International Man: Throughout his presidential campaign, Joe Biden said that this would be a “dark winter” in the US.
What would a Biden/Harris administration do next?
Doug Casey: When Joe Biden was in his basement, he must’ve watched Game of Thrones again and again. Biden thinks he’s John Snow saying, “Winter is coming.” He’s right about that. But he’s no John Snow.
The government can definitely make it into a dark winter, indeed, so it’s interesting that he said that. The government can create huge economic destruction just by continuing their foolish lockdowns. But, as they say, “we can do more!” Biden wants more regulations. He wants more money printing. He’s said that he wants much higher taxes.
We can expect the economy to get a lot worse. Joe’s prediction about a dark winter is absolutely right from an economic point of view. And, even more important, from a personal freedom point of view. We’re going to have a lot more State control and less personal freedom. The COVID hysteria is a godsend for them.
What will Biden do if and when he’s sworn in? In addition to the things I just mentioned, he’ll try to clamp down on gun ownership. That, however, would likely be the red line. It could really set things off. Especially since something like 75% of Republicans, and even 25% of Democrats, think the election was rigged. It would serve to delegitimize the whole political process.
What will happen if he tries to confiscate people’s guns? Will members of the police and military actually do as they’re told? Most of them will, for lots of reasons, but mainly because they’re paid to do what they’re told, whether they agree with it or not. The chain of command still exists. And no cop wants to lose his job in today’s economic environment.
What will the gun owners do? Will they resist violently? Some will. And then what happens? Gun confiscation could be the spark that lights the flame in this country. That’s especially the case if they make Beto O’Rourke the gun czar.
International Man: Ideologically, the US is split. Half of Americans believe exactly what the politicians, media, and the “experts” tell them. On the other hand, there is a growing number of Americans that are skeptical and distrustful of the mainstream COVID narrative and the restrictions.
How do you see this playing out in the months ahead?
Doug Casey: The temperature is rising in the pressure cooker. I’ve said before; it makes no sense at all to have two or more groups with radically different views of ethics—what’s right and wrong, and what should or shouldn’t be done—in the same political entity. One group or another is going to get control of the central government and will use it to make the other group as mad as hell. This is why countries split up.
Ideally, the US will split up peacefully the way Czechoslovakia did into two countries, or Yugoslavia into six countries, or the Soviet Union into 15 countries. But the last time we had a serious secession movement in the US was from 1861 to 1865. It didn’t end well.
Let me repeat what I said since March about COVID. This virus is no more serious than the bird flu, swine flu, Asian flu, or the Hong Kong flu. It’s not even remotely as serious as the Spanish flu. It basically only affects people over 70 or those who have a major illness. And even then, the survival rate is very high. The average age of death from COVID is 78. Contracting it is no more than a trivial inconvenience for younger people. It’s perhaps the greatest mass hysteria in world history. There’s much more to say about this hysteria, and it all reflects badly on the authorities and the media. As well as the average American for acting like a sheep.
The situation is accentuated by the fact that we have entered the Greater Depression. When the economic times get really tough, people feel they have little to lose, and, as Gerald Celente says, they “lose it.”
A big near-term problem is that the forbearance of payment of rent and mortgage payments is slated to end about Jan 1. There will be a lot of people—about 12 million renters and four million homeowners—who aren’t going to be able to make those payments. In addition to the fact that a lot of landlords and lenders are already under pressure because of the forbearance.
Although consequences will likely be pushed forward by another round of money from the Fed.
International Man: Is it possible that in an attempt to regulate and restrict the movement and lives of the population that the “masters of the universe” will overplay their hand?
Doug Casey: It’s very possible. They’re playing with a lit stick of dynamite.
But when the “cadres” get control of the government, they’re extremely hard to dislodge. They’ll have not only the government’s moral force but its physical force—the army, the police, and the judicial system. Remember, the Bolsheviks were a tiny number of people, but once they captured the apparatus of the Russian State in 1917, it was all over. If the Marxist factions of the Democrat Party take over, they’ll prove very hard to evict from power. Here’s the question: is the average American who dislikes the collectivist Democrat Party willing to go into the streets the way BLM and Antifa did, and get violent?
I don’t know. This is a witch’s brew. It’s much more serious than the average person thinks or even wants to think. The possibility isn’t mentioned in the media. I really don’t see any way out of this, however. Serious violence is likely.
If there’s going to be a confrontation, however, it’s better that one occurs sooner rather than later from the point of view of the cultural conservatives. The longer it’s put off, the more people indoctrinated with every college and high school graduating class in what the Biden-Harris team are promoting.
And every year that goes by, there are more people recruited to work for the government who align against pro-freedom forces. Inevitably, the pot’s going to boil over. It’s better to get it over with sooner rather than later. The only thing that can defuse the situation is a major war, probably with China, but that would be an even greater disaster.
Editor’s Note: Economically, politically, and socially, the United States seems to be headed down a path that’s not only inconsistent with the founding principles of the country, but accelerating quickly toward boundless decay.
In the years ahead, there will likely be much less stability of any kind.
That’s exactly why New York Times bestselling author Doug Casey and his team just released an urgent new report titled Doug Casey’s Top 7 Predictions for the Raging 2020s.
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Very good article. Doug Casey gets it. Where we are headed, no stopping it now, is a scenario of Ugly verses Uglier. I would like to see something like the breakup of the former Soviet Union cir. 1990 for this nation but I fear it may come to blows. At least that is what history shows for the American population.
“Ideally, the US will split up peacefully the way Czechoslovakia did into two countries, or Yugoslavia into six countries, or the Soviet Union into 15 countries.”
That is a good idea, and might have worked 15 years ago if enough people had realized it was a good idea, but it is far too late for that now. The NWO is now completely in control of events, and they wouldn’t allow that any more than they will ever allow the truth about the COVID-19 hoax to come out.
“Is it possible that in an attempt to regulate and restrict the movement and lives of the population that the “masters of the universe” will overplay their hand?”
No, they won’t overplay their hand. Their years of experience manipulating the general population, combined with their use of AI, have this all figured out down to the last detail. They will do whatever it takes to keep the reactions from getting out of hand.
“If there’s going to be a confrontation, however, it’s better that one occurs sooner rather than later from the point of view of the cultural conservatives.”
There won’t be any confrontation. After Trump prevails in the contested election the Right will declare victory and go back to sleep until it is too late. The Left will riot and burn down cities for awhile, but the NWO doesn’t care about that. They want those riots. They can put a stop to the riots with the police or military whenever they want to, which they will do if the riots start to get out of control.
None of it can happen without electricity.
No AI, no MSM 24/7 propaganda, bitcoin, etc.
The communists will pillage supermarkets full of rotten food while the 2A gunners will have fresh feral hog and deer meat and crappie in abundance.
I know how to generate my own power independent of a grid, even when the gas stations go dry.
That is how I will destroy the Communists.
Their daughters will buy a ham sandwich from be by bartering blow jobs to pay homage to my patriotic Americanism.
never though i’d think this, but there’s a small part of me that actually wants biden to just go ahead and become POTUS, let the Dems take the senate in the runoffs thereby handing over control of the entire federal gov’t to these marxists, socialists and communists….just rip the bandaid off this motherfucker and get it over with already. let the ass kickings and balkanization commence in earnest. cause anyone can plainly see that even if trump pulls this shit off and gets another 4 years…all thats gonna happen is we get to kick the can of warm/hot CW 2.0 inevitability down the road another half decade or so. sure as the sun rises in the east, its coming. i’m sick of waiting to see how we “choose the form of the destructor” and perish.
+80,000,000
Maybe. I think if the dirty Dems would have cooled their jets and waited until 2024, they would have had everything on a platter. Without cheating. That is how fast the Demographics are shifting. Too many libs , give mes, and layabouts. The Publik Skrools
are churning out dumb asses, who can’t even figure out their own sex identity, faster than ballot harvesting.
Feel free to capture, cook and eat a public school teacher.
Much better if its a teacher’s union steward. I hear they’re fatter, thus better flavor.
You do have a point. I’m ageing and not as strong as I once was, and fewer and fewer people watch Leave it to Beaver as guidance on what American kids and family units were at one time.
I ain’t as good as I once was,
But I’m as good once, as I ever was
At least if Trump pulls it off, we have even more time to prepare.
The US will become another province in the global organization, with the various states declining to the sort of status that a county or township (boro, for you east coasters) has now. No real decision making power, no real authority, a state of dependency. There will be no civil war. Sullen peace perhaps, but we already have that.
And no big war with China or an other nation capable of landing more than a jab is in the offing either. All the big boys from every non-shithole country get their marching orders from the same globalist crew. There is no reason for the Chinamen to bomb Taiwan, Japan, or Australia, let alone the old US. There is no reason for the US to sink cargo ships bound to or from China, there is just no money in it. It is ALL about the money, and it always has been.
No, you do not have any money. Don’t worry about it. You haven’t had any real money since 1970, or 1913. And rest assured that these idiots (all of them currently in thrall of their ability to “run” the US) will step right on their dicks, and fail. It will take longer than any of us would like, but let patience, resolution and perseverance be your watchwords.
Load up on guns and bring your friends.
Only problem is its damn hard to find any ammo at all? Is there any to find anywhere?
Once the show starts, there will be ammo a-plenty, laying about on the groumd.