As I scrolled through my Truth Social timeline this week many posts shared concern over the recent spate of fires, shutdowns of food production plants and culling of animals due to disease and whatever the hell else seems to be happening across industries that are an integral part of America's food supply.
Over 70 incidences in the last two years in fact... If the running lists I am seeing are correct.
Avian flu and fires have laid waste to egg and chicken production operations, including one plant that supplied three million eggs daily to many of the national big brand grocery chains.
Heat was blamed for the loss of up to 10,000 head of beef cattle in Kansas over the last week. My BS meter pegged at eleven when I saw that news story, and I didn't need a tinfoil hat to have some real questions about what is actually happening in that instance.
Can media reports be correct? Yes absolutely. Animals die from heat, cold and stress all the time.
Could the media be sensationalizing what is actually somewhat commonplace, just underreported? Yes again. Click bait isn't just for celebrity news and politics, especially in the era of not wasting what could be a useful potential crisis.
It's creating enough of a buzz that others are noticing and looking for explanations.
I've theorized before that we are at a confluence of failure at multiple levels. Across systems and institutions.
What feeds this failure? Greed, corruption, incompetence and actual malice all come together… combined with nebulous market forces, governmental regulations and hangovers from lockdowns to create havoc for all of us.
More importantly, today’s failure will be used to usher in a new, more "equitable" system tomorrow.
It isn't a conspiracy theory that the rich guy who goes on the news to drink poop water, advocate for plant based fake meat and eating bugs owns a staggering percentage of available farmland in the United States. Or that he owns a sizable investment in a new plant based infant milk formula.
It's not conspiracy to wonder how much foreign ownership of American food companies and productive acreage is too much. Or to question why the earlier mentioned rich guy, Bill Gates, has a need and want to not just opine on diets and climate, but public health, medical practices and over population.
You can safely bet your last dollar that I'm not going to eat the bugs or the pretend meat... Whether or not the American regime decides it's for my own good.
Not just because bugs are gross and belong outside and not in my kitchen.
It’s more because I understand that deep pockets rate quite a bit higher on the governmental priority scale than American's health and wellbeing.
This whole two year COVID debacle has shown that quite well, thank you. Just in case history wasn't enough of a practical guide. You don’t even have to go back that far.
The Left has it's plans and the American middle class stands in the way. In a very real and tangible way.
It’s the biggest threat to the post modern governance system there is.
So, obviously it must be destroyed. In a very real and tangible way.
Record breaking inflation, calamities around every corner and viruses lurking to infect the masses. It's insanity, doom and gloom everywhere you look. You are constantly being told to be suspicious of your neighbor, fearful and compliant.
And those in charge want you to believe it is all a foregone conclusion.
The honest side of me says much of the plans already are... at least in the short term. Gas prices will not improve, nor inflation, nor scarcity. Bubbles will burst. Inflation will turn to recession and then quickly to depression. At least on this current path.
The cynical side of me says of course most all of this is intentional. Biden promised the Green New Deal, and we shall have it good and hard. I'm trying to remember if beef is racist, or just bad for the ozone? Either way it has to go.
The prevalence of the numerous and varied crisis are a convenient motivator to change our behavior as Americans. Cheap gas provides a mobility and freedom that will result in less electric vehicles on the road, and a continued "outsized" dependence on fossil fuels. Nope, the consensus says that's bad, and it's especially bad for entitled Americans who think they themselves should choose their life experience.
Work from home (the managerial class’s new “learn to code” catchphrase)… it’s better for the climate.
The American worker and middle class upholds the American ideal by their mere existence. A stubborn class of entrepreneurs and employees who make America work everyday. Who believe in merit and hard work. And who enjoy, with zero guilt, the fruits of that labor.
They are the plumbers and secretaries. The factory workers and the plant managers. They are the doctors and nurses, and they are the small and medium sized business that allow the keyboard warriors the ability to stay home and dictate health policy from their third floor walk up in Brooklyn.
This year those fruits apparently won't include electric power and air conditioning during forecasted heatwaves. And as it so often goes... what happens in California eventually spreads to the rest of the nation... even here in Tennessee.
Our behaviors are the problem, and must be modified.
Your consent isn't necessary when the system you've benefited from needs to undergo a "fundamental transformation" - in fact your anger is just more evidence of the privilege you hold.
Instead of feeding into the fear and outrage, it's time to tune out the nonsense and noise.
Consent comes in many forms, including consuming the information approved for consumption, and spending time worrying about national interests that have zero effect on your daily life.
The answers to every crisis, both manufactured or not, start locally. Minding the local issues... having and nurturing local resources like food production - think more farmers markets, community gardens and rancher co-ops... less corporate chains and outside interests that never seem to invest back even a small percentage of what they take out of a community.
Tending your own version of a victory garden for yourself and your neighbors does more for our nation than any policies the Cabinet thinks up.
The best backstop to what your children and grandchildren are taught in school is your local school board. Not the federal Department of Education.
And if you don't want kids at drag shows in your city, lobbying your city council to pass an ordinance or law would be much more effective than calling the Congressional Switchboard in Washington D.C.
Maybe starting in our own circles, investing in our own futures and making sure we think locally first, we can start to bring about a coherent America First policy to every level of government.
By example.
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One unintended consequence of Build Back Better has been some agreement from America on what issues are affecting the United States as we head into the midterm campaign season. Everyone seems pretty unhappy, and dare I say, united, in what they see. (Photos Via Rasmussen Reports on TruthSocial.com)
It’s not an exaggeration to say I’ve never seen polling numbers like this in my lifetime. The breakdowns are even worse than the toplines.
This is ultimately why congressional Dems are flooding the field with January 6th hearings that are less than meaningless. You think they want to go home and get asked why everyone is suddenly broke?
I’m guessing Americans would be with me on the bugs too.
Even when you hold all the levers of power, reality... and pocket books ultimately matter more than any woke agenda.
ToniB,
You know me from TS.
I didn’t know that you were from Tennessee.
I am too. (Hendersonville, Tn)
Good article. Keep up the good work.
I’m subscribed, but I’m not sure which email. It’s either hansen61, or spur148.
I’ll catch up with you on TS. I might get on there today.