I'm sorry it's been so long, friends. I've really had a lot to say, but it seems many, many others whom I admire and regularly read, from Kunstler to Gore to Sido to Larry Johnson and TL Davis to, yes, Big Country, to Andrei Martyanov pretty much beat me to the punch. Not that I write about global geopolitics. I felt like I had little to add to the fray. I'm pretty much a South Texas Redneck who can spot and call bullshit on a dime, that's all. Lotsa that flying around these days, it seems.
I also have been in the grips of the deepest episode, eight weeks now, of clinical depression and self-doubt I've ever experienced. The Khaleesi, understanding as always, has borne the brunt of worrying about me and, no, corporate overlords, you will notice the work volume and quality hasn't suffered, so you may continue to bask in the glow of my productivity. I don't take SSRI’s; they are poison for me and data is now emerging that the serotonin pathway is but one component of a plethora of complex biochemical neural interactions. If they work for you, great….stick with it. Any port in a storm. I've been on high dose glutamine and it's helping. God bless Khaleesi; she truly is a dream girl
I can't say what triggered it; there are no obvious triggers. Khaleesi thinks I read too much doom porn…I disagree. Knowledge is power. I called this current chaotic maelstrom of absolute, unadulterated bullshit and mindfuckery that is the US Government a dozen or more years ago. I've just been waiting, like so many of you
Did I know exactly who the players would be? Of course not…but for two decades we Americans have traveled an UNSUSTAINABLE path, throw in a little Strauss & Howe Fourth Turning, look at a calender and Voila! … here. we. are. I've been at the Khaleesi Kave near Palm Beach for five days, decompressing with great apologies to her for being One.Boring.SOB.
My writer's view… I return to my practice tomorrow on Delta (shoutout to Captain John, my 767/F16 pilot friend, I'm on your airline), with a huge schedule. Some of those visits will be explaining to the newly diagnosed why they have this large, apparently bad-assed cancer. Oops, are you vaccinated, and boosted?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202899/
Now, to be fair, I have seen some terrible cancers of late in the unvaccinated, but they've all had Covid infection. Only time and our persistence in divining the truth will sort this out, because it's pretty damned clear TPTB want this “question” to go away. What really, deeply disappoints me is that my colleagues who so vociferously demanded that all be vaccinated “just don't want to talk about it”. Admittedly, probably the most difficult thing for a physician to say is “I was wrong”, or "I fucked up”.
Now, in the face of rising cancer incidence, we have shortages of critical drugs. We can't get carboplatin or cisplatin, two very commonly used chemotherapy agents. Carboplatin is one component of a very effective regimen for the most aggressive type of breast malignancy, triple-negative cancer. Combined with immunotherapy, it's incredibly effective. But, right now, not available
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/health/chemo-drug-shortages/index.html
Drug shortages? In AMERICA?!?
Ask the Khaleesi how many nights I've lain awake, staring at the ceiling obsessing over things I could've done better. Sometimes it's literally minutiae, having no bearing whatsoever on the outcome. Think Joe Biden ever does that? Obama? Hillary? Big Mike? For that matter, Lindsey Graham (my favorite closeted neoCon warhawk REMF ), Mitch, Ted, Dan Crenshaw (my favorite RINO in disguise). So many others….I know none of the Leftists do, it's anathema to their very existence, as Kunstler so eloquently outlines
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/memorial-service/
Wanna know why I haven't written? How can I improve on Kunstler? Or those other guys, like my friend Arthur
https://www.arthursido.com/2023/05/repost-memorial-day-musings.html
I have often remarked that, as a society, we seem to have a tendency to elevate the very worst among us to positions of authority and responsibility, and then shake our heads and wonder how it all got so screwed up. I'll be the first to admit, the 1990s for me were a blur, in surgical training, moonlighting to pay for shoes for the babies’ feet, and then building a new practice. I DIDN'T PAY ENOUGH ATTENTION. And, as Arthur alluded he did, I bought the Bush Lie. The family that, besides the Roosevelts, has been the biggest pox on these United States. The Bush family indirectly gave us the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bidens. We've been in their carpetbagging grip since JFK was killed.
2008 woke me up. I swallowed the red pill, hammered down the black pill for a while and really, really want to white pill myself. That means I have hope. A man without hope is a man lost to himself. You simply cannot find your way home. When I was but a kid, in Texas, the only human more despised than JFK under my father's roof would have been LBJ and FDR, both deservedly so and remaining so under my roof with GHWB, GWB, and BHO. Willie Jeff was just in it for the good time
And Biden’s just a tool. He always has been,nothing more. Thirty pieces of silver for him to bend with the wind. And this really reflects on the country, because the Presidency is a mirror reflecting the soul of our society. Since 1988 it's been showing us greed, narcissism and emptiness; meanwhile the Marxist termites continued their tireless grind upon the foundation. JFK, in retrospect, was more than he seemed. Yes, he was flawed, but so am I. It's why I'll support RFKJr this cycle. There's a LOT about him I don't agree with, but he's the only one out there with INTEGRITY. He has a core. And he bucks the Establishment and its grip on power. Even if he's just a disruptor, an annoyance, he's got my support. There are surely plenty WORSE, and none, in my opinion, better. Trump gave us lockdowns and Warpspeed. He is dead to me. My supporting a Kennedy; I've remarked on this to others….my madness.
So much madness, so much distraction. The debt ceiling, LGBTQ everywhere, including shooting up private schools and bomb threats at Target, Ukraine the Money Launderer for the West, yet no one seems to notice or care about literal BATTALIONS of military aged Chinese males funneling up through the Darien Gap in Panama and across our southern nonborder. Thank Michael Yon and Matt Bracken, among others, for raising the alarm
https://presentdangerchina.org/webinar-kinetic-war-on-the-u-s-home-front-the-ccps-plans-to-attack-america/
Consider that piece in the context of this letter to Chinese residing in CONUS
http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/dshd/202305/t20230524_11082500.htm
What do you really KNOW about your Chinese neighbors? Many are like-minded with you, or me, but many may not be, or be subject to coercion. A Fifth Column, if you will
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-29-border-officials-see-significant-increase-illegal-crossings-chinese-nationals.html
We could go on and on, we could talk about energy policy, “Climate Czar” John “I live off rich women and fly Gulfstreams everywhere” Kerry attacking US agriculture, the precarious status of the dollar. Madness literally proliferating and metastasizing, like NotVaxx-induced “turbo cancers”. Honestly, I do think it all played a role in getting me down, but I'm back, ready to engage.
No one wants violence. No sane, rational person. But trust me, they will not hesitate to visit violence upon you and yours to further their agenda. It may not be bullets or bombs; the modern Marxist seems to prefer lawfare, censorship, deplatforming and doxxing to outright bloodshed. They know the numbers on guns; the really smart ones recognize that a bunch of 8th-century Pashtuns now possess $85billion of our military hardware, and appreciate the parallels to our own mountain redoubts. They'll be content to nibble away until it collapses, then attempt to step in and openly take charge. Open confrontation is simply not their way; their battlefield confers no honor.
Quick! What's the fastest pathway to US citizenship? Riiight, join the military. Lots of military-aged males pouring over that border who'll have no options once the Gibsmedats from Uncle Sugar run out. There's a good deal of speculation about this running around, with them donning blue helmets and going door-to-door under official auspice
Who knows how that will work out for them?
Well, I've ranted enough. FWIW, Khaleesi and I did Cuban for lunch today…. Birria tacos and skirt steak. Good stuff. Immigration’s not all bad, when legal.
Next up for discussion will be the FBI, with whom I have personal experience. As always, don't get sick. Love, care for and prepare your tribe.
Great stuff. I also try to avoid the black pill, but it's not easy when reality keeps slapping you in the face.
Hang tough Doc. Put your faith in Jesus because everybody else sucks.