Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Annus Horribilis in Excelsis

That is what 2024 is shaping up to be. Ben Shapiro:

All of which means that 2024 is going to be the most insane and ugly presidential election in American history. And that’s saying a lot, since 1968 and 2020 are both years that existed. Under what circumstances, precisely, would Democrats accept the result of a Trump election? Under what circumstances, precisely, would Republicans accept the result of a Biden election?

The weaponization of the legal system creates an all-consuming fire, burning everything in its path. There is simply no 2024 result likely to result in anything but complete—and perhaps violent—chaos at this point.

One quibble, though. Shapiro ignores an important difference between Democrats and Republicans. The Dems, not inaptly describable as successor commies, are under party discipline: you can expect them all to toe the party line. There is no counterpart of the RINO among them. The Republicans, by contrast, are lousy with RINOs and cuckservative lapdogs of the Left.

To put it in terms of political 'circularity': the Dems circle the wagons while the Repubs favor the circular firing squad. And the Libertarians (Losertarians)? They expend themselves in the circle jerk.

Since Dementocrat scum will do anything to stop Trump, I predict that they will succeed, even if they have to 'raise' John Gotti to do so. And the Republicans, 'conservatives' who manage to conserve nothing, will acquiesce in the result and go back to writing learned articles about the Constitution and the rule of law.

Please disagree with me on this. I don't want to believe it. 

Happy New Year!

(Since some of you suffer from irony deficiency, I mean that ironically. I will be happy to explain the pun too, if that is necessary.)


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7 responses to “Annus Horribilis in Excelsis”

  1. Anthony Flood Avatar

    You don’t want to believe it, Bill, and I want to disagree, but your argument, which Shapiro’s rhetorical question epitomizes, is (I regret to admit) unanswerable.

  2. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Since the forces we are fighting are demonic, we can confidently count on God’s intervention. The mutilation of children will not stand.
    And it has all hung by a thread before, and good won. It hangs on a thread now; one example is Biden’s “left-over,” 1950s & 1960s rote support for Israel; it is both providential and ironic that from the wreckage of his mind he still displays that, and puts it at least partially into effect; you may bet that the Obama crowd behind Joey is furious about it, and what can they do? And thus the USA is on the right side of Genesis 12:3, MUCH to our benefit.
    Yes it will be probably war. But we will win. I want to see it happen.
    Portae Inferi Non Praevalebunt is a promise.
    Guess Who made it?

  3. DaveB Avatar
    DaveB

    The era of ‘Realpolitik’ – no following of ethical or moral principles – is here. Our own Civil War cost around 600,000 American lives. 600,000! Our modern death toll, after years of “marching through the institutions”, and the immanent ‘victory’ of the Left – pointed out by Shapiro and many others – may be less in the short run but with different results: loss of National pride; the hegemony of the very rich; very severe losses of personal freedom and dignity; and the list goes on.

  4. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    That you should mention John Gotti: that explains why you don’t see Donald and Melania together anymore: because they still have a son to raise. They are being realistic, responsible, and prudent. I’ll say no more.

  5. BV Avatar
    BV

    Your meaning is clear, Joe. We are battling the demon-possessed. They will do ANYTHING to win.
    Mollie Hemingway on Assassination Prep: https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1731835390632280261
    Sebastian Gorka: https://sebastiangorka.substack.com/p/president-trump-they-really-want
    What do they really want? Click on the link and find out. But you already know.

  6. Joe Odegaard Avatar

    Following Gorka:
    Memo to the Left:
    DJT will be a dictator? You don’t say ! ! !
    Maybe Donald Trump will: forbid me to use tungsten light bulbs, take away my gas stove, force me to drive an electric car, outlaw my propane-fired forced air house heater, and make me rewire my house for electric heat, to the tune of thousands of dollars, and force me to use “pronouns,” and thus unwillingly participate in another’s mental illness !
    You mean Trump will be a dictator like that?
    Really ?

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