It used to be that families would gather around the radio and listen breathlessly to reports of
conflict abroad. Conflict that might involve their nation. Conflict that might
involve their boys. Most of us have seen the iconic pictures of just such a
gathering during World War 2.
Today, many of us are listening to
Beyoncé, Post Malone, or Taylor Swift. Or to Kamala Harris claiming to be born
into the middle class—and spouting off about “joy.”
We do this as people are needlessly dying
and suffering, such as the Israelis recently killed by terrorist acts and dislocated
and terrorized by an unprecedented Iranian ballistic missile attack. No one
that I have encountered since news of that attack broke seems in any way
stricken, saddened, or bothered. Apparently, no one really cares. I mean, it’s
only Israel…and Jews, right?
So let “joy” ring out!
Nearly a million people have been killed or injured in
the Russia-Ukraine war? “Joy!” Hackers, train derailments, food processing
plants burning, airplane parts falling from the sky? “Joy!” Inflation and crime
rates rising? “Joy!” Illegal aliens swarming the nation, tens of thousands of convicted
rapists and murderers among them, along with fentanyl, sex trafficking, and
looting? “Joy!” Families coming apart, nation ever more divided, one’s sex/gender
meaningless, unknowable? “Joy!” Christianity disdained and mocked? Ode to
joy! Birth rates plummeting, testosterone and sperm counts at the lowest
levels ever measured? “Joy!” That means fewer people and less toxic
masculinity! Doubly joyous!!
The almost unimaginable death and
destruction caused by Hurricane Helene? Crickets. It’s really not that
big of a deal, says the mainstream media. Not when compared to, say, Ukraine or
diversity. Except that it proves man caused climate change is real!
Unimaginable joy! And the fact that it primarily devastated the Deep South, the
majority of whose citizens vote Republican? Bonus joy!
Known and unknown hackers are screwing
with all things American. Russia is threatening to use nuclear weapons against
the West. Iran has just attacked Israel via what is apparently the largest
ballistic missile launch in history.
There is no referee. There is no alpha
male to stop them. Things are getting very dicey.
We need Trump.
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