First, know that an enemy is exactly what he is, then recognize that he will first, last, always, and forever act in strict acordance with his deepest, most fundamental nature.
A ittle phrase I wrote some years back about the Left, in the guise of my character, “David Kahane,” has managed to hang on across the time and space of the internet and has now become common wisdom on the Right: They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit. Which is to say, in their relentless quest to destabilize every society with which they come into contact, “progressives” move seamlessly from one provocation to the next, camels sticking their noses under every tent, mindless of the human and institutional debris they leave behind and eager to get on with attacking the next potential pile of rubble.
Think of them as Klingons, perhaps, who can never forget who and what they really are way down inside.
Progessivists as Klingons: betcha never saw THAT one coming, even from me. Anyhoo, Walsh contends that there really is a central, organizing theory providing a sort of template from which the shitlibs are working.
This animating principle, by the way, is what is known as Critical Theory.
In my 2015 literary hand grenade, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, I explained the true meaning of neo-Marxist doctrine:
Critical Theory, which essentially holds that there is no received tenet of civilization that should not either be questioned (the slogan “question authority” originated with the Frankfurt School) or attacked. Our cultural totems, shibboleths, and taboos are declared either completely arbitrary or the result of a long-ago “conspiracy,” steadfastly maintained down through the ages—as degenerate modern feminism blames male “privilege” and other forms of imaginary oppression. If the feminists have an argument, it is with God, not men; but since few of them believe in God, it is upon men that they turn their harpy ire. In its purest form, which is to say its most malevolent form, Critical Theory is the very essence of satanism: rebellion for the sake of rebellion against an established order that has obtained for eons, and with no greater promise for the future than destruction.
In other words, this is war, but on the basis of all current evidence, only one side is waging it in earnest, and with “pride.” If there’s one thing history tells us, it’s that all things must pass. Times change, cities fall, empires crumble. As Shelley famously wrote: “Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Who defends us now? In Joe Biden’s America — really, Barack Hussein Obama II’s America, since it is Hussein’s caravan of camels that is now afflicting us — masked thugs wander freely around our streets, roaming bands of disaffected, white, ideological soy-boy thugs who act as the enforcers of cultural Marxist orthodoxy. Gyrating “queers” (their word, now rehabilitated by the house organ of Gay America, the New York Times) march half-naked through New York, shouting that they’re coming for your children.
But the walls have fallen, the dams have burst, and there is no end in sight. In accordance with the late Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics, we are now ruled by a cabal of our enemies. As they were in National Socialist Germany, the universities have become hotbeds of intolerant socialist orthodoxy. Thought-crime laws are being bruited world wide; the concept of “protected classes” makes a mockery of equality before the law. George Floyd, a obese, violent drug addict who died in police custody after the commission of a crime, has become a secular saint, the apotheosis of “blackness” to a generation that has no memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., much less the Harlem Renaissance. Whole cities have been sacrificed on his altar.
Hunter Biden, the louche crackhead sex-pest issue of the President’s loins, skates on serious income-tax and firearm charges even as he and the demented paterfamilias of this crime family are being publicly accused, in Congress, of being the principals of (a) multi-million-dollar international bribery racket, thanks to Joe’s employment of the FBI as his personal police force and his corruption of the Justice Department. Merrick Garland, who ideally would be cast as Beria in a road-show production of Stalin’s Henchmen of 1953 is the attorney general of the United States, perhaps soon to be facing impeachment. As the late Bob Dole wondered during his quixotic campaign against Bill Clinton in 1996: “Where’s the outrage?”
Long gone, along with Americans’ former personal independence and self-reliance. It’s still hard to believe that the country of Paul Revere and John Dillinger went so sheepishly into the fascist pens of the Covid Hoax lockdowns, surrendering their First Amendment freedoms without a fight while the useless judicial branch under the effete John Roberts sat by and didn’t even squeak. The Roberts Court — thanks, George W. Bush! — appears to believe it sits on Mars, far away from the hugger-mugger mess of representative democracy, with no patriotic duty to use at least its moral authority on the issues of the day before they wend their way through the crapulous intestines of the “justice system.”
But the Covid hoax, which stripped bare the pretentious fools in the American and international health establishments and inured Americans to the sight of masked faces in public places, thus normalizing Antifa, was just the warmup. Like the lady in the old sex joke, Americans have shown who they are and now we’re just haggling about the price. Because you just know what’s coming next…
Sadly enough, we do indeed.
Coming soon: Climate lockdowns?
The past two years have been a checklist for the worst impulses of government and public sentiment. COVID allowed for supposedly temporary measures to morph into two years of “emergency” restrictions. But what if COVID was only the opening act, and another proclaimed crisis is the main event? Implementing significant but partial restrictions, one by one, in the name of the common good can allow for encompassing government control that results in relatively little backlash. Fear over climate change could lead to long-term soft lockdowns, given the precedent of immense growth of government power and significant support for sweeping state actions.This isn’t a right-wing fever dream. Calls for harsh government measures in the name of saving the environment are already in the parlance of influential organizations and figures. In November 2020, the Red Cross proclaimed that climate change is a bigger threat than COVID and should be confronted with “the same urgency.” Bill Gates recently demanded dramatic measures to prevent climate change, claiming it will be worse than the pandemic. Despite millions of people having died from COVID, former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney last year predicted that climate deaths will dwarf those of the pandemic. Lockdowns, which significantly reduced carbon emissions during 2020, could be the solution. After all, the EU’s climate service gloated, the first COVID lockdown may have saved 800 lives.
While deaths from natural disasters have fallen by two-thirds over the past five decades, mostly thanks to technological innovations, elites insist that climate change is the “biggest threat modern humans have ever faced.” Climate lockdowns and other restrictions will be framed as saving the people of the United States, and the world, from themselves. What goal could be more noble?
And if there’s anything we can all agree on about them, it’s how thoroughly they enjoy patting themselves on the back in self-congratulatory awe at how wonderfully, selflessly noble they all are. Bottom line?
The pandemic proved to be the precedent of 21st century governance. The initial lockdowns were a desperate attempt to understand more about the virus and shut it down. In hindsight, the overreaction will simply provide a backdrop for the next major government overreach. If COVID could kill millions, imagine the powers the government will assume against a threat that could kill billions.
Political leaders have learned that fear prompts the public to accept dramatic curtailing of freedoms for vague promises of safety — they must realize the incredible power at their fingertips. COVID gave the government mouse a cookie, and power-hungry officials and bureaucrats can utilize the precedents of the past two years to institute a much longer, much more comprehensive lockdown.
That’s the long and the short of it, yeah. As I’ve said so many times, the FauxVid hoax was just the trial run; soon enough, the final test of whatever mettle Real Americans still have left is coming. Let’s hope we don’t flunk that one as completely as we did the first round.
Update! The Shelley lines quoted by Walsh above are, as most CF Lifers will probably know (literary mavens that I know most of y’all to be), from his brilliant Ozymandius.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert…Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Not quite as good as the greatest pome yet written, but a damned respectable effort nonetheless, so I though it worth mentioning.
I bought Michael’s book when it came out, highly recommended. I’d like to add a thought to Michael’s excellent article, his comment, “Out of manpower, out of money, out of a will to live, they succumbed to Sultan Mehmed II and the Ottoman Turks, who wanted it more than they did.”
This statement ,with a little, wee bit of background, is golden. The reason for the fall of the Byzantine Empire was that the Christian countries of the time were too busy meddling and warring against each other and, hence, individually, the countries of Christendom had no chance.
Islam would never have reached Europe if the Christians would have banded together.We see this today, once moral people have been lax in their moral obligations and we see the results today.
The Venetians and the Genoans were the eminent sea powers/top merchants of the day (the French knights and the budding Germanic Empire were the eminent land based forces). They spent more time fighting one another for profit and temporal gain instead of uniting against the common foe. They went so far as doing the bidding of the Sultanate as long as it was profitable and it screwed the other. Constantinople was used and then hung out to dry when it became unprofitable to save it.
Such a pity, and such a waste. The Muslims were on a religious quest, the Christians had to be motivated by profit before taking action. The Crusades ultimately failed during this era because of greed, nothing more.
The climate hoax has costs that are being paid every day…
It was pretty hot today, 90+. One of the grandsons needs extra $$$ so the Grandma told him to come over and Papa would put him to work (And granny pays well – $25 an hour!), which I did. After a few hours he was done and I took him home. The Denali seemed not to be cooling so well in this heat. So, this afternoon I got out my can of 134A freon to boost it up a bit. And no go. I damn well know this is the low side fitting but the fitting from the recharge can will.not.work.
Beats me why?
Well, I had not noticed that a new and environmentally “friendlier” refrigerant is now used in the later model vehicles, R1234YF. Which has a different fitting of course to preclude mixing Freon types (and a good thing 🙂 )
And a 12 ounce can is $140 bucks (with leak stop and a gauge). Some other brands are available for a bit less but then I have to buy a new charging hose/fitting and they don’t have any leak stop. The leak stop *might* help and might not depending on what I have. It’s not completely out so it might be a very tiny leak or just the five years without topping up since I don’t know if it’s been added before.
R12 never caused a damn problem, didn’t cause any ozone holes (many countries kept using it long after it was banned here), and was almost free at a couple bucks for a can.
Propane works even better, less energy to change states and transfer heat, but has the quality of being.
$140 bucks to the GD environmental fruitcakes.
It was all about the patents expiring.
That’s my bet.
But it’s more than that now IMO. The climate commies drive up the price of everything in service to their religion.
“Propane works even better, less energy to change states and transfer heat, but has the quality of being.”
LOL, “being”.
Being what you ask? Explosive. Small amounts and not likely to have massive leaks inside a car, so not all that risky. I ran it in my old Suburban for years. It’s not propane you buy for your grill though, it’s a cleaner version mixed with a bit of butane IIRC.
And the NEW refrigerant is flammable!
Just a follow up. Got in the Denali to go and purchase the overpriced refrigerant, turned on the AC, and damn, it got really cold just like it always has. So, it’s not low on freon. Not sure what it was. It persisted through a stop and restart at least twice, and was obviously cool but not cool enough, not even close. I suspect the blending door may have been amiss, mixing in too much warm air to regulate the temperature setpoint. Or it may have been the temperature sensor was not working properly. Hard to diagnose now that it’s working correctly. So I avoided the expensive stuff for today…
And one more. After dropping off the grandson I then picked up one of my sons to take him to pick up his car in the shop. When I mentioned the AC was not working well he said it felt OK to him. By then it was not hot in the car so I just figured he wasn’t noticing the not cold enough temperature exiting the vent.
Yesterday I thought about that. I never put my hand in front of the vents on the passenger side, only on the driver side. While the AC is working just fine at the moment, there is a perceptible difference in the driver side temperature and the passenger side. The passenger side is definitely cooler and maybe it was working OK the day I had the problem. There are separate blending doors for each side, so I’m leaning towards that as the issue.
Just another thing to fix…
My van does the same. The front passenger get more air than the driver, and hotter or colder*, depending. Not worth fixing unless it gets much worse.
* Y’all down there might not need to know this, but your car can blow hot air into the passenger compartment when it’s cold outside. Come to think of it, you probably do need to know, because sometimes you get deep freezes where the temperature gets below 60F.
We got 20F as the low for the winter here.
Not worth talking about in many parts of the Country, but it’s not 60 for the lows either…
Haha. When I went to Charlotte for a contract about five years ago, there was a big snowfall a few days later, in mid March. My sister was yelling at me for bringing New York weather to North Carolina.
Thankfully, “big snowfall” usually indicates not very cold weather, around 32.
Same as Long Island.
The worst was when the snowfall was followed by a warm day and then 25 degree weather that froze the melted snow.
Yea, not a problem at the moment. I’ll wait for it to act up again but meantime figure out what has to come apart/how and get fixed. The volume of air is fine, it’s just slightly higher temperature, for now. Still plenty cold.
Heat in a car around here is mostly useful for screwing up the air conditioning 🙂
Except when it’s needed. Back around 2013 when I still had the ’93 Suburban, the heater coil went bad and started leaking. I routed around it temporarily, meaning no heat. I drove up I=81 (mountains) to Virginia one January morning and discovered my fingers were getting numb. Another fun thing about getting older…