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The Warning Was Sounded — But No One Wanted to Listen
VANITY | September 16, 2025 | CIB-173RDABN

Posted on 09/16/2025 3:53:45 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN

The Warning Was Sounded — But No One Wanted to Listen

There may come a time, years from now, when future generations will ask:

“How did they let it happen?”

How did nations as strong, as historic, and as proud as those in Europe — the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands — fall into decline so quickly, and so obviously? The answer will not be complicated.

They were warned.

And they didn’t want to listen.

The UK Is the Canary in the Coal Mine

The United Kingdom, once an empire that spanned the globe, now finds itself shrinking — not just in economic power, but in cultural and national confidence. The system was already strained:

• Decades of high taxation and welfare spending,

• A shrinking industrial base,

• A growing culture of dependency,

• A political elite more concerned with global optics than domestic reality.

This was all before mass migration was added to the equation.

Today, the UK is being asked to absorb millions of migrants — many of whom do not speak the language, do not have the skills to work, and do not wish to integrate. Meanwhile, working-class citizens are taxed into poverty to fund housing, healthcare, and legal support for those very same migrants.

It’s no longer just unfair — it’s unsustainable.

The Social Contract Has Been Broken

Western democracy functions on an unspoken agreement: “Give us your loyalty and labor, and the system will take care of you.”

But the system now asks everything from the citizen, and gives nothing in return:

• Laws protect the criminal over the victim.

• Borders are ignored while speech is censored.

• Pride in national identity is condemned, while foreign values are elevated.

• Honest criticism is labeled hate.

• Protest is treated as extremism.

At what point do people decide the system no longer works for them?

They Don’t Want to Change

There’s an old joke:

“How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?” “One. But the bulb has to want to change.”

Europe’s ruling class does not want to change. Their commitment to open borders, globalism, and centralized EU power is not a mistake — it’s the plan. And no amount of protest, political opposition, or public suffering has shaken them from it.

So now the question is no longer “How do we fix it?” The question is: “What will break first?”

This Is Not Just the UK — This Is All of Europe

Across the continent, the same story repeats:

• Germany: Tens of billions spent on asylum programs, while citizens face energy shortages.

• France: Cities fractured by parallel societies and rising violence.

• Sweden: Once peaceful, now contending with gang warfare and grenade attacks.

• The Netherlands: Farmers pushed off their land to meet climate quotas — while migrant housing is prioritized.

It’s not just poor policy.

It’s deliberate social transformation — without the consent of the governed.

Let This Stand as a Record

This essay isn’t just a warning — it’s a timestamp.

So that when people ask:

“Did no one see this coming?” We can answer honestly:

Yes. Some of us saw it clearly. We spoke out. We were mocked, ignored, or silenced. But we said it — before it was too late.

There may not be a “soft landing.” But there may still be a reckoning. And when it comes, history should know that not everyone was blind.


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: aipost; dontlikedontclick; getajob; getalifetroll; nobodyaskedyou; nobodylikestrolls

1 posted on 09/16/2025 3:53:45 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Hmmmm. Did the left design a Cloward and Piven for England as well and not bother to tell anyone?


2 posted on 09/16/2025 4:00:06 AM PDT by Kudsman (Emulate Charlie, not the left.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“How did nations as strong, as historic, and as proud as those in Europe — the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands — fall into decline so quickly, and so obviously? The answer will not be complicated.”

We all know the answer, but discussing Europe’s equivalent of the 19th Amendment angers some here, so I won’t bring it up.


3 posted on 09/16/2025 4:09:39 AM PDT by BobL
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Excellent essay. Quality equivalent to what we see on Frontpagemag or American Spectator.


4 posted on 09/16/2025 4:09:56 AM PDT by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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To: CIB-173RDABN

But, Englund will fall to the Muslim, not the marxist.


5 posted on 09/16/2025 4:14:52 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Man, you’re just rocking it of late.

👍


6 posted on 09/16/2025 4:18:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda estAnd )
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“”Remember, remember the 5th of November, / Gunpowder, treason and plot. / I know of no reason / Why the Gunpowder treason / Should ever be forgot!””

V for Vendetta. More on Guy Fawkes Night and why we need to understand what oppression might look like if we wind up in a dystopian hellhole.

https://theprairienews.com/23604/opinion/editorials/why-americans-should-remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november/


7 posted on 09/16/2025 4:18:56 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Gary Gilmore the POS who murdered Charlie Kirk!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

So when the UK becomes an Islamic country, what will all those Americans who “moved” to the UK to escape the “evil fascist” USA do?


8 posted on 09/16/2025 4:21:04 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: exnavy

But, Englund will fall to the Muslim, not the marxist.
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Bedfellows, both as brutal as the other. How many millions have been killed by these cultists?


9 posted on 09/16/2025 4:24:50 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: CIB-173RDABN

The EuroTrash need a distraction. It’s the primary reason why they are itching for a war with Russia. They won’t do it themselves. They will goad the USA into it.

Those globohomo degenerates could not fight out of a paper bag, so they need America to do their dirty work. Anything to take the spotlight away from their massively failed policies.

Trump won’t be the sucker lured into that European quagmire. But the very moment a filthy scumbag democrat is installed into office (they are never honestly elected), the Rat president will order a tranny brigade into Ukraine and give the Dancing Z-Queen nukes to fire into Moscow. At this point, the globalist will get their wish for all out destruction.


10 posted on 09/16/2025 4:25:28 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Lockbox

“So when the UK becomes an Islamic country, what will all those Americans who “moved” to the UK to escape the “evil fascist” USA do?”

Pray five times a day. That will be the easy part.


11 posted on 09/16/2025 4:53:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: sauropod

Read


12 posted on 09/16/2025 5:04:53 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Europe has been “peacefully” invaded and lost the population war.


13 posted on 09/16/2025 5:19:13 AM PDT by timza ( “Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual" T. Roosevelt)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Across the continent, the same story repeats: • Germany: Tens of billions spent on asylum programs, while citizens face energy shortages. • France: Cities fractured by parallel societies and rising violence. • Sweden: Once peaceful, now contending with gang warfare and grenade attacks. • The Netherlands: Farmers pushed off their land to meet climate quotas — while migrant housing is prioritized. It’s not just poor policy. It’s deliberate social transformation — without the consent of the governed.

The pattern there should be a harbinger of situational awareness and foresight.
14 posted on 09/16/2025 5:33:32 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Bookmark bump


15 posted on 09/16/2025 5:40:54 AM PDT by nralife (Proud Boomer Rube)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Very frequently, the world goes through a serious bout of collective insanity and people collectively do horrible things

When the dust settles, everyone (or at least those still alive) look back in wonder and say “What were we thinking?”

The genius of President Trump is that he is forcing the world to proactively ask “What ARE we thinking?” in the hopes that we can avoid much of the misery of the “What were we thinking” phase of the collective insanity cycle.

We may be at a unique point in history because we have so many waves of collective insanity rolling through our world simultaneously

Great Britain is taking notice but it is very late in the game and they are very, very deep into the insanity cycle.

From a practical standpoint, the leadership of the EU and America deliberately and intentionally funded and trafficked tens of millions of low functioning, uneducated and unassimilated “migrants” into their countries and put them into the generous social welfare system.

This has created a global system where migrants take welfare money from industrial societies to fund not just their lives in the countries that they have invaded, but migrants are also funding extended families in their own countries by sending their families abroad a portion of their welfare payments in what what are euphemistically termed "remittances"

It's going to be a mess, but the insanity we are seeing play out is totally unsustainable and the systems in the EU are at the end point of sustainability beginning to collapse and the US is not far behind.

The breakdown of the migrant politcaleconomic complex is going to cause misery and hardship in their home countries as the money spigot gets cut off and the migrants get shipped home. .

16 posted on 09/16/2025 6:00:06 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: iontheball

I do not have an answer.


17 posted on 09/16/2025 6:06:33 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Without saying it, the reason for shutting down free speech is due to the fact that, if they don’t, civil war WILL break out. There’s too many “offended Muslims” in the country already.

Free speech stops with, “societal cohesion”, with “could be construed as ‘offensive’”. This is what the police officers say, including to the guy who said, “I love bacon” - as they arrested him.

That is how subjective ‘speech crimes’ are in the UK. It isn’t maintainable, especially as the laws are only applied to the ‘protected class’ - e.g. non-British people.


18 posted on 09/16/2025 6:23:52 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: exnavy
But, Englund will fall to the Muslim, not the marxist.

I hope we can save the art and museums

19 posted on 09/16/2025 8:57:21 AM PDT by FatherofFive (We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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