Nietzsche was the first to formally advocate living dangerously as a kind of modus vivendi, but our title phrase owes itself to a quote from Indonesian President Sukarno who coined it during the 1965 coup that saw him ousted by the 30 September Movement. The phrase is also the title of a novel about that era by Christopher Koch that became a 1984 movie starring Mel Gibson. But that’s not important now.
What’s important now, rather obviously, is the new year of 2024, and the unfortunate fact that more Americans are facing more potential danger than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis, though for a far more varied set of reasons. And the multiplicity of threats merely amplifies the level of danger.
She may not look it, but she’s terrified.
Even Kamala Harris is terrified of 2024. During an appearance with that highly-rated klatch of distaff hysterics who regularly populate ABC’s The View, she advised the current assemblage of sororal ditzes that “we should all be scared as heck” about the possibility of Donald Trump returning to the White House. The aforementioned ditzes chorused simpatico alarm. Obviously what truly terrifies our Vice President (and indefatigable border czar), is the fact that fewer and fewer Americans are “scared as heck” of Donald Trump, while rapidly growing segments of the voting public report dissatisfaction with the fact that after just three harrowing years, Joseph Robinette Biden has done more to discomfit this Republic than Carter, Clinton, and Obama combined, and all without his mental faculties in play.
The nincompoop himself.
But far scarier than the nincompoop himself is the marvelously diverse yet homogeneously destructive band of termites surrounding him. Whether one considers the dark, soulless eyes of Alejandro Mayorkas riveted on members of congress while he lies to them unabashedly, or the studiedly uncandid Christopher Wray playing verbal paddy cake as he twists and swivels to dissemble the FBI’s depth of corruption, or the pusillanimous babbling of such Pentagonian stalwarts as fidgety John Kirby, or our part-time Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, it becomes swiftly apparent that 2024 presages horrors aplenty beyond Joe Biden’s latest manifestations of dementia.
John Kirby: The Washington Post called him “a commanding presence in the Biden situation room.” Maybe they grade on the curve.
Al Qaida is back, having established training centers in ten of Afghanistan’s provinces following Biden’s chaotic evacuation. And despite pouring nearly two-hundred billion American dollars into the Ukrainian effort, ostensibly to oust the invading Russians, Ukraine is nowhere nearer that objective– and by most informed accounts appears to be losing ground. Yet the only available option, according to Biden and his defense gurus, is the expenditure of additional billions–all with no accounting as to where the funds go, nor any audit demonstrating how they are spent. It would require a particularly sanguine analyst to deny, at this point, that substantial skimmings from those billions are enriching Zelensky, a select group of Ukrainian plutocrats, and, yes, of course, Joe Biden, as “the Big Guy.”
The Ukrainians peace movement remains somewhat unorganized.
Give peace a chance?
WTF?
WOOF continues (despite considerable criticism from fellow conservatives) to root for a Ukrainian victory over Putin’s neo-Stalinist legions, but even given the embarrassing underperformance of the Russian military, such a victory seems unachievable. What seems far more plausible is the Bidens’ likely goal of propping up the eroding Ukrainian cash-cow long enough to dump the entire dumpster blaze into Trump’s lap come November, milking it meanwhile for maximum profit. Singularly absent from the administration’s incessant clamorings on the topic is the notion of a negotiated peace. The idea might appeal to a frustrated Putin, whose generals promised him a decisive victory within three weeks–two years ago. It seems the firmest aversion to a peaceful settlement emanates from Washington, where a cessation of hostilities is evidently regarded as unthinkable, while forcing precisely such a settlement on Israel, where Biden has barely invested a dime, seems oddly imperative.
If only Biden knew a brilliant negotiator.
Again, WOOF would much prefer to see Putin’s military hurled back by the plucky Ukrainians but, uncountable billions later, this is no longer a plausible outcome, and the best hope for checking Russian aggression is a negotiated settlement while there are still some plucky Ukrainians left to negotiate. Such an outcome, however, would require the services of a master negotiator, and so far the Biden administration has not enlisted any such expert.
Putin is currently soothing his bruised Napoleon complex by preparing to orbit nuclear powered satellite
s–weapons intended to attack other satellites (meaning ours) while “Little Rocket Man” (aka Kim Jong Un) has returned to his former habit of lobbing nuke-capable missiles in various directions, notably Japan’s. This proceeds as the United States sells Israel out to the jackals at the United Nations, and the Democrats blame House Republicans for the result.
The enemy within…
And then there’re still all these people…
Meanwhile, a greater danger for Americans than any variation on the Ukrainian outcome, exits even now in the continental United States. By modest estimates, the Biden administration has already facilitated the illegal entry of at least ten-million foreigners since its defacto removal of any semblance of border security. Even DHS admits recently losing track of 177,000 individuals, and these among the minority who were duly processed. Fox News reported that “Chinese nationals are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into the U.S. in unprecedented numbers this year, with the first few months of FY 2023 already eclipsing the total for 2022.”
While the Washington Post and the New York Times busied themselves ranting that concerns about this undocumented floodtide symbolized “right-wing paranoia,” retired Yuma Border Patrol chief Chris Clem remarked, “What you’re seeing…is military-age, single, adult males. We just had about eight Syrian nationals come across. There’s people from all over the world showing up here.”
It is frequently claimed by leftist pols that the disproportionate numbers of (particularly) Chinese males are merely escaping communist oppression on the totalitarian mainland, but that’s hardly credible as they arrive by the thousandfold. Red China is a slave state, like all Communist despotisms, and while the occasional freedom-seeker finds a means of escape, the fantasy that such escapees are arriving at our southern border in divisional strength and are coincidentally males of military age. is preposterous. That most are arriving with the full knowledge and cooperation of the CCP seems obvious. These cadres combined with similarly suspect entrants from middle-eastern countries are cause less for concern than outright alarm, yet our border continue disgorging unidentifiable legions.
It would be wonderful to be wrong about this, but it seems inevitable that at some point a switch will be thrown in Beijing, or Tehran, and trained, fanatical terrorists will be activated throughout our country. Whether the architects of this potentiality will pull the trigger before Biden’s re-election effort, or in the wake of its likely failure, remains conjecturable–but its inevitability is difficult to challenge. One way or another it will play an important role in the year of living dangerously.
Dire straits…
But we may not have to await internal attack from terrorists–the entire
planet is a tinder box. Taiwan, as we have previously mentioned, is in mortal danger from the massive slave state to its immediate northeast otherwise known as Red China. Particularly in the wake of elections that ran contrary to, and in defiance of, China’s expressed wishes–and despite extensive bribery, coercion, and voter fraud masterminded by Xi Jinping and his cronies on the mainland, Taiwan rejected a massive communist effort to co-opt its democracy and and voted instead to resist Maoist infiltration in all its guises. Neither Xi nor Biden’s circle of Marxian statists anticipated so resounding a repudiation of the CCP’s agenda. Precisely what sort of response the Chinese Communist Party may be preparing could contribute violently to this year’s events.
Jet-setters to the rescue!
An unidentified Davos attendant has an idea.
Next we must consider those fun loving cutups at Davos, who assault our environment by employing vast fleets of pollution-gushing jets to convene annually at the posh Swiss ski resort and surrounding village. Presumptuously styling themselves the World Economic Forum, they invariably gorge on gourmet cuisine and expensive wines whilst hobnobbing with their fellow elitists and pausing occasionally to treat those of us who didn’t receive invitations to their loftiest thoughts and predictions. Lately they are focused on persuading the majority of earth’s inhabitants that the environment will be saved if we eat bugs instead of beef and harness wind and solar power in service of our real-world energy needs. This would simply present as high camp, if the poltroons ensconced in our media and the administration recognized its risibility–but instead, they uncritically echo the ludicrosities issued from Davos, imagining that the rest of us will do likewise.
Don’t inhale!
For the most part, we can ignore the pundits of Davos. By the time they next convene, and regardless of what statements they see fit to issue at the time, earth will be no closer to climatological salvation (or havoc) than it is presently, and earthlings no less inclined to munch hamburgers or pump gasoline. But this doesn’t mean we can ignore every prediction issued by the globalist gourmets at WEL. In some respects they have established a worrisome level of accuracy.
Their confident prediction that a highly lethal infection would sweep through earth’s population coming just prior to the onset of the Wuhan Virus was uncanny, leading a handful of troglodytic conspiracy theorists (including us) to wonder aloud whether the prediction, as well as the state-empowering reactions, weren’t a trifle too uncanny. But such concerns pale in comparison to this year’s prediction from Davos of: “disease X.”
WHO?
On January 17th no less an authority than Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, lectured Davos attendees on “Preparing for Disease X.” Apparently, this hypothetical disease may have the unpleasant attribute of proving approximately 100-percent lethal, thus requiring truly draconic strictures in preparation for its arrival, to say nothing of the universal government response requisite to managing its devastating effects once it (hypothetically) manifests itself.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes another psychic prediction.
How can Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus officialize such exact predictions of an as-yet-to-eventuate pandemic? WOOF cannot pretend to know with certainty, but the implications are enough to cause us to advise readers: Don’t inhale! At least not during this year of living dangerously.
Making Iran Deadly Again…
Let’s take this moment–why not?–to expand our concerns about nuclear warfare beyond the mere possibility that Putin may do something jiggy, or that Kim Jung Un may nuke himself in the foot, and focus instead on some full-blown, grade “A” homicidal maniacs–the Iranian leadership. Confronted with the mullahs’ outspoken and unequivocal lust to develop their own nuclear weapon with which to expunge Israel, the Biden administration has responded by showering Tehran with every extra few billion it can lay hands on. Meanwhile Washington has ensured that all restrictions on Iranian trade and finance be removed so that their nuclear program can advance unhindered. According to Reuters, Iran will have produced fissile material sufficient to make its first bomb by the time you read this. We realize, CNN, MSNBC, and the “legacy” networks have not deemed this news so vital as to bother viewers with it, nor preempted their dogged rationalizations of, say, Judge Engoron’s grinning buffoonery, or the burlesque surrounding Fani Willis, long enough to mention it. We suggest skeptical readers seek verification by checking the Reuters source here.
Assassination prep…
Die, Orange Man, die!
As circumstances have already sufficed to make obvious, 2024 is also a year of living dangerously for the front-running Republican candidate. But daily manifestations of runaway “lawfare” in the hands of such judicial ninnyhammers as Jack Smith, are less terrifying than the willful exertions of the mainstream media to avoid noticing. None of this is exactly new, but the media’s sudden obsession with framing this election year in regicidal imagery is a recent addition.
Last year, Edward Watts published his widely praised history of the fall of
Rome, Mortal Republic, and took pains to instruct Americans that the collapse of Rome “offers a chilling lesson to modern Americans.” As the New York Times recently reminded its remaining readers: “Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has always been about more than killing Julius Caesar.” Last March, the website Fabius Maximus, published a ditty headlined “America isn’t falling like the Roman Empire. It’s worse.” As if by way of chorusing the sentiment, New York magazine offered up the self-infatuated Andrew Sullivan whose essay claimed “our Founding Fathers were particularly concerned with Rome’s fall from republic to autocracy.”
Andrew Sullivan, himself.
Of course even some readers of the Times and/or Sullivan might be too intelligent to get the point, so each of these items made certain to delineate Donald Trump as the man bent on demolishing our Republic, even as Joe Biden continues to vandalize it with impunity. As further guidance for those insufficiently stupid to get the point, Bartleby Research rushed to post “Similarities Between Donald Trump And Julius Caesar,” while in England the ever-pink Guardian raved that “‘the echoes with Trump are obvious: BBC series on Caesar casts light on similarities with modern populists.”
Because the regnant establishment thinks this is important nonsense for the masses to absorb, non-plussed readers will have no difficulty finding dozens of identical editorials all over Google. But all the bushwa indicates a more invidious motive; America is being encouraged to view Donald Trump as Julius Caesar–and casting for Brutus is underway. All this implies that 2024 may be a particularly dangerous year for the frontrunner, if the Left can’t stop him short of what the CIA used to call “termination with extreme prejudice.”
Brutus, the Left’s latest hero, is not seeking the Democrat nomination in 2024.
And then it gets really scary!
Assuming that Trump dodges every impediment and runs for president against Joe Biden or against any of that stable of restive Mensheviks jockeying to replace the First Nincompoop, the greatest peril to our nation will manifest in November. It will hover over us even in the wake of a decisive Republican victory. The consequences of a Biden victory, however finessed, are so starkly horrifying, we need hardly elaborate–but the turmoil awaiting us even if Trump clearly wins the election is only slightly less worrisome.
That zany judge Engoron, liberated from equal justice, but still a slave to fashion!
Consider: The ever-jocund Atlantic almost gets it for once, writing, “the Trump years had a radicalizing effect on the American right. But, let’s be honest, they also sent many on the left completely around the bend.” Right–and many of them write regularly for the Atlantic; and another Trump victory will assuredly drive the Left even crazier. So brace yourselves for a year of unconstitutional “lawfare,” cascading hazards and sudden, often confected, catastrophes, many of which we have predicted above, and at least some of which we have undoubtedly failed to foresee. We can say with complete confidence that the months ahead will witness multiple attacks on our constitutional system by enemies both foreign and domestic. And many of them will stop at nothing to make 2024 the year of living dangerously.
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