From “Cynical Publius” on X (frustrating that I can no longer embed posts in WordPress).
The citizens of the United States of America are in deep trouble. Why? I’ll tell you why.
The following are objectively true statements about the United States of America in 2024. These statements are not in any way hyperbolic, and they represent a stark reality that not even the most rabid Fascist Democrat can deny. Here they are:
1. The leader of the nation’s opposition party is currently defending himself in a series of contrived #lawfare criminal and civil suits reminiscent of fascist Hitlerian/Stalinesque show trials of the 20th Century, for the primary purpose of making it extremely difficult for him to be elected as President of the nation.
2. On campuses throughout the nation, Jewish students are being persecuted and attacked in a manner reminiscent of the German Nazi Party’s Kristallnacht of November 9 and 10, 1938.
3. In many states across the nation there are no voting laws enforced that effectively verify that ballots come from qualified citizen voters.
4. Individuals who peacefully protested the matter of #3 have been imprisoned by the federal government in inhumane conditions for literally years without trial.
5. The nation’s Southern Border is wide open to the point where any person who is capable of walking can cross into the nation AND receive free money and support necessary to survive. There is no mechanism to ensure that criminals and terrorists are not taking advantage of such situation.
6. The current President constantly displays symptoms of advanced elder dementia.
7. The current President has repeatedly labeled the opposition party as a “threat to democracy,” often alongside visual imagery similar to that used by Hitler and other fascist leaders of the 20th Century.
8. The nation’s debt equals over 120% of its annual GDP.
9. As a consequence of inflation and interest rates, most middle class citizens of the nation cannot afford to purchase a home.
10. The political party that controls the Presidency and the Senate has actively supported sending tens of billions of dollars to foreign governments who are credibly accused of money laundering funds provided to such party members, while not providing remotely similar assistance to the residents of the State of Hawaii who were burned out of their homes.
11. The nation’s military has equipment readiness rates making it incapable of fighting effectively, while instead focusing on “diversity” initiatives that promote race/gender/sexuality over war fighting skills and competency.
12. The overwhelming majority of the nation’s mass media refuses to report on any of the above matters, and in most cases the people running such mass media have close familial and personal connections to the people directly responsible for the above matters.
These are symptoms of a nation on the verge of disintegration. Moreover, these are qualities consistent with failed fascist regimes of the 20th Century.
What are we going to do about it, Patriots?
Paraphrasing the VP on the use of the 25th Amendment and the involvement of patriotic citizens to right the government:
Q: “Does the administration say, ‘You know what, this strategy isn’t working. We’re going to change strategies,’ Is it time?”
A: “It’s time for us to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day! Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down. And so right now we know we still have a number of people that, that is in the millions of Americans who have not been elected, and could be elected, and we are urging them to get elected because it will save their life.”
You can be her press secretary when she takes over, David.
Every day I like to take the time to think about how I can improve the day. And day in and day out most of what I work on are things I know can be used to improve our day!
I should note that the above was taken verbatim from the VP in response to the verbatim question, with the one exception that the words in boldface had the word elected substituted for vaccinated. Otherwise everything else was the same except for the missing punctuation mark at the end of the the phrase “and that time is every day”.
In another thread comment, I stated that we all can get along if we feel like it. True.
Funny thing about feelings…
They often can be accompanied by expressions of motivated opportunism.
This is decidedly not topic related but I think we could all use a lift right now:
“We are proud to announce “The 130-Year-Old-Lifespan Trials”. Our volunteers – mostly in their 70s and 80s – aim to be the first people in history to break past the current “Lifespan Barrier” for the human species, which stands at 122. We aim to give them average lifespans of 130 with the health, strength, and appearance of 50. This trial will be conducted in our new division – Biotech Explorers. Because there will be very limited space to treat people in the early years, this treatment will be provided initially to current and former astronauts, and children with certain premature aging diseases.
We’ve known for the past year, from animal trials, that bioreactor-grown mitochondria transplantation had the potential to dramatically speed healing, fight infection, and extend lifespan. We could see in animal tests in the brain, muscles, immune system, and skin, that the effect was real. Other types of mitochondrial transplantation have already been safely used for in human patients for rare diseases. The 130-year-old lifespan treatment will be based on Bioreactor-Grown Mitochondrial Transplantation – a technique that our parent firm Mitrix Bio has been developing for several years. We are now making animals in the lab younger routinely.
Now the job in front of us, is to make the leap with careful, rigorous human trials targeting a 130-year-old lifespan. There is so much work to be done, but our team of top scientists from major universities and other research groups are ready to take on this challenge.”
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/04/ambitious-goals-at-mitrix-bio/
Don’t know if the mitochondria have to be person specific (harvested from you own stem cells or some such) or whether a generalized human type source would work. Probably the former. Either way an entry into Rand Simberg’s “faster please…”
“What are we going to do about it, Patriots?”
Approximately nothing.
Politicians from dawn of time, have been ruining this world, and they can not change.
Power corrupts.
And too big to fail, has to, fail.
We live in interesting times.
We are still living in the best of times.
US is in good shape, in comparison to world, and the fall out, might result in a better republic, but current political leadership, will react, rather than actually do. anything.
In terms WWIII which we making progress towards, it’s always a chance, but it’s not likely.