Guest Post by OHMama
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I was born at the end of Gen X and the beginning of the Millennial Generation, and grew up in a middle class town. Life was good. Our home was modest but birthdays and Christmas were always generous, we went on yearly vacations, had 2 cars, and there was enough money for me to take dance classes and art lessons and be in Girl Scouts.
My 1940s born Dad raised me to be patriotic and proud, to love the war bird airplanes of his era as much as he does, and to respect our flag and our country as a sacred thing. I grew up thinking that being an American was the greatest gift a person could have. I grew up thinking that our country was as strong, and honest and true as my Dad. I grew up thinking I was free.
As an adult, I have witnessed the world I grew up in fall to ruin. I have watched as our currency and our economy have been shamelessly corrupted beyond redemption. Since we’ve been married, my husband and I TWICE had our meager investment savings gutted by the market that we were told to invest in, now that pensions no longer exist and we working stiffs are on our own. We will be working until we die, because the Social Security we’ve been forced to pay into has also been robbed from under us.
I have watched as our elected officials enter Congress as ordinary folks and leaves as multi millionaires. I have watched my blue collar husband get up at an ungodly hour every day and come home with an aching back that we pray will hold out long enough to get him to old age in one piece. Outside of shoes, socks and underwear, almost everything my family wears was bought used. We’ve been on one vacation in 12 years.
We don’t have cell phones, or cable, or any sort of streaming services, just a landline and internet. We hardly ever eat out. Our house is 1400 square feet, no air conditioning. I cook from scratch and I can and I garden and I raise chickens for eggs and meat and I moonlight selling things on Etsy. Still it is barely enough to pay the bills that go up every year while service quality and the longevity of goods goes down. What I just described is the life you can live on 60K a year without going into debt.
At last calculation, when you consider all of the federal, state and local taxes plus registration and user fees, Medicare and SS payroll taxes, almost a third of what my family earns is stolen by the govt each year. What’s left doesn’t go far, just enough to cover the basics and save a little for when the wolf howls at the door.
I watched as my family’s health insurance was gutted and destroyed. Our private market insurance, which we had to have because my husband’s employer is too small to have a group plan, was made illegal. We were left with the option of either buying an Obamacare plan with unaffordable deductibles and insanely ridiculous out of pocket maxes, or paying the very gov’t that destroyed our healthcare a fine for not buying the gov’t mandated plan that we cannot afford. We now have short term insurance that isn’t really insurance at all, and I live in fear of one of us getting injured or sick with anything I can’t fix from the medicine cabinet.
I have watched as education, which was already sketchy when I was a kid, became an all out joke of wholly unmathematical math, gold stars for all, and self-loathing anti-Americanism. My family has taken an enormous financial hit as I stay home to home school our child. At least she’ll be able to do old-fashioned math well enough to see how much they are screwing her. A silver lining to every cloud, I guess.
I’ve sat by and held my tongue as I was called deplorable and a bitter clinger and told that I didn’t build that. I’ve been called a racist and a xenophobe and a chump and even an “ugly folk.” I’ve been told that I have privilege, and that I have inherent bias because of my skin color, and that my beloved husband and father are part of a horrible patriarchy. Not one goddamn bit of that is true, but if I dare say anything about it, it will be used as evidence of my racism and white fragility.
Raised to be a Republican, I held my nose and voted for Bush, the Texas-talking blue blood from Connecticut who lied us into 2 wars and gave us the unpatriotic Patriot Act. I voted for McCain, the sociopathic neocon songbird “hero” that torpedoed the attempt to kill the Obamacare that’s killing my family financially. I held it again and voted for Romney, the vulture capitalist skunk that masquerades as a Republican while slithering over to the Democrat camp as often as they’ll tolerate his oily, loathsome presence.
And I voted for Trump, who, if he did nothing else, at least gave a resounding Bronx cheer to the richly deserving smug hypocrites of DC. Thank you for that Mr. President, on behalf of all of us nobodies. God bless you for it.
And now I have watched as people who hate me and mine and call for our destruction blatantly and openly stole the election and then gaslighted us and told us that it was honest and fair. I am watching as the GOP does NOTHING about it. They’re probably relieved that upstart Trump is gone so they can get back to their real jobs of lining their pockets and running interference for their corporate masters. I am watching as the media, in a manner that would make Stalin blush, is silencing anyone who dares question the legitimacy of this farce they call democracy. I know, it’s a republic, but I am so tired of explaining that to people I might as well give in and join them in ignorance.
I will not vote again; they’ve made it abundantly clear that my voice doesn’t matter. Whatever irrational, suicidal lunacy the nanny states thinks is best is what I’ll get. What it decided I need is a geriatric pedophile who shouldn’t be charged with anything more rigorous than choosing between tapioca and rice pudding at the old folks home, and a casting couch skank who rails against racism while being a descendant of slave owners.
I’m free to dismember a baby in my womb and kill it because “my body my choice”, but God help me if I won’t cover my face with a germ laden Linus-worthy security blanket or refuse let them inject genetically altering chemicals into my body or my child’s. I can be doxed, fired, shunned and destroyed for daring to venture that there are only 2 genders as proven by DNA, but a disease with a 99+% survival rate for most humans is a deadly pandemic worth murdering an economy over. Because science. Idiocracy is real, and we are living it. Dr. Lexus would be an improvement over Fauci.
I am done. Don’t ask me to pledge to the flag, or salute the troops, or shoot fireworks on the 4th. It’s a sick, twisted, heartbreaking joke, this bloated, unrecognizable corpse of a republic that once was ours.
I am not alone. Not sure how things continue to function when millions of citizens no longer feel any loyalty to or from the society they live in.
I was raised to be a lady, and ladies don’t curse, but fuck these motherfuckers to hell and back for what they’ve done to me, and mine, and my country. All we Joe Blow Americans ever wanted was a little patch of land to raise a family, a job to pay the bills, and at least some illusion of freedom, and even that was too much for these human parasites. They want it all, mind, body and soul. Damn them. Damn them all.
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Pelosi owns the vote counting machines.
My vote…
This article is better talking about Dominion system. Includes short interview with Sidney Powell. Feinstein’s husband is major shareholder, not Pelosi. But long-time Pelosi chief of staff is executive.
I couldn’t agree more. I was a lifelong Democrat until the party went all marxist and globalist. This article very precisely states how I feel
Done with what? I get your outrage, but what will we now retreat to? Making our voices not heard at all so now they can proceed unimpeded at all?
Your vote can/is nullified through fraud.
What about the obvious voting fraud do you not see?
It’s been going on for decades, now it’s in your face obvious.
“I will not vote again; they’ve made it abundantly clear that my voice doesn’t matter.”
I came to the same conclusion this morning. Elections are nothing but illusions for the masses. Presidents and all other politicians are selected and then we are told to pick whom they’ve selected.
“I came to the same conclusion this morning”
Better late than never. ‘Welcome to the desert of the real.’
The most crucial thing is to refuse to be disarmed. If we let them disarm us, we are done. We will be in the same situation as the Boers of South Africa currently are, within a handful of years.
At what point should they be used if not now?
Guess we should have started killing em years ago… But there is always tomorrow..
Thank you for putting into words just what I was thinking too. If the fraud is not enough to reverse the election results, then I will never vote again either.
great rant but HOLD FAST this is not over yet……….lets see what Trump (against all odds)
can get done………He has done a lot in the past….. I am just an old man but have not lost all hope (YET) dan in oklahoma
PA back in play. RealClearPolitics Removes PA from Biden Total:
https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-realclearpolitics-removes-pennsylvania-from-biden-s-electoral-total/
Thank you very, very much. Same thing in Europe.
Beautifully written! Amen, OHMama.
The left has stripped us of our country, morals, our livelihood, religion, common goodness and decency… and they want more and will not stop until the demise of our country and we look like Venezuela or become part of the CCP.
Blessings to you and your family.
This GuestPost gives me a completely new view on what’s going on in the US. For me, the US were the one who brought ALL that is described in this post to my country and to Europe. I feel sorry for what i believed for years as this post is an eye-opener for the things going on in the US. Now I see, we are ALL under the same gang of criminals. We have the SAME problems in the majority of states of the EU. They keep people blind, create pressure via the corrupt media. I found this, when they destroyed our government in Austria and replaced it by a combination of so called “christian democrats” and the “green” Party. In fact a bunch of communists tha even supportet islamic terrorists, a fact that did not create tension between them and the “christian democrats”. Now I see they try the same coup d’état in the US, by not only influencing people but even stealing away their votes.
Only one thing is wrong: The decision not to vote. This is the only power we have in these simulations of democracy and if you do not vote somebody will do it for you. Resist and bite!
But now it’s obvious that voting is also a rigged game. Yet social media is filled with funny memes about the corruption instead of being mad as hell.
The only hell there is, we have a name for it.
We call it earth.
They do not exist in the hereafter.
In the hereafter there are the divine spheres and the demonic realms.
Our life in hell determines where we go then.
Everything that is directed against life, that causes irreparable damage to other people, is the way into the demonic realms. Religions are not divine. Because they incite people against each other.
The USA is darkness. So much suffering that you have brought and bring upon humanity.
And the one who wants to end that is Trump.
But why should one vote?
We don’t have a choice.
That’s exactly the same story in Germany too. I was born in 1961 and have seen better times as well. I hope the us americans won’t let there politicians and media get away with this fraud. At least you are armed, we aren’t.
I am new here, this was forwarded to me from a friend, and I must say I am FLOORED by it. I read it with tears in my eyes, I am literally shaking. I have been saying these things to people, and they look at me like I have two heads. I must be traveling in wrong circles. You are one SMART woman. God Bless You.
From Charles Hugh Smith:
Very few are willing to to face the reality that the U.S. economy was on life support long before Covid came on the scene. In a nutshell:
1. Every layer of the economy is vastly over-indebted, and entire swaths are zombies, unable to service their existing debts without borrowing more at lower rates of interest.
2. Productivity has stagnated for decades as capital has been incentivized to seek productivity-killing monopolies and cartels, and socially-economically destructive speculations rather than investments that increased productivity in a socially beneficial manner.
3. Earned income/wages have been in a 50-year decline as a percentage of the economy. In effect, $50 trillion has been shifted from productive work to unproductive speculative gains. (see chart below) The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%, And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure (time.com)
4. This enormous shift from productive labor to unproductive speculation has mortally wounded our society and economy. When corporations borrow billions from the Federal Reserve’s limitless spigot of free money for financiers and use this money to buy back their shares, this enriches the 0.1% who own the majority of shares and the corporate insiders with immense stashes of stock options. This kind of financial sleight of hand doesn’t add a single job or a single dollar of productive investment. Yet this is precisely what the Fed’s free money for financiers incentivizes.
5. This tremendous concentration of wealth in the hands of the few has further concentrated power in the hands of the few. Ours is now a completely pay-to-play simulacrum of democracy in which the few buy political influence and power.
An instructive example is Big Pharma’s remorseless hawking of dangerously addictive opioids as “safe” and “non-addictive”– fabrications which cost the American people hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives. Nobody was indicted, nobody went to prison, because America also has pay-to-play simulacrum of justice, a two-tier judicial system where you get the best justice money can buy–no money, no justice.
6. America’s elites embraced globalization because it enriched them at the expense of the social and economic public good. (more) https://www.oftwominds.com/blognov20/sick-economy11-20.html
Her story is heartbreaking and far too common in the US today. Trump held out hope that manufacturing would return to parts of the US. Places like The Rust Belt and middle America. The fraud must be exposed and the evils of this globalist agenda reversed. If it is not, America will become one big ghetto.
AMEN. if trump doesn’t pull this off then we join the left and burn it all down
When the economic collapse comes and there isnt enough to steal from others to pay off a majority, then the party of divorce can start.
You voiced the way I feel exactly, My Dad was in 3 wars, WWII, Korea and Vietnam where he flew F-4’s a s a Squadron Commander. I was always very proud of my Dad and my country. In the past decade I’ve turned into a racist hating the haters that hate me and can’t find much to be proud about this country anymore. Something I never thought of before now I actually am thinking of a Civil War to take care of this crap.
“The role of the President of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel.”— Ann Lewis, speaking for Hillary Clinton, at the meeting for Jewish Leadership sponsored by the United Jewish Communities on March 18, 2008 (Jewess Ann Lewis is sister to Congressman Barney Frank).
“The U.S. has no longer a government of goyim [Gentiles], but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected with the term ‘government of goyim’ should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the U.S.“— The major Israeli newspaper, Maariv, “The Jews Who Run Clinton’s Court” on September 2, 1994.
“Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law…”— Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, quoted in The Jewish Daily Forward on March 20, 2008
“The great ideal of Judaism is that the whole world shall be imbued with Jewish teachings, and that in a Universal Brotherhood of Nations a greater Judaism in fact all the
separate races and religions shall disappear.” (Jewish World,February 9, 1933)
“In order to usurp political power all that was necessary is to preach ‘liberalism” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“Give me control of a nations currency and I care not who makes its laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“By clever manipulation of our combined wealth it would be possible to create such adverse economic conditions that the masses would be reduced to a state bordering on starvation by unemployment.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“Our goal is to win ultimate control of the wealth, natural resources and manpower of the entire world.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“If my son’s did not WANT wars there would be NONE”. Gutle Schnaper Rothschild wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild on her deathbed 1849
“Wars should be directed so that the nations engaged on both sides should be further in our debt.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“Remember my children, that all the earth must belong to us Jews, and that the gentiles, being mere excrement’s of animals, must possess nothing.” ~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild on his deathbed, 1812
“The use of any and all means to achieve our final goal is justified. The ruler who governs by the moral code is not a skilled politician because he leaves himself vulnerable and in an unstable position.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“We were the first to put Liberty, Equality and Fraternity into the mouths of the masses, which set up a new aristocracy. The qualification of this aristocracy is WEALTH, which is dependent on us.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“The ultimate goal is the forcible-coordination of all countries of the world: That shall be achieved by mixing the races with the goal to create a light brown race in Europe. For that reason 1.5 million immigrants from the third world shall migrate to Europe every year. The result would be a population with an AVERAGE IQ OF 90 that is so dumb to grasp anything but intelligent enough to work. The European countries would NEVER AGAIN BE COMPETITORS in the struggle for global domination and a multiple millennia old culture would be destroyed. Irrational people who will fight against this “mingling of races”, and put up any resistance against the global world order, should be killed.” – Thomas P.M. Barnett, JEW, director of the Israeli military consultancy ‘Wikistrat’ in his book ‘The Pentagon’s New Map’, 2004
Read or rather skimmed through the reply’s, hmmmm, interesting.
Vox Day says it best,
If you are someone who “doesn’t want to get your hopes up” or “is afraid to be disappointed” or “is concerned that it might be a trap” or “seriously hope you’re wrong”, or sees doom in every direction, then this is not the place for you. I’m not saying that you’re a bad person or that anyone here wishes you ill. I’m simply stating a simple fact: this is not the place for you.
No one here is interested in your fears, your worries, your psychological vagaries, or your concerns, least of all me. And if you’re going to talk about them, then your comments will be deleted and eventually you will find yourself banished, because this place is not about your feelings.
This is the place for those who hope even when all hope is gone. This is the place for those who are willing to fight to the last man. This is the place for those who will stab Godzilla in the foot with a butterknife when he steps on them. This is the place for those who remember the Alamo and consider the Americans who died there to be the real victors. This is the place for those who will fight in the shade of the enemy’s arrows. This is the place for those who will say to the world, “no, you move.”
This place is not for you.
With regards,
Vox
PS: Epstein didn’t kill himself.
PPS: Biden didn’t win.
Conservatives giving up on voting is EXACTLY what the left wants. Don’t ever give them that satisfaction. Make them work hard for the steal.
What a fucking coward. ANONYMOUS? ?
You are an awesome person! I 100% agree. I was waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the Texas lawsuit. I never expected them to dismiss it outright. On Monday, I am calling my local Registrar of Voters to find out how to remove my name from the voting rolls. Elections are now a joke! I’m done sending money to candidates. I no longer hope for reform. I’m tired of pretending my vote matters. I will no longer sanction this evil system by pretending it is a “democracy”. I don’t know what happens next. I have no faith in the future. Live day-to-day and make the best of the time you have left!
Are you even more done now?
I am.
Summed it ALL up in the last paragraph!!
I was raised to be a lady, and ladies don’t curse, but fuck these motherfuckers to hell and back for what they’ve done to me, and mine, and my country. All we Joe Blow Americans ever wanted was a little patch of land to raise a family, a job to pay the bills, and at least some illusion of freedom, and even that was too much for these human parasites. They want it all, mind, body and soul. Damn them. Damn them all.
The good news for OHMama and her ilk (probably many-most of us) is that we recognize what is at stake and may God give us the courage, fortitude and means to do what we MUST to save the Republic.
if we had a congress full of patriots like this we would be the most generous, prosperous and mighty nation.
sadly, she is right. it is over. america is through and done.
the sooner we face that the america we grew up loving and respecting was murdered by the democrats the sooner we can heal and move on to survival mode as the country burns.
Trump, like every other modern day Republican has let us down. When he didnt go after the swamp, the swamp came after him. Trump left us stuck with Communists in power because he didnt invoke The insurrection Act to get rid of these bums. We keep hearing how we must have the 2nd Amendment. Well, we still have it, so when are we going to use it? What will you do when they come for our guns?????
OHMama + 100000
There’s those of us trying to leave, but even that has been blocked. Can’t travel, can’t enter other countries. I have new appreciation for some of my ancestors who came to this country in the 1800’s to escape their home counties. I hope I don’t have to go through what they did.
I’m a little late to the party on this, but I just read this breathtaking article and am sitting at my desk with tears in my 53 year old eyes. As much as I agree with OHMama’s sentiments I can’t help but think maybe we should all be digging in and fighting even harder. America is worth it and to paraphrase a cliche, I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
God bless, OHMama
A beautiful message … but I’m wondering if giving up — surrendering — isn’t a bad thing. It’s what THEY expect US to do … makes their job that much easier.
Voting … even on the odd chance it will ever matter … is our Right — and if we just roll over (which is exactly what THEY want US to do), they’ve won.
No … I would encourage ALL of our brothers and sisters who’ve backed Trump since the beginning to keep up the Spirit of America … otherwise our Nation will cease to exist … and we will become peasants and serfs in our own Country as tens — hundreds — of illegal aliens storm ashore and take from US what we’ve fought so valiantly to secure — for ourselves and our posterity.
This … truly … is ‘for the children’ …
Please reconsider …
Couldn’t have said it better. It breaks my heart as I look at my kids and grandkids.
The christian conservatives you support to the hilt are the reason why your world is in shambles. Maybe vote for a socialist if you want things to stop getting worse. I joke, of course; you’ll just become even more of a nazi the worse things get.
Thank you for voicing what I am feeling – you are wonderful and intellectually gifted at expressing what so many- 75,000,000 of us feel!!!! God bless your family ,and you!!! I am Mrs average- but when I feel like this so many others are too- we are being cut off from expression, thank you again for giving me a beautiful articulate article to pass on.
I agree and pretty much checked out in the Obama years. Recent events say it is time for an exit strategy. Maybe we need exile boat communities in international waters. Creat floating freedom zones. That’s my idea what do you got?
Hubby needs to check out Borax. May help his back tremendously.
Otherwise, great rant. I feel your pain.
Acceptance. Acceptance that the Republic is dead. Many, many more need to come to this place.
Good. Now you can make plans.
I’ll pray for you, and should we meet in the world, I would stand by you and yours’s side.
Mando
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My Dad was an auto mechanic who never finished high school. My stay-at-home Mom raised us 3 kids born in early 60’s. This author’s experience resonates with me 100%. In my 30’s I realized that without a college degree, the “good life” would forever be out of reach. I went to college part-time from the age of 33 through 46; paying my own way. I’m 60 now, I’m not rich but I’m comfortable and because I started so late, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to stop working. I don’t know if I will be able to afford to send my two teenagers to college. And now we have an alzheimer’s geriatric stepping into the presidency who wants to open the border flood gates to millions who require assistance (paid for by us working folk). Dementia Joe has promised to “tax the wealthy”, but that has been promised by Democrats for eternity and has never happened. The truly wealthy that can afford dual-citizenships, offshore accounts, tax-shelters etc., will NEVER pay an extra penny in tax. Our multi-millionaire politicians will have their “tax-the-rich-legislation” carefully worded by legal experts to APPEAR fair & responsible; but there will always be unreported addendums and clauses that allow them [the politicians & their wealthy campaign donors] to avoid paying their fair share. Working Americans will work harder and longer for less, in order to support non-English speaking illegals with multiple children that they cannot afford but were irresponsible enough to have anyway. If you think that statement is racist, then you’re a self-loathing truth-denier, aside from being a blithering idiot. The first step toward normalizing this country should be TERM LIMITS ON ALL ELECTED OFFICALS! No more incumbents for life, career politicians that serve till death for God’s sake. That is the first step that has to be completed before we can even think about working on things PACS, lobbyists, etc etc etc.
Thats why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep
to believe it.
George Carlin
right on sister !!!
forget the damn ballot box … bullets for these bastards !!!
Save the bullets. Use your dollars! Stop all consumption as soon as you possibly can. Get your durables right now then reduce your spending to absolute basics, food & shelter. If tens of millions just stop buying the next new phone, new clothes, furnishings, and anything else beyond absolute basics the whole system will come crashing down and government will loose it’s grip.
You do not have an option to “Not Vote”.
Your “NOT VOTE” is the resentful look at the guards as you are marched into the salt mines.
But no one cares about your feelings. They only care that they get away with it.
And as Trotsky said, “You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you.”
Trump 2024!
My family has lived debt free on $35-$50k USD/yr for almost two decades. This includes private, on-line home schooling, braces, many surgeries, and LOTS of moving, moving moving. It is the hardest to do in America. It was EASY to live on $40k/yr in Ecuador, where we lived better than their doctors. Now we have about $50k/year and live in Mexico. So far it is harder, but we will find a sweet spot for sure. At least these countries are not strangers to poverty and strife yet they survive. I do love they are very family oriented. Cartels do not bother us… only evil governments do it seems.
If you are considering becoming an expat for the first time, please read, read, read, and get advice from an expert expat family like ours. Time is running out for your off-grid, secret farm community fantasies. It is past time to make them real or become comrades.
I am a retired USN Chief and they still send me money… not much, but enough. We have side hustles of course.
Bravo. Bravo. Poignant. Haunting. Hurtful. Bless you dear lady.
I’m not American but I empathise entirely. I think you will find many people across what used to be called the First World feeling exactly as you do. The details change from country to country but the nature of the problems and culprits are similar.
I am not alone in wishing Trump well and hoping that his example spreads across the civilised world.
Best wishes to you and your family.
JohnS, we’re all in this together. Where the U.S. goes, the rest of the world goes.
I’ve been amazed at how many people from different countries like Trump. You see it under many YouTube videos and article comments. Though the media tries to say nobody outside of the U.S. supports him at all.