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Since 1872
December 15th
AWAKENING!
By Jack Parnell - retired Congressman and Independent Presidential
candidate
Syndicated
by Acme Features
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"In
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Theodore Roosevelt |
There's a story
Indians tell... those Indian Indians, that is, from the country
they call India, as they must
be... 'bout seven blind men and just one ol’ elephant as somehow dodged Don
Junior’s bullets. An Indian grabs hold its trunk and says "elephants must
be a sort of snake". Another pinches its ear and decides an elephant's
just a big old leaf, covered in wrinkly skin; others as touch its tail, tusks,
feet and so on make up other explanations. None of those blind Indians ever had
one right idea about elephants, on their ownsome,
but, if you slapped 'em all together, why... there it was!
Of course if that
elephant tired of being pinched by blind, from-India-Indians, it might have
just turned round and swatted 'em... then it wouldna made
a pinch of difference what nature of a beast it was! Back in the eighteenth
century, most as could read took comfort in what the likes of Adam Smith
believed: working people were permanently broken in spirit, like farm animals,
by their hard, monotonous labor. So termites thought to pinch 'em harder, pay
them less and less, but finally the hunger in their bellies woke 'em up
instead! People got mad, you had the American and French revolutions, then all
kinds of Communist and anarchist seditions and, finally, unions... as would
take another century to shrink back to only 7% of non-government
labor on account of being so corrupted into the uselessness that even the
people whose grandparents they’d saved sneered “Pass ‘em by.”
That is the curse of
Entropy, whether it infects the public or the private sector, left or right. They just can't help
themselves! Dick Nixon was going to make roadkill of those weenie McGovern
Democrats no matter what, in '72, but had to sic the IRS on his enemies’ list
and greenlight the break-in and coverings-up at Watergate, win Massachusetts
and maybe even D.C., he couldn't help himself! (Djonald
Unchained Trump remembered that and let Muller do his Muellering
around, despite some of his cronies having to go to the klink
but then beached and impeached himself bribing the President of f***ing Ukraine, a f***ing comedian – and on Hunter Biden’s turf, besides
– less the cocaine). We had Gary Hart
doin’ his thing,
as in that movie, then Slick Willie - who had that Arkansas State Patrol, then his
Secret Service, bringing him all the strange as could compete in quantity, if
not quality, with his idol, JFK (the whisky-man's boy, not the pickle husband
as replaced Hillary at State, took his shot in oh four kept flying around the
world telling folks how sorry we Americans are for bein’
Americans and was now, once again, among the top three or seven Donkey
Prospects for the 2020 if convention delegates can’t make up their minds). Warn't enough! Had to drop his pants in front of civilians
in hotel rooms, finally, desecrate the people's White House with cigar follies out'n that "Cabaret" movie. Couldn't help
himself! The applause and polls went to
Junior's head after Afghanistan - Congress wouldn't let him invade Iran or
Syria, so he dived into Iraq. We got
Edwards, McGravy… whatever his name was… Congressman
(and rejected Mayor) Weiner, the other rich guy in New York and Secretary
Flynn. Hastert! Al “I’m good enough, dammit” Franken! The Urban Spaceman grabbed a Nobel before even
serving a day in office, then pulled troops out’n where
they shoulda been pushed in and vice versa, raised
the Nixonian flag on them thar’
wiretaps and IRS follies and conjured up a healthcare scheme that, frankly,
owed more to Kaiser Bismarck than Karl Marx. Which brought us to the Donald, the midnite Tweeter (apologies to Jagger/Richards), as paid
shady ladies to slap his rear end with pictures of himself – probably get
re-elected because the donkeys think their donkey-feuds more important than the
security and reputation of America, and then got steamed at the European
bankers, the Colombians and Venezuelans, so we invaded Costa Rica. We
couldn't help ourselfies!
Caught with the
fingers in the till and classified documents destination Moscow... Russia, not Idaho... in the storage locker? Repeal the Constitution.
President Joe and
Doctor Jill seem like a nice couple, by contrast… probably too nice.
Too nice to the Taliban, to the tax and
spend liberals, the spend but don’t tax conservatives and to the Manchin Sinema show between them…
too nice to flash mob looters, high school shooters and the billionaires. Too nice to TreaSec Yellin, even after she admitted that she’d flunked the
Inflation Test and to the dolts as ran up student loan bills and whine they
can’t afford even the vig on a hundred twenty five
thou a year. Satan preserve
us from the depradations of the nice people.
A Catfish economy would cut student loan
forgiveness in half after sixty thousand per annum and by nothing above a hundred.
I know that’s unfair to them as have to
live in rent-gouging places on the East and West Coast to get the good jobs as
find techsters and texters making
that hundred thou and surrendering eighty thou back to the slumlords for their
closet-sized apartments, but they’ll just have to move, take their jobs with
them and make those rent-gouging honey traps into Detroit. Better all around.
Entropy can't help
itself either... which is why people keep coming together to kick it in
the nuts every generation or so. It's waited out Teddy and Frank Roosevelt,
Henry and Georgie Wallace, Ross Perot and certain others, but, as wrote former
Democratic Senator David Boren, after the 1995 polls showing 57% of Americans
(up to 64% a decade later, 68% now) want at least one serious third-party
option and the feeling’s even stronger among young
people. And that ain’t the Greens - as want to make
everybody drive a $75,000 electric car, eat tofu and nearly nominated Roseanne
to run for President, stage left, before coming out as a true believer in
Trump’s Deep State and the kindly intentions of the Russians. Nor Libertarians… sorry, Rand, sorry guy who
never heard of Aleppo… you shot your wad in ’16 by not nominating that computer
guy as murdered his neighbors in Belize. (Allegedly.) And they did it again by rejecting Vermin Supreme
in favor of some stiff white guy in a stiff white suit who’d take out his
little Ayn Rand book and hector you like Jehovah’s Witnesses. Show some guts and if the G.O.P. treats Djonald the way he treats his own people and pick… oh… Jeb?, nominate one of the three latest Capital Riot
conspirators as claim to be libs… Roger Stone, Alex
Jones or Steve-O Bannon, "There is no reason to believe that the
United States is immune to major changes in party structure which are impacting
nations like Japan,” Boren warned. “The people will not forever tolerate a
party system which forces them to choose the lesser of two evils."
2020 was not forever
but… on the other hand…
Biden? Trump? Again???
Well, how about RFK
Junior? Or Manchin. Or
Liz Cheney... who says she hates Djonald, but would
poach enough Donkeycrat votes to ensure his
restoration.
As Washington throws
up walls of dried New World Ordure, states are quietly decoupling with a
repressed fury unseen since December, 1859. Oklahoma, Nevada and Tennessee state
legislatures passed various resolutions of unwelcomement
to the UN peacekeepers and two counties on Michigan's Upper Peninsula actually
passed laws against selling 'em food. (Let ‘em eat herring!) Them as consider the
new immigration laws proposed by POTUS to be bogus have topped thirty. Sixteen states, now, hundreds of
mayors, city and county administrators and thousands of neighborhood watchdog committees,
as trust neither Washington nor their own state legislatures, have passed
resolutions reaffirming the 10th Amendment that reserves to them all powers not
expressly delegated to DeeCee and making Wall Street
shysters shiver the way people used to do with the Yellow Fever. And that’s not even mentioning the near-open state
of insurrection in Alaska, as now seems to be attempting a sesquicentennial revanché with them Russians or that on-again, off-again
Texas Governor as called for mandatory AK-47 carry in schools, bars and
churches, bringing back secession and fighting the Civil War all over again, went
to Washington and now gets catcalled as the moderate
in the Trump cabinet.
That online petition
place has now racked up 1.2 million likes
for the likingness of trashing the Constitution and going
back to the Articles of Confederation.
Barry Goldwater went
to his reward believing extremism in the defense of liberty was no vice, but
what people see now in Washington is just plain extremism in the service of
just plain greed, and without a John McCain or Bob Dole to put on the brakes. The only check on the racial and partisan hate
(and proletarian self-hate) as infects gumment is
that the money-boys riding both elephants and donkeys want to be
sure that spoilers don't get into the race. The human face of the Republican
Party's become a corporate bureaucrat as waves “Mein Kampf”
and lays off Americans as, then, get told by Democratic faces in gumment offices that they'll have to submit to urinalysis, anger-management
seminars and twelve page twelve-step forms to fill out before being put on a
waiting list for the children's medicine and surplus cheese.
At least that last
might be a multicultural or intersectionary face. Those idiots among the donkey boys (and girls,
gay little ponies and those mules as possess the gender of either or neither
sex of equine tendancies) have ruint
another good American word… “Awakening” (which, essentially, means to stop
believing in the lies… any lies, told
by any stripe of politician and for any reason)… and, like the piratical
Democrats as low-jacked “progressive”, have gelded the notion with their
cloudy, clown-concept of the “woke” America… meaning any as whom, out of guilt
or greed, enlist in the peanut-gallery of silliness.
One does not have to
be a self-hating rich white liberal to become “awakened” as opposed to “woke”, one
simply has to have the capacity for discerning, then rejecting, the liberal lies
as well as those of the so-called conservatives (i.e. the crooked or just plain
mean people). Practicing discrimination! We shall name the names of the naughty and nice
as our movement progresses and those who espouse meaningless and vapid language
and rituals shall stand exposed by their words and their gestures and then those
as flimflam Americans the way Mister Trump did shall be opposed in 2024.
Our CNC face... race and
gender inclusive, near as I can see the manufacture of it... should be an old
fashioned American milkman, going door to door in his truck (or... once the
oil's gone... a horse and buggy as will recruit more of the greenies to our side). Some Americans of a certain
age remember milkmen, and wish we had 'em back. It's the
Neighborhood Watch volunteer with a wink for the children... and a carbine
slung over his shoulder for them as persist in being up to no good.
What the CNC brings
to America's table is its enthusiasm and... at the
risk of losing the few Virtuecrats as already don't
have us on their list of naughties... a sense of
adventure. Fun, even! For us,
not Vladimir Putin, nor the G-7!
There's an attitude I
take in helping see the CNC erected from the ground up, like a kid at Christmas
experimenting with plastic building logs. Refuse to concentrate on those as
don't fit and get mad, pay attention to those as do and politics can be fun as
taking a pint and rifle out to the county dump to blow away a few dirty rats!
I think we understand
that Donald Trump will win in the primaries (he could have had a chance if a
huge field destroyed one another, but no he has to contend with Kanye siphoning off enough of his votes to throw the nomination
to Mike Pence or somebody from Florida. And if, perchance, he failes, then Trump
will run as an independent and vie with Ye to gain the endorsement of Nick
Fuentes. Given the Sharpton/Farrakhan/2Crazy/Jackson axis of other mattering, nattering blackiness simultaneously deriding their exiled President and
casting him as a martyr, that M-Thirteen "Christian" party as seems
to have come into being after the incumbent broke his promise to deport twelve
million Catholic Mexicans inside thirty days and those beer-drinkin’
conservative Supremes slapped restrictions on just how much probable cause
police needed to dragnet them... might be two Christian parties
jumping the Trump and siphoning off votes from the elephant men, one pre-millenial, one post!... and stage left, various leftover
Greens flush with roubles, dropped-out liberals,
socialists, gays, bitter Berniecrats, Hollywood celebrities,
feminists and other practitioners of identity politics... with, maybe, the sons
of Brother Ross and the Reform remnants rallying behind fired attorney Rudy Giuliani
(now that his client stabbed him and Ivanka in the
back?); that the powers that be in the Deep State are preparin’
them Saturday Night Live clips of him in a dress means ol’ Rood is to be taken
seriously as either a Republican challenger or third (twelfth?) party
candidate. Hey – he’s about the right
age for the job! Or how about Coffee Man
or that other New York Mayor… not that tossed-out Billy D as polled behind the
psychic and those Mayors of Notre Dame and someplace in Florida last go-round who
garnered Federal jobs for their unelectable gall, but the one with lots of
money and his own magazine, too, as wanted to lock up people who drink soda plus
some inevitable October surprise, and you've got Constitutional goulash as
smells frightening to some, but... to the CNC... reeks of opportunity.
Well, a little
competition... the desperate attempts afoot to close off ballot access to all
but Uncle Joe and the MAGA-millionaire, the pole-vaulting Termite Twins duly
noted... makes for strong bodies, and stronger wills, as are gonna be
necessary. Because when a party founded on Catfish principles of charity,
thrift, justice, enterprise and common sense wins, the Democrats and
Republicans are not just going to let us take over. No... I firmly believe they'll
do anything, up to and including ordering police and soldiers to
fire on our crowds, like in Belarus, Syria, Paris, Hong Kong, Mariupol and Costa Rica, to keep power and, if they refuse,
the DeVos clan will emerge from their caves of exile
and commission their Blackwater mercenaries to mount a coup. A proper
coup... even Betsy Wetsy herself ratted out Djonald to the one-sixers to the
effect that his plotting wasn’t just evil, it was incompetent. Those ten weeks
between election and inauguration weren't a tenth of the time needed to overthrow
the Constitution and shred documents as would send vast quantities of our
legislative, executive and judicial termites marching off to prison!
Those Indian people I
mention... or, maybe, the Chinese... have a saying: "may you live in the interesting
times". It's a curse. But, the building of Renaissance requires a
cleansing as has to be performed from the ground up, I would prefer to second Daniel
Boorstin, the author and former Librarian of Congress
as coined the term "American Exceptionalism". We are Exceptional,
not only for being the Land of the Free, or the Brave, (racist slur!), but for having
been... and, let us hope, still being... "the
land of the blessedly Unexpected."
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