Opinion/Editorial
WILD THING!
The song lyrics using those words illustrated at the top of this article are great, in that ‘Wild Thing’ makes the associate of the words ‘heart sing.’ But the reality is much harder, colder and filled with practicality almost no one wants to deal with.
The United States of America elected a ‘wild thing’ for president, and he only made the country’s heart sing before he got into power. Since that time on January 20th of this year, the stock market has gone straight into the toilet. Inflation has become an economic effect that all of a sudden, nobody wants to talk about or write about. The coming tariffs will cause massive inflation, but they can be argued away as long as the tariffs are not in force. One-fifth of the population of the USA is worried sick over the potential of losing their Social Security payments, Medicare coverage, and more. Six million veterans are worried that they won’t get their disability checks, and 80 million are concerned that they might lose Medicaid. In simpler mathematical terms, about half of the entire population of the nation is worried right down to its very foundations. Above that constructive line are the members of the population who are still comfortable and not afraid. Those would be the 34 percent of households bringing in more than a hundred thousand dollars a year (about 80,000 by government statistics) and the remainder of the very wealthy who are neither truly quantifiable nor always identifiable. Those more powerful people have only watched the Wild Thing in action but have yet to experience any effect of the changes he’s making to the government and, therefore, eventually to their existence as well.
The mass media is easily brush-blocked by being presented with showy stories that have significance but not to the depth of a human’s very survival significance on the planet, such as the payments brought up earlier. Whether the Vice President and his wife go visit a U.S. military base in Greenland to insult Denmark and discuss taking over that giant tract of land three times the size of Texas, or all of the media pours over the use of non-secure civilian social media apps to discuss top secret war plans, the real ‘elephant in the living room’ is the benefit payments. There will be more of those as time goes on while the Wild Thing is held back from canceling the programs because, at its base, the population doesn’t care about Greenland or the Signal App. Half the nation cares about the benefit payments, however, and how badly is the real question. In Home Depot yesterday, the writer of this article brought up a potential stoppage of Social Security payments to an aging woman working as a checker. He casually brought up the subject of the potential of a Social Security check or two going missing or being delayed. The woman stopped what she was doing, turned, and said she’d been getting her social security checks for seven years and if anybody messed with that, she’d bring out her gun.
That anecdotal story cannot be generalized, of course. However, the GSR has been predicting for months now that the, at first vague, but now more convincing, rumors and comments from the Wild Thing will turn to shutting down Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Benefits…or some versions thereof. Those established and, except Medicare, paid for either in money or blood, will lead to aroused and cross the nation violence that the USA has never seen inside its borders before, and that includes the Civil War. The Wild Thing has no mental capability to understand the danger, and it is a serious and approaching danger to him as well as all those who are holding authoritarian jobs in his administration.
When an old lady is willing to take up arms, and has such arms, then the game changes and predators who sought, fought and attained great power will be headed by those ‘old lady’ masses into wooden carts to be taken off to a place where there’s a constant deep thumping sound in the distance. Social Security, Medicare, Veterans Disability Payments, and Medicaid are not ‘third rail’ areas. They are huge, monstrous repositories of concussive explosive power. Those areas populated by those people are not ‘party’ people so there will be no protection in political posturing if they are seriously eroded or maybe even touched. These new people coming in to clean the government out still have no idea that these quiet, unsung, undereducated, very conscientious, and caring people may just get together and clean them out in the harshest way possible.
The song Wild Thing was used in a popular baseball movie. A nearly blind pitching character was called that. His blindly wild pitches, until he got glasses, always seemed to hit the right and crowd-pleasing people. The Wild Thing leading the USA right now is, however, just as blind as the pitcher before getting lenses but he is throwing very hard fast balls right at the crowd itself. That’s not going to end well.
Check the wire. Make sure your fields of fire are open and clear. Secure your residence. Communicate with your neighbors. Clean and oil your weapons. You are about to enter the Twilight Zone of your life.