I’m a grown man now and one phrase has stuck with me for the last 16 months: all they had to do was not fuck with us.

Life was a fruitful and worthwhile struggle for most people. For every bad moment, there was a good one. You were likely severely underpaid in your job or your business was enough to give you a nice life, but it was enough. You had a house, a night out every couple weeks, a decent vacation once a year, some friends, maybe a family of your own. Bad things happened and we knew the elites were pulling the strings behind most of it, but for the most part, we put up with it because life was good enough. It didn’t matter that some had significantly more than us, because we simply had enough.

Then they stuck us at home. They put masks on us. They closed our businesses, deeming them “inessential.” They printed money for themselves and stuck our children and grandchildren with the bill. All the while, not realizing that bored, out of work people are curious. So we researched, we learned of their depravity, saw their failed corrupt system for what it is and caused the greatest awakening humanity has seen in centuries. Their own narcissism and greed will be their destruction.

All they had to do was not fuck with us.