Recently a patriot writer I respect, Biernutz_71, made a surprising statement on his substack.

I can't get his words out of my head! The "Devolution" thing is neither here nor there to me as I never fully understood what "devolution" meant anyways. It's like mathematics; I just don't get it! I'm like Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show who can't understand numbers outside the context of money.

When Biernutz said, "big money," it "clicked" with a pet peeve I've been toting around for ten long years. In the words of You Can't Take It With You: "The people who commercialize on fear...they scare you to death so they can sell you something..."

Isn't that exactly what some patriots are doing to other patriots!?! They're making a killing at it with no accountability when their dire fear mongering predictions don't come to pass. Even if they realize they're in the wrong, they won't admit it to you for fear of losing their bread-and-butter!

Oh, I get it. Depression, Famine and War (oh my!) can certainly occur on this little cockeyed planet. But since being red-pilled ten years ago, I've noticed Horrible Things are constantly being predicted and not happening with the exception of Covid, Covid, Covid.

For example, during Covid, the food supply was supposed to dwindle...or if the meat didn't go bye-bye entirely, fear mongeers warned meat suppliers wouldn't be able to get the little Styrofoam platters to sell the meat on (as if there are no workarounds, insert-snort-of-derision-here.)

In my neck of the woods, none of it ever happened.

Famine and Red China attacking by land and sea were predicted as soon as  Fake Biden stole the Presidency. I warned my friends and readers to stock up, but it never happened and I felt a fool.

Now "They" (whoever "They" are) are predicting famine again this Autumn. This time I remain incredulous and unmoved.

After a decade of having my fear chain yanked, I'm a little tired, a little jaded, a little "in denial" as the fearmongers call it. Well, maybe they and their greed shouldn't have cried wolf so often!

Of course, just when you let your guard down, that's probably when A Really Bad Thing will actually occur. Just as your bags of flour go rancid and your Ball canning jars spontaneously come unsealed, disaster will strike! And do you even know how to make bread!?! Or can vegetables??? HINT: The instructions on the Internet are all wrong. I speak from sad experience and many quarts of ruined food.

Let me just sum up all this fearmongering in one phrase from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, "This just in: the world is ending." And yet, here we are!

Over the past two years of writing AMERICA: The Blog, because I'm a  disgustingly optimistic person I've probably erred on the side of too hopeful, too cheerful, too Polyannish and I feel badly about it. In retrospect, I listened to some sources that turned out to be long on hopium, short on facts and I'm very sorry. My only comfort is I did not use fear to sell any physical item based on wrong information like the ubiquitous used car salesman who sells you a car owned by a Little Old Lady...who drove it in stock car races!

Biernutz_71's courage and humility has given me the courage to apologize. Been wanting to for a long time! Ah! Confession is good for the soul.

At the other end of the spectrum you have a charlatan who's been writing stories out his a$$ to deceive the patriots for so long that several Mainstream Media outlets have published excellently researched exposés on him. I refer, of course, to Michael Baxter of Real Raw News...the burr under my saddle.

He writes easily disproven BS, claims 53,000 readers and gets thousands of site hits every day whilst I struggle, being blocked by sites that claim to be patriotic like Free Republic, Godlike Productions and Great Awakening. Regardless of how many times I shame, expose and scream my head off about RRN, he just keeps going and people keep denying the evidence of their own eyes and keep sending me his bull$hit articles. Stop already!

It's gotten so bad that Harry Kapralos of the Hudson Regional Hospital sent Baxter a Cease-and-Desist letter in January of 2022 for making false and defamatory statements. And jolly right too.

Mountebanks like Baxter is how the trouble starts.

The darn thing about life is long it takes to develop perspective. For example, it's taken me two years to ask, "Wait a second. All patriots know X, Y and Z...but where exactly did X, Y and Z come from!?!"

This nagging doubt began after a lady posted, "I heard they're going to turn DC into an owl sanctuary." She stated it as "Fact" without knowing the provenance of this "Fact"...but I did!

It came from a comment by that shadowy anonymous character, Juan O'Savin, on a YouTube where he quoted Isaiah 34:11: "...the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness."

A verse became a rumor became a "Fact." And that's how rumors start.

Another pet peeve are those who claim that every famous male is actually female and every famous female is actually male. Please! Ghost Ezra on Telegram can knock that nonsense off anytime. And his anti-Semitism too (which he appears to have deleted). Not cool, dude!

Another classic example is the mysterious inserts Clinton, Biden, etc. received in their bulletins at George Herbert Walker Bush's funeral. Supposedly it said, "They know everything. I'm sorry." But where did that info come from!?! After watching the footage repeatedly, I never seen one of the cards clearly on camera.

Whatever the inserts contained did horrify the Bush family as well as our uppity-up Deep State politicians but I can't imagine their well rehearsed catatonic public faces crumbling over something as simple as, "They know everything." C'mon! They're more professional than that and that piecrust threat isn't nearly dramatic enough to scare them.

I've no idea what the insert contained but it seems slightly odd to me that the only Bush child at President Bush's side when he slipped into death was his son, Neil. Not George, Jeb, Marvin nor Dorothy. Just Neil.

There's a lot of money to be made from fear and none from accountability.  Seems like no one is holding the fear mongers accountable. They go blithely on from fear to fear to fear, raking in the dough, without anyone saying, "Hey! You were really wrong about X, Y and Z. Whazzup with that!?!

Maybe it was my family's months and months of backbreaking prepping for Y2K that made me allergic to fear mongering. And we weren't the only ones who fell for it! This video contains clips of a young Alex Jones working the Y2K fear angle for all he's worth. I only listened to the Alex bit which begins at 1:04:45.

Did anything ever actually happen at the stroke of midnight when 12/31/1999 clicked over to 1/1/2000!?!

After warning everyone we knew about Y2K, and looking like idiots when nothing happened, my family never spoke of Y2K again. We tucked our tail between our legs and ate canned ham for months afterwards. Yuck!

And speaking of which, how does My Patriot Supply know their food will last for twenty-five years!?! The company's only existed for fourteen years. Just the weird way my brain works!

All I'm saying is, "Be careful." We've all fallen for some BS because it's hard to know what bizarre, hideously wicked and idiotically symbolic Evil may actually be happening vs ones that are pure fiction.

Some people never saw a Conspiracy Theory they didn't like. The more Evil it is, the more they believe it.

But as we're always saying about the Deep State, "Follow the money trail." Often the fear porn leads straight to millions of patriot dollars going into the coffers of the fear pornographers who are never brought to account when dire prediction after dire prediction comes to naught. Back in the Old Testament days, if a prophet's prediction didn't come to pass, he was kaput. Now, we just buy more crap!

So what's the antidote?

Well, it occurs to me that the Bible doesn't ensure the Good Life nor freedom from persecution by The Powers That Be. As C. S. Lewis wrote in The Screwtape Letters, "Now it may surprise you to learn that in [God's] efforts
to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else."

We may go through troughs but we aren't alone. In Luke 12, Jesus said, “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

What a relief! In times of stress, I'm tongue-tied.

There's gotta be another way to make a living that doesn't include scaring people to death 365 days a year!

It's like Grandpa Vanderhoff said in You Can't Take It With You when he invited a sad little banker to leave his boring job and join the Vanderhoff family to pursue his passion as an inventor. Grandpa Vanderhoff said he was taken care of by, "The same One that takes care of the lilies of the field...except that we toil a little, spin a little, have a barrel of fun."

And having gotten all that off my chest, I'm clambering down from my soapbox to spin and toil a bit myself!

Have a good week, Patriots! #trumptriumphant