BALLAD OF A THIN MAN, REVISITED

57 YEARS LATER, TIMES ARE STILL A'CHANGIN

Where does one begin to explain what is happening in the USSA in 2022?

Obviously, with the exception of the miraculous escape from Detroit by Matthew Stafford, the biggest news (and the most popular spectator sport) is politics.

For those of us who remember life before 2001, the only people in the USA (it didn’t become a socialist state until 2021) who wore beards were either Amish, bums, or terrorists.

The remarkable character Chuck Todd changed all that. With his cute little Theodore Cleaver haircut and style, with his twinkling snake eyes, and his carnival barker act, he made whiskers fashionable. Like everything, it started slow and then it exploded. Soon, it seemed, every man in America began to look like Colonel Sanders. It was inevitable that this would transmogrify to the hipster beard of Jack Dorsey and the growing popularity of ZZ Topish chin monsters in east Tennessee.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
― Omar Khayyám

I credit the Tao.

Nothing ever stays the same. Everything is in a state of flux. It could very well be said that everything is fluxxed up.

How long ago was it that it was common “knowledge” that President Trump was Putin’s puppet? When did it become trendy to believe that Tulsi Gabbard was another stooge of the long-gone Union of Soviet Socialist Republic? How many times did the evil dwarf tell us that COVID-19 would never be a threat in the USA and that masks were unnecessary? How many times did we “learn” that only conspirators could possibly imagine that the pandemic was created in a Wuhan lab? How many times did Fauci lie about funding it?

And yet, most Americans believed those lies and the mass media and the tech industry faithfully hid the truth. What became of Tony Bobulinski and Hunter Biden’s laptop computers?

While we were once taught the mantra that America was exceptional, the truth is that only the dream of America was exceptional. The concept of a government controlled by The People and designed to help The People never really took root.

Thomas Jefferson, like Robert E. Lee, compared slavery to riding a tiger: you are afraid to stay on and afraid to get off. The rebellion in Haiti…. well, let’s not get into that.

The fact is that Amerika is the most violent and aggressive nation in the world. Consider the number of wars we have been in and how many legitimate, elected governments the CIA has overthrown or attempted to overthrow.

Why is it that psilocybin mushrooms are sold worldwide and cannot be shipped to Amerika?

Why is it that Europe is waking up to the fact that the pandemic has ended while the USSA is still promoting endless jabs of a mysterious concoction marketed as a vaccine?

Why is it that a convoy of truckers protesting lockdowns and mandates is being organized in California?

Why did Brian Williams end his decades-long career as a propagandist?

Why is Rachel Maddow suddenly and unexpectedly taking a leave of absence from her once-popular television program?

A very smart MD named Robert Malone explained to the world that the same mental disease that ruined Germany in the thirties has taken control of the USSA. For spreading this obvious truth, he has been slandered, censored, and removed from YouTube, Facebook, Google, and the mass media gives him as much attention as they do the assassination of police officers and the callous murders of Asian Americans in Democrat-controlled Amerikan cities.

I have one remaining “progressive” friend. Thanks to the prevailing narrative on television, he had never heard of Antifa in 2020. Last week, he denied that the Biden administration is flying illegal aliens, under cover of night, throughout the nation. When I told him that, less than one week ago, there were 1,500,000 articles on the Internet reporting on this fact. Today, February 1, there are 16,900,000 articles reporting this fact. He will not believe it until CNN and MSNBC tell him to believe it.

We have been lied to and tricked for decades. Some people are finally waking up to the truth.

“You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?” - Bob Dylan, 1965