Posted on 04/27/2024 7:13:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“We’ll certainly never forget the dark days of June 6– January 6th, excuse me.” — President “Joe Biden”.
The plum blossoms are ready to pop here. You can feel your blood rising. The evening sun lingers a little longer every day. Normally you’d celebrate, but not this year of roaring portents and evil juju. History doesn’t stop to catch its breath for a moment. The tiny glowing diode deep in “Joe Biden’s” brain dims a bit more each day (pause) while low men and women in high places trifle with the fate of the nation. Everyone dreads what’s coming.
Which, judging by events of the week just past, looks like a worse summer of civil chaos than 2020 was. Some entity — say, the checkbook of George and Alex Soros, maybe? — has funded the spring mustering of student mobs in support of Hamas seeking to drive wicked Israel into the choppy Mediterranean. What you’re seeing, though, is probably not what you think you are seeing in all that. The kids are mere digits in a cultural algorithm playing out as New Age dumbshow.
I doubt that three-quarters of them actually give a flying fugazy about the Palestinians, and even fewer could find Gaza on a map if you water-boarded them. They affect to be intersectional victims of the universal oppressor, but in so far as many of the rioters are girls of the Ivy League, or comparable redoubts of privilege— little blue-eyed, blonde-haired muffins raised on pony club, Hermes, and artisan granola — there must be something else going on.
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Any time there are brownie points at stake, you know the game is actually for status, and where status is the game, fashion is the currency. Thus, the dress-up in Arab keffiyehs, the charming head-scarf denoting allyship with Hamas. Beats the heck out of those flitty N-95 masks from the 2020 Covid nights of roistering in the Seattle CHOP and trying to burn down the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland.
Rioting gives young men of the toxic persuasion opportunities to flaunt their moxie in acts of derring-do, brawling with the cops, dancing on top of cars, ripping down chain-link fences, flinging gasoline bombs. So much the better for getting the ladies’ attention. Look what I can do! And the keffiyeh accessorizes well with black bloc riot garb. For the muffins, wearing it is great practice for the utopia-to-come when they must don burkas under submission to Sharia. Will Hermes put out a burka?
So far, the spring rioting has mostly been fun for the rioters. Unlike the J-6-21 “paraders,” locked up in the putrid DC jail for years pending trial, the Hamas frolickers are at near-zilch risk of any serious consequences. Few will even be suspended from school. They are doing exactly what the schools trained them up for: destroying Western Civ, one acanthus leaf at a time. According to the shadowy stage-managers behind “Joe Biden,” this will save our democracy.
That and stuffing Donald Trump in jail for the rest of his natural life. Alas, the lawfare cases cooked up toward that end appear defective to a spectacular degree. It really says something about the true authors of these beauties brought by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith. I speak of the behind-the-scene blob lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Matt Colangelo, and Mary McCord, who wrote the scripts for all four of this year’s big elephant trap cases against the former president. You have to wonder how that bunch made it through their law boards. The current extravaganza in Manhattan that centers on alleged book-keeping errors in furtherance of an unstated federal offense is due to go on a few more weeks. The howling errors of both the prosecution and Judge Juan Merchan are so extravagant that the proceeding looks like it was cribbed from the pages of Lewis Carroll.
Yet, there is near unanimous sentiment that the Trump-deranged New Yawk jury will convict, no matter how much more idiotic the case turns out to be. By then, we will be verging on summer. The college campuses will be shuttered and the youth-in-revolt action will necessarily move to the regular streets. Whichever way the verdict goes in the Alvin Bragg case, epic looting and rioting will commence.......
Will the illegal immigrants partake in the loot-loot-rioting too?
A popular science fiction novel has been made into a pair of recent movies. The template doesn't fit, but how long before it is hijacked (as Star Wars was) and the square peg pounded into the round hole? I wonder because I see imagery of kids wearing these [I call them PLO bandanas] and what they'll wrap themselves in next in a misguided and misinformed attempt at "solidarity."
Kunstler is one of my favorites.
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This is not the America our founding fathers envisioned. What they fought against was a walk in the park compared to the world today.
We’re not voting our way out of this.
The guy makes a point that I always try to hit on and is obviously true.
Our society is very faddish / trendy and prone to taking these trends to extreams.
Much of what we claim to be environmentalism, national security, for public education, disease control has at least in part a degree of social fad, sometimes fueled by politics and business (power and money) and little to do with the cause they claim to be supporting. Yes, even being anti-Israel or pro-Ukraine, Covid, much of this LGBTQIA stuff floating out there today has all the classic signs of being a fad and having been sold to the public no different than when bell-bottom pants were in.
Not saying you’re wrong. But I want to at least continue making them work for it. If they’re going to cheat, make them work so hard for it that it’s obvious to everyone.
...We’re there already, I think. People need to open their own eyes because argument doesn’t work on a fixed heart and violence is illegal. I know many won’t until they are speared by the people they trusted because they eventually turn on one another when their opponents are neutered or eliminated.
Kunstler is one of my favorites.
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That is great writing.
Ping.
Love his writing, also.
This guy is good! Where have I been? In a cave somewhere reading PJ O’Rourk....
We have become too tolerant, too willing to bend for minorities. A tiny % of the population gets breaks. Some we put up with, parking spaces for the handicapped (that many abuse) to letting men who play dress up as woman use ladies bathrooms.
While the style is a bit abstruse here, the choice and combination of words is brilliant.
Clean up your language. Reported.
It would be obvious..hey got through the law board by cheating ..lying .. complaining to the right people.
It should be obvious..they got through the law board by cheating ..lying .. complaining to the right people.
Kunstler bump.
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