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Upon the Gears [1]

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Date: 2025-03-04

By David Glenn Cox

I’m torn up about watching the King’s monkey show tonight. I can’t stand the sound of his voice; it makes my flesh crawl. I read the transcripts and watch what videos I can stomach, but don’t make it too long. Der Fuehrer celebrates his victory lap over the peasants tonight, surprise! This means you!

What they have planned is simply diabolical. Nothing less than a Nazi style euthanasia program designed to take out the weak, aged and infirm. The famous useless eaters as they have been so often called. The rich culling the herd to limit their social Medicaid liability, sort of a Logan’s Running shoes. Like Office Space, we’ll just stop Milton’s check! Problem solved!

My Father was twenty-one on December 7th, 1941. I asked him what he thought when he first heard about Pearl Harbor. He answered, “That’s it for me!” He understood he could not escape his responsibility and knew a letter was coming from the president. You have no letter coming, but you still have an obligation.

While you were out: The King has destroyed the NATO Alliance and has aligned this nation with Russia. Greetings Comrades! This without asking anybody the King just swaps sides. Europe says, “Fine, we’ll do it without you.” The King becomes enraged. How dare Zelensky go to the Europeans and cut me out of the deal. What’s the King’s answer? “Zelensky must go!” aka, I’ll get you fired! “Off with his head! Off with his head!” The fate of the world dependent on the state of the King’s diaper rash. The European nations now realize they have no other choice. They don’t have to replace the United States, they simply have to be better than Russia.

Maybe someday soon, Europe realizes the cost effectiveness of direct action. Ten years of peace keeping versus six weeks of ass kicking. Ten thousand troops dropping into Kursk and cutting a swath towards Moscow might make Russia more receptive to peace. Maybe just the threat is enough, but you can’t depend on a threat. You have to be prepared to go through with it, because maybe tomorrow depends on you.

Sooner or later, the Europeans will understand this is an all or nothing gambit. Vladimir Putin will either win or die on this one. He won’t negotiate in good faith, unless forced to negotiate at gun point with his last breath. Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?

Without direct action the world which you know will end. Hospitals and clinics will close, rural fire stations will close. Americans will die. Wall Street is shitting itself. Commodities are taking a beating as commodities are a large part of the American export market. The international markets they used to have “Farmer’s for Trump!” With Federal funding paused, farmers face planting season broke and uncertain. To plant a crop, work your ass off, lose a million dollars and take it off your taxes? Or just not plant and lose half a million dollars and save the wear and tear. There are no promises or guarantees anymore.

Warren Buffet says Trump’s tariffs are an “Act of War.” So why is the King at war with our Allies? Did Republicans actually understand they were changing sides when they voted for Trump? They had better realize it soon. Why is the King trying with all his might to crash the economy? The country is in an uproar and a tail spin and the King will take a Victory lap over the forces of Democracy. Swinging on his tire swing across the room Ooga! Ooga ing, all the way.

What is being attempted is the largest theft in all human history. A crime unequalled in its cruelty and barbarity since the Nazi final solution.

There is a clique which follows the teachings of Ludwig Von Mieses. I don’t expect anybody to know who Von Mieses was. He was your basic Nazi covered with academic laurels and a mortarboard hat. If he had a mullet, bad skin and rode a Harley, you’d call him a redneck punk. But Von Mieses was an intellectual college Professor teaching philosophy. The deep intellectual meaning is always couched inside the banal rhetoric.

Von Mieses said, “The only right which actually exists is PROPERTY.” Translated it means, no such thing as free speech. No such thing as the second amendment or freedom of Religion. It means in the words of George Bush the dim. “It’s just a godamn piece of paper!” And they believe this! “Those with property will rule unmolested over the poor just by virtue of their wealth. The healthy will work in the fields and the sick shall make haste and die. They can, so they will! And they assume the best way to do that is to make you poor, very poor. It’s harder to fight back when you’re very poor.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!! - Mario Savio

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