Being Difficult

accordingtohoyt

Jun 9

Our would be overlords believe in magic words. They'll decree it, and it will be so.

They have a plan, proclaimed by great international thinkers (who have no idea where food comes from, but that's something else) and by gum, they're going to herd us all into mega cities, and make us live the way they want, owing nothing, being happy, eating bugs.

Our would be overlords have metaphorical holes in their heads the size of the grand canyon, with the attendant problems that first their brain fell out, and then something -- possible a dinosaur -- took a dump in there, so it's now full of crap.

Seriously.

I keep running into people waving their hands madly and going "They won." And "We'll have to do what they want." If they're close enough, I bitchslap them. Usually metaphorically, unless I'm related to them in which case they get telegraphed gibs slap.

Seriously?

Do I have to teach Americans how to be difficult for would-be rulers?

Remember I wasn't born among you, and yet, mom said that raising me was more negotiation than punishing and giving me orders. Because if you tried to herd me one way, I very deliberately went the other way. I did so even if going the other way hurt me. Because I'd rather break than bend.

I haven't changed much, (even after raising the child my parents wished on me. Sigh) and I know you guys aren't any different, because that's why I feel so much at home too.

But a whole lot of you went out and got you some book learning, unfortunately from the left, most of whom aren't really Americans, not inside their heads, and you forgot how we deal with stupid laws and a government determined to exterminate the nation.

Repeat after me:

No.

Hell no.

No with bells on.

You can't make me.

You can kill me, but you can't make me do what you want.

Sod off.

You have no right to order me. The bastard with the right to order me ain't been born.

Look, yeah, they have the power to hurt us.

Realize they hurt themselves too when they do this, and this is before we take the bit between our teeth and take the fight to them, which will happen. It's already happening at the word and litigation level a bit all over.

Then realize that we have ways to minimize their hurting us. Not stopping it, no. At least for now, though I estimate the time is very near when various states declare themselves "energy sanctuaries." And when various people say if the Federal Government won't let us drill on their land, the land is no longer theirs, and also come and get it. (Said in a Southern accent, with an emphasis on "get")

If they don't back down, I can see that time coming, because people know we're not running out of oil, it's being strangled. And we're not all the hyper-rich and the illegals that populate California.

But their grand plans are even crazier. Like upping the mix of ethanol in gas to destroy cars. Because then you'll have to move to the big mega cities, and live as they order, right?

My eyes have rolled on the floor, and the cats are playing with them.

Listen, guys: yeah, they can damage our cars. But what they -- and a lot of you -- seem to miss, is that we're not going to sit by the side of the road crying and waiting for transport to the city. Cubans have kept fifties clunkers running for seventy years. Sometimes by using washing machine parts. We're not less able to improvise than Cubans, for the love of Bob (Heinlein.) And yeah, maybe cash for clunkers was designed to get rid of junker parts. Mostly what it actually did was make used cars very expensive, but trust me, junkyards are still there and there's still parts to improvise with. And I don't know about y'all, maybe it's the company I run with, but I know at least three people who, left to their own devices can improvise an entire engine from found objects.

In the same way, you know, one of you, who is a real life friend was somewhat despondent yesterday, because if Bidentia (rhymes with rodentia) passes the vaunted gun control law, then all is over. Alas, Alas, they'll have us where they want us.

Blinks.

That would be fun. Are they going to drag every river and pond? Because we all know Americans are great marksmen, but lousy boaters. And we all take our guns for boat rides, now and then.

There are two possibilities there: The left is so insane, that they've convinced themselves the law will magically disarm us. In that case, buy great stocks of popcorn. Because well... "it was the time of f*cking around. It was the time of finding out."

The other possibility is that they know very well they can't door to door confiscation, but they hope to make examples of people when they defend themselves. Which is different from right now, how? We know what they tried with Kyle Rittenhouse.

Besides, there is a weird effect I doubt they thought about. Because if they'd thought about it, they wouldn't be trying their J6 political prisoner bullshit, they wouldn't have tried to demonize Kyle Rittenhouse, and they wouldn't have been so shocked when he became a folk hero overnight.. Making examples of people works when what you're making examples of isn't a "crime" that anyone else in the public could have committed, because we all agree with the targeted and a majority of us are doing/would do what they're being punished for.

When you're "making examples" of people who are like the majority of the people you're playing to, because they too aren't submitting to your nonsensical tyranny and constitutional violations, then the harder you stomp down, the higher the chances you'll get a Romanian Christmas present.

They don't have the manpower to subdue us all. I suspect if they try the desertion level becomes .... well, unimaginable.

And they can't get what they want. They can't get it. Their ideas are based on a number of things they know that just ain't so, like:

People will obey laws even if the laws kill them.

People will believe they're legitimate even as they stomp down on political enemies for no reason.

People will give up their guns quietly.

People can't invent or create new ways to make things run that aren't the ways planned by our lords and masters.

People from poorer countries are natural Marxists.

All races but white live in harmony and joy with each other.

Growing food is easy.

Transporting food and goods is not necessary, because Marx never understood it.

They can take down America's ability to grow food and transport it and that will never affect the rest of the world.

"Renewable" forms of energy will produce just enough to keep us poor but contented enough not to rebel. (THAT might be the stupidest of things they believe.)

If all else goes wrong, China will save them. (Snort, giggle.) Or Russia will. (SNORT, big giggle. That they might be starting to realize won't work. But I doubt it. They tend to listen more to the script than to reality.)

We will listen to them, because they're sooooo smart. (SNORT. GIGGLE.)

Look, yeah, it's going to get nasty, as we fumble around for a way forward. And the worst time might be the rebuilding, because all the infected institutions will have collapsed. And we don't even know what shape we want the future to be.

But we're not alone. The rest of the world will have to pull up their socks, or they are going to outright starve, while we go on a little unplanned diet.

And though no one is telling you, the rest of the world is already in revolt, and in a lot of places on fire. And no, it's not global warming.

Prepare, improvise. Overcome.

And stick your feet really hard on the ground and say "I won't go the way you want me to."

Because they are not a legitimate authority. They're not "Smart". Hell, they're not even adults. They're a bunch of little kids who swallowed a fairy tale and want really hard to make it come true.

But we're the grown ups. And we don't have to play their game.

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