I’m a normie. You’re probably a normie too if you’re reading this. It’s a slang term to suggest that you and I live an unremarkable life. We are not rich, neither are we poor much less indigent. We don’t live extravagantly and what we do spend, we acquired by traditionally well accepted means; primarily work and earnings, saving and investing, and perhaps some modest family assistance, particularly when first setting out on independent life. None of us won the lottery but maybe we won a nice prize or two at the club raffle. We have a house, but also a mortgage, a car but it’s no longer new, we pay our bills, but they’re always replaced by newer, slightly larger ones the following month. We would never steal from a store, much less our employer, much less rob the bank. We’d never cheat on our taxes, file a false insurance claim, or initiate a frivolous lawsuit to fleece a company or insurance firm out of cash for a fraudulently declared harm. We would never join a criminal conspiracy, run a scam company, conduct insider trading, or apply for grants for the express purpose of milking a government entity to enrich ourselves. If you’re a normie like me, you’ve quietly watched and seethed over not just a handful of people, but rather millions upon millions of people that do all the above with impunity, with defiance, and even with some twisted pride, whether it be public or private.
We watch this demented show play out day after day in the news. Another day, another scam. Over the past couple months, we watched the big-ticket fraud class being perp-walked into our newsfeed, things discovered by Team DOGE. Billions and billions handed out like candy. Some of it has been going on for decades, like USAID. Joe Biden handed out hundreds of billions$ over his four years but the biggest chunk was after his campaign went deep six. It was an unprecedented smash and grab carried out by the highest officials in the land. Hand it all out to all your friends and comrades via fraudulent ‘NGO’s, print a trillion, let everyone’s ‘grans’ pay for it, their descendants. We’ll laugh all the way to the bank and be long dead before they know what hit them. Fuck-em all. And that consulting grant we got, nine of the ten million$ will go to our salaries, a couple houses, a boat; the other 1 mil$, we’ll print some pamphlets about climate change, or DEI, or trannies. We won’t bother to hand them out.
The majority of our elected reps, both sides of the aisle, are stained. They make a couple hun-K$ a year, some of them have businesses but most of them mysteriously double or triple their net worth on that pittance of a salary in a few short years. Easy-peasy when you have a whole moonlight career as a ‘successful’ investor, like anyone could do it if they just ‘studied’ the market hard enough –(queue judgmental scowl). Come on man, it’s a perq; why else would we put up with this toxic town and ungrateful people back home that have no idea just how hard it is serving their every need. I deserve it!
I know someone that knows a guy, he works hard. He’s got two pensions, one military, one local gov, just after a few years. He’s got a disability too and payments from that, but you’d never know it looking at him, he seems fine, has handicap plates, parks close, gets out and walks into the store just like everyone else. He also works 2 jobs, consecutively, from home. Two computers, starts his day on each one and just moves the mouse every 10 minutes. He has a couple meetings a week and just signs in, says nothing. No one cares. Of course, the eight hours for each job are the same eight hours, but two paychecks, both over a hundred grand a year.
The neighbor has a new car. She’s going to school and works part time. The car is at least 50k, nice, a lot more then I’d spend for wheels. The house has to be at least $2500 a month. There’s two kids as well. Something doesn’t add up here though. How much could a part time job pay? Best case, it would barely make that car payment. But the house, food, gas, insurance, clothes…If this were my budget, I’d be underwater three time over. Did I mention that this person is in a favored demographic? A lot of someone’s are. Hey, I’m sure it’s all ‘legal’, maybe, I think, but really, who’s paying the bills here? Who’s pulling this kind of financial voodoo that would never happen for the majority of us, that is, if we even had that little pride in ourselves?
If that isn’t bad enough, what about 6 million ‘guests’ that walked across the border the past few years? Here’s a cell phone, cash debit cards, a house, free healthcare, schools, cars, travel and flights, welfare, even social security benefits that they obviously didn’t pay a dime into; easily five, six, seven thousand a month in benefits for border law breakers, some of them violent criminals. But if you’re born and raised in the USA, you will pay every damned cent necessary to acquire these things or go homeless trying, which by the way, happens to far too many of our veterans.
All these scenarios are real and happening now. Maybe Trump has trimmed them back a little but many are going strong. They’re each a composite of known and observed actions as have been widely revealed in the news, particularly conservative news sources, as well as some more immediate observation.
Progressives have a strong vested interest in perpetuation some of these scenarios forever. Individual beneficiaries would strongly attempt to refute some of the plain ethical dilemmas inherent in their own cases. Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of profiting off their offices. Let’s be clear about something here though; it doesn’t take careful reading to understand that this is not knocking legitimate wealth generation. The matter of legality is in question in as much as grey legal maneuvers can be void of all ethics. Just because a murderer can escape prosecution over a technicality doesn’t validate the killing. When it comes to a whole class of people coming to a common agreement that they will shamelessly raid the public purse, be exempted laws, ethics, and consequences that apply to all others, and they will rig the statutes to bless it, it is still theft.
All this to say, we really are angry, very angry, and we will not forget it when the wind turns back the other way.
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