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Mailvox: in defense of despair

A Boomer writes to explain why it’s better not to hope, and why the right thing to do is to sit around waiting for others to get the job done before you get involved:

Except politics isn’t a soccer game where organized players supported by infrastructure and committed to achieving a goal can be expected to take the initiative in those fleeting moments that could make a difference. Real politics is low intensity warfare where people lose family, careers, freedom, health and life. 

The blightwing and its dissident fringe is comprised of impoverished/cheap, unorganized, indolent cowards “led” by grifters. They look for someone else to do the heavy lifting as they observe from afar, doing handsprings in skirts, chanting silly cheers. It has been that way for 57+ years.

When I see the blightwing organized locally, regionally, and nationally, destroying the enemy, taking casualties and caring for their own, taking the initiative, always working and raising the ante – then and only then will I resume active participation on the ground, where it counts.

Of course by then, no one who has been active locally, regionally, and nationally will have any use for his useless, oversized Boomer butt. 

I’m not saying anyone should vote harder, or place any trust in Con Inc. or in the Republican Party. I’m also not saying that anyone should blithely proceed in the blind confidence that Donald Trump is flawlessly executing Q’s 12-D underwater chess strategy. 

But only the weak of mind and character fear to hope, and prefer indolence and despair to inspiration and determination.

Play the miss

Forget despair. I’m not talking about that. Everyone understands that despair is worse than useless. What I’m talking about is a refusal to hope, which is entirely different. And the problem with a refusal to hope is this: you will not be in a position to act or take advantage of the situation in the event that things happen to break your way.

I’ve played soccer for a long time. Although it’s been literal decades since I was a goal-a-game striker, I still score more often than I’m usually expected to, both in practice and in games, mostly due to my decades of experience in front of goal. And what primarily distinguishes the sort of scorer known as a fox-in-the-box is a form of anticipation.
The less experienced striker will always focus on the defender’s actions. And when he’s at a proximity disadvantage, he assumes that the defender, or the keeper, is going to succeed whatever it is that he intends to do. So, the striker slows down if he sees he can’t get there in time to contest the ball, or if he’s more aggressive, he moves toward where he expects the defender to move the ball or to block off a passing lane.
You can often identify a dangerous scorer when a striker looks as if he’s lazy, or perhaps even a little bit retarded. As the defender clears the ball, he runs right past, looking almost as if he doesn’t know what just happened. When the goalie leaps in the air to grab a high ball, he doesn’t jump, or even try to get in the goalie’s way. When his teammate shoots on goal, he doesn’t run toward the action, but diagonally, away from the action and outside the posts.
It often looks clueless, but what the striker is actually doing is assuming that the other player is going to make a mistake and he is acting as if the other player isn’t even there. If the defender misses or mishits the ball, the striker will run right onto it. If the goalie misjudges the height of the ball, the striker will have the ball in front of an empty net. If the shot is deflected, the striker will be in a position to get the rebound and possibly an easy shot on a wide-open net.
About seven years ago, I scored the goal that won the league championship for my team when a midfielder fired a fast diagonal pass on the ground toward the right corner of the 18-yard box. There wasn’t much time left and the grass was wet, so instead of cutting left inside the last defender, which would have allowed me to have the first crack at the ball at the cost of a difficult first touch that would also bring me closer to the other defenders, I just ran toward where the ball would be if the defender didn’t manage to block it and hoped that he would miss it, knowing that the wet grass was going to make the ball slide faster than normal. He slid to intercept it, as I knew he would, but he didn’t quite manage to get a foot on the ball, (or on me, since I jumped as he slid to avoid getting taken out) which left me one-on-one with the goalie. The goalie was already coming out and moving to right, so I simply hit a low shot to the left with my first touch. Goal. Game. Championship.
When you don’t play the miss, you’re usually not in a position to take advantage of it when it happens. This is why you should always utilize hopium rather than deride it, even though you know perfectly well how low the percentages are. Because even if the percentages of a miss are low, the percentages of scoring when there is a miss are very, very high.

Mailvox: You just don’t get it

Don’t you see? Don’t you get it? Matt and Benny totally OWNED THE LIBS!

The number of people reacting here who think they were giving money to the enemy to help the enemy’s grandmother is ridiculous.
No one who saw the stunt unfold would think that. It was a slight against AOC and the fact that she hadn’t helped her own grandmother. It also highlighted how regular Americans could solve a problem without government intervention.
In addition to this, no money was given to AOC’s family.
Anyone who followed the stunt realized AOC was never going to accept the funds. It was a stunt to make AOC look bad, and it was more effective by far than anything most of us have done.

At this point, I no longer feel any sympathy for all the idiots who read and support The Daily Wire. They’re simply too stupid to be able to distinguish between predator and prey.

The point, morons, is that no one on the planet, beginning with AOC, gives a quantum of a damn whether AOC helps her grandmother or not. Boomers don’t even help their own children or grandchildren, Generation X is gleefully awaiting The Day of the Pillow, the Millennials are bitter that neither their parents nor their grandparents will help them with their young children, and the Zoomers are either a) trying to figure out if they are a boy or a girl or one of the other 55 genders or b) gearing up to out-genocide Bill Gates.

What I saw, what everyone saw, is that Conservative Inc.’s talking heads are far more interested in trying to score points against liberals than help those who are supposedly on their own side. Not only was it not effective in the least, it was just another example of how offensively useless these would-be opinion leaders are.

UPDATE: This limerick from SocialGalactic is apt.

The GE campaigned with euphoria

Yet losing turned hope to dysphoria

The swamp thralls the sheep

But dug down too deep

And awoke the Gen Z under Moria

Not one cent for their own

While media conservatives are giddy about the chance to financially support their political “opponents”.

Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog

As you’ve heard, @AOC’s abuela is living in a dilapidated home that was ravaged by Hurricane Maria. AOC is unable to help her own grandma for whatever reason, so I have set up this Go Fund Me campaign to save her home. Please give if you can. #HelpAbuela

Cuckservatives love nothing better than to “surprise” people by materially supporting their enemies. Their primary objective is to be publicly seen as the nice people. As Stalin learned, the Left doesn’t even need to buy the rope with which to hang them, conservatives will literally give it to their would-be executioners for free.

Are you even a little bit surprised to learn that Ben Shapiro is pushing this idiocy too?

UPDATE: For the benefit of those who are apparently too slow to understand that everyone here knows perfectly well what these moronic cucks were intending, we are aware the very clever plan is to OWN THE LIBS and MAKE THE DEMS LOOK LIKE HYPOCRITES! Our criticism is based on the fact that this objective is an unnecessary, pointless, and wasteful bit of grandstanding.

A bold statement

“We’re gonna take back the Senate, take back the House, we’re gonna take back the White House – and sooner than you think. It’s going to be really something special.” 

– Donald Trump, June 5, 2021

The imaginary Mr. X

I tend to doubt this purported “Mr. X” actually exists. He reads more like a literary device than an actual person of import. That being said, literally everything that is reported to have come out of his mouth on economics and money appears to be much more accurate than not, from my perspective:

“You have to understand that Obama, Trump or Biden report to the same ‘number one,’ and they have no say on any important issue.

“Number one” was formerly OSS (Office of Strategic Services) with William J. Casey under Wild Bill Donovan (creator of OSS) and later CIA.  He married a super-rich lady and ran a prosperous industry.  Number one said that they were not going to stop the currency rigging that was destroying our industries as we were number one in the world and could afford it.  And Wall Street wanted to make money out of it who were rigging the markets through cash settlement to this day.  Number one also controls the Congress and the Supreme Court and I am quite familiar on how these leading wonders were groomed.  They essentially are picked because they can be controlled by past corruption and they have the goods on them.

“The CIA doctored the boarding tapes of Islamic people boarding planes in Boston and blamed 9-11 on a failed former CIA asset named Osama bin Laden who had nothing to do with it and then decided to detonate Building Number 7 since the necessary misdirection was supplied by the doctored boarding tapes. Then there was reason to send the army to Afghanistan, bin Laden’s lair, to take over the heroin/poppy trade there.  Trump wanted out of Afghanistan and that was why the Deep State had to engineer an election against him.  Trump had tapes showing this ruse and could have released them, to win the election.  For unexplained reasons, the tapes weren’t disclosed publicly.”

Balance of trade

“I had recommended to Donald how to cure the trade deficit in one step.  That step mean we would counter-rig the currencies who had trade surpluses with us as our allies had rigged their currencies against us by depreciating them.  We would buy the currencies of all trade surplus countries with the US raising their value so our nation would not buy their products to end the trade deficit and create a surplus to pay off 14 trillion of our net-deficit- position in the world.”

“You do not need tariffs to stop the trade deficit you just realign the currencies.  We just counter-rig by buying their currencies.  I guarantee you it will work, for if necessary, we would put the Euro to 3 dollars per euro.  We would buy nothing.  And that would end NATO.  Fine.”

Bitcoin

“When the Bitcoin people came to me for my support for their coins, I said if you make them redeemable in gold, and you continue with an unchangeable finite amount of gold backing each coin, and that gold is in a secure place, then you will replace the world currencies if US military allows you to do so.  Otherwise, I have no interest in your phony currency.”

China vs. USA

“China is a unified country.  Everyone is Chinese.  The United States is a Balkanized country where everyone is at each-others’ throats.  We saw that when hundreds of cities burned last summer but the roots were quite apparent without such a demonstration if we look at the demographic characteristics of the historical rising crime waves that are out of control in the US.   The black male rape attacks on white women are so bad that Obama had the series stopped.”

“We need not run the gamut of comparisons with China as the proportions are about the same in all product lines.  Our analysis is that the GDP of China is about double that of the US in real terms.  China is the greatest industrial power in the world dwarfing the EU and the United States.  China has returned to its original status of world leader in 1400 AD.  … Today we calculate the Chinese GDP at about 40 trillion dollars a year.   Their steel production is above a trillion tons a year against ours which is less than 100 billion.  Their motor vehicle production is 27 million cars a year and ours 11 million a year in 2017.   And I could go on and on.”

We know the GDP is fake. I proved that beyond any shadow of a possible doubt back in 2009, in the No One Knows Anything chapter of The Return of the Great Depression, when I showed that the margin of publicly reported errors is consistently greater than the difference between economic growth and economic contraction.

Now, consider the possibility that the real economy of China is twice the size of the US economy. This might go a very long way to explaining the strange geopolitical developments of the last two years, as well as why the USA and the rest of the West is obviously backing away from their decades-old promises to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Saturday AM Arktoons

SEASONS Episode 6: Invisible

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: COMEDY Episode 6: Popskull Gets Awful Modern
And for those who wonder why we bother with comics, and ask why we don’t focus entirely on writing thoughtful essays on important subjects for serious people, consider the following anecdote from a reader which was inspired by the revelations about the egregious Soviet influence in the USA during WWII documented copiously in Stalin’s War.
I am reminded of an uncle’s tale of comic books in 1940. He said that there was a Finn Winter War comic book series that he, brothers and friends had been following. They read it as they could, in the drugstore. One day a truck came and collected all the comics that cheered on the Finns. A week later, new comic books were delivered, and the Soviets were the heroes instead of the villains.