There are two definitions of anarcho-tyranny that I have found that summarize the principle perfectly:

A stage of governmental dysfunction in which the state is anarchically hopeless at coping with large matters but ruthlessly tyrannical in the enforcement of small ones.

And

Anarcho-Tyranny is a form of Dystopia where a state permits or encourages Anarchy Is Chaos in limited form, either out of laziness or some more malevolent motive, while decent people are suppressed.

This perfectly describes the State if California and is epitomized here in this interaction with California law enforcement.

Police officer knows his priorities. pic.twitter.com/ZTPowEF3nA

— Mens_Corner__ (@Mens_Corner__) December 26, 2022

These types of outlaw motorcyclist are a scourge.

But chasing them down and stopping them is difficult and dangerous work.

The guy who stopped is law abiding.

It’s much easier to be an officious jack-boot against a guy who stops at red lights than it is to catch real criminals.

On paper, when this cop fills out his report, he will get credit for enforcing the law.  That he ignored much more dangerous criminals to stop a guy revving his engine will not be factored into his performance review.

Real criminals are given free rein but the law abiding are stomped into submission and given citations they pay fines for to fill the government coffers.

This is, of course, antithetical to the way America is supposed to be.  This is the New America pioneered by California.

Here is the secret to perfect French toast:

Blender

That’s it.

Eggs, cream, bread (I use a store-bought Challah), and powder sugar for dusting.

The secret is to mix the egg and cream in the blender (or with a stick blender) to liquify the mix and incorporate air.

That way it soaks into the bread and when it cooks, puffs up.

Fry on low-medium heat and done.

This is how fast and how far the degeneracy of Western Society has gone.

In the Western World, the Grandfather has a place of honor.

This dates back to ancient Rome with the Pater Familias, the “father of the family” who was the oldest living male in a household.

As recently as 2020 we respected the grandfather in Christmas ads.

Yes, it’s a little dusty now.  That’s okay.

This is not.

Now you’re angry and you’re pouring your J&B Whiskey down the drain..

The grandfather is wise and experienced and would not be indulging his grandson in such sexual degeneracy that would ultimately lead to his sterilization and the ending of his bloodline.

The grandfather would recognize this abhorrent social trend for what it is and not participate.

The grandfather would be a resolute and stalwart example of proud masculinity.

This degrades the grandfather.

This is an obscenity.

This is evidence that the whole purpose of this Leftist movement is to destroy the family as the bedrock of civilization.

I will never be a Yankee.

I needed some hearty food to fuel me up before going out and shoveling snow.

The only acceptable option was homemade buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy.

What I really need is some good sweet tea but I cannot find Luzianne tea in New Hampshire for the life of me.

In my last post, commenter Curby said this:

Show me the stats that prove those states have “5times” the “gun violence “… ny is a free fire zone. And again this shows how stupid liberals think we are that restricting honest citizens gun rights makes us “safer”… ???

The answer is, on paper they do.

The reason they do is pure Soviet style disinformation.

Simply, law enforcement doesn’t report the crimes.

They reduce charges, drop gun charges, don’t e enforce the law against illegal immigrants, etc.

So even though anyone with eyes can see the amout of gun violence that occurs, if there are no official reports, it doesn’t exist, therefore they have lower crime rates than Red states.

The NYPD has notoriously undercounted crime for years.

I expect one day every cop in NYC or LA or San Francisco to quit, and 911 dispatch shut down, and then the local government will say they have 0% crime because if there is no one to take the reports, it never happened.

It’s that simple.

After the Bruen decision, New York Governor Kathy Hochul sighed the most restrictive concealed carry bill into law.  It effectively turned New York into a gun free zone, banning concealed carry in all public places and private places that did not post explicit permission to carry.

The Governor made this statement about the law:

“In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down New York’s century-old concealed carry law, we took swift and thoughtful action to keep New Yorkers safe,” Governor Hochul said. “I refuse to surrender my right as Governor to protect New Yorkers from gun violence or any other form of harm. In New York State, we will continue leading the way forward and implementing common sense gun safety legislation.”

Even while a judge has halted several provisions of this law after a number of suits have been filed, the State of New Jersey just passed an even more restrictive gun law, A4769.

This is the New Jersey Governor’s statement:

“What kind of state do we want to be? Do we want to be like Mississippi or Alabama, whose firearm death rates are nearly five times ours, or do we want to remain a state where people can actually be and feel safe?” Murphy said at a bill signing event flanked by gun control advocates in red “Moms Demand Action” shirts. “This law ensures that no matter what Washington might throw at us, we will keep doing everything we can to ensure the safety of our citizens.”

It’s clear, from their own admissions, that they passed these laws explicitly to do a run around the Bruen decision.  They want to deny citizens the right to carry and they will write their laws in such as way as to deny citizens their constitutional rights while maliciously complying with the strictest language of Bruen.

The Supreme Court made it clear that it believed the Second Amendment meant the right to bear Arms in public and these states gave the Court and their citizens a big middle finger.

It is a shame how the Supreme Court is treated as a second class branch of a co-equal branch of government.  States regularly try to weasel out of complying with Court decisions.  Especially Blue states when it comes to gun rights decisions.

Since I’m no longer a Conservative, I am ready for some authoritarianism on behalf of the Court.

When the Court establishes a right, like the right to carry concealed, and a state instantly comes up with a law explicitly to counter the Court’s decision, arrest the state government for contempt of Court.

The idea of the states as laboratories of democracy doesn’t give them the right to violate the Constitution. That’s established in the United States.

That needs to be enforced.

New York and New Jersey need to be punished for this in a meaningful way that sends a message “you don’t get to runaround the Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights.”

This Tweet has gone viral and caught a lot of hate.

https://twitter.com/JacobAShell/status/1604872083799842816?s=19

Jacob here is 100% right.

Unfortunately, almost all of the replies are 100% wrong.

Exempli gratia:

If your parents were flying the whole family to Europe for vacations you weren't middle-class. You were UPPER-upper-middle class, or more probably lower-UPPER class. Let's have some realism here, please. Middle class *might* manage short road trips in the summer, but no more.

— Brad R. Torgersen (@BradRTorgersen) December 22, 2022

Someone explain to me exactly what the fucking purpose of Brad’s response other than some bullshit gatekeeping.

So the fuck what if Jacob was UPPER middle-class or regular middle-class?  Doesit diminish his point at all?

I understand exactly where Jacob is coming from.

He got very close you describing my childhood.

My father was a lawyer in a small firm (about 10 employees total).  My mother was a nurse.

We had a 3 bed/3 bath house, my dad drove a Chevy Suburban, my mom drove a minivan.

We road tripped to my grandparent’s house twice a year, summer and Christmas.  I never went overseas, but did vacation in Canada once.

That was the lifestyle of all my friends.  They had parents who were civil engineers, architects, accountants, one was a therapist, another was a dentist.

The federal government defines middle-class as single earners between $45,000 and $130,000 per year, family income between $65,000 and $250,000 per year.

I grew up towards the higher end of that range, but definitely within it.

We were solidly in the “professional white collar middle-class.”

Today I’m an engineer and my wife is a librarian.  Again, solidly white collar professional middle-class.  I make about the same on paper as my dad did.

Adjusted for inflation, my buying power is half of what his was in the 90s.

To buy a 3bd/3br house in California, South Florida, New England, Chicago, any major metropolitan area if going to start at half a million dollars and go up rapidly from there.

My parents bought the house I grew up in for $300K in 1995.  It just sold for $1.2M.

I can’t afford my childhood home making the same salary as my dad.

To have the lifestyle I had growing up in the same city I grew up in I’d need to make a solid $500K.

What Jacob describes is the quintessential American Dream.

A decent house, two cars, enough disposable income to enjoy the occasional vacation.

And depending on where you live, that can be utterly impossible to have in the income range we call middle-class.

When it costs me $1,000 to fill my heating oil tank, there goes my budget for a road trip to grandma’s.

And yet the overwhelming response has been effectively “fuck you rich kid, you’re not middle-class.”

How the fuck does that help?

The response should be “hey you fuckers in DC, why the fuck is the American Dream priced our of the hands of the middle-class?”

The response I’m seeing is nothing more than the petty mean girl envy from people who grew up towards the lower end of the middle-class range.

It’s ugly and it’s counter productive.

Let me put it to you this way.

Nearly 100% of people who work for a living, regardless of where in the middle-class range they are, could say with complete accuracy:

“I make the same income as my parents did but to have the same buying power and quality of life as they did I would have to make double what they did.”

But no.  People are too focused on telling a guy why he grew up too rich to have an opinion about middle-class lifestyles.

Guess what.  It’s okay to have empathy for someone who grew up with more money than you did, and if his Tweet makes you angry, ask yourself why and who should you be angry at.

This guy because you’re envious of his childhood, which accomplishes nothing?

Or the people in charge who made the American Dream unaffordable?