Cold Turkey
Today I spent a rather long tram ride staring out the window. At nothing in particular, just a drab neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in decades. Just so I wouldn’t be on the phone, scrolling through my newsfeed. (Doom scrolling, as my son calls it.) I will no longer waste time on local news because as of yesterday we have a new president, a liberal globalist puppet. The MAGA wave spluttered and died before reaching our shores. Brussels won the battle for Romania. Soros won. For the moment, only Poland is left in play and, in case you haven’t heard, Obama and Alex Soros visited the country in recent days. Nothing to do with the elections there, of course.
After watching in disbelief the results last night, I uninstalled my TikTok, on which I’ve spent an incredible amount of time over the past few weeks. Time to return to the more quiet life I had before the whole election saga. I hadn’t watched news channels for 10 years and at some point I wasn’t very sure who the hell the prime minister was. My country is too irrelevant in the bigger picture so I will revert to only following world events, like the expected phone call between Putin and Trump. For important things I can rely on Telegram to give me notifications without wasting my time on news of no consequence.
Before starting to write this, I did a quick check, less than a minute, to see the mood on social media. Lots of outrage, looking for explanations for what happened, commentaries on the deep state, or accusations of betrayal. I have no need for that. In a post-truth world, I have the right to formulate my own truth.
My version of reality is just as good as any since no one can prove that their truth is the real truth. One needs a narrative to keep functioning. My version of the truth is the elections were stolen by the secret service doing the official tally. Why? Simply because France and the EU have more influence here than the US. I prefer this version of the truth to a more benign one, like this is what people voted for. I find this perspective far scarier because I cannot imagine millions of people being so dumb as to believe all the lies that have dominated mainstream media here in the past six months. I’m talking about tons of blatant fear-inducing lies. One might argue that the system is to blame for using scare tactics, but I happen to believe that you have a duty to use your brain, think things true and remember that similar tactics have been used in previous elections to disastrous results.
For my own sanity, I’d rather not live in a world where there are so many useful idiots, which is why in my narrative the elections were stolen by evil forces. I can understand and accept that evil exists because evil can be defeated. At some point, when the time is right and some hero or other finds his bloody shining armor. Evil can be overcome, stupidity on the other hand is a terminal condition. Terminal not only for those afflicted, but also for the rest of us who have to suffer the consequences. In a previous post I was writing about hope lying with the proles. They did their part, as I have followed them on TikTok for weeks. People who readily admit to having little to no education. Long term, I find them less dangerous than the so-called urban middle-class who consider themselves to be educated only because they have a paper saying they graduated college. Just as liberal elites rule the scene in New York or LA, Bucharest is a cesspool of educated nobodies who love it when they’re told they’re somebody.
Sorry for the rant. I needed to get these thoughts out of my head. I might sound like a sore loser, but it’s not like I really liked the conservative figures. Or trusted them. I was just hoping the globalists can be stopped. Turns out they’re still going strong in Europe. Scary, but I won’t dwell on that. For my mental as well as physical health, because stress kills.
By my reckoning, Trump should be on the phone with Putin at this hour. Much as I’d like to believe the war in Ukraine is drawing to an end, I cannot help wondering what’s next. Do you think the powers-that-be would allow us some peace and quiet? How long before the next mortal threat? I do hope it’s time for the aliens we’ve been promised.
haha I hear the Atlanteans are due to return.
I don't think our mess will be fixed by them, though. We have to do it ourselves. Don't despair! I'm sorry the election that you worked so hard on did not go as you hoped. But here's a little perspective for you: the US election did go as I had hoped, but the victor has shown himself to be every bit as bad as the one before him. There are days that I think the best thing we can do in politics is to stop feeding it with our attention so that it dies.
I remember you saying something similar on one of my previous posts and your words have been on my mind these days. I knew then as I know now that you are right. Thank you for pointing it out. It helps when someone reminds you your time is wasted on politics.
As for Trump, I know he's no hero in no shining armor, but I'd be glad if he could stop the war in Ukraine, as it is just over the border. Not that much to ask, I think. There are plenty of places where they could start other wars after all.
It doesn't look to me as if he is going to. Too much profit for his buddies in that one! Too much upheaval in a "country" that is regularly used for money laundering by his buddies. It's better for them if the country is in perpetual upheaval, made much worse by Obama in 2014. They are all in this together. I am bereft for the people of the Ukraine, and of many other places on earth.
I know Ukraine is good business for them. Now that you mention it, there was talk about some high-level US inquiry into the billions of dollars sent to Ukraine. People were saying Kash Patel is looking into it and heads will roll, including here in Romania. That was months ago and the news died down.
Just as we were supposed to find out the truth about Epstein's list. Last I heard, the current US administration is satisfied with the official version that Epstein died at his own hands...
I heard about the 7 billion dollars over two administrations (HELLO WHY ARE ALARM BELLS NOT GOING OFF HERE PEOPLE?!!!) just recently, I think in a NYTimes oped. but nothing about the Kash Patel business.
If we take a moment to try to superimpose a video game structure on the political reality show, we can easily see that we are literally being played. If you have faith in either of two political "sides," you are pixels on a screen somewhere.
I believe elections are just theatre aligning with whatever suits the globalist narrative. I find it impossible to believe that the same politicians who imposed lockdowns and nearly mandated vaccines have been re-elected in so many places. People cannot be that dumb. Can they?
This is exactly what they did here. The conservative guy who lost yesterday was the only one who bothered to join Covid protests, halfheartedly and sporadically, but he did.
I'm so sorry, Rebecca. This isn't good news for the Romanian people. However, I like what you say about creating and existing in your own reality. Do you have waves of immigrants coming into the country yet? The UK and Ireland have been absolutely flooded during the past couple of years. I don't know how the countries absorb that many people at once. It's being done to bolster liberal votes in future elections here in the US and I imagine it's the same goal for other countries throughout the world. Trump has made it a priority to fix the border crisis here but there's a lot more work to do.
I feel the same way about our political parties, I don't really like or trust either one but have to try to discern which of the two are the lessor of the two evils. I've felt that way for a little more than a decade now.
We do have Asia immigrants brought here on menial jobs and shitty pay. Thankfully, they're not a problem yet as many, I believe, come here only to try and reach Western Europe. As many countries are tightening their borders I guess we'll be stuck with them at some point.
Your perfectly right about political parties. I don't trust any of them and I chose to vote for the lesser of two evils. In our case, the evil we don't know versus the evil we've had to deal with for the past 30 years.
The larger waves are being sent where the social systems are the most generous. The Scandinavian countries have been greatly impacted—crime rates have skyrocketed and welfare programs have nearly maxed out (at least according to our media).
I'm curious to see where America will be getting our cheap labor once the border situation is fixed. Both parties have known for decades that illegals have been streaming into the country and exploited these people for cheap labor. Maybe the companies will be forced to pay livable wages for a while? If so, the costs will be passed onto the consumers. Soon robots will fill that void but we're about 3-5 years from this.
From what I'm seeing so far a lot of corruption and fraud is being uncovered. Whether or not anything meaningful is done about it is another story.
In the application of institutional management of society, the prevalence of corruption is never addressed in the documentation. Not even as an infinitesimal influence that can be effectively disregarded. I note we all know why this feature of institutions isn't discussed in the manuals that we are taught in school regarding government and elections, if such issues are even touched on in Western public education anymore.
We can observe phenomena like the Epstein and Diddy reported involvement of powerful political agents in scandalous crimes and the use of blackmail to implement policies, creating actual Kakastocracies in the guise of democratic republics. Given the power of the politicians named to date in these scandals, including heads of state, elite scientists, Hollywood icons, and the extremely wealthy corporate executives, the influence of corruption is grossly understated in media reporting - which obviously CYA's because of the corruption of that industry, which is widely understood and acknowledged for more than a century by candid comments from powerful journalists, documentarians, and since the revelation of Operation Mockingbird - and inconsidered by most people that pay as little attention of politics because it is so scandalously corrupt.
Additionally, the basic math of democratic elections reveals upon cursory examination that the myth of majority rule is simply mathematically impossible. Because only ~half the population is eligible to vote, even with 100% participation of the electorate a majority of the population never votes for the winning candidate in any election. Indeed, because of low participation rates in most democratic elections less than 30% of the population votes for the winner. Then we can add the affect of corruption to degrade the myth of democratic rule of the majority of polities, which most of us grossly underestimate to an extreme, but given appropriate weight (according to the power of the known compromised parties, which include all recent US Presidents, for example) it is reasonable to estimate that democratic elections are actually dominated by election fraud (the result of corruption applied to the institutions that manage elections) and the impact of electorates on elections is negligible.
We all have the right and power to ignore reality, but the definition of that is insanity, and I would not consider that desirable. By the consideration I have provided above, all of which is independently verifiable, there is a reasonable basis for dissenting from enemedia propaganda and corrupt government oppression. Resorting to a fantastic imaginary world is unnecessary. Simply acknowledging that corruption has infiltrated government satisfactorily explains the observed oppression and false claims that underlie it.
I submit that the corrals sheep are restrained by are only suffered by those that remain in the herd. Only being dependent on the herd of sheep results in suffering the consequences the herd experiences. There are consequences to the rest of us that aren't part of the herd, but carefully considering what the herd will experience can enable us to anticipate what the consquences to we not members of the herd will be, and being forewarned is being forearmed. By considering what will come, we can rationally prepare to surmount expected challenges, even to prosper in the circumstances we can reasonably expect.
I am working seven days a week in order to do exactly that. I broke ground on a new greenhouse yesterday. I provide services to several communities locally, regionally, and across a broader landscape, in order to create not only redundancy, but alternatives should any one fail. Insofar as you can proceed to envision expected circumstances and the best ways to manage their challenges, I do urge you to take action today to enable availability of necessities in expected conditions, and operational flexibility that will likely be beneficial due to the fog of war we operate in today.
I don't really have time to properly proof read and edit this comment, so please forgive any grammatical errors. I'm working too much and have too little time, but I'm trying!
'First be sure you are right, then go ahead.'-- Davy Crockett.
Thanks!
Not that I mind insanity... might be preferable these days:)) What I meant with choosing my truth is that I don't need, seek or expect confirmation from anyone. In this particular scenario, there are of course others who say the elections were rigged, but I am trying not to get drawn back into the whole drama because I cannot stand it anymore. I've made my peace with what I think is true and it's all that matters to me.
As for being prepared for what comes next, I try to do the best, but I don't live in the sort of community you describe. I envy you for that... I am afraid we might be looking at some blackout here in Europe. Only this year, we've had the blackout at Heathrow airport, then the massive blackout in Spain and Portugal and today it seems all mobile networks are down in Spain. I believe I can deal with such an emergency... I'll be looking to increase our bottled water supplies, but for the rest we're covered I think. Thanks for the advice anyway. And for taking the time to comment. Always appreciated.
There are folks I provide services to, and those I don't. I choose to associate with good people, and I'm sure there's good people in Romania, same as anywhere. We create the communities we are in by our choices in whom we serve and accept services from, and I know you can create the community you want to be in by choosing well. If you anticipate blackouts or other disruptions, and I agree they seem likely, then having the goodwill of good people that will have your back at such times is even more important.
Where I grew up there was a tradition of greeting new neighbors with some home baked cookies. We can visit neighbors we don't know well, but would like to, with a plate of cookies, or a card, or offering to provide a service they might want. Some years ago I saw a guy I hadn't met renovating an old building he'd bought. I just drove over there with a leftover window I had and said I saw him fixing up the place and wondered if he could use it. Turned out to be a real nice guy, and he appreciated the window. That's how to create the sort of community you want to live in.