Trying not to start the public floggings
It’s not from her, but from a movie she just watched:
“You can’t walk [away from] your own story.”
And if you want to watch Rango (again) after reading her post, then let that be your movie recommendation for the weekend.
I just wish I knew whether this is my own story… I need to get to the range again soon.
“It’d make us feel better.” — Snowflakery explained, in a single sentence. And from the article itself:
“The idea that everyone must bow and do pointless things to make others feel comfortable regarding COVID has long expired.”
A few days back, I penned a gloomy little piece entitled Isolated, wherein I said the following (talking about the government agents arrayed against us):
“They can concentrate their forces against us; we can’t do the same against them.”
Well, here’s one such example:
In the early Tuesday morning hours, motion sensors alerted the occupant, hereafter referred to as John Doe (names have been changed to protect the innocent) that there was movement along the driveway to his home. Given the time of day, the location of the home, and some recent history that will be discussed later, Doe knew he needed to react, but in a non-threatening manner. His decision was to put on a pair of pants, remain barefoot and shirtless, and move to the front porch with his hands raised in the air. What appeared in the driveway was the lead vehicle of three BearCat armored personnel carriers – commonly referred to as personnel tanks (pictured left) – in a convoy of over thirty total vehicles.
The BearCats are armed with a rotating turret for housing customer-specific weapon systems. Five gun ports are located on each side of the vehicle, and an additional two on the rear. The vehicle are often equipped with .50 BMG or 7.62mm rifles. It is a military-grade vehicle often used by U.S. Special Forces and the Australian military.
But on this day, they were cruising the Flathead Valley with thirty other police vehicles in tow.
Also surrounding the house were one-hundred-plus federal agents with a helicopter in support.
Sounds like this John Doe guy was some kind of super-terrorist, right? Not exactly.
Doe’s former girlfriend from North Carolina filed a restraining order (a civil matter, not criminal) against Doe in that state claiming he was homicidal, suicidal, a threat to her, and had bomb-making materials with the intention to cause harm. She also claimed he had booby traps all over the home and the surrounding property. But none of this was true.
So the feds armored up, and based on the fears (and aggrievement) of someone in North Carolina, deployed all this force against a guy living in Montana.
Read the whole thing to appreciate the full extent of the bastardy. (They even arrested his neighbor, FFS.)
Then remind me again how much hope we stand if this happens to any one of us.
Of course, if his name was Bubba Gutshott Jr., there’d be outdoor signs, fundraising letters and CNN chevrons ablaze with his name for the next six months. And you can be sure that the most egregious piece of anti-2A legislation would be called the “Gutshott Law”.
But a Muzzie? “Never mind him, let’s talk about the gun he used.”
Fucking hypocrites.
I forget where I got this (sorry), but SOTI I saw this, as the mindset of the Deep Swamp towards us conservatives:
“We don’t like things as they are, and so we’ll make it really, really expensive for certain people to enforce their rights. We’ll make them fight every day for what should be rightly theirs for free. We’ll take away their birthright. We’ll screw with their businesses and screw with their wombs and screw with their assumptions about what the courts have guaranteed them, and some of them will give up, and some of them will make mistakes, and we’ll just make sure they have many bad days, and eventually they’ll get tired of fighting with us and we’ll get a team of brutal lawyers to take them down and put them in their place.”
At American Greatness, Max Martin has this rather withering comment to make:
At this moment [conservatives] are the weaker side in this asymmetric struggle. Right now, we are 80 million couch potatoes and keyboard warriors with rifles in our bedroom closets. This is not a force to be reckoned with.
Read the article to get the argument that leads him to that depressing conclusion. Not part of his analysis, by the way, is that a large number of the so-called 80 million are a bunch of old bastards like myself, who have neither the health, energy nor will to do all the stuff he suggests we do to avoid being buried by the liberal ruling elite.
So what’s left? DO we just resign ourselves to the fact that at some point, if we refuse to give in to the feral [sic] government, its rules, regulations and apparatchiks, we should just wait in our homes for the sturmtruppen and Stasi to come for us, and then surrender meekly to be led off to Room 101? Or, for those of us who have nothing to lose, resist with violence rather than just resign ourselves to our fate?
Let’s face it: if the American Revolution was actively pursued and fought (by some estimates) by only 13% of the then-population of the soon-to-be United States, that means that the other 87% were either British loyalists or the 18th-century equivalent of couch potatoes. That being the case, who is going to form the 13% of conservatives (10 million? we should be so lucky) who would actively form the resistance against the fucking establishment?
Here’s the late Joseph Sobran on the topic:
“By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence…”
And if I may be so bold: what’s facing us, as the de facto survivors and supporters of the principles that formed our republic, is a far more formidable foe than George III.
I wish I had something more upbeat to say about all this, but the reality is that I’m in the grip of a profound sense of gloomy foreboding.
Feel free to add your thoughts in Comments. And if you’re afraid to be candid because of the possible consequences… then that is precisely what I’m talking about.
Via Stephen Green at Insty I see that the NorKs are giving President Braindead’s diplomatic initiative the cold shoulder:
The White House said it had not received any response to repeated efforts to reach out to Pyongyang. The news comes as Joe Biden has sent his top diplomatic and military representatives to Asia.
At first glance, one would be puzzled at the Norks’ indifference, because when the Democrats are in control of the country, our “diplomatic initiatives” are most likely to be in the order of “Come to the table so we can bend ourselves over it”.
But considering that the Norks don’t jump unless the ChiComs first tell them how high, all is explained. Beijing isn’t interested in any kind of diplomacy with the U.S. when they know they can just bully the flabby-kneed idiots in the State Department and White House to get them to do what they want us to do.
And Biden’s “top diplomatic and military representatives” are likely to be complete morons and milquetoasts, so small wonder.
Never mind missing Trump; I miss Mike Pompeo just as much.