NC Renegades

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The title of this piece is a question I always hear (and ask). What the fuck is happening to this country?

From listeners, neighbors, friends, family, and even those whom I despise on the opposite end of the political spectrum, it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that this country is a complete mess. The natural follow-up question is, how did we get here?

It’s not hard to answer.

It simply took 248 years for our government to bloat itself to what we are witnessing today. That’s all. Nothing more, nothing less.

Our founders understood this, and Benjamin Franklin wondered aloud when Elizabeth Willing Powell asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin famously responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” They knew what we are experiencing today was inevitable. That government naturally evolves to seek unbridled growth and total power over the people. What no one knew was how long it would take to lose it, and here we are today, in our lifetimes, living through what may very well be the end of our constitutional form of Republic unless we decide to “keep it” and “keeping it” my friends, is not a foregone conclusion.

To understand this requires a glance back to the work of Lord Alexander Tytler, a Scottish historian who lived between 1747 and 1813. Tytler wrote what has been referred to over the centuries as the “Tytler Cycle,” outlining the eight stages of a democracy or a democratic republic such as ours. His words were prophetic indeed. He believed that every society began in bondage and progressed through the stages below:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.

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A pillar of my local community has passed away. Gene Nigro went peacefully in his sleep this evening. Gene’s experience and knowledge will be sorely missed but he is in a better place now.

We will have a wake at the community center in the near future and I will post the details once they are finalized. Many people did not know that Gene once studied to become a priest or that he served three combat tours in Vietnam. He spent the past seven years living in the cabin at the community center keeping everyone in line.

Lord, please have mercy on his soul and welcome him into your arms.

David DeGerolamo

This is our government now. Of the tyrants, by the tyrants, for the tyrants. Do not be fooled… they intend to kill us all. We shouldn’t let them.

Really, you must agree: just about anything can happen now, and probably will, and possibly all at the same time — war, sickness, a disordered economy, chaos in money and finance, savages pouring across the open borders, assassination, mayhem in the streets, systems failure, mental illness everywhere you look. You have a sinister, blob-infested government acting like a desperate, cornered animal, fronted by a venal phantasm trailing a personal history of crime. What could go wrong? All of it.

     The doings in Judge Merchan’s Manhattan court present the rectified essence of America’s authority problem. You will stipulate that judges are authorities in a pretty pure sense of the word. Their role is to determine what is right and what is wrong, or, at least guide the proceedings that would result in such a fair determination. And, of course, the officers of this court, the District Attorney and his prosecutors, are also entrusted with bringing comprehensible cases that follow the facts fairly, and the laws pertaining to those facts.

      This maliciously misguided prosecution has only accomplished one thing so far: to demonstrate to the American public that the authority of our law has been contorted to become a sick joke. That is a ruinous lesson for the country. The free-for-all of our national life has required reliable adjudication of all the quarrels and inequities that arose out of it. For a long time, the rule of law was America’s great draw. If that goes out the window, all you’re left with is the free-for-all which pretty soon devolves into Thomas Hobbes’s nightmare existence in the state of nature where life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

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Military leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) said they have put down an attempted coup in a dramatic Sunday incident which included a large shootout erupting in the capital of Kinshasa.

At least three men have been reported killed, with two being police officers which engaged a team of armed attackers. The third deceased is said to be one of the gunman. A government spokesman has stated “The armed men attacked the Kinshasa residence of Vital Kamerhe, a federal legislator and a candidate for speaker of the National Assembly of DR Congo, but were stopped by his guards.”

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A regional correspondent for Canada’s Globe & Mail has said that Westerners are in custody, including at least one American, though this remains unconfirmed at a government official level:

Benjamin Zalman-Polun, reportedly an American cannabis entrepreneur, was among about 20 men captured by Congo’s military today in Kinshasa after a failed rebellion led by Christian Malanga, head of a small political party in the DRC diaspora in the United States. https://t.co/tfqLdWYORp— Geoffrey York (@geoffreyyork) May 19, 2024

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I have been watching the news feeds concerning the Iranian President Raisi’s helicopter crash. I have not posted anything because nothing has been confirmed except that his helicopter has crashed. As with any story which has worldwide ramifications, many sources are misleading people. At this time:

1. Reports are that the helicopter crash site has been found while other reports are denying this.
2. Reports are that this was an assassination attempt.
3. Reports are that Israel is responsible for the crash.
4. Reports are that some of the soldiers searching for the crash are now missing.
5. Reports are that the Iranian military are deployed in Tehran.

While I continue to watch, some people are saying this is a false flag, a green flag or a prelude to war. Again, this is a good exercise to gather information and generate intelligence for your area of operations.

The timing is suspicious as the markets are about to open in Asia shortly. Bank of America lost $1.2 billion on Friday on silver’s rise. Watch silver (and gold) closely: war may be closer than most people realize as a means to distract us from the collapse of the dollar. Watch and remember what sources are telling us so that you can look back and see who was complicit.

May we become a righteous and moral people once again in the eyes of the Lord as we confront evil.

David DeGerolamo

Iranian President’s Helicopter down.

Congo coup attempt.

Attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister.

Things are getting spicy.

They are working to restore the accounts according to the statement released by the pension fund. Their statement is in the comments in this tweet.