Guest Post by Karl Denninger
Once again, over the transom from Ishmael…
Fail faster. –Vox Day
Let’s take a moment and give props to the Canadian truckers who got their government’s and fellow Canadians’ attention. Good for them. They did something, along with those who walked fuel and food to them to keep the protest going. Great use of logistics and tactics, my hat is off to you!
Truckers are pureblood allies. There is no argument that the truckers’ actions had an effect on the war. They arrived and fought on the battlefield.
The government announced a crack down, so we’ll see how it plays out over the next few days.
Contrast with the US: no widespread parking lots, everyone is still in trudge along to get along mode. There’s low level disruptions (keep vacationing in place!) in daily life, most notably in the supply chain. Even fat bitch Karens are noticing higher grocery prices and holes in shelves. But so far, pretty quiet.
Boston, New York City, and Minneapolis allowed vaxports. Vaxports are the equivalent of sucking government cock after it ****s you in the ass. Enjoy the taste of your own ****. The pure bloods haven’t burned the cities to the ground in a mostly peaceful protest. Why is that? What will it take to set things off?
I don’t know. There’s two ways this ends: either 1% decides they’ve had enough, or we will be slowly boiled until we are grateful daddy government allowed us to exist in our own homes without a mask on Tuesdays.
No, that’s not impossible. Over the past two years, as a people, we’ve demonstrated we will trade our humanity for safety. Tard Karen believes a magic filthy rag wards off a deadly plague. Others wear one for work so they have a place to live. Still others won’t rock the boat to remain part of their group.
Why hasn’t it happened here yet? Here is a summary of commonly discussed reasons:
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Enough people still have too much to lose. There’s affordable food on the shelves– for now. Debt is cheap–for now. As the “transitory” inflation continues to hit food and energy, fewer people have “too much to lose”. This has huge potential as a tipping point. Hungry people will not link arms and say the Lord’s Prayer, politicians will fill their stomachs.
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No one wants to be the lone nutter. Building a guillotine on the White House lawn will draw some unwanted attention. So will hanging a few hospital administrators from the nearest overpass. Too soon and you go to jail alone, a despised killer. Too early and you die for nothing except a personal scorecard. For some that will be enough. But when the 1% steps up, survivors and their descendants will build statues in these patriots’ honor.
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Normalcy bias, the belief that things will return to normal, is strong because of the two previous points. Karens plan on boiling the pure bloods slowly until everyone forgets what normal is and accepts the commie “new normal.”
These point to one inescapable fact of human nature: Everyone wants someone else to be the 1%.
When one side joins the battlefield (in this case, the trucker protests) sometime so predictable happens it should be a standard for atomic clocks: The naysaying whiners crawl out from whatever slime pit they hide in and tank morale. These people pretend to be on one side, but their words and lack of actions say the opposite. There is no shame in sitting out a fight, but there IS in discouraging others from a just crusade.
Some are traitors and deserve treatment as such. Sometimes, they’re simply justifying their own (in)actions.
Is what they say a reason or an excuse? Reasons and excuses are on a continuum. What is a reason in one situation is an excuse in another. Reasons become excuses when someone points to their line and justifies cucking when it is crossed. Reflect now why you haven’t turned the local blue hive into a parking lot before the protests travel south. The time to separate reasons from excuses is before you join the battlefield.
Will you join protests? Under what circumstances, ie, where is your line? Do you have the fortitude to stick to it? Mental prepwork is essential for the 1%.
Maybe the answer is no, for any reason. That is ok, not every fight is for every person. Avoiding a fed operation and subsequently serving in pound-me-in-the-ass-prison is essential, vigilance is proper. That is a reason not to join a (fake) movement. Ditto for not wanting to be the lone wolf parked on the interstate. The wolf will resemble Wile E. Coyote, flattened for nothing, no roadrunner roast.
But if you decide to fight, weed out excuses. Purity spiraling is at the heart of the most pathetic set. Recognize them so they don’t stop you from fighting when it’s time.
Allies act. No war is won by words alone. If your line is crossed, join allies already on the battlefield.
Let’s assume whatever transpires isn’t a sting and an honest tactical maneuver. Here are a couple of purity spiraling excuse examples.
The plan isn’t perfect. The leader, the goals, or the tactics don’t align perfectly with yours. Oh no, but if it was, boy howdy, would you get off the couch and join them.
This line of thought requires ignoring that the un-pure army produces desired results. One day, when the right allies appear, you’ll join them. One day…
They aren’t doing it right. Sadly, an army already on the field is unlikely to recognize you as their Five Star General. If their actions work, support their efforts or shut the **** up and stay on the couch. Don’t derail a functioning battle plan. Those who disrupt working tactics have a special name: traitors.
Another set of excuses is due to mindset. Mindset determines success or failure as much as tactics and logistics. Mindset is the result of life experience and it will not change overnight, if at all. However, we deserve some leniency for not developing a killer, win-or-die mindset. Life hasn’t been trying to actively kill us for long enough soybois and girldicks require a safe space when someone uses the wrong pronoun. On the other hand, peace and ease allowed modern Western Civilization to flourish.
But there is one item from pop culture that has destroyed mindset development so much, some evil mastermind is kicking himself for not inventing it: the montage.
Yes, the montage. What does a montage imply? It only takes 3:30 to go from zero to hero. Any skill can be mastered in the time it takes to listen to the movie’s hit song. No failure, no missteps, no tangents where a single slice of the skill is drilled and drilled until practice is complete hell. None of that. According to the montage, skills are for special, gifted people only. They are learned by those special people quickly and easily. If someone isn’t an expert instantly, they never will be.
What an absolute load of horse****. Just like learning a physical skill, developing mental skills and planning takes time. There are other ways real life improvement is different than the montage: training is not the sole thing in your life. Bills have to be paid, house cleaned, cars repaired, kids raised. The goal can’t be worked towards constantly.
Get used to failure. It’s your constant companion and best friend. It’s not something to avoid, it’s something to embrace. Iron sharpens iron. Failure is your personal iron. It will show you how to improve faster than anything else.
Improvement is sporadic and unpredictable. Some skills are natural, some make banging your head into a wall look fun–until it clicks. That moment is magical, more so than any movie montage.
If you believe what the montage teaches, you will never have the skills to join the war, nor will the time ever be right. It will remain a possibility only for the special people, those who will save us. This dovetails perfectly with the human desire for someone else to be the 1%.
Do you have reasons or excuses? Are excuses the result of too many montages? That’s a question everyone answers for themselves.
If you shall fight: Decide where you line is, under what circumstances you’ll join the fight. Examine your hesitations and separate the reasons from the excuses. And for the love of all that is victory, flush all montage bull**** and put in the work required.
99% of us won’t be the ones who force normal back by any means necessary. The previous observations still apply. Everyone has a goal or something in their lives they don’t like. The same mindset applies: Why aren’t you changing your circumstances or working towards your goal? Reasons or excuses? What perfect moment are you waiting for? Be your own ally, get off the couch and win your war. Actions take time to accomplish. Mindset can start immediately. Neither happens in a montage.
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Living out here in rural flyover country, not much has changed in our lives. We have never had a statewide mask mandate, nor a shelter in place order. sure, the big democrat run cities have gone overboard with their draconian rules, but it is easy to avoid them most of the time. We still see people wearing the face diaper like they think covering their mouth while breathing through their uncovered nose will protect them. Some do it because their employer demands it and some do it as a virtue signal.
Yes, there are some empty shelves at the store, but still lots and lots of food available, but at at higher price than 2 years ago. There are plenty of choices in other stores, as well.
Life is normal, gardens are being planted, church still meets regularly and restaurants still serve food. My guess is the uprising, if it occurs, will be in the big democrat run cities and it will not be pretty. When the EBT card will not buy them enough to feed the chilren if they still buy their smokes, dope and alcohol, then we will see the anger boil over. Until then, I will sit back and enjoy my life out here in the country. Good luck to those who still live in the big cities.
All roads leading to cities, also lead away.
Same here, TNP. And, Flash, there has been a blue to red state migration since the beginning of the plannedemic. So Americans have taken action, Karl. The timing of Fourth Turnings, like avalanches, seems to occur slowly. Then suddenly.
That’s not necessarily a good thing. Ask Texas.
Tenn: Most people of Blue Urban insane Tallahassee are about 180 degrees from Rural Red sane Monticello (& Crawfordville, Madison, Wakulla, Bristol, Perry, etc) like you described. FJB has screwed Nitrate and Potash fertilizer supplies and prices Royally; food production quantity and price will suffer Royally this year. FJB has just provided the Great Lakes states $1 Billion dollars to combat Global Warming effects; he has provided Farmers & Ranchers only cross training to industry jobs; Bon Appetite City Slickers. Flash: Those roads have natural killing fields and choke points that will become DEAD ends for the useful idiot Leftist Scofflaws and Leftist government bureaucrats. Think about the Red Coats retreating from Concord back to Boston; from New Orleans back to their ships; the Blue Belly Yankees from their Ocean Pond slaughter crawling back to Jacksonville, etc. I remind people at every opportunity of the tactical war lessons Gen Sherman preached and taught to us Southerners by example; we shall return them to the Minions of WDC in bloody multiples.
Hey, look at global warming in Chicago today!!!
There was ice on the ground in Tallahassee again today.
I am willing to bet that Karl has never served in the military.
Prolly’ why he isn’t a total dumbass.
Not all Vets represent that remark. It was quite an educational experience for me to see just how stupid and corrupt some Colonels and Generals are, and how stupid Affirmative Discrimination is. You can’t win wars when the Brass are stupid as shit.
Hollywood war propaganda has been a powerful tool.
Well, that was a disjointed mishmash.
Very true as we’ve seen this over nationally and locally. Just as in any endeavor you have to first consider the costs from start to finish. Are you able to meet those costs. It is better to not start a project that to start one and have a partially completed project that will stand as testimony to your foolishness. Better to be thought a fool than to prove it.
Luke 14:31-32
31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace
There are never any shortages of armchair generals, quarterbacks, engineers etc etc… We’ve probably all been there and of course we’ve all been right in our prognostications. But sitting at home in your nice comfy chair means not a lick to anyone but you and perhaps your ego.
On the battlefield the fog of war can frustrate and veil the enemies movements from being assessed and properly responded to. Perhaps these armchair generals are more of the watchers in the hills seeing the movements. If you are engaged or wanting to be engaged, perhaps making the efforts to relay that information to those real generals making the decisions and planning would prove your mettle. If you are recognized you might have to make the decision whether you want to risk getting out of the safety of your comfy chair and place yourself in harms way… Tough decisions. Support or shut up…
The tyranny in Canada has progressed further than in the United States. Americans are where Canadians were months ago before the most totalitarian mandates were implemented.
What would happen if all who attempt to enforce the mandates were just shot along with all the Karens in the midst of their aggression? Soon, others would not want to step up in their place.
As the shooters pay the ultimate price: with their very lives.
Would violent resistance create chaos that would bring stronger calls for order?
Or, is non-violence the way to win via courage and morality overcoming tyranny and faux morality?
Perhaps totalitarians are confused when fighting against non-violent protests because falses narratives won’t hold water for long – at least in the minds of the citizenry.
So are the Canadian protesters being wise or foolish by choosing non-violence?
Armed Americans are watching and want to know.
In the meantime, never confuse patience with cowardice.
FJBs ‘vax’ mandate being shot down relieved a lot of pressure. Forced injections are my line in the sand. No way and no how. Like you said Unquestionable , they (Canadians) are farther ahead of us in the US in the tyranny being imposed department. We have safety valves due to a more decentralized government. Even living in SoCal I have many options city to city and county to county. I’ve shopped at a specific grocery store chain because they refused to be ‘mask cops’ and plainly stated that fact on signs at the store entrances. I simply don’t support businesses that give me a hard time about masks or ‘vax’ status. It’s when those options are eliminated and people’s backs are against the wall that things get spicy. We haven’t got there quite yet.
Perhaps there is a bit of “a watched pot never boils” adage going on….
‘The brand is so toxic’: Dems fear extinction in rural US
“The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,” said Tim Holohan, an accountant based in rural McKean County who recently encouraged his daughter to get rid of a pro-Joe Biden bumper sticker. “I feel like we’re on the run.”
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-elections-pennsylvania-lifestyle-election-2020-fc79679ef54d850c0245f96dac37456c
Well, once upon a time the Democrats actually were the Party of the Little Guy… but that era ended circa 1910-1912, when Wall Street purchased both the frustrated Democrat Party (who I believe had won exactly two national elections since 1856) and their new, compliant stooge, Woodrow Wilson.
These days, it is amusing to watch the Republican Party attempt to sell itself as the Party of the Little Guy; with rare exception, it’s the RINOs who are actually the only honest Republicans.
did you get one of those free crack pipes???
I hate Republicans equally as much, because they facilitated this New Babylon.
ditto… Conservative party here
Those who protest and fight aren’t doing it for themselves. Laying down your life, security and social status is a gift to others. Mostly, those others aren’t really worthy of your gift, imo. Doing it for your children and grandchildren is the only reason I would be able to come up with…for love.
AA, is right about 1 thing, for sure. Attitude, hope, confidence and support are imperative to the winning side.
Spot on…
I used to read Denninger, he kind of lost it during the pandemic. Seems his M.O. now is to blame his readers even though we are all dealing with this current chapter of the Fourth Turning in our own way. I voted with my feet, did my homework and moved to an area that has like minded people and like minded local government that recognizes freedoms.
I vote with my pocketbook and keep a growing list of companies I will not purchase goods or services from. I have told a fair number of lifelong friends to get lost as they have their head firmly planted up their ass (s). Lastly I didn’t give up my life to the Covid scaremongers. I garden,hike,hunt and camp enjoy life pre-covid. Those in power want to change our lives forever, Tell then to go to Hell……………….
It’s really not all about you. MPAI and cowards .They are exceptions .Karl is spot on. We get what we allow and deservedly so.
The Canadian government will win the first round with the arrests and confiscation of property. This is just the beginning. Truckers and their allies will force the government into more and more opressive measures to stop dissent. That is what tyrants do. It ain’t over till it’s over.
Two things the truckers are learning the hard way:
– Trudeau & his fellow Schwabians are doing this because they’re evil. They might be stupid, too, but you can’t educate evil – it must be defeated.
– Don’t take children into battle. They will not just put them in foster care, they’ll kill them, given the chance. Think Waco.
“Pure Bloods”?
If you ever took a “vaccine”, eaten processed food or ate mystery meat at McDonalds, your genome and epigenome have been altered.
I have the reference somewhere on my computer.
The reference is about 10 years old.
20% of our Genes have been patented.
I am sure it is a lot more and maybe completely altered and patentable by now.
All patents are the property of the Government.
The so called Patent holder has the right to profit from it.
In the end, Government not only OWNS your “Legal Name” but they will or already own your physical body.
Yes and no. Don’t get alarmed about what you eat, but the Law wasn’t just random ramblings of “prophets”. You are what you eat is in the Good Book, and it is in the histories, it is just basic observable fact. There are many behaviors where epigenetics and their consequences should be considered.
The main problem with GMO is that it is GMO so that some other bad thing can be done to it, such as spraying chemicals for various purposes. The GMOs that are quite serious and should be illegal and subject to criminal penalties are where they introduce novel proteins.
Introducing novel proteins is as serious as bio-weapons research.
There will be no uprising while there remains no People. This Tower of Babel was planned obsolescence by those who think extinguishing God within themselves gives them power instead of hastening their destruction.
The road is wide, but the gate is very narrow.
Karl is always whining with a violent attitude. He blames anyone and everyone who reads his blog for the problems he rants about. It gets so tiresome.
He has a fetish for healthcare and its costs, as well as related political and economic corruption. I cannot say that he is wrong, but his mannerisms in rallying the troops needs a lot of work. If he could even just not be so obnoxious, he’d be easier to tolerate.
Can you imagine him as a father-in-law?
I agree with TN Patriot. Remember several years ago when the EBT system broke down? Crowds in many WalMarts on the 3rd of the month at midnight went bonkers, rifling merchandise left and right.
As the saying goes, “You’re only 9 missed meals away from the onset of revolution.”
I still remember pic of the line of urban folk in front of the burned out shell of a post office in Los Angeles waiting for their welfare checks after the Rodney King riots of ’92. No EBT then.
It is happening. Join us in DC.