My thoughts on current affairs. Most of these topics will appear here on Withdrawconsent.org, as well as online and in print at the Idaho State Journal.
I must admit that I viewed Bitcoin much the same way many investors probably view Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) now. I didn’t necessarily see the value in investing in a fiat (unbacked) currency as volatile as Bitcoin when a more stable U.S. dollar was king. The libertarians got the last laugh. Had I purchased ten thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin ten years ago, I would be sitting on nearly forty million dollars’ worth today.
Historically, when a company has produced a game-changing product like an iPhone or a Tesla electric vehicle, the stock price has soared based on the objective value that the company has brought to the world. Now with ESG funds, a company like Nike can continue to manufacture their shoes in a foreign sweatshop, so long as they speak out against white privilege and achieve the coveted ESG label, or get bundled into larger ESG funds. A company can afford to lose a percentage of its consumer base if it can still grow by users investing in its activism.
There was always going to be a correction after our ill-advised COVID retreat policies. Locking down supply chains in an attempt to run from viral contagion based on a high school experiment was never going to be without consequence. Perhaps our greatest error was allowing these policies to persist unfettered for as long as we did? Earlier course correction may have saved us from our current trajectory.
It’s exceedingly rare for a Georgia sports team to win a championship, and even more rare for two Georgia sports teams to win a championship in the same year. This year, the Atlanta Braves finally broke the curse and opened up the floodgates of divine favor by capturing the World Series. It’s not that I believe that God cares about sporting events, but there is more than a little bit of irony in where and how these championships came to be.
For most of us on the right, there won’t be any forgetting about the ham-fisted political bashing the left has adopted in pushing through their insane transformational agenda. From electoral chicanery to the inhumane withholding of cheap and readily available outpatient treatment of disease, to the plague of racist and divisive social policies we’ve endured, the left spectrum makes an insufferable foxhole neighbor.
There is no such thing as a moderate utopia. In reality, there is no such thing as Utopia on Earth. It is the pursuit of the state of perfection. When it comes to governing, there are really only two means of pursuing perfection: either by force or by freedom.
Something that I learned early on is that the drudge of American life makes it enticing to live from moment to moment. Whether it’s holiday to holiday, or season to season, there is some sense of anticipation for whatever may come next. Perhaps it’s a byproduct of the traditional American work ethic, where the hours are long and the siestas are non-existent?
When we had children, we decided that we always wanted to be in a position for them to come to us for anything, and the way that we hope to accomplish that is by always telling them the truth. This creates challenges for me when it comes to holiday traditions.
When you were a kid, the idiom “say uncle” was synonymous with tapping out of an uncomfortable situation by capitulating to the demands of your captor. Often implemented by an older sibling or friend by twisting your arm behind your back, saying “uncle” is an act of submission that demonstrates being brought under compliance. This is what your current captors demand of you.
When you are skiing, one of the hardest parts is often making the initial commitment to pick a line and turn downhill. If you are too busy staring at the totality of the mountain, you may begin to feel overwhelmed and lack the confidence to tackle the obstacles immediately in front of you.
The press knew all of these things. Yet at every point, the corporate press, celebrities, and even President Joe Biden wasted no opportunity to sell hate, racism, bigotry, and division throughout this ordeal. They weaved context into the event where it was simply unjustified. The disinformation that they imparted to the public was so blatant, that it cannot be dismissed as merely hasty or negligent. They have been active participants in sowing discord and strife in society.
For some reason, the American Left chooses to look to the worst of history and relitigate society through a lens of the worst of history’s transgressions. Not content with the unmatched progress we’ve made, they intend to reverse course and start over. Like those children’s novels, Choose Your Own Adventure, they don’t like the decidedly non-Communist outcome and wish to return to point A and try again.
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” – Rosa Parks n 2007, Seth McFarlane, creator of the cartoon Family Guy, skewered the undecided voter in an episode titled “It Takes a Village Idiot“. In this episode, the protagonist, Lois Griffin, runs…
“Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” – “Dr. Ian Malcolm”, Jurassic Park ow we respond to crises often tells us a lot about the motivations of the parties involved in making public policy solutions. For instance, Donald Trump…
“Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction.” – Virgil, The Aeneid an’t you see what is going on? I ask this question daily when I wake up and the normies around me pretend that if we jump through our designated hoops…
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like…
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin oe Biden didn’t win. That is the opinion of this author and will continue to be the opinion of a majority of Republicans indefinitely. The…
“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.” – Thomas Sowell ocial Scientist Jonathan Haidt often talks about two categories that societies fall into on matters of immigration and culture. In a…
“The difference between the left and the right is that the right believes the left are people with bad ideas. The left believes that the right are bad people with ideas.” – Dan Bongino y writing is my corner of the world to explore withdrawing consent from a system that no longer deserves it. I…
“Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.” – Martin Niemoller ith the announcement that the Biden Administration will attempt a takeover of US labor markets by forcing private companies to vaccinate their employees, the limits of our Constitution are being tested before our eyes. With 210…