Philip Wyeth

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The view from DeBell Golf Course in Burbank just now as crews work to put out the wildfire up in the hills nearby.

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As the Democrat Party's controlled demolition of Eric Swalwell's gubernatorial ambitions unfolds, a chapter in my 2020 future-history novel Reparations Maze entitled "The Queenmakers" comes to mind. It's 2029 and Chinese-American female president Eileen Jeffries-Lao reflects on her rapid rise to power.

"...the club which had extended her a membership believed in a world ordered by more than merit alone. Networks. Alliances. Fifty-year plans. Blackmail and the promise of mutually assured incrimination. Fail-safes put in place to promote or clip the wings of ambitious individuals. Tools used to maintain global security—or orchestrate chaos.

"Eileen Jeffries-Lao almost pitied the people who worried that the Historical Reparations Administration's centralized supercomputer might usher in a surveillance state. The headless system had already been compiling dossiers on any and all potential Who's Who candidates for decades.

"She herself had fallen into their trap long before ever appearing on their radar, however. As the daughter of exiles from Communist China, she understood perfectly why the government might keep tabs on any of her youthful political involvements. But no, she'd been ensnared far differently, and to this day still shook her head in disgusted admiration of their methods.

"They had evidence of one of her few lifetime indiscretions filed away within their stockpiles of blackmail, like some grotesque variation of a De Beers warehouse, which stored human foibles instead of diamonds. A drunken romantic tryst after a night of letting loose with college friends. Sex in the bushes outside of a small hotel where some backpackers from Holland were staying.

"Through all of human history, the worst that such liaisons produced was an unplanned pregnancy. And prior to the internet era, perhaps this scene would have gone no further than becoming part of some pervert's celluloid collection, with the sole copy eventually gathering dust in a cluttered attic.

"But in the twenty-first century, that security camera footage was used to control a woman long before she ever became the leader of the free world—and today it continued to steer her administration's agenda.

"Eileen in her darkest moments fantasized about one day revealing all on a hot mic. In a flash, the general public would be thrust into an existential crisis about how their world actually operated. But besides putting her family in mortal danger, such a confession was not in keeping with her temperament—a metric which surely had been scrutinized before she was tapped to join the group that owned her. Eileen Jeffries-Lao would never disclose their secrets willingly."

R-Maze is the fourth and final installment of the sweeping Reparations series. Written during Trump's first term from 2017 to 2020 (before Covid n' Floyd derailed its projected timeline of future events), these books grapple with the political and social fractures that were so raw during those years. If interested, you can buy ebooks and paperback copies from most online retailers.

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My 2017 novel Reparations USA and its three sequels take place in 2028, playing out in a universe where the events of 2020 we all lived through never took place, simply because I finished writing the series in January of that year. So in these books Trump has served a second term from 2021-2024, and then a resurgent left-wing assumes control in 2025.

Obviously Covid, Floyd Mania, and the late-night Biden ballot dumps pretty much derailed my timeline, but as the years pass I see that many of the ideas contained with the Reparations series remain topical. Case in point, this week's talk of granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

Here is an excerpt from chapter 10 of R-USA which summarizes an amnesty which had taken place in 2021:

"The Great Free-for-All is said to have officially ended early in 2021 when this president signed the pragmatic HOLA—Honoring Our Legacy as Americans—immigration bill into law.

"In the interest of finally not looking the other way—cheap labor was simply no longer a valid excuse in a deindustrialized nation threatened by wandering jihadis and an increasingly automated workforce—both political parties made tremendous trade-offs in writing the legislation. No one wanted to risk the eternal political fallout of trying to round up and deport (what turned out to be) sixty-eight-million undocumented people from around the world who had entered illegally or overstayed a visa. This number did not even include their offspring born on US soil.

"Jowls of indignation jiggled furiously during the historic late-night debates between career politicians who had sat idly by for decades, happily drinking mint juleps while American industry sank into a swamp of outsourcing and regulation due to their shortsightedness and blackmailable predilections. Young congresshumans begged them to consider how their grandchildren would actually live, rather than worry about what the biographers would say about them later.

"In the end, the Rebellicans were willing to hold their noses and accept 'Hopefully One Last Amnesty' if the Dramacrats promised not to unleash their army of civil rights attorneys when, as a condition of being granted citizenship, these immigrants were required to register for the National Biometric Identification Database—complete with fingerprinting, face and retinal scans, and submitting a DNA sample.

"After the signing ceremony, the president wistfully suggested in a post to his skReacher account that the Supreme Court 'just let this one go' so that America could keep moving forward. Cynical types believed that the Rebellican president had intentionally waited until winning a second term before biting the pragmatic bullet and passing amnesty, which might hand the Dramacrats power for years to come."

You can find all four books from most online retailers, as well as the combined omnibus edition. The order of the series is as follows:
1) Reparations USA (2017)
2) Reparations Mind (2018)
3) Reparations Core (2019)
4) Reparations Maze (2020)

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I hereby nominate Billie Eilish for the Idiocracy Brawndo Award to go along with her Grammy.

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@StephenM Plus the “only solution” according to Anthony Bourdain.
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It feels like we just lived through "The Big Short," but for precious metals instead of stocks. Gold and silver got slammed down hard on the very last market day of both the week and the month. How are you planning to spend the next couple days before trading starts up again?

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@Cernovich America has become a “strip-mining club” for immigrants. Quote from my 2020 novel ‘Reparations Maze.’

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@Cernovich Tim Walz yesterday saying that Minnesota voted against Trump “3 times” wasn’t exactly the own he intended.

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As we begin to tally up just how much taxpayer money has been stolen from Minnesota and the rest of the country, let us rely on these wise words for guidance: LIVE. LAUGH. LEAR.

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@VDAREJamesK Everybody wants to go to the nice place, instead of doing the work to make a place nice.

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@InsiderWire “I’m Spartacus!”

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@RealJamesWoods “Night Moves” is one of my Hackman favorites!

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@DOGE "Flick that white man off your shoulder," LOL!

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@DOGE Is his how Democrats envisioned they could “fortify” the world?

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Are they going to make “The Big Short 2” about all the bureaucrats who lost their cushy lifestyles because of DOGE? (Don’t worry, @CityBureaucrat, got a couch for you to crash on if need be…)

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@LHSummers @nytopinion Yeah, Janet Yellen is definitely someone who’s in touch with the reality most Americans are living.

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@captivedreamer7 Might I suggest a little light reading material? My apologies for the timeline being off—the series ended just before the Dems “fortified” the 2020 election!
https://t.co/ZnM9m4uo4l

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The worst sin a Democrat can commit is to leave the Democrat Party. The bitter revenge they experience is crazier than any stalker ex in those Lifetime movies...

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@zerohedge America go BRRRR!!!

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@libsoftiktok This is just a scene out of hell. Not even a cool stylized cyberpunk dystopia or Bosch nightmare, either.