The White House is now issuing declarations that sound like a cross between a mobster monologue and a Maria Teresa decree
Just read and re-read the language:
YOU’RE LOOKING AT A WINTER OF SEVERE ILLNESS AND DEATH FOR YOURSELVES, YOUR FAMILIES AND THE HOSPITALS YOU MAY SOON OVERWHELM
Here’s my translation:
IF YOU DON’T IMMEDIATELY OBEY MY ORDERS AND CONFORM TO MY RULES, NOT ONLY WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SUFFER, YOU ARE CAUSING THE DEATHS OF YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS
The President of the United States of America now sounds like a movie mobster. Consider these great lines:
I KNOW YOU KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. SO TELL ME, BEFORE I DO SOME DAMAGE YOU WON’T WALK AWAY FROM (Vincenzo Coccotti, played by Christopher Walken, “True Romance”)
I WON’T LET YOU BE HAPPY, WHY SHOULD I? (Don Logan, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, “Sexy Beast”)
Not too far off, is it? It’s the person who has all the power speaking to the ones he thinks have no power. Classic bully talk. And of course, the White House is justified in talking bully talk because so far very few of us have stood up to the bullying. It's a simple formula: we allow the bully threaten and we remain silent. Of course, there have been demonstrations across the world but, as I have written elsewhere, until we scale the ramparts of the castle and make sure the king knows he's next, the protests don't have enough teeth. Still, it's one thing to cajole and plead with the nation to make them see that YOU are right and it's quite another to threaten them the way Kings have been known to threaten their subjects. Kings were understood to be God's direct representatives on Earth. To contradict the King was to contradict God himself. Appropriate punishment had to be meted out for such a transgression (“contra-dict” from the Latin “speaking against”). And indeed, death, illness and a perennial guilty conscience are appropriate punishments, as King Joe Biden outlines in his most recent Royal Writ.
This nauseating screed is a nice combination of styles, isn't it? The mob isn't concerned with eternal damnation. They just put a bullet in your head and bury you in a shallow grave. The King, on the other hand, representing God as he does, needs to go a bit further. That's why the language is stronger: “Winter of death, disease and nagging conscience”. The Biden WH is obviously well versed in both mob movies and catechism.
As offensive and insane as this declaration is, it clearly signals this WH is a spent force (not that it ever was any kind of force) All they have left is threats. The vaccine uptake for kids has been abysmal: around 10%. The feverish insistence on boosters only proves these vaccines are a dud. Many are afraid to admit it, our family, our friends, our neighbors. But they all know something is badly, badly wrong here. The woke Marxist agenda may have a decent foothold in Europe, whose leaders are enamored of the Chinese social credit system but it has almost no purchase in most of the United States, a country which drinks individualism with its mother's milk.
Let's make it clear to our Dear Leaders: we do not care for their “abundance of caution”, their safety-ism, their hypochondria, their alarmism. And we most certainly do not care to be bullied or threatened, whether by Marxists or by Kings. We, each one of us, are masters of our domains and neither Vincezo Coccotti nor King Joe Biden will undermine our unshakeable belief in liberty and personal responsibility.
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” Ludwig von Mises
This post is right on but why compare Biden, a through and through peasant to a king?