Thoughts from the asylum

Thoughts from the asylum

Tipping point USA

It is all down hill from here

Apr 30, 2026
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Welcome, my dear readers, once again into the asylum. I have really been seeing a trend for the last decade and a half, at least in our country, but now it seems we have crossed a tipping point. I don’t know if it will be next week or next year, but I will be very surprised if things hold together another five years. It isn’t just one thing either; the cracks are many, and most of it is beyond a reasonable solution. I see this not just in America, but in the entire Western world. Civilization is crumbling before our eyes, and we are entering into a new dark age. I will touch on the rest of the world, but this will mostly be about America because it is my home, and I am most familiar with it.

While I have explained before that I do not believe in the current political paradigm of left vs. right, conservative vs. liberal, and see it as a spectrum of authoritarian tyranny to absolute anarchy, I will address this topic from the common understanding of left vs. right for clarity. We have reached a point in Western culture where facts and truth don’t matter to large swaths of both the left and right. No evidence, no facts, or any reason will dissuade the adherents. In my experience, there are far more people fully over the cliff of madness on the left than the right, but they exist on both sides. I thought I was going to get in a fistfight; a guy got so bent when we were talking about Trump. All I said is, while I fully agree with doing away with birthright citizenship as it exists today, I do not think Trump has the power under the Constitution to change over a hundred years of judicial interpretation with an executive order. Seriously, you would have thought I just told this guy I slept with his wife and mom at the same time. He lost his mind completely. He jumped up, knocking his chair down, cursing and screaming like a blue-haired land whale when you say there are only two genders. I seriously thought I was going to have my first fistfight in over 20 years that is, until I stood up. I am 6’2”, 295 lbs, and recently benched 455 lbs (lifetime personal record). Much of this 5’9”, 160-lb guy’s conviction and desire for physical confrontation faded, but the madness was real. While I do know there is madness on both sides, and I will touch on the right some, this will mostly be about the left because a much larger percentage of them are gone, they shifted the playing field, and, to be honest, they are the most dangerously unstable right now.

We are faced with a world where a significant percentage of the population is lost to madness, and to make it worse, those who have found themselves in leadership or influential positions on either side knowingly stoke the madness because it equates to power. Politicians on both the left and the right frequently misrepresent facts or outright lie about important news and events with the intention of stoking support through rage. These people don’t believe in anything except what enriches and empowers them. It gets worse with the President; he says things he doesn’t mean specifically to get a rise out of the opposition or even foreign heads of state.

Ultimately, we have a political system driven by false outrage, supported by fake news (information, true or false, presented in a way to convince the consumer of something that isn’t correct or lead them to misinterpret a situation to support a narrative), spewed by the Mainstream Media (MSM). We are reaching a point where far too many people are completely detached from objective reality. We have people marching in the street demanding we have no king while supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, without realizing the fact that they can march around being loud and making a general nuisance of themselves is definitive proof we do not, in fact, have a king or dictator of any kind. While openly voicing support for a regime that not only murdered somewhere between 20–60 thousand protestors, but also arrested hundreds more with the intention of not just executing them, but raping all the women just before killing them to ensure they don’t go to Muslim heaven (it doesn’t matter; Islam is a Satanic mockery of Christ’s church, and all of its adherents are destined for hell, raped first or not). This is full-on Orwellian doublethink: opposing a democratically elected government just because it isn’t your side (you should see some of the street interviews of these idiots very few can give a coherent reason why they are there), and supporting a real totalitarian state that is actively suppressing everything they claim to support in the most brutal way possible.

The seeds of the culture war were planted long before the early 2000s, but even then the rhetoric on both sides was reasonable, and there was room to entertain ideas from whatever point of view. This changed with the election of globalist plant Obama, who slowly changed the rhetoric from opposing ideas attempting to achieve the best outcome for America to legitimate conflict over the course of eight years. The first real indication of how much the landscape changed was the left and MSM meltdown over the results of the 2016 election, and the subsequent mess of lies, exaggerations, and political theater that followed for the next four years, culminating in what I am 100% sure now was a rigged election in 2020 (there has been so much evidence come to light there isn’t any real question anymore). I will say the MSM and elite establishment players (both sides) did utilize the manufactured drama around Trump to ratchet up the emotional outrage and further contract the scope of acceptable thought, using carefully curated social media groups as echo chambers, turning lies into indisputable facts at least in the minds of the members.

With Biden in the White House and someone else (my bet is Obama or his globalist handlers) actually in charge, the left made a full-court press to catch up to Europe. Open the borders to let in third-world Muslims (the majority of traffic was military-age Middle Eastern and African men in the last two years), while handing out billions of taxpayer dollars to non-governmental agencies (NGOs) so they can illegally fund the importation of criminal aliens. Introduce children to sexual perversions and pornography (sufficiently bad to get you arrested at school board meetings for reading and showing it) to children as young as kindergarten. Arrest and terminate the parental rights of anyone who won’t voluntarily mutilate their children. Attempt to force everyone from birth onward to get an experimental genetic therapy that proved lethal to possibly hundreds of thousands and caused debilitating chronic injury to millions more. This was even after they admitted the shot did not provide any protection against contraction or spread of COVID. The message was essentially: it doesn’t work, it might kill or maim you, but you have to take it anyway or else you will lose your job and have other consequences.

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