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ET MORITURI TE SALUTAMUS

It has become impossible for real writers to avoid writing, not so much about the election and its result but about the now commonly discussed eventualities that the incoming president may bring about.  Elon Musk and Mr. Vasectomy have been chosen to head up a new government department to be charged with cutting back on the government.  As this is written, such things as the Departments of Education and Energy are discussed as being no longer necessary.

Locally, Peter Wilson, the school superintendent for the local Lake Geneva area, indicated that if the Department of Education is eliminated then Titles one through four would go away as well as the student breakfast and lunch program for disadvantaged kids in all elementary schools in the area and the forty percent loss of gross revenue provided by the federal government would cause many of those schools to close.  The Department of Energy oversees the largest and most effective electric grid the entire nation runs on.  That it works so well, and outages are fixed so fast (most countries where electricity fails in any area have wait to repair times in months not hours or days) that Americans have become complacent. That will change rapidly and the common sound of gas motors running all the time in so many foreign cities will likely become the norm across the country.

Elon Musk and Mr. Vasectomy want to do away totally with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid according to statements they are making to the media right as this article is being written.  The Department of Defense might be run by someone who knows nothing about it as well as all 14 intelligence agencies overseen by an anorexic young woman who’s never worked a day in that field.

The Latin phrase titling this front page translates into; “We who are about to die Salute thee.”  It was coined by the gladiators who appeared in the Colosseum of Rome before the emperor. The phrase was intonated as a statement of respect, fear, and also appeal, in the hopes that the emperor, if it was that gladiator’s turn to be slain might put his thumb up and allow that one to live.  The disappearance of Social Security and Medicare would be a hit to everyone living around Geneva Lake, as well as the nation.  The loss of Medicare would be nearly as huge a potential disaster, and Medicaid going down would take the state’s federally funded Badger care with it.

The appointment of these drastically ill-equipped leaders, the closing of eighty percent of all federal agencies, and the losses of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would be so tremendous that the very fabric of the nation could be torn apart, and the nation fall first into chaos and then into revolution. Every day that goes by as the nation heads toward January 20^th like the Titanic headed for that iceberg seems more likely, like the increasing tattoo and beat of the drums aboard a Roman slave ship of war.

This is front-page news in the unlikely Geneva Shore Report because the publisher does not see it reported about by any of the national media.  The national media is using the same excuse to ignore the fascism and downright stupidity spewing forth from the base and voice of the coming dictatorship which is ‘oh that will never happen, they don’t mean it.” That statement is an exact quote from the Jews who stayed in Germany as Hitler took over. It is the same as the French aristocracy said before they all went in those wooden carts to a thumping sound in the distance.  It was what the Romans said about Caligula.  At what point will the public stand, say those Latin words, and then attack like hell in an attempt to save their families, children, aunts, uncles, and grandparents?   None of the other populations of old attacked back, and they died in thousands, then hundreds of thousands, and on into millions.

Will the anthropologists and archeologists of the future dig up the decayed remains of America and say: “What could they have possibly been thinking?”