Hunter Biden gets a laughable wrist slap for felonies that would have landed ordinary folks behind bars for a decade or more. Communications surface that show bribery and corruption with Hunter and “the Big Guy.” The FBI and DOJ actively interfered in the 2016 and then again in the 2020 elections, and are guilty of sedition and treason for hamstringing a sitting American president.
At the time I was a schlub undercover cop (ACU/ NYPD). Despite doing a pretty good job on 'da job', I had to work at a 2nd business b/c at the time NYPD was THE WORST PAID urban PD in the nation. Guys just over the border in frikkin' Yonkers made 30% more money...
I figure just as you were starting out in the Street (mid-80's) I was building restaurants on the upper east side. Yeah, I made more from my 'side biz' than I did as a full time cop.
Being 'born & bred in da Bronx', I had such a parochial view of the world that it's almost frightening looking back to see how narrow a view I had. For example, someone who lived in the suburbs (like Westchester County) lived 'Upstate'. I had no idea Syracuse existed, and at the time the furthest I had ever travelled from home was the Irish Alps in the Catskills.
In the early 80's the homeless population was just beginning to grow as Regan & the state governors began closing up the mental institutions like Willowbrook or Letchworth Village.
In NYC we were used to more than 2K homicides a year; numbers that are horrifying today.
I went on a ski trip to Canuk-land, and after one look around the following summer I was living in Canada six months later.
Best. Decision. Everrrrrr... Yeah, we're too woke for comfort, but that pendulum's beginning to swing back, and not for nothing, I'm a hell of a lot less worried about some dude in a dress trying to sell me Bud Light than I am about how elections in the USA have been fucked with by government agents, just to name one example (you pretty much covered it in your post).
Difference b/t Canada & the USA is best exemplified by the '08 meltdown:
- up here NOTHING happened b/c of the firewalls in the economy keeping the banks in line. They took some haircuts, I won't lie; but it was more of a blip than a crises. And b/c of the parliamentary system, the sitting government at the time was kept in check b/c they didn't have ALL the power (it was a 'minority government' and that kept the sitting Prime Minister kind of hamstrung from doing a full scale assault on public spending- austerity didn't play that well.
Yes, freedom of speech is under assault up here, much more so than in the USA. (See Jordan Peterson's current debacle). Yes, the nutjobs with fake boobs have a LOT more influence than they do in the States, but... our highways and bridges put the USA to shame from coast to coast. In fact, doing a research trip for one of our books to Salem MA last fall was an eye-opener- the infrastructure today is as bad as it was in the shitty '70's. (I'm 65)
So yeah, you're right. If anyone has the wherewithal to find another country to live in that's not 'The West' (ie USA & Europe) They should give it a serious look. It won't be a Utopia by any means. But if it's affordable and peaceful, it's worth a serious look.
Years ago, I predicted that the US Empire would eventually fall. What I didn't expect was to see it happen in my lifetime. The real bugger of it all is that it will affect many beyond their boarders. We will suffer here in Canada because we are so reliant on the US--unfortunately.
Yes to all, and thanks again for laying out so clearly. I’d add Constitution doesn’t allow congressional outsourcing of law making either, nor president to make law.
This short essay is one of the best you have written, and unfortunately, I believe will show your predictions to become true. I've always believed there existed a 'national pendulum' that swings for us, from left to right, and back again, eventually balancing things up again. I fear I have been wrong.
If you are correct about 2024 and the left's eventual moves to again distort the real election results, you will be correct, and we as a nation will be forever doomed to a future of socialism and, indeed, more corruption. Chaos will be accepted and expected, and will raise no more eyebrows than the current atmosphere that celebrates thugs shoplifting without consequence. Vandalism will continue to be winked at, the populace will have to hide their weapons to avoid edicts outlawing them, and we will be a different nation.
Those foolish enough to rail at the politicians and money men behind them will be subject to harassment, innuendo, lies, and perhaps even bodily harm. An upset mouth or pen may cause great hardship on those willing to speak.
Thanks, Russell, for speaking words that will probably cause an investigation of you for threatening any elites who worry that such talk could lessen their intended future gains at the expense of others.
Again, Mr. Blake, I would like to repost this on Facebook. Maybe I’ll go to Facebook jail. By the way, I like how you slipped “implosion” and “trump” in your musings.
What amazes me the most is most Americans are completely clueless about everything. They have this quaint notion that things will get better and that the "pendulum will swing back over" -- whatever that means. The fact of the matter is the US is undergoing a Marxist revolution. I am not making this up nor am I one of those conspiracy nuts. Everything is out in the open. Just pick up the Communist Manifesto and/or read some of Marx's writings...abolition of property is the ultimate goal. That is achieved when the family is destroyed, religion is removed from public sphere, the historical past is discarded, borders between nations are erased, truth is relative, etc. We see this all with LGBTQ movement to subvert our children, hostility towards religion and erosion of religious rights, tearing down historical statues and re-writing history to fit a narrative, open border with Mexico to destroy American culture and impoverish working class, removal of 1st and 2nd amendment protections which are God given rights and not for government to remove, etc. Seriously, the US is destined for a MAJOR fall...unlike Russell, I cannot leave as I have minor children and elderly mother to care for. However, I have property in the country and prepping for the worse. Thanks Russell for speaking truth...you cannot do it enough these days as folks really need to be told just how precarious things are...
Lately, a lot of people seem quite surprised that the USA is circling the drain. I saw it coming in 1993, when a draft dodger got sworn in as puppet. I am surprised it has taken this long.
Just glad I never fought a war for this country. These people are not worth defending or speaking up for.
I left for similar reasons to you around 15 years ago. My good luck that the country I moved to has decided it wants to go on its own path to self-destruction. I'm facing the prospect of picking up a family to move again in the next five years. Mexico sounds nice.
I hear you Russell. I'm sure you've heard of the 'North American Union', where the USA, Mexico & Canada combine into one entity ? As far as Brics... the recent almost military coup in Russia, and the fact that Russia is an economy about the size of Rhode Island, which las led some to term it a Gas station with nukes', is not encouraging. The petro-dollar stranglehold will not give up so easily. I mean... there are some dastardly dudes behind the USA hegemony. So who you gonna 'bet' on ? Putin, Xi, Crown Prince Salman ... or the assholes behind the USA crap ? Okay... maybe far, far away would get one free from all this. Fuji, Tahiti, The Seychelles ? But Mexico. I mean, come on. It's right next door...
I pulled the pin almost 20 years ahead of you.
At the time I was a schlub undercover cop (ACU/ NYPD). Despite doing a pretty good job on 'da job', I had to work at a 2nd business b/c at the time NYPD was THE WORST PAID urban PD in the nation. Guys just over the border in frikkin' Yonkers made 30% more money...
I figure just as you were starting out in the Street (mid-80's) I was building restaurants on the upper east side. Yeah, I made more from my 'side biz' than I did as a full time cop.
Being 'born & bred in da Bronx', I had such a parochial view of the world that it's almost frightening looking back to see how narrow a view I had. For example, someone who lived in the suburbs (like Westchester County) lived 'Upstate'. I had no idea Syracuse existed, and at the time the furthest I had ever travelled from home was the Irish Alps in the Catskills.
In the early 80's the homeless population was just beginning to grow as Regan & the state governors began closing up the mental institutions like Willowbrook or Letchworth Village.
In NYC we were used to more than 2K homicides a year; numbers that are horrifying today.
I went on a ski trip to Canuk-land, and after one look around the following summer I was living in Canada six months later.
Best. Decision. Everrrrrr... Yeah, we're too woke for comfort, but that pendulum's beginning to swing back, and not for nothing, I'm a hell of a lot less worried about some dude in a dress trying to sell me Bud Light than I am about how elections in the USA have been fucked with by government agents, just to name one example (you pretty much covered it in your post).
Difference b/t Canada & the USA is best exemplified by the '08 meltdown:
- up here NOTHING happened b/c of the firewalls in the economy keeping the banks in line. They took some haircuts, I won't lie; but it was more of a blip than a crises. And b/c of the parliamentary system, the sitting government at the time was kept in check b/c they didn't have ALL the power (it was a 'minority government' and that kept the sitting Prime Minister kind of hamstrung from doing a full scale assault on public spending- austerity didn't play that well.
Yes, freedom of speech is under assault up here, much more so than in the USA. (See Jordan Peterson's current debacle). Yes, the nutjobs with fake boobs have a LOT more influence than they do in the States, but... our highways and bridges put the USA to shame from coast to coast. In fact, doing a research trip for one of our books to Salem MA last fall was an eye-opener- the infrastructure today is as bad as it was in the shitty '70's. (I'm 65)
So yeah, you're right. If anyone has the wherewithal to find another country to live in that's not 'The West' (ie USA & Europe) They should give it a serious look. It won't be a Utopia by any means. But if it's affordable and peaceful, it's worth a serious look.
Years ago, I predicted that the US Empire would eventually fall. What I didn't expect was to see it happen in my lifetime. The real bugger of it all is that it will affect many beyond their boarders. We will suffer here in Canada because we are so reliant on the US--unfortunately.
Hey, lay off the truck stop hookers. It's a public service.
Yes to all, and thanks again for laying out so clearly. I’d add Constitution doesn’t allow congressional outsourcing of law making either, nor president to make law.
This short essay is one of the best you have written, and unfortunately, I believe will show your predictions to become true. I've always believed there existed a 'national pendulum' that swings for us, from left to right, and back again, eventually balancing things up again. I fear I have been wrong.
If you are correct about 2024 and the left's eventual moves to again distort the real election results, you will be correct, and we as a nation will be forever doomed to a future of socialism and, indeed, more corruption. Chaos will be accepted and expected, and will raise no more eyebrows than the current atmosphere that celebrates thugs shoplifting without consequence. Vandalism will continue to be winked at, the populace will have to hide their weapons to avoid edicts outlawing them, and we will be a different nation.
Those foolish enough to rail at the politicians and money men behind them will be subject to harassment, innuendo, lies, and perhaps even bodily harm. An upset mouth or pen may cause great hardship on those willing to speak.
Thanks, Russell, for speaking words that will probably cause an investigation of you for threatening any elites who worry that such talk could lessen their intended future gains at the expense of others.
Again, Mr. Blake, I would like to repost this on Facebook. Maybe I’ll go to Facebook jail. By the way, I like how you slipped “implosion” and “trump” in your musings.
What amazes me the most is most Americans are completely clueless about everything. They have this quaint notion that things will get better and that the "pendulum will swing back over" -- whatever that means. The fact of the matter is the US is undergoing a Marxist revolution. I am not making this up nor am I one of those conspiracy nuts. Everything is out in the open. Just pick up the Communist Manifesto and/or read some of Marx's writings...abolition of property is the ultimate goal. That is achieved when the family is destroyed, religion is removed from public sphere, the historical past is discarded, borders between nations are erased, truth is relative, etc. We see this all with LGBTQ movement to subvert our children, hostility towards religion and erosion of religious rights, tearing down historical statues and re-writing history to fit a narrative, open border with Mexico to destroy American culture and impoverish working class, removal of 1st and 2nd amendment protections which are God given rights and not for government to remove, etc. Seriously, the US is destined for a MAJOR fall...unlike Russell, I cannot leave as I have minor children and elderly mother to care for. However, I have property in the country and prepping for the worse. Thanks Russell for speaking truth...you cannot do it enough these days as folks really need to be told just how precarious things are...
Lately, a lot of people seem quite surprised that the USA is circling the drain. I saw it coming in 1993, when a draft dodger got sworn in as puppet. I am surprised it has taken this long.
Just glad I never fought a war for this country. These people are not worth defending or speaking up for.
Thanks, Russell.
I left for similar reasons to you around 15 years ago. My good luck that the country I moved to has decided it wants to go on its own path to self-destruction. I'm facing the prospect of picking up a family to move again in the next five years. Mexico sounds nice.
I hear you Russell. I'm sure you've heard of the 'North American Union', where the USA, Mexico & Canada combine into one entity ? As far as Brics... the recent almost military coup in Russia, and the fact that Russia is an economy about the size of Rhode Island, which las led some to term it a Gas station with nukes', is not encouraging. The petro-dollar stranglehold will not give up so easily. I mean... there are some dastardly dudes behind the USA hegemony. So who you gonna 'bet' on ? Putin, Xi, Crown Prince Salman ... or the assholes behind the USA crap ? Okay... maybe far, far away would get one free from all this. Fuji, Tahiti, The Seychelles ? But Mexico. I mean, come on. It's right next door...