Sponsored Content




Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!



Recent Entries
Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022
Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me
Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups

NoVaMoMe 2024: 06/08/2024
Arlington, VA
Details to follow


Texas MoMe 2024: 10/18/2024-10/19/2024 Corsicana,TX
Contact Ben Had for info





















« Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/25/21) | Main | Mid-Morning Art Thread »
January 26, 2021

The Morning Report - 1/26/21 [J.J. Sefton]

podunity.jpg

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and the beat (down) goes on. I'm still numb from everything that's happened since last November, sort of like having my legs amputated at the thigh and yet still feeling like I can run the 100-yard dash. Just one short year ago, which seems like an eternity, Iran was on the ropes like a headless chicken after it's terror mastermind was dispatched, thousands of Hong Kongers were waving the American flag, as well as p-shopped images of Donald Trump's face on the body of Rocky Balboa while singing the Star Spangled Banner, we had virtual full employment while the welfare and food stamp roles lost millions of formerly lost Democrat souls, we were for the first time in decades the world's leading oil exporter, and every attempt to oust the President - forever my president - or otherwise smear, besmirch or otherwise destroy his voting base failed spectacularly.

Intellectually, I of course fully realize what happened in the intervening year and as noted, particularly since last November. But I just cannot accept it. I will never accept it. And, for lack of a better word, I'm happy about it. To accept what happened from a moral standpoint is almost every bit as reprehensible as those who perpetrated it upon us. I know we each live our own life and have to be concerned with the day-to-day challenges, now about to become exponentially more difficult, of keeping our families fed and with a roof over their heads. What will make it difficult will not only be because of the policy edicts handed down by those pulling the rotting cat-gut marionette strings of Zhou Bai-Din that will put a bullet in the head of the already comatose economy, but more crucially the erosion of our G-d given right to speak freely in protest. It's bad enough when the IRS latches on to you or you get the 3:00AM Paul Manafort treatment from the FBI for some crime real or imagined (but mostly imagined), but it will be infinitely worse when your employers, co-workers, neighbors, the local bank and even your own children turn into Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and denounce you for "wrong-think" to your condo board's NKVD/Twitter politruk.

Yeah, I get it. Self-preservation is a thing. Keep your head down, don't talk above a whisper and take your beating. It builds character. There's the makings of an Arbeit Macht Frei-ish slogan for some young Jack Dorsey acolyte to noodle around with. But at some point that cannot stand. There has to be a point where you have much more to gain than you do to lose before you openly, proudly declare you have had enough. It reminds me of the last act in The Longest Yard when Paul Crewe, now ostracized by his teammates who know he's throwing the game for the warden, asks the old guy if it was worth 30 years for belting the warden in the mouth. "To me it was."

What is your freedom worth? Your dignity? Is it better to live on your knees than die on your feet? In many ways small and large, we are going to have to confront ourselves with that question. It was never supposed to be that way. Then again, maybe it was. It is human nature we are dealing with, after all. Big time.


NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Follow us on Twitter: @CutJibNews
Follow us on Instagram: @Cutjibnewsletter

digg this
posted by Open Blogger at 07:42 AM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
weft cut-loop[/i][/b] [/s]: "[]i[Some statins cause both short term and long te ..."

torabora : "Pro-choice Democrat marylin lands gives anti-abort ..."

Ciampino - Was I going upstair when called?s or downstairs: "426 Posted by: Braenyard at March 28, 2024 01:09 ..."

Braenyard: "I'm overtime, y'all have a good evening. ..."

RickZ: "[i]Didn't think Kennedy would pick someone that nu ..."

mikeski: "[i]Pete Buttgiggity to sport a smug look on his fa ..."

mikeski: "[i]The original Siamese Twins, the Bunker twins, w ..."

Ciampino - Tabasco to the fartclam: "515 And some national fake day, a Tranny Day of W ..."

Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come: "[i]509 Ramadan lights will be on display in centra ..."

raimondo: " Pro-choice Democrat marylin lands gives anti-abor ..."

Braenyard: "Didn't think Kennedy would pick someone that nuts. ..."

Ciampino - Another communist?: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. VP pick Nicole Shanahan help ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64