Is Reality Dead?

[café on General Uprising in Vung Tau on 3/17/24]

Last night’s hard rain has the cafe’s owner reminiscing about her village. Going to school in ao dai, she had to pull up her long shirt and rolled up her pants. Ao dai literally means “long shirt.”

For the chubby seller of lottery tickets, it was leeches she recalls, “The footpath would be flooded. There were so many leeches. They were this big. I was scared to death! There was no way I would wade into that.”

Vietnamese tag “death” onto everything. To express mirth, they might say, “I laugh to death.” I’m hungry to death, sleepy to death, angry to death, I waited until death. They even say, “I’m happy to death.”

“Even in Saigon, there were these huge leeches. There were still open fields then, with buffaloes, so there were leeches. I worked in a brick kiln, and also a sack factory. I worked in a plywood mill.”

Though others aren’t all that interested in her job details, she keeps reminiscing. All those tedious hours that taxed her to the limits day in and day out must mean something.

“At the plywood mill, I also cooked, which meant I had to go to the market. The owner would give me 300 or 400,000 to cook for ten people. I’d buy some seafish and winter melon, whatever. The change I could keep. The owner never asked for it. I laughed to death!”

That mill owner wasn’t so bad. “Each week, he’d take us to go sing,” meaning karaoke. “Still, it was very hard work. I’d train the new hires. Many quitted immediately. ‘Take it easy on them,’ I was told. ‘You’re losing all our soldiers!’ If I as a woman could handle it, why not these young men?! I laughed to death!”

Walking around to sell lottery tickets, she makes $12 a day, so life’s better. No one bosses her around or yells at her. At this café on General Uprising, she has loyal customers who buy each day. Most in her trade aren’t so sprightly or fat.

Bars, cafes and restaurants everywhere attract very specific crowds, as determined mostly by prices. In the US, race is also key. Most people, then, are only exposed to the tiniest speck of their society. They don’t know what’s happening a mile or just three doors away. Glued to TikTok or FaceBook when not taking selfies, many can’t even see or hear what’s around them. Hellish self absorption can only lead to societal collapse. Led to slaughter, billions are already braindead. Your massas are merciful.

Catering to the bottom third, this joint never sees a foreigner, but the other day, I heard a middle aged man say, “Sorry!” instead of “Xin lỗi!” Around town, you never see the Russian or Chinese flag on clothing, but Stars and Stripes are common, with the Union Jack also spotted. Even Viet Commies are smitten by the USA. They try to get their kids into the best American universities. Some have simply moved there. The dominance of English alone is proof the US is number one.

I’ve talked about Dzuy, a man in his 60’s with the most pathetic illusions about the USA. Though Dzuy has moved out of DC Homestay, he’s returned twice to see me, and I’ve run into him at Front Beach. With his back to the ocean, Dzuy was taking a selfie.

When Agent Orange came up in a conversation, Dzuy had this disgusting explanation. Vietnamese babies said to be deformed by Agent Orange are actually victims of Chinese chemicals, found in food eaten by malnourished North Vietnamese soldiers. Ten times as much Agent Orange has been sprayed in Africa and Italy without causing birth defects, Dzuy claimed.

If Dzuy is insane, what about the behavior of Poland, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Latvia and the UK? Picking a fight with Russia, they’ll only be destroyed, just like Ukraine is already, thanks to Jewish machination. Only the insane idolize and support a corrupt Jewish clown determined to butcher as many Slavs as possible. Those billions for Ukraine have fattened US death merchants, so Zelensky must be princely tipped. Just like Jewjab pushing Rochelle Wallensky, Vladimir always looks so concerned. Bad acting is good enough for fools.

Remember Weekly World News? For 28 years, every American saw its covers at supermarkets and convenience stores. Some headlines, “3-Legged Skater Banned!” “Baby Parts Lake Michigan!” “Garden of Eden Found!—Original Apple Recovered!” “Hillary Clinton Adopts Alien Baby” and “I Keep Mom’s Ashes in the Vacuum Cleaner.”

Though American news stories are getting weirder and weirder, they haven’t reached Weekly World News level, so we only hear about a man chewing on a severed leg of someone just hit by a train, a plastic surgeon having semen squirted on her back in Whole Foods and a parade of unsuspecting innocents suddenly punched or stabbed by a stranger. In Houston, 64-year-old Steven Anderson was just walking to his mailbox when he’s deliberately struck by a car. Reversing, it dragged his limp body several yards. As a neighbor called 911, another covered Anderson with two cushions, but the driver, still around, casually walked over to kiss then stabbed him. The murderer was a 20-year-old black man in a blonde wig and sexy black swimwear, Karon Fisher.

Since we haven’t read about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having Trump’s baby or MAGA martians decapitating Joe, Jill and Hunter, life is still normal, so relax!

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