by Michael

Every so often, there’s a second that embodies what’s going on in our society as an entire.  For me, a kind of moments got here on Saturday evening.  A 45 foot tall animatronic dragon at Disneyland erupted in flames, however most people on the park appeared to assume that it was no massive deal.  The overwhelming majority of them simply went about their enterprise as if nothing uncommon was occurring.  Extremely, most of those who had been there appeared to assume that every thing was “regular” though a fully huge hearth was sending “large flames” into the evening sky…

An intense hearth broke out at Disneyland in Anaheim on Saturday evening as packed crowds had been having fun with a present on the theme park.

The fireplace ignited on Tom Sawyer Island through the Fantasmic! nighttime water and fireworks present held on the Rivers of America.

Citizen video captured by parkgoers reveals large flames totally engulfing Maleficent’s dragon prop on stage. The flames first ignited from the dragon’s face earlier than spreading to the remainder of its physique.

In keeping with Google, “maleficent” means “inflicting hurt or destruction, particularly by supernatural means”.

As I watched this dragon burn, I instantly thought concerning the present state of our nation.

 

Throughout us, our society is actually coming aside on the seams, and most of the people appear to imagine that there is no such thing as a trigger for alarm.

 

However if you happen to aren’t alarmed but, what’s it going to take?

Simply take a look at our economic system.  The dominoes are falling one after one other, and even our largest and most affluent firms are shedding employees.

Inside simply the previous few days, Mattress Tub & Past has filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety, BuzzFeed Information introduced it is going to be fully shutting down, and we’ve discovered that Disney goes to be giving the axe to 1000’s of employees subsequent week…

Walt Disney Co. reportedly plans to slash 1000’s of jobs subsequent week.

Bloomberg, citing individuals acquainted with the plans mentioned the corporate would reduce about 15% of the employees in its leisure division.

The cuts will embrace these in TV, movie, theme parks and on company groups, in each area the place Disney operates.

In the meantime, our monetary system is on hearth.

Already this 12 months we’ve witnessed the second and third largest financial institution failures in U.S. historical past, and Moody’s simply slapped 11 extra banks with vital downgrades…

On Friday Moody’s strengthened this difficult outlook by downgrading rankings for 11 regional lenders, together with a two-notch reduce for Western Alliance, citing “a deterioration within the working surroundings and funding circumstances for US banks.”

“Among the speedy issues have gone away however the actuality is with rates of interest increased the banks’ enterprise mannequin goes to have to alter, and that’s going to play out over months and quarters and even years,” Commonwealth Monetary Community CIO Brad McMillan instructed Yahoo Finance.

On the similar time, crime charges proceed to soar all around the nation and it seems that a considerable portion of the inhabitants has gone fully nuts.

Nowadays, many individuals will begin taking pictures for seemingly no purpose in any respect.  The opposite day a person in North Carolina shot a number of individuals, together with a 6-year-old lady, as a result of a basketball rolled into his yard…

The 24-year-old man accused of taking pictures a 6-year-old lady, her dad and mom and one other neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard in North Carolina is now in police custody.

Robert Singletary appeared in court docket on Friday and signed an extradition waiver. He turned himself in on Thursday to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace in Tampa, authorities mentioned.

Neighbors instructed ABC Information’ Charlotte affiliate WSOC the taking pictures on Tuesday began when a basketball rolled into Singletary’s yard from a bunch of native kids enjoying basketball on the street. Singletary allegedly fired a gun at a neighbor earlier than approaching a father and daughter, William James White and 6-year-old Kinsley White, who had been each significantly wounded.

As I hold telling my readers, the skinny veneer of civilization that we rely upon each day is quickly disappearing.

In San Francisco, organized retail crime is so rampant that some retailers have resorted to literally locking up thousands of products.

The ethical basis of our society has been rotting for years, and now it’s virtually completely gone.

And it’s in such an surroundings that the most contentious presidential election in U.S. historical past might be held in 2024.

An election needs to be a time of nice hope for the nation, however as a substitute most individuals appear to be wanting ahead to it with dread…

Many Individuals aren’t excited a few potential rematch between President Biden and former President Trump, based on a brand new ballot, with extra respondents saying they really feel “exhaustion” over the prospects than anything.

A 38 % plurality of respondents reported they felt “exhaustion” over the concept of a rematch, based on the Yahoo Information/YouGov ballot. The opposite feelings that folks mentioned the rematch evokes aren’t far more optimistic, with 29 % feeling “worry” and 23 % “unhappiness and worry.”

Most Individuals don’t place confidence in our elections any longer.

And most Individuals don’t place confidence in our flesh pressers any longer.

Our total system of presidency is on very skinny ice, and that ought to make all of us very unhappy.

After all our total tradition is on very skinny ice at this level.  Earlier at the moment, I used to be alarmed to learn {that a} college district in a deep pink state akin to Missouri has given in to stress from the woke crowd…

A Missouri college district is now making its math curriculum extra gender inclusive, updating phrase issues and different language-based math equations with “they/them” pronouns.

As offered in a Webster Groves Faculty District “math program analysis” final week, non-binary individuals might be represented in “phrase and contextual” issues through the pronouns, alongside common gendered individuals utilizing he/she pronouns.

Once we permit the woke crowd to outline the language, they win.

Over in Europe, issues are even worse.  In sure conditions, you’ll be able to actually go to jail for not utilizing somebody’s most popular pronouns.

Whereas we’re obsessing over pronouns, the conflict in Ukraine simply continues to escalate.

The whole quantity of support that the U.S. has already given Ukraine exceeds 200 billion {dollars}, however one Ukrainian official is now saying that is not nearly enough…

We’re grateful to our allies for his or her navy assist. However: it’s not sufficient. Ukraine wants 10 occasions extra to complete russian aggression this 12 months. Thus we name upon our companions to cross all synthetic pink strains & dedicate 1% of GDP for weapons deliveries

For sure, most of our flesh pressers are greater than keen to maintain showering the Ukrainians with extra cash.

And the Russians are simply going to maintain escalating the battle as nicely.

We proceed to creep nearer and nearer to a degree of no return.

So what occurs if somebody finally ends up crossing a line that can by no means have the ability to be uncrossed?

Do we actually need to struggle a nuclear conflict over Ukraine?

As soon as the nukes begin flying, America will burn.

Sadly, most Individuals aren’t alarmed by any of the issues that I’ve simply shared with you.

However the reality is that flames have already erupted in each nook of our society, and we had higher work actually onerous to place these fires out earlier than it’s too late.