Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
This holiday season, we all have to look forward to the faces of sad kids gathered around the Christmas tree, or Hanukkah menorah, or the Kwanzaa hammer and sickle as we must tell them that their favorite holiday is a bust because America can’t get the stuff it needs from China. Even leftists’ kids, to the extent the leftists managed the mechanics of breeding, will be disappointed that Santa Marx will not be coming down the chimney, redistributing presents on what our beloved Veep Kamala Harris explained was her favorite childhood holiday.
The problem is not the inevitable end result of outsourcing the manufacturing of pretty much everything to the Chi Coms across the ocean. The plan decades ago was to help make a backward, poverty-stricken enemy into a peer competitor by having its sweat shops do all the actual building and making for America, while we retained important industries like diversity consulting, inclusion consulting, and equity consulting, but that is not the problem. Nor is the foreign ownership of port facilities, nor the union rules and air quality rules and rules for the sake of rules that prevent the expeditious unloading of cargo, the problem.
No, the problem is you.
Your expectations are simply too high.
Like Jimmy Carter before him, our visionary president understands that making America function is hard, and therefore he needs an excuse for his inability to perform adequately at this basic presidential task. The excuse is that you have simply expected too much, like him performing adequately at this basic presidential task.
If only you weren’t so picky about bare grocery shelves and the lack of auto parts to fix your car – which you shouldn’t have, by the way, because of the weather – and not being able to get things at all that you used to get overnight, everything would be great. And by “great,” they mean, “We are not being held accountable for our failure to do our jobs.”
Now, Americans are the worst people on earth because they somehow got it into their heads that because of their hard work, innovation, and more hard work, they would be the most prosperous nation on earth. If only they would accept less, if only they would tolerate ineptitude, if only they would channel those happy people queuing up for their beet ration in Moscow in 1974, everything would be just peachy.
Well, peachy for President *.
Now, it’s hard to believe that a president with the kind of priorities this desiccated old dustsack emphasizes might preside over a radical decline in American living standards. When he took office, he promised a competent, stable administration of professionals selected based on only the highest standards – where their great-grandfathers came from, who they want to have sex with, and whether they stand or sit to pee.
A differently-abled Maori lesbian Hindu whose pronouns are zip/zap for Secretary of Not Screwing Up the Supply Chain? Bring zap on! So many boxes checked! By the way, has zip ever, you know, worked with logistics, or is even asking racist?
Of course it is.
And then, naturally, zip will need to be AWOL for zapternity leave. Zap’s adopting a kid and it’s too much to expect zip to do zap’s job like zip was, you know, a non-member of the ruling elite.
By the way, my inconsistent use of “zip” and “zap” is literal actual violence.
And there may be literal actual violence, but like the real kind, if things get bad. Want to hear a riddle? What’s the difference between Los Angeles and Mogadishu?
About a week.
A week without getting the food it needs to feed the millions of people who live there transported in. It’s not like much grows in our big cities besides bad ideas despite the sidewalks being strewn with piles of fertilizer.
Now, it’s not merely that our rapidly deteriorating logistical system is failing from gross incompetence within the government that artificially disrupts the processes. It’s that these systems – you know, the ones that feed us here in the concrete jungles – are hugely vulnerable to enemy cyber-attacks. Now China is not our friend – well, China is the friend of the ruling class in the way that Dracula was the friend of Renfield – and why should it waste good money showering us with the hypersonic missiles it’s building as we debate how to give more free money to deadbeats? It can just turn us off with the flip of a switch.
And then the fun starts, and by “fun” I mean bloodcurdling violence as people struggle to survive. The only upside is that I always wanted to become the Warlord of the Wasteland, so there’s that.
This holiday season will be a taste of the future under feudal corporatist liberalism as we start to feel the consequences of our ruling caste’s decision to outsource the manufacture of everything that we actually need. But don’t worry! This year’s Kwanzaa does not have to be a hideous memory. Be creative. Find an old cardboard box and tell your kids that it’s not some ratty old package but that it’s really “Boxy, the magical fun box adventure set.” They can have minutes of fun playing with their box. Or, if it’s too hard to find an old cardboard box, just go for an imagination Kwanzaa where their dreams are only a dream away!
It will be good practice for the miserable future in store for them if we don’t get these freaks out of office in 2024.
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Oh good. An opportunity to eliminate crass materialism from what used to be a Christian holiday back in antiquity.
I’ve had little by way of gifts for a few years now but still enjoy the holiday greatly seeing relative and sharing a nice meal.
There are no empty shelves in the local Walmart…lots of made in China Christmas crap available. Ditto for plastic, break in a week, toys. I think there’s lots of doom porn mixed in with the reality of things. Will it get bad? Probably. Zombie apocalypse bad? No. There’s plenty of food, the farmers here have had a bumper harvest. The killer here in S. Texas is the thousands of acres of good farmland being turned into shitty subdivisions and strip malls. Don’t understand that mindset at all. Take a hundred acre corn and cotton field and cover it in concrete, where’s the food going to come from if they keep up this insanity?
A lot of irrigation is necessary to grow any cash crop in Texas, sans East Texas, no? South Texas where? Del Rio, Laredo, Brownsville or Bexar County?
No, we have dryland farming here, the guy who cuts my hay farms many acres, no irrigation. San Angelo irrigates big time….here, near Bexar, no irrigation.
The same is happening here in north Texas. So many moving here, can’t build homes fast enough.
Off topic: been wanting to ask; what do you think of the TNM’s Daniel Miller running for Lt. Gov.? Having lost nearly all faith in political solutions, this one excites me! West or Huffines with Miller right behind… Texas stands a real chance at independence from Fed.Gov at last.
Listen to his 15 minute announcement and share your thoughts!
Grace and peace…
Hard to imagine Abbott being outed in a primary. Not as hard to imagine a relatively un-perverted Dem besting Abbott. We no longer miss living in DFW. It ain’t the same after almost eight years since we moved away. I still sometimes watch WFAA, and I’m amazed at the NY/Kali styled propaganda.
GCP: Texit will never happen…too many big city democrats will nip that in the bud. One main reason for the massive illegal influx is to turn Texas blue and while that may not happen, Texas is fer sure turning purple. All the yankees and California pukes are guaranteed turning Texas into Colorado.
No way will property taxes get abolished…nice thought but not gonna happen.
I supported GOP primary challenger for Perry’s seat, Belinda Medina, back in 2010. She was pretty shell shocked that her primary issue, abolishing the Soviet-styled confiscatory property tax, was so unappealing to the proles. So was I.
I venture into Wally world whenever we are in town and make an effort to browse the store to see what is missing. Yesterday while the wife was at an appointment, I walked the grocery aisles and was amazed at all the empty shelf space and this was not the normal one can hiding the emptiness behind it, but full on bare shelves. I wanted to pick up some more dried beans, but they only had 2, 2# bags of northern beans, half dozen or so 1# bags of pintos and a smattering of lima, split pea, etc. Saw one woman who had 2 cases of canned beans, a big sack of rice and a case of pasta in her cart and she was only 1/3 through the grocery aisles.
Meat dept. was similarly short of food. 1/2 dozen pkgs of chicken breasts, double that of thighs & legs, most of the smoked sausages were gone, as well as a lot of empty space in the processed lunch meat reefer. Very little tuna, only 2 large cans of shortening, 2 dozen bags of sugar and 4 dozen bags of flour/cornmeal. We are down one grocery store that is going through a full remodel after the employee going postal, so more people are probably shopping Wally world, but the shortages are getting very noticeable.
There is a toy swap event here every December. You put your kids crap into your car while they are asleep Grinch style (because otherwise they would never willingly give up said crap which they have not touched in 5 years), drop it off at the school gym where volunteers sort it onto tables. The next day, you can take as much “new” crap home as you can carry for free. Surprisingly, it is very civil and people behave and are thankful. It is not just for the poor. I am sure some of the people are ebay resellers, but likely not very many. This year, they might get a record turnout, who knows. It is my favorite way to get rid of stuff.
And, by the way, not the Grinch nor anyone or anything can cancel Christmas since it has nothing to do with supply chains or stuff.
“Like Jimmy Carter before him, our visionary president understands that making America function is hard, and therefore he needs an excuse for his inability to perform adequately at this basic presidential task”
That’s not the President’s job, that’s our job. He and the rest of government need to stop fucking stuff up, and let us get on with it.
In Whoville on Christmas morning after the Grinch literally stole everything from them they all gathered around the tree anyways smiling and singing hymns of praise.
That is true spiritual freedom.
In John 8:36 Jesus makes a wonderful statement of victory. He says, “So if the Son sets you free you will be free indeed.”
“…if we don’t get these freaks out of office in 2024.”
You’re joking, right?
I know…there are roughly 500 ‘law maker’ freaks (Only a handful aren’t) and prolly at least 200 Judiciary freaks. I won’t even address the Fourth Branch of Uncle Stasi-Sam; the Bureaucracy.
This c!own should only be read against a backdrop of literal, deafening clown music. Also, medical personnel should be in hot standby against the moment when Schlichter inevitably bursts several vertebrae with his desperate contortions to squeeze out more of his trademark Kitschy Snark. Sometimes I almost hope our enemies win,if only to silence the relentless obfuscation that flows from revolting squawk boxes like Schlichter, Limbaugh ( yes, I know — he is still an example), and Beck.
Not long ago (at all), it used to be de rigeuer for pundits all across the spectrum to gravely espouse talking points about ‘the real meaning of Christmas’ and to eschew any hints of commercial odors that might cling to their garments.
Interesting to see Schlicter push that SOP into the ditch and dance on its head.
I think I might actually hate this guy.
Others already said it. Christmas may be even more Christmas without the mounds of Chinese landfill filler around the Yule tree.
Xmas has nothing to do with the birth of Christ (who was born in Feb.)
Thanksgiving shits on Xmas.
I don’t know anyone that looks forward to Xmas…giant pain in the ass.
“Xmas has nothing to do with the birth of Christ (who was born in Feb.)”
…born in black history month.
FIFY
Anon- I know of people who LOVE Christmas, Joo retailers and the Chinese manufacturing companies that make the crap for the joo retailers. Add in a dash of joo banksters financing the whole sham at high interest rates and you can see very clearly who gets the warm fuzzies on December 25th.
My family stopped playing their game long ago, we have a nice dinner and get together…that’s it, easy peasy.
Meal with my son and daughter-in-law. Rest of the family are left wing nuts. Haven’t seen them for years.
If it is a giant pain in your or anyone else’s ass, then that’s on them for being docile “consumers” instead of thinking humans who have choices.
It’s cute that you think we have until 2024 to change this and that voting will make a difference.
Nice thought but highly unlikely. The right has absolutely no leadership, only wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Parents will have a great excuse this year: ” Sorry kids, Santa got the Frankenjab and is in the ICU with blood clots. Good news though…he brought the same shot to you as a present . …With love, Mom and Dad
“Hey, mom, what’s my Xmas prezzie this year?”
“An apple, son!”
“Wow, what model? The new 13?”
“Not quite, my boy. But it has several innovative features this year: it’s small, round, green and crunchy, and your local trees stock them….”
Good article until Kurt ends with his usual delusion that if only we win in 2024 everything will be okay again. Kurt, please look up “election fraud 2020” and “dominion”!
Hard to believe the wheels will not have completely come off the train by November 2022 much less November 2024.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/california-drove-truckers-out-business-now-store-daniel-greenfield/
He HADN’T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”
“It came with out ribbons! It came without tags!”
“It came without packages, boxes or bags!”
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.”
“Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
Amen.
Santa only loves rich kids anyways!
So much for social justice
Just wait till all those sumbitches on my list get coal again, they will think i’m being nice. Maybe I’ll start giving electronics when the power goes out.
I’ve got 7 tons of coal in my back yard!
Wow…millions and millions of BTUs (Carl Sagen) ;0
Anthracite burns hot and long
I’m guessing you live close to a source.
7 tons, eh? You load 16 tons, what do you get?
“Another day older and deeper in debt”
Beautiful!
How Christ Ruined My Christmas.
By Justin Johnson
My Christmas is dead, and Jesus is the reason.
Now, you may be thinking, how could Jesus ruin your Christmas? Isn’t he the reason for the season? Well, it turns out he isn’t, but even if he was, I didn’t know it at the time, and so I loved Christmas.
It wasn’t until later when I became interested in the things of Christ and the truth of the Bible that my Christmas was ruined.
Christmas Keepers
Now, there are two kinds of Christmas keepers. The most popular kind tries to keep Christmas well apart from any religious reason. This is the best way, and this is how I tried to keep it.
The other Christmas keeper is religious, and, so, tries to keep Christ and Christmas. This is a struggle since Christ and Christmas are always at odds with each other.
Christmas keepers may have particular beliefs about religious things, but it doesn’t matter to them at this time of year, because Christmas is just a good time…
“… a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol (p. 4).
Christ Ruins the Christmas Carol
If there ever was a savior in the history of Christmas it was Charles Dickens. His classic story is repeated and parodied every year to remind everyone how to keep Christmas well. He doesn’t mention Christ even once, and for good reason. Christ would ruin Christmas.
To Dickens, Christmas is “wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness!” (Dickens, p.71)
Dickens invented the gospel of Christmas which is fun and wonder. Now that is something a lot of people can gather around. On the other hand, Christ came to save guilty sinners. There are not many people lined up to listen to what Christ did for our sins.
Putting Christ into Christmas would ruin the Christmas Carol. In the fiction story, Ebenezer Scrooge was the bad guy, but in the true Bible, Ebenezer is a type of Christ (1 Sam 7:12).
When Dickens described the “good ol’ world”, Christ, the Judge, would be the one saying “humbug” (John 3:19).
So it was, Christ began to ruin my Christmas. When I sang, “tis the season to be jolly”, Christ was not my reason to deck the halls. It was because I liked holly.
Christ Ruins Christmas Songs
Songs are a very important part of spreading Christmas cheer. There is no better place for some people to find Cheers than in a bar singing a good Christmas song.
At least, that’s how it is in the UK where they have stopped trying to put Christ into Christmas, and Christmas is thriving.
Consistently, the favorite songs of the season have nothing to do with Christ. Imagine all the Christmas cheer that would be ruined if Christ was made the subject of all the seasonal songs (Col 3:16).
Even the religious Christmas songs make very little mention of Christ. Instead, they are mostly about Mary, angels, wise men, stars, and mythical drummer boys. When Christ is implied, he is a helpless, nameless, noiseless baby not speaking any truth to us, or doing anything to help us.
There is always peace on earth, because all is calm, and all is bright, but not because the Catholics who wrote that song put their faith in the gospel of Christ without works (Rom 5:1).
Christ Ruins the Christmas Stories
When I learned about Christ, I figured out why Christmas songs only sing about Christ as a baby. If the mature Lord of Glory were a part of Christmas he would most certainly ruin it.
I’m sure he would go around making everyone uneasy saying things like…
“Ye are of your father the devil…” – John 8:44
“Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:” – Luke 12:51
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;” – Rom 1:18
What a Grinch. (By the way, I enjoyed that cartoon, even though there was not a church in Who-ville, none of them were saved, and Christ was not in the Grinch’s heart when it grew three sizes that day.)
The childish songs and cartoons were a big part of why I enjoyed Christmas: it was about children, it was about me.
Then, I learned that Christ wanted me to put away childish things (1 Cor 13:11, 1 Cor 14:20, Eph 4:14), and wanted me dead (Gal 2:20, Col 3:3). He was ruining my Christmas, again.
My father was most like Christ at my Christmas. He used to read Luke 2 to us every year before the gifts, but he always left out the part about sacrificing the two turtledoves (Luke 2:24). I suppose it was against the “spirit” of the 12 days of Christmas.
If Christ were at my Christmas, I would expect he would be right between me and my gifts, probably trying to teach me some spiritual lesson about being patient, content, generous, or walking by faith not by sight. What a party-pooper.
Christ Ruins the Christ-Mass
Christ never told us the exact day he was born, although you can calculate the month pretty well, once again ruining Christmas. Doesn’t that bother you when someone hides their birthday just so you won’t throw them a party? (Hint: It’s not in December.)
The Catholics didn’t let that stop them. They stole the winter solstice and ordained Dec 25th Christ’s birthday, because that’s when everyone else was already having a good time.
Apparently, it was their strategy to get more people together, which would have otherwise been difficult when you bake the guest of honor in a cookie and eat him (the first Christmass cookie?). That is why they call it a Christ-Mass.
Then, I learned from Christ that we didn’t need to eat his actual flesh to be saved, and so Christ was even ruining the Catholic Christ-mass (John 6:63).
It’s not only Christ that ruins Christmas it is also His preachers. Some non-Christmas-keepers, like Charles Spurgeon and Harry Ironside, would preach to remove Mass from Christmass. Don’t they know that Mass is in the name of the holiday, and if we take the mass out, we would only have Christ left? What a bunch of Scrooges.
They taught we should not regard special days, especially days that were not ordained in the Bible (Gal 4:9-10). Their idea was that we are complete in Christ every day (Gal 4:9-10).
Choosing Christ instead of Christmas
Eventually, I had to make a choice about whether I was going to keep Christ or keep Christmas.
Christ can never be in Christmas, he is too different. Christ is the Lord of glory who saved my soul through his shed blood and his subsequent resurrection from the dead. Christmas is about the mythical nativity scene in front of the court house and plays at church.
(At least, that is Christmas to the 25% of Christians who are Catholic, and the evangelicals who act like they’re Catholic.)
Learning the truth about Christ was ruining all that I knew and liked about the songs, memories, and childish naïveté surrounding Christmas, but I could not keep them both.
I decided to trust in the preaching of the cross of Christ, and let God be true. After that, there was nothing else I could glory in (Gal 6:14).
My life was changed in Christ.
Christ ruined Christmas for me, and I am glad he did.
Very interesting. Thank you posting. Now sarcastically, you don’t like the Xmas song: I saw Mommy schtupping Santa Claus?
Depends upon who’s doin’ the schtuppin’… 😉
Your dissertation sounds like our pastor preached it. Our church does not celebrate Christmas but I think most of the pew packers do quietly.. The wife and I haven’t celebrated the Feast of the Winter Solstice since we were saved. It is great to know we are not alone. Thanks for your great article.
You are not alone. Ain’t many of us it seems, but alone you is not.