Thank you for the gracious invitation.
C’mon over ... you’ll run into me there, except I’m talking about stuff that I have some clue about, instead of the usual POD “hey Americans, check out my staggering ignorance ...” type contributions.
Or maybe more of the same ... my life would certainly be a bit different if not for FD, which given that it had some origins here, means also if not for FR. Mostly it has been better despite some challenges along the rough road.
This is a bit of a tangent but worth mentioning perhaps. Around 2017 when FD was shut down, I wrote a rather sketchy novel entitled “Rough Road Ahead.” It was basically about the misadventures of myself and certain other recognizable persons on a trip from my Canadian home to Nevada and Utah, set in 2017. The interesting part about it seems to be prophetic. There was a plot underway, unknown to me the traveller,for globalists organized in secret conclaves to take over the U.S. government in collaboration with a rogue Chinese faction that was simultaneously taking over their government.
This plot included the detonation of one nuclear weapon (made to look like a missile strike but actually set off from a land base by remote control), and disguised to look like an incompetent North Korean near miss of a plausible target (it went off along the route taken by the narrator, and started a series of events involving him and others as collateral damage of the plot). The plot also included selected acts of sabotage and the release of pathogens in a number of American cities (these were more lethal than COVID-19 but more like anthrax attacks). In the novel’s timetable, these events all took place between May 27 and June 15 of 2017 (the novel was written over the preceding winter).
The rest of the plot was an account of how the Trump government figured out what was happening, how the Chinese government removed their rogue actors from power, and how God decided this was about enough of the free will experiment and brought about the second coming in Utah of all places.
I may publish this novel one day. The reason for not attempting publication was that I got bogged down in editing considerations and the 2017 total eclipse came and went — it was a part of the novel and since it would then be a historic rather than future event, it rather undermined the shock value of the novel’s general thesis.
Also as time went on, I started to realize that perhaps the thing was a lot closer to a documentary than a work of fiction.