Grotesque Pardons, Vigilantism, and the Austrian Business Cycle. And fires.
They all go together like a peaches and cream puzzle from hell.
I put together a video yesterday about how inflation caused the Los Angeles fires. The basic idea is that the inflationary process in a broad sense is used to buy votes from the idiot class who put the political class in power. Then the political class appoints these idiots to staff key positions in essential public services as a wink and payoff, with preference to idiots of protected groups who voted for them in blocks and literally parade perversion to children on public streets.
For example, gay firefighters who think that being gay is more important than filling up reservoirs for fire hydrants, or actually rescuing people from their burning houses if they happen to be a gender they don't like. These people will spend time and public money making sure that there is an entire department within the fire department that ensures that the squad is staffed with an equal number of gay, trans, and interspecial AND firefighters who identify as furniture on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This, instead of spending money improving fire fighting infrastructure and actually putting out fires.
Just to clarify, it is perfectly OK to identify as furniture even TWICE a week if you are a firefighter (and all the other stuff, too), as long as said identification does not impact your ability to put out fires in any way.
The larger point of the video was to say that the Austrian Business Cycle that includes both boom and bust is normally not lethal. The reshuffling of financial assets is disruptive, but it usually doesn't kill people. However,if the inflation goes on for long enough for a critical mass of idiots to staff essential positions in society, it can become lethal, as in the case of Los Angeles.
We are, of course, in the longest inflationary cycle of human history.
But it's not just firefighters. As we know, printing money makes unprofitable businesses, in many sectors, seem profitable. (It also makes incompetent public services seem competent, like education.) The economy becomes filled with failing businesses and public services that on paper seem profitable or functionarl because the paper they are accounting with is inflated. To bring this back to the fire analogy, an economy where dead brush is not cleared away but is rather kept on the forest floor because the green cult wants to pretend it's alive, makes the eventual fire burns baby burn like a disco inferno.
And that had me thinking of the media. After these grotesque pardons of the January 6th committee, Fauci, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the entire Biden crime family, the mainstream media is whitewashing it all. This is the destruction of all law and order at the very foundation of human civilization, which in retrospect should not be surprising given the MSM already attempted to start a nuclear war with Russia that would have been triggered by a senile corpse allowing Ukraine to fling US missiles into its territory.
Then it hit me. The media itself is just another dead zombie that has been propped up not only by inflation directly, but rather by a two-tiered inflation derivative that almost no other business is privy to.
How so? The MSM is so shockingly appalling that it is failing even now, despite every inflationary advantage given to the establishment, and it has been failing for decades. The only reason it is still clinging to dear life by the skin of its teeth is that it keeps getting bailed out by billionaire oligarchs who benefit directly from the inflationary process like Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos, who figure they may as well swallow up a mouthpiece or two of the official narrative while these institutions circle the drain, and even if they lose money in the process, they can still have the thrill of controlling the narrative while they do.
The pardons, by the way, apply to the future as well, meaning the recipients of these pardons can literally do anything they want, and are no longer subject to any law for the rest of their lives.
That atrocity helped clarify something for me. The principle of vigilante justice does in fact exist in Torah law, and it always disturbed me because it's a very dangerous principle. Tractate Sanhedrin 9:6 states that the cases for extrajudicial killings include someone who publicly fornicates with an idolatress. Vigilante execution is allowed in this case, though not encouraged. The precedent is Numbers 25:6 when Pinhas, Aaron's grandson, impales the leader of the tribe of Shimon, together with his idolatress girlfriend, in a vigilante act of dual execution.
How can a legal system tolerate vigilantism under any circumstances no matter how blatant? Because there are situations where the entire rule of law as a concept is under threat. That's what these pardons do, these pardons are technically legal or not. A legal system without a vigilante asterisk in theory, is open to being overthrown in this way and civilization destroyed. If Biden can do something like this, then any president can theoretically pardon anyone indefinitely into the future, creating an entire class of people that is not subject to law.
Those who would commit such violence against law and order itself need to know that in such an event, vigilantism is tolerated, and therefore they must fear the people, and there is a hard boundary beyond which they cannot go, where artificial legality no longer trumps reality. While vigilantism should never be encouraged, there are circumstances where it must, theoretically at least, be tolerated.
After that thought, my mind wandered back to hyperinflation, the crack up boom. What the crack up boom is, is a mass vigilante attack by the public against a monetary system that has legalized and institutionalized theft. It is the fire that burned down LA. Vigilantism is not a prescription or a choice or a formula. It is simply an inevitability. There is no avoiding the final crack up boom, as Mises says. When the abuses get so bad that the people rise up out of instinct, the End Game is, essentially, mass vigilante justice.
While I usually follow the monetary signals, the social and legal signals are blaring the Inception horns of the End Game. What is happening is intolerable, and if allowed to stand as precedent, it means the end of civil society, because someone else will use this power and law and order will be destroyed.
That will not happen though, because vigilantism is not a prescription. It is, rather, the inevitable consequence of abuses like we saw yesterday by the Biden crime family and its enablers. I am positive that the End Game will come first and save us all, because that's how nature works. It's beyond our legal systems. It puts evil back in its place where it began, deep down, buried, and out of our way.
At least for a while.