Plastic Army Men At Davos

When I was a kid, we used to play with little, green and gray plastic army men. The green were the Americans and the gray were the Germans. We'd move them around, making rifle and explosion noises just like we heard watching TV shows like Combat. It was all good fun, but we never thought about logistics. How did the little guys get their food, clothes, weapons, ammo, transportation, fuel and Pride Progress flag patches for their uniforms?

The super geniuses at Davos are like that. They have all the intellectual capacity of me and my friends when we were 8. Richard Fernandez, aka Wretchard the Cat, has an excellent essay out called The Year The Future Disappeared about the Davos crowd's horror watching their precious plans fall apart.

People naturally reflect on the state of the world whenever an old year gives way to a new. Will 2024 resemble the familiar past or are we hurtling into the unknown? Some men of stature, like Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF), whose annual meeting of global Bond villains is currently underway in Davos, Switzerland, fear that order is dissolving into chaos. The heretics are destroying his established church of order and he fears that an inordinate desire for freedom might bring the house.

You have this anti-system movement. What we are seeing is a revolution against the system. So fixing the present system is not enough. Now, of course there is an anti-system which is called libertarianism, which means to tear down everything which creates some kind of influence of government into private lives. It's dismantling the system.

As much as I love Richard and admire his work, he makes it all way too complicated. Like most pundits who work in the realm of ideas, he wants to keep his explanations in the realm of ideas. The collapse of the Elites' fantasies is not about heretical ideas at all, it's about logistics and other very practical considerations.

Like the green future with open borders in the imaginations of the Super Smart People, the plastic army men were only real in our imaginations. None of our battles ever really happened and none of their plans will ever come to fruition. If the Super Smart People had spent time with a handful of US Army infantry staff sergeants discussing logistics, they'd have understood.

Of course, those poor, stupid staff sergeants didn't even go to community college, so you could hardly expect the Ivy League set to deign to speak with them.

If you showed the photos below to an infantry staff sergeant, they'd immediately start asking questions using colorful language.

Illegals housed at ORD.

Illegals overflowing a Chicago police station.

Some of those questions might include the following.

• You let this happen? What the @^&* is wrong with you?
• Airports play an crucial role in your transportation system, you @Y&*ing idiot. What the @&*#$ are you doing stuffing illegals in there?
• How the @&#* can the cops do their job if their stations are full of @&*ing illegals?
• You're going to have to pay for this out of your normal budget, you dumb @&*#$(@. That means you'll have to cut money from your housing budget which means you will actually have less housing for more people. My God, you're a @#&*@(ing moron.
• Texas and Arizona have hundreds of thousands more and a ton of them are coming to Chicago. You can't house the ones you have, you've overrun your police stations, you're stuffing them into your airport, you have less money than ever to build housing and a @^&*@ing ton more are on the way. You've got to be the stupidest @#&*@ing dumb @#^* I've ever met.

And so on and so forth.

The Davos dream is DOA because that's all it was - a dream. It was pretend play. It was plastic army men.

Like the noises we made during our pretend battles, Davos was sounds coming from the mouths of 8-year-olds.

And Now Some Davos Dessert

Dig this little bit of perfection from the ignorant, spendthrift inheritors of Athens, Jerusalem and Rome.

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— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) January 17, 2024