All fishermen recognize the extinction burst. The trophy fish makes one last, all-or-nothing run for freedom as the battle draws to a close.
All parents (and grandparents) of two-year-olds recognize it as well. Just before the child accepts the absolute necessity of not hitting, scratching or biting of "their" adults...they make one (or several) final, last, desperate runs at flipping the tables.
Why that matters
We live in an era of distracted parenting and distracted governance. Appeasement is the life-hack of the distracted. There are many tranches of people who embraced mal-adaptive responses to environmental stimuli and the distracted parents rolled-over.
If you are a conservative, you probably believe that Donald Trump winning the 2024 Presidential Election will be a good thing.
In the long-term, I agree with that assessment. In the short-term, we are likely to see a storm of "Extinction Bursts" from various entitled classes. The most violent will likely be illegal immigrants who will be directed to spend their seven-year wait prior to a legal hearing IN THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. But those will not be the only ones.
From the perspective of the entitled tranches, giving up their mal-adaptive responses is to lose a fundamental element of who they see themselves as. They see it as a partial-death of their persona.
Watch your back ESPECIALLY if Donald J. Trump wins the election.
Even the perception that your "Gimme Dats " are threatened can trigger dangerous behavior.
ReplyDeleteLet alone actually reduction of freebies can trigger those "entitled " souls.
And worse self defense seems illegal in the eyes of the law.
Interesting Times as in Chinese curse.
Michael
I highly doubt Trump will be able to overcome the communists cheating machine. But on the slim chance he does the same thing will happen that happen last time he won. The swamp will obstruct his every effort and he will accomplish very little. Him winning buys America a 4 year hiatus till the communists regain power and continue the destruction of society. But it's unlikely he will win.
ReplyDeleteBe on an even higher alert if Donne wins....But ALWAYS watch your back when around other people. Always. Never stop. The less you know them the less you trust them (but, with few exceptions, trust no-one fully).
ReplyDeleteBut ALWAYS watch you back. Just watch it more if Donnie wins. Be prepared to fort up for a week or 6 if need be, until things burn out.
A fatal flaw for the democrats was thinking they could keep the charade of Biden rolling. When he was vp, the thought was nobody would off Barack to end up with biden.
ReplyDeleteIf Trump wins, I would hope to see a much more visible VP Vance laying a groundwork toward the future. Trump is going to be under attack from all sides.
Was Dan Quayle a champion carrying on after defeat to Clinton Gore? I'd say he was shanked to death by Murphy Brown, even if he was still in the game after being vp.
I serve on a board where the vice chair is functionally worthless. Now he has been raised to chairman. Still functionally worthless, and it is the boards fault for not fixing it before it became the ****show that it is.
Jerry
Yep. They will not be pleased. I don't think Trump will make the mistake of trusting the wrong people twice. Clean, oiled and zeroed is my goal.
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