Quickies: The "Bombs"

     Apparently, the “bombs” received by various left-wing personalities, including a former president, a recent presidential candidate, and a possible future presidential candidate, are today’s headline news. Not one of these “bombs” was capable of exploding. All were found to be utterly inert – harmless. Yet I have no doubt that the Left will trumpet these “acts of terrorism,” claiming they’re the work of conservatives and Trump supporters, until Election Day.

     Of course! What else have they got with which to deflect attention from the impending invasion of the United States by a carefully nurtured “caravan” of Central American “refugees?”

     The legacy media must have a story. It can’t simply tell you to “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” (Or “Do not look at the hooded figures in the dog park.”) What happens then? “The man behind the curtain” gets even more attention!

     Today, “the man behind the curtain” the legacy media and their Leftist masters don’t want you to look at is:

• A roaring economy;
• Reinforced alliances;
• A booming energy sector;
• Record levels of employment;
• Greatly improved trade agreements;
• Sharply reduced taxes and regulations;
• Conservative repopulation of the federal courts;
• A resurgence of business investment and activity;
• A reborn sense of American potency and confidence;
• Surging approval for President Trump and his agenda;
• And a column of invaders – at least 80% military-age males – approaching our southern border.

     For the public to pay any attention whatsoever to these things is mortally dangerous to the Left and the Democrats. Our attention must be deflected, diverted to something else! So we have a few utterly fake bombs sent to prominent Democrats. Add a Gucci socialist who runs her mouth as often as she can secure an audience. Hillary Clinton is seen laying a foundation for a third run at the presidency. And for lagniappe, the New York Times publishes a little assassination porn.

     I’d like to believe that they’re not fooling anybody, but I know better. There are people – nominally Americans – who’d believe that the Sun rose in the West if it were printed in the Times. (And quite a lot of them are militant atheists. Go figure.)

     Current indications are that the Democrats are about to be rather disappointed by the results of the midterm elections. They’ve been looking forward to taking back control of one or both houses of Congress ever since Donald Trump was elected president. Midterms are a choice opportunity for that sort of reversal. But it appears that that’s not going to happen.

     In anticipation of conservative happiness on November 7, allow me to present a classic of sorts:

     (Ever since I first heard that song, I’ve wondered: “Why ninety-six tears? What would have happened on Tear #97?” It appears we’ll never know.)

Are the Elite Getting Close to Retribution?

It's nibbled away at the next level down for a while.

The younger ones have found that their Elite Privilege hasn't insulated them from all consequences. Some have been nipped at by the #MeToo movement. Some have experienced the reach from other countries/federations - China, the EU - that has forced them to curtail their Empires. They have not acted with absolute impunity in those other locations.

Only in America have they been secure to act without regard to government or public opinion. And, that security is only as good as their hold on the corridors of power.

Trump was the first volley. They responded with vicious propaganda - some based in reality, although exaggerated, other stories wholly made up. They were astounded when his supporters failed to act as they had in the past, by abandoning their resistance to the grip of the Entitled Elite.

They doubled down, with legal, or quasi-legal attacks on individuals and groups, shutting down the media and banking connections of the opposition, and using every facet of government to defeat their opposition. They cooly engineered smear campaigns against individuals, pressured (largely through their affiliates's actions) employers to fire dissenters, and those insufficiently in line with Leftist dogma. They began to confidently speak of a Blue Wave in the 2018 elections.

Will it happen? I wouldn't count on it, but it's going to be a hell of a fight from now until after the Election. If they can be made to decisively lose, it may cause them to begin to retreat, hoping to save their own ass - and assets. Don't forget, they have a lot to lose if the Real Resistance takes over. Their cushy ride on the backs of the Taxpayers may come to an end through:

• Reduction - SERIOUS reduction of official government. The bureaucracy decimated, agencies working under reduced funding, and the legal leeches no longer able to be kept from street corners, begging for work.
• Lost of jobs/programs downstream, as the states reduce their payrolls from no longer needing those hanging onto the coattails of the Feds - the paper-pushers, regulators, HR lackeys, and the formerly powerful Ladies Enforcing the Long Arm of Regulation (and overwhelmingly female contingent).
• NGOs cut loose from the government teat - their ability to staff themselves with semi-professional workers eliminated.
• Subsidized industries - energy, education, housing, and law - all cut loose.

I would expect that they will throw all the firepower - literal and figurative - at us over the next 3+ months that they can marshall. It's a last-ditch effort, a virtual Siege of Stalingrad. You might want to hide any guns/ammo/records that you can - even after they lose, they will attempt to use local and regional resources, along with any of the Deep State that remain, to take back their power. They will have nothing to lose, at that point, so expect the Last Days of the Left to get grimly ugly.

When everything is on the line, they won't lay down and cry. At least a few will take the attitude, if I'm going down, everything and everyone else is going down with me.