Jack of Harts

The three things that make a strong nation are a common culture, language, and borders. A people who talk to each other, agree with each other on the larger parts, and are willing to defend each other, are a strong people. The most visible of those is the defense part. A strong nation must be willing to defend itself, and that willingness is shown through the people ready to fight. Sometimes this is a standing army. Other times it is a citizen army ready to stand up when an invader comes. The key point is that the people in general must be ready to fight and die to protect their people. A nation filled with men such as these will stand when times grow hard.

The lockdowns changed people. I work in the hospitality industry and I have seen it first hand. I work in a professional town filled with blue and white collar workers but even here I see the crazies. The people who snapped and lost all reason when they got locked up for momths on end. Now they see hotels as the place to go, cut loose, leave the kids behind in the room, and party with friends at the bars until it is time to drag their drunk butts back to the hotel to yell at the front desk. In the twenty years I worked before the lockdowns, I called the police on a guest once. I have lost count of how many times I’ve called the police in the last five years. People have changed, and not for the better.

Lots of us have been calling to see the Epstein List for years. Now i don’t expect to see big news out of the list. I expect so many redactions that most names are off. What I did not expect is for the bureaucracy to just refuse to hand the documents over to their superiors when ordered to. I mean, I expected them to resist but to be more subtle about it. Just outright refusing is just going to result in more people being fired. Not that I have a problem with that. I am totally fine with mored fired government workers. But I expected them to try to make the targeting solutions for the firings a bit harder to generate. I was wrong.