My wife was born and raised in Cuba.

I just asked her and her friends what they think of this “controversy.” Verbatim response:

“Los americanos no tienen problemas entonces se los inventan.” (Americans don’t have problems so they invent them.) https://t.co/i1sDPI4Uwr

— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) December 27, 2021

“Los americanos no tienen problemas entonces se los inventan.” (Americans don’t have problems so they invent them.)

That is unequivocally true.

Every problem facing America today is either directly caused or exacerbated by bored, neurotic, privileged people, who have never had any serious challenges in their life, and have a deep and compelling need to fill their vacuous existence by meddling in the lives of others.

Everyday I think Robert A. Heinlein was right in Starship Troopers, that the franchise should be restricted to those people who are civic-minded.  Not necessarily or exclusively through military service, but some method of separating those who understand the gravity and responsibility of participating in the civic process and those bored neurotics who should probably have no more authority than being allowed to take care of stray cats.

It is not enough to be passively not communist, we must be actively anti-communist.

The wife is watching this show about an American girl working in Paris.

After 10 minutes I realize that if I had a time machine I’d give a copy of The Guns of August to the German high command in 1913.

Just to make sure that they destroy the French Army and capture Paris and win the war by 1915.  Also to avoid getting into a war with the Russians.

For that matter I’d give the Prime Minister, Czar and Sultan a copy of the book too.

Without the Russians getting into the war there would be no Soviet Revolution, the Ottoman Empire wouldn’t have collapsed leading to a rise in Middle Eastern Islamism.

WWII and the Holocaust would have been averted.

And the snooty French would be crushed under the boot heel of the industrious Germans.

The British wouldn’t have gotten involved and neither would the Americans, meaning no long drawn out WWI, no Roaring 20, no Great Depression, and no FDR.

But mostly no insufferable French.

Now all I need is my time machine.

We’ve discussed gun culture in the past.

Gun Culture 1.0: hunting, plinking, with 22s, blue steel and wood, rural, Fudds.

Gun Culture 2.0: personal defense, AR-15, high capacity magazines, concealed carry, more urban/suburban.

I’ve seen more and more discussion of Gun Culture 3.0.

It’s seems to be an advanced form of Gun Culture 2.0: suppressors, SBRs, nigh vision, hard armor, tactical training, 80% builds/3D printing, etc.

All thing I support, except Gun Culture 3.0 seems to be mutating into “Gun Culture Fuck You Poors.”

I had an issue with the CG2.0 guys who would say shit like: “You’re only carrying a J-frame?  You’re gonna die in a gunfight.  You need a Glock 19 with three reloads at least.”

GC3.0 on social media ups that ante to ridiculous levels: “What do you mean you have a Bushmaster/M&P15/Delton/etc?  You’re just a liability.  You need a LWRC or Noveske with an Elcan or Nighforce, NODs, a can, IR laser, LCD weapon light, a SAPI chest rig, etc., have to shoot 1,000 round a month, and go to this shooting school run by an retired SEAL.”

The pictures they post look like they are fully decked out operators with the best DOD funding possible.

GC3.0 seems to have replaced a personality with expensive gear.

The number one rule of gun culture should be “don’t be a prick” and LARPing as SOCOM and shitting on people who buy their guns and gear off the rack at a big box sporting goods retailer is definitely in violation of that rule.

Harvard has an endowment of over $53 Billion.

I’ve heard Harvard described as “a hedge fund with a University attached for tax purposes.”

I think David Hogg proves that to be true.

The second amendment is not an absolute right. None of our rights are.

We have a right to not be shot.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) December 28, 2021

He’s consistently wrong about everything he says on social media.

He was invited to attend Harvard based entirely on his politics and Harvard has done nothing to correct his ignorance.

A university worthy of being ranked the number one school in the nation should probably endeavor to educate its students better.

But Harvard clearly doesn’t care.

Its students are merely a shield to protect its endowment from the IRS.

In return, the students get a piece of paper they they can wave around and say “this means I’m better than you.”

As such, if I ever got elected, I will take great pleasure is seizing Harvard’s endowment and use it to pay for vocational training for every kid who attends a vocational community college.

When Harvard complains, I will hold up David Hogg’s tweets and say “if you really were a college, you’d at least do the minimum to educate one of your most high profile students in basic civics, since you didn’t, you clearly are not a school.”

The woke movement could be the next great U.S. cultural export — and it is going to do many other countries some real good https://t.co/3kvQYHm44v

— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) December 27, 2021

If you decide to nuke the United States to stem the spread of American Wokeism, I honestly wouldn’t blame you.

All that I ask is that whrn you aim your missiles, you use a 2020 electon results map by county and target only the Blue ones.

If you really want to stop the spread of Wokeness you that is the source.