Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, n’ Guns blog,
I woke up this morning to multiple U.S. cities on fire, the police are under siege and V for Vendetta trending on Twitter. Hackivist group Anonymous has declared war on the government and a whole lotta people are very confused about what’s going on.
I have no doubt the riots, looting and burning happening around the U.S. today is a directed, coordinated attack on the institutions of this country.
But saying that doesn’t mitigate the real anger and desperation of so many Americans and the victims of this government. It doesn’t mean that part of this isn’t truly organic and real.
When people lose everything, the saying goes, they lose it.
In my last post I talked about the solipsism of what version of America people have in their heads. One screen, two movies and all that.
The two movies that are playing out now is the incredulous one exemplified by this tweet:
What’s more incredible is that you think it is possible to stop this at this point.
— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) May 31, 2020
How many times in the past few days have you heard a politician say, “This isn’t who we are.”
Sadly, it is exactly who we are. And we’re all to blame for it.
America, the shining house on the hill overlooking the Utopia of Boomerville is slowly eating itself. The facade still looks good from down in the valley but the interior looks like the house from The Money Pit.
The other movie is out on the streets protesting the fundamental inequality of the American system. It’s being stoked to violence by brick-throwing, mask-wearing Marxists too dumb to realize that they will be the first ones shot if the Marxists they serve win the day.
Scrolling through my Twitter feed last night I saw the true state of hatred for the U.S. empire from some of my most ardent followers who live outside the U.S.
It was unnerving.
Because it became clear that they’d lost their humanity as well in the orgy of violence that they were witnessing. The comeuppance to the U.S. for all the pain and sorrow it had inflicted on the world couldn’t be held back.
But aren’t we supposed to hate the sin, not the sinner?
Isn’t that supposed to be the great ‘hack’ of Christianity?
The capability for forgiveness and temperance, to remember that we all have the capacity for redemption? Or is that just a cute Hollywood lie that doesn’t change the world when the moment of crisis arrives?
I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, when you uncover someone’s existential fear you reveal their inner tyrant.
I wouldn’t wish looting and rioting on Canadians or Aussies, Germans or Brits (all complicit in the U.S. government’s crimes around the world, by the way) when some of them reached their limit and lashed out in inchoate rage.
I’d weep for it having come to that, for people to believe this is the only way they feel they will be heard.
I’ve succumbed to that rage at times. I’ve been that guy. And it’s shameful.
A lot of people in America today are waking up to what they are capable of and it’s time to integrate that into our image of ourselves, our psyches and, hopefully, our politics.
To reject the false image of a shining beacon of truth and accept the corruption, stagnation and violence for what it is.
And that it is our job to neuter those behind this brewing civil war and prevent causing this chaos ever again, anywhere.
Those folks cheering the collapse of the U.S. on display today have no idea of the chaos that comes to their shores the moment the U.S., for all its flaws, unravels in this disorderly a fashion.
Chaos is never pretty, that’s why it’s chaos. The U.S. has unleashed it around the world, like the Brits and the French before them and so on and so on. Our government deserves every insult hurled at it.
But at the same time, there is always that opportunity for real change when that moment of enlightenment occurs and we stop denying our baser selves and become whole.
And we can do that as long as we keep our heads high, our hearts open and focus true.
There are truly evil people acting out their plans today. The Flying Monkeys are in charge in our Post-Dorothy Oz.
In our Post-Dorothy Oz, where the witch is dead and the Wizard unmasked, the Flying Monkeys are left leaderless and they’ve been successful in their raiding the countryside for their own benefit that absent the meta-stable leadership of the Tyrant overlord, they believe they can run their own operations.
It’s clear that… the Flying Monkeys believe they can manipulate a hapless President to achieve their personal political agendas and not have them blow up in their faces.
… Given the structure of D.C. for so long, Presidents, at best have been allowed to lead the squadrons of Flying Monkeys but they don’t actually set policy.
That’s the Witch’s job. But, the problem is that The Witch is Dead and she won’t be resurrected. Because the Witch wasn’t any one person, the Witch was our willingness to accept the lies of our political system as constructive to our future.
That perception is a puddle of goo stinking up the room.
They are making demands like demented lunatics and sadly too many think they are right because things have been so unfair for so long.
They want us yelling at each other, not talking to each other.
Everywhere that chaos reigned the net result was never what was written in the operations manual.
Iraq was never pacified, Afghanistan is still unruly, the Donbass is still free, Iran refuses to be toppled, Russia is resilient and potentially resurgent, Venezuela will survive, Syria is rebuilding and China will be taking over Hong Kong.
The death toll is horrific, the human price paid incalculable. The U.S.’s adversaries have pleaded with it for years to back away gracefully, but Empires don’t bargain, they dictate.
There is a silver lining to Americans waking up this morning to an orgy of violence, coming face to face with who exactly we are. It’s the realization that the house is rotten, the politicians powerless and our enemies are more ruthless and organized then many of us thought.
And with that realization comes asking the question of who we are going to be?
But that’s for us to figure out, not for you to gloat over.
Because no one will be spared the chaos of a disorderly breakdown of the U.S. That’s not a threat, that’s reality. So, again I won’t be cheering when Antifa in all its guises comes to Toronto or Berlin, Sydney or London.
And I won’t be saying I told you so.
Because, just like in those places the U.S. has destroyed, those trying to destroy the U.S. will find it a lot harder to pacify than they think it will be.
Sure you can shut off the money spigots, burn businesses, pay agent provocateurs, even overthrow presidents and foment real civil war sbut all you’re doing is making the next generation stronger.
Just ask Russians, Iranians, Iraqis, Lebanese and Syrians. They’ll tell you.
All you’re doing is making sure the next empire fails.
So folks, I’m with you. I know the end of the U.S. empire is on the horizon and I’m here to do my part and help define what comes next. But I also know those making it happen and cheering it on better be careful what they wish for.
Because they just might get it, in the words of H.L. Mencken, good and hard.
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You first and foremost Tom.
Defeatist boomer-tard verbal diarrhea.
When the Useful Idiots have looted the grocery stores in Atlanta and drivers refuse to resupply them, they will attack the rural areas which will become moron killing fields.
Jolly Roger is fine for “pirates” (and totenkopf flying S.S. units who would very much know how to handle this Antifa and Chimpout crap) but the flag of the coming government (if the Evil Fuckers get their way) is much more, shall we say, progressive:
Nice anthem too.
The reality is the White Male has been gelded and it’s already over. “American” “men” are too weak to give up their shiny shit. They will allow themselves to be press ganged to kill people overseas for no reason they can comprehend while tolerating the enemies sleeping next door. THIS IS the WHITE MAN’S fault, his failure. This “nation” can’t end soon enough. Pathetic.
My weird Uncle Sam taught me how to march and talk, but not how to think. The rest of us ‘Merkins ain’t like them city folks. We’re kinda hard-headed that way, so if you or anyone else feels froggy enough to grab some shiny, whether it’s the Precious or stainless steel hiding copper-jacketed lead, come on out to FlyOver Country sometimes and knock yourself out.
The fewer fools the better.
I gotta hunch you’ve never been to Sinop, but I’ve been there. It’s full of ignant Turks.
Speak for yourself Gene.
We should hunt down Soros and company and film them swinging from the gallows with signs stating, this is the end of the NWO, Antifa, Sociopaths in government, Likud, etc. If they don’t swing, we will.
On target, well said.
Absolutely! This individual has plagued society long enough. What always bothered me, why hasn’t the Israelis tried this man for crimes? Soros has backed terrorism across the globe. Why is he allowed to live?
Soros (and others) has been “allowed to live” because he IS an agent of the real powers behind the scenes.
He is doing as instructed.
He will be killed when he starts being non-compliant with instructions. So, never.
The world must be a very confusing place, when you look for the answers in in the wrong place, because you are afraid of what you might find. I would say the time for nice sounding platitudes is over.
Trump is the hood ornament. The Generals are driving. $oros wants “The Former United States”
Brush up on Nuremberg. Enemy Combatants.
Rod Rosenstein testifies June 3rd.
You can’t say George Soros without saying Charles Koch, who is a signed and sealed partner of Soros Inc.
The Progs hate Koch because he gives some money to Republicans. They look a lot like those we call RINOs and Never Trumpers.
This is very much all “us versus them” but in this case there is no way to know who “us” and “them” really is. The false flags, the staged violence, the bad actors.
But the bottom line is any violence serves the PTB rather than those committing the violence. It makes the rioters a faceless mass of negative emotions that play right into their hands.
And the suburban sheep will cower in their unarmed homes begging for more control to be placed upon them, rather than simply standing up for themselves and preventing their lives and property from being destroyed.
The rural residents are really the last bastion against the creeping crud of the heavy hand of elite power lords.
They typically know their neighbors on a more intimate level, are much more self-sufficient, are not naive to the circle of life, and are generally armed.
They are much more insulated to the effects of social justice warriors and their ilk, the wind-up emotion toys used by the power brokers to nudge the softest generation into an utter lack of action other than words.
It is too much to expect an entire generation of coddled morons to suddenly wake up and realize they have been pawns in a much larger long game. It is inconceivable that their dearly-held “values” are nothing more than smoke and mirrors built on lies and subterfuge.
You cannot stand up for anything if you cannot even stand up for yourself because you are constantly the victim of some thing.
That is the lie we are fed. That we are victims of big banks, victims of men, victims of drugs. To pretend that we are utterly without a shred of responsibility is laughable. Once you stop being a victim, you can no longer by played because you have your self-esteem back. You can now say “I take my share of the blame for X, Y, and Z”. I will no longer be fodder for that cannon. When something is incontrovertibly shown to be wrong, it is time to recognize that and act to fix the problem, not the blame.
WE ARE THE PROBLEM. Not “us”. Not “them”. WE. We have allowed ourselves to become soft, and scared, and complacent. We have taken the story hook, line, and sinker.
I was born in 1972 and have watched, in less than 30 years, this country become a place I not only don’t recognize, but one that fundamentally no longer wants success to the masses. Success is not a life funded by a mountain of debt. Success is not a life of electronic gadgets, disconnected interactions over the internet, soul-less sex hook ups, and no family foundation.
Success is building something that matters, contributing to OUR society in a meaningful way. Maybe money plays a part, but it is not the end game. The end game has been taken away from us and is now building to a crescendo the likes of which will not be pretty.
I went to Tom’s site, to try to comment directly to him, but he’s got a difficult to sign in to site.
I don’t live in the US, and have no particular love for the US.
I am a white man in South Africa. In the early ’80s, I was drafted into a war a country away from my country, because Ronald Reagan asked my country’s government of the time to war with Angola, in a secret deal, because he could not have another Vietnam. We had the Vietnam instead, with many draftees dying, not knowing what for. That’s why Reagan fought against sanctions against us.
The US has never acknowledged this, but we all know it as fact, in this country.
Now, do I feel any delight in seeing the US burning ? Of course not. It is horrific. I am horrified at the videos of police leaving their precinct, car after car.
I am also horrified for myself. I live on a tinderstack. What happens in the US, spreads further. Always, like Hollywood crap.
We have had a very hard lockdown, lost many jobs, in an already hard economy, and it’s just a matter of time before the locals do what they see on TV.
You have 12.5% black population, and it’s chaotic in riots. We have 80%, and they have real, justified anger because of the situation ( apartheid ) that existed within the last 30 years.
The furnace will start here, and none of us will gain anything.
US. Now is the time to show strength, and show the world you will be heavy-handed to protect citizens and property. Be an example.
( But you won’t ) … so … the rest of the world goes down …
1986 Cueto Cuenevale Angola. The SADF defeated in detail a Soviet Armored Division backed by Cuban and FAPLA troops in what was then the largest tank battle since WW2 with the SADF Olifant MBT kicking major ass, and signaling the death rattle of the Soviet Union. SADF captured or destroyed 98 Soviet tanks while the Mirage F1 “Cheetah” ruled the air shooting down an entire squadron of commie MiGs. The Cubans and FAPLA left just under 5,000 dead on the battlefield. Good day’s work.
YOU should have been an example and massacred the ANC. Hopefully we will handle this satisfactorily this go around. I have a close friend who was in Operation Savanna and Operation Protea years before Cueto.
You have a lot of information. I don’t where in the world you are, but thank you for having this knowledge. I left the army before Cueto Cuenevale. I was there in the in the small op in Dec 84, when us infantrymen got to bomb up Impalas and Mirages with 250 kg bombs for known terrorist centres. ( from sector 7.0 ) It’s long back, and I genuinely forget the name of the op. Tonight, I’ll think, tomorrow, I’ll let you know.
To point 2 : YES. We should have been the example. But, we had no backing from anyone in the world, whatsoever. It had to come to takeover. What can a 2 stripe corporal in the infantry do?
Us, the military were fighting SWAPO, not the ANC.
Away from us ( at home ), while we where there ( fighting SWAPO and MPLA ), crept in the ANC.
What can an average homeowner do?
Same problems we have right now.
PS. The Cheetah was a variant of Mirage 3.
Edit : I sound Hypocritical, calling on another country to do what mine didn’t. true. If I set the rules, it wouldn’t have happened. If any of you set the rules, most shit would not happen. This is fact, from us reasonable people. Reality is, we don’t set those rules, but have to live with the consequences of those who do.
Like just all normal guys…
And just dreaming back, we were the Supreme Military Mechanism on the African continent, at the time. Now, that’s gone. We have way better equipment than we used to have ( Grippens, Hawks, Surface-to-air, submarines, Corvettes, etc). – and no-one seems know to how to use any of it.. big shame.