Memo 1 Begins By Wishing A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THE SUCKERS!

Picked up the kids today and taking them back Wednesday,  Just had dinner. Normally takes 20 minutes.  They are good eaters but better talkers.  Took them 40 minutes. Blake has not stopped talking since we picked him up except for 45 minutes when he napped in the car. I am exhausted.  

Dagny loves to take a box, cut it up and make a town and paste stickers for various shops, stores, parks etc. She is named after Dagny Taggart so maybe she will become an architect after Howard Roark.

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Believe him/this or not - your choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLT6hxEXNU

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This from an erudite friend and sometime memo reader:

"the truth has gone into hiding"

Scrooge will still send the goose around to the Cratchits, but the boy who delivers it will be wearing a mask. I imagine the nephew has called off his party, so that Uncle Ebenezer will not perform his usual Dickensian frolic (the geezer’s dance of grace and redemption). Instead, he will make the best of a bad time, sitting alone in the cold house and waving at his relatives through the Zoom lens.

Christmas is not its old self. None of us is. The holiday is fraught and compromised—a distracted pause in the country’s uncertain journey through a land of pandemic danger, political turmoil, and economic chaos. December 25 somehow seems less to the point than January 5, the date of the special elections for the Georgia Senate seats that will determine the American balance of power in the next two years (at least); or January 20, when the unpredictable Donald Trump is supposed to vacate the White House (but who knows?) and Joe Biden is scheduled to take possession.

Like Scrooge, we’ll do our best. Christmas should be better than this. If the phrase did not sound a little violent, I’d adapt Kafka’s line about books and say, “Christmas should be an axe for the frozen sea within us.” Christmas should speak of the power of love, of forgiveness—a truce, a tenderness. There’s not much of that right now in the noisy, nasty public square.

Privately, of course, Christmas in any year may be packed with intense emotional meanings—some fairly neurotic. (I know people who are delighted that the pandemic has spared them their usual ordeal). This abnormal Christmas of 2020 is so complicated and novel in its stresses that it may allow us to see the country from an unusual angle.

As I write this, it is Christmas Eve morning. The year 2020, more than most, calls for a sermon. I ascend the pulpit.

On Christmas, we wish to speak of innocence and the manger. But lo—politics, saturated this year with an unusual measure of stupidity and incompetence and ill will, corrupts the atmosphere. Christmas, in its religious essence, is a profoundly meaningful occasion—and it happens that at this moment, America is in the grip of unprecedented meaninglessness. Or rather, it is suspended—dangling, frantic—between meanings. It needs to be reminded of the First Law of Wing-Walking: Never let go of what you’ve got until you’ve got hold of something else. It’s a good idea to make sure the new something is preferable to the old something.

For a generation or two or even three, forces of culture and ideology, in a titanic though sometimes subliminal struggle, have managed to drain the meaning out of America. Sanity, it seems, has gone with it. I exaggerate—but not much—to make the point. In a culture of screens, the flash-mob sanctifies every experimental impulse, every idiot whim, as a New Truth. Vanished are the premises of the former normality: the remnants of the origin myths, what Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” (When he used the phrase in his First Inaugural, he was trying to avert a civil war; it didn’t work). The American backstory (heroes, equestrian statues) has been chipped away, and so have such stabilizing contexts as domesticity, the quaint masculinity of the American male, the (well, you know, atavistic, sexist) meanings of men and women in the Dagwood and Blondie roles. Those all have been scorned out of favor as having been the old lies of a wicked country, which, in reality, was a sort of tsarist regime of “white supremacy.” Good riddance to it. (Really?)

The former America and its meanings have been so damned and assaulted and canceled that they seem almost to have passed out of existence, at least in the minds of elites (media, universities, sleek corporate tech), where a new universe of values—a realm self-confidently totalitarian, incapable of self-criticism, and not nearly as wonderful as it thinks it is—has coalesced. The last samurai, defending the old dispensation, do battle, faute de mieux, under the flag of Trump. That’s a shame, because Trump and his ways give a wrong impression of the samurai and what they defend.

What does the country stand for? What does America believe? What is it? A hero? A monster of injustice? Or just an incompetent slob?

Americans have always been a self-conscious people—if such a various bunch may call themselves “a people”—and have needed to think of themselves as virtuous and significant and preeminent: exceptional. The current crisis leaves them feeling meaningless. It’s not much of a City on a Hill if its citizens are out rioting and the food lines go around the block.

America is in exile from itself. People flee to identity politics in search of the lost idea. They flock to “diversity”—a mischievous mirage. They seek to create new meanings in cunning inversions of reality, as if to create a counter-universe. Is that the way forward? The universities become laboratories and models and alchemists of the alternate meanings.

When Jesus grew to manhood, he set about addressing the problem of human meaninglessness. His answer was love, which, at the time, was a revolution. At 33, he was crucified. Jerusalem was full of fake news that day. Pilate asked, “What is truth?” He foisted upon the world the terrible suggestion that no such thing as truth exists.

Truth does exist, but it must be approached with humility, with the chaste excellence of Cordelia—a quality entirely lost in our time, which belongs to Goneril and Regan. In the year 2020, the truth seems to have gone into hiding, out of disgust and embarrassment and confusion.

I’ll step down. For all of that—with all our sins and imperfections and miseries— let’s light the lights and embrace the day and think about its old meanings. Merry Christmas.

Lance Morrow, a contributing editor of City Journal and the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was an essayist at Time for many years. His latest book is God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money. 

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Is there a connection?

A dear friend and fellow memo reader  asked me whether I had heard this:

"AT&T got a contract to do a forensic audit on Dominion voting machines and those machines were being moved to Nashville this past week.

The former owner of the AT&T building in Nashville, William Kennard, is a board member for Cerberus Capital Management and AT&T.... He also was Bill Clinton’s FCC chair, and Obama’s Ambassador to the EU.

Dominion voting is owned by Cerberus Capital Management.... Cerberus is run by Staple Street Execs.

Super Computer in TN was connected to the AT&T internet in NASHVILLE.... yesterday evening the Cumberland river cooling system was compromised due to internet outage and a Supercomputer fried.....

If you don’t know, “Kraken” is a reference to a supercomputer former prosecutor, Sidney Powell, has been talking about.

So, the explosion “just happened” to be at the AT&T location where they both “just so happen” to control the cooling system for the super computer and house the dominion voting machines and drives to be forensically  audited..

Humm.."

I believe Cerberus was begun by Carlucci, the former Sec. of Defense. I know nothing about  any connections described above but what I hear anymore no longer remains outside the scope of believability. I  accept that a "deep state" exists,  is capable of accomplishing anything it wants because it is protected by the media which is in cahoots with those who have corrupted The DOJ, FBI and various Intelligence Agencies and they all remain shielded by top echelons of Democrat Leadership. 

Hundreds of millions are involved and no one can deny much  legislation is crafted by powerful lobbyists and D.C law firms in the service of equally powerful corporations. Many of the people who have made mistake after mistake come from Goldman Sachs.  Eisenhower's parting words warned us about the military/industrial cabal.

We know Trump targeted the elite and everything they accused him of, in order to impeach him and wreck his administration, they have been doing.

Now we have  possibly the two largest cover ups of all time - an election process purposely designed to fail and/o spread distrust and  a corrupt son of a soon to become president.  

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China's corrupt leadership has come front and center even among our European friends. Trump's decision to cease endless wars in order to employ their funding  was meant to be deployed to rebuild our fleet and return  it to it's former preeminent status. Trump also wanted to prevent Chinese students from  studying at our Universities in order to both learn and steal our technology and secrets and turn them over to China's military. He also believes it is critical for our military to designate a certain number of bright service personnel to learn to speak and read Mandarin.

Will these efforts be supported by Biden should he become president? It is well past the time for the West to awake to the threat(s)from China and America should be leading the way. Pelosi's support of Swalwell and Pelosi's chauffeur episode is evidence enough China has succeeded in penetrating America.  The recent shuttering of the Chinese Consulate in Houston is refreshing.  

China's theft allowed them to save billions in development costs and permitted them to leap forward by decades while we sat on our thumbs thinking /convinced they were  worthy of our favored status treatment, beneficent largesse and trusting friendship. What fools we became in the process.  What fools we still are to elect a patsy like Biden and to have allowed ourselves to become convinced  we should hate Trump and assume he colluded with Russia, when it was Hillary and The DNC who were paying for a false dossier and you know the rest.

Those who were duped should be enraged yet, most cannot wait for Trump to be found guilty of breaking the very laws for which Hunter might well be indicted.

We deserve everything we are about to receive and then some for being so gullible and dumb.  

Happy New Year To All The Suckers.

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