Chesterton … another wise man.

h/t WRSA

How long will it take before AI and robots come to the conclusion that people need to be eliminated? Our leaders have already come to this conclusion.

Seems the Chinese are not worried about any blockade. Time for another TACO.

This will be the defining and divisive issue of his legacy. There are certain foundations that our side holds and these should not be diminished, corrupted or blasphemed. However this plays out, the division that it caused cannot be undone.

In short, it’s just as everyone had predicted: Israel openly mocks and defies the US, and the abject AIPAC-owned slaves can do nothing whatsoever about it.

Instead of “ending” Iran’s civilization, Trump manages to contort the play into some kind of phony blockade which will likewise fail. It’s pasting one blot of chicken scratch over another in an endless pyramid scheme of “5D strategery”.

It is only right on cue for the final stage of the Fourth Turning, wherein the weak and mad become rulers by way of the compromised political processes inherent to all terminally decaying post-imperial hegemons.

The disastrous Iran war was clearly a golden opportunistic convergence between Trump’s age-old boomer-hatred for Iran with his being the perfect Zionist bagman for Israel. The fact that serious negotiations continue to be mediated by an unelected claque of billionaire henchmen with close ties to Israel is a true disgrace to the “America First” vision, particularly given this year’s special occasion as the 250th anniversary of America’s signing of the Declaration of Independence.

For those that missed it, here’s the complete post

We live in uncertain times, but has it not always been so? We were born for these times. Let’s take solace in words from the wise.

“The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged.  It is history that teaches us to hope.”

… and …

“Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you. All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.”
― Robert E. Lee

“One might momentarily fold under the cruel blows of Fate and retreat into a muted solitude. Things like loss and grief demand a certain reclusion and their time. Yet just as the eclipsed sun unfailingly returns, casting its golden rays upon the land, so too must man step out of the darkness renewed, wiser, and stronger. Was man not made to endure, to transcend, and to overcome?“

― The Wandering Spartan