Really?!? STILL??

If the shoe fits...

Mike has some thoughts about the state of things at Cold Fury today. RTWT

My thoughts on that? Jesus H. Christ.

I have some vague recollection of watching the Establishment and their Enemedia minions brazenly and openly steal, outright, an entire presidential election (and then two senatorial elections, to tip that balance as well), with everyone watching, in ways so obvious as to be notable to Stevie Wonder from geosynchronous orbit in space.

Maybe only *I* saw that. Maybe it was all just a dream.

And then I see Mr. Fraudulent, Emperor Gropey Dopey the Ist, Anointed Leader Of The Serial Fuckup that is become this nation, and former republic, now only one of the banana variety, and I realize it isn't just me, and it wasn't a dream.

So having people, anyone, even those firmly on our side, calling for "MOAR ELECTIONS! VOTE HARDERER!!" is like watching a Spelling Bee at the Special Olympics, with the soundtrack provided by Retarded Kids' Nails On A Chalkboard.

WHAT THE BLISTERING HELL IS IT GOING TO TAKE BEFORE PEOPLE UNFUCK THEMSELVES, SMELL THE COFFEE, AND WAKE THE FUCK UP?!?!?

Asking for 100,000,000 friends and neighbors.

Your country has been stolen from you, FFS. A sternly-worded letter to the editor and chanting "We Shall Overcome" is going to work for you now about as well as it would have in Moscow in 1935.

We're past voting at them, harder. Looooooooooooooong past. Ten months of astonishment, and seven-plus months of the most concentrated series of deliberate own-goal shitshows ever seen in the history of this nation, by a guy who not only couldn't get elected to the White House once in his entire career - including 2020! - but can't hit the toilet instead of his Depends most days, if he even remembers to put on the latter. Alzheimer's does that to you.

We tried the bloodless ballot-box revolution, so beloved of this nation the entirety of the time we were an actual constitutional republic. Now, however, we are manifestly neither of those things.

The other side decided the time had come, finally, to preclude that option. You think they're going to give you a second chance on that, EVER?

The Other Side made the choice to end honest elections. On their heads be the consequences. Or hopefully, around their necks. And once a nation crosses that Rubicon, there is no other way out of what follows.

The only way this nightmare ends, EVER, is with rivers of blood, and mountains of skulls.

Ours. Or Theirs.

I vote for Theirs. I'm sentimental like that.

And the sooner the chattering Punditry gets off the tracks, and gets on board that train, the sooner the train can start building a good head of steam to get to that station.

Conversely, the longer they stand there on the tracks, gawping and dumbfounded, because Things Aren't Working Like They Always Did, the more likely the train goes the other way, and unloads at the sign that says Arbeit Macht Frei.

Dealer's choice, Blabbermouths.

Stop whistling past the konzentrationslager.

Pull your thumbs out of your pieholes*, and start loading magazines. Or start loading boxcars.

There is no Third Option here. 

Put up, or shut up.

First one to "Harumph!" is on Their side. No Do-Overs. Stop Commie-splaining, and man up.

*(Regular readers of this blog can imagine for themselves which orifice I was more inclined to supply there.)

PSA: Fear porn? No Sale.

h/t Odd Job

I just left the ER. Where I work in Greater Southern Califrutopia.

We are officially far from being crushed by COVID. We're mainly annoyed at the stupid fuckers who keep spreading it, as if it just "went away" or something. Our COVID tents are going back up, to keep dipshits who know they have an active symptomatic case of it from walking inside and hanging out with family members before they think it's important enough to tell us this. (After the first five times you have to decon the entire waiting room and triage area, it's just not funny anymore). And we've gone back to full N95s all the time, within the ER, because of the recent spike in herd stupidity.

COVID is making a small comeback; nothing like last December/January when we WERE being crushed by it. We just got our first cases since February, starting about two weeks ago. And one jackass employee who came to work sick, and exposed an entire department to it, instead of taking sick days. Not all fucking morons who come to the hospital, and deserve to be clubbed about the head and shoulders with table legs until they bleed from their ears and eyes, are the patients.

Our ICU is half-full, because half the nursing staff left or quit after COVID 1.0 due to workload burnout. So half the beds are full, with the normal ICU patients (intubated, post-surgical, heart attacks, strokes, major trauma, etc.). The other half are unstaffed, nightly, because we can't find replacement ICU nurses at anything less than exorbitant rates, so they are unusable beds. AFAIK, we don't have a single COVID patient in the ICU, but if we did, it wouldn't be more than 1 or 2. The bigger problem is that this backs up ICU patients into the ER for days on end, and so new patients can't get in for hours, even for serious problems.

Our new COVID cases are about a 50:50 split between fully vaxxed, and totally unvaxxed.

That's the difference between reality on the ground, and bots and idiots spreading CDC b.s. talking points on Facecrack and other socialist disinformation websites.

And BTW, to date, the "Delta variant" doesn't mean Jack or Shit to us.

You either have active COVID, or you don't.

You either have it bad enough to need hospitalization, or you don't.

(The latter would mean "COVID hypoxia so bad you can't go home without oxygen", FTR.)

Anything else is officially in the IDGAF file, pretty much in perpetuity.

If this changes, I'll pass along updates.

h/t Peter

(For those who missed it 50+ times in the comments here and multiple other sites, I'm not vaxxed, and don't intend to be in any foreseeable future. I won't be a beta-test guinea pig for an experimental not-a-vaccine, with questionable safety, and no liability to the makers. And even if they put skin in the game - which none of them have, to date - I can't sue anyone if I'm dead. N95s and hand washing got me through the last 18 months with frothing fulminant COVID patients at halitosis range just fine; I see no need to change course at this point, come hell or high water. When someone makes an actual vaccine, with absolutely the same level of safety as a flu shot, or tetanus booster, that isn't a frankenvirus DNA experiment, we can talk. Until then, pass the hand sanitizer, and stay your sick ass over there please.

And for the Just-The-Flu-Bro morons who keep pimping that monumentally jackassical level of stupidity, a relatively pissant 1.6% CFR rate (only 16x worse than annual flu) among the almost 4M Califrutopians (i.e. 10% or so, no more) who ever contracted it means, that while 98.4% of those who did, didn't die, the over 60,000 who did is more deaths, in a year and change, just in Califrutopia, than all US deaths in the Vietnam War, from 1954-1975. It's not "just the flu, bro", it's "Just The Vietnam War, every year, bro". If that cluebat of reality upside the head isn't enough to put it into proper perspective for you, you're really too stupid to be on the internet without adult supervision, aren't you? And the pat you're about to get on the back won't be anything like what you thought was coming your way.)

Run and hide? FUCK NO.

Just stop being stone-IQ fucking morons about what's really out there.

And stop acting shocked and butthurt when TPTB use that Reality to go Miles Beyond Full Retard to ratchet up Tyranny, like they have, like they will.

It's what they do.

Tell them to fuck off with that shit.

If they won't listen, shoot the sumbitches in the face until they do.

(It was amazing how reasonable the Nazis got when we took their whole country away, wasn't it?)

So maybe more of that, and less Coronatardation and Covidiocy about kooky black helicopter chemtrail theories, please. If reality hurts your head, that was the 2x4 hitting the back of your skull a few times.

Pay attention faster next time.

UPDATE: 2+2=5: Peter over at BRM does more legwork, and the propaganda on this "spike" is pure lies, and bald-faced bullshit. QED

Dear Political Would-Be Re-enactors: This is 2021. Not 1861. Not 1775.

 

Look, I'm busy a lot more lately. So some days, I write less, because it's mainly been said. There's a lot to do. But some people are stuck in 2019. Or 1775. Or 1861. I know, because I keep seeing the same dumb ideas crop up.

And, sorry, but they're just dumb ideas. Bag of hammers dumb. Voting your way out of this dumb. Dumb And Dumber dumb. (Clever readers will note a trend here.)

Kenny over at Knuckledraggin' linked to this post. He's not dumb. And the guy who wrote the OP (which, per his comments, you should know was written by T.L. Davis) gets 50% of things 100% right. That's half right. The government currently is completely illegitimate. It was put in power by a wholly fraudulent election. It's spot-on, right up until he drives over the cliff, and into "secession"*.

"Half credit. 50%: F+  See me after class"

Secede where? From whom?

You live in a purple state, in a purple country, and in which no legitimate election can ever be expected from now on. Times 50 states.

You want to oppose the illegitimate government, product of a wholly fraudulent election? 

Bravo. So do I, and so do millions more.

But this isn't 1861, and you have no safe space to retreat to where your values hold sway, nor where you are and will be in the majority, nor will such ever be left alone by the other side. They never have, they never will, and they don't care about the inevitable consequence of that course of action.

Ask Georgians how that plan worked out for them in January.

Secession is a myth, based on a delusion. The idea is laughably ridiculous, doubly so given how it worked out the last time it was attempted.

This isn't going to be won at ballot boxes, protests, strongly-worded letters, nor brilliant legal opinions.

No one you're talking to in those forums cares.

Write that on your hand, lest ye forget.

This is going to be a cage match to the death, and it isn't over until there's only one side left standing. And that's true whether you fight, or surrender. All giving up changes is how fast you get on the boxcars.

And if you choose to fight, it's going to be fought house to house, floor to floor, and in some families, room to room. In every town and city in every state. Some will be easier than others, but no place is 100% anything. For now.

When that penny drops, and the range goes hot in both directions, you'll be at the starting line.

The finish line is  a long, long way off, even at that point.

But at least people will be in the right event.

__________

Secession? Put down the bong.

Don't believe me, though. Put down your crowbar, and lever Texas right the fuck into being a republic. (They're probably the only state where you've got a better-than-average chance. Oh, and "average" is "snowball's chance in hell", FTR.)

So, tell us what you're going to do with Austin? Most of Houston? Large enclaves around every university in the state, even A and M. And all those deep blue counties at the border from El Paso to Brownsville? Make them Palestine and West Berlin? Give them back to Mexico? Kick the can down the road, like the GOPe did for 100 years, so your kids and grandkids can fight the same fight, but this time on your front lawn? Or will you recognize the problem, and start cleaning house, house to house, exactly as I suggested? (All that, while you're suddenly facing the other 49 states, deciding if they're with you or against you, and fighting FedGov in peer warfare?? And maybe Mexico too?? Sh'yeah. When monkeys fly outta my butt.)

Welcome to the party.

And that's in a state where you have a shot. Everywhere else, it's worse, because there ain't no 100% states, nor counties.

So, like I said, no secession. Just existential civil war. You either get the whole hog, or nothing.

Like we told you. And told you.

That said, how's your PT coming along?

How many people are in your tribe, and heart-attack serious?

What about your Area Studies, Near and Far? Who's on Santa's "Naughty" List?

If you're not doing any of that, I guess liberty is just too hard for you, or you figure Sumdood is going to be sure and step up to fight on your behalf in this war, just like in every other one.

Fat chance. TANSTAAFL.

Live or die, @$$hole? True for the other side, true for ours.

*(FTR: Anyone trying to weasel-word "secession" into "divorce" is a stone moron. "Amicable divorce" is the same type of oxymoron as "jumbo shrimp", "military intelligence", and "government help". Anyone using divorce seriously as an option in the context of the burgeoning unpleasantness is an oxymoron who's lost their "oxy" status. Just saying. -A.)

UPDATE: T.L. Davis has decided to double down on this idea in a new post.

Do, please, go to his blogsite and RTWT.

We shall attend to it in due course.

Sorry If This Is News To Anyone