America’s Moral Authority

I grew up in a very colorful environment, majority so, in fact. As a result, I’ve never harbored any expectation that things not bolted down wouldn’t get stolen. It’s just what they do, and everybody knows it. That’s why it’s so hard for grocery stores in their areas to stay in business, leading to the much-bemoaned “food deserts.” Nets on the basketball hoops never lasted 24 hours. What utility a net offers if not attached to a hoop, I’ll never understand.

When I was in elementary school, a classroom was equipped with a VCR. One day, our teacher walked out of the room for some reason and one of my classmates simply unplugged the thing, and stuffed it into his backpack (they were bulky in those days). I found it very amusing, like a black version of The Thomas Crown Affair. I was intrigued as to how he planned to make a clean getaway and got a chuckle out of his complete lack of impulse control. He was apprehended less than 5 minutes later.

I don’t approve of theft because it’s immoral and if this was commonplace behavior, a 1^st world society simple couldn’t function. It’s been my assumption that deep down, most of our people understand this as well. The only time I’ve ever admired a brazen act of theft was when a friend made off with a life-sized cutout of Zena, Warrior Princess from Blockbuster. He couldn’t carry off the real Zena, so he grabbed the next best thing. I considered him a Viking taking home a spoil of war. She stands in eternal vigilance, guarding his dining room.

All of this was before NAFTA gutted the country. I recall Bill Clinton promising it would create 200,000 well-paid jobs per year. It didn’t exactly work out that way. What we got instead was an opioid crisis and a whole hell of a lot of Mexicans. An impartial observer might conclude that the people who keep the lights on are actually the enemies of the government.

Consequentially, there’s now an army of White people who are not toiling to keep the lights on anymore since the jobs are gone. Most of them are as short on cash as they are on hope. That’s a real problem for retailers because these opioids don’t pay for themselves. So, now we’ve got a shoplifting epidemic.

“This is happening everywhere in retail,” according to Home Depot CEO Craig Menear. Apparently, there’s been a “surge in store theft” adding a new complexion to the changing face of shoplifting. Just another symptom of a malaise that precedes The Imminent Total Collapse. Oh, well. I’m not in the retail business.

What actually gets to me is how anyone in a position of power could get on their high horse and condemn lowly shoplifters when this entire nation has become a giant Semitic looting operation. Goldman Sachs uses its stranglehold on every branch of government to steal hundreds of billions in plain sight, and somebody’s upset that Bubba swiped some power tools and DeQuan got him some free Jordans? Please, I simply cannot be compelled to care. 

Right now, by our President’s own boastful declaration, we’re keeping thousands of soldiers illegally in Syria in order to steal oil that rightfully belongs to the Syrian people so that it can be sent to Israel at a steep discount. Israel controls our government, so basically, our soldiers now serve as the henchmen of AIPAC. We killed a lot of people to get them cheap oil. Read some of the Wikileaks emails from when this was getting set up in 2014, it’s truly insane once you realize the level of obscene criminality the U.S. government engages in.

Actions define an entity, not rhetoric. By that standard, America has no moral authority left.