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Friday, October 04, 2024

Things Won't Break Evenly

These kinds of things are happening all over the Western world as we go through spasms of our Elites' self-hatred.

I've been following developments in England and Ireland as well and it's the same thing there. They may not have hurricanes, but they're each experiencing other crises. While their governments prioritize the illegals, the citizens go begging.

Self-hatred is not a sustainable policy, no matter what Angela Merkel wants.

Pope Francis isn't far behind.

“All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine.”

All religions are paths to God? What in heaven's name is he talking about?

The Pope is telling us that there's no real reason to be Catholic, Merkel was telling her citizens to be ashamed of being German and in England, you're far more likely to face charges if you're waving the Union Jack than if you're waving the flag of Gaza. Here in the US, FEMA has spent the money we gave it on the illegals.


Incoherent, self-destructive principles such as the ones underlying all of this self-hatred cannot be followed forever. Someone is going to break, hard and soon. As Douglas Murray has said, our Elites can be masochists for a while, but eventually they're going to meet a sadist. If I had to put money on who's going to be the first to collapse, I'd either bet on England or one of our big, blue cities.

Things breaking unevenly will be good for the rest of us. Some of us won't be as far gone as the others and will have time and resources to turn things around.

Even if Kamala is elected president, I'd still put my money on America surviving this particular cultural epileptic fit.

Wednesday, October 02, 2024

A Little Bit On The VP Debate

Long time no blog! That was definitely the longest I've gone without posting here since I started almost 20 years ago. I can't explain it other than to say my biorhythms were low.

IYKYK.

Anyway, I saw clips and breathless tweets about the first part of the debate and then wife kitteh wanted to watch the end of it. I wish I hadn't. It was depressing.

The moderators from ABCBSCNNNPR or whatever network of clones it was were the depressing part, specifically their questions. They ask what interests them and, by proxy, what they think interests most people. They all wanted to know how much more ice cream the government was going to give them for dessert.

There was a health care crisis, a mental health crisis, a day care crisis and a God-knows-what-else crisis. All of it required government programs, policies and money, money, money. None of it was a first-order problem. The debate didn't tell you as much about the candidates as it did about the mindset of the mainstream press. They're women.

They want safety. They want security. They want everyone to be nice. They want to help the sweet, little migrants. They want the weather controlled. They want their babies taken care of while they do as they please. It was all very feminine.

Meanwhile ...

People aren't having babies so the population is getting older fast.

Kids coming into college can't read books.

The interest on the debt now exceeds defense spending and it's only going up from here.

And, of course, the Middle East is in flames while Ukraine, which had the lowest birth rate of the region before the war, has send a good portion of its young men into a hopeless meat grinder at the behest of the women running NATO.

Meanwhile, we heard about the day care crisis. Oh, we also heard from the moderators that there are no studies that show having 15-20M extra illegals in the country is having an effect on rental costs.

That one right there was a stunner. What it told you was that the moderators, and these are hand-picked, top-of-the-line journalismists, were so gullible that they would swallow the line saying 20M in extra demand does not drive up costs while supply is held constant. I don't need to see a "peer-reviewed" study to figure that one out, it's just obvious. These people needed one, though.

What it told me was that they were separated from the primal aspects of life, separated by a gap so wide that they couldn't see across it. The debate was strictly about second-order issues, all of which were solved with more social programs.

That can't go on forever.

You speak for all of us, JD.

One more thing. JD Vance is the only one of the 4 people on the two tickets that I'd be happy to see as president.

Trump. For the love of God, we nominated Trump.

Sigh.