank you)
I’ve been thinking about a book, but that’s all, really. Sooo much editing and re-writing . . .
The hope for a better future, one that most of us reading this will not live to see, is what keeps me going.
Ditto. We have to plant tress in whose shade we will never sit.
The controlled demolition and Fundamental Transformation into Zimbabwe for the former USA is a must have item for the inbred “elite” maggots who own every government and politician.
They will look out from their twenty foot walled McMansion sector over the favelas of deplorable kulak untermenschen scum.
Monthly cargo cult rations will be redistributed by the czar of resupply but some will be a little more equal than others and get first dibs.
Will external enemies play along and be a vassal rump state to Brussels/Tel Aviv/DC, or will they make a move when the stalking horse abomination the Kamal breaks the queef ceiling as preezy of the steezy?
Reminds me of a picture I once saw:
https://ibb.co/mX2qWXK
I think that China will follow Sun Tzu and just slowly absorb Taiwan as the international power of the United States slowly dissolves – first slowly, then all at once. Unless we get a Caesar.
I must have been sleeping in history class when they taught about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. Sure it wasn’t the White Supremacists?
https://youtu.be/V8lT1o0sDwI
Opie Odd
Fooooood fiiiight!
No, that was the parade . . .
I’ve been saying for a while that I believe we’re in one of those phases in history where “everything changes”. Like the period from 1912 to 1946. After WWII the whole world looked different than it did going into WWI. For the Brits, that wasn’t a welcome change. For the US, it was the beginning of a Golden Age.
Any thing you care to look at, it was changed.
I’m also not keen on martyring myself. People lived thru those events and emerged into the era after. If you are in a hurry to throw yourself on the spear points, by all means, do so, but I’d encourage you to think of some other way that might be more effective and leave you there to see the change after. (generic ‘you’)
We’ve already set foot on the path. We may have to run as fast as we can to stay ahead of the avalanche, if we’re in front of it. For some it may be possible to watch the avalanche from another ridge. Some will be in a village at the bottom of the slope who wake up and briefly wonder what the noise is. Perhaps VERY briefly. Some are going to be so far away they only hear that an avalanche happened, but most people in the western world are going to be downhill from the avalanche.
I’m hoping that when the dust settles, we do a better job than just stealing the blocks of the Parthenon to build our own shabby little huts.
nick
Refreshing optimism; we need more of it. I watched a video of a woman asking her Alexa what the population of Britain is. Alexa replied “67.9 million”. She then asked “What will the population of Britain be in 2025?” Alexa replied, according to [website I don’t recall] the population of Britain in 2025 will be 22.7 million.”
I’m in America; I like my odds.
Thank you, Mr. CHAMBERLAIN!
IdahoHunter
Nick, as usual, very well said. We have to face the future with knowledge, but with courage. No way out, but through.
“Don’t cry for the civilization that we lost…”
cry instead for the Communists who died peacefully in their sleep, fat, dumb, and happy, rather than gaping from the last sentient moments of a severed head, held at arm’s length by your outstretched hand, while their lifeblood dripped from the tip of your sword.
https://youtu.be/OBGOQ7SsJrw
I never tire of your wordcraft, sir. Nor yours, John. Quite the pair of Wordy McWordsmiths. May the Gods of Truth and Wrath always inspire your thoughts.
Thank you!
Well, now that you mention it, that does have quite a ring to it . . .
Regarding “Reserve Currency Status”… when I began writing scifi books about seven years ago, I did not want to go to the Well of Cliches to pull up yet another pandemic leading to the collapse of much of the civilized world. I thought to look at something most don’t – economics. Most don’t, of course, as it is a bullshit science and mind-numbingly boring. Anyway, the cornerstone of what becomes known as “the Breakup,” is the US’s loss of reserve currency status.
https://machciv.com/2021/07/09/podcast-5-prologue-of-foes-rivals/
You’re talking about the Petrodollar. Which will not give up the ghost easily or short of a nuclear exchange.
Russia, china, and others have been hard at work preparing to replace the petrodollar for some time. They have been doing small deals in native currencies for years. Now it looks like the Saudis are getting in on it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/inflation-skyrockets-us-russia-saudi-arabia-sign-agreement-ending-petrol-dollar-putting-us-dollar-economy-risk/
Things change. Before the agreement there wasn’t a petrodollar. It’s not a natural force or element. We can go back to not having oil “backed” currency.
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Okay, now that’s scary.
The petrodollar is why the dollar is the worlds’ reserve currency. Oil being priced in dollars is why the dollar has international value even without a Ft Knox of gold to back it up. It’s a double-edged sword of damocles though, because if the faith in the petrodollar ever fades then all the nations that have it as part of their reserves to back up their currency will rush to get rid of it. Most of those dollars would end up back in the US since other nations would also be trying to dump the dollar… leading to yet another source of massive inflation.
If you want a good source to read for a purely economic reason for collapse, check out Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies.” I’m pretty sure there are free pdf’s if you search.
video I haven’t watched since I read faster than he talks:
Clayton, it’s only boring if you don’t teach it using bikinis.
I look awful in a bikini, John.
Well, you have to consider the bikini wax. You don’t want to look like a Kardashian.
*** do not make me come over there! ***
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“I only make AOC jokes Osasio-nally”
Might this be different with ‘ocasio’ (aka o’casio)?
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Can somebody please explain the o’casio meme about capitalism?
I feel like such a lunkhead…
Marge – the “aoc” meme used only lower-case letters, in an “anti-capital-ist” expression.
Miz Marge, I did not get it either. Thanks Lathechuck!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!! It was late.
Wilder: You seem to have pressed someone’s hot button. Did it burn? MalWareBytes has now flagged your site for “phishing”. It sounds like my interaction with Karen at Amazon’s posting policies. Several reviews were rejected but then approved with a request. Next Bam! No more reviews and thousands of prior reviews all deleted in a second. My only guess: Karen hated me having the smile.amazon.com charity as Gun Owners of America.
So Karen at MalWareBytes has decided to make you her special project. Good luck. I put in another service request for it.
Thank you! Let me know if they cleared it.
I guess I’m over target???
Through the lens of History, I think 2020-2021 will come to be seen as a defining moment in history the way other moments are defined. Usually the outcome of those defining moments is not delightful.
Yup. Will there be an August 1914 moment?
Feels like it.
“Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city — or should I say, “our city.” I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes.
It might seem odd to you, but it makes perfect sense for us in this city. Everything you considered a product, has now become a service … Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me. All in all, it is a good life.”
Ida Auken, agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Yup. When I found her post/picture, it looked like she had very, very dead eyes.
“When a person has all the wealth that he can possible want or use for the pleasures of life, what is left? Power. Ladies and Gentlemen, they’re spending this money, this river of wealth is being used to acquire power. Over you, and me, and our children. They are literally buying up the world with it, and I don’t mean they’re buying up the real estate and the hardware; they’re buying up control, over the organizations, the institutions through which people live and act and rely on for leadership and opinion.”
G.Edward Griffin, Los Angeles, November 18, 1994.
Excellent quote. Thanks.
“Don’t cry for the civilization we lost.”
I pray that it gets lost faster than it already is.
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“But how many can we take in before the United States ceases to be the United States?”
That amount was reached decades ago. Perhaps over a century ago when we let in a certain group that seems to hate us to an unreasoning degree.
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“…a cascade of failure.”
The worst (best?) cascade that I’m looking forward to is the inevitable preference cascade.
“It’s people who believed they were alone in their beliefs who suddenly find out that they are part of a much larger group. It’s human nature to not want to be an oddball. It’s human nature not to want to be a one-man revolution. It’s when you find out that most of the people around you share your views that revolutions are made.”
https://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2011/04/american-preference-cascade.html
Failing early is generally better. There’s less energy built up. In this case we have built up a very large amount of energy.
Sir,
Regarding ‘Loss of Freedom In The West’…..
Here in Canada, where we have approximately 10% of your population, this whole china flu nonsense is largely confined to the cities. It’s an urban problem, driven by population density. The decisions that are being taken by government, at all levels, are therefore best suited to an urban situation.
The net result of this is that, out here in the fields where we live, the measures aren’t really affecting us to any great degree. At least, not yet.
Recently, the province of Ontario decided that a vaccine passport would be required to do things like eat at a restaurant, go to a live venue, or visit an art gallery. Since we do none of these things, the passport is of little moment.
There is a quiet part of my brain, though, that keeps adjusting the famous Niemoller (sp?) mantra…
“First, they said you couldn’t go to a restaurant without the vax, and I didn’t object because I remembered what Remus said about crowds…”
This is all getting a lot more surreal. Australia is a nightmare. The authorities are very lucky they thought to disarm everyone first.
Here in Canada, we shall see if Justin the Sock Puppet gets another government handed to him to play with.
Out here in the fields, we remain safe and free, for now. The cities will be hungry in another few months, though. This is very unfortunate.
Hey Mike,
It appears eternal vigilance is part of the price to be paid for Liberty, Freedom and Justice,
Steve
Mike, always great to hear from you. There are pockets of freedom out here – our elected officials know that they’d be run out on a rail if they stood in our way. How to we push this farther?
What? Did someone recently say Afghanistan collapsed? Bullshit, it is not on the news anywhere!
You know what they call a magician without magic:? Ian but that’s a boys name and I have seen some pretty good female magicians.
How did I goof leaving the punchline off!!!!