Forget That Iceberg; Let’s Dance

It’s a beautiful Saturday, and I am stuck here waiting for a background check so I can pick up my new Anderson Manufacturing AR-15 lower receiver.

Yesterday, it arrived at the pawn shop I always use for transfers. I went in today, after donning the government-mandated China flu face diaper. Of course, I knew what was awaiting me: a group of people who would stare when I walked in. Nobody wears the diaper at that place. I saw I was among friends, and I took mine off.

Prior to the kung flu’s arrival, we had around 120 years of science leading to the conclusion that cloth masks do nearly nothing to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses. Suddenly, a few months after Anthony Fauci told us there was no point in wearing them, the establishment started telling us cloth masks were extremely important. I get a false sense of security when I wear mine, and it serves to shut people up, but the science backing it up appears to rival that supporting the rhythm method.

I feel a little strange walking into stores and banks wearing a mask and carrying a loaded gun and a big knife.

This was my first look at the lower, and I had mixed emotions. The good: I didn’t see any flaws, and it looked like it was manufactured to very high standards. The bad: it’s not as pretty as my other uppers. The actual receiver, meaning the aluminum housing everything attaches to, is very plain. The trigger is ugly. It looks similar to pot metal. It’s mil-spec, though, so it must work. I’m going to replace it as soon as my new trigger arrives, so it doesn’t matter.

The butt stock has already been replaced. The replacement is sitting beside me in a Fedex bag.

Was it a mistake to buy an assembled lower? I don’t know. The price was $10 below MSRP, the manufacturer makes quality receivers, and it was available right away. Replacing the trigger and butt stock will cost me around $130. Should I have bought a receiver without those parts? Could be. I would have had to get the buffer parts and install them, along with the grip, safety, and so on. I should be able to get 5 bucks for the old stock, and maybe I can sell the trigger parts, too.

I thought about people in tyrant-controlled states today. I thought about my cousin, who lives in the Illinois town Kyle Rittenhouse comes from. I feel so bad for them. I expect all of us to be tyrannized soon, but they’ve been putting up with it for decades. I was able to buy lots of guns with no waiting period. I never had to deal with an asinine, dangerous magazine limit. I have loaded up on mail-order ammunition. I’ve had a carry permit forever. I can drive around with a loaded AK in my truck. Florida isn’t perfect, but it could be so much worse.

I’ve been wondering what I’ll do when the civil war gets going. I’ll have to choose a side. I suppose that anyone who lives where I do will have to support the anti-Antichrist side or leave, even if he doesn’t take up arms.

Historically, Americans have chosen war and casualties over peace and tyranny. I think that’s what we’ll do this time, too.

Tyrants force wars to erupt by making people so miserable war looks better than compliance. I believe that’s where we’re headed. Gloating, sadistic statists will take pleasure in making us suffer, and they’ll overdo it. They’ll go after things that are too important for us to give up, and so many of us will be outraged, there will be sufficient support for rebellion.

It’s funny; Americans always seem to support nations that fight for independence, but half of the country opposed the Confederacy. Why is it that states can’t secede? “State” means “nation.” A state that can’t declare its independence isn’t a state. It’s a colony or an occupied territory. Why did the North feel it had the right to subdue the South? I’ve never seen that decision explained well.

It wasn’t because they wanted to rescue the slaves. The US didn’t have a history of trying to rescue slaves in other nations, and emancipation was not on the table when the war started. It had to be about wealth and domination.

The question of whether Americans are prisoners of the union doesn’t seem to come up much, but it looks like the answer is “yes.”

People are accusing Trump supporters of treason, while turning a blind eye to leftist terrorists who call openly for revolution. Personally, I think of treason as something you do to give an enemy an advantage over your nation. Seeking independence doesn’t seem like treason to me.

In America, you can get in very serious trouble for trying to overthrow the government, but should that be true if you’re really just trying to break off a few states? If I try to dethrone the president and Congress and impose a new system for all 50 states, it’s treason, but should it be considered treason if my state and I simply want to break up with the US, while leaving the existing government in charge of the remaining states?

I never thought I’d have to think about these things until recently.

If civil war starts, and I cooperate with the people who are in charge in my area of the country, recognizing their authority, will that make me a criminal?

My great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy, but he wasn’t tried or sentenced as a criminal. The North tried to kill him every day while he was in uniform, but when the war was over, they didn’t go after him.

I’m writing as though there will be a cessation of hostilities followed by reconciliation. That won’t happen this time. The tribulation will start, and things won’t ever go back to normal.

I guess I don’t have to worry about how the union will perceive me in the post-conflict future. I don’t expect that future to exist until the tribulation ends. By then, there will be no union to bother me.

There will be no post-conflict future while the union exists. While the union exists, conflict will be the future.

Anyway, today Donald Trump is my president, and I’m going to go pick up a new lower receiver today or Monday, and eventually, my new upper should arrive. That’s not so bad.

Sufficient until the day is the evil thereof.