I suspect many of our elected officials and so-called leaders believe that no matter how much stress is placed on American society, the United States will continue to be a wealthy, powerful nation and will play a leading role in the international arena. It won’t. If you were born in the late stages of the Roman Empire, during the end of the Ottoman Empire, even during the Crusader Kingdom, it would have been difficult to imagine a world in which your nation would be irrelevant. However, they became irrelevant and left power vacuums in their places. If we’re not careful, we will break the US and we probably won’t like what comes next. We need to insist that our leaders respect the Constitution and institutions that gave us the freedom and standard of living that we have or it will all be gone and we’ll wonder what happened.
Hugh Thomas's book the Golden Empire goes into the Treaty of Tordesillas, he had two other books in his series of the conquest of the America's. Absolutely incredible histories. Everyone thinks America's time at the top may be short but bear in mind by 1588 Spain had already peaked and was beginning a long decline.
I expect you are correct about some of them but there is a cabal that fully comprehends the damage that is happening. Obama has always been a globalist, it's not hard to image him reveling in our decline. Obviously Biden isn't making policy, he was incompetent before he started loosing his mind. I was not the first to say "this level of incompetence doesn't happen by accident" but I have repeated it often and I still believe it.
I agree that there are those who want to fundamentally change the US. I doubt that they recognize that a fundamentally different US could devolve into chaos and irrelevance. After all, they are not seeking fundamental change to reduce their power, but to increase it.
They are not relying on the US to maintain power, their allegiance is to the WEF/UN. The authority to make decisions for global distribution of food, medical treatment, energy, and ultimately wealth with be in the hands of a few billionaires, the "stakeholders". These are actual agenda items the goal of which is 2030, you can find it on their websites. Is this wise? Hell NO! Will it work? I very much doubt it. But the death and destruction that will happen between now and then can be measured in how long it takes people to wake the Fuck up.
Let’s start simple. Let’s elect new leaders this November. Leaders that respect that the federal government does not rule by divine right. More people need to participate in the process on the grass roots level. In FL, several school boards flipped to conservative majorities in the recent elections, including Miami Dade. This means that the unchallenged leftist indoctrination of students in those school districts will stop.
I don't think it matters, you can't politically wish away declining resources, debts, unhealthy people, revenging attitudes, a changing climate, ect. The cure would be at least as bad as the hang over.
Bring it on! Let's break the US up and give up these insane, imperial ambitions of world domination. Why do we listen to the lying oligarchs who insist that we will be conquered by China or Russia if we don't submit to the DC neocon wet dream of endless world wars?
Shut the southern border and turn dc into a museum town on the Potomac.
"Even if I were pollinated and fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.
People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity. They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks. They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons. They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.
They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone, and believed they were the only ones.
Banned from their families' tables at Christmas, they never saw anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money ... but they didn't care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation ... but they kept going.
Never before in humanity has there been such a "casting", now we know who are the best on planet Earth. Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.
That's you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand.
You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.
I’m a veteran, but if I was in the military now , was unvaccinated and had a chance to get out with a general or honorable discharge, I’d be gone in a heartbeat.
That would be a tough one, but I think Congress passed a bill where the worst you could get would be a general discharge. I wouldn’t get the jab no matter what, at least I would still be alive and not worry about going to sleep at night!
A fish rots from the head down, as my grandma used to say, and in this case the head of the fish is the nascent global corporate unistate, overseen by the Davos class and their moral and ideological enforcers of the New Left.
No matter which sector of our scoiety—military, culture, politics, media, academia, all the way down to videogames and birdwatchers etc etc—the memo has gone out (in the form of mass hysteria and/or social conditioning) that anyone in any position of authority has a simple decision to make: either sign onto the agenda and become a full-fledged member of the Church of Social Justice or be consigned to the outer darkness of Red Tribe Hades, where you and your children will be canceled and locked out of all the juicy treats that go to the obedient.
In the case of the military (which I confess I know zero about), that would mean no more promotions, no higher pension amount, and definitely no seat on the Grumman board or daytime slot on CNN.
Or more simply: "Nice career you got there that you've devoted your whole adult life to—be ashamed if something bad happened to it."
Yes but that’s trading the Silk purse of your men for what is usually you know being cheated at the end.
That’s if all goes well and you don’t find yourself in danger .
In which case at best people like me look at these creatures and they stammer and walk away.
They hide on base or in the office. Or they used to...
At best. These asshats are going for worst. This will have its upside.
The looting is just the same fire sale that happened in the USSR armed forces in the early 90s.
I’m reliably informed its repeating itself on the Ukrainian/Polish border. Just a different crew of Generals and Top Floor types getting paid. USA elites were always balls deep in the post USSR rape of Russia. When Bammy came in it started again in the Ukraine.
Now stripping the units of weapons means the Depots are probably empty.
This part interminable as it seems is ending. Looting the fighting line units means the barrel’s bottom is getting scraped. Not much longer, thats not even eating the seed corn.
Good point. The strength of the military is a microcosm for society at large. When our government started sending our young men to die in foreign wars that did not benefit the society whatsoever, that signified that our enemies were in charge. They expose their wishes for us in their treatment of the military.
I recall feeling an incredibly hinky vibe about twenty years ago, arguing on the phone with a VA desk jockey who was trying to cheat my grandfather out of his purple heart designation (he was wounded twice, at Iwo Jima and Saipan).
Then again, maybe I was dropped on my head as a baby too.
You know maybe to just save time the leftists of this country can develop their own El Requierimento of 1513 that the Spanish read to each native population they encountered. They would usually read it in Spanish to people who had never heard Spanish before or from ship where the natives could not hear the speaker or they might have a native translator read it in a language the other natives didn't understand. The jist of it was you have 24 hours to submit to Spain and the Pope and also give us your land and become baptized and if they didn't do so the consequences were all their fault. Now in our day the leftists could have some woke person come to your town and tell us what they expect of us and it will have the same effect on us as the El Requierimento had on a villager in Central America in 1527. None, but they will have stated what they want and it might save some time with the ever evolving demands of the left.
This is a fascinating thesis, and at least for me, a novel lens through which to view our society. Based upon what we are seeing domestically with poseur Pentagon leadership that seems interested in tweeting about every trendy social issue, but is 1) less motivated to preserve combat readiness and lethal competency (Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, our recent military failures throughout the sandbox, and now an evolving clusterfuck by proxy in the Ukraine), 2) has a well publicized recruitment crisis ( both quantitative and qualitative in nature), underway, and 3) beats up whistleblowers, but covers up leadership failures, the brass seems to be recklessly inclined to alienate and abuse the demographic segments who are the source of most recruits. People I know who have recently left are relieved to get out, because the morale sucks, and they don’t like the woke culture. ( see “morale sucks” above) We are deliberately coasting toward a bad beating from another global power. We are telegraphing weakness and stupidity to our adversaries. The DC power class is in for a rude awakening, but we are all going to pay the price. Vote these losers out. That’s the only next step. If they cheat again, they’re going to find out that was a bad idea. It may take some more outrage, but if the Taliban can beat the Swamp - Pentagon, and make no mistake, they did, so can we.
What happened with Trump happened to MacArthur essentially. MacArthur was given contradictory , baffling and even inane orders (bomb the southern half of the bridges over the Yalu) until he snapped and wrote a letter to a Congressman.
They also did not impress on him the British and Indians were breaking the doors down in DC with a message from the Chinese they we’re going to intervene.
It was mentioned as routine report. Well. MacArthur was our last General of course. In any real sense. In short DC toyed with him until his downfall.
Every General since who shows any ability or spine is eliminated, see Petreaus. Or Ham.
The warriors usually top out at Colonel anyway, only the grovelers and the play the game no matter what types advance.
See Mattis. The Marines should spit on him for his betrayals in Iraq. Flat out all image, faithless in the test. He’s just a user.
Your points are well made. Since the military is the most controlled segment of a country this tells you a lot. Generals like Eisenhower state up from their troops. So did Washington and Grant. Our Generals today are weak and ineffective.
Who would want to go into a military that might court-marshal you for using the wrong pronoun, or pump you full of experimental depopulation jabs, or treat you like a terrorist for being patriotic and self-reliant?
I suspect many of our elected officials and so-called leaders believe that no matter how much stress is placed on American society, the United States will continue to be a wealthy, powerful nation and will play a leading role in the international arena. It won’t. If you were born in the late stages of the Roman Empire, during the end of the Ottoman Empire, even during the Crusader Kingdom, it would have been difficult to imagine a world in which your nation would be irrelevant. However, they became irrelevant and left power vacuums in their places. If we’re not careful, we will break the US and we probably won’t like what comes next. We need to insist that our leaders respect the Constitution and institutions that gave us the freedom and standard of living that we have or it will all be gone and we’ll wonder what happened.
Or the moment when Spain and Portugal divided the world between them.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/treaty-tordesillas
Hugh Thomas's book the Golden Empire goes into the Treaty of Tordesillas, he had two other books in his series of the conquest of the America's. Absolutely incredible histories. Everyone thinks America's time at the top may be short but bear in mind by 1588 Spain had already peaked and was beginning a long decline.
I expect you are correct about some of them but there is a cabal that fully comprehends the damage that is happening. Obama has always been a globalist, it's not hard to image him reveling in our decline. Obviously Biden isn't making policy, he was incompetent before he started loosing his mind. I was not the first to say "this level of incompetence doesn't happen by accident" but I have repeated it often and I still believe it.
I agree that there are those who want to fundamentally change the US. I doubt that they recognize that a fundamentally different US could devolve into chaos and irrelevance. After all, they are not seeking fundamental change to reduce their power, but to increase it.
They are not relying on the US to maintain power, their allegiance is to the WEF/UN. The authority to make decisions for global distribution of food, medical treatment, energy, and ultimately wealth with be in the hands of a few billionaires, the "stakeholders". These are actual agenda items the goal of which is 2030, you can find it on their websites. Is this wise? Hell NO! Will it work? I very much doubt it. But the death and destruction that will happen between now and then can be measured in how long it takes people to wake the Fuck up.
Well said, Stephen Ungar!
We?
We have no power to do any of those things.
Example: what happens if we insist and they say No?
Well nothing happens to them, bad things happen to us.
As for the Constitution it went on January 20, 2021.
Let’s start simple. Let’s elect new leaders this November. Leaders that respect that the federal government does not rule by divine right. More people need to participate in the process on the grass roots level. In FL, several school boards flipped to conservative majorities in the recent elections, including Miami Dade. This means that the unchallenged leftist indoctrination of students in those school districts will stop.
Sure.
Here, the people rule.
Have a nice evening.
I don't think it matters, you can't politically wish away declining resources, debts, unhealthy people, revenging attitudes, a changing climate, ect. The cure would be at least as bad as the hang over.
@stephen
Bring it on! Let's break the US up and give up these insane, imperial ambitions of world domination. Why do we listen to the lying oligarchs who insist that we will be conquered by China or Russia if we don't submit to the DC neocon wet dream of endless world wars?
Shut the southern border and turn dc into a museum town on the Potomac.
A little off topic but thought it was cool.
MESSAGE TO THE UNVACCINATED:
"Even if I were pollinated and fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors.
People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity. They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, states and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks. They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons. They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.
They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone, and believed they were the only ones.
Banned from their families' tables at Christmas, they never saw anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money ... but they didn't care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation ... but they kept going.
Never before in humanity has there been such a "casting", now we know who are the best on planet Earth. Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.
That's you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand.
You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.
"Author unknown”
Author=an unvaccinated self-back-patter. It's a bit much. "Heroes work here" and all.
I’m a veteran, but if I was in the military now , was unvaccinated and had a chance to get out with a general or honorable discharge, I’d be gone in a heartbeat.
What if the choice was get the jab or be drummed out w dishonorable discharge? That seems to be the choice.
That would be a tough one, but I think Congress passed a bill where the worst you could get would be a general discharge. I wouldn’t get the jab no matter what, at least I would still be alive and not worry about going to sleep at night!
Very valuable treatise and sadly, bluntly true.
A fish rots from the head down, as my grandma used to say, and in this case the head of the fish is the nascent global corporate unistate, overseen by the Davos class and their moral and ideological enforcers of the New Left.
No matter which sector of our scoiety—military, culture, politics, media, academia, all the way down to videogames and birdwatchers etc etc—the memo has gone out (in the form of mass hysteria and/or social conditioning) that anyone in any position of authority has a simple decision to make: either sign onto the agenda and become a full-fledged member of the Church of Social Justice or be consigned to the outer darkness of Red Tribe Hades, where you and your children will be canceled and locked out of all the juicy treats that go to the obedient.
In the case of the military (which I confess I know zero about), that would mean no more promotions, no higher pension amount, and definitely no seat on the Grumman board or daytime slot on CNN.
Or more simply: "Nice career you got there that you've devoted your whole adult life to—be ashamed if something bad happened to it."
Yes but that’s trading the Silk purse of your men for what is usually you know being cheated at the end.
That’s if all goes well and you don’t find yourself in danger .
In which case at best people like me look at these creatures and they stammer and walk away.
They hide on base or in the office. Or they used to...
At best. These asshats are going for worst. This will have its upside.
The looting is just the same fire sale that happened in the USSR armed forces in the early 90s.
I’m reliably informed its repeating itself on the Ukrainian/Polish border. Just a different crew of Generals and Top Floor types getting paid. USA elites were always balls deep in the post USSR rape of Russia. When Bammy came in it started again in the Ukraine.
Now stripping the units of weapons means the Depots are probably empty.
This part interminable as it seems is ending. Looting the fighting line units means the barrel’s bottom is getting scraped. Not much longer, thats not even eating the seed corn.
That’s eating the roots.
Good point. The strength of the military is a microcosm for society at large. When our government started sending our young men to die in foreign wars that did not benefit the society whatsoever, that signified that our enemies were in charge. They expose their wishes for us in their treatment of the military.
I recall feeling an incredibly hinky vibe about twenty years ago, arguing on the phone with a VA desk jockey who was trying to cheat my grandfather out of his purple heart designation (he was wounded twice, at Iwo Jima and Saipan).
Then again, maybe I was dropped on my head as a baby too.
You know maybe to just save time the leftists of this country can develop their own El Requierimento of 1513 that the Spanish read to each native population they encountered. They would usually read it in Spanish to people who had never heard Spanish before or from ship where the natives could not hear the speaker or they might have a native translator read it in a language the other natives didn't understand. The jist of it was you have 24 hours to submit to Spain and the Pope and also give us your land and become baptized and if they didn't do so the consequences were all their fault. Now in our day the leftists could have some woke person come to your town and tell us what they expect of us and it will have the same effect on us as the El Requierimento had on a villager in Central America in 1527. None, but they will have stated what they want and it might save some time with the ever evolving demands of the left.
Nah, the Spanish had one document, these things change rules daily.
Great point , you know the way a military treats conscientious objectors is also a great canary in the coal mine
This is a fascinating thesis, and at least for me, a novel lens through which to view our society. Based upon what we are seeing domestically with poseur Pentagon leadership that seems interested in tweeting about every trendy social issue, but is 1) less motivated to preserve combat readiness and lethal competency (Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, our recent military failures throughout the sandbox, and now an evolving clusterfuck by proxy in the Ukraine), 2) has a well publicized recruitment crisis ( both quantitative and qualitative in nature), underway, and 3) beats up whistleblowers, but covers up leadership failures, the brass seems to be recklessly inclined to alienate and abuse the demographic segments who are the source of most recruits. People I know who have recently left are relieved to get out, because the morale sucks, and they don’t like the woke culture. ( see “morale sucks” above) We are deliberately coasting toward a bad beating from another global power. We are telegraphing weakness and stupidity to our adversaries. The DC power class is in for a rude awakening, but we are all going to pay the price. Vote these losers out. That’s the only next step. If they cheat again, they’re going to find out that was a bad idea. It may take some more outrage, but if the Taliban can beat the Swamp - Pentagon, and make no mistake, they did, so can we.
And another thing. The United States have not won win a war since WW2. A majority of the blame has to fall on the Generals.
We kicked Grenada's ass, though.
Remind me who was Commander in Chief then?
Not necessarily on the Generals.
What happened with Trump happened to MacArthur essentially. MacArthur was given contradictory , baffling and even inane orders (bomb the southern half of the bridges over the Yalu) until he snapped and wrote a letter to a Congressman.
They also did not impress on him the British and Indians were breaking the doors down in DC with a message from the Chinese they we’re going to intervene.
It was mentioned as routine report. Well. MacArthur was our last General of course. In any real sense. In short DC toyed with him until his downfall.
Every General since who shows any ability or spine is eliminated, see Petreaus. Or Ham.
The warriors usually top out at Colonel anyway, only the grovelers and the play the game no matter what types advance.
See Mattis. The Marines should spit on him for his betrayals in Iraq. Flat out all image, faithless in the test. He’s just a user.
Speaking of Iraq, pay close attention as it may provide the new Saigon moment in the next few weeks.
Your points are well made. Since the military is the most controlled segment of a country this tells you a lot. Generals like Eisenhower state up from their troops. So did Washington and Grant. Our Generals today are weak and ineffective.
You've nailed it.
Who would want to go into a military that might court-marshal you for using the wrong pronoun, or pump you full of experimental depopulation jabs, or treat you like a terrorist for being patriotic and self-reliant?
Good point - and very well made.
Fascinating take and truly appreciate the insight - especially as our military are slowly being ruined by the very government they serve.