State of Wednesday: 25 YEARS, AND WHAT DID WE GET?
But there have in fact been bright spots, Dear Reader, glimmers of hope in all this mess.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Welcome back to State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection of the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.
Since we’re hours away from ending the first quarter of the century, let’s do a little review of our progress.
It hasn’t all been bad, but it hasn’t been great either.
25 YEARS, AND WHAT DID WE GET?
It’s truly hard to put into words how spectacular the bungling was in the decades following WWII. They might not have ultimately listened to Patton about Moscow, but they knew he was right. We could have annihilated communism right then. American hegemony was truly unmatched.
We could write the world, and instead we seeded it with an optimism (and paradoxically a cynicism) it didn’t truly deserve.
I’m not here to unpack the foibles of those decades, from trade to foreign wars, fumbled and then crumbled coups, Bill Clinton literally sending China ultra-sensitive technology that “enhanced the accuracy of China’s ballistic missile arsenal,” the fact that we invented everything and now make almost none of it …
… merely to use them as a setup for the turn of the century.
It’s as if government elites in the 21st century looked back on all the mid success, punctuated by moments of stunning mediocrity, and said watch this.
It’s fitting the first quarter century is bookended by election nonsense. Just when I thought it was behind us, we find out Georgia improperly tabulated 315,000 votes in the 2020 election. Even the hanging chad debate of 2000 ended mid-December.
Twenty-five years have passed. I have to show up in person and prove my identity to buy a gun, but we’ve only gotten worse at verifying who won elections.
Nine months into the turn, and we sustained the largest terrorist attack in US history on 9/11. Instead of finding the bastards who did it and killing them, we launched two massive land invasions that everyone with any sense said were unnecessary and would end poorly, which they did … 20ish years later.
Domestically, we set the stage for the importation of tens of millions of foreigners who we knew would never assimilate. Entire cities have since gone from majority American to majority first and second generation immigrant. Mexico is one thing, but Guatemala, El Salvador, Somalia, Eritrea, North Africa. Narco terrorists and Muslim extremists now wait in line with you at the suburban 7 Eleven beside Guatemalan Uber Eats drivers. It’s easier to order in AND get raped now!
Not to be outdone by two bankrupting wars, a permanent foreign serf class, and violent foreign extremists in suburban America, we decided to build another serf class by writing a blank check to American universities. Now we have 40+ million permanently indebted, “highly educated” mostly idiots. Sure they stand behind registers at coffee shops, go back into academia, or do food service, but some of them manage to flop their way to high places in corporate America, government and so on. They think they’re smart, they know they’re credentialed, and worst of all, they feel righteous about the stupidest, most corrosive, self-defeating ideology ever devised by man.
Republicans who busied themselves selling out the American worker in bad trade deals, bankrupting the taxpayer on foreign adventures and shitty defense contracts, and giving in to their worst libertarian tendencies are now waking up hungover to Democrats running every major institution and sitting atop a throne of two entrenched serf classes – foreigners from hostile cultures and childless cat ladies with worthless master’s degrees.
But hey, at least pot is legal and kids can get sex changes!
To summarize: The wars, surveillance and crushing suppression of the Bush years accelerated under Obama, plus the cultural nuclear bomb of neo-Marxist wokeness, gave us a defeated Hillary Clinton, Trump, a damaged Biden who further flooded the country with foreign serfs, then thanks be to God Trump II.
I might be tempted to say they just thought what they were doing what was right the whole time, but cui bono, my friends. When a cluster of elite dipshits gets filthy rich and powerful despite not inventing a damned thing, your eyes need to be open.
It’s also tempting to say the one bright spot of this century has been America’s utter dominance in technology, perhaps the only way we maintain the supremacy we earned by beating Hitler, bombing Japan and ending communism.
We’ve got smartphones, SpaceX, drones, robots, artificial intelligence also looks to be almost exclusively our frontier.
Then again, it’s hard to say what’s been worse for humanity, millions of new foreigners and educated idiots running the country or kids with iPhones and artificial intelligence and limitless porn.
Every day that passes, I start to think the Unabomber was on to something.
But there have in fact been bright spots, Dear Reader, glimmers of hope in all this mess.
Schools are starting to wisen up to letting kids have phones in class (shocked it took so long). There’s been talk of legislation that would remove non-citizens from census rolls, thereby nuking most of the motivation Democrats have to import so many of them.
It’s quite possible we’ll start to see a reinstitution of standards in schools. People are steadily waking up to how bad going woke actually went. A solution to the student loan debt problem – as in stop giving out so much money – also looks somewhat inevitable.
I’m not happy with Trump’s aggression in his first year, but I’ve been told his second will take it up a notch. I think it needs to be upped by like ten notches.
Regardless, there’s a decent chance he can close the door behind him on a lot of this. Pass national work and voting verification standards. Put colleges on the hook for defaulted student loans. Defund any education that even whiffs of anti-white racism. Denaturalize and deport immigrants who broke the law. Do it so fast not even legal challenges can undo the action.
Do I think he’s got the cojones? Does JD after him got the cojones?
Possibly.
January 1 is a day of obligation at church. The next 25 won’t even be many hours old, and I’ll be praying.
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