Submitted by Dirtperson Steve
Guest Post by Karl Denninger
Over the transom more fish come thanks to Ishmael…. and damn that water is cold! — Ed
Some people out there believe we can vote our way out of this. These optimistic folks have been under a rock for the past few years or haven’t noticed clown world.
If you are one of those people who keeps on voting, that’s your business. I am not going to convince you voting is pointless anymore than you’re going to convince me that I should get off my ass and vote for a different douchebag this time.
The happy-fun reason we aren’t voting our way out of this is because a self-perpetuating failure cycle has already been established. I’m not sure if this was deliberately achieved by earthly powers, or whether they took advantage of it.
I struggled articulating my thoughts about the self-perpetuating cycle into something coherent and finally gave up because it doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t matter for a very chilling reason. After thinking through the implications, dread about immigration, rising crime, and more inflation took a backseat to the insight. Yes, a self-destructive country that slowly decays is the optimistic alternative.
The problems we face now, and they are real and considerable, will be taken care of. Of that I have no doubt. We will not like the solution at all.
The reason we aren’t voting our way out of this hit me in a flash, like all the best (and worst) ideas do. After it did, I sat and thought for a long while. Then I closed this draft and didn’t open it for 10 days.
The old American social contract has been completely and utterly broken.
One aspect of the old social contract was protecting the young at the expense of the old. While there have always been selfish assholes among us, older generations used to sacrifice for the good of their children and grandchildren. The past three years put the final nail in that coffin.
The lockdowns were initially sold on the premise that we were saving grandma. Instead, we destroyed young people who had part-time jobs and no savings. Then we killed grandma deliberately. There was no trade-off, both young and old people’s lives were ruined. The generational tenent was bulldozed.
We are not done destroying this aspect of the social contract yet. To bring it back to the original topic, young people tend to support and vote for liberal causes. Thanks to declining fertility rates (for absolutely no reason at all), we will have a shortage of young people in the coming years. If you think about this like the average Republican politician, this is great news! There will be a higher percentage of conservative voters in 18 years!
Not only did we violate an existing social contract, we obliterated the chance to make it right in the future. Many of that future generation will never be born.
Speaking of first jobs, another social contract tenet was respect for labor. That’s gone now. Quaint notions such as employer/employee loyalty have been on their way out for years. At one point, a young man could reasonably expect to work for one company his entire career and retire with a nice nest egg. He worked hard for the company, and in return the company took care of him.
Never in my working life has this been the case with large companies. Smaller companies still show loyalty to their employees, and that is wonderful. After the past three years, only the most willfully ignorant believe a mega corp will show them anything other than pure contempt.
It began with outsourcing. Entire divisions were fired and work sent overseas. And in a tremendous “fuck you”, employees were required to train their own replacements. Some lucky folks got hired back at lower salaries and longer hours to correct all the problems the foreigners created.
But that was amateur hour compared to what clown world vomited up in the past three years. Everybody still remember vax mandates? So many people lost their jobs because they refused to play Russian roulette. Other people chose poorly and died, or had their health nosedive.
Previous guest Tickers have stated the psychological toll this inflicted on individuals and “we the people.” Basically, the American work ethic has been destroyed for at least the next decade. Many of us have lasting psychological damage from the abuse. We as individuals can recover, but it will take time. “We the people” will not recover until individuals do.
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71% of Americans Say Our Elections Are Rigged
Congrats to America’s national security state for destroying the credibility of our republic
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/71-of-americans-say-our-elections
Something Stinks In Georgia Again!
How did 20,000 votes for Herschel Walker disappear on Election Day?
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/something-stinks-in-georgia-again
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=voting+doesn%27t+matter
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When Ron Paul was cheated out of any support by the Republican Party, it was obvious that neither party had any intentions of returning to even the lowest level of lip service to the Constitution.
The system is broken.
The system is broken.
The system is broken, and the Old Republic is as dead as the ancient Roman Republic.
The only thing which can return freedom to America is blood in the streets. The big question, of course, is “Whose blood?” and “Which streets?”
“Whose blood?” – Patriots and tyrants.
Which streets? ALL OF THEM .
The system is not broken. It has been deliberately demolished by money, power and unbridled greed.
Destroyed then.
The sky is falling!
Calm down chicken little. Yes, the American experiment has been a failure. This is only news if you’ve lived under a rock for the last decade.
Griller tears are bittersweet. On the one hand, you get what you deserve (looking at YOU, libertarians/republicants). Boomer republicans are fired, officially. I’m sorry, sincerely.
On the other hand, I really feel for your kids without any competent leadership LIKE ME in charge.
Take a look around you, and then tell me you’re not almost literally dying for change.
I can fix all of this, far more easily and bloodlessly than you’d believe is possible right now. I don’t want to see you endure the inevitable future we are in for. I can change everything, if some rich guy would listen. Go ahead and fight, whatever, get your rocks off and attack your enemies. But everything you desire can be accomplished without much bloodshed at all. Kinetic war is unnecessary.
I hate to admit it, but you need men like me. Your future lives or dies by it, at this point. We’ll talk again in 2 years when you’re even more desperate, and even more radicalized. You’ll see that I was Right. In any scenario, good luck out there, people. Buy drones and birdshot, if you SIMPLY must continue blundering down the trail you’re blazing.
I see lots of soldiers, sure. The Spartans were tough too. But I see no competent leadership, anywhere.
As Lieutenant Colonel Anthony McAuliffe said in 1944,
“Nuts!”.
Irish democracy
Well, where are they? The poster is correct.
Z, the American experiment has not been a failure. In fact, many of its successes in the economy have allowed that experiment to be hijacked through complacency on the part of us Americans.
It is dying, it is failing, as is most of the “west”.
Good article. I believe more and more people are starting to ponder these issues.
GA mails a ballot to every voter in the state. Fraud city. GA has a R Gov/Lt. Gov and a heavily R House & Senate.
If GA passes that same rules that FL has, they’d get FL results.
Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse wrote the other day that democrat politicians seek money to get power, while republican politicians want power to get money. Sounds about right. If I were a liberal, I suppose I’d be overjoyed at how voting works. Everything slowly – or not so slowly – but in any case reliably ratchets further to the left. “We” libs win all close elections (miraculously). We just count ballots until we win. And if republicans eke out a win, they either don’t do anything at all, or they do pretty much what “we” want anyway – enshrine gay marriage in law, make illegal aliens US citizens, enact climate change schemes.
JFK was considered to be a liberal democrat. In todays world, he would make most “conservative” republicans look liberal. The needle has moved that much to the left.
Back and to the (far) left.
Society’s killshot.
Who cares anymore this shithole has run its course.All hell is going to break loose next year that’s a given . The dollar is hyperinflation as China and others are dumping them for gold .The prices for food are exploding and the welfare class is now demanding reparations and 25 dollars an hour to work at mc Donald’s .I predict alot of riots this Summer of 23 hold on to your asses it’s gonna get real bumpy.
Meanwhile the best the Hair Sniffer can do is lick more ice cream cones.
A black guy won in Georgia . I told you so lol.
Now THAT’S funny!
Reminds me of the “Rainy Night In Georgia” song.
You can vote your way INTO socialism, but you can only shoot your way OUT of it.
I’ve said this many times…but I’m not even sure we have the sand to do it.
Sand?
More like, what would we do if we DID shoot our way out?
Go back to the 1960s? And then what did we buy ourselves? Another 50 years at best?
Guns are for keeping cockroaches at bay.
There’s no way to fix this thing with guns.
They apparently don’t get it, bro. You are, of course correct. If not, then Jesus would have allowed Peter to kill that Centurion in the Garden of Gethsemane that fateful night.
Just remember, folks…Jesus HAD to die so that we ALL might have eternal life. YOUR death probably won’t save anyone, so don’t be too quick to throw it away.
It’s to be expected though. Most folks don’t know, and don’t WANT to know, all the Bible has to say about where we are right now and just what we’re up against (and why).
There is no earthly solution to this problem. Which is fine with me since the Lord already told us how He plans to deal with it.
Meanwhile, we have things to do!!!
You got dand Django…
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DhRm-0SPtwEc&ved=2ahUKEwixxO_s7-j7AhV2mmoFHfyPCAAQwqsBegQIJRAF&usg=AOvVaw3d-vQb81LV9GCUjh92tRHH
I don’t believe we can vote our way out of this shit storm. That said, I keep voting because I absolutely refuse to enable the theft.
Is it wise to leave your front and back doors on your house open & unlocked with a sign on the door, rob me?
yes.
for all we know, this don’t vote movement is a psyop to make cheating easier.
for all its flaws, voting is the only way to get politicians into office.
the more that normal people vote, the more they have to cheat, and the likelier they’ll get caught.
They’ve been caught, over and over.
Nobody in power cares.
Yet the people care about keeping them in power by compliance.
If you mean by “caught” that everyone knows fraud is happening, you are correct. If you mean those that have perpetrated the fraud are being punished, you are not correct.
Attaboy
It all gets started when the EBT doesn’t work for 12 hours; computers are hacked and down for more than 24 hours; or the the power is off for three days ( consider the blessed EMP strike on ‘Murka that takes care of all of the previous in one-fell-swoop.) Pandemonium is what the Evil Fuckers dread because no one, especially not them, is in charge.
Vote with yer money while you still can and do vote for local elections as those are politicians one is still able to visit.
Let the cell phones stop working for more than an hour and it will be pendamonium.
Holy meta guest post, Batman!
Abstain from beans.
Don’t be an accessory to their crimes.
I’m looking at this way, were like big retards. We don’t know our own strength. Were dossal and easy to get along with until that moment when were told, “no you can’t do that” or “you have to do this” and the retarded boy wants no part of either. Then the large mentally retarded boy becomes outraged and even violent to the point of being dangerous.
By not voting anymore I’m hoping to provoke my fellow retards into outrage once the controllers get the their way. I’m not going to play a game my opponent can change the rules on that makes certain I lose. So wait for it retards, eventually things will get so bad that perhaps we are provoked into rebellion and violence and then it is them who underestimated our strength.
Like this?
Exactly
-Boogie
Not voting is the only way to change the status quo. Stop voting and be very vocal about your opposition to government. It is only when government loses its legitimacy that things will change.
And build a parallel society.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
Abolish the state. Empower free trade and property rights.
How do you tally zeros?
I vote because God saw my ballot.
There is no god. Only us. Do you really believe a omnipotent being would purposely create something as evil as the human race???
All governments, even dictatorships exist only because the public allows them to. At the point where the public removes their support for the government, it can, and does, no longer exist. If you want to bring government under control, you must remove its legitimacy by refusing to vote until they give you what you want.
If people stop voting the regime will just lower the voting age to 16 and then make voting mandatory. Australia and some other countries already have mandatory voting.
I’d want to follow my vote up until the time it was counted and certified as the vote I voted. Never gonna happen. Until then, never gonna vote. Simples.
Australians are a bunch of pussies. They never were free and never will be. Let them try it here.
The Gilens and Page Study proved to me that voting is useless.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Great to see radicalism among the younger adults. Every proper radical should vote. Vote against the state in all issues and candidates. Don’t fall into the old romance that your vote counts and don’t fall into the romance that armed resistance will have any effect. Ensure you are thoroughly and elaborately armed (don’t forget lots of ammo) without romantic foolishness, but just in case.
Parallel economics is good. Barter, under the table work, private purchases and sales away from the tax man, all good things. Where possible be a consumer of tax dollars, take the welfare, the disability, the unemployment, tax credits, any government ‘assistance’ of any kind. Reduce your taxable income and convert your money into useful assets, shitcan the 401k, IRA, all counterparty risk.
We will never be successful organizing. The feds will immediately infiltrate then crush (lengthy imprisonment for you) any group that develops any significance and the computer age has turned us all into permanently stored searchable data. Tiny cells of people can exist in the matrix but each member will either have to know all others thoroughly or each member will have to be completely opaque to all others.
Jones out.
People talking like they’re gonna do something “if”. Spend the rest of the time talking about don’t vote cuz it don’t matter.
Highly likely that if you won’t even follow the law in opposition to them, you’re not gonna break it in opposition either.
“The old American social contract has been completely and utterly broken.”
Wrong.
The old Christian social contract has been completely and utterly broken – and if you really think it through, the American Constitution and the resulting American way of life were part of breaking it.
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Karl will probably need a few more such flashes to get over his religion hate, in the (unlikely) best case.
Imagine 435 AOC congress critters.
Imagine 100 Chuck Schmucky Shumers in the Senate.
Really. Stop and imagine for a few seconds what THAT would be like … for you, and your family.
Now … if you think that’s just Peachy Keen, then by all means, don’t vote.
Sir!. Yes sir! I didn’t vote…twice! And I’m gonna keep that up for the rest of my life…so how you gonna blame ME for THIS shit? Seems to me we GOT HERE by voting.
Voting is like a Florida swamp. you might drive in there in your Jeep, but you’re swimmin’ out in your underwear. No good will come from it and you’ll be a lot poorer for the experience.
The Twilights Last Gleaming !
It started with fiat currency and bankruptcy laws allowing golden parachutes while pensions and employees were tossed under the bus !
Importing & out sourcing everything eradicated the tax base .
All this while those dependent on the private sector tax base continued to be paid and retiring with life left to live and the means to do so !
Organized theft of wealth thru inflation via money printing protected the few government employees creating a mountain of debt piled on the backs of the now underemployed.
Creating the greatest wealth transference in history. Now most middle class people once the backbone of American society are literally hanging on by a thread and the hard facts are coming to bare ! Government people still demand their lucrative benefits and the bulk of Americans are being evicted to pay for them .
Any wonder why the leftist parasites want to confiscate firearms . Unarmed indentured servants are easier to place a boot heal on their necks and they are doing it !
I’m a Gen Y and I’m Locked and loaded.