It’s Mourning In America

Bless you, Sarge. Until the end, there is the good fight. But boy is it hard to pray for one’s enemies. So I pray for their defeat and then their conversion.

Question: Will America take all this lying down? Open question.

Lucy: Great idea!

Michael: Absolutely. Unless they get tired of Antifa. Americans have zero backbone and I’ve heard about that 2nd Amendment for years, and not a **** thing has happened. It’s past action and into submission. Hey, Americans hate their kids, give them to the government to raise and seem intent on making the future hell to get even with the little monsters. So yeah, lying down on the politics.

I’m not worried about Joe. Everyone panicked when Obama won another term. Yet we are still here. Joe’s use of Executive Orders tells us the Dems DO NOT HAVE CONGRESS or they’d be passing laws. The EO’s are word salad, as is common among the Dems. It’s Antifa that will eventually save America, either by burning it to the ground and forcing a do-over or starting a war. Joe is irrelevant, as is Kami.

So in-other-words, you are grievously mourning the loss of 1930s Germany in America.

Sheri–well said. The coming of Biden is the enthroning of Satan in America. Evil will be celebrated, good condemned.

Nah. One would have to first grasp 1930s Germany to understand why it can’t pass here because it was not here in the first place. I recommend Evans’ The Third Reich in Power and Lukacs’ The Last European War for background.

As a non communist white Traditional Catholic Federal employee, I am immediately concerned with the face burqua mandate. Up until now it has only been necessary in common areas – hallway, break room, etc. I’ve managed to sort of wear it, keeping it under nose unless passing a known Branch Covidian. But now?Not so sure I can comply. Will be considering options.

Trump was out of office less than 3 hours and the MSM were already shrieking in unison about the ISIS boogeyman.

“Still, there is no theory more certain sure than that the debased must needs have an enemy. It doesn’t have to be a real enemy, but it does have to be a distraction-worthy enemy. It can be Trump and Trump supporters for a few weeks, yes.”

No question.

Eric Hoffer described it thusly, speaking of the rabid fanaticism of the “True Believer:: “Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.” For the last 4 years+, Trump, indeed was that Devil.

And since — for the True Believers — they were battling Satan, no tactic was forbidden, no course of action out of bounds, no ‘means’ which could not be pursued to achieve the Glorious End. That End, of course, the fall & ruin of the Devil Trump….and all his henchmen (and henchwomen)…and the media which had the temerity to NOT vilify him…and all those who spoke in favor of ANYTHING he himself preferred — be that border security, a strong military, free speech, the Anti-1619 Project, the end to Lockdowns, election security…anything.

Hoffer goes on: ““The enemy—the indispensible devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. He plots both outside and inside the ranks of the faithful. It is his voice that speaks through the mouth of the dissenter, and the deviationists are his stooges. If anything goes wrong within the movement, it is his doing. It is the sacred duty of the true believer to be suspicious. He must be constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, spies and traitors.” And now — good news for every Progressive out there — they have the Insurrection, the Palace Coup, the White Supremacist (THE most dangerous terrorist movement in the whole gosh-darned world!) Treasonous Rebellion!!!

Sure this summer the Righteous did burn down major chunks of any number of American cities, injuring 2000 policemen, killing 19, and causing $2B worth of property damage…..but that pales in comparison to the shudder-worthy image of the monster with his feet on Nancy’s desk. THE HORROR.

As Mephistopheles to Faust: “Why this is Hell, nor are WE out of it.”

At least Trump ruined Hilary’s life (though not as much as he should have – waited far too long to start getting serious about releasing classified info related to the Russia collusion hoax, among other things; and should have pursued prosecutions for all involved. He didn’t go near far enough in draining the swamp).

Trump also made great strides on the pro-life front (undoubtedly the most pr-life President ever in terms of action and results, despite many doubting his pro-life bona fides when he first ran since he was a somewhat late convert), especially internationally with the Geneva Consensus Declaration (which Biden will of course attempt to destroy), and also in fighting against racist CRT indoctrination (though he also took too long on that, at least he brought it to the forefront of attention). But it’s all for naught, as Biden has already reversed the CRT EO and I’m sure he’s got PP cranking up the abortion mills to full capacity as we speak. In light of last year’s DACA ruling, the GOP should fight every Biden EO in court and find some GOP judge somewhere to issue nationwide injunctions like leftist judges did all the time to try to thwart Trump admin actions…but that would require the GOP suddenly growing a spine.

Trump and the GOP should also have taken action long ago on Section 230, and since Big Tech favors the Left, we can be sure nothing will be done now at all, and Tech censorship, deplatforming, and monopolistic consolidation will continue apace (though perhaps international action may force changes despite the US admin being in bed with Big Tech, since many overseas are becoming alarmed at the extent to which they and their own people’s speech and access to tech are in control of a handful of US monopolists).

Oh, and he was the first President in 40 years not to start or otherwise get us entangled in any new wars. The swamp military-industrial complex, and the creatures enjoy revolving door between the Pentagon and arms manufacurers really despised him for that! But, no worry, I’m sure the new Secretary of “Defense” for Raytheon will fix that problem. Any bets on which country gets bombed first? I’ll go with Syria [Saw a darkly funny cartoon yesterday: At the top was a recent Biden tweet from November saying “America is back.” Below was little wojak labelled “Syrian Children,” and over his head was a US bomber decorated in LGBT rainbow colors with slogans like “BLM” and “Love Wins” painted on the sides as it rained down bombs on little wojak below].

I expect the Left and the mainstream media to act as they do. What angers me most about the Trump years is the way so many supposedly on the right, not only fellow GOP politicians, but also media figures like Dreher, Douthat, French, the whole NRO/TAC and Never Trump crowd basically…went out of their way to thwart so much of Trump’s agenda themselves. I think some of them, like Dreher, actually have some sort of psychological addiction to losing. They love being in the role of Cassandra, playing prophet of doom, fanning the flames of the culture war and turning it into a profitable gig…but when it looks like possibly winning on some fronts, suddenly they balk at anyone who dares take action or support those who do, and instead lament the alleged loss of “decorum” (decorum in US politics went out the window by 1992 at the latest) or lack of respect for “muh dumbocratic norms and procedures,” cravenly accept mass election fraud, and the spout blasphemous nonsense about the Capitol as the “sacred temple of democracy.” They’d rather be praised by the NYT-NPR crowd – whose acceptance they desperately crave – for their reasonableness, moderation, etc. read “capitulation to the Left” – than actually accomplish anything for the Right. I think people like Dreher would actually rather have Biden cranking up the abortion mills and pushing CRT so long as he doesn’t send mean Tweets like icky Trump and instead spouts kumbaya nonsense about “unity” and “overcoming divisiveness,” and occasionally throws in a scripture or saint reference to pretend he’s really a devout Catholic, etc. (in Left paralance of course, “unity” and “overcoming divisiveness” means everyone accepting the Left’s agenda!).

Now that you mention global cooling/warming…About a pair of years ago, I heard an interview with a supposed world top climate scientist. She spread what I considered surprisingly baseless fearmongering for about 20 minutes, and at a particular moment in that interview, the host asked her if present era´s temperatures have no match in previous ones. Now, this was astounding: the conversation went on with something like:
–“Oh, well, there was no ice in the arctic, we found rests of baobabs there, and Spain was a tropic, and there are many more examples…So yeah, temperatures were much higher than today in several periods in history…”
–“OK. Then, why this alarmism now?”
–“Well, because at that time we were not there. Now we are, so we have to do something”…

While the first lines are quite accurate, the punchline IS literal. Believe it or not, that was a “world top climate scientist” example on how you can create a world scientific trend based on a premise, then destroy it yourself in national radio, and end up babbling the most stupid thought you can get from your muddy mind, knowing that you will win anyway.

So now that we are trained in lunatic global waves, it is going to be reeeeeally interesting to see how the same dudes blackmailing scientists who didn´t buy the climate lunacy are going to blackmail the same people with the opposite argument. I mean, if the Apocalypse is coming, let it come with some fun…Just imagine Miss Greta Thunberg. Just imagine her forehead vein while she shouts at the NATO headquarters that we can´t afford the sudden decrease in temperature. Oh, my…

Dennis – I won’t comment on much of your post, but the past year and a half has proven that Dreher specifically is more concerned with being right about his prophecies of inevitable doom and persecution than with doing anything to stop them, including mild legislation. I have been reading his blog the better part of a decade now, and every post over the past year-plus ends with “and there will be a social credit system to clamp down on dissent as part of soft totalitarianism”, and that doing anything to prevent it will bring it upon us even faster.

He’s even allowing over the past several months for the very real possibility that this surveillance will be used to bring state and paramilitary violence against dissenters, including moderate Christian conservatives like himself, but he insists on calling this “soft totalitarianism”. At what point would he just call it totalitarianism, whether soft or hard? At what point does he say, “No, I won’t accept this”? He’s a popular blogger with a big following, why doesn’t he organize a large campaign to petition GOP legislators, and it doesn’t even have to be federal as it could be done at the state level, to introduce the legislation he wants? Because that’s hard work and would actually accomplish something, he’d rather write all day crying about coming persecution and how there’s nothing that can be done to stop it.

Oh dear, Leftist Yankees seeing Nazi’s behind every blue checkmark. Their Chinese overlords will have such fun with them.

““OK. Then, why this alarmism now?”
–“Well, because at that time we were not there. Now we are, so we have to do something”…

It’s always driven me nuts that almost no one ever confronts climate change alarmists with the fact that there has always been climate change since the earth was formed, including massive changes in eras when there could have been no possible anthropogenic aspect to it as they claim now. Just like this person being interviewed, it’s always assumed that “we must do something” (sound familiar? Just like with a virus that 99.98% survive contact with) and they are almost never pushed to really justify their alarmism (not that I expect anything from the media other than helping top push alarmism in countless areas). This desire by politicians and so-called “experts” to constantly “do something” about everything causes far more trouble than doing nothing in many cases. As Pascal said, “All mankind’s misery derives from not being able to sit quietly alone in a room.”

Dennis: “This desire by politicians and so-called “experts” to constantly “do something” about everything causes far more trouble than doing nothing in many cases. As Pascal said, “All mankind’s misery derives from not being able to sit quietly alone in a room.”,

Exactly. With all its intrinsic difficulties, life flows relatively easy when we don´t try to manipulate the stream like crazy beavers in steroids, which is what we increasingly get from whoever has the power to do it.

Spence: You are correct sir. And right on cue, Dreher’s latest (I really have been trying to wean myself from wasting time on him and several others lately, I promise! Once things settle down a bit form the initial impact of the Biden early days onlslaught, I really do need to cut back on my intake of some news sites, blogs, etc….and just sit in a room quietly as Pascal recommmends) complains about Biden’s EO today implementing more woke trans ideology, especially in schools and athletics. Oh but isn’t it nice, as Dreher tweeted yesterday, that Biden “speaks like, and comes across as, a normal human being” when making his cultural drone strikes instead of saying mean or sarcastic things on twitter!

But let’s cut the guy some slack…he’s huddled in a corner jonesing for Ambien and shivering with fear that Covid might be in the air! (His unquestioning acceptance of the mainstream Covid narrative has done more than anything in the past year to shatter my overall respect for him and his analytical/intellectual abilities and insights).

Sheri/ Michael –

Keep in mind a more robust America surrendered its gold some 90 years ago.

Dear Professor,
Is it rude to intrude into an American wake? Coming from rural Ireland where we celebrated death just as earnestly as birth, i penned the following little piece of doggerel.

THE STEALERS

RIP America
It is sad to see you go
The way of past great empires
For to you a debt we owe;
A light in the great darkness
You kept satan in his place,
A bastion of freedom
Guardian of the human race.

But while you were distracted
The deceiver took your youth,
They were indoctrinated
Contradicting Christian truth;
Now they have taken over
As their teachers had conspired,
The marxist coup completed
Without any bullet fired.

We get to twenty twenty
With the great election fraud,
Many dead ones voted twice
More imported from abroad;
Total votes do not matter
Just ignore your vast amount,
We’ve decided on the winner
We manipulate the count.

Old Joe O’Bama’s senile
He is just an avatar,
It’s Harris ‘they’ have chosen
As the Chinese rising star;
When ailing Joe is sectioned
Into his shoes she’s poised to jump,
The coup de gras accomplished
They’ve got rid of Donald Trump.

It fits the melody of “I’m a Good Old Rebel” perfectly. Too bad Hoyt Axton isn’t around anymore to sing it….