Let Me Put You on Hold

There’s a moment in The Avengers, when we first meet the Black Widow. She is tied to a chair, leaning out over a pit, being tortured by bad guys, when a phonecall comes in—on the bad guy’s phone—and she's annoyed by the interruption—because she had them right where she wanted them and “this moron is giving me everything.” But she is told of the important mission, so she says, “Let me put you on hold.”

Then of course she miraculously breaks free, because she has such amazing skills. And then casually picks up her shoes and the phone and walks away.

We, the good citizens of the United States, seem to be tied to a chair, leaning out over a pit, being tortured, figuratively speaking. Under the circumstances it might take a shift in perspective to believe we have the bad guys right where we want them—information coming out, takedown about to happen.

The bad guys only think they’re in control.

I am not one who believes that some version of a SHIELD team has a long, elaborate plan that they are allowing to play out. I am, however, one who believes that, particularly for our day, we have our God in Heaven who has a plan to take down the bad guys. And His skills are way better than the fictional Black Widow’s. I don’t know which moment it will be when He answers our prayers by saying, “Let me put you on hold,” and then destroys the wicked. But He has told His prophets through the centuries that such a moment is coming.

So I have hope. Even when the loss of our freedoms is more apparent with every news cycle.

In the meantime, I am trying to understand the enemy, and what the enemy is doing.

This past week someone on that side, not one I had thought of as an enemy, said the quiet part out loud. This was Sam Harris, noted mainly for being an atheist, but an atheist with morals. He was on the TRIGGERnometry podcast. We learned from him that he doesn’t care about morals. As he put it, “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement. I would not have cared.” Whatever is on that laptop—including Joe Biden’s corruption, “and understand they’re getting kickbacks from Biden’s deals in Ukraine and wherever else, right? Or China.” Doesn’t matter. “It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in. It’s like, it’s like a firefly to the sun.”

Sam Harris, on TRIGGERnometry podcast
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What does he enumerate of Trump’s sun hot sins? Trump University, for one. Worse than everything on that laptop? Trump University was a class action case, brought in 2013, settled for $25 million, fully compensating all claimants plus $1 million in punitive damages. It likely would have gone to trial and been fought and appealed on the merits of the law, but for the timing, which put it right after the 2016 presidential election, during the busy inaugural season. So they settled for convenience. That is apparently gazillions of times worse than Biden kickbacks in exchange for access to the VP, for multiple millions of dollars, putting our nation at risk. Not to mention the drugs and sex and possible sex trafficking on the Biden laptop, which was withheld from the public for a year by the FBI, and then quashed in media just prior to the 2020 election.

Does Harris mention anything else? Yes, Trump said mean things on Twitter. He actually claimed Trump doxed people “again and again and again.” I’m unaware of any accusations of Trump ever doxing anyone. Trump followers, however, have been doxed, and persecuted, and targeted by the IRS, taken down from not only Twitter but Facebook, YouTube, and wherever else.

But self-proclaimed moralist Sam Harris thinks an outright conspiracy to prevent Trump from regaining the White House was absolutely justified. Who cares about democracy when an asteroid that is hurtling toward earth in the form of a seventy-something businessman could be stopped by any means necessary?

We have to wonder, why really does Sam Harris fear another Trump presidency? A long-past settled lawsuit and nonexistent doxing claims can’t be it. Is it because Trump moved us to the verge of a Hitlerian nightmare in his first term? No. In fact, he deregulated, freed us up, moved the economy out of the Obama malaise and into full recovery, particularly lowering unemployment for blacks. He stopped the majority of the border crisis with a “remain in Mexico” policy. He practically achieved lasting peace in the Middle East. He was, refreshingly, not authoritarian.

What are we supposed to be scared of? White supremacy—a miniscule issue without any connection to Trump. Racism—a dwindling issue without any connection to Trump. COVID—not caused by Trump and would have been nearly immediately solved with low-cost medicines given as early treatment, which Trump touted—if that normal action hadn’t been halted by Deep State actors here and across the world.

So what is there to fear?

Maybe loss of power to the ruling class. Trump, despite the money, despite the education at an Ivy League institution, is not considered elite. He is too much like the working class people the elites need to rule over.

And, let’s be clear, Sam Harris the intellectual is an elite. Apparently nothing emotionally upturns him more than someone in power who is not an elite—democracy be damned; that must be stopped!

People who believe they have the right to rule over others will always be the enemy of the people.

Will Cain discussed the Sam Harris clip with Gad Saad, a one-time friend of Sam Harris, who called him out for this immoral and unreasonable assertion. Cain summed up Harris’s viewpoint, I think accurately, as, “He said it’s perfectly fine to lie, steal, and cheat in order to accomplish ‘victory.’” In other words, Sam Harris has no principle, beyond winning, that he’s willing to stand on.

Will Cain (left) and Gad Saad discuss Sam Harris's moral relativism
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As Cain and Saad continued the conversation, Cain commented that, while “Sam’s not a Nobody, Sam’s not that big a deal; the problem is, Sam said out loud what many others believe.” He then reminds us that former CIA Director Michael Hayden said something similar recently, painting with an even broader brush, that there is nothing in his life more threatening that the modern-day Republican Party. Cain continues, “Worse than Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda and Isis. If that is their belief, they will break any rule. They will break any principle. Because the existence of humanity is at stake.” That’s what they seem to have convinced themselves to believe—because the supremacy of elitism doesn’t sell well among the masses.

Wednesday, Viva & Barnes did a Sidebar discussion with Michael Millerman, political philosopher and Aleksandr Dugin expert (he translated some of Dugin’s writings). Dugin is an anti-West and anti-modernity philosopher who has Putin’s ear; his daughter was assassinated this week, and there is speculation that the car bomb was meant for him. That’s all a discussion for some other day. But Dugin has been called a Neo-Nazi. And Viva Frei, who is ethnically Jewish, got called a Nazi this week as well. So they asked Millerman about the use of this term. Millerman answers:

I think everybody knows who’s watching this, on one level, everybody gets called a fascist today. Everybody gets called a Nazi today, if you veer a millimeter to the right, probably, of the ideological consensus.

He mentions an article in IM1776.com, by the online magazine's editor Daniel Miller about the history of that anti-fascist accusation of the left. Within that article the author makes this connection that might be relevant to our discussion today:

For the same reason the 2016 election victory of President Trump and populist dissident movements in Europe are repeatedly connected to Putin. The objective is to refuse democratic legitimacy to what would otherwise register as democratic movements, operating in nominally democratic societies, to suppress them as issues of national security.

Millerman continues about the Nazi epithet:

This is just automatically to discredit your enemies. And by the way, if you can legitimate calling all of your enemies fascists, and you can legitimate, you know, fascists are so much the scum of the earth that they should be cancelled—or killed—well, you’re not very far from legitimating the killing of your political enemies.

We’ve seen that you can cancel your political enemies. That happens all the time now. But, you know, we’re not too many steps away from car bombing your political enemies, in the West, I think, if you follow out the logic of delegitimating with this title.

Robert Barnes (top left) and Viva Frei (below) talk with Michael Millerman
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All this sounds like things are getting more dire. I don’t dispute that.

But there’s also something else going on. Truth is more powerful than raw assertion of power. The enemies of freedom are revealing everything they’re doing, and people are starting to see what was hidden:

§      There is no way they had the right to raid former President Trump’s residence with a general warrant—illegal for criminal investigations. They have tried to frame him, and have tried to cover up their crimes. The truth is going to be seen.

§      When the DOJ let it slip that they were targeting parents who spoke up at school board meetings, and investigating them as domestic terrorists, the truth got out, and perfectly normal and peaceful parents woke up. They now see the enemy.

§      Fauci has announced he is stepping down by the end of the year—which ought to have happened a decade or more ago for the octogenarian who has called himself “the science.” No matter how many times lately he’s tried to push for mask wearing and vaccination for children, people aren’t heeding him anymore. And there are threats of investigation into his corruption related to COVID origins, vaccine kickbacks, medicine kickbacks, and a whole lot of other crimes he’s committed. Personally, I think he should be prosecuted for every COVID-19 death that resulted from prevention of early treatment and by vaccine or Remdesivir adverse reactions.

§      More truth continues to come out about election fraud.

§      This week Biden announced he is forgiving student loan debt for vast swaths of that demographic—to be paid for by people saved, scrimped, paid off their debts, or had to forego the education for lack of money. And his answer to whether that’s fair is to mumble something unintelligible. It appears to be a brazen attempt to buy votes. And even Nancy Pelosi has pointed out that he doesn’t have the power to do it.

If history and recent primaries are an indicator, this November election could mean a switch of power in the legislature. And that could lead to some good things, like clearing out some of the swamp, even without Trump in office.

I can’t say whether November 8^th is going to be the “Let me put you on hold” moment, when the enemy suddenly and decisively gets taken down. I’d like that moment to be soon—for everyone’s sake. But if not then, the tension is mounting, and it will be coming.

And we know the outcome. Truth wins.