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There is now enough credible information related to Western NC on what's going on with the various "organs of government."
I've written about a lot of this in the past; zero of what FEEEBLA (FEMA) has done surprises me. Show up a week late, rent up all the nice places outside of the damage zone at $500/nt for your "people", fuck the locals who have nothing because it was destroyed, walk around with clipboards, clear a tree with a chain of people passing logs around and take photos to post on media which anyone with more than a shoe-sized IQ knows is fucking stupid because anyone with a brain would pull a side-by-side or small pickup in there, toss the logs in and drive it the 200' which is 100x faster and more efficient if the goal was to actually clear the downed trees and then, once you harass people and act like strutting peacocks leave, fuck all the people who got hosed.
Oh by the way we spend billions a year on this horseshit and should ruin them all.
But the latest is much-worse than preening and doing nothing: Its at the county level and is active obstruction imposing misery on top of what nature did and is exactly what you get when you let state and local government have too much power rather than give them a reminder from time to time who actually is in charge (not them.)
Specifically they're forcing people out of temporary structures built by volunteers because "they don't meet code." Among the things the CUNTY cites are lack of insulation and lack of a permanent and permitted foundation. The former is a "who fucking cares, its cold and a wall to stop the cold air is better than none" and the latter, in the present tense, is a physical impossibility because (1) the former foundation at the site is either gone or buried under 6' of mud and unusable, (2) wouldn't align with the temporary structure anyway thus can't be tied to in a code-compliant way and (3) the permitting and soil engineering analysis required to put up a new one is unreasonable under the circumstances.
Yeah, I get it -- if there is severe weather again without that the temporary structure may be destroyed but guess what -- so will be a tent and in the meantime its a hell of a lot warmer and better than a tent.
It appears the only "legal" option other than a tent for these folks is an RV which isn't a structure and thus fuck those government goons but, when it comes to the FEMA ones they won't let the people use them (and yes, FEMA has a couple thousand of them) because most of the sites are in fact in a flood plain as was just proved in spades by the event (duh), that's prohibited use by FEMA and thus fuck you no place to live for you.
Oh and I'm sure there are some assholes in the county who will be around next to tell you that an RV is not a legitimate "living unit" either if used for more than some period of time (e.g. a week or two) on a given piece of property. You know, because a fucking tent beat something with walls?
There are times that one thinks that perhaps the correct answer to "government" is in fact to say no to all of it except for a Navy at the federal level, run them all out of town by whatever means are necessary and accept that (1) this means you have to shoot your own intruders, thieves, rapists and similar and (2) take the risk of food poisoning in a restaurant and such, along with the risk of a fire in a motel or other structure because there are no inspectors and such and thus nobody to police it all.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES.
When you get down to it, all of this -- and much more -- is related to something we don't want to discuss.
The issue with "migrants" in Germany deciding that ordinary revelry, which Germans have partaken in without incident for a long time -- suddenly becomes an invitation to rape.
The same sort of problems occur in England, with the same source.
And Laken is dead for the precise same reason.
You see, we're not all the same.
In fact, Anglo-Saxon White People, like it or not, are rather unique -- and a serious minority in the world. It's a cultural difference that may or may not be bred into us, but its real and those nations that have ignored it have paid the price -- in blood.
Simply put, it's this: Different cultures have a wildly-different view of the value of human life.
You cannot let people into your nation and society who do not share your view of human life, or allow other things to have a higher valuation (like their desire for sex) than you place on life yourself. If you do your society is doomed because you will be forced to either degrade your view to match those you admit or they will abuse and kill you.
Laken (and many others) are dead because we did not adhere to this basic principle when it comes to who we let into our nation which, in fact, up to the 1960s, was based on exactly this. Multiple "immigrant" sexually-abusive monsters who allegedly raped children are in Massachusetts for the same reason. Our abandonment beginning with Hart-Celler and wildly expanded and abused in the decades since, was defective in the first instance because it ignored the basic fact that our cultural standards in this regard are incompatible with many others.
We're not the only ones; most of Europe has done the same foolish things -- and gotten the same results. You could claim a one-off was "random chance" but not when it happens repeatedly, as it has in France, England, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere.
The facts are that most of the planet's cultures simply do not share Anglo-Saxon values in this regard.
Yes, there is a distribution of these beliefs in individuals across all cultures, but the distribution is not the same between cultures and people, just as is the case that not all Pit Bulls will eat your child. But the odds of a Pit Bull doing so, irrespective of training, are much higher than that of a Lab doing the exact same thing. The distribution between those breeds, although both are dogs, is wildly different.
We are nowhere near perfect -- but we are different, and if the choice is to either have that high-level respect for human life or not -- I chose to have it, because while there are those who are nuts in any population there is a difference in the baseline, and its not small.
Laken and many others are dead because we refused to respect that.
We must return to what was.
Hart-Celler and what followed after it, especially the Reagan Amnesty and what has followed since, was a monstrous mistake we must reverse.
It starts, if Trump means what he says, with indictments and prosecutions under 8 USC 1324, a long-standing law that mandates a term up to life in prison for each and every person who provided assistance to Iberra -- including the landlord who rented him an apartment, the entity who paid for him to reocate to GA from NY and everyone else involved including State and Local government officials, none of whom are immune from Federal prosecution and all of whom facially violated that law. If this does not happen on the first day Trump is not serious and the choices before us become much more-stark as it then becomes clear we cannot vote our way out of this problem.
I'll give it to you long, hard and dry on why Democrats lost:
When you get down to it Harris was uniquely full of shit and voters were tired of being bullshitted. Repeated claims that Biden was perfectly fine mentally by her personally were over the top crap anyone with two IQ points to rub together could see. Neither Biden or she had any sort of plan to actually do something about the inflation problem and the reason is simple -- the parties have constituencies that get nicely wealthy out of screwing you and aren't going to stop by being asked nicely; you have to be willing to jail them and Harris and Biden aren't. Younger people in particular are getting relentlessly fucked by the illegal alien invasion and driving of ordinary living costs, especially groceries, medical and car insurance. The entire "I've got a vagina and I'm black so vote for me" crap doesn't work on them (it shouldn't work on anyone, but of course sometimes it does) any better than it did for Hillary and her "its my turn" garbage. Worse, after getting spanked multiple times trying to buy votes through "forgiving" college loans Harris had an entire cadre of deeply-indebted people who now have every reason to believe that despite getting a letter saying they're good its going to blow up in their face as those gibs were ruled unlawful and rather than drop it when the first loss happened or go after the colleges for unlawfully deceiving students as to the value of their coursework they doubled down with more of what the courts told them they can't do! Waking up every morning thinking you're going to get a letter in the mail telling you that $100,000 you had to pay is still in fact owed any day now is not a motivator to get you to pull the lever -- who votes for more butt-screwing and uncertainty?
Why did the Democrats lose?
Because the Republicans could have run SATAN, literally, and beaten them.
That's why.
If the Democrat Party doesn't want to disappear it had better cut all that shit out -- right here, right now, publicly, and excoriate and excommunicate all the assholes in the party who did that stupid shit and will continue to unless they find themselves whacked upside the head with a clue-by-four and expelled from party ranks.
Assuming there's anything in that cranium to be whacked, that is.
I have my doubts.
Ed: This shouldn't have to go on the -NAD side. It does, however, because both political party activists will try to report it as "arguing for violence" even though it does no such thing. The root of that problem is that current law permits entities like Facebook and Google to have back-door APIs and take reports they have no duty to disclose to you as to who filed them, they can and do act on same via either robotic or simply "oh its from a trusted source thus its true" basis and they have no duty to disclose specifically what they object to in the complained-about work. Any such refusal or obfuscation should void Section 230 immunity; if you're going to grant publisher and provider immunity then they should be required to be "pass through" entities when it comes to complaints much as is the case for a DMCA complaint, and if they don't -- not on subpoena, but originally -- they lose their protection entirely. But that's not the world we live in.
A politician's job isn't simply to win.
It is to win by a sufficient margin that the inevitable cheating, which occurs in every election, is insufficient and if the losing side tries to cheat by enough to actually change the outcome it will exceed the level of plausible deniability among the general population.
Claims that we have "secure" elections and that "every vote counts and none do that are invalid" are always false. That has never been true -- not here in the United States or anywhere else. Simply put there is always an incentive to cheat and people always will because people respond to incentives.
But there is also a margin of plausible deniability. If you win by enough to overcome that then cheating in a sufficient amount to change the outcome runs the risk of an immediate uprising by the losing side.
If your "win" is within that margin then the outcome can be changed and while many will say something like "Not my President" because they believe you cheated, whether you did or not, you still lost from a standpoint of the opposing party supporters because you failed to do the essential job of exceeding that margin even though you gained the office.
You may not like this fact but it is a fact.
The reason you can't cheat in an unbounded amount is that there is a level of cheating at which people will revolt.
I'm not talking about a few lone crazies deciding to do crazy things either -- I'm talking about revolt in the real sense of the word. Despite the bluster and bullshit by law enforcement and people like our current AG they know damn well there is exactly nothing they can about it other than submit if it happens.
Its simply math -- there are about 1 million sworn officers of all sorts in the United States but some 240 million adult Americans. If 10% of half (the losing side) decide they're not going to put up with that shit that's 20:1 or worse odds against the cops and they either stand down or every one of their families, they themselves and everything they own is destroyed.
Nobody goes to war at a 20:1 manpower deficit and survives it when your side is embedded in their homes and property among those you're trying to defeat. If you try that you lose everything including your life and everyone in every law enforcement position from the lowly meter maid on up damn well knows it.
Now there are nations where such acts (e.g. 10% swings by cheating) do happen and people get away with it. They are places where the people have been formerly disarmed as one key element, or there simply really isn't more than one person on the ballot even though there might be (e.g. where there's no such thing as a secret ballot.)
But America is not such a place and incidentally the 2nd Amendment is the reason we're not such a place -- and why we had damn well better never do anything to get rid of it. That implicit threat must always exist as it is the "hard stop" on corruption of the franchise and thus is essential to the continuation of a peaceable society. If it falls then civil war in some form or fashion becomes inevitable and we must never allow that.
So here's reality coming into the last week before the election: Both side's job, if they wish to claim not just victory but legitimacy, is to win by enough that nobody can reasonably question the margin of victory as it is outside the boundary of any reasonable claim of cheating.
Because yes, there will be cheating just as there always has been in every single election.
You're supposed to make the case well enough, as a candidate, that your margin is outside the realm of plausible deniability.
That is a political candidate's actual job.
We'll see if either of the two on the ballot pull that off.
Well Harris voters, if you fall for it (or already did) you deserve it up the ass so when you get it you cannot say it's unfair.
You were promised -- more than once now during this campaign -- a concert by some star showing up to a political rally. That's why you came, and what you got -- instead of a performance -- was a few-minute abortion speech. Zero music, zero performance, all scam.
You didn't show up to see lying sack of shit Harris. Nope, you showed up to see Beyonce. Well, you saw her -- talking about her uterus. That's not what you thought you would get, right, and it wasn't what you were sold -- nor why you stood in line for hours.
Everything you're sold by the left is a lie and y'all just had it shoved in your face so if you fall for any of that crap from this day forward you deserve every bad thing that happens to you and your family as a result of those lies and actual policies up to and including slow, painful death.
We're not killing the planet with oil, coal and gas consumption: We in fact have made the air so clean over the last 30-40 years compared with the one hundred years prior that more energy from that huge flaming fusion reactor in the sky reaches the ground and thus it is warmer, and in the winter its colder because more of the absorbed energy radiates into space without being reflected back downward. I presume you'd prefer not to choke on the fumes of chemical plants and car exhausts like I did when I was a child, right? You've never experienced it but not only did I experience it so did both Obama and Harris and they are both lying to you about how it was and how we changed it., all for the better.
If you're all so-worried about the planet and carbon why don't you drag out of their tony mansions and summarily execute all the executives of the firms running their "AI" schemes, never mind places like Facesucker itself? Those "data centers" use more power and expel an enormous amount of heat into the atmosphere for what purpose, exactly, other than your celebration of pronouns? At least when I burn natural gas I get some actual, tangible benefit: I warm my house or cook food with the heat.
Oh by the way all that Gaia shit directed at us is in fact promoting and enhancing those who really are emitting all the pollutants into the environment today, from air pollution to tons of crap, mostly plastic, into the oceans. No, your straw is not the problem as you almost-certainly throw it in the trash; theirs is thrown in the ocean on purpose to save a fraction of a penny: China and India, to be specific, and they're not slowing down. In fact their rate of pollution is accelerating and you are deliberately promoting your own impoverishment for their benefit. That's right, you're committing slow suicide at the behest of these scam peddlers all of whom love actual no-bullshit Communism (since they'd be the ones with the boot on your neck) and would be perfectly happy to have you shitting in the street because you live in a fucking straw hut!
Oh, the gun thing? Yeah, their "gun control" scam is run on you so if you ever wake up to their scam you can't shoot them when they refuse to stop raping both your wallet and body. The gang-bangers are exempt of course because they don't give a shit about any law and have you noticed they don't throw those assholes in prison even when they're brandishing or shooting people with their weapons on video? What's Chicago's murder clearance rate again? Oh yeah, that statistic is gamed too -- if prosecutors don't bring charges that counts as "clearance" even though your kid is still dead.
Further, if you're black (you know, for real) you have to be a special brand of stupid to vote for the jackasses currently in charge and wanting to be in charge for the next four years, along with all the black mayors considering that in said cities the huge majority of those both doing the shooting and getting shot are black so spare me about how I'm supposed to put up with some sort of "white guilt" struggle session. In fact, you can go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw for that suggestion. Since you vote for your own death and that of your children you're welcome to experience it. Hard pass on that here.
You're told its "so great" to allow all these "poor people" to come into America. What you're not told is that since they're so poor and have no skills the extra demand forces up the price of everything you need, like a rental apartment and food, and oh by the way they have few or no skills even in common life acts such as driving a car so they either rape and rob to take whatever they want or, if they've stolen it from you via the government they just smash into your car, further increasing your pain level personally on top of the financial rape they served up courtesy of your Democrat friends in power.
You think you're so "compassionate" in "helping all those poor people" including in YoooKraine but in fact all you're helping is a bunch of thieves who don't give a wet shit about anything but their bank account balance. Witness the fact that for the last four years they all lied about masks, shots that don't work and in fact tried to needle rape you by force and we now know those shots were contaminated with DNA fragments that can be integrated into your cells and incidentally, that causes CANCER so now if you took them you may well be fucked at any time for the rest of your life with exactly NOTHING you can do about it. Over in YooooKraine something like one dollar in five actually winds up doing something to assist fighting the war (which we instigated when Obama was President) with the rest being siphoned off by various grifts and scams -- some, the evidence shows, by Biden's own family.
Meanwhile after the dickhead governor of NC sat and played with himself along with FEMA (run by Harris and Biden, I remind you) a bunch of toxic white men showed up in NC out of West Virginia with their own fuel and heavy earth-moving equipment, all unpaid, and restored a road into Chimney Rock that the governor said would take a year to fix. They did it in one week and yeah, its temporary -- but now supplies can get in there where prior the town was entirely cut off. Multiple bridges have also been constructed by more toxic white men in both Tennessee and North Carolina out of debris (including wrecked flatbed trailers) with said toxic white men's own heavy earth-moving equipment and fuel to restore access to cut-off areas. Yeah, they're temporary in nature as they were made out of whatever materials could be salvaged from the flooding and won't take heavy loads but they're better than fording a river on foot. Even more toxic white men have run thousands of trips with self-purchased supplies into the impacted areas and even more toxic white people have worked the loading, unloading and distribution of same at churches in particular -- you know, toxic Christian places of faith? Would you like some more toxic white masculinity and toxic Christian faith when something has to get done because people are fucked to the point of dying or are you going to bitch about DIEEEEEVERSITY instead?
You think Harris will be a good President because she has a vagina and is "black" when in point of fact she cackled for years about arresting parents and threatening to throw them in jail because their kids skipped school even when the reason the kids weren't in school is that they were in the fucking hospital, and she thinks it was awesome that she could and did stoke a pen and fuck your life irrevocably even when it was later proved she was wrong. Screwing people without a scintilla of remorse is the stuff of laughs for her and you want that douchebag to be President?
Are you really so fucking stupid you'll vote to fuck yourself when just a couple of weeks before the election she scams you into showing up at a political rally by falsely promising you a free concert? You now have, in your face, a demonstration of every fraud the left has foisted off on you for the last two fucking decades and she did it just before the election so nobody can claim "they don't remember" either.
I guess in about a week we'll find out.