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Written by Michael Z Williamson

Created: 14 March 2020

Oh, don't worry. The virus probably won't kill you. Your stupid behavior, however...

"It's just the flu."  Well, it's a virus.  So it's sort of like the flu, the way people are sort of like penguins because both are animals.  In actuality, at its mildest, it's "just" a common cold.  However, you might want to ask the post-Columbian Americans about unique strains of the common cold. At its worst, it's severe pneumonia. It's also very infectious with few obvious symptoms during the transmission stage. But it is not the flu, anymore than I'm an Adelie.

"ZOMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"  No, we're not. You're an idiot.

"Nothing is going to happen. It's just the flu." See above. You're also an idiot.

"The government now has complete control of the health care industry, colleges, and all public venues!" Not all of them, but they had control of most of them for a long time. We tried to warn you. And if you don't want to live in a nation of laws, why don't you go live in Somalia?

"I didn't want the government to have control of my life. This is why we need socialism!"  Please just kill yourself right now. You are a worthless failure.

"It's no big deal, it only kills old people."  Yeah, screw Grandma. No one likes her anyway. Are you actually listening to yourself?

"The rich elites are drinking brandy and laughing at how they manipulated us."  Right, because destroying a chunk of their own worth with the shutdowns is HILARIOUS. And what rich people do, apparently.  That's how they got rich.

"Does anyone actually KNOW anyone who's sick with this 'virus'?"  Yes.  And let's refresh prehistory for millennials (anything before 1970): the Spanish Flu in 1918 killed 50 million people.  By responding to this EARLY, we prevent that.  You don't wait for zombies to swarm outside your door before planning to react to it. Well, not if you have the brains the zombies crave.

"When it's all over, you'll feel stupid."  Right. Remember Y2K?  One pack of idiots insisted cars would stop running because they didn't know what date it was. Another pack insisted nothing at all would happen, dates didn't matter. In between, a few thousand IT people went through everything that might be affected by a date irregularity and hardened it. It was "nothing" because we planned ahead.  Hopefully, proper prior planning preventing piss poor performance, this will be "nothing." Which doesn't mean it couldn't be as bad as the Spanish Flu.

Oh, yeah-referencing Wuhan is just that: a reference to this particular strain and its Patient 0 point.  It's not "Racist" to say "it came from China." Claiming they INVENTED IT would be racist, but it provably came from there.

No, it doesn't matter what the demographic makeup of the President's advisory council as, AS LONG AS THEY ARE THE BEST PEOPLE FOR THE JOB.

Ironically, we actually have probably the ideal president for this particular issue. Trump the businessman was able to explain to banks, medical firms, megacorps how the short term loss of taking it on the chin for the consumer is longterm goodwill and economic recovery.  Zer0 the Fuckup couldn't have grasped the terms, much less explained them.  Nor could Shrillery the Hildebeest. And as for Bernie, socialists are incapable of grasping economics or they wouldn't be socialists.

"OMG! How are we supposed to plan for this?"  The same way you plan for anything. There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet.  What was the other lesson in that other movie?  DON'T PANIC.

You don't need to make Milk Sandwiches. Why do you buy a dozen of each during EVERY event?  I was on my way to get a loaf of bread that lasts me a month. Well, not this time.  Luckily, we know how to make bread, suckers.

Look, if you buy your TP in bulk and restock as it gets low, you never need to worry about this. Besides, there's lots of copies of the NYT, USA Today, Dianetics, and Fifty Shades books available cheap. You're not going to run out of toilet paper.

Buy a few extra cans of food every week and rotate them through your stocks--just get a whole flat of something once a week. Potatoes. Vegetables. Soup. Tomato sauce. Chicken. Tuna.  Beef stew. Pretty soon, you have a month's worth of food on hand. Not thrilling, but edible. Same with dry goods like noodles, sealed crackers, peanut butter in large jars, etc.

I'm sitting here with 50 odd rolls of TP, several hundred cans of food, 3 deep freezes of animal corpses (from our livestock and the store, including about 50 lbs of bacon and 10 of salmon), shelves atop them loaded with MREs, crates of our own freeze dried meals, and a pantry full of dry goods. The zombies will be eaten by bugs and carrion eaters before we run short.  If you just approach it methodically, it's very attainable even on a tight budget.

Then you can join me as I walk through the store and snicker at the rubes.

In the meantime:

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Written by Michael Z Williamson

Created: 12 March 2020

I loaded up the trailer and rolled to the fairgrounds for the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife Show.  My friend Jack, there to help, runs over and warns me not to unload.

It seems they were waiting for word on whether or not the show would go on. They'd been calling the fairgrounds all week, and told things were fine. Then, suddenly, there's debate. After we all arrive, but not after we start setup at least. And I'm local (well, under 50 miles), so there's that.

We hang around waiting, along with the Flower and Patio Show people, and I understand why the governor had pause. Who wants 10,000 Angry Karens calling your office to complain?

Ultimately, he even stayed late to ponder this matter, because the notification of closure came down at 1626.

Show is cancelled.  At least it's early spring, not the Comic Con, the race, or GenCon.

Since I'm not a morally bankrupt, mentally retarded, intellectually corrupt, pathetic pussy, I'm not blaming the President for this.

There's a good chance in a month it will all be a bunch of nothing. If so, it's because action like this mitigated the threat, not because the threat didn't exist.

Meantime, I have lots of stuff to sell online. I have wares if you have coin.

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Written by Michael Z Williamson

Created: 24 February 2020

It's hilarious when Demorrhoids and complete shitheads (But I repeat myself) attempt to claim that libertarians (Which I'm not) are somehow magically fascist or Nazi, which they claim are the same thing, while totally not being the same as their own fetishized version of a totalitarian police state.

A like-minded fellow vet and I were kicking around what we'd do if ever elected president (I'm an immigrant, so I'd have to be Benevolent Dictator).

Day 1:  Vacation of federal sentences with full pardons:

Anyone in jail on a drug charge that doesn't involve selling to minors.  Your sentence is vacated. You are pardoned.  Go engage in free market economics. This also applies to bootleggers, distillers, and anyone with a liquor license violation.

Anyone in jail on a non-violent firearm charge.  Your sentence is vacated. You are pardoned.  

Anyone in jail for a crime involving consenting adults (strippers, prostitutes, etc).  Your sentence is vacated. You are pardoned.  

Anyone who accepted a plea deal in lieu of a bunch of intimidating bullshit by the government's official jack-booted death squad and its legal apparatus:  Pardoned for the pled crime. If the Feds, State or Locals want to try again on an actual charge they think they can prove, that's up to them. Though if it's a drug or firearm charge, they may want to save their time and money.  

Tax evaders:  Sentences commuted.  IRS can hire collection agents like every other debt.

Every government agency will be instructed to continue Trump's policy of removing two regulations for every new regulation. In addition, they will be ordered to commence an immediate 10% reduction in personnel via attrition--retirement, dismissal, resignation, etc. If they need to fire additional drones to make it happen, fine. Last hired, first fired. If this means some department heads have to move back into customer service and deal with actual people, good. Oh, that's 10% per year. I want them 2/3 their current size within four years. That puts them at 43% in 8 years. Though I'd consider upping the rate to 20% for a second term. DoD and the Judiciary can petition for exceptions on a case by case basis. We would probably say no.

Only three federal agencies get to be armed:  FBI, ICE, and the Marshals.  Any agency that believes it needs armed force can call the ever-decreasing number of Marshals and request to be on the waiting list.  ICE actually needs armed guards at the border.  The FBI can arm agents who actually deal with actual criminals--terrorists, kidnappers, traffickers.

The Civilian Marksmanship Program would be immediately budgeted and instructed to update from M-1 Garands and sell AR-15s at cost to the American public.  Some of the money saved elsewhere would be used to expand shooting range access in every county. Congress would be instructed to repeal the NFA if they know what's good for them.

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I'm sure some "liberal" will be along momentarily to tardsplain how this is actually racist and fascist and I should be hanged from a gas station for dismantling the bureaucracy that makes us free.

Which is why I pretty much stopped bothering listening to anything from the American left.

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Written by Michael Z Williamson

Created: 24 February 2020

If I actually express my personal opinion of the below person, his fellow travelers, who have already had several of my social media accounts silenced, attempted to ban my books and attempted to SWAT me will probably threaten my kids again.  So I'll be as moderate as I can.

 

https://twitter.com/walshfreedom/status/1231392007135907840?s=21
Joe Walsh

@WalshFreedom

I would vote for socialism over authoritarianism.

 

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Imagine being so fucking pighead stupid that you donΓÇÖt realize itΓÇÖs the same thing.

As noted by these commenters:

Carmine Sabia

@CarmineSabia

Feb 22

Replying to

@WalshFreedom

Socialism is totalitarianism. You are not even you anymore. This is the worst case of grifting I have ever seen.

 

 

In Pursuit of Truth

@IPOT1776

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20h

Replying to

@WalshFreedom

We know. Which is why things have turned out for you the way they have.

 

Yuri Pavlov

@yuri_pavlov74

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19h

The funny thing is socialism is a euphemism for communism which is a euphemism for authoritarianism. ThatΓÇÖs ironic-ism.

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To which this creature replied:

~Devon Welsh - Bernie Sanders 2020
@devonwelsh
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14h
Can you please read up on the terms "socialism" and "totalitarianism"? Even just the Wikipedia articles for each one would help you understand how different and even radically opposed those two ideas are.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism Yes, this says Socialists can be totalitarian, you lying, retarded, subhuman communist piece of shit.

It even provides a list. Most of them are socialist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_totalitarian_regimes

Gee. Even Wikipoo can't hide THAT truth in leftist weasel-wording.

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Round Two:

Anyone reading me regularly knows I've been quite critical of Trump. He's managed to be not as bad as Hillary Clinton, the actual National Socialist, but it's a low bar.

But the "authoritarian" line, while accurate, fails at all to be scaled.  If you have anarchist me at 0% government, Trump is around 35%, Bloomberg is around 65%, and the Demorrhoid Party is pretending it's not already around 80%, cheering itself on to slide to 146%

There's the utterly ridiculous comparison to Hitler, which has been bandied about regarding almost every recent president, but in actuality is only accurate regarding FDR, who near as I can tell wanted Adolph to swing by and fuck him across the bed in an orgy of mutual anti-semitism, race hatred and eugenics.

Some things Hitler did:

Price fixing

Sanctions against LGBTs

Sanctions against Jews

Death Camps

Nationalized single payer health care

Nationalized industry

Started a world war

Banned gun ownership along racial lines

Universal gun licensing for citizens

Colluded with Russia

Instituted a military draft

Allied with Arab militants

Developed a national secret police

Banned political dissent

Sent thugs around to smash dissenters and their businesses

 

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Donald Trump, for all his faults, has done none of these.

 

 

Though the Demorrhoid Party either has previously, has as its platform, or openly endorses:

Price fixing

Sanctions against Israel

Nationalized single payer health care

Started US involvement in two world wars

Banned gun ownership along racial lines

Universal gun licensing for citizens

Colluded with the USSR

Instituted AND re-instituted the draft

Openly courts Arab militants

Openly pushes for national secret police AND has de facto created them under the table

Uses its propaganda arm (the media) to stifle dissent.

Publicly endorses thugs who go around smashing dissenters and their businesses.


So, gee, which party has all the authoritarian trappings AND violence of both the Nazis and the Communists?

Yeah, the fucking Demorrhoid Party.

They are Literally Hitler, while accusing everyone else of being so.  (Including me. Apparently, actual anarchists who despise the existence of government secretly want A REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT!  Paid for by ABSOLUTELY NO TAXES!  With the power to DO NOTHING! Except repress people by inaction!)

I'll probably get pre-banned from another convention for this, because two things Demorrhoids can't stand are redpill truth and public dissent.