The U.S. is in real trouble...

 Amici,

It is murderously difficult to try to watch Joe Biden talk. He has trouble reading his teleprompter, gets confused, looks around. At one point he said: "I’m just waiting for them to tell me when we get going here since we’re live streaming this,” Biden said not realizing the live stream had already started. “I’m supposed to look over here and not at you guys.”

It's all just insulting beyond words.

The U.S. is in real trouble. A long-time friend of mine wrote me the other day to say that he's never, in a long life, seen the U.S. go so far downhill so fast as under the Biden administration. He's right. We are watching an astounding national (and global, of course) disaster as the U.S. falls to pieces.

Just take this example: the gasoline shortage mess. One person on Twitter wrote: "This is crazy. I stopped for gas just now having no idea what was happening. It’s out. People here told me they’d been to other stations and found the same." It's bad enough that the governors of North Carolina and Florida have called state emergencies. Just four months of Biden, and we're back in Jimmy Carter land.

Truly, we've not seen this since Jimmy Carter was president, and the Gulf Oil Crisis/Iran Hostage mess. Now, this particular Biden-Era gasoline-supply fiasco is supposed to be incidental to some cyber attack, from Russia, the Democrats' favorite whipping boy, to say the least. 

But there are those who are not buying that. An excerpt:

"When the state police tell us something prudence dictates we evaluate their motive against previous state police statements and make an independent decision.  That’s the basis of not being a victim to professional lying.  That said, which is more likely:

A) A random cyber-hack from a dubious eastern-European source, has compromised the refined fuel capacity in the United States?

~ OR…

B) The FBI, a political division -and state police- acting on behalf the U.S. intelligence community, are making this claim in order to provide cover for the Biden administration’s purposeful policies that are skyrocketing the price of fuel?

An P again:

Widespread belief exists to the effect that the "Intelligence Community" is actually running the country. "Intelligence" is not a word I'd use.

Biden was on camera trying to explain about the fuel shortage and was obviously in over his senile head. To watch him is to cringe. Yet Biden is the front man for whoever is running the country, and perhaps it actually is most likely the "the Intelligence Community"; they seem to be in the driver's seat, them and the Rockefeller Foundation, George Soros, and of course Klaus Schwab. A lovely combination of thugs and wackos. Bill Gates is in that mix, and others like him.

Overall, though, this fuel supply mess is just part and parcel of the freak-show disaster the pResident has inundated us with. For example, inflation, and see also this. 

Joe Biden, our actual, real-life Manchurian Candidate. Utter incompetence. He really doesn't know where he is half the time. For example this, and this, and then this. He thinks his policies are on the "right track"; it is just too pathetic for words.

He is raising taxes, too. Higher taxes and inflation. As Newt Gingrich said the other day, this is as old as the hills. If one can't raise taxes because of public resistance or poverty of the masses (both elements of the French Revolution, remember), and you have to keep raising spending to pay off your political cronies and allies, Gringrich said (and the Dems do exactly that, and have done so since FDR; Republicans often do it too, but not nearly so much), then "the only way you make up the difference is through inflation". Just remember, my friends, the Western Roman Empire fell because its taxes were too high, and the value of its currency decreased -- so, desperate local communities turned to Barbarian overlords because they demanded less tax from the locals. The empire didn't collapse; it was liquidated in bankruptcy court and sold to newcomers.

On top of all that, we have a bizarre "Woke" cultural war raging.

Victor Davis Hanson's essay here; it details the absurdities of the Maoist culture war being waged. An excerpt:

The woke Left seeks a top-down erasure of America, engineered by the likes of LeBron James from his $40 million estate talking revolution to Oprah at her $90 million castle, as Mark Zuckerberg throws in $500 million here, and his colleagues $400 million there, and as the top executives of Coke, Target, and Delta Airlines believe their $17 million-a-year salaries make them experts on the crimes of non-diversity, exclusion, and inequity. Anytime revolutionaries at the outset of their enterprises seek exemption from the consequences of their own ideology, we know their plans will end badly for everyone else.

And he makes an essentially important point:

What is saving the country, for now, is not the third of Americans who have bachelor’s degrees, given the university has become a woke deductive, anti-empirical, anti-Enlightenment institution. For now, the more practical two-thirds of the population who did not graduate, and either never experienced the academic mind or got out quickly after they did, are our rear guard at Thermopylae. I concede, with the sadness of a former believer in higher education, that an entire institution has failed its pledge to the Enlightenment and we are back 2,700 years to Hesiod’s warning that with material progress comes moral regress.

And see this video interview with Hanson here, via The Conservative Treehouse. 

As you-all known, I've been writing a lot about Covid lately, but Covid is just one aspect of all the madness. It enabled the election theft, for one thing. Yet this crazy "Woke" Maoist-style Cultural Revolution is an essential part to it, as Hanson explains, and so is the non-president "pResdent" Biden (they keep trying to push forward Camel-Toes to replace him but she is so utterly unliked as to be astounding). The-powers-that-be try to say Biden is well liked, but who believes these polls? 

Excerpt:

Lastly, I’ll note that this massive approval, even if it truly exists, is not translating at the ballot box. Democrats were just shut out of a Trump +3 district in Texas via a special election. The Republican candidates took over 60% of the vote and the top two finishers who will go to the runoff are goth in the GOP. And while the turnout was low, as is to be expected, those same dynamics of lower turnout will exist in 2022 because it is a non-presidential election.

You know the polls are bogus because of stories like this one reported here. This article sport a number of videos taken by people that show no one, NO ONE bothered to turn out to see the 81 million vote getter.

And once Biden got into the water plant, he shuffled about with his cue cards because of course he can't remember anything.

Bottom Line:

I don't think China will wait till the American elections next year to seize Taiwan. Maybe they can steal the 2022 election the way they stole the last one, but things have fallen apart already in the U.S. and the meltdown is exponentially growing (consider the Border and the tens of thousands flooding across it). I just can't imagine -- even with all the election stealing -- they can maintain their grip on power. Perhaps it all depends on whether the Republicans in Arizona can complete their Maricopa County audit. The Antrim County election fraud case is with the judge now in Michigan, who will decide if it proceeds on May 18.

Personally, I blame Donald Trump for letting the election get stolen. He should not have allowed it, and should have raised hell about the 2016 election stealing in California – but then he should have never let that happen. Of course, he would have had to be part Machiavelli and part Napoleon to have outmaneuvered the forces arrayed against him. And "hindsight" is so crystal clear.

But "we the people" are stuck with this mess, and it will profoundly affect the entire world.

As Buckaroo Banzai famously said, "No matter where you go, there you are."

An Préachán