Orange Trepidation

Like most people who aren’t communists, I prefer the Orange Man defeats the communists in a few days from now. Communism being a thing best avoided. But is it – per the lament of the fish-man thing in one of the Star Wars movies – a trap?

It hardly bears thinking about. But that is why it ought to be thought about.

Many supporters of the Orange Man have stopped thinking about the latter’s actions during the sickness kayfabe – which was apparently designed to get rid of the Orange Man (along with whatever remained of our onetime rights, including the right to not take drugs pushed on us by the medical-industrial cartels). But what if it was just apparently – and just kayfabe?

The term refers to the play-acting that is professional wrestling. Hulk Hogan – who has appeared twice at Orange Man rallies – pretends to be sucker punched or hit over the head with a folding chair by a heel. The bad guy. He pretends to be staggered. The crowd boos the heel, who struts cockily around the ring. But – wait! – the face (that’s the good guy) is recovering his strength. His legs steady. The audience can almost see the life-force returning. Vengeance! The face proceeds to turn the tables, decks the heel and wins the match.

Then they both head to the locker room for a laugh.

It is odd that Orange Man was fooled for so long. It was very clear by the summer of 2020 – after a few months of the “pandemic,” as it continues to be called – that whatever-it-was was a differential threat, at most. Meaning if you weren’t already very sick – or very old – it was a cold. Colds can, of course, be a lethal if you’re very old or already very sick. Everyone used to know this. All of a sudden, they were expected to pretend that healthy younger people faced an existential threat – and that wearing a Chinese-made “mask” would stave it off.

Orange Man is many things. Is he an imbecile? It is the only comforting explanation for his going along with the kayfabe after mid-summer 2020. Because after that point in time, only imbeciles and evil people continued the kayfabe. This includes the “emergency” that Orange Man declared and never rescinded.

The heel – Joe Biden – did that.

And everyone knows about the “beautiful vaccines” that were in fact neither thing. Orange Man is said to be a hypochondriac and perhaps he was fooled – as some of his defenders insist. But when a man comes to understand he was fooled, does he not repent having been fooled? Has the Orange Man repented? No, he has not. He continues to defend his not-so-beautiful “vaccines.”

But this is history. What about the future?

What might the Orange Man do if he is elected in a few days from now or however long it takes to count and recount and litigate the votes?

One of the reasons for the Orange Man’s popularity is that he is the face – again. The champion who will do something about the wide-open border that the heel now says she wants to control. Which is a thing like Ted Bundy saying he wants to get serial killing under control.

But what will Orange Man do? How will he identify the millions of “immigrants” – as they are neutrally styled by the heels – that are now on this side of the border, in order to do something about them?

What will he do to us, that is?

Will he impose a national regime of identification – your papers, please? – and checkpoints to enforce this? Will his supporters accept it – because it is their face who is demanding their “papers” – which of course would be something more than that this time. They would be digital. And perhaps also money.

Tied to money, might be more precise.

Orange Man has talked up just that. Yes, Bitcoin. Which no one really understands, especially as regards the source of its value. Some say it derives from high-end computers making calculations. How that makes value is harder to fathom. In any event, one thing we can know is that it is not physical money and so isn’t under our control. Just as you do not control the engine in a car with a drive-by-wire throttle. You think you have control.

The distinction is important.

If you have a gold coin in your pocket – or even a paper dollar – you do control it. And you can spend it anonymously. Digital “coin” is something you are allowed to use. By someone else, who controls it. And someone else knows how you spent it.

These are the kinds of things that most of Orange Man’s supporters would oppose if a heel were to try to hit them over the head with them. But perhaps the kayfabe is to have Orange Man hit them over the head with it. Just as it was Orange Man who hit them over the head with the “beautiful vaccines” he also insists no one was forced to take. And that is technically true. Just the same as no one in the old Soviet Union was forced to love Stalin and smile enthusiastically whenever his name was mentioned. You’d just end up in a camp if you didn’t.

One hopes – I pray – that Orange Man is not a heel and that it isn’t all kayfabe. But God help us all if it is.

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