This is one of my favorite exchanges from the movie version of Tom Clancy's "Hunt for Red October":
Commander Bart Mancuso: Right full rudder, 30-degree down angle.
Helmsman: Aye sir.
Seaman Jones: [removes headphones] This one's gonna be close!
[The Red October turns hard to starboard and the torpedo locks on to the Konovalov]
Konovalov Crewman: Torpedo, dead ahead!
Andrei Bonovia: [to Captain Tupolev] You arrogant ass! You've killed us!
I really don’t see ole Andrei saying: “Oh, dear! The new Taliban Afghan government isn't diverse enough! We must send them a sternly worded letter telling them how upset we are!”
The Biden administration just surrendered an entire country to 7th century savages, armed them to the teeth, are considering "working with them" and this is what our State Department is worried about?
Sadly, this is NOT a Babylon Bee headline.
Never mind that several members of the new Taliban Afghan government are former guests of America at Club Gitmo.
What this is, is an example of how weak our culture has become now that we put idiots, liars, fantasists and mentally defective postmodernists in charge of...well, everything.
Biden, Fauci, Blinken and Milley lie with impunity, destroying their own credibility while burning down the institutions they lead.
We live in an age of malignant technocracy where the technocrats are wrong about just everything but are protected by a government Leviathan that has the power to silence, punish and destroy those who disagree. Their power is so overwhelming that they can turn a lie into the truth and the truth into a lie, success into failure and failure into success.
These mental midgets love to tell us that hard realities (like gender, objective truth and good vs. evil) are social constructs and yet their entire world is a social construct, a relativist papier Mache imitation of reality - and the lowly, ignorant, brutal Taliban terrorists have just put a match to it.
Attributed to George Orwell is this quote: “In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." Whether he said it or not, it is an accurate commentary of our times.
Wokeness is worthless in the natural world.
Wokeness has produced a nation that lacks confidence, courage and sense of purpose. America is so self-absorbed and navel-gazing that we can't see the gun aimed at our head - and the fact that the gun is in our own hand.
Why would China or Russia - or terrorists, for that matter - ever attack us when we are doing such a good job of killing ourselves? Never interfere with an enemy when they are destroying themselves is a very good dictum.
Living in a postmodernist Disney fantasy world is a luxury afforded to an indolent, comfortable, prosperous society.
This fantasy has produced weak, feminized men lacking any aggressive protective instinct and aggressive, masculinized women lacking any interest in reproduction or family.
As Kipling said, the East is East and the West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Nothing good can come of the literal divorce between men and women.
There is nothing more real than a bullet to the head. That is ALWAYS the ultimate least common denominator. That is the Taliban's "truth", that is their reality. The 9/11 hijackers taught America that forgotten truth twenty years ago. We won the Afghan war by 2004 or so by applying that same truth - and we lost it when American leaders forgot it and began postmodernizing a culture that prioritized survival over wokeness.
A while back, I said watching the Biden government operate is like being duct taped to a chair and then forced to watch a toddler play with a loaded pistol with a round in the chamber and the safety off - but the fact is, we have been duct taped to that chair for so long, it is beginning to feel comfortable.
If this postmodernist America continues after what we have seen in the past year and a half, God help us, because America is done. We will have accomplished a monumental feat - we will have destroyed ourselves.
Like in "Red October", the torpedo is in the water.
But we don't have to see the end of America on our watch. Our way back is simple - respect the rights of minorities without kneeling to them, put government back in its constitutional box and for God's sake, stop electing idiots.
Your local carpenter, machinist or plumber can better run this country than the highest credentialed Harvard or Yale graduate.
Let's do that.
So totally agree-going to share