From woke to broke

Just don't relocate to Texas!!! 

This is another reason I do not understand Musk's movement on Twitter.  Facebook's business plan was much more profitable than Twitters and the broad market is down in any case. 

Facebook down 75%


One possible strategy of Musk's appears to be, get control of the company, dig out all the crime and lies, present this to the public, and go after all the top people criminally as well as monetarily. Perhaps he will get some of his money back. In any case, he will be able to take a big tax write off and not pay taxes on billions of Tesla stock if he decides to sell or write down the value of the company. 

As is the case in many of life's decisions, I believe there are a number of different considerations at play. I am sure Elon can chew gum and walk at the same time. 

A well thought out essay of where we began as a nation, where we are, and the consequences of where we might end up. 

www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/what_would_the_world_look_like_without_america.html

Virtually everyone else in the world has appropriated American inventions, technology, and ideas. (Or stolen them outright, as is the case with China.) Perhaps reparations are due to the United States from all the countries that have immeasurably benefited from its excellence and largess, and the countless millions who would not otherwise be alive today.

How did we get here? By refusing to properly understand the goals and motives of the left. By letting leftists convince us that there is no objective truth, and that morality is 100% fungible and subjective. And by somehow refusing to acknowledge that this can only lead to utter decline and devastation.

If the West — and particularly the United States — encourages its own demise via what amounts to assisted suicide, the rest of the world, too, may grow figuratively, if not literally, dark. Possibly forever.

Who could pay reparations for that?

Ah, goals and motives of the left. How many millions of words have been written about that simple subject. I'll add a few.  For over one hundred years the leftists have been exactly truthful about their goal. The destruction of the United States, and we have gone along, thinking it is all hyperbole. For the minds of freedom seekers can not comprehend that any sane individual should be striving to limit freedom.

Yet, that is exactly what is happening. They make incremental inroads into our institutions. No one wants to hear hate speech, so limit what can be said and where it can be said. No one likes violence so limit who can purchase a gun, how and when. No one like big corporations, so keep imposing rules that limit their ability to conduct normal business. No one wants poverty so government largess to the poor has become compassion. Our republic is suffering a death of thousand cuts, none separately life treating but taken in whole the same as a knife to the heart. 

What can be done? I believe we are coming to a point that divorce is almost a sure thing. Now, it is possible that divorce could amicable. That's what I thought with my first three. I was stupid. Divorce its never amicable, even between people who both desire the same goals. It will be bloody and unnecessary and no one is going to be satisfied in the end. We will just wish it over with and it will drag on and on costing more money and more money and lives. 

the tragedy is that the left will never accept success. If we give them the left coast from the Mexican border to Canada they are going to demand more. If we give them New England it won't be enough. I could see the old Confederate states reforming but the left will never let us alone, not with Texas and Florida as anchors. The problems of an amicable disunion are immense. Just consider Social Security, who gets it and where? It boggles the mind. My guess seniors like us are going to take it on the chin. No benefits of any kind. 

So, I think there will be war. My grandson I had a long discussion about it while I was in Florida. He fears the same he thinks, and I agree, the start will come from another disputed election, possibly in 24. One or several states will challenge the election results. Both candidates will claim the election, both parties will have results ratified; state electors will be selected by both sides, giving us two possible presidents and the country will split along political lines. National Guards will be called up in every state, loyalty oaths will be imposed on the troops and police. Travel will be curtailed between disputing states and borders will be violently enforced. 

And like 1861 the left will initiate war by invading one or several of the protesting states. It will be bloody, indecisive and the death toll will reach the millions. No one wins and everyone loses. And even if the union is rebuilt it will never again be the same. In 1865 we had the west to absorb malcontents. Today there is nothing. 

That's certainly possible. And although I think it certain that you and your grandson would risk life and limb to save our republic, what I worry about is that most conservatives will not openly disagree with their HR director – let alone their own wives – regarding these topics.

And consider that we just experienced the greatest usurpation of individual liberty under the guise of a medical emergency and most conservatives (and I assume libertarians as well) went meekly along with it all. And when some somewhat concrete action is taken, we get the PR nightmare of a bunch of hoodlums trashing the Capitol.

There's also the problem of geography. Although I don't agree with what the South did during the Civil War or their reasons for doing so, that was at least mostly along clear geographical lines. But what we have today (outside of the really wacko states such as California) is mostly red patches in rural areas with highly blue areas in the cities. And although Texas is arguably more homogeneously red than, say, Oregon, they still have fairly close elections when some left wing kook is run in a statewide election. When people such as Beto O'Rourke can be elected as a Congressman, you can split your state off from the union but the infection is already within your borders.

My thought is that we are not living in a "social democracy" as much as we are living inside a "social consumerism" state. As long as fantastic and new goods and services keep getting cranked out by industry, we are happy, our motto apparently being "I buy or upgrade, therefore I am." These goods act as our Soma. This certainly fits in with the meek reaction by most toward the assaults on our liberties under the guise of a medical emergency. To not go along with these rules meant the most frightening thing possible: I might lose money or my job.

It's worth contrasting that attitude with the last line of the Declaration of Independence (written mostly by a Southerner):



Jesus H. Christ, if you'll forgive the blasphemy. Thomas Jefferson was willing to put at risk his books, his library, his horticulture collection...his entire Monticello. That is the same for the other founders and leaders who signed that document. But the rank-and-file today are not willing to risk even mild social buffeting by disagreeing with the prevailing opinions in ways that count, in ways that could cost them something.

I'm not saying that some kind of revolution couldn't come. You never can tell about these things. But I don't see it in the cards at the moment.

Is Kung on vacation? Haven't heard from him for a while.

I think that's very much true. And part of what makes their story so fascinating is the hardships they endured in order to have that freedom. Who wants to read about the life of some Snowflake living in his mother's basement at the age of thirty whose definition of "hardship" is doing without internet service for a half hour?



I think that's an accurate description. And the sheep, whose lives are made safe and comfortable by their owners, never have any idea that a slaughterhouse (let alone a sheering) is in their future.

And despite the mostly female-propagated hysteria about how horrible everyone has it, people are generally comfortable and have never had it so good. They would laugh at the idea that there is some revolution coming...unless, of course, it is the revolution to wipe out SIXHIRB.

The minute the chicks gang up and physically kick the ass of "Lia" Thomas out of their locker room, I will then have hope that a counter-revolution is possible. Until then, it's sheep all the way down.

The Chinese are not insane and do not have the huge problems with race/diversity which the USA has. About 90% of Chinese citizens are of "Han" extraction. The majority of the Han that I have seen are, let us say, extremely proud of being Han and support the race. The balance of Chinese citizens are made up of numerous different races, ethnic backgrounds and have little power. 

I am 99.9999% sure much of the insanity which is being spouted by the American left is being financed and pushed by the CCP. The idiot leftists may, or may not, know this.