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May 2, 2022·edited May 2, 2022Author

Hi everyone,

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Hi Linh--your comment "What we do have some control over is the salvation of our own ass, that is, we’ve been cornered into thinking like refugees" mirrors a thought I have more and more often. But at the same time, unlike the typical refugee, the feeling is growing on me that there is really nowhere to run any more, even if one is inclined to do so.

I recall some thoughts that Dr. Gary North shared once about leaving for another country. Paraphrasing from my admittedly failing memory (I read this many years ago), he thought it was a poor choice for most people, since they would find they were doomed to be forever strangers in an alien land, where their inability to speak or fit in like a native would always mark them as outsiders. For himself, he preferred to stick it out, come what may.

I suppose that of the US-born, the ones with the best chance of navigating this kind of life change would be the young; the older one is, the more difficult the adjustment.

Dr. North's belief probably reflects his awareness of the fact that the vast majority of those born in the US cannot function in any language other than English. Obviously, if one is of mixed heritage and/or is comfortable in another language, you have a big leg up and more good choices.

This leads me to wonder how difficult it has been for you to get by in your own travels. Obviously you are comfortable in both English and Vietnamese, but you have been to many places where neither is the native tongue. Do you have any difficulty?

Thanks for another good post!

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What a gift to wake to your excellent blog. I stay at home in Sacramento but travel with you!

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Hi Linh --

"The US has become the biggest Jewish joke ever."

You bet... but I thought that was obvious any time after President Jimmy Carter.

The trouble is that Americans like the wife and I, too old to really move, but still working and realizing we are not corpses yet... but... we are living in one.

Like Musk buying Twitter. Americans I KNOW actually talk about this, as if it mattered. What's the use of social media when you live in a ditch and rummage dumpsters for something to eat. That is no lie: The area we live in was full of industry, no homeless, when we both started our working lives. Now? Dopeheads and cops and drifters and who knows. Americans lost their identity when the work left. They have not recovered their minds.

A few years back at your old Unz column I asked if Vietnam was a possibility for Americans wanting to retire. You were kind enough to reply, but I think just asking was all I wanted. There are those with tons of money... not us... and those who run for cover... not us either. Then there are the captains and crew who go down with the ship because, in the end, the ship however battered is all they know. That's us.

But best to you and yours. The my birthday is today, no cake, no candles, only Irish Coffee and a tin of sardines in hot sauce. Cheers!

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May 2, 2022·edited May 2, 2022

President Kennedy was the apogee of America. It's been all downhill for my country ever since his assassination, with the "selection" of senile Biden our nadir. My country may never recover from Biden, an old white man who hates white people, thus hates himself. He can't wait until whites become a minority in my country. He's doing his best to make it happen. He won't live long enough to see it, though his grandchildren will.

Biden, leading his frightened Euro weenie white "allies" by the nose in his obsession to defeat Russia, a mostly white country, symbolizes all that is wrong with white people. Those who say that white men are a cancer on the earth, and must be eliminated, could be right. This screed is coming from a disillusioned white American male, who is beginning to hate his kind. Glad I got this off my chest, Linh. My apologizes if I'm somewhat off-topic.

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Your mention of Hột Vịt Lộn brings back memories. My first week in Danang the other Americans bought me one from a street vendor. Hoe Vit Looooooooong (almost hatched ducklings) was the call.

The recollection of Vung Tau would have been complete with a mention of stinky fruit (sầu riêng) and either Biere 33 (ba muy ba) or Panther Pils, known to the GIs as Panther Piss.

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Well, the Good News is:

There's no such thing as thermonuclear weapons. The Manhattan Project was a Psy-Op, not an ordnance development program. The real weapon is the narrative. Why build a YHWH-Strength Bomb when you can just SAY you have such a supernatural weapon, and get the masses to cower under desks on command, for generation upon generation afterward. (Well, maybe you have to cook up some mushroom-cloud films, too, but then you're good to go!) Think about it, what evidence is there, other than endless repetitions from government sources, of such supernaturally powerful explosives? It fits the exact mold of the "Moon landings", "Islamic terrorism", "Global warming", and "virus pandemic". They are a creature of the Jew John von Neumann's Game Theory, NOT the Jew Einstein's "atomic theory". Much like the Saturn V rocket, the bombs were supposedly tested for the first time, in the field, and lo and behold Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, just as had been up to that point been pure theory. Also just like the Saturn V rocket, Uncle Sam seems to have "lost the technology" and never used it again. It's all a scam, just like the scamdemic. It's just a little older. But that's how government works: it piles lie on top of lie, without ever abandoning the overflowing arsenal of previous Weaponized Narratives.

The Bad News:

They're going to kill us off in ways much, much more excruciating than would be instantaneous incineration from above...

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What if we were all born, whether by choice or lottery, to live in this moment of great opportunity amidst adversity, when fates of eternal significance become loose enough for us to steer towards whatever our hearts or boredoms direct? What if any collective decision to find another way to hallucinate ourselves into a happiness we share peacefully with others is open for any one of us to adopt, bringing about in ourselves and others what we admire and respect by hard and sustained effort? What if we are all here, at this time together, reliving this great moment in human history, to replay and retry the decisions each of us made, one by one, so that we all eventually come to realize the universe is something that we make, like bread or love or fun?

In the moment before the hard struggles, there is time to review and recapture what is essential. Even if we all flash into ash, we will still have played an electrifying role in the energetic field wrapping itself around this planet, that small effect finding its own nonlinear way into the open discursive networks of the stars, the galaxies, and the clusters. Knowing the darkness is inevitable has not stopped all people from conceptually broadening their senses of illumination, revelation, enlightenment. Some people shine through effort pushed through bodies they have for that time, sometimes that's through a magnificant and unique performance; other times through keeping an ordinary walk and routine enough to see the seasons change alongside it. Take it all up: what was it worth, or for? We all have our weird answers.

Inspiring essay, and thank you.

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