"A Franz Ferdinand Sort Of Feeling"
by John Wilder
“Franz Ferdinand’s assassination is bad for Austria and the Serbs.”
– Nicholas and Alexandria
"As everyone knows, Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week. Now, a 22-year-old suspect, a GloboLeftist with a fetish problem is in custody. This has really illustrated the stark divide between the GloboLeft and the TradRight, as the GloboLeft foot soldiers openly celebrate the assassination.
The nation is teetering on the edge of chaos. This is not just a tragedy; it is a potential powder keg for the economy, especially since that political polarity is confronting financial fragility as the only thing that everyone in Washington agrees on is that we should spend more. Because one more credit card is what helps the guy on the edge of bankruptcy, right?
The reason that this matters is that the economy is crunching people. Costs are up. Wages? Not so much. The advice that Remus kept sharing, “Stay away from crowds” is still accurate. Especially now. Cities and crowds are tinderboxes with increasing levels of violence.
History loves a good rerun, and the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 is the template for an assassination that spins the world into the void. A lone gunman in Sarajevo pulls the trigger, and World War I erupts, dragging empires into a meat grinder that reshapes global trade, currencies, and economies. Oh, and it burned a continent.
The extreme political polarity here is the accelerant. America is a nation where a third of the population sees another third as an existential threat. The GloboLeft has already said that free and fair elections are a danger to “our” democracy. “Our”, in this case, doesn’t include you and me. It’s their democracy and they’ll shut anyone up to prove it, after trying to stop an overwhelmingly popular Trump from even running.
Will the violence end with Kirk? I doubt it. The TradRight has already been invigorated, and I’ve seen multiple videos of AntiFa getting slammed into the concrete or water fountains when, in previous years, they would have been ignored. And when violence escalates, the economy always pays the bill. Secondary impacts can easily overwhelm the primary impacts.
Cities are dangerous places on a good day. Gridlock, muggings, and overpriced coffee that tastes like regret. Throw in escalating violence from both political and racial tensions, and they become war zones. Again, the TradRight never seems to start these issues, but, rather, wakes up and finishes them. Remember the 2020 riots after George Floyd’s death? Those were tame in comparison to what the TradRight can do.
I’m not going to go deeper into these scenarios, for now, they need some additional thought and we need time to see if we reach a stable equilibrium. But our economy was already in a delicate place with our debt and falling dollar at the same time inflation and unemployment appear to be showing up.
Things are moving, perhaps quickly. Now is the time to review where you are. Are you in the right place, physically? Do you have a plan if you’re not? That’s the biggest one, in my mind. I keep saying that a year too early is better than a minute too late.
Second, is are you surrounded by people you trust? If you’re in a “safe” place, surrounded by people you trust, that’s a multiplier. Location equals time, and friends equal multiplied effort. That’s why I’ve been pushing so long to get out of cities – now. It’s better to be in the country, but it’s better to be in the country and not be the newcomer. In some places that takes years.
Third is security. Ammo still isn’t cheap. But it’s more expensive to need another round or another magazine and not have it in that moment.
Fourth is food. Thankfully, most Americans could live months without a Snickers™ and also live that long without any food at all.
You get the idea. It’s time to review preps, and make sure that the “two is one and one is none” wisdom comes back into your mind. Oh, sure, this isn’t 1914. And the world hardly ever spins out of control. I guess then, I was wrong. I’ve been wrong lots of times. I only have to be right one time, however, to make up for every time I was wrong. I expect I’ll be back to “more normal” posting on Friday, but keep your head on a swivel, and realize that we’re living in interesting times."
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