{"id":26582,"date":"2025-11-30T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=26582"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:08:17","slug":"echoes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/echoes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more than just my vanity talking when I say this dude sounds a lot like me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johnalucas6.substack.com\/p\/the-canary-in-the-tennessee-coal\" target=\"blank\">Apocalypse Now?<\/a><br \/>I am not prone to doomsday thinking, but neither am I unrealistically optimistic. When President Trump won the election for a second term (against overwhelming odds) in 2024, I understood that the nation had not been \u201csaved\u201d from the radical Left\u2019s destructive policies; we had merely gotten a <em>reprieve<\/em>. Still, events this year, since Trump 2.0 took office, make me wonder if the polity is too divided, too debased, too indoctrinated, and too detached from \u201ctraditional American values\u201d to survive as a democratic republic committed to the rule of law. For the first time in my life, I am concerned about the survival of the United States\u2014not from a foreign threat, but from within.<\/p>\n<p>Blue states and blue cities that had declared themselves \u201csanctuaries\u201d for the millions of Third World invaders have now become the epicenter of a secession-like resistance to the enforcement of federal immigration law. Democrats\u2019 frantic efforts to demonize, obstruct, and endanger ICE, with the active assistance of rogue judges, amount to an insurrection. Democrats seek to prevent the deportation of, and to grant de facto amnesty to, the millions of illegal aliens who flooded our borders under Biden\u2014foiling our immigration laws. The only possible explanation is that Democrats hope to transform the electorate with Third World detritus, to whom they intend to grant de jureamnesty (and voting rights), thereby ensuring perpetual political control by presiding over the resulting welfare state.<\/p>\n<p>This is not new\u2014indeed, it has been going on for <em>deacdes<\/em> in California\u2013but I had hoped the American public would rise up and oppose the Democrats\u2019 Kevorkian-like national assisted suicide when it became apparent that importing the Third World was a conscious strategy to ruin America. Just look at the Somali enclaves in Minnesota and the Muslim enclaves in Michigan. <em>They did not happen by accident<\/em>. The massive influx of illegal aliens with foreign customs, attitudes, and beliefs\u2014unwilling to assimilate and hostile to our culture\u2013erodes the civic glue that binds us together as Americans. Thus, blue city voters elected a socialist pro-Palestinian Muslim as mayor of New York City, and the radical Left\u2019s reaction to the assassination of a National Guard member by an unvetted Afghan refugee in the nation\u2019s capital is to blame President Trump for deploying the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the outrage at widespread predation and fraud by foreign invaders?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Isolated in whatever tiny pockets of old-school Real Americanism that still exist, that&#8217;s where. Which indicates that the only realistic answer to the question posed in Pulliam&#8217;s title is that, much as we may need one right about now, there is in fact no &#8220;apocalypse&#8221; coming, neither in the short nor the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Apocalypse now? Apocalypse NEVER, more like.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more yet and, grim and depressing though it surely is, you must read all of this one, folks.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/759501\/\" target=\"blank\">Insty<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s more than just my vanity talking when I say this dude sounds a lot like me. Apocalypse Now?I am not prone to doomsday thinking, but neither am I unrealistically optimistic. When President Trump won the election for a second term (against overwhelming odds) in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/echoes-2\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Echoes<\/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":[5,210,16,194,39,40,42,204,55,162,68,77,120,122,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-american","category-are-we-fed-up-yet","category-believe-it-or-else","category-sick-fucks","category-death-to-liberty","category-dhimmi-wits","category-disasters-near-and-far","category-enemies-domestic","category-gangstergovt","category-hard-times-are-here-to-stay","category-leftward-ho","category-meltdown-what-meltdown","category-we-are-soooooo-screwed","category-where-do-we-go-from-here","category-wtf","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-210-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-194-id","wpcat-39-id","wpcat-40-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-204-id","wpcat-55-id","wpcat-162-id","wpcat-68-id","wpcat-77-id","wpcat-120-id","wpcat-122-id","wpcat-126-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582","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=26582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26596,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26582\/revisions\/26596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}