The Republic of Texas

by on May 1, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas broke the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The new President had stuffed it with friendly justices, and the Stuffed Supreme Court voted to uphold his actions while vacating those of Texas. But the still-serving justices of the previous Supreme Court did not agree, and their Last Dissent burned through the networks like a brushfire. Those demanding justice for the “Dallas Massacre” dueled with others standing up for the “Last Legitimate Supreme Court,” and many who simply enjoyed stirring the pot. Honest debates and shouting matches alike ruled the networks. The House soon voted to Impeach the dissenting justices, the Lame Duck Senate approved them without further review, and the United States Capitol Police physically removed them from the Supreme Court Building. That did not calm the networks down.

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 30, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas had many consequences over the next few weeks. The Lame Duck Senate joined the House and the President in condemning Texas and passed multiple bills singling out Texas politicians and military officers for removal from office or command positions. The Department of Justice sued numerous Texans for everything from kidnapping to murder of federal agents, and the outgoing Governor and many others faced charges of treason. Texas responded by charging every FBI agent they had captured with attempted kidnapping, with intent to transport across State lines, a felony offense. Counter lawsuits from all sides quickly reached the Stuffed Supreme Court filled with new Presidential picks, which ruled in favor of Federal actions and lawsuits while striking down those coming from Texas. The Supreme Court justices who had served with the previous President disagreed with those decisions, and wrote a powerful Last Dissent against the prevailing decision. It is required reading in American civics classes to this day, alongside the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Gettysburg Address.

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 29, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas had many consequences over the next few hours, days, and weeks. Hasty camera footage from a local news helicopter broadcast it live all over the networks, and more stable cameras from the ground followed within minutes as the newsies competed to get their spin on the news out as quickly as possible. Most of the mainstream networks supported the President, but widespread support for Texas covered the secondary networks and social media. Mainstream networks banned the full and unedited video that showed the federal forces drawing first blood for “violating community standards,” while continuing to broadcast edited versions that implied Texas shot the incoming helicopters down first. They escalated to muting or banning accounts that promoted the full video within days, and a public that had been increasingly distrustful of the mainstream media for decades found other ways to communicate. The President finally Nationalized control of the networks in order to keep the “most seditious elements of the irredeemable parts of society from broadcasting their traitorous diatribes.” Local networks all over America cut ties with the national networks at that point, and the large public media that had brought the United States together for a century shattered into dozens of smaller pieces that would never again broadcast the same news to all American citizens.

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 28, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The firefight between the Texas State Guard and “certain undisclosed elements of the United States Armed Forces” in Dallas, Texas is one of the reasons many people in Texas still call the Second Great Depression the Second Civil War. They came under Presidential order to free the FBI agents arrested while attempting to arrest the previous President’s Chief of Staff, who was also the incoming Attorney General of Texas. It was a monumental showdown between the authority of the Federal government and the willingness of the States to accept it. But in the eyes of Texas and many other States, the new President had lost any morale authority when he Impeached the previous President and the Vice-President so he could take the reigns of power. And then went on to conduct outright voter fraud to maintain his position. The fact that the previous President was both a past and the incoming governor of Texas was the proverbial icing on the cake. The firefight began with a single warning shot across the bow of the lead incoming black helicopter. The helicopters returned fire with all weapons. It ended ninety seconds later with thirty dead and one hundred wounded Texas State Guard soldiers, and six flaming wrecks that had been helicopters belonging to the United States of America. There were no survivors.

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The Second Wave

by on April 27, 2020 at 12:01 am
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TLDR Version:
Mind the Second Wave? We’re IN the Second Wave right now. It started with Chinese New Year. What we have to mind is the Hunger Wave. We have to get our economy running, safely, soon, or the economy that feeds billions all over the world…won’t.

Full version:
There’s an already old joke making the rounds right now. “I’m old enough to remember when the government wanted us to stay home for two weeks to lower the curve of Wuhan Virus.” To keep our hospitals from being overtaxed. Those hospitals were still pressed, primarily in the Eastern States, but the numbers are dropping. Hospitals in the Western States are all but empty, laying off workers because they have nothing to do. But now that two weeks has stretched into three, four, or five weeks, and people tell us we should still stay home.

Because the Second Wave will be coming soon. Maybe the moment we open up for business again. Maybe this fall. Who knows? The Second Wave is waiting for us, and like in 1918 it will kill far more people than we have already seen. So we should stay at home unless we want more people to die.

I contend that we are IN the Second Wave right now. Mounting evidence shows advanced stages of immunity to the Wuhan Virus already in place. Ten to twenty percent of people tested already have antibodies, even though they have not tested positive for the virus since we began testing for it. And there are the reports from all over America of people who had “that odd flue with harsher cough than normal” since as early as December. Many in January and February. February is when I got the odd bug. And we were calculating a higher “flu-like death” index all winter long than the previous year. Not by much, but we were getting hit harder. And we know China had it in that timeframe. So how much of it were we getting?

I contend that the Wuhan Virus was trickling into America all winter long. That we were getting it in small amounts, mostly on the West Coast due to easy travel there, and that it was slowly percolating its way across America. A few more people were dying than normal, but we were building up significant numbers of people with immunity to the virus that would, in the end, stave off any major outbreak.

Then Chinese New Year came. Millions of Chinese from all around the world went home to celebrate. They contracted the Wuhan Virus. They returned to wherever they were working throughout the world, and brought it with them. And suddenly it wasn’t a trickle. It was a flood, and hospital systems all around the world were inundated by it all.

I contend THAT is the Second Wave. Now President Trump banned the Chinese from traveling to America, which stopped those who went home for Chinese New York from coming to our shores. That bought us some serious time. But China threatened other nations not to follow our example, and so their people returned throughout the world to infect others. And those infected traveled as well, many of them coming to the travel destination of the world. New York City. And so the Second Wave still hit us. And the First Wave hadn’t fully percolated all across America to properly immunize New York City. New York City was hit hard, as were the areas around it.

But the Western States have still barely measured a blip. A few thousand here and there getting it. A few dozen people dying. On a normal flu season, these numbers are minor. Because I contend that there was enough baked in immunity already there that it is simply slow to spread. And we are already curving it back down. Our hospitals stand empty, waiting for something to do. Our medical workers are furloughed, wanting to help but not able to.

Is it any surprise that people are calling for us to open back up again? Not to me. But we must be careful about opening back up. All areas that open for business again must maintain sanitary conditions and be careful. To save lives in their areas, and to show other areas that it is safe to open up. Because I can guarantee that if we get a new surge in any area that opens up, the politicians and newsies who are calling for us to be locked up for months or years, will redouble their efforts. They have said themselves that this is an opportunity to spread socialism throughout America, and I do not wish that to happen. I’ve seen enough empty shelves in the supermarkets in the last month to know that I don’t want any MORE Socialism in my home.

So I pray that every area that chooses to open back up for business does so carefully and effectively. We need the production. We need the economy. We need the food. We need everything that feeds billions of people on this planet getting back up to speed, and soon, or hunger and starvation this winter could kill far more than we have lost in this Second Wave of the Wuhan Virus.

Probably not many Americans. I’m certain will we move heaven and hell to feed our people. But the Africans? The Tibetans? The disadvantaged, the war wracked, and the poor all across the globe? If the economy that feeds billions is unable to harvest enough food to feed all those billions this winter, it will be those people, mostly safe beyond our borders where we will be able to ignore them, who will die.

We are in the Second Wave right now. Thousands have died all over the world. We have to mind the Hunger Wave now. It could kill millions.

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