{"id":25733,"date":"2025-09-13T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=25733"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:37:24","slug":"slow-your-roll-cool-your-jets-take-a-long-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/slow-your-roll-cool-your-jets-take-a-long-deep-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow your roll, cool your jets, take a long, deep breath"},"content":{"rendered":"

And hold for a slow, steady ten-count. Repeat as needed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A psychopath with inferior weaponry is, far more often than not, a safer bet in a fight than a sane man with an arsenal.<\/p>\n

War is not won by firepower alone.<\/p>\n

It is shaped by willingness \u2014 by who is prepared to cross which lines. And anyone who has watched leftist mobs in action knows they cross all decent lines with glee.<\/p>\n

This is where anger clouds the thinking.<\/p>\n

I)f you\u2019re thinking about the cultural moment in terms of war and you\u2019re not actively, consciously, deliberately, and soberly factoring in the fact that it is a mob of actual psychopaths<\/em> against normal people, then you are being stupidly naive, and you need to grow the fuck up before you say another word.<\/p>\n

And certainly before you do a goddamn thing.<\/p>\n

The second point I want to make is an answer to the question: why does this feel so different?<\/p>\n

Trump Derangement Syndrome, as I wrote in Gain-of-Function TDS<\/em>, was always ridiculous. Easy to mock. Easy to box off as just another form of political hysteria. People have always hated politicians, often irrationally. Turning Trump into the Bad Orange Man \u2014 a cartoon villain \u2014 was stupid and childish, but it had precedent. It fit into an existing cultural script.<\/p>\n

The hate itself was the point, a bonding ritual, a way to signal in-group loyalty. That\u2019s why, even when it metastasized into assassination attempts, it was still possible to shrug and think: presidents get shot at sometimes. It fit a paradigm.<\/p>\n

But this? This was different. This was the moment when the mask slipped. The left showed that they\u2019re well past virtue signaling. They\u00a0actually believe\u00a0<\/em>the slogans.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0actually believe\u00a0<\/em>that disagreeing with their gender dogma \u2014 refusing to affirm that \u201ctranswomen are women\u201d \u2014 constitutes literal violence, and that striking back with real violence is self-defense.<\/p>\n

If they meant it \u2014 and they did \u2014 then anyone eager to pivot into \u201cwar mode\u201d had better be\u00a0brutally realistic\u00a0<\/em>about what that means.<\/p>\n

To win, you don\u2019t just need weapons.\u00a0You need the willingness to out-evil a brigade of full-on Cluster B actual, literal psychopaths.<\/em><\/p>\n

And most people on the right \u2014 thank God \u2014 are fundamentally decent. They want to defend their families, not revel in cruelty.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s their strength as human beings, but it\u2019s also a massive strategic weakness if this ever does tip into real war.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying the war-cries are wrong. I\u2019m saying they\u2019re\u00a0reckless AF\u00a0<\/em>unless they\u2019re paired with brutal, realistic honesty about the terrain. Emotion is driving this far more than reason. And in any conflict where the left\u2019s defining edge is a higher concentration of people who\u00a0enjoy\u00a0<\/em>inflicting suffering, the right is walking in at a massive disadvantage.<\/p>\n

This is dangerous ground, people.<\/p>\n

Step lightly, or don\u2019t step at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A well-organized, beautifully composed piece of seriously badass writing. A hearty “well done” and a humble doff of the CF Chapeau to Ms Holly Mathnerd for her brilliant, perfectly crafted work here. And bang, zoom! Into Ye Aulde Blogrolle with ye, lass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And hold for a slow, steady ten-count. Repeat as needed. A psychopath with inferior weaponry is, far more often than not, a safer bet in a fight than a sane man with an arsenal. War is not won by firepower alone. It is shaped by…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Slow your roll, cool your jets, take a long, deep breath<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,210,16,17,20,61,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-american","category-are-we-fed-up-yet","category-believe-it-or-else","category-big-tsimmis","category-brilliant","category-hmmm","category-where-do-we-go-from-here","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-210-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-122-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25734,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25733\/revisions\/25734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}