Barrel Strength

In Hemingway’s great novel The Sun Also Rises, Mike Campbell was asked about his money troubles.

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, and then suddenly.”

Gradually, and then suddenly. Cast your minds back to 1991. August. In the Soviet Union, for a few years, perestroika and glasnost had been shaking up the Soviet system, communism in Eastern Europe had collapsed and its vibrations were being felt inside Russia.

Then, suddenly, a General Committee for the State of Emergency headed by Gennady Yanaev, Dmitri Yazov and Vladimir Kryuchkov et al., arrested Gorbachev at his vacation spot in the Crimea, drove tanks into downtown Moscow and held an ill-fated press conference, at which they became a laughing stock, to announce their take-over. The Soviet nomenklatura was fighting back. What they didn’t bank on was the mass demonstrations of ordinary Russians and Boris Yeltsin’s famous speech standing on a tank outside the Russian parliament building. When the KGB Alpha Group special forces refused to take down Yeltsin, their number was up. The coup collapsed in three days and Gorbachev returned to Moscow, as he said, “…to a different world.” Within four months, communism fell and the Soviet Union broke up into its national republics.

Gradually, and then suddenly.

America 2020. Election Day. Donald Trump handily winning re-election—until—after midnight vote counting is sealed off in swing states and hundreds of thousands of ballots miraculously appear, almost all for Biden. No proper oversight is allowed. Republican officials are locked out by corrupt Democrat Party apparatchiks. Hours later, the Fake News media, always at the service of the Democrats, declare Biden the winner. Everybody knows, yes everybody, that a massive fraud has taken place. Some days before, old, befuddled Joe was seen and heard on video bragging about the best vote fraud program in history.

The American nomenklatura struck back. After the Capitol affair, shrieks of “insurrection” were emanating from the propaganda organs of the nomenklatura (aka the press), the president was banned from social media along with thousands of others on the right, and the vicious accusations of a frightened and panicking oligarchy saturated the airwaves. The Biden inauguration had all the trappings of a communist coronation: thousands of armed troops making sure that no ordinary Americans would display their displeasure at the coup that was taking place; suitable groveling from the Gollum-like hordes in the media; and endless lies about the vast numbers of Americans who voted for Trump. Nicolai Ceausescu would have been proud.

The American nomenklatura had been preparing for this for years with their endless lying about “Russian collusion”, with the media baying in support, with almost daily interjections from Satan’s spawn, Clinton—a kind of Elena Ceausescu without the charm.

The Capitol incursion was their opportunity. They pounced, and Trump was unprepared. It’s almost certain that Trump and his supporters never thought that the oligarchy would or could be so vile and unprincipled. But they have shown their hand now and there is no turning back. Censorship and nascent tyranny are afoot in the US and the Democrat Party is the horse of the Apocalypse about to ride rough-shod over the Constitution and the American people, particularly the working class of America.

Unlike the Russians, Americans have no modern direct experience of totalitarianism, invasion, or mass warfare on their own territory. The Russians do. They can see the ugly face of a new Bolshevism in the US—ignorance of history, fanaticism in politics, hatred towards opponents, all manifest in the Democrat Party which has become the vehicle of Kultur Bolschevismus today.

Will Trump be the Boris Yeltsin of America? Will there be a tank for him to stand on and lead the masses against the Thugs of the Oligarchy?

Already people are being fired from their jobs just because they listen to other points of view or partake in online conversations. This is pure tyranny right now, nothing less. The Constitution no longer exists.

The same is true in Canada. No-one, certainly no-one in the Conservative Party, is standing up against this state intimidation and media suppression. The universities have been entirely conquered by the Bolshevist hordes, the newspapers are cat-box liners for Liberal Party, and the CBC is simply the State Radio for the Liberal Party—financed by the tax-payer, of course. It seems that the only independent media in this country are Rebel News and the Post Millennial (support them with a donation).

Things can change very rapidly—and unexpectedly. How close is the US to a Soviet-style moment of collapse? Will this coup last? How close are we to a dictatorship, in the US and in Canada? Will any of our politicians develop a backbone? Is there anyone in Canada who is at least an approximation to a Trump? —Because, by God, we need one.

But wait—the Gamestop revolution. Wall Street parasites getting it in the gonads from a crew of teeny-bopper investors? Yes, I hope so; bless the lot of them. Stick it to those parasites. It’s up to you young folks now, go for it.

Rebel Yell