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How Dark is the Night? [1]

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Date: 2025-02-25

By David Glenn Cox

The peasants have no bread. Then let them eat cake! “I was just trying to see if they had a pulse.” Did you think I was serious about that email thing? Elon now says it was all just an amusing ruse because things were a bit slow around the billionaire barn. Just to casually threaten the jobs and livelihoods of thousands of Federal workers and over the weekend no less. Displaying a callousness that doesn’t deserve vertical. I’ll just toy with the little people’s lives for a while for my own personal amusement.

But in these days of darkness, it is difficult to tell the monkey from the organ grinder. The orange King meets with the French President Macron and behaves like a boorish buffoon. The King after being corrected by Macron shrugged his shoulders smiling like a smart-ass teenager on a field trip saying, “Well, if you want to believe that!” Rude, uncouth and uncalled for.

My first guess would be over confidence. The King’s gotten away with it so far, and so his ego ignites and will soon self-detonate. You begin to see why the Fuehrer invaded Russia without defeating Great Britain first. Oh, we got this! The postman brings only good news. We’re the Cartwright’s and we always win the fights!

In his Friday night massacre, the king fired the Judge Advocate Generals of the three services. Defense Secretary Foster “Spuds” Hegseth said he wanted people who wouldn’t act as a roadblock. Now remembering that the Judge Advocate Generals are attorneys trying to maintain legality. So, the word choice of roadblock is indicative of a man who pours too much into his mouth to control what comes out of it. For those playing along at home, it’s a triple word score. You will never hear a clearer statement of desiring corruption. We want people who won’t make us follow the law or stand in our way.

The other day the Houthis fired two missiles at US aircraft. Both missiles didn’t have the range in the hands of nervous operators. But the King promised swift and overpowering retaliation. Then, out of the blue the King fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the military’s lawyers.

I’m just so damn cynical, because I’d speculate the King suggested something be done about the Houthis involving the 101 Airborne or similar and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said “no.” Then foolishly brought in lawyers trying fruitlessly to explain why. “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”

But the question we must all ask ourselves; how deep is the ocean? How dark is the night?

“When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.” – Che Guevara

I mention this only because if you are waiting for the opening salvo on Fort Sumter, you missed it. “And then one day you’ll find ten years have gone behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.” What limits on the King now?

A Federal Court Judge allows the King for now to ban the Associated Press News service from his presence because the AP won’t kowtow to the King’s wishes. As clear as the Hegseth stagger, sorry swagger, swagger! The President isn’t answerable to the press or the people. Which sort of explains the King’s behavior, doesn’t it. What are they gonna say, if they know what is good for them?

How far can they stagger, swagger before tripping over the cat? Bumbling and stumbling into a crisis. Best to choose your own necktie for your hanging. If they’re gonna fire you anyway. Well, you have sick time, don’t you? Cough, cough you don’t look well. You and all your friends from the TSA should climb into bed and call in sick. Fuck all of those airliners! If you’re not feeling it today. They can all just fly tomorrow or the next day.

Here in Arizona, they are losing their minds. If you plan on visiting the Grand Canyon this year, plan on not going to the restroom as they’ve fired the janitors. You wanted a wild outdoor experience, didn’t you? Get back to nature? Does a tourist shit in the woods? If every tourist just empties one bag of trash, it will be fine. Likewise, in every state.

What exactly is the end goal here? Why are they trying so hard to crash the economy and how far are they willing to go to do it? How far are you willing to go once you understand what is going on? Federal workers should stage a one-day sick out. Just as a funny joke for Elon. Let me show you 500 things I did last week. Now let’s see you do them.

Come on, it’s just a few million people waiting to board aircraft. How hard can it be? I would say a General Strike will soon be in order. Stop the machine. The machine runs on sweat and money. What would you do if everything you loved and cared for was at risk? This IS a Coup d’état. This is not a drill. An attempted decapitation of lawful government. An insult to your rights as Americans and an insult to your intelligence.

President Macron should have walked out on the gibbering chimp for behaving so rudely. Appeasement doesn’t work! Stop pretending it does. Stop pretending the King can be trusted or negotiated with in good faith. Fascists laugh at the law behind closed doors. The time will come soon, I hope. The natural solution makes itself known. It’s not going to go away by itself, unless you and I make it go away.

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

― Mark Twain

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