There is a repulsiveness to Tim Walz that is hard to put into words. Should someone like this be trusted with power?

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We moderns are totally alienated from the human experience is ways we can’t fully comprehend. The commercialization of technology has turned into endless gadgets of convenience, and we’ve developed a mind-crippling addiction to the myriad, cheap drugs of convenience. Every year a new gadget emerges to great fanfare, a new app, a new car equipped agency-destroying features. Why are we attracted to these things, and what are they silently replacing in our lives that makes our lives duller, and why do we feel an inescapable sense of ennui, a sense of doom about the future?  The answer is that, in exchange for this narcotic convenience, we’ve forfeited the very thing that makes us human. Are we better off now that 5G towers pepper our cities and rural communities? Has it really brought abundance and happiness the way it was promised? Prices are going up, virtually every community center has closed up shop, and we are left to our hi-speed connections, our unlimited data, the false god that we’ve demanded for decades and who has now arrived. Most people have no idea what is wrong with the world, why everything seems cheaper, why the world of our childhood is gone. The truth is that we’ve allowed it to wilt and die, because we were too preoccupied with the birth of the technological god. We’re more connected than ever, and yet real connection is almost dead. Everyone appears to long for the past, rather than anticipate with excitement the future. This is a disastrous predicament. Through technological advancement we are steadily being re-barbarized. Where can it go from here, other than a further descent? Every in-person institution is being replaced by virtual spaces. The screen is within arms reach from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep. An entire generation is being raised and trained to use this technology, nipping in the bud our humanity before it ever begins to blossom. Boredom, that stern molder of character and the spirit, is almost totally dead, because once we feel its uncomfortable sting, we reach for a screen. What kind of individual is created who never feels boredom? What happens to society when millions come of age who have never suffered and developed under it? Almost every young person I see today holds the screen perpetually in their hands, while walking, while driving, in restaurants, movie theaters, while out with friends who also cling to their digital drug, staring at their phone rather than at the people and places that they interact with. How could we ever free ourselves from this prison of convenience, the most dangerous drug we’ve ever developed, except when it is universally seen as the dangerous opiate that it really is? We were not meant to have instant access to the most depraved content imaginable, and yet parents slap phones in their kids’ hands as soon as they’re able to walk. And so they’re frozen in time, with no development possible, no growth of the spirit as they move to adulthood, dimly wondering about the world, but never fully investigating its mysteries because distraction has become a way of life for them. We the human race are cursed, and every new generation will inherit the curse in increasingly potent form. What is the answer to this, what is the way out? Where is the path to an awakening to this danger, and how could we ever reverse course when our economy and social structure is altering itself totally to accommodate this omnipresent drug of convenience? Remove the drug totally and everything would return to a natural order within one generation, but how to even begin? Do we pray for an apocalyptic solar flare to wipe out servers? We’d build it all back again, assuredly. Or are we too far gone to make even the feeblest of movements towards removing this entrenched “progress”? We must reevaluate progress itself, because it has shown itself to be a harvest thorns.

Mexico is actively aiding and abetting the endless wave of undocumented immigrants, bussing them to our border and assisting them in other nefarious ways. And yet the foreign leaders responsible for this are not being treated as enemies of the United States. Why?

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There has to be a better to pick our leaders. New citizens must pass a civics exam, but not Presidential candidates? Why not some objective intelligence test, at the very least?

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How many people among us are fully psychically human? How many are moral and spiritual blanks, and who are responsible for all the ills of this world? I’d say the ratio is something close to 1/500, as sad as that may sound. The former are responsible for all that is good in the world, our safety, our standard of living. They put their necks on the line to protect us, fending off crypto-barbarians, the 5G troglodytes, who have never made the effort to attain full humanity. The COVID pandemic was the best example of a troglodytic counterrevolution, and it came close to snuffing out the voices and power of the human, installing a caliphate of herd animals being forcibly guided by whip-bearing masters. Our new god, the omnipresent Screen, has spawned a generation of people who have been allowed to avoid the discomfort that comes with thinking things out, with the spiritual growth that comes with reflection, the wrestling with moral and spiritual dilemmas. The Screen generates troglodyte masses, malleable, equipped with the emotional control of a spoiled child. I use the below video only as a microscopic example of what is happening on a global scale. The man below doesn’t seem to care whether this other human being could very well die below him. He just stands there in Stone Age stupidity. We are being decivilized by design.

https://twitter.com/TheJoeySwoll/status/1829274543107838220

Here are two short stories that Oklahoma children read in class. “Paper Son”, and “Path to Paper Son”, the subject of which is illegal Chinese immigration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Children have no context to understand illegal immigration or its disastrous effects upon local, native populations who are forced to contend with them, competing for jobs and resources. They’re instead presented with emotional portraits of immigrants who lie to immigration authorities in order to bring more Chinese to the United States, painting the criminal dishonesty in a sympathetic light. Ryan Walters and other Republicans waste their time trying to get the Bible into our classrooms, while totally ignoring the real, long-term subversion that is occurring right under their noses. The children who absorb these stories will become voters in 15 years, and they’ll remember the emotional context, but none other, when thinking about mass illegal immigration. These stories are sad, as many stories of migrants are. But that doesn’t give them a claim upon a foreign nation, and it doesn’t force upon us an obligation to decimate our nation to help them. We can’t help everyone, and it doesn’t make us bad people to face that fact. Far too many Oklahomans have stories that are far more tragic, but where is the outcry? Why should these stories be forgotten, while those of the foreign-born are given priority?

Why does Kamala not talk to the press? Because she has nothing of substance to say, and isn’t able to communicate in an intelligible manner regardless. Say what you want, but its a smart strategy. It’s probably high time that candidates are forced to speak unscripted to the public, so the public knows who they’re voting for. It’s ridiculous that a Presidential candidate somehow has the right to run as a candidate and not speak before the public. She could very well be the next leader of the United States. We have a right to know whether or not our potential leader is a thundering dumb ass.

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What a joke. The Oklahoma State Works Permits and Visas Task Force recommends giving illegals permits to work in the state, even going so far as suggesting the creation of “The Office of New Oklahomans”, to put paperwork in the hands of illegals more quickly. I don’t buy the logic that illegal immigrants who get American degrees automatically have a right to citizenship. The better question is how are they getting into our universities? They can take their education back to their home country, or get in line and apply for legal citizenship. Legal, law-abiding residents of Oklahoma should have priority far before anyone else. But we hardly ever hear of these forgotten men, women, and children.

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