 I never thought I would live through the decline of an empire, but let me tell you it's going to be a wild ride Hey, everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense, and I was thinking about this a little bit recently I saw some poll come out that basically like the Trump is projected to get more than half of the general the popular vote Come you know the next election here and for all intents and purposes, right? He's probably going to win the Republican nomination. I have a hard time seeing where he doesn't win that you know, there's a love of Trump and None of the other candidates are really shining that well anyway, so more than likely he's going to win that right that that's a heavy heavy favorite there and Whoever the Democrats decide to put up he'll run against them more than likely he's going to beat them if If there was a free and fair election and we all know how that goes So just just set the election issues aside for a second here And as I was thinking about this, I'm like, okay, you know Trump projected to win You know the vote if it was if it was fair so What does that put us really and as I thought about it? I thought our our current leading candidate for fixing things for making things better Believes in red flag laws bragged on Twitter about raising the smoking age to 21 Band bump stocks, right? He was part of that whole thing that we're still fighting and and getting that fixed out Gave us the COVID shutdown fiasco disaster gave us the COVID vaccines has never since apologized or said who hey my bad for any of it You know gave us Fauci, right never fired Fauci Didn't really do too much with the FBI certainly not enough Increase the debt didn't start any new wars. I'll give him that signed You know billions and billions of dollars of budgets that don't mean anything So If that's The best hope we have For fixing this couldn't get a border wall built. I mean to be fair. He did try If that's the best hope we have of fixing this do you think there's any way out of this? Honest question. I I tend to not right? I think we are well past the point of no return hence the name of this this little series meaning that We have reached whatever that apex point of no return is and there's no going back There's going forward. We're gonna see what's ahead of us But it's going to be a ride to the bottom and then there will be something born new out of that There's always something new. There's always something that comes after What is that going to be? How are we preparing to set that up now because the current system it just isn't going to last maybe it'll crumple in my lifetime Maybe it won't It doesn't really matter. It's not gonna make it We are in the death throes of the Republic here and the history about this era that will be written a hundred years From now will be super interesting to read and I'm just sad. I won't be around to read it So when you think about it, and you just think that you're you're leading candidate you're your best hope Isn't really that great Again, you got to understand it's that ride to the bottom, right? We've reached this place in America where all of our leadership elected officials are super old. I mean Trump is over 70 now And because they're all that older boomer generation They've adopted this mindset that the government is here to fix it And most people have gotten most people in the country have gotten on board with the government is here to fix it That that's that's the problem when we as a nation believe that the government is here to fix it There's there's not a lot to go back from because then every problem Becomes a government problem. Well, people are doing x the only solution I can think of that would actually do anything is a law right is enforcement is is sending some police officer Over there to handle it and if you don't comply to threaten you with violence, right? That's the only solution I can think of in my little brain And that's all and when you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail Right as the analogy goes and that of course creates all kinds of problems And then you have a different backlashes that are of course ridiculous like we need to completely get rid of all Police departments ever and you have this seesaw effect as again It seesaws right down to the bottom and crashes and burns and we're gonna find out how bad that is So I don't necessarily think it will be some huge kinetic event although that could happen It'll probably just be a long slow decline over the rest of your lifetime And you just need to be prepared to that and understand the world that you live in and how you're going to one Hopefully survive through that and to again prepare for what comes after because there will be a new system There will be a new America of some kind. I don't know what that'll be. I don't know if that'll be multiple countries I don't know but if you even look at a map of the world from like 50 60 70 years ago There's a lot of countries on that map that don't exist anymore, right? I mean even like Africa like the country of Rhodesia doesn't exist anymore All right, we can talk about why if it's a good thing or a bad thing or whatever But that's not the point there's a lot of changes that happen and to think that somehow borders are frozen or things are always going to Stay the same. Well, that's just ignorant and you haven't read enough history. So I'm not insulting you I'm just saying you should read more history And and you'll get to an understanding that hey things shift. This is all in flux. This is all fluid The idea that this is going to stay the same is not realistic based on Thousands of years of human history our best hope isn't enough. It's too little too late Get to know your friends Find a crew I'll see you on the other side do brave deeds and endure