"...It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take great devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- the we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the People, by the People, for the People -- shall not perish from the Earth..." -- Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address"
I mention Abe here because I will be visiting that very battlefield next week, but also because it appears as if a great many people need to be reminded of what is at stake in these here United States some 162 years after the slaughter.
The men who died upon that landscape in Pennsylvania were motivated by many things: love of country, love of state, dedication to the cause of American democracy, and even giving the majority of Confederates (who were not slave-owners, themselves) the benefit of the doubt, the principles of federalism that underlie it all.
The American Civil War is often simplified for the dummies among us as representing a battle of good (Abolition) versus Evil (the continuation of Slavery), but it's causes were far more complex than that. Perhaps one day I will get into the weeds on the subject with a lighter heart and more-objective attitude, but at the moment, I honestly can't.
For at this moment, I am still processing the assassination of Charlie Kirk and wondering just what it was some gay fucktard was hoping to accomplish by it and by what the consequences of his actions might still be.
In some ways, the echoes of the old Civil War battle cries still reverberate, at least on the left, only changed slightly to match present circumstances. As an example, take the issue of illegal immigration.
Democrats in 1860:
But who will pick our cotton?
Democrats in 2025:
But who will pick our lettuce, mow our lawns, raise our children and clean our hotel rooms?
They will NEVER forgive us for freeing their slaves.
But, I digress...
There has been an all-but-undeclared UNcivil War happening in America ever since 2008. That's when the beneficiary of those men slaughtered in the fields of Pennsylvania came to power, and here I speak of one Barack Hussein Obama, a name that one day will equated with treason and disruption based on little more than vanity and ego in the same way that Benedict Arnord's, Vidkun Quisling's and Marcus Junius Brutus' are.
To be fair, what Obama did was to be expected from someone of his background. To blame Obama for being what he was would be on par for blaming a skunk for stinking: a disingenuous, bitter, racist, Red Diaper socialist pile of half-breed shit could act in no other way once given the keys to the kingdom. He had a variety of axes to grind regarding the country that gave him so much and which, in retrospect, seemingly expected so little from him.
When I say "expected so little" what I mean is that Obama was, it appears, one of those favored pets of guilty white, backhandedly-paternalist racists who are desperately trying to prove that they aren't racist by elevating a complete doofus far above his station or ability, and then acting as if they've done the MOST VIRTUOUS THING EVAH!
People like Obama serve very little purpose, except to give white libwits continuous little doses of dopamine that makes them feel all self-righteous. I'm sure that growing up under the tutelage of such ridiculously self-important people, that if a 6-year-old Barack Obama took a copious dump on the schoolroom floor, they all applauded and congratulated his genius. If he submitted an essay that was full of poor grammar, misspelled words and not even recognizable English, he was lauded for his "insight" and "clever views".
In other words, Barack Obama (and many like him, including his
People like this, the Obamas, AOC's and Crocketts of the world, are the favored pets of the American Left who still cling to their post-Confederacy fantasy that if they couldn't stop anyone freeing the minorities, they could at least try to CONTROL them by means of beneficent-appearing skullduggery.
You see this plan being played out on a daily basis: kids get promoted in school despite being dumber than a goldfish or despite being a disciplinary problem; government hiring goes for the minority, female and lowest-scoring test takers first in the name of "fairness"; complete idiots like a Michael Eric Dyson, a Cornell West, a Joy Reid are given a cachet of brilliance by the left despite the fact that each of them, in their own way, is a by-product of a phony catechism of "anti-discrimination" which is, by all measures, mightily discriminatory.
You wonder how many of them are actually AWARE of their own stupidity and are bitter and angry about it, as well.
Again, to be fair to Obama, he could not be anything other than what he became. Stuffed to the brim with the false confidence given to him by the white liberals who surrounded him, raised in the cognitively-dissonant atmosphere of a Hawaiian mansion by Communist grandparents, his foibles excused, his failures framed as successes, a lifetime of boilerplate red propaganda shoved up his ass, it was no wonder the man could do little more than go on vacation and fill in his NCAA brackets, let alone run a country.
He was the inheritor of a lifetime of really bad ideas and deprived of the mental capacity to see them as such, but overflowing with the false bravado of those who are somewhat aware that they're not too bright, but determined to be an asshole, anyway.
Obama, in short, was the egg that finally hatched after some 70 years of Progressive bullshit. The finished product, so to speak: all flash and no dash; presumed intellect and dim lights; confidently wrong but defiantly convinced of his righteousness; dedicated to a cause that repudiated every libtard talking point for half a century regarding a color-blind, inclusive, un-discriminating nation, and instead to overturning the Established Order.
There had been other such shitheads in American history before -- a slew of Kennedys, Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and others too obscure to even mention here -- but Obama was the finished product; the perfect empty vessel who could be filled up, dumped out and refilled again.
Eight years of Obama resembled, in many ways to this writer, the chaos of the 1960's. The elevation of a (half-)black man to the Presidency should have finally healed the wounds of race in America. The re-election of same should have seen the scab fall off, but nothing of the sort happened.
Instead, Obama talked a good game about the Progressive Agenda, but never truly accomplished most of it. Oh, sure, phags could now get married and the American Medical System had been damaged almost beyond repair (necessary prelude to a government takeover) but he failed on so much; the Oceans did not subside; the 'Poor' did not miraculously change places with the Rich (we don't have poor people in America, just an underclass deliberately paid to be assholes and then farmed for votes); Women were still Women with all the failings and weaknesses they had before his ascension; the lazy, halt, lame and stupid were still the same.
The talk of "fundamentally transform America" was belied by the reality: the piece of shit did nothing useful, worthwhile or important to the Progressive cause.
This made the Progressives very, very angry. In turn, it made them ever-more shrill, obnoxious, petulant, confrontational and all-around menstrual than ever before (to the point where some men began demanding their right to a menstrual cycle!).
Bad Orange Man came along and infuriated them even more. If Obama, the Great Hopenchanger, had failed to advance the causes of communism and self-absorbed fucktard, then Trump threated to place more and higher roadblocks to those goals that might never be overcome.
So the idiots became more militant, more assertive, more destructive, in the belief that if you just make decent, peaceful life for ordinary people impossible, they'll eventually cave and give you whatever you want. So, they elevated criminals into saints; they hollowed out once-great American cities with riots, arson and looting; they shoved gay down your throat 24/7 and threatened your children with indoctrination and grooming, and then came the Great Chinese Lung AIDS, and the opportunity arose to transform American Life under the cover of public safety.
The Left, and they were doing this long before Obama -- he was just the firehose putting the stuff out in great profusion -- has taken the old Confederacy and Reconstruction playbooks out and attempted to construct a New Plantation with them. First came Speech Codes, then new and divisive sub-categories of people to be treated as endangered species, this was followed by the lawfare, the protests, the riots, the forced injections and virtual imprisonment in your own home.
But it was finally revealed that all of this talk of Equality, all of the rules enforced, were all based upon lies. Lies of omission and commission, whether it was false accusations of Russian "collusion" (notice they did not use the legal term "conspiracy"; that would require evidence), or turning the organs of government against the people and political enemies, forcing you to accept what most of society would consider unacceptable. They were in a rush, you see, because having -- they thought -- disposed of Bad Orange Man, it turned out their alternative was little more than a hollow shell of a human being lacking both the physical and mental ability to at least continue lying effectively.
Joe Biden was an unmitigated disaster for this country. Without taking the time to list his roster of deficiencies (we'd be here all year), he had but one quality; a man so mentally vacant was the perfect catspaw to continue what Obama had started and what Trump had, briefly, interrupted, and the sense of urgency was such that the mask slipped ever more completely.
A State of War has existed in America for quite some time. Just in case you missed the declaration of such -- George Floyd riots, election rigging and cheating, the coercion of social and mainstream media to toe a party line -- it was just repeated with the killing of Charlie Kirk and the attempts on Donald Trump's life.
(Speaking of which: what about Matthew Crooks? Why the silence, Kash? Don? Pam)..
They've graduated from just being insufferably annoying to opening fire. If taking out Trump, for the purposes of this argument, be seen by some on the left as a John Brown moment, why can't the killing of Charlie Kirk be seen by the rest of us as a newer version of Fort Sumpter?
I promise you this, my leftist friends:
If you wish to keep behaving and acting in these sort of demented, murderous, destructive and unhinged manners, don't be surprised if someone should start taking shots at YOU, both metaphorically and for reals.
I don't advocate for such (as I've just explained on the latest version of The Idiot's Perspective podcast -- now available on X and Spotify!) but I'm a reasonable guy, for the most part. There's a whole shitload of other people out there who aren't, and who would feel wholly justified in the biblical proscription of an eye for an eye, and they're much better shots, have more guns, and their foot soldiers aren't recruited from the absolute dregs of society.
You want to fight, you're going to lose. If you think you can pull your usual trick of fomenting violence or even just moderate pushback and then retreat into victimhood status, guess again. No one buys your line of bullshit anymore and, therefore, most likely has even less sympathy for you than they did before.
You have been warned.
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