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A Christmas Carol 1984

Yesterday on Twitter I found myself being accused of “ageism” because I pointed out that Joe Biden was not Compos mentis. The person who made this accusation is a person I’ve known for decades, whose house I’ve visited and who citied the fact that his father at 86 was teaching Calculus.

The real world cultural implications of this argument is one of the saddest things I’ve seen in my 57 years.

This fellow is an intelligent person, a bit of a rebel is certain ways that I won’t repeat as I don’t want to cause him trouble, but most of all he is familiar with actual truth and actual evidence the difference between reality and propaganda.

This person is also a deep and I mean DEEP leftist. Oddly enough before the election he had very little to say to me on twitter, in fact I can’t recall a single tweet from the man to over the last several years even though he’s been on twitter since 2008.

So why would he suddenly decide my statements the statements of a fellow with only a few thousand followers require a reply?

The answer and it’s implications are serious.

If I wanted to feed my ego I’d presume that it’s the task of him (and perhaps millions like him) to go after smaller guys like me is part of the general censorship of conservative thought to be kept out of the public square as a danger to the new order. To some degree that’s true but I suspect it’s not true enough to make someone like me worth targeting, at least not yet anyways.

I suspect the real answer is more akin to the character Vina from the original Star Trek Pilot later made into the two part episode The Menagerie.

Mike knows what the reality is, but to acknowledge that reality in public is dangerous because it can result in the othering of him, a risk to his job, his livelihood and to his position and social standing.

But I think it’s deeper and more painful than that.

To have to live a lie, to pretend a reality that one knows is not true can not be easy, even if it is for the cause. To have to do it in the face of others unwilling to go along with the game, to pretend not to see reality that in right in front of their face for the sake of the cause must be unbearable for someone who has been by nature a free spirit.

Every day that we resist having our thoughts caged and refuse to acknowledge their false reality is a reminder that they are in fact in the cage, even if they as true believers are considered favored members of their menagerie they are still in a cage.

As the telosian Magistrate put it:

The customs and history of your race show a unique hatred of captivity. Even when it’s pleasant and benevolent,

There are plenty of ignorant leftists who were taught poorly and have no understanding of the reality in front of them. Our enemies invested a lot of time, money and effort to be sure of this.

But to someone who is old enough, smart enough and educated enough to know reality and have to both in public and in private life contrary to it has to be hell.

I know that the next four years will be rough and I won’t be surprised if I run into problems, both legal and financial, for my unwillingness to play along, but I’d not trade places with such a person for all the comfort in the universe.

As I’ve noted I’m not a football fan, I’m a Tom Brady fan but yesterday I’ve been hearing the conventional wisdom concerning the end of the Packers vs Tampa Bay game and I find it interesting that they can’t see that LeFleur not only made the right call but made a call that gave his team the best chance to win.

Consider the situation:

4th quarter: We are down to just over two minutes to go Green Bay is down by 8. Let’s say you go for it on 4th down after failing for 3 downs. Here is what the possibilites are:

IF you fail to score:

THEN: Tom Brady gets the ball back with an 8 point lead and needs 2 1st downs to win the game.

IF you score the TD and fail to make the 2 point conversion:

THEN: Tom Brady gets the ball back with a 2 pt lead and needs 2 1st downs to win the game

IF you score the TD /AND Make the 2 point play

THEN: Tom Brady gets the ball back with 2 minutes left and 3 time outs needed a FG to win the game.

In all of these cases you need your defense to stop Tom Brady and the Best case scenario from any of these choices is:

A Tie game and overtime and we’ve all seen Brady in Overtime, Atlanta has seen it, Kansas City has seen it. If you’re Green Bay you don’t want to see it.

But NOW consider the alternatives with the FG and a five point game.

It’s true you still need to stop Brady from getting those two 1st downs and if you fail you lose (which you did thanks to that blatant hold) BUT what happens if you do manage to stop him and they have to punt?

Now because of those three point you didn’t have before you give Aaron Rogers a guaranteed chance to WIN with a TD rather than, if Rogers failed to score, a change to tie.

I submit and suggest that while your defense managed to hold Brady to 3 point vs 3 interceptions in his four previous possessions, the odds them doing it a 5th time in a row with a trip to the superbowl on the line was small at best so given those odds you might as well do it with a shot of winning in regulation rather than hoping that Brady doesn’t get the ball in overtime and beat you like he did Ryan and the Falcons or Mahomes and the Chiefs.

You can argue that LeFleur made the wrong call but I submit and suggest he made the only call that guaranteed him a chance to win that game in regulation.

Now it wasn’t a great chance but no matter what decision he made any chance he had to win was dependent on his defense stopping the greatest and most clutch quarterback in the history of the game from completing a drive either for a FG or for two 1st downs.

That would have been my call, but then again I would have gone for one earlier instead of two and then that field goal would have put them within 3 and been even more defensible.

Bottom line if you have to stop Brady anyways it might as well be with a CHANCE TO WIN.

Of course given the effect of the new woke NFL I’m not sure anyone cares, after all if Budweiser thinks the Superbowl is a bad risk even with Brady vs Mahomes who outside of Tampa will bother to watch.

I’ll be back to work by gametime so I won’t be watching or listening anyways.

One of the plays that Nancy Pelosi used when impeaching President Trump last year was holding the impeachment articles for a time when she thought she might get maximum advantage from them. Now word comes that later this morning Speaker Pelosi will be advancing them without much of a wait.

Given that in the first week we have seen job killing moves that have angered Democrat constitutions including unions and states strong in their column combined with the spectacle of National Guard Troops being treated so badly that there was a need to have Jill Bring two bags of cookies for a photo op (how they were supposed to be spread for thousands was not explained) the need to change the subject came a lot faster than anyone expected.

Now while I’ve already noted the Biden Administration having not needed the voters to gain power has no need to worry about offending these various democrat groups they are in power and is imunte to their complaints after all as Sarah Hoyt notes, what are those voters going to do vote him out?

Alas for the rest of the party this immunity doesn’t extend to all Democrat pols.

After all the ability to steal votes in Philly, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit, Lansing, Pittsburgh and Madison doesn’t do a lot of good if you are a not in a Senate race in one of those states or in a house race outside of those districts where people might have an actual respect for a clean ballot.

So when in the first week of the Biden administration it became clear not only that Joe Biden was not up for governing (not that he’s doing so anyways) but that his administration was going to run roughshod over the voters, even voters that house and senate Democrats might need come election time, it became vital to change the subject.

So out comes the impeachment card which gives the left the one issue their are united on, absolute, irrational hatred of Donald Trump who unlike any other republican was not willing to have an election stolen from him without a fight, he might have lost that fight due to the fecklessness of State and Federal pols and judges but he still dared to make it.

So now Pelosi’s impeachment card is shot and now the Senate is discovering that while one or two deep state members who aren’t up for re-election for another six years would love to see it play, senators who saw how quickly the daughter of a vice president drew a primary challenge don’t want that repeated in their states.

So now the card is played, much earlier than they want and the resulting acquittal (assuming the trial of a private citizen by the senate passes constitutional muster) while making the left look weaker and Trump look stronger might just anger and distract their voters enough so they will be too buys complaining about Trump to notice when they open the next trap doors under them to appease their masters in China.

Closing Thought: Perhaps they should not have been so quick to deprive President Trump of a social media platform for the press to generate outrage from to distract the masses.

Sir Humphrey: We run a civilized, aristocratic government machine, temporized by occasional general elections. Since 1832 we have been gradually excluding the voter from government. Now we’ve got them to a point where they just vote once every five years for which bunch of buffoons try to interfere with our policies and you’re willing to throw that all away?

Yes Prime Minister: Power to the People 1988

The Biden administration is only a week old and we’ve seen Unions that endorsed him, the National Guard, sick Americans and even the State of New Mexico that supported him thrown under the bus.

We have also seen some “conservative” shocked SHOCKED at moves that have enabled China, backed away from optimistic cries on COVID and has made a target of are gone.

It’s taken less than a week.

I’d blame Biden but given that he has to have a person telling him via an earpiece to salute marine guards (and is not able manage that instead repeating what he hears) anyone stupid enough to believe that his guy is in charge deserves to be ruled by such a man, if they were being ruled by such a man. That’s why I (and you) should never say: “Joe Biden did ‘x'” and instead should say: “The Biden ADMINSTRATION did X” because Joe Biden is no more running this country than he is running his twitter account.

A lot of scales are dropping from people to whom it might just now be occurring that when you put in power an administration that doesn’t have to worry about being elected is that they don’t have to worry about what voters, even voters who supported them, think as they were not necessary for their election and won’t be necessary for re-election

And as Sarah Hoyt who has lived under an actual repressive regime put it :

What are you going to do, Vote him out?

Expect it to get a lot worse because the people who engineered the robbery of 74 million Americans of their franchise is didn’t do it simply because they didn’t like Donald Trump, they wanted the power and riches that power brings and intend to take it for themselves and those who they serve even if it meant the end of the American republic.

Unexpectedly of course.