UPDATED: The Question: Can This Go On Indefinitely?
Last night on Tucker Carlson, speaking of the Zhou Baiden March 25 Event, Mark Steyn made an assertion that deserves to be taken seriously--I quote from memory:
"I don't know who's in charge in the White House. If the Deep State can get away with this"--he was specifically citing the March 25 Flummery, but was generally referencing the entire Zhou Baiden regime--"they can get away with anything . They don't need anyone in the White House."
It seems incredible, but it's one of those things that, as long as it lasts, gives the appearance of being able to go on indefinitely. A new normal that by any rational standards is utterly abnormal.
The flip side of that coin, of course, is the old saw that if something can't go on forever it won't . Reality can't be defied forever--although that's definitely not a guarantee of a happy ending. The piper will have to be paid for all the deceptions and hoaxes, all the way from Russia did it, and Covid, and Zhou, and boys will be girls and girls will be boys, to open borders and Marines and the rest of the military as Social Justice Warriors. This craziness--and so much more--can't be finessed in the long run. Reality will have its say, and it will be decisive--for good or ill. My guess is that most people paid little attention Zhou's March 25 Event. Are most people paying attention to much of anything? They are, although it may not be evident on the surface because the media is covering for the regime madly.
Are there any signs of reality impinging upon the ongoing charade in the Imperial City--still under military occupation?
Well, there are the public opinion polls. They tend to confirm the election results--a vast swath of the country just isn't buying into this stuff. The numbers don't really lie, although they don't suggest any particular breaking point.
Somewhat more pointed, sundance this morning cites more reality, this time from the election results:
Many people are unaware the essential framework for the 2020 election fraud took place in only seven counties which were each heavily controlled by Democrat operatives. Clark County (NV), Pittsburgh and Philadelphia (PA), Wayne County (MI), Maricopa County (AZ), Madison (WI) and Fulton County, Georgia. These populous counties were all that was needed in states were the election was tightly manipulated by political operatives.
In Georgia’s Fulton County the chain of custody documents from “Drop Box” locations still have not been produced despite the Governor signing new legislation to combat voter fraud. In total there are over 404,000 ballots that were counted in the election without chain-of-custody certifications. The margin in GA was only 12,000 votes.
One can quibble a bit with the assertion about "seven counties". In Wisconsin, for example, Dane County (that's Madison) wasn't the only county that was massively involved. I believe other states were also involved. But his point, IMO, holds. The election fraud that stole the election--the fraud that tipped the scales in a handful of close states--took place in few enough counties that they could be counted on your digits. Probably your fingers, but sundance's basic point still holds even if you have to toss in your toes. Further, as I've mentioned several times, the investigation of election fraud is slowly moving forward in all of these states, and is making what appears to be real progress.
And sundance's real point, if I may extrapolate, is that the rest of the people in those states are quite aware of what happened, and will inevitably resent it. It's hardly far fetched to anticipate a backlash in 2022. The massive fraud was enabled in those few counties because they were tightly controlled by Dem operatives and represented a concentrated pool of votes. In House races--spread out across districts that are drawn up by heavily GOP legislatures--those factors will not be in play and the scenario that worked in a presidential election will not work the same way.
More generally--to return to the theme of reality having its say in the end game--Conrad Black has an article this morning that touches on many of the themes that I've been trying to cobble together. Like Mark Steyn and myself, Black touches on the complicity of the media in the flummery we've been witnessing. However, his main point is that the Dems cannot rely on hoax after hoax--sooner rather than later they're going to have to try to govern, because events are spinning out of their control. To take one example, no Asians who aren't paid Dem/Prog operatives believe or are fooled by the White Supremacy narrative. Nor, for that matter, do legal Hispanic Americans believe an open border to Mexico works to their benefit. Even residents of Portland and Seattle and San Francisco are beginning to question the rising tide of violence, and they know they can't blame GOPers for it. If they don't change their behavior--which includes voting patterns--they will find their lives swirling downward.
Here's a graphic example of what's going on in Chicago. City residents rely heavily on the subway and elevated 'L' trains. The various lines are color coded, and the Red Line is the busiest of all, running north-south through Chicago's Loop:
The Red Line, sometimes known as the Howard–Dan Ryan Line or the North–South Line, is a rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the busiest line on the "L" system, with an average of 251,813 passengers boarding each weekday in 2012.
For many people there's no real alternative for getting around the city, but the Red Line (and other lines) has become a conduit for crime. Here's a list of current stories that mention the Red Line:
CTA crime spike has led to increased patrols on Red Line: police
Serious CTA crime is on the rise. How can we fight it beyond using ...
Violent Crime Consistent On CTA Compared With Before Stay-At ...
Want to avoid crime on Metro? Stay off the Red Line - Crosstown
Metro ridership is in free fall. Why won't the Metro board act ...
Chicago's Most Dangerous 'L' Stops - Michael J. Petro
Even with ridership down, violent crime has doubled on CTA lines ...
You get the picture. Ridership--which is obviously where the City gets the money to support the Metro system--is in freefall, while crime is exploding even as riders flee. That can't continue indefinitely. Sooner or later the rest of the state will seriously rebel at subsidizing Chicago, and Red America generally will in the end balk at subsidizing Blue City crime. Dems will end up having to govern--if reality at the ballot box doesn't intrude before they come to that realization on their own.
These observations should not be misconstrued for wild eyed optimism. I'm simply saying that change will come--the current drift can't last forever. Change may lead to opportunity for those we seek and offer alternative, more human, ways of life. We'll wind up with some excerpts from Conrad Black's article, who is making similar points. Black focuses on two issues: The border crisis and the Covid Hoax. These are the issues that are uppermost in American minds, although not exclusively. Crime, too, will play an increasing role:
Administration’s Flotsam and Jetsam Won’t Pass for Policy
There is no reason to believe that this drifting flotsam of a government has any other idea of what to do with the responsibility it must soon start to discharge .
After 60 days of the new administration, American government has descended into surrealism. ...
This ludicrous and tragic charade on the southern border is half of the current administration’s vast and pointless game of pretense, in which it denies the existence of one immense crisis, while grimly and tediously proclaiming the iron duration of another crisis that has in fact, largely passed. ...
... its spokespeople, day after day, unctuously repeat pious lies about this unfolding outrage to the press corps that conducted the campaign for the almost comatose candidate who is now the president.
At the same time, ... It is now obvious that the entire Democratic media terror campaign last year to demand slavish obedience to the most alarmist scientists and shut down as much of the economy and normal life of the country as possible, ... was ... tactical.
Comment: "Tactical", meaning, transparently political--imposed on a gullibly neurotic but now long suffering public that is finally waking up to what happened. Black offers an extended and excellent description of the Covid Hoax at this point.
It is not clear what the administration imagines it is doing by trying to mislead the country as it does. ...
The Biden Administration cannot possibly have more than a few more weeks ...
The long-suffering public will not stand for continued shutdowns and the blackmail of the teachers’ unions much longer, either, so the administration will have to proceed rapidly to the front of cresting opinion. Laws of nature and of politics will sort out some of these issues, but the fact that the administration attempted to prolong both positive and negative fairy tales for no evident reason invites curiosity about who really is driving the government train, and in response to what motives.
My impression is that the attempt to gin up a new wave of hysteria over The Variants is falling flat. There are ever increasing signs that the more-or-less informed demographic is fed up with the shutdowns, and especially the school shutdowns. Bill Gates' assurances that we'll return to normal "by the end of 2022"--is that coincidence, or is there something else happening in 2022?--is unlikely to gain much traction either, except for the vanishingly small percentage of the public that regards this college dropout as a public health prophet.
This is a phantom administration: a laid-back and thoroughly unprepossessing president, a sharply divided governing party, a completely unfeasible legislative program, and still no organizing principle ... There is no reason to believe that this drifting flotsam of a government has any other idea of what to do with the responsibility it must soon start to discharge.
Again, this isn't so much Pollyannish optimism as a warning that the future is far more uncertain than many on both sides of the partisan divide may imagine. I also remind one and all that foreign policy is no more likely to remain stable than domestic policy. Brace yourselves. And bone up on perennial principles--you'll need some guiding lights.
UPDATE: An indication that Conrad Black is right--Kama Sutra, through her top adviser--is stating in no uncertain terms that NO she is NOT DOING THE BORDER. Period. She's going to do "diplomacy" with Central American governments, which Steve Sailer interprets to mean paying "billions" to "mini-caudillos". I don't know the price of a "mini-caudillo"--is it more or less than the price of an Appalachian senator?--but "billions" is probably right there in the neighborhood. The point is, even a "chucklehead" (h/t shipwreckedcrew) like Kama Sutra recognizes that "doing the border" in the Zhou Baiden regime is like firmly grasping the third rail on the Red Line in Chicago. So, in a regime by committee we're already seeing committee chairs running away from governing. A recipe for major disasters to come, and we're only two months into the regime.