We Need More Pain

Clearly there hasn’t been enough pain over the last 4 years, or the last 20 for that matter.

For pain is the ultimate teacher. Whether it’s the hackneyed hot stove or other life decisions that lead to regrettable outcomes, experiencing the first hand the pain of an impulsive or poorly thought out choice reverberates for years to come. Much more than a parent or wise friend telling you “I think that’s a bad idea.”

As someone whose eyes were pried open in the mid-2000s, it’s been nearly two decades of watching the slow motion disintegration of the Republic.

Ideas that history has repeatedly discredited, are recirculated with new labels and dressing to an increasingly less discerning and less intelligent American public.

Further exacerbating this decline is the complete co-optation of what claims to be an 'independent' media by the state and political activists, leaving us without any traditional safeguards—no wise men, no institutional checks—to prevent the nation from abandoning time-tested Lindy principles for the allure of the 'new'.

The advent of smartphones and social media has intensified this process, allowing misguided ideas to take hold and spread like wildfire, becoming entrenched before saner and sterner folk have the ability to effectively challenge this wave of intersectional postmodernism, which is generally some form of Marxism dressed down and made more palatable for contemporary consumption.

The warnings have been clear for decades, yet here we are.

In the 1960s, when leftist radicals were marginalized from mainstream and serious discourse, they found sanctuary in two critical areas: academia and media. Here, their subversive influence could thrive without restraint, and even more troubling, they assumed roles responsible for shaping young minds—those most vulnerable to flawed ideologies and lacking mature judgment or impulse control.

This issue is compounded by the ongoing serious and quantifiable decline of the American education system at the elementary, secondary, and university levels, exacerbated by a rise in single-parent and divorced households (with an assist of escalating racial tensions fueled by Obama and other grifters exploiting racial issues for personal gain).

Now, at a critical juncture, we witness a startling scenario: a figure widely regarded as one of the least competent and lowest-rated Vice Presidents in history—who has been so ineffective in her duties that the administration has essentially concealed her from public view—has inexplicably risen to become a frontrunner in the polls and graced the cover of Time Magazine. This development signals a profound and distressing shift in the political landscape.

The takeaway from all of the above, is there’s still not enough pain.

Despite nearly a 50% price hike in everything over the past 3 years, there are still useful midwits who talk about inflation being at a 4 year low.

Despite multiple global conflicts, each which is only one bad weekend from morphing into a potential global contagion between nuclear superpowers, there is a collective yawn from the voting populace.

Despite a federal debt that has risen farther and faster than any time in history and now exceeds $36T, there are all sorts of new goodies on the door step and no mention that our interest expense alone every year now exceeds any other expenditure including the nearly $1T we spend annually on our military budget.

And now we’re being promised a free $25K for first time house buyers (including the 15 Million+ illegals that have come in during the last 4 years).

We’re being promised the erasure of all medical debt.

And the end of all student debt.

Plus $6000 child tax credits (not a bad idea, if narrowly tailored…the last thing we need is more single, unmarried women having babies).

And free drugs, free tips, and free everything else.

Those with fewer than 7 booster shots have to realize this is akin to a fourth-grader running for class president and promising chocolate milk in the water fountains, pizza for lunch every day, and no homework?

Wonder Woman’s campaign strategy is apparently foregoing any questions from the press but making outrageous promises and writing checks that she (and the US Treasury) are incapable of cashing, and everyone seems to be just lapping it up.

Please, for the love of God, wake the F up.

I warned you about Biden, again and again. If anything, the damage he did to the country and the world was even greater than some of my most dire forecasts.

If you told me 4 years ago, that students would be rioting and protesting in favor of Hamas across hundreds of our ‘best’ universities, and that the Administration would be silent about it….or even implicitly cheering them on, I would have snickered in disbelief.

Add in 2 potential World War 3 conflicts to the mix, $10T in additional debt, the worst inflation in our nation’s history that murdered everyone but the top 10%, 15 million illegals pouring through a non-existent border and costing us $500B+ a year (when a Border Wall for $5B was deemed too expensive under Orange Man Bad) and we’re in uncharted waters.

Yes, the “81M" man and demented corpse surpassed even my lowest expectations.

And that’s where things get really scary.

Because Joe Biden has been in DC for close to 50 years. He’s been on senior Senate committees, and he at least holds a significant understanding of foreign policy and the workings of both the nation and the world. He has access to seasoned advisors who are deeply entrenched in the mechanics of governance, even if they haven’t been doing it very well.

In other words, he’s from a different generation that at least recognizes the inherent limitations of government power.

Kamala may be the dumbest candidate we’ve ever seen run for the Top Slot by a wide margin, but more alarmingly, she’s a true believer who has never legitimately earned anything in her life and who has capitalized on her racial identity to grasp power and empower a younger generation of followers who are also true believers, without the wisdom or experience of actual accomplishment or true earned credit.

These are Red Guard Cultural Revolution type people.

It is no exaggeration to say that if she wins the presidency and secures majorities in both the House and the Senate, the consequences could be irreversible.

Not without great pain and potential dissolution of the Union.

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