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The few times this Covid-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they’re horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2016 (or Hillary), but I will this time.
I’m in favor of his policy stands for defending the US border and stopping the flow of illegal migrants, on ending our foolish misadventures in foreign lands, on reducing the government’s stranglehold on private enterprise, and on opposing the matrix of rackets that make up the “DC swamp.” I admire Mr. Trump’s resilience in the face of a relentless assault by “the Intel Community,” the DC cabal of Lawfare seditionists, and the despicable confabulations of The New York Times and other media voices-of-authority captive to the Left.
I still view Mr. Trump as the designated bag-holder for the catastrophe of our economic quandary, but his political opponents would surely make things worse with their crypto-Marxist fantasies of a totalist American nanny-state. Few in any quarter of US leadership understand the long emergency we’ve entered, and most who do are too timid to spell out what it will actually require of us in the way of rigor and fortitude.
But here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years (and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972):
When their basic philosophy is not incoherent, it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith. For instance, their Orwellian insistence on shutting down free speech in the name of “diversity and inclusion.” This malignant jive has just about destroyed higher education across the land. But it has also managed to infect business, government, and the arts, and turned the general population into cowering hostages willing to lie about their convictions to avoid “cancellation.”
The key to understanding the Democratic “progressive” ethos is this: the drive for coercion, the wish to push everybody around, to tell them how to think and what to do. There is an evil purity about the pleasure they appear to take in it, like children who enjoy tearing the wings off flies. They like to see their enemies squirm and plead in torment before “cancellation” makes them disappear from the scene. They like to extract confessions and apologies, not for the sake of redemption, but as grounds for further persecution. In short, they’re sadists.
They seek to erase every boundary of behavior that makes civilized life possible and overtly campaign to overthrow science and reason in the name of a new-and-improved form of racism. Math, history, and literature are too hard because they are products of “white supremacy.” Better get rid of all that — and while you’re at it, cancel white people on the basis of their sheer whiteness. Relations between men and women are not difficult enough; better gin up a campaign of grievance and resentment against men, disable them wherever possible, and militate against masculinity per se — turning America into a nation of pliable eunuchs.
Under their banner, anything goes and nothing matters. Violent anarchy is “mostly peaceful.” Looting is a form of “joyful liberation.” Anybody’s property is just their free stuff. (What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.) Crime is the new entitlement. Self-defense is insulting to mobs. Thugs with long rap-sheets are exemplars of virtue and must be honored in violent rituals of civic destruction.
Those are general principles.
At the official level since 2016, they’ve played out in a set of pernicious campaigns against the public interest and common decency by the self-proclaimed “Resistance.” RussiaGate was, in the strict sense of the word, a conspiracy to overthrow a president carried out by a coordinated effort of high-ranking government employees across many agencies, who knew exactly what they were doing. It was an exercise in perfidy, bad faith, and lawlessness run by the very Department of Justice entrusted with enforcing federal law, including attorney Andrew Weissmann’s clean-up crew fronted by the dishonorable figurehead Robert Mueller. It remains unresolved due to the tensions in that department and the obdurate resistance of the federal courts — for example in the three-year persecution of General Flynn. The eventual day that the hammer comes down on the perps of RussiaGate, if ever it does come, will be a moment of historic moral and ethical clarification in this sore-beset country.
The 2019 impeachment fiasco was a parallel ruse run by Representative Adam Schiff, former Department of Justice lawyer Mary McCord, and Lawfare warrior Daniel S. Goldman, with help from Resistance intriguers in the National Security Council, Eric Ciaramella and Alexander Vindman, and Hillary Clinton’s holdover confederates in the State Department. Mr. Ciaramella’s pretense to be acting as a “whistleblower” was a nakedly false act, illegally abetted by Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, himself a former DOJ RussiaGate player. It is amazing that neither of these two has been indicted for sedition.
Add to these matters the associated misdeeds in the FISA courts, the ridiculous, scurrilous charges against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh by the mendacious Christine Blasey Ford, the ongoing schemes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer to rig the vote with unverifiable mail-in ballots, and the wholesale acts against the public interest by Democratic mayors and governors such as Ted Wheeler, Kate Brown, Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Lori Lightfoot, J.B. Pritzker, Ralph Northam, Jacob Frey, Tim Walz, Muriel Bowser, Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsom, Tony Evers and a wider rogues’ gallery of other Democratic Party subalterns such as Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and NYC education Chancellor Richard Carranza and you have a nearly complete picture of this odious faction.
Finally, add the cherry-on-top: Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden. Does anybody still believe he is a plausible chief executive — even in his own degenerate party? I doubt it. Why they engineered his nomination may remain one of the great mysteries of human existence. Except perhaps to speculate that their sadism has turned inward and become a suicidal death-wish. They are finally so miserably contemptible that they just want to end it all.
Personally, I don’t want to see any of these people anywhere near the levers of power in this country. Quite a few of them deserve to be in jail, and I believe before Mr. Trump’s second term is up, they will be — if they don’t try to wreck the United States altogether with new treasons in the November election. I’m against them heart and soul, and I no longer care what my old friends think about it.
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Bravo James. I agree completely. The dems have become a party of theft and destruction.
As crude as he is, I also agree that a vote for Trump is the only reasonable choice. I would like to believe that he will lead us back to some sense of unity and reason in civil affairs. But, if he can only thwart the thrust toward totalitarianism, that would be a good job.
PJ O’Rourke famously said of the 2016 election:
“I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises. It’s the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she’s way behind in second place.
The Democrats have become so odious that the same sentiment applies to Trump this time around. I would have thought it would be impossible to say the following words a mere three and a half years ago but my vote goes to Trump.
Ditto. With:
1) mayhem occurring now in Democrat-run cities;
2) incessant grievance politics foisted on the public;
3) numerous bad faith actions against law and order by Democrat pols like the insufferable mayoral trio of de Blasio (NYC), Wheeler (Portland) and Lightfoot (Chicago),
I conclude that President Trump will serve as a strong force and counterweight against the insanity. Ergo, Trump gets my vote in 2020 too.
Human freedom is far too important to let it be consumed by mob violence, Democrat perfidy and utopian schemes.
I just continue to wonder that some of you are able to come to this obvious conclusion while others I know seem utterly entrenched in the propaganda. Why?
Propaganda is a ‘drug’… and some are more susceptible to addiction than others.
IQ.
They have dug in their heels and their egos will not allow them to say one negative word against any Democrat.
Even if the ex and his wife were dining out in Marina del Rey enjoying a hundred dollar bottle of wine while watching a fabulous sunset, and a mob of BLM’s got right in their faces saying, “Raise your fist!!! Raise your fist OR ELSE!”, they would proudly raise their fists and fall to their knees and kiss the feet of their tormentors.
This is the divide we face right now.
I would stand in defiance and decline to raise my fist and I would politely say, “Excuse me. You are blocking my view of the sunset and you are giving me a very bad case of indigestion and it is NOT appreciated.”
“they would proudly raise their fists”
Abby,
In a similar situation, I too, would raise my fist…one finger at a time….
I’m old, and bereft of judgment.
Both sides are skilled in disseminating propaganda. In your (and many others’) case, you’ve simply bought Trump’s line of bullshit.
And there you have it…Majella provides the example of those who would rather pretend that a myriad of delineated factual points never existed and that “everyone else who disagrees” are just “dupes”. What specifically is the “propaganda” regarding all the factual statements of perfidy JHK and others detail exactly? What of them is not real? Will you bother to illustrate?
Propaganda works by telling people what they want to hear and giving them a weapon to use in shutting out or denouncing unwelcome, painful realities. Most of the folks I know with severe TDS had been successful in salaried work, have lovely homes, travel a lot and were calling me a pessimist for preparing for a long descent. Now they feel justified in their accusations that I and other “right wing” (Green Party) nuts like me thwarted their dreams, but to them that is only a temporary setback. They have full faith in Progress. Rather than facing the fact that liberalism is leading them in an absolutely ghastly Mao-esque direction, they turn their anger towards anyone who disagrees with their vision (a happy, egalitarian, cosmopolitan, globalist, technologically advanced society that will solve all of humanity’s problems).
Ultimately the money and the turning of the Democratic party in to the Communist party comes From China. It was always China. It was china in the schools. It was china infiltrating into our government. It was china stealing our manufacturing and intellectual property. It was china bribing and feeding great wealth to liberal elite and elite conservatives alike. It was china who created a bio weapon to attack the world. It was always China. Trump 2020.
The orange fella is crude and inept, but he’s a damn slight better than the madness that has befallen the Dems.
I wish he were able to do more, or wanted to do more, regarding trade issues and curtailing/ending migration. Our resource base is already overstretched without inviting in more tribes to join in the absurd free for all we’re slated for when shortages become permanent, but even if he did, he’d be stymied by the permanent bureaucracy and the imperial ideology that demands America be the flophouse for the world.
…that demands America be the flophouse for the world. – Rupert
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Good job Roop. I like ^this^ line and especially the italicized word. I was growing tired of descriptors like ‘third-world shithole.’
Yes, a good line.
Still rolling on the floor. Good one! It’s a keeper.
Funny, and a hint of truth there.
edpell and shotho, 100% in agreement.
Mr. Kunstler, 1000% in agreement.
I couldn’t go that far. I’d vote for Ralph Nader or Ross Perot.
Yes, bravo Mr Kunstler, for your courage in these times
There are many more like you than are willing to say … cf the recent survey cited on ZeroHedge, that more than 11% of intended Trump voters don’t even want to tell a pollster about what they will do
The danger inteed is such a rigged election and rigged vote-count, and then subsequent litigation rigged by the suborned judiciary, and then perhaps a rigged decision vote in the US Congress House in January
And all this amidst USA middle-class youth finding the half-Latino Kyle Rittenhouse, accused Kenosha shooter of 3 antifa rioters who visibly threatened and attacked him, to be the biggest real-life hero they have seen in their lifetimes
God help the USA
the half-Latino Kyle Rittenhouse, – Brabantian
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With a last name of Rittenhouse it seems unlikely that Kyle’s father is a Latino so I assume his mother is a Latina. If so, what is her maiden name?
Lots of German, Italian, Polish, Welsh, Russian immigration in the Southernmost countries of South America: Argentina, Uruguay, Southern Brazil, Chile to a much lesser degree. So Rittenhouse wouldn’t be such an unusual name. I’m originally from Argentina and “Latino” I suppose, with a Belgian last name and 4 European grandparents. “Latino” is not a race but a culture, a language. There’s many like me, European-Latin Americans.
George Zimmerman’s mother is a Peruvian indian. That makes him a “person of color”. But he has such a delightfully white name, that the media were happy to l
eave it at that.
Wait Rulo, aren’t you one of the migrant-types we are supposed to be keeping out? I mean according to Trump and now apparently JHK????
Wow, just wow. takin’ names and kickin’ ass.!
mxb
Wonderful piece, Mr. K. Other than Tom DiNapoli, I’m done voting for Democrats, no matter what my in-laws or my union leaders say. We simply can’t afford to allow the Wokesters to immolate the country while lying bastards like Schitt, Jerry Nadless, Pelosi, and Schumer are going around undermining our government.
To answer Mr. K’s question, I believe the Donkeys nominated Senile Joe as a Trojan horse to get the radical leftist Kamala Harris into the White House. Shes ruthless, using law enforcement to crush people because she enjoys it. She has said she’d unilaterally disarm the American people, and that “We’re coming for Trump supporters” as if they’re criminals for having opinions that differ from hers. If you plan to purge America of all non-Woke people, she’s probably the one you want in the White House. Just my 2 cents.
She scares me a lot yet I feel a small wicked chuckle when I imagine what she really thinks and would really do to the rioters if she had the chance.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Kinda late hour to reply, but that is my MOST FAVORITE QUOTE from The Gulag Archipelago — I’ve shown it to many people recently. Interesting that it is merely a footnote to the paragraph.
Well done, draupnir.
I was living in the Philippines in 1977 during the days of Marcos and his lovely wife, Imelda of the 1000 pairs of shoes. They had TV cameras on them for a minimum four hours a day, following them around while they sang charming duets and played with their grandchildren. One of the first things Marcos did when he came to power was disarm the people. One of the old guys who worked for my husband said that he disassembled his, cleaned and oiled it well, locked it in a metal box, and buried it. Something that those who have foolishly registered guns, rather than having purchased one through the black market, might want to consider.
Funny coincidence: I was in the Phils in 1977 as well, shooting FLOR FINA PILIPINA, a romantic documentary on the local cigar scene. Worked with Demetrio P. Tabije, one of the many thousands of Filipinos who claimed “…to have saved Marcos’ life…” during the Pacific War. Imelda, Bong Bong and the rest of the crooked clan are still in action, unbelievably enough.
I also recall that it was illegal to portray firearms, so movie ads and posters had large white perfectly gun-shaped blanks drawn on them.
The NPA Communist guerrillas were up in the hills and a few reportedly still hide out there. Must be over 90 by now, most of the leaders anyway.
Philippines seems stuck in a time-warp, quite unlike dynamic societies like Vietnam or Thailand. Tragic. The Filipinos themselves are prone to say that anybody with ambition, drive and intelligence emigrates to Canada, the USA or Oz. Huge contingent of Filipina nurses working across Norteamerica.
Flat-face KAHmala. Ouch. My heart sank in that strange way when I know everything is lost.
…to get the radical leftist Kamala Harris into the White House. – Uncle Bob
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Speaking of Kamala Harris, I want to tell readers here what has had me infuriated with the NYT for the past 48 plus hours. The Sunday Times (a portion of which actually arrives on Saturday morning if you get it via home delivery) had a new section in it titled Speak Up. In small font above this title was an Editors’ Note: This Section Should Not Be Read By Grown-Ups I only just a moment ago noticed this Editors’ Note and it actually says a lot. Namely, that everything contained therein was meant to indoctrinate our poorly informed youth about many issues they are simply too young to know much about like, for example, the US and Japan were enemies, fought a great war known as WW2, and the US won. There are teenagers unaware of this and when they hear about it they are horrified and you could knock them over with a feather, as the saying goes. And so………
If you had the Speak Up section in front of you I would draw your attention to the lower right corner of page 3 where there is a small rectangle titled Tiny Story followed by Announcement: and then by a large number one. And beneath the large number one there are two sentences which read as follows: The number of women of color who have been on a major party’s presidential ticket, now that Joe Biden has picked Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden chose Harris, who is Black and of Indian descent, on Aug. 11.
Do any of you readers here notice the slant, the spin, the weasel-wording of that second sentence? Wouldn’t it have been more accurate to say ‘Biden chose Harris, who is of Black and
ofIndian descent, on Aug. 11.’?Wouldn’t it have been even more accurate to say ‘Biden chose Harris, who is of ‘Jamaican’ Black and
of‘Asian’ Indian descent, on Aug. 11.’? orrr, reverse the order to Asian Indian and Jamaican Black descent.Wouldn’t it have been appropriate to point out that Kamala’s blackness was not at all of the type of a typical resident of, say, Harlem, Baltimore, or North Philly whose slave ancestry extends back 10 generations while American slavery has no connection with her elite academic Black father’s background?
Wouldn’t it have been nice to say that Kamala’s mom raised her to be a strong Indian woman rather than a strong Black woman since, after all, her mother and father separated after a brief five years and divorced two years after that?
Shouldn’t the Tiny Story have mentioned that Kamala married (at the ripe age of 49) a white Jew and that in an earlier era she would have been known as Mrs Emhoff, and further that she has no biological children of her own?
Are the young folks at whom this propaganda is directed aware that NYT linguists recently decided that the word black should begin with a capital B when the subject is race (which they elsewhere deny even exists except as a method of denigrating Blacks) but that there is to be no tit for tat capitalization of whites? No, of course not. Do young people know anything about the disputed terms colored people vs people of color?
Need I point out that the purpose of all this spin is to attract the vote of American Black people with whom Kamala has the barest of affinity?
The NYT pulled out all the stops the day following the 2016 election on their anti-Trump strategy for the ensuing four years that has come to be known as “the Resistance” so that even in their Food Section they manage to deliver a liberal slant.
The Times has come a long way since they published “all the news that’s fit to print.”
‘ Shes ruthless, using law enforcement to crush people ’
Is t that what Trumpistas want? Trump won’t do it, the pussy.
She wants to crush law abiding White people – not poc criminals and antifa.
Proof?
Uncle Bob (I already feel happier just writing your name 😉 ) I just want you to consider revising one of your nicknames (love them though as I do).
With all her penchant for deflection in calling anyone else against her evil ways a “fascist”, I’ve found referring to the “speaker” as Nazi Pelosi quite appropriate.
Thirded. It’s clear to me that the Democrats are working hard to 1) lose
in November 2) blame the Little People for their loss, and 3) start a new Civil War in the process.
Another brilliant addition to your great blog. I too completely agree and I would add our Liberal government and that fake virtue-signaling drama queen Justin Trudeau to the fold. I can’t think of a time when the left has gone to greater lengths to impose its’ Orwellian vision of utopia on the general public. Just the other day a BLM mob toppled a statue of Canada’s first leader John A MacDonald in Montreal’s Canada square. The Liberals and NDP were mostly silent which befits their cowardice in the face of left wing bullies. Can’t wait to see what happens in September when sleepy Joe has to leave his basement and debate the POTUS.
Will there be debates? Even one? Of course Trump is not a great orator, and Biden would have the moderators on his side and the questions in advance, but there is so much damned material against Biden: his votes for endless wars, his Ukrainian corruption, his corrupt sons, his China connections, his weakness on the recent civil disorder, and – if Trump dared go there – his dementia.
So that’s a lot of material for zingers. And Trump as a speaker damn well knows how to deliver a zinger. It would be a slaughter. It would be “Joe Biden, you’re fired!”
JHK’s words this morning made me weep tears of joy.
The truth just does that to me.
Another thumbs UP from me as well. As an economist might say, Trump is the cleanest dirty shirt in the laundry.
Ultimately the money and the turning of the Democratic party in to the Communist party comes From China. It was always China. It was china in the schools. It was china infiltrating into our government. It was china stealing our manufacturing and intellectual property. It was china bribing and feeding great wealth to liberal elite and elite conservatives alike. It was china who created a bio weapon to attack the world. It was always China. Trump 2020.
You’re actually celebrating the de-evolution of poor old Jimmy Kunstler!
You’re celebrating the de-evolution of poor Kunstler.
“I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.”
RR,Oct 27,1964
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raymond reddington?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Lord no I was hoping and wishing that I never ever heard that assholes name again,the great destroyer of America its jobs and its credit.no man in history did as much to destroy this country as did ole St. Reagan.!!!!
Yes, I always hated that old vampire. I hope they buried him with an ash stake through his heart, his head cut off and placed face down, his mouth filled with garlic, and wild roses filling his coffin. God grant he lie still.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, the greatest American President of the 20th Century. He single-handedly freed millions of eastern Europeans, caused the destruction of the Soviet Union, and saved us from four more years of that clueless, wimpy peanut farmer. Ahh sweet nostalgia!
@ bluedog
no man in history did as much to destroy this country as did ole St. Reagan.!!!!
Reagan was of course a free-trade loving, no borders or barriers stooge of the globalists.
His work went a long way to destroying the United States demographically, third in place behind slavery itself (in first place) and in second place the Hart Cellar Immigration Act.
https://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Immigration.htm
What he wrought:
> 1980: Illegal aliens to attend public schools
> 1980: Work permits instead of a Mexico border fence
> 1986 IRCA: amnesty in exchange for tough border & penalties (no such penalties ever materialize)
> Latinos are Republicans; they just don’t know it yet
> 1986 reform legalized 3 million illegals
> 1986: “One-time” amnesty for illegal aliens (One time is a political version of “just the tip”.)
Lol…
I was Lol-ing at the “Raymond Reddington” reference. FWIW.
Don’t give up on the Democratic Party.
“One Bad Apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Ax1yA9q74
Yay that was fun :-)!! If ya’ll would just act right it would be so much easier to love you but I’m really working on it and praying about it every day ok!
A better tune for the Democratic Party is this great Curtis Mayfield song,
“Dirty Laundry”…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-r6r0Ol5fU
Interesting note: “Dirty Laundry” was written by Don Henley (Eagles) & Danny Kortchmar.
We have a choice of bread for our shit sandwich.
Neither will make the difference we want.
But one will make the difference we definitely don’t want.
If Trump is so evil, why won’t the satanists vote for him ?
“I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
-Frodo Baggins”
That’s Frodo to Strider the first time they meet, right?
Izzy,
You’ve been black pilled. No good news possible, no hope.
But really, you don’t see that the DNC is now fostering a communist/fascist revolution? No Bill of Rights, no Constitution, your property taken, famine and reeducation camps…you want this?
No Democrat can take the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC” when they are the enemies.
Bullshit.
Recently was treated to a collection of op-eds touting how racism is alive and well in my stomping grounds of Canada. After intense scrutiny, they all boiled down to “I got stared at and heard angry mumbling while I was in queues” or “I got unjustly pulled over by a policeman/woman”.
Those were microcosms of the larger “perception is reality” fuelled by postmodern academia and the politicians it births. It never dawns on anyone – not the self-perceived victim nor the woke journalist – to ever ask the perceived offenders what they were thinking. Better to not have the bubble of their fake virtue busted by the other side of the story. Better to maintain the social problem by avoiding rational critiques.
Through the lens of identity politics, even if they did ask, academia has provided numerous [untestable] hypotheses to be weaponized against perceived offenders, e.g. unconscious bias, white fragility/supremacy, patriarchy, list goes on.
The racism of the left – when two different “colors” of people are held to different standards of civil behavior. Bad behavior by blacks is excused because they are of the victim class, and whites are just bad people who get what they deserve.
Well, sure! And that’s fair because it’s payback for something that happened in the past, usually to someone else, and perpetrated by someone with no relation to the original offender.
Individual justice is out in favor of group justice. Oh and btw, Whites don’t exist in terms of getting things, but only in terms of being offenders and having things taken from them.
If it rains when you planned a picnic and you’re black, the weather is engaged in systemic racism.
One of my guilty pleasures is True Crime shows on Youtube. These shows are basically segregated. Shows like “Snapped” show white wives killing their white husbands for the insurance money (Wow is that common!).
Among the black-oriented shows is one which I very rarely watch; it is called “For My Man”, and the theme is black women who have committed crimes (and it was never their own fault) because they got involved with irresistible black men as lovers, boyfriends, husbands, baby-daddies.
These bad men made them spring them from prison, or take part in a 16-state rampage of stickups and credit card fraud, or drug businessmen in bars with Rohypnol to steal their belongings, or perhaps their black Romeo makes them organize a million-dollar shoplifting ring.
They did it for the chilluns, you see.
The most interesting thing about “For My Man” is the youtube comments. Uniformly, every commenter believes that “if a white person did this, they wouldn’t even get arrested”, or “white people don’t get stopped for a broken tail-light”, or “black people ain’t the only ones barbecue in de cemetery. White people do it too!” or “He didn’t shoot that boy! I think the police gave him poison!”, “He said he was gonna get his license tomorrow! Why they got to always take a black man in?”
In short. the youtube commentary is simply insane. But also very telling.
DRIVING WHILE BLACK:
Next time anyone whines about “driving while black bs”,
throw this story in their damn face.
The thing the newspaper accounts hid about the step father and daughter killed in S Carolina is that the murderer followed them to her home and actually stopped, followed them into the driveway and hit their car.
The media falsified media accounts and made it seem like an ordinary fender bender in traffic. It wasn’t. The savage followed them right into the driveway to execute them,
[Notice to get US crime stories, it’s to a non US news site]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8667221/College-student-21-stepfather-45-shot-dead-road-rage-attack.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
HECKLER,
The October issue of ‘Sky and Telescope’ magazine has just stated their unequivocal support for BLM and related movements to “end systemic racism here and elsewhere in the world.”
Systemic racism is so systemic, it’s even vigorously practiced, down to the tribal level, in Africa.
Here’s the link:
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/message-from-sky-telescope/
“In professional astronomy, people of color represent only 3% to 5% of physics and astronomy faculty at American universities, even as they compose about 30% of the U.S. population. The disparity may even be greater in amateur astronomy.”
To participate in amateur astronomy all you need is a functioning eye and access to a public library. There is no way that white people have prevented a person of color from looking at the stars or reading a book about what he or she sees. In one town I lived in, the local amateur astronomy group had a woman of color organizing the public introductory stargazing get togethers. She told me it was mostly naked eye oriented. There are no barriers to stargazing with respect to skin color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker
@ malthuss
Yeh, I saw that detail later too. It really seems to be not far off that point where you’ve got to just get out of the car piece in hand ready to shoot.
And re Sky and Telescope”: They can use their telescopes to find racism anywhere it might occur in the galaxy. And I am sure that if they try hard enough they will find it.
“Critical race theory” reminds me of the sort of thing the Nazis must have taught, with the target obviously being Jews instead of whites. But it’s all fundamentally the same: the legitimization of racial genocide by packaging it in the eruditions of academia.
Godwin’s Law Alert!
Donald Trump MUST be reelected in such a manner that he has the political cover to imprison these lunatics that have attempted to destroy the country. If you or I did 1/100th of what any of these people did we’d be locked in a cage for the rest of our lives. That said, I believe that locking up (for life) 10,000 or so of the swamp creatures is exactly what is needed at this point in time. They’d do no less to any of us.
If the Democrats win this election, I see book burning, reeducation camps and thought crimes in our future. A poster on Facebook mentioned that while he enjoyed the work of Lovecraft (there’s no accounting for taste) and used Lovecraft’s work as inspiration, he recently discovered that Lovecraft held views of which he disapproved. He was agonizing over whether he could still read the man’s work or take inspiration from it. Apparently, not only does one’s writing need to be politically correct to today’s standards, no matter how long ago you lived, but your beliefs also must be correct (to today’s standard) to be considered
As the Davros (Davos?) told Dr Who: The Dalek race must spread thru all space and all time. The Borg only wanted to dominate all space. The past must be colonized! He who controls the past controls the present and the future.
What I found alarming was the fact that this person was considering censoring himself over political ideology. I don’t care enough to do the research to find out, but I suspect it was racism or sexism or both, considering the millieu.
In short, you see Mao’s China.
It is too late y’all. The malignancy has spread too far. It inhabits the media giants. It is embedded in the Pentagon. Wall Street would sell their mothers into brothels for a few dollars. Universities have been rotten for decades. Laws will only be enforced against whites of conservative persuasion. There will be no peace with BLM and other leftists. Best find the most rural and whitest place you can and dig in.
That won’t help either though if you are right and the progressive terrorists essentially own the military. The problems is that conservatives and Whites have been running away from the problem for many decades. There isn’t anywhere else to go because the terrorists hold all the cards of power basically. Either they will be confronted directly and boldly or they will basically consolidate their power and complete the total takeover.
“… the progressive terrorists essentially own the military.”
I can’t believe this.
Friends who recently left the service, including one who was an officer who worked in the Pentagon, said the military has changed since the early ’90s because of Clinton and The One. Flag rank officers (generals and admirals) largely get their promotions thanks to politics, and given PC running amok during those administrations, many of the leaders are good little lefties now. At least as bad, many of the others are Establishment types who hate Trump for rocking their boats just as much as the lefties do. So yes, it is possible the military would assist the socialist suppression of constitutionalists and anyone else who opposes them.
Pretty much anyone that makes O-7 and above is a toadying sleazebag backstabbing sociopath. It’s a worldwide phenomenon — notice that revolutions are almost always run by colonels.
Zero class maybe not the e-1/e-7.
They still tend to be a majority Republican based or really Conservative.
Um, did you see the article I posted in the previous entry? The Dems/Unipartyists requested General Milley guarantee that the military would remove Trump if he contested anything about the next election — even if he won and were to contest the Dems contesting his win (which is exactly what their plan is).
Milley wrote an open letter saying the military will play no such role.
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic-open-letter-gen-milley/167625/
The architects of this coup need to be tossed in a dungeon somewhere in Laos.
SSL,
I agree with druid that they probably don’t own the military, although it might be divided. It is true that the hour is late, yet it is probably not too late. We have the majority.
I worry about the damage that is being done to race relations and to the psyches of young people.
Race relations? Bullshit. We need our own country, that’s the lesson you refuse to learn. If you were just starting out today, I have little doubt you would come to grief over this – just like so many other White girls.
Hear! Hear!
Heartfelt. And next week, you can analyze the GOP.
At this point Maj it does not matter the GOP for all its warts is not an anti-American wing of the Marxist party bent on the destruction of my country.
When the Democrats are put in their place we can attend to the problems in the GOP and there are many.
They’re rotten too, but only disgusting, not toxically lethal.
Long ago they accepted the Left as their moral authority. They bring up the rear, about a decade behind the Democrats, but the gap is closing. Mitch McConnell has given no criticism whatsoever of Black Lives Matter. How could he and why would he? The Corporations are all in too for the most part. It was a Decision made a much higher level.
The metaphor of the Harlem Globetrotters is best. The Republicans are the White boy team that travels around with them as professional losers. But – and it’s a big but – the fathers of White boy team own a big chunk of the franchise. Being losers is a part they play for the public. They’re really winners.
In short, the best way to keep the White peasants down is to put them under the heel of an alien race that is exceedingly easy to manifpulate and no threat whatsoever.
You are right about the Republicans and it would be a caricature of reality for it to be otherwise. We are talking here of a very long term infiltration of the various levers of societal power and to think that the Republicans have been completely spared would be unrealistic. A bunch of them recently did us all a favor thought by coming out as never Trumpers. In the midst of all this mayhem that can only be like standing up and raising your hand saying “I’m with the deep state!”
Half the GOP is anti-trump.
Chalk up another own goal.
Okay. So give Trump the full once-over.
Owned by basic facts.
It is so easy.
🙂 yes, Night ‘bot. If you say so…
I see Matt Taibbi appears to disagree with you, Narc-troll. I guess you’d better get onto him and give him some ‘Right Think’ on the Trump conundrum.
He’ll really appreciate your deep intelligence, I don’t doubt, and will immediately retract his latest essay.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-trump-era-sucks-and-needs-to
No doubt you’re a subscriber to his substack site and that this will have been delivered this right into your inbox.
I considered waiting to see if you would share his wisdom with the board but then realised that was never gonna happen.
I’m keen to see if there’s any reaction out there.
It’s easy to empathize with Mr. Kunstler’s readiness to oppose old friends of his. I’ve experienced alienation from old friends and it’s painful. They are highly educated and seem to think that every “educated” person will have only disdain for Trump. In their world, only country bumpkins could possibly vote for him. It’s an arrogant and privileged approach, but typical of those throughout history who have believed that ‘progress’ can only be achieved through control by elites.
Shotho,
It is possible, even probable, that the majority of voters who vote for Trump might have some level of disdain for him and his antics. His personal issues we can all find some fault with. However, if the issue is a choice between syphilis and gas gangrene…
Our host will find new friends. So might you.
@ Shotho
It’s like that for me as well. I pretty much keep quiet and try not to talk politics with most people here as I am mostly surrounded by leftists. Not all thankfully but we are in the minority here. My state will of course vote for Biden although I will once again, vote for Trump anyway. And it’s not that I don’t think that he’s coarse, uncouth and all the rest. And I’ve wished he’d leave Twitter since he was a candidate. Still, at the end of the day i find his politics preferable to those of the more “urbane” Obama, Hilary and Uncle Joe.
Why should he leave twitter? He communicates to the people directly.
His Twitter feed is incredibly effective. Particularly when he includes typos to get the McMedia focused on a particular issue.
He is quite skilled in media manipulation.
Yes. I guess you’re right. He’s done quite the job on you, given your Damascene conversion since 2016.
It seems that he uses his crazy twitter posts to distract from whatever actual decisions he makes. My internet news feeds have many more articles referencing his twitter comments than any decisions as chief executive. Judging from what comes in my news feed President Trump has the mainstream news concentrating on what doesn’t matter and ignoring what does matter. I wonder why the news organizations are doing this.
@ Jo-G
“crazy twitter posts”
What crazy Twitter posts?
You know, Russiagate was a proven fraud. And remember the farcical attempt to impreach him? That too was all just, as he says, “Fake News”.
And Hydroxychloroquine therapies? They are widely promoted by medical authorities unconnected to Big Pharma.
He has tried to pull the USA out of wars and military conflicts and embroiled the country in none. That is some kind of record for a President in the modern age! Fewer young American men losing their arms and legs overseas!
He has put the security service to clearing out Chinese spies in US research and academia. And is succeeding.
If anyone is “crazy” in this context, surely it is the dementia-addled Slow Joe?
They’re voting their class interests. COVID blew out jobs and wealth for the people on the bottom who couldn’t work via Zoom. It’s actually increased wealth for the people on top, and the Professional/Managerial class who derive their income from them. The PMC will vote their class interests; what the RNC seemed to show last week was Trump trying to turn the R’s into the party of white AND black lower and middle classes.
Doubt it will work now, but if he gets 15% of the black vote, it’s realignment time.
He’ll get 40%, minimum.
It’s always 1968 with these people. They are always and always will be 100% right and the Republicans 100% wrong. This mindset is irresistible for many.
Polls show Trump trailing, but I wonder how many people are willing to admit they intend to vote for him — even to a pollster — and invite being treated as a social pariah.
One thing gives me solace here in California. My vote for Trump will zero out the ex’s vote for Biden.
He and his wife wake up and fall asleep to MSDNC.
I told the one who called me that I was undecided and then hung up.
In my little town, anyone who votes for Biden will be the social pariah. Several elections ago, I don’t remember which or who was running. I received a phone poll. The poll taker asked if I was voting Dem. or Rep. I informed him that I would never vote for either party as the 2 party system is essentially a uni-party and I am an Independent voter. He then asked “but if you were to vote for one or the other which would it be?” Again I told him I refused to vote for either. He then said he would put me down as undecided. I was and am not undecided. Until Trump, I never voted for a Dem. or Rep. in a national election. I am totally flabbergasted with politics as they are today. I fear the upcoming election is rigged. I rarely watch the tv propaganda mills, but when I do, it seems like a Saturday Night Live skit, The sheer idiocy of the Democratic position is mind boggling. The Biden, Harris ticket is preposterous. The chaos in the cities that is condoned by the liberals, plus the constant, non-stop verbal bombardment of Trump by the media. Hells Bells, sometimes I wonder if we are all being played and Trump is part of it. It makes no sense. Why would the left wing run someone as despicable as Biden-Harris, and promote organizations such as Antifa, BLM and support the destruction of Americal cities, if it is not to lose the election by design. The whole fucking world is mad.
Amen
I away’s look forward to your commentary. It fits like a hand in a glove. Democrats I now view as devoid of reason and logic. Pitiful zombies.
NPC is the classic characterization. What a meme that was! I think Twitter banned it.
James, you’re just becoming an embittered old curmudgeon, but there comes a point in life when – to quote e.e. cummings – you reach the point where you announce, “There is some shit I will not eat.”
Hey Lars– I’m not embittered, I’m pissed off and refuse to be played, punked,or Mau-maued any longer. — JHK Admin
Oh look it’s a zombie searching for brains to eat!!
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”-H.L. Menken….
Welcome aboard, Jim. I agree with every point of your indictment and am in awe of the fact that our system of justice is so far gone that it appears likely that none of this malfeasance will ever be punished.
I disagree, however, with your hypothesis about the party’s choice of Biden. None of the Democrats are intelligent enough to play a good game of chess, but they have their checkers lined up: pick the optimal point to pull Senile Joe out of the game, whether before or after the election, see Harris crowned as unelected (and unelectable) President, and let Hillary, whose machine has provided the backers, money, and organization for Harris from the start, pull the puppet strings.
We’ll have Harris projected on the big wall, and Hillary behind the curtain.
Donald Trump is the first President since Jimmy Carter who has not started a new war.
Yes! Trump is the peace president. Someone should nominate him for the Noble Peace Prize.
Whythehellnot? Obama got one.
And the Nobel, too.
I hate autocorrect. I really hate it. I already type badly but autocorrect changes not just my spelling but my word choices. And you fix it and post and then find out it has changed it back! Too late. It is posted!
It’s often wrong since it has a limited vocabulary.
Excellent post JHK. The key to understanding the puzzling behaviour of the Dems in nominating a senile old man as their presidential candidate might be in your observation that D. J. Trump is the “designated bag-holder” for the economic and social collapse they earnestly desire. When the SHTF, the Dems can point to DJT and say “we told you so” and install the dictatorship they feel qualified to lead.
The real BLM please stand up!
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/30/corporate-media-didnt-report-what-its-really-like-in-kenosha-wisconsin-so-i-will/?amp=1
Sad that it’s come to this, but there’s really no other choice at this point.
Either way, I will stick with my prediction that the next presidential term will be finished by the vice president.
Too bad Joe didn’t pick Tulsi….
When you have lost Jim K. you have truly lost. FTR I do not waste my time trying to debate “liberals” it is simply a fruitless endeavor. What I will do is open the door to their backyards which remind me of a scene from “Beetlejuice” of the outside world.
Beyond the smugness of the White Liberal world is a horror show, think of the smug White liberal set sitting down to eat an over priced meal surrounded by staff that comes from Lovecraft, that is the Left.
Years ago there was a peak oil site owned by a broken kid, screwed over by his “law school” and probably raised without a decent father. Well he let his forum to be taken over by crazy women and with that I knew these days would arrive, mental illness + authoritarian behavior + no sense of responsibility and here we are.
I’m very sceptical that middle class Hispanics are down with the BLM . Middle class Hispanics are very family oriented and many have a family member in the military. They are going to be a surprise on election day.
Same for middle-class Blacks. The current reasoning behind the ultra violence plaguing their communities are symptoms of the social and economic ills the Dems weaponized into manipulations. In the near future, we might see new reasoning for violence centered on political fracturing.
In essence, Dem plantation Blacks attacking traditional-principals Blacks.
Most Latinos dislike BLM. Most resident or naturalized Hispanics will vote DJT.
I mean naturalized only, sorry. Residents don’t vote.
“I mean naturalized only, sorry. Residents don’t vote.”
Not according to benr et al!!!
He reports that “millions of undocumented immigrants” have been enrolled to vote quite legally. He SWEARS by this factoid.
I have yet to meet a Latino who hates Trump. Of course I don’t know, nor have I met enough to qualify as a scientific sample, but still. One Latino friend of mine travels often down to central and south America for business. He says that he finds that most he interacts with down there wish that Trump was their president.
Libtards, you are in for a rude awakening in November. Start hitting the bottle now and just keep the buzz going. You will need it.
Most Latinos dislike blacks, period. I’m sure they dislike BLM also, but judging from the few Latinos that I am somewhat familiar with, they for the most part will not vote for Trump. Still if the voting whites would show a little solidarity and vote together, Trump will win by a landslide. He may win anyway in a lesser landslide. Personally, I think it’s going to get ugly during and especially after the election. The left won’t accept a Trump win and at least speaking for myself, the right won’t accept a Biden win. There is bound to be trouble up to and including bloodshed.
Agreed. My friends, wife, and in-laws are all woke Dems. It’s been painful these last few years to listen to their callous and intellectually dishonest support for this crap but I could put up with it. I realized, however, that our worldviews are totally irreconcilable when 1) Presumption of guilt if a cop kills a POC based only on an edited short cell phone vid. 2) Condemning people who are defending themselves and their communities from terror mobs (Kyle and the McCloskeys). So now the leftist extremism has seeped into my very home and I don’t know what to do about it.
“So now the leftist extremism has seeped into my very home and I don’t know what to do about it.”
Strong suggestion:
Find a new wife,
a new set of in-laws,
and a new group of friends.
When the heat becomes intolerable,
the best course of action is to get the hell out of the kitchen.
I’d suggest he simply stand up for his principles, back them with evidence, and then let the chips fall where they may.
A staunch stance might actually sway some of those he cares about.
Well both of these remarks raise interesting questions- how much do people who despise the leftists cut our losses and regroup? I also live in woke utopia San Franshitco, a once beautiful, livable city. Do we need to abandon all of these places to the animals, or do we hold out to help rebuild in better times?
Most of us aren’t going to live to see better times.
Send them this video, say it is short clip showing how TRUMP is sowing hate, and fomenting violence.
https://streamable.com/czam96
Sit back and have them justify it.
@ Sosodef
“My friends, wife, and in-laws are all woke Dems. “
I am assuming that they are white? And that you are living in a white enclave? So they never have to think about their personal safety.
If that is true, then it would be quite a task to change these people because they never have to face reality. They are safely living in a bubble of prosperity created by white men and protected by Orwell’s “rough men”.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Get a weapon and training. If anyone says anything just say “You guys want to defund the police, get rid of bail and mass-release violent felons. That is lunatic, so I’ve got a gun.”
Example is always more powerful than precept.
Another policy position for which the odious Trump deserves credit: he put a stake through the heart of the outrageous TPP.
We dodged a huge bullet on that one. Trump said he would stop it, and he did.
But if there are any debates the MSM will never ask Biden his position on TPP.
The best way to trip Biden up in a debate is to ask him any question involving numbers. “100 million dead in the US from Covid”. Huh?
And in 100 years this year …
“COVID has taken this year, just since the outbreak. Has taken more than 100 years look here’s the lives. It’s just I mean you think about it.”
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1300503229885812737
Yes. That was huge. And the Paris Climate Accord. That was just a plan to transfer trillions more from the USA to China while strangling US industry.
Trump has done many, many good things.
As recently as 2 weeks ago I was excited about the Unity Party project from Bret Weinstein but now realize a vote for Trump may be the ONLY chance to restore some semblance of order. Hate to say it, but I think they should bookshelf the project and fully endorse and support Trump.
@ Sosodef
Unity Party project from Bret Weinstein
We can’t have both unity and diversity. We have to make a choice.
Yes, I really like and respect Bret Weinstein, but his idea has no chance of success this November. But I have no problem with him and others continuing on with this project beyond this year. We do need to break up this two party tyranny.
Bravo JHK . You have put into words my own thoughts and feelings. If you were the Chinese Communist Party and wanted to destroy Americas biggest city and financial center with out firing a shot. You would do exactly what has been done by Wilhelm Walden [ DiBlasio] that’s his real name. He uses Bill DiBlasio as his professional name.
With his cohort Gov. Andrew Cuomo they have engineered the destruction of NYC. Using the other Chinese Communist Party asset Black Lives Matter, and restricting the Police Force.
indeed I have been a registered Democrat since 1974. I switched to Independent after voting for Hillary in’16 . When I left the polling place I realized i had just endorsed and participated in the fraud that is being perpetrated on me by the democratic party and the republicans too.
That is why Trump has my vote in 2020.
The behavior of Cuomo, Whitmer, and other Dems during this whole sick, sad episode makes me wonder if they are drawing a paycheck from the CCP.
According to snopes
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deblasio-nicaragua-warren-wilhelm/
De Blasio was born “Warren Wilhelm” but legally changed his named to “Bill de Blasio” in 2001 for personal reasons having to do with his family relationships. He was a supporter and advocate for the revolutionary socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua during the 1980s.
People can change their names. Lots of people do it. Maybe he felt that wasn’t ethnic enough for politics. He could have called himsef Kunta Kinte.
But the advocacy for the Sandanistas doesn’t show much common sense. He was born in 1961 and so was in his twenties at the time. Even then it was clear that they were just gangsters. In Central American politics there are no good guys.
But the Sandanistas would be pleased to see what he has done to New York, making it into a twin for Managua.
The State Department’s current advisory is:
“Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to civil unrest, crime, limited healthcare availability, and arbitrary enforcement of laws.”
De Blasio’s New York.
I hope Trump gets re-elected as well. Of course he can be outrageous, but there is often a fair sized kernel of truth to many of those outrageous statements. And what a difference in the recent coventions held. The DNC with Michelle Obama trash talking, and then the RNC with Melania Trump refusing to reciprocate. Actually taking the higher road the former talked about but didn’t take.
I have a feeling there are still a few hounds to be set loose on the DEM’s before November 3rd as well. They’re always up to dirty tricks, but I think Trump is one step ahead of them and will expose them.
As for all the other marxist behaviour, abdication of responsibility and fair reporting by the media, and especially the business of ‘white privilege’, to hell with it. As Jim writes, ” cancel white people on the basis of their sheer whiteness.” There is going to be serious blowback for what Jordan Peterson describes as :
““The idea that you can target an ethnic group with a collective crime regardless of the specific innocence or guilt of the constituent elements of that group, there is absolutely nothing that is more racist than that. It’s absolutely abhorrent.”
Recently I watched an old documentary about Mike Tyson ( wow, what a scary character he is! ). At one point he calls someone taunting him a ‘Honk’. I still don’t know what that is or why I am supposed to be insulted by it. Or ‘Cracker’. What exactly is that?
If that’s the best someone can come up with for an insult, they’re not really in the game as far as I am concerned.
I suppose there will be days on end of more looting and burning after Trump gets re-elected, but at least people can prepare for it. I think many will already have fled from the cities that have been the worst for it. Maybe the borders will be open by then and they can come up to the north country and watch the fireworks from here…………..
The gang was handling comments pretty well today, until I saw “Honk” and “Cracker” come up as lost terminology…
“Honkey” came from the days white men cruised the red light districts and honked their horns to alert the ladies they were hiring…
“Crackers” or “Cracker Honkies” referred to the white men hanging around the cracker barrel in General stores.
What do you have, Jimbo? I remember a simpler time when we could follow “Amos n’ Andy on an evening walk along the still warm summer sidewalks in any American urban district with open windows!
To change direction, and being of the mind America feels consequences when we meddle with Israel, Jared Kuschner’s “Deal Of The Century” should bring a flock of black swans. Easiest way to acquaint oneself, see William Koenig “EYE TO EYE”. If you are a wise one, then a few words might suffice: see Genesis 12 V-2.
A hurricane here, a Derecho there, before you know it, things can really get serious. Valley Forge Vision Third Trial? Bad enough to cancel an election? More on Famine Hedge next time.
So you’re saying Blacks don’t use these words? Or don’t insult Whites?
If so, you’re wrong. They do – quite a bit. And the most effective is “racist” because that’s more than just an insult but also an accusation and beyond that, a word with magic powers that make Whites turn into zombies that do what they want.
I thought cracker>/i> referred to “whip cracker” like a plantation overseer.
Thanks for those definitions/explanations.
But I can’t connect with either of them. In both cases they reference men/ male behaviour. Snagglepuss is female. I am just going to have to plead Canadian and female exemption rights. The truth is that both those so -called insults are beyond lame. Calling someone a name that references a barrel of crackers? A real lack of imagination if you ask me. If someone wants to hurl an insult at me based on my ‘whiteness’ they will just have to do better than that. It would be excellent if they could coax a laugh out of me in the process.
Meanwhile, I will just have to go back to being my 5’9″ of blonde, green eyed beauty. With no damn apologies for it.
They teach all Whites are racist now. If someone calls you a White, they are calling you a racist – and that’s a deadly accusation, not just “sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me”.
They teach all Whites are racist now. If someone calls you a White, they are calling you a racist – Sredni
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I would just like to point out, Sredni, that if you were writing for the NYT the editor would insist that you use a lower case w in the bolded words above.
Conversely, if you were writing about ‘blacks’ the editor would remind you of their recent policy change insisting that the letter b be capitalized.
It’s enough to piss a person off.
The truth is that both those so -called insults are beyond lame. – snaggle
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There was an ad hominem used a few years ago that I thought was pretty good. A person was referred to as penis-breath.
I also liked the suggestion that someone could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
People who dream up these insults are far more clever and inventive than me.
I’m really wondering if the upper level DNC controllers have decided to “throw” this election by arranging Biden to be nominated. And make no mistake about it, it was arranged. And then, with a lot of input by party muckety mucks, who does Biden “choose” to be his running mate? Oh, just a woman who was found to be so repugnant by Dem voters that she bowed out of the race in December well before the first actual primary. She is an odious creature hated by progressives due to her record as a both a DA and an AG. Surely they knew that she was not going to excite that base. In fact her presence on the ticket may even suppress progressive turnout. A turnout that Biden sorely needs.
Or, is this just yet another foolhardy miscalculation by Democrat muckety mucks who seem to have a very difficult time finding the pulse of the electorate. Hell, they can barely even find the pulse of their OWN electorate. Did they think that the tough “law and order” record of Harris would help to excite never Trump Republicans? Or that she would excite suburban women? If so that is just ridiculous. I doubt she moves the needle much at all on both of those fronts. What the Dems need is every vote they can get and they risk suppressing the younger progressive voters. To be sure, the Dem higher ups detest the younger progressives. It’s mostly a generational and class war within that party. For power, that is.
I’m really leaning toward the view that high level party back room types have decided to throw 2020 and let Trump and the GOP win again. Of course if this is true then there is a strategy involved. It might work, or it might backfire on them horribly. Thinking ahead to 2022 and 2024 here.
We saw this, IMO, in 1996 when the GOP nominated Dole to go up against a Slick Willie second term election. I believe they knew full well Dole had no chance and wanted to go ahead and give him his “deserved” chance to run, and then to throw it with a longer game plan in mind. I do think that the plan backfired because the economy got much better in Bill’s second term and the attempt to remove him from office not only failed it bumped up his approval rating. Then Gore technically won in 2000. The GOP had to get a bit of extra help to keep him from taking office. And for the record, I was not and still am not pro-Gore. I detested both of those candidates pretty equally. But I know a charade when I see one. GOP dodged a bullet and got Shrub in. And off to neo-con war we went…..
Yes, better to blame poor candidates than a poor platform.
The reason for the poor candidates is that the platform is a takeover by the deep state.
Which is why good ol’ Bernie threw in the towel on his support for Medicare for All.
Even when all the Progressive supporters of Sanders told him they would not support Biden if he gave up on Medicare for All, he didn’t care.
The DNC platform committee refused to include Medicare for All and Biden said that even if the House and Senate passed it he would veto it.
Corporate control of the Democrats is complete.
As abysmal as the democrats are, they at least have a concept of governing. As one observer put it, Biden will be a shitty president, but he won’t actively be trying to dismantle the institutions of democracy.
To talk about Trump’s policies is an oxymoron – he has none. JHK has less grasp of human beings than I had feared, not to see that Trump is America’s Caligula. He is about nothing but himself & the fact that the Rep. platform consists of simply saying ‘Whatever Trump Wants’ is the scariest thing I have ever heard. Let’s do whatever the madman’s -latest whim is. Twitter rants will be a good substitute for legislative debate. Good plan. Or maybe the brilliant Trump family’s leaders in waiting will save us when it’s their turn to rule. Jared/Ivanka in 2024!
It is beyond me how someone can go from writing The Long Emergency to voting for Trump, the person who will do more than any terrible democrat could do to bring that emergency on.
The handful of hate-filled and delusional Trump cult members who comment on this site can take their last shot at me, as this is the last time in fifteen years that I will be reading anything JHK has to say.
That is a tragedy, but there appears to be little hope of whoever stole his brain (and his heart) will be returning it.
” but he won’t actively be trying to dismantle the institutions of democracy”
catharsis,
You have no doubt heard the phrase…”We had to destroy the village to save it…”
You might not be able to understand the ethic there presented, but some of us do.
And, by the way, the “Democracy” that might be under the knife is nothing similar to what the term meant in 1960…it has become a cancer in some respects.
“And, by the way, the “Democracy” that might be under the knife is nothing similar to what the term meant in 1960…
Not to mention the idea of a Republic as described in our laws.
Biden has been a part of dismantling the constitution during his whole adult life. And being a career criminal politician is indeed what he has been during his whole adult life. He is the sum total of what the founders did not want to see serving in congress and the senate.
And since you probably revere “democracy” more than the constitution, I’ll add that Biden hasn’t really been a strong ally of that either.
But hey, keep on using your delusion!
Buh bye!
P.S. Oh, I forgot to comment on your “at least democrats have a concept of governing”. LOL….
Thanks, I can always use a laugh these days!
You read the most brilliant and insightful political and social commentator of our time for fifteen years and you didn’t learn a damn thing.
With my wife and children, I live in a zip code that voted 88% HRC in 2016. Last Wednesday my youngest asked me, “Daddy, what’s on that car?” He was referring to a Biden bumper sticker because he couldn’t read its abstract lettering. It was the first and only one we’ve seen here so far in one of the staunchest Democratic strongholds in the entire United States. If the DNC can’t invigorate my community, it can’t govern.
When you’re coming up on 80 years old it’s hard to invigorate anything or anybody.
@ BRH
But there’s pills for that.
I am talking about Adderall.
By the way, Kyle’s attorney is interviewd by Tucker at around 33:00.
Interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnDlaJN5hc
LOL you really are a big ego maniac aren’t you. As if your view of the world is so special that everyone must tailor their thoughts and beliefs to suit your proclivities. You are a giant infant. I do recall Jim many times talking about how Trump was rather subpar in many areas but I guess willful ignorance feels good doesn’t it. People like you sicken me. And Biden won’t dismantle the institutions of democracy? Please! The progressive terrorists have been working overtime to undermine every single institution in the land and Biden is their figurehead. Or do you think Democrat encouraged and organized looting and riots and random beatings and killings are just wonderful democracy in action?
All you have to do is look at what the Democrat appointed judges are doing in the Flynn case to see Catharsis is delusional.
So, the DC Appellate Court’s 8 -2 decision to send the case back to where it properly belongs is ‘delusional’?
“As abysmal as the democrats are, they at least have a concept of governing.” Have you turned on the news lately? Democrat run cities are burning to the ground with levels of chaos and violence that make Mogadishu look like Disneyland.
Triggered and of course you will be back.
So have fun on your rant.
How disappointing.
The “institutions of democracy” are thoroughly corrupt.
Catharsis,
Biden will be a shitty president, but he won’t actively be trying to dismantle the institutions of democracy.
Just wow. What bubble are you living in? The left has become almost perfect in its projection! What part of dismantling the police, stopping free speech, open censorship, a lying press, and “Death to America” sounds good to you?
To talk about Trump’s policies is an oxymoron – he has none.
Uh, go to his website and see his rather long list of objectives.
Buh bye then. Say hi to K-Dog if you see him…
Catharsis,
Does the concept of governing include allowing rioters to terrify the populace and destroy property?
@ catharis
It is beyond me how someone can go from writing The Long Emergency to voting for Trump, the person who will do more than any terrible democrat could do to bring that emergency on.
My understanding is that the Long Emergency is a product of a shortfall of the types of energy we need to maintain modernity.
In what way would voting for Trump bring that on?
The Long Emergency is already here, but if it is forestallable, it would seem that Trump’s actions could delay the onset of all of its woes:
In this aticle Gates compains that Trump’s trade policies have stopped him building a reactor outside Beijing:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-22/bill-gates-says-his-axed-nuclear-reactor-is-a-trade-war-warning
Then in this article, Gates announces he will build reactors in the US north west.
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/terrapower-advances-plans-next-gen-nuclear-plants-earning-bill-gates-praise/
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The plan calls for work on the project to begin in 2021, and for the reactor to be completed by as early as 2026.
Then, on Thursday, the Bellevue-based venture announced that it’s working with GE Hitachi on a reactor architecture that could supplement solar and wind energy systems with always-on electricity.
The system architecture, known as Natrium, would involve building cost-competitive, sodium fast reactors as well as molten-salt energy storage systems. The heat generated by the 345-megawatt reactors could be stored in the molten-salt tanks, and converted into grid electricity to smooth out fluctuations in renewable energy.
Bill Gates co-founded TerraPower in 2006 and serves as its chairman. Turning the Natrium concept into a reality will be “extremely difficult,” Gates said in a statement reported by Reuters, but he insisted that TerraPower team had “the expertise, commercial experience and the resources necessary” to follow through.
TerraPower had been working with Chinese utilities to build a demonstration reactor, but that plan had to be scrapped in 2018 due to changes in U.S.-China policy made by the Trump administration. Now Gates and TerraPower are focusing on the U.S. market: Last year, The Washington Post reported that Gates would be willing to invest $1 billion and raise another billion dollars in private capital if Congress upped its support for nuclear technology development.
Last month, the U.S. Senate passed the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, but that legislation still has to be approved by the House.
Endquote
Bill needs to do some digging, but not in Finland. https://www.videoproject.com/Into-Eternity.html
Do you consider the current circumstances in the big American cities to be good government. They are all run by democrats. As far as JHk’s change of heart goes, I believe it to be admirable that he doesn’t support the status quo. You and your kind are the ones who are hate filled and delusional. Hopefully, you will keep your promise not to return to this site.
I totally agree Jim. Only difference is that I did vote for Trump in 2016 as no way was I voting for Hilary. What blows my mind now is that to confess that one is voting for Trump is seen as so risky. It’s ok to support a demented guy like Biden and the black female VP candidate that he was instructed to pick but to support the GOP makes one a persona non grata these days.
Watching the chaos in the cities, the demonizing of all police(and numerous shootings of them that are occurring), the acceptance of looting as “reparations” and all of the other nonsense going down now with little pushback by those in charge makes me fear for this country. Can only imagine what it would would be like if the Dems were totally in charge with a Biden victory. No, I don’t want to even contemplate that.
Read “The Permanent Coup”, by: Lee Smith to fully understand the scope and depth of Obama’s crimes and motivation, and all things RussiaGate.
This is a beautiful example of intellectual courage. It’s difficult these days to stand firm in one’s convictions, even amongst friends. The social sphere has taken on an ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ feel; paranoia at being discovered to be one of the unconverted humans. Because that’s what these people appear to be: brainwashed automatons intent upon the destruction of our civilization.
We need to destroy the pods before they complete the copies and hatch!!!! The main pod factories are actually schools and universities. If the cloning process isn’t stopped there then it is over and the pod people will win.
Yes, we have to destroy the pods in order to save the originals.
Alas I work in one of these pod-factories (despite all intentions otherwise). Fortunately I am quite isolated and have not faced any political loyalty-tests. But I can feel they are coming: the hyperbolic woke-guilting emails and petitions from “equity and inclusion” administrators have ramped exponentially since St. Floyd’s fentanyl-soaked demise.
It sounds like you need no convincing, but I can assure you that the modern university is now a *comprehensively useless enterprise*. Though STEM is habitually described as relatively immune to political meddling, in reality one sees virtually no meaningful cures produced, and no fundamental discoveries about how Nature works. That well has largely run dry since the 1980s or so—a strong sign of “diminishing returns on complexity”, to use Our Host’s parlance.
In place of such sensible or practical improvements, one instead now sees the rollout of an ever-creepier sequence of digital methods for social control—invariably with majority involvement by foreign (mainly Chinese) citizens, at taxpayer expense of course.
In effect, the whole STEM research apparatus is being co-opted for the perfecting of despotism and surveillance, just as humanities has been weaponized into leftist lie-seeding and pod-budding.
Now, the 2+2=5 loons are already banging on the laboratory door. Many are already inside. So more likely than not, STEM, too, will topple.
I have already concluded that if Trump loses, the Pod-factories will quickly become a prison even for those who work in it, so I will make my exit as quickly and discreetly as possible. I am as tired of the acrid nonsense and false promise of “data” as I am tired of the undead wokenprole students and their petty tyrant rages. I wonder what carpentry is like…?
What a very interesting perspective. Thank you for sharing it. I believe your conclusion regarding the fate of STEM is correct. I’ve seen several articles recently that appeared to indicate that both math and science are products of oppressive systems of Whiteness and mediums through which White Supremacy is asserted and maintained.
“The few times this Covid-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they’re horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2016 (or Hillary), but I will this time.”
Good I chose to leave. You can oppose Democrats without going to the dark size. I’m doing it. But if you are part of Trumps demographic and a racist Zionist I guess you see things another way.
And there it is. The anti -racist reveals his anti-Semitism.
Hundreds of Black Bloc took to the streets of Oakland, CA recently one night to chant “Death to America” I sincerely hope poor K-Dog has not fallen that far in life as to actually partake of such creepy fascistic behavior.
Go fuck yourself.
Damn, bro.
You have flounced most emphatically.
I’ll repeat. Go fuck yourself.
Not that flouncing is bad. I looked it up.
It doesn’t reach.
“Not that flouncing is bad. I looked it up.”
It’s in a tie with flaunting and flouting.
And you just know that he wants to call Jim the ‘N-word’. Yeah, the other N-word.
And you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.
You poor dear. Going through male menopause again are ye?
Go to the Portland protest down the road there and get some of that frustration out. Maybe throw a rock or a frozen water bottle at a white nationalist cop or something.
What’s the K in your handle stand for?
If you go to my website you will be able to figure it out. Look at the footer and send me an email.
“Visit my Web site, Kunstler readers. I flounced but I need readers, so I am back.”
Bingo
I have had way more traffic since I left. The blogs I visit now have more readers. Sorry to disappoint you.
I did come back today because of the pro-Trump admission. At least JHK is not pretending to be liberal anymore. He described himself as a liberal in a note to me. An insincere lie that pissed me off is what that was.
Now he has to admit what he is. A poser.
TDS. A case study.
And coming back was a mistake. I can handle deep state Trumptards fine enough, but I should have been expecting the animosity. The deep state does not want me here. Knowing that I know they are here is reason enough for them to go after me.
Because really who comes here anymore. JHK has blown his cred. Today he put the cherry on top.
Trumptards don’t believe in a long emergency.
LOL. “Trumptards”. LOLOLOL!
Yeah, we can definitely see you’ve been expanding your horizons.
Eyeroll.
K-Dog wrote: “And coming back was a mistake. I can handle deep state Trumptards fine enough, but I should have been expecting the animosity. The deep state does not want me here. Knowing that I know they are here is reason enough for them to go after me.”
LOL!! Man there have been some great comedic posts today! I am very grateful because, again, I can always use a good laugh.
But really Dawg, come on now…..I doubt that the deep state gives a flying flip about you. You’re not even a gnat on their radar.
funny
Good man K-Dog.
I’ll hop on one last time just to say peace out Jim and all of your trumptard followers…
Years of failed doomsday predictions have turned old Jimmy into a stay off my lawn caricature… so unoriginal.
But Jimmy saw how lucrative it can be to race bait and play identity politics, and so voila!… No more talk of long emergencies, because the true emergency is actually the “radical left”.
L O fucking L.
Peace.
It stands for ‘Kook’.
“The Dark Size.”
Dark Side. As my typing speed goes up the frequency of mistakes does not abate. Thank You.
Welcome black, gog.
Can I interest you in a subscription to Sky and Telescope? Or perhaps you could submit some articles about racism. Our Masters in the Grand Nebula will be most pleased….
How to oppose the democrats if we don’t prevent the disaster of a Biden presidency. How can you in all honesty pretend that the right is darker than the left these days in light of the very issues that the commenters have brought forth here?
I thought you had left.
Lemme guess….you smartened up and realized that a vote for Trump is a vote for sanity.
Woof woof
I have to agree completely with Jim’s post. I was a lifelong Democrat, but not anymore. They have become the corruption they once may have opposed.
To do something about it, I’m making some signs… remember the old Burma-shave signs? That’s what I’m planning with the jingles below. Feel free to use them if you like. I think they are much more catchy than a simple Trump sign.
The democratic leaders
They sold us all out.
We’re loosing our freedom,
Of that there’s no doubt!
Trump 2020
First they dump Bernie
And who do they pick?
A man on a gurney,
Or will be quite quick!
Trump 2020
Once a Democrat,
Never again
Stop the fascists,
Vote republican,
Trump 2020
Nice.
Very good!
Nice, I agree, except loosing should be spelled losing. You want the message to resonate, not the misspelling.
losing
JHK
How sad.
I have been reading your work since The Long Emergency. I’ve also purchased and read your World Made By Hand series. I have recommended your work to scores of people over the years. I faithfully listened to your podcasts with Duncan and any interviews I could find.
I will not be steering people in your direction any longer or buying any more of your books.
The JHK of old would not have suffered the graft and incompetence of the Trump regime without eviscerating the entire clan. For a while now you have chosen to ignore the thievery, self dealing and ineptitude. The Kushner foreign “policy”. Ivanka’s Chinese patents and deals worth millions and her “Find something new”campaign. The completely botched Virus response. The lies and misstatements of fact. The simple graft of steering government business and funds towards numerous Trump enterprises. The Tax cheating. The race baiting. The caging of children. All of it ripe for exposure and censure by your sharp wit and excellent writing skills. But, you have chosen the current fad of Trump apologia. You have co-signed on all of it. You like it. How sad.
To be clear, much of your criticism of the Democrats is warranted. This is not a comment defending Biden or Harris or any of the corporate toadies on the hill. I expect Trump to win the election – by any means necessary – setting the stage for dynastic succession. My guess is you will approve of that also.
Some balance would be nice. A little of the “a pox on both their houses” attitude would be much more helpful to your readers than fawning over Trump. But, you have partaken of the kool-aid and I no longer expect the JHK of the past to make an appearance.
I’ve hesitated to comment here because of your fanclub of holocaust deniers, Q-anon devotees, white supremacists and the just plain mean spirited. However, after devoting much time to reading and appreciating your work over the years, I felt I owed you this comment.
Now, I must go harvest spuds, feed Hercules the ox, gather eggs and work on the winter firewood supply. I’m getting too old for the chainsaw, so must work with it in small increments. Generally, it’s been a bountiful year. There will be a good apple crop. The plums were a disappointment and it was a tough spring for cherries. But, the goumi, hardy kiwi, pear, grapes and elderberry are going to give us plenty of wine making material. We enjoyed a very successful experiment growing sugar beets this year. I’ll be butchering lamb and mutton next month. We produce most of our own food. And so it goes into the Long Emergency.
I wish you well.
Sounds like you have isolated and insulated yourself quite well from the Jacobin furor of Democrat controlled American cities. Bravo.
Vengeur
Actually, I left the city when Nixon was president. Vietnam. The entire corporate shebang was called “the Military Industrial Complex” at that time. It still fits. Both major political parties are war parties.
JHK stated a few months ago that he only attended anti-war rallies at that time for the company of young women. (and they were beautiful) Some of us actually were there to stop the war and were beaten for it. Repeatedly.
Then, many of us left the cities, the suburbs and the war machine.
I suggest to you that the ongoing, deepening environmental and energy crises are in fact the dominant forces in the destruction of the empire. This situation transcends political party and we get bogged down in the red vs blue crap. Your planet is suffocating.
JHK used to write about this.
I remember when the cities burned in 1968. Scores of people died.
The current urban violence is kindergarten by comparison.
Be well. Be kind. Very difficult times are upon us.
I remember when the cities burned in 1968.
So called ‘race riots’ were Black riots.
moflora: I’m glad I stumbled onto your posts. I, too, have long respected JHK since reading The Long Emergency and some other works in years past. I, too, am somewhat shocked by the support of Trump and the single-focus many disaffected Dems and others seem to have right now; I think you are quite right that, compared to what our collective human actions are doing to the Biosphere (which just happens to be what supports all of our lives), this fighting over mask wearing and being “woke” is very small potatoes (no, unfortunately not even that substantial, since we can eat potatoes; this is all conceptual, a clash of socially constructed belief systems, “us” versus “them,” both of which seem to have become reduced down to the miniscule as far as meaningfulness goes).
Trump has done everything he can think of to thumb his nose at people who care about nonhuman lives and ecosystem integrity, opening up nature reserves and further gutting the Endangered Species Act, and he doesn’t seem to give much of a flip about human life either (except for piously pretending concern for the “unborn”), getting rid of all that obnoxious “regulation” that was designed to protect our health. He’s buddy-buddy with Bolsonaro of Brazil, who’s working hard to push the Amazon past its tipping point. He’s got all kinds of “trade deals” in the works–just yesterday I saw an article in the NY Times (I know, I know, a left-wing rag these days) about how the fossil fuel industry plans to make up the shortfall from the current petroleum glut (clearly we do NOT need to be fighting wars over oil anymore, ever!) by churning out millions more tons of plastic (yep, that stuff that’s clogging the oceans, covering the beaches, and being discovered as microscopic particles in human tissues everywhere) in Africa, turning it into a “hub” for supplying plastic crap and other chemicals to countries all around the world while making it impossible for these countries to stop plastic waste from elsewhere being dumped inside their borders (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/climate/oil-kenya-africa-plastics-trade.html). I think we can guess what sort of policy the US negotiators are pushing. Hey–how’s that for racism?
moflora–my earlier response to you seems to have been placed under “malthuss”–I hope he or she has some appreciation for population issues, as the namesake suggests–another huge big-picture topic that needs to be addressed (and those who would call a person “racist” for suggesting that the people of SubSaharan Africa might perhaps choose NOT to add another 2 to 3 billion people to this planet by the end of the century, be damned—the Earth simply cannot handle that many more of ANY of us humans).
At any rate, reflecting on the swelling pro-Trump, anti-Dem tide here, I’m seeing it as a delayed reaction, in fact a long-overdue response following realization of how very badly we have been misled and manipulated over a very long period of time; for those who have long looked to the Dems as their saviors from the moral quagmire only to finally discover them swimming among the turds with all the rest, I guess their gag reflex was finally activated. But it sure should have been activated a whole lot sooner, in all of us. The manipulation was so clearly and in fact demonstrably evident with the 9/11/2001 event that I guess our collective consciousness was shocked into cognitive shutdown: it simply went against what all of us knew about how the real world operates to accept that those three buildings were reduced to dust in the way we were told, but we had to believe it, because what was the alternative? (“home of the brave,” my ass!) A certain amount of post-event numbness might be forgivable, but it’s positively shameful that we have allowed the workings of our social psychology to continue to perpetuate this mythology in a positive feedback loop of group denial and taboo enforcement— the same mechanism that is now at work enforcing the groupthink within academia, and much more brutally than it was in my day. I watched the beginnings of the great academic thought-freeze develop under the GW Bush regime (was no one willing to stand up for freedom, for democracy, for the Constitution, or, say, just to speak the truth? apparently not), and I did at one time have hopes that we would begin speak freely again when Obama got into office, but those hopes were quickly dashed. Some people may have entertained similar hopes with the election of Trump. But surely this is not still the case? Until we can face up to the way we were scammed into taking off our shoes at airports and submitting to body scans, looking the other way as the forces of central control penetrated ever deeper into our lives “for our own protection” (supposedly synonymous with “national security”) under BOTH administrative banners, we may as well forget about the bullshit issues we’re fighting over today. All distractions from the big picture, which everybody still wants to deny. Direct your anger toward what really deserves it.
I hope he or she has some appreciation for population issues, – liveoak
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I can’t speak for Malthuss but…
As crazy as it sounds I think to save the planet we need a massive die-off of about 7 billion people over a hundred year period, leaving us with just a half billion.
Just read today where businesses looted and burned and destroyed by BLM will not be re-built using “insurance” unless the owner can pay out of pocket for the demolition.
So much for the moron BLM “activists” claiming insurance will cover the damages.
Oops. Our bad.
Good luck.
Hope winter finds you well stocked and sane.
When you butcher the lamb, will you put the sins of America on it? Or will you, like the Indians, apologize to the little beast and say a prayer for its soul?
To paraphrase Rabbi Hillel, if we are not for ourselves, who will be?
S.V.
Interesting you bring up Hillel.
“If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?” “What is hateful to yourself, do not do to your fellow man.”
All good stuff. All relevant.
Butchering animals I’ve raised is never an easy thing for me. Prayers, tears and a profound sense of gratitude every time. However, I feel much worse when I must eat factory raised meat. The slavery, terror and poison involved is bad for my digestion.
Indeed, the sins of America are something we all carry with us – just as we also carry the ideals, courage and accomplishments of those who preceded us.
I’m sorry that JHK has ceased to write about the larger transcendent issues. That is probably also a sign of the end of empire.
It’s very dry here. Smoke in the air. We’ve seen a loss of about 80% in the bird population in the last few years. Many of the native tree species are in trouble. That might not be as important to you all as whatever the hell “woke” is, but it is real life – or the decline of real life. It’s happening now and there may be no recovery from it.
Oh yeah, it was a GREAT year for huckleberries.
Thank you. What do you think about vegetarianism? Not possible?
One guy who used to post here said we needed to eat meat in order to fertilize the land with their shit. But the Hindus keep cattle for the milk and the brawn of oxen that pull the plows. And get the shit too.
Many of the native tree species are in trouble. –Due to chemtrails?
California is under Newsoms rule.
I agree about DTs virus failure, Donald Trump should be telling people C19 is fake [at this point] and fire Fauci, as well.
@Moflora: Please don’t leave. I’m also a longtime reader. I’m also an organic farmer. It’s very hard for me too to butcher, but I do it with respect towards the animal, as I’m sure you do as well. I also dislike Holocaust deniers and keyboard bullies and those aching for war to start, for violence. I’ve been through enough war and trouble to know better. I dislike Trump as well, always did, crass and selfish and $ obsessed and a braggart and all that. Like JHK, I didn’t vote for him the first time, or for Hillary. JHK has convinced me to not sit this one out like I had planned. I will vote for him because the stakes are just too high. I don’t think JHK is a fan of the man either. Hell, most comments I read here today admitted Trump’s errors and shortcomings. We need voices like yours in this forum. I rarely participate, but always read. The Nazi sometimes makes very good points that reveal a depth of understanding and wide readings and education. The Dog, mostly insufferable in his egomania, also has on occasion written something good. The Scottish lady Alba has a wonderful sense of humor, wit, and common sense. And so on. You can always find something good here, if you’re patient. JHK writes with courage and flair, he’s the real thing. Of course you can disagree. Why don’t you argue your points respectfully instead of giving up? Only clowns and bots get laughed out of here. Nobody would laugh at someone like you, even if we disagree. Stick around!
A bit confusing to determine where to click to answer to Moflora’s comment. I’ll paste it here and see if it works, sorry.
@Moflora: Please don’t leave. I’m also a longtime reader. I’m also an organic farmer. It’s very hard for me too to butcher, but I do it with respect towards the animal, as I’m sure you do as well. I also dislike Holocaust deniers and keyboard bullies and those aching for war to start, for violence. I’ve been through enough war and trouble to know better. I dislike Trump as well, always did, crass and selfish and $ obsessed and a braggart and all that. Like JHK, I didn’t vote for him the first time, or for Hillary. JHK has convinced me to not sit this one out like I had planned. I will vote for him because the stakes are just too high. I don’t think JHK is a fan of the man either. Hell, most comments I read here today admitted Trump’s errors and shortcomings. We need voices like yours in this forum. I rarely participate, but always read. The Nazi sometimes makes very good points that reveal a depth of understanding and wide readings and education. The Dog, mostly insufferable in his egomania, also has on occasion written something good. The Scottish lady Alba has a wonderful sense of humor, wit, and common sense. And so on. You can always find something good here, if you’re patient. JHK writes with courage and flair, he’s the real thing. Of course you can disagree. Why don’t you argue your points respectfully instead of giving up? Only clowns and bots get laughed out of here. Nobody would laugh at someone like you, even if we disagree. Stick around!
Rulo D
Thank you so much for your kind reply.
I’m an anachronism. I try to not write anything online that I would not say to a person’s face. When the comment section degenerates into Fight Club I lose interest quickly.
Regarding Trump…
“…They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
Steal a little and they’ll throw you in jail, steal a lot and they’ll make you king.” –Bob Dylan
Admittedly, someone may decide that the graft, narcissism and base behavior of Trump is the price we have to pay for somehow thwarting the Deep State. This is the end of the empire. There is no thwarting that. As JHK has pointed out many times, there is no going back to the old days. Good or not.
I do expect Trump to win re-election. I sincerely doubt that the man has the depth to comprehend the level of crisis the world is in. I’d like to be proven wrong. But I’m not.
However, I understand the motivation of those who make the lesser-of-evils calculation and vote for Trump. I will be writing-in the name of someone who is hopefully not proven to be a criminal.
I find the post election prospects to be terrifying no matter who wins.
I am reminded of the words of Utah Phillips a folk singer and activist who died a few decades ago.
“Don’t vote. It just encourages them.”
Thanks for asking me to stick around.
I’ve been reading this blog for a long time. I came to it via Kunstler’s “The Geography of Nowhere,” a cutting and also very funny look at the man-made American environment.
I found myself coming back to this blog for the wickedly clever evisceration of both sides of the political aisle, where politicians were too corrupt and greedy to save us from the real problems of the day. The abuse was delightfully (and justly) nonpartisan. To see JHK give up and pick sides after everything he has written is a great loss.
What has changed? Can politics suddenly save us after all? Is it really just a simple choice between Republicans=Good and Democrats=Evil? Much published by JHK prior to 2016 doesn’t support this. The early writings were truly inspirational and audacious.
In any case, I am sorry to see a unique perspective go by the wayside. I have been going through the archives lately to try to remember some of the classic JHK. Here’s something from August 24, 2015:
The trouble is that it’s not inconceivable Trump could get elected. Farfetched, perhaps, but not out of the question. The USA is heading for a very rough patch of history — as those of you with your eyes on the stock indexes lately may suspect. The country stands an excellent chance of waking up some morning soon to discover it is broke and broken. When that happens, all the anxiety and animus will be focused on looking for scapegoats, and they are likely to be the wrong ones. World leaders considered Hitler a clown in the early going, too, you know. But the Germans were wild about him. He pushed a lot of the right buttons under the circumstances. Trump is worse than Hitler. And the American people, alas, are now surely a worse lot of ignorant, raging, tattooed slobs than the German people were in 1933. Be very afraid.
Refreshing to read your posts moflora. For a minute I thought I was in Republican Purgatory. I agree with many of your sentiments. Looks like Jim did a Christopher Hitchens on us (Iraq invasion, support for junior fuck up Bush etc waterboarding expert, …Christ). I still watch and love Hitchens videos (met him once on The Nation’s first cruise), I support Jim’s brilliant analyses, guests and intellectual courage. I continue to support him with $$ on the Patreon page and will continue, even though I disagree with his swing to the village idiot. I am a life long Democrat, yet I dispise the party more than anything now. I agree with much of Jim’s bulldozing of its sad failings, but…. but “illegal immigrants” Christine Ford? Jesus H. Christ Jim. You must know those issues are very layered. I have experiience in the worlds of each as a 4 decades contractor in California and being close to those ravaged by sexual abuse. Jim your insights on the collapse of the global order are much too important to give up on. Your range and quality of guests are equally important. No matter who occupies the White House, this country is rapidly heading towards collapse and re-ordering. Politics is a hopeless circle jerk. I prefer to stay active in my local community and work with people I can get to know personally. I’m thinking of writing in my dog’s name for president.
Few in any quarter _____________ understand the long emergency we’ve entered, and most who do are too timid to spell out what it will actually require of us in the way of rigor and fortitude.
should you have a full length mirror in your home go look into it and ask: What am I prepared to contribute to liberty and justice for all?
or:
Do I really want a government of the people, by the people and for the people?
If your answer is THE RIGHT PEOPLE, is that not what you have now?
“There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.” Twain – Following the Equator
Whose ox is it?
Exodus 21:29
But if the ox has a reputation for goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.
Too much diversity kills any hope of Constitutional Democracy, with each group trying to get as much as it can. If Whites don’t also try, we will end up with nothing. Beautiful losers. Is this what you want? Sure sounds like it. And is such loserdom virtuous? Not in my book.
Lee Kwan Yu, the benevolent despot of remarkable Singapore, put it best – “In a multiethnic society, all politics becomes racial.”
Yet they have Indians and Chinese. How do they get along? Are they mixing or just ignoring each other outside of work?
Very high IQ populations in both camps I imagine. Even if it works in this microcosm, I question it would work if the masses of both countries were mixing.
If I recall Singapore has the IQ shredder problem. Terminally low fertility. It sucks up entrepreneurial, intelligent souls from an entire hemisphere and they end up barren. Sad, that.
Mostly Chinese, significant Indian (Tamil) and Malay minorities, a fair number of Europeans (largely British). It’s a strictly run and authoritarian society; you can’t even jay-walk there, but at the same time it’s not oppressive feeling at all. And the government actually cares about the general welfare (most housing is public housing, but nothing like NYCHA hellholes).
Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.
In Singapore, the Chinese run things.
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But it has also managed to infect business, government, and the arts, and turned the general population into cowering hostages willing to lie about their convictions to avoid “cancellation.”
And : Sports…..Is there anyone that can look past it’s woke/cancellation
Very good post Jim.
Congratulations on your coming out. To publicly state: “Yes I am a Trump supporter” is… brave.
I did not make mine yet.
Hurry up!
Lost Angeles, tomorrow is the start of month 7 of martial law.
But Newsom kept his winery open and rumor has it he made big bucks in a pay off to keep the Covid hysteria going.
Bravo.
Here in the UK I voted Brexit and in doing so alienated most of my friends and family.
My decision had nothing to do with the anti-immigrant sentiment that the UK media promotes is behind such a vote. Rather it is my disdain for the utterly corrupt and fascist nature of the anti democratic body that is the EU. In the pocket of a cabal of banksters and corporate Titans the Eurocrats think nothing of destroying one of their own (Greece) for their champagne socialist ideals.
So, in a strange way, I was able to juxtapose the situation of you voting for Trump with me voting Brexit.
It’s just not the “woke” thing to the ‘average’ clueless observer.
I disdain Trump, who will surely sacrifice the Planet for a profit – but agree with all you have said re the Dems. They simply don’t deserve your vote for the reasons you have laid out so eloquently.
Europe made Britain destroy its fishing fleet.
For Napoleon, that would have been a dream.
What a shame Mr Farage couldn’t be arsed to attend the Fisheries talks while being paid huge amounts to blow his own trumpet at the European Parliament. And the British taxpayer is still stuck with paying his £73,000 EU pension in perpetuity. I bet a few fishing families would be grateful for that just to sit on their backside for decades.
Sometimes Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camach is the solution.
He was able to find the smartest person in the world…
Idiocracy: surely a movie worth watching or re-watching
Brawndo! It has what plants like.
Camacho. You left off the o.
Camacho. You left off the o. – Sredni
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OMG, don’t tell me you, of all people, are going to start correcting people. That’s rich!
You have left a letter off the front end or back end of more words than any other commenter on this board. You should be ashamed.
Now, none of that. Now see here Q: Biden blames Trump for exactly what his Party has funded and endorsed. Caused if you will.
Anglin:
Tucker Carlson said that this Biden speech was possibly the most dishonest speech in American political history.
I think he’s right. It is literally beyond belief. It’s difficult to process that they are actually, literally, claiming that Donald Trump caused Black Lives Matter to riot.
Tucker also zeroed in on one line: “does anyone think there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is reelected?” He identified that as a mafia-style threat, which it obviously is. The average person hears that and doesn’t necessarily recognize it as a threat, but understands that it is probably true. And that is a powerful new talking point: “if you don’t vote for us, we’re going to burn this bitch down.”
It’s unlikely that swing voters will respond well to that threat. It’s much more likely that people are going to go out to vote and just go down the line checking “R” to ensure that they get Republican mayors and governors. Because again: the riots only happen in Democrat cities. Democrat cities are going to abolish the police. Democrat New York just cut a billion dollars from the police, and the city has turned into “The Warriors.”
Backtracking and changing the narrative from “the riots are great” to “the riots are terrible and Donald Trump’s fault” happened so fast you could get whiplash trying to follow it. The first time I saw them say anything negative about the riots was when Don Lemon said it on Wednesday.
The change was purely a result of polling. The Democrats thought they could keep the white guilt train rolling all the way to November, and that operation was botched. At some point, people say, “okay, fine, I’m a racist, okay? Sure. I’m a racist who is tired of living in constant fear of violence. Just make it stop.”
All of this information coming out is probably also trickling down to some of these normies. For example, the George Floyd videos. And the fact that 81% of blacks want the same or more cops in their neighborhood.
Whatever the case, Black Lives Matter has lost virtually all support, after having been very popular immediately following the George Floyd hoax.
They had this whole thing set up that if you didn’t support BLM, you wanted to murder black people because of you found the tone of their skin aesthetically displeasing, but they just kept inciting all of this insane violence, burning all of these buildings, looting, attacking the police, etc.
Talk about dropping the ball.
Furthermore, they’re going to have a helluva time convincing their own supporters that the riots are bad. Morning Joe came out and said it on Twitter, and people responded as if they’d just watched him murder an intern.
I do not think this was a plan, at all. That feels really good.
The plan has been going totally smoothly since they first launched this lunatic virus hoax. I was feeling like I was in a scripted movie, from the time it started. Being forced into damage control over these riots is the crack I was waiting for, and it feels stupendous.
Now, if Donald Trump would just come out and endorse our boy Kyle, I’d be having a perfect week.
SV: Those of us who have battled Evil know about this “reverse the charges” technique. Having it be Exactly the same thing as they did is an essential part of it. The example Tucker and Anglin give should make it clear. Thank you stars you haven’t had to experience this first hand.
Sredni, before I read all this, does it have anything to do with my comment at 11:00 pm?
That was the comparison I used for Trump just before the primaries wound down.
Then I researched his proposed policies and, post election, observed his actions as president.
Now I compare him to JFK and mock fantasists.
That was very well done Jim and I thank you for it. We all should do whatever we appropriately can to foster this awakening to reality. I continue to be gobsmacked at those who still don’t see.
I’m gratified that our host saw fit to single out NYC schools chancellor Richard Carranza, as he was my former boss. During the last few years of my career, I experienced staff development activities which are ostensibly supposed to be about developing staff into better teachers, devolve into Maoist struggle sessions that had the express intent to emasculate and shame white teachers. This week, the NYC teachers union will hold a strike vote over the return to school plan. If they vote to strike, they’ll be voting themselves out of a job. They take themselves too seriously. They think that they are educators, when in realty they are nothing more than babysitters for NYC’s permanent underclass.
Well said as well. And the higher ups? Commissars.
Don’t forget Trumps support of 2A. The last thing I want is to go into the long emergency with my guns taken away.
Smokin’ today, Jim. You hit every point squarely on its head.
Michael Moore calls it in his facebook post:
Sorry to have to provide the reality check again, but when CNN polled registered voters in August in just the swing states, Biden and Trump were in a virtual tie. In Minnesota, it’s 47-47. In Michigan, where Biden had a big lead, Trump has closed the gap to 4 points. Are you ready for a Trump victory? Are you mentally prepared to be outsmarted by Trump again? Do you find comfort in your certainty that there is no way Trump can win? Are you content with the trust you’ve placed in the DNC to pull this off? The Biden campaign just announced he’ll be visiting a number of states— but not Michigan. Sound familiar? I’m warning you almost 10 weeks in advance. The enthusiasm level for the 60 million in Trump’s base is OFF THE CHARTS! For Joe, not so much. Don’t leave it to the Democrats to get rid of Trump. YOU have to get rid of Trump. WE have to wake up every day for the next 67 days and make sure each of us are going to get a hundred people out to vote. ACT NOW!
SV: This is typical of the split in this man’s consciousness. He has the street smarts to know which way the wind is blowing, but he doesn’t have the higher wisdom to know that the Democrats aren’t worth fighting for. I’d call him a Commissar with his high IQ and cunning, but actually he is better than that. He does care about the Truth and knocked it out of the park with his movie, Planet of Humans. And he was willing to stand against all of “his people” on that one. He is simply wildly uneven, a very developed man in some ways and not in others. Incredibly on track on minute and totally off the mark the next.
Yes and know. I think he does have that higher wisdom. Moore is a pretty intelligent guy, but he can’t overcome his own cognitive dissonance.
He reminds me of Chris Hedges in many ways.
“Know” = “no.”
It’s OK – we know you lost your dictionary. And your punctuation manual.
Moore may be right because the Dems have learned nothing from Hillary’s loss. Biden has no plans to go to Detroit, an important swing state. He’s already told Wall Street the opposite of what’s in his platform–and I’m not sure he even knows what his platform is. He’s stated that, if president, things will fundamentally not change. The base is not excited and former Bernie supporters, well, a very large percentage of them will not vote for Biden (me included).
But I’m not voting for Trump either. Instead of putting kids in cages, why isn’t he going after the employers? That would make a big dent in the number of illegals. (By the way, I’m a Democrat and I am against open borders.) And the biggest problem: everyone he’s brought into his administration is a grifter. Instead of draining the swamp, he’s filling it up. And he went along with giving the military $550 billion extra, so don’t expect him to end our endless wars.
Both parties suck.
@ sharonsj
Instead of putting kids in cages,
See where you lose the reader? You know for a fact that it was under Obama that that was done (no need to go into the usefulness or ethics of it) yet here you are trying it on again.
This is where you lose your credibility.
“why isn’t he going after the employers?”
Because the left and never-Trumpers and Chamber of Commerce RINOs don’t want it. Otherwise they would support e-verify.
https://www.golifa.com/the-left-now-admits-that-they-dont-want-e-verify-because-it-will-deny-criminal-employers-from-having-their-illegal-workers/
https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida/e-verify-set-to-enflame-florida-republican-rifts-again-in/article_63bac048-f9cb-11e9-889b-37d856c8dc59.html
Even before Sen. Tom Lee, R-Thonotosassa, filed a bill that would require all state employers to use the federal E-Verify system to validate workers’ immigration status – a priority for Gov. Ron DeSantis – the same Republican-aligned forces that stymied similar legislation two of the last three sessions were campaigning against it.
Lee, a former Senate president, introduced Senate Bill 664 last week, but a coalition of more than 60 business leaders and former elected officials, the Immigration Partnership and Coalition Fund Coalition (IMPAC), had been lobbying against it since September.
By the way, I’m a Democrat and I am against open borders.
Then you should be pleased with the Wall (fence) and the huge reduction in illegal crossings this year.
You should also be pleased to read this:
One battle won this week, for the mean time at least, was the Supreme Court ruling that allowed the Trump Administration to implement its public charge rule. Public charge laws have been on the books for over a century, and the administration is seeking to bring the rule up to date to reduce the admittance of immigrants who will rely on taxpayer-funded public benefits — 63% of foreign-born headed households use at least one welfare program, according to an analysis of Census Bureau date by the Center for Immigration Studies.
so don’t expect him to end our endless wars.
Trump is the first president in decades to NOT start new wars and to try to extract the USA from old ones.
Given your stated views, it sounds to me like you should vote for Trump.
Are you sure Trump wants it? About half way through his term he said, “I want these people here. The economy is so good!”. In other words, solve the illegal problem by just legalizing everyone. The old Bush genius solution.
Both parties suck. – sharonsj
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Not only do both parties suck, anyone who would take up the vocation of ‘politician’ earns my utter contempt.
I hasten to point out that despite my comment at 9:41 pm (posted way up-thread concerning Kamala Harris and the despicably slanted NYT) I have not voted for decades and will not vote in the future unless the ballot contains a box effectively labeled “None of the Above.”
sharon sj: Thank you! You are a rare voice of reason in a wasteland of fear-driven right wing ideology that this post and the comments unfortunately are. I’m surprised and disappointed that JHK, a very reasonable man with great common sense, would go along, in so many areas in his post, with the right wing talking points and beliefs. JHK’s post and the comments are more like Breitbart or Newsmax than anything I’ve heard before from JHK, and I hope that Kunstler and his website don’t devolve in this direction. In his post, Kunstler says that Trump is “reducing the government’s stranglehold on private enterprise”, when in reality, he wants to ban Tik-Tok, which is a private company. He then says Trump is “opposing the matrix of rackets that make up the DC swamp”. Yeah, that was a nice campaign talking point by Trump, but Trump in actuality has filled his cabinet with cronies who know nothing about the departments they’re put in charge of (some of them family members), and whom he fires once they do anything that would oppose him, that is, if they’ve not already been arrested, indicted and jailed. Not included in his post but part of many of his podcasts is JHK’s criticism of money losing energy sectors such shale oil exploration and the endless bad behavior and rackets in the financial sector. But never does he mention that Trump and the GOP are, much more that the Democrats, the enablers, cheerleaders, and apologists for these rackets.
As demonstrated through history there’s a threshold in the human psyche beyond which intellect is shunted aside by a limbic fear of falling outside of social order power shifts – “heard reflex”. Like all fear thresholds, tolerance levels differ among individuals, but the reaction scales upward reliably with each measure of apparent “shift”, as evidenced by how even within the higher levels of education – where scholarly objectivity is supposed to prevail – we witness an abandonment of intellectual faculty. Campuses now are not just centers of “wokeness”, but where justification is the most intellectually disingenuous as pure confabulation.
Moore’s video, “The biggest fuck you in human history” from four years ago. A classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDL3Yjl31K8
He has the empathy to get inside the minds and hearts of the working class, but in the end he is against them for some reason.
They should really run that again. It’s still valid.
Moore is ‘against’ working people? That’s SO FAR from the reality it’s laughable. The main Player in this equation who has no regard for ‘working people’ is this joke president.
Please enough with your hyperbole already you have zero proof of such a boundless untrue claim.
Ask any of the ‘working stiff’ NYC contractors he bilked when building his vanity palaces, benr:
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/24/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/
Sour grapes to be sure but what is the actual truth?
Many other counts of people saying he treated them well who do you believe. Well we know you are a antiTump tool so that is rhetorical.
We had a fire here in San Diego 2008 and it destroyed many of the houses in crest.
The contractors hired to rebuild the houses tended to start the work get a big pay day and skip off leaving the homeowner screwed.
One of my surfing buddies lived in a trailer for almost a decade as a result of a contractor screwing him over.
If Trump was so horrible he would not have had so many successes so common sense says your story has ulterior motives behind it.
benr – it’s up to you to refute this (and the myriad other stories). ‘Whataboutery’ is not enough.
No, Jello. It is not up to Benr to refute anything. It is up to you or the person making the claim. The burden of truth lies on the accuser — who, at present, curiously won’t speak to anyone according to the article.
I wonder where the court documents are, and what story they tell? How mysterious.
Low IQ.
The SDNY will have the last word, Narc-owl. Let’s do a ‘Trump’ and just see what happens…
Soft Star Light,
“pod factories” Good one!
And Biden’s a “Trojan hearse.” ; )
Lol yes that is great :-)! And the mourners surrounding the hearse grieve its emergence from the basement 😉
JHK, excellent summation of walking away. I am an old liberal, not a progressive, one old timer like me calls herself a Kennedy Democrat.
I am nostalgic of the Democrat party fighting for us working class blue collar guys , like the current Netflix show Cobra Kai, I miss the 80’s when I thought the Democrats fought for the working class, NOT for free stuff but a chance to work, grow, and learn. The old Star Trek motto Where no man(person) has gone before. That party is gone, and like Johnny Lawrence from the Karate kid who is now an old dude, he cant relate to this new era of enlightenment(?) Good writing, and now off to work to deal with our emergency dept adventures, wear your mask, Mother nature does not care of your politics, learn her rules.
My People were UNION. Three pictures on the Wall: Jesus Christ, my uncle the priest, and John F Kennedy. Until they spat in our face…..
“Three pictures on the Wall: Jesus Christ…”
Sredni,
Admit it, goddamnit! He was white…you seen the proof….
I’m White and worship White. It’s alright for non-Whites to portray Him as they are. He is above race. But He was Caucasian in terms of the factual reality.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you HARD evidence of how Trump is fomenting violence in the USA.
HE IS THE ONE THAT IS THE CAUSE OF ALL TRIBULATION.
https://streamable.com/czam96
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
As to why the Dems picked Biden; it was to avoid Bernie. Not that they disagree with Bernie, though. They love him still, but they understood that the country wasn’t ready for him and Trump would have stomped him. While Bernie had been sufficiently mussed up for the public to disapprove of him, the Dems sincerely believe that his ideas can be sold under a different label.
https://www.westernjournal.com/cdc-now-says-94-covid-deaths-underlying-condition/
Only six percent of the covid deaths are reliably real. In other words, massive fraud has been perpetrated. The only reason they released this is that a good coup is underway with Fauci and Birx being pushed to the side, if not out.
Meanwhile thousands of German Patriots stormed the Reichstag, some carrying pictures of Trump or Putin. This Global Tyranny must not stand – even if it hurts John Az or Alba. Human Freedom is more important than the feelings of elderly individuals.
You seem unable to interpret anything much, Janos.
The 94% of deaths where there was an underlying condition (note that word ‘underlying’) still died of Covid. If I have an underlying condition that gives me difficulty in getting across a road safely and a car hits me, I’ve died of a road traffic accident, not general frailty. I might have had another five years of decent but frail life left in me.
I am not ‘hurt’ by anything you dream up about Covid. My position remains pretty much the same – that the lockdown here (I can’t speak for you) was probably necessary, but very probably too long, and that I’m very happy the kids are now back at school and most businesses open (some pose diffictulties). AND that social distancing and mask wearing still seem to reduce the rate of transmission (but obviously don’t prevent transmission), which still seems to be a good thing overall.
So play whatever games you want with the statistics – we’ve known for ages that underlying conditions make people more vulnerable to dying of Covid
And you will of course have noted the statistics neurodoc supplied about the large percentage of patients suffering from long-term, and probably permanent organ damage (no matter what their age or if they had underlying conditions or not?). I presume he meant the percentage of hospitalised patients and not all patients, as the figure would seem excessive if it were the latter – and how would you know anyway?
Everyone will be exposed sooner or later! All! All will be tested – All! How dare you put yourself above other like this. We go one we go all.
Exceptions can be made for you and other oldies but goodies of course. Why not structure society around your (generic geriatric) problems with constipation too? Ban all things that constipate? Mandate as mandatory all things that promote good movements? Look at poor Bozeman, the King of Wakanda. Dead of colon cancer. Why not make colon exams mandatory for all – including children?
I have no idea what you’re talking about, Janos. I haven’t been tested. My husband is a medic and hasn’t been tested.
What restructuring is it you think I requested?
As for the rest (constipation? what’s with you?), you’ve just lost the plot. Sorry.
Note that the example of the frail ‘I’ crossing the road was entirely hypothetical and with a pretty old person in mind. Going by my mother’s experience, I could easily have another 20 good years, so I’m willing to make a slight effort not to get permanent organ damage that I don’t need. And I don’t want to cost the NHS any more money than necessary.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if it happened to you instead, since neurodoc says it’s regardless of age?
Imagine the rest of your life not being able to walk up a staircase. But you’d have an excuse for not helping that black guy pick up the stuff he dropped on the pavement in front of you. 🙂
I’d bet SSL would have just helped him (or anyone else) pick up his stuff, without over-thinking it. Just a gut feeling.
Face it old girl – you’ve been had. You believed the Lie. The Flu, Covid or otherwise, is one of the ways people are taken out of this life. What else is new?
The flu is caused by an influenza virus. Covid is caused by a coronavirus. So Covid isn’t a variant of flu. You’d think if you were going to pretend to know something about it you’d have grasped the basics by now.
I recall telling you (not you personally) more than once about flu being ‘the old man’s friend’.
You were warned by neurodoc to stop talking tripe about the virus.
Old boy.
The figures given by the good doc for serious sequelae:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-duration-of-what/#comment-512398
And a reminder of how impressed he was by your vast knowledge:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/good-trouble-and-not-good-trouble/#comment-510931
‘Neurodoc’ is a weird one – posting valid information about the sequelae of COVID infection on one hand, yet claiming that the looming vaccine will be used to deliver a GPS tracking device into your body/bloodstream. Quite a conundrum.
Doctors must serve us and not us, them. We shall not be ruled by medical tyrants. The whole thing is Trojan Horse into Globalism.
Watching SV and GA go at it always reminds me of Calvin vs. Susie. I wonder why…
sevensec
Janos is a little fluffy pet compared to the trolls I’ve acquired since. One of them is taking an extended holiday, it seems.
You didn’t note that, on most occasions I engage with Janos, he’s brought my name into something without me even having produced a post. Sure sign of a troll.
It’s unfortunate though, that even among us lay people, which most of us are on here medicine-wise, Janos is particularly resistant to scientific facts of any kind.
“We shall not be ruled by medical tyrants.”
I quite agree.
“The whole thing is Trojan Horse into Globalism.”
There you require some discrimination in your thinking.
And viruses are quite globalist in their modus operandi, unfortunately. No respecters of national borders, the little blighters.
But the use made of the corona virus is politics at its worst. And the Globalists are making very fine use of it for the very reason you state.
I admit getting mixed up about the flu and corona virus. But they act similarly in many ways, and the latter may not be that much more dangerous than the former – certainly not worth destroying our economy over OR giving ourselves over to Globalist tyrants.
Neurodoc is completely correct about the agenda to inject us with tracking devices. If you were familiar with globalist literature you would know this is a long held dream of theirs. Or do you not think the technology exists? Gates go a patent for some of it a number of years ago. This is a plot long in the making.
Neurodoc agrees with me about Blacks and that their deficits cannot be made good since they are genetic.
Janos
“But they act similarly in many ways, and the latter may not be that much more dangerous than the former – certainly not worth destroying our economy over OR giving ourselves over to Globalist tyrants.”
The latter is considerably more dangerous than the former if you are unlucky to get a high viral dose – which you are more likely to get if around people not distancing and not wearing masks. Note that I don’t think an 80-year-old dying of flu is a tragedy – it’s just life. But a 45-year-old having to deal with permanent organ damage is another matter. There are doctors who’ve been off work for months because it’s all they can do to dress themselves, let alone function as a doctor. And 120 doctors and nurses have died here just by doing their jobs – when did you ever hear of that happening in a flu season? But if you consider them worth sacrificing so that people can go to concerts or football matches, that’s your opinion.
The good thing is that it’s led to an increase in recruitment, of nurses at least. Much in the way people sign up to join the army during a war. Wanting to do their bit and such.
I have seen the Gates patent. Leaving aside that Gates doesn’t have a finger in all 140 vaccine pies, I’ve also seen the rationale for it discussed – having information on vaccinations in countries where paper records are a fantasy. I wouldn’t personally accept a vaccination that was digitally stamped. But I’m more worried about their functional safety at this stage.
Majella cited the wording from the webpage to which neurodoc linked, regarding the technology of the syringe units, and it seems not to be what you think.
And I don’t support endless lockdowns – to benefit me or anyone else – as I have said repeatedly. But I think refusing all mitigation strategies aimed at avoiding lockdown is churlish and foolish.
I don’t get my info from WHO, either. I prefer to pay attention to individual bits of evidence as they comes in.
Movin’ dem goalposts.
You were simply wrong, as you have no critical thinking skills.
LOL.
Wong about what, Narc-troll?
But keep at it.
HCQ, masks, and pretty much everything.
Your frothing walls of text and multiple responses to yourself last thread were hilarious.
You complain about “walls of text”. You also complain when a response is broken into multiple posts. There’s no pleasing some people.
I want some facts, troll.
Tell me about my change of view on masks and HCQ (which in both cases is about keeping up with the evidence). While you’re at it, let me know if you informed the Oxford team I linked to for you on the previous thread, and the Royal Society, that they got it WRONG on masks. I hope they were very grateful to you for putting them right, if so.
So, are you still claiming HCQ *cures* Covid? Don’t be tempted to jump on the +zinc bandwagon or those goalposts will be doing the Charleston. And remember to include all the RCTs you have found to back up your position.
But, you know what I found the funniest in your trolling history? It was the anti-globalist, anti-EU, anti-free-movement-of-labour clever boy, socking it to the man without the man even knowing it … BUT employing Polish internal EU migrants to work on his house. That’s what they are, clever boy, not ‘immigrants’ like you, but internal EU migrants. Who keep the price of labour down – isn’t that the narrative? So well done you for playing both sides.
Exceptionalism is everywhere, isn’t it, Narc? Not just a narcissist but a fraud. Or just not that great at critical thinking.
Aahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! 🙂
But mostly you should ask yourself why you can’t stop trolling my posts with your childishness, when you’re such an important high-flyin’, top-earnin’, super-IQ achiever. A bit of introspection is more useful than staring at your reflection in that pond.
Wall of text achieved.
Narcissistic rage achieved.
Chiken dinnar winnar = Night Owl
Yep. Childish narcissist exposed, by its own response. An ‘own goal’. Nice one, ‘bot.
Quite so, Majella. The Narc-troll is such an arse he thinks ‘Aahahahahahahahaha!’ is rage. Except when he says it, of course. Well, he doesn’t really think that – he just flails about helplessly when he’s lost. Even his political friends are soon going to see him for what he is. Although it may take a while, given the partisan nature of things around here.
And he didn’t respond to anything, because he can’t.
Imagine being inside that troubled head.
Such hate!
I wonder why?
🙂
Such wrong use of words. And in an ‘editor’.
I wonder why.
Oh, I forgot, you lost your dictionary.
🙂
My words must be pretty good. My start at the Washington Compost, 6 years in medical publishing at NAS, and 10 years doing books and brochures and legal translation work for a blue-chip company abroad would seem to speak to that.
I learned from some of the best, and am grateful. I see why you are unemployed.
Brochures yet!
Narc-troll is stooping to self-defence. Triggered.
Trump tried to tweet about the corrected figures but was blocked by Twitter. Imagine blocking the President of the United States. These peeps need to be taken down a few notches.
I saw that:
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/cdc-quietly-edit-death-tolls-less-than-6-of-the-alleged-150000-deaths-were-really-covid/
This doesn’t shock me. At the very beginning of the “pandemic” Pompeo said on camera, “This is a live exercise.”
Yes, the persona of the orange one is difficult to swallow. however the alternative of the filthy, ugly, satanic evil, of the modern democrats has become impossible to ignore. so for the the first time we vote Donald Trump.
LOL! Remind your sister it gets cold as a bastard in Minn. I spent time in Duluth back in the day.
This was intended for MiddlePenn.
the persona of the orange one is difficult to swallow. – holdfastspike
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I hate to admit I don’t give a shit about Trump’s Wall or platform (he has no platform other than getting re-elected). What I give a shit about is his oratory if I may be so bold as to use that word. He is no Demosthenes as we all know.
Also the fact that one could never sit down with him and discuss a novel you’ve read. I doubt he has ever read even a comic book from cover to cover. He is a dolt with a flair for self-promotion.
That said, I look forward to the hair on fire and exploding heads at the Editorial offices of the NYT if/when he wins.
I don’t think there’s any doubt about him winning. The Dems have shot themselves in the foot with their tacit support of mayhem and murder in the streets, just as Clinton shot herself in the foot with that infamous catchprase about ‘deplorables’.
We’ve had ‘secret Tories’ here in the past, ‘secret Brexiters’ and ‘secret Unionists’ in Scotland (I was entirely open about my support, sometimes qualified, for both unions!). There will be more ‘secret Trumpists’ than ever, unless I’m much mistaken.
BTW I’d say what’s quite shocking, in terms of ‘oratory’, isn’t the comparison between Trump and anyone else, but between Trump now and Trump 20 or 30 years ago. I’ve seen him being interviewed back then and he was as articulate as anyone else.
Trump 20 or 30 years ago. I’ve seen him being interviewed back then and he was as articulate as anyone else. – GA
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Really!?!? Can you post a link or two? I’d love to see it.
I grew up in NY. I remember Trump as a con artist super ego guy. Everyone laughed at him and his antics. I could never have imagined America electing someone like this. However, i must vote for him because the alternative is unthinkable.And sooooo…..Ultimately the money and the turning of the Democratic party in to the Communist party comes From China. It was always China. It was china in the schools. It was china infiltrating into our government. It was china stealing our manufacturing and intellectual property. It was china bribing and feeding great wealth to liberal elite and elite conservatives alike. It was china who created a bio weapon to attack the world. It was always China. Trump 2020.
Hold fast spike
No. Those who have profited from the shift to Asia for manufacturing and surreptitious transfers of IP to ‘Gyna’ have, for the most part, been US corporations. Even Trump’s ‘enterprises’ sell little else but over-priced branded goods made in ‘Gyna’ by near-slave labour. Profit is king.
Q – I don’t have links, sorry. It was a three-part series about him that was on the tee-vee a couple of times. Starting with his Pa’ and Grandpa’, then charting his rise in business, and serial acquisition of multiple wives and families. He wasn’t being interviewed about politics particularly. But he seemed normal and perfectly articulate. You might be able to find the series somewhere on YouTube.
Agreed with Majella, though, he’s grown rich on scumbaggery and a total contempt for ordinary Americans.
Trump International had clothing and accessories (and not cheap ones either) made in multiple countries, e.g. China, Mexico, Guatemala and Bangladesh (there were at least six, but I’ve forgotten a couple). They took a contract away from somewhere like Guatemala which had labour costs of about $1.20 to give it to Bangladesh, where labour cost 30 cents.
I don’t feel called to provide an adjective for that, while Americans didn’t have jobs. Find your own.
But I agree that the Dems’ tacit support of people causing wreckage and carnage in the streets means a person of that moral calibre will most likely win a second term.
Moral calibre’s like hen’s teeth on all fronts these days.
Good on you. If there was any reliance on data or science in this administration, I’d give it a thought. But they are idiots who squandered a great economy to increase record deficits. Now the idiots goal is herd immunity. Seems like a lot of geezers on this page would be gone with the death rate that entails. You are increasingly in an echo chamber of your own creation, I find most of what you write at this point created in that chamber with no diversity of thought or geography. I’m sorry for you. But I get it. I could care less about who you vote for in NY. Or my Republican parents in Maryland. It’s really interesting how my poor mother has come into your camp as her dementia has progressed all the while fed a news diet from Fox. You will not decide this election. In Michigan we will though. And if folks think the 60% here who have an unfavorable impression at this point of Trump are headed that way, think again. I will phone bank twice this week. Turnout is everything, and there will be a ton of suppression from the dumbasses. We have some idiot videoing the local ballot drop box in my township (all 5000 of us, mostly white, and mid-upper income). That’s the waste of time this paranoia has driven people to.
Have a clue:
https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/
Also check out Project Veritas. They have old Democrat campaigners on tape talking about how they play around with ballots, sometimes just losing them.
Going to full postal balloting allows for a whole lot of ‘vote harvesting’ shenanigans even disregarding items disappearing in the mail and other such risks.
Seems to me the best method would be one neither party’s establishment desires in truth: Paper only, with a web linked camera on the place where the ballots are deposited, with that camera pointing at the box until it is counted by hand, with live witness and livestream for monitoring by the citizenry, with no chance for an unseen change of custody over the ballots.
No machines or internet or unseen moments where items could be altered by computer trickery or party machine action.
And yet those things have not happened in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington who have had 100% vote by mail for years. You go cast your ballot in person. I am not here in Michigan. However, as a healthy 53 year old, I will be working the polls to spare the usual seniors that are there.
Goldy89—-. I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 (I voted 3rd party) but I will this time. Running an obviously impaired man and pretending he’s a viable choice is an insult.
My concerns still stand, how can we say the process in those places is completely legitimate? Electioneering is about margins, after all.
The same problem I have with using machines in the process exists with postal vote, only moreso. These are methods that allow for malfeasance and end up difficult to prove one way or another.
Come November I’ll take a nice stroll down to the library where my little town has its polls on election day. One of the benefits of being in a two-light town, I suppose.
Your examples are not valid, period.
Why? They are all one sided states, ie the margin of victory is not close, so there is no contesting the results. When the difference of votes becomes smaller than the reliability of the measurement tools, that is the problem. And yes, the USPS reliability problem is huge in the close states. Manipulation of the vote, Chicago for example, is a favorite tool of the Dems, so of course they are pushing for another technique to do so.
The only real way of guaranteeing the voting results is by paper, one by one ballots with folks dipping their finger in indelible ink so they cannot double vote. No registration roles to be manipulated by anyone. One person, one vote on Election Day. Man up the polling places and just wait for the results. CNN and Fox contesting the calling of elections is no reason to have questionable results. There we go again, the MSM dictating the terms of our polity.
@ Goldy89
And yet those things have not happened in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington who have had 100% vote by mail for years.
How could you know those things have not happened?
Why would you believe that?
Have you read the NY Post article? The operative explains in detail how easy it is.
Project Veritas is a partisan hack job. There is no reason to believe much of their bullshit.
Actually, there is. It is called video tape and microphones.
Says the “new” fresh face spewing absolute partisan hackery.
I’d say you hoary folks need some fresh faces in your lives.
I would say you would be right except for the absolute bullshit meter pegging content of your posts.
You not only pegged the meter you bent the arrow on the gauge around the stop post.
Where are the Republican examples of voter fraud on Veritas? That is generally how I judge sources for non-partisanship. Especially given the biggest recent proven example of large scale ballot harvesting and falsification happened in North Carolina for GOP Congress candidate. Doesn’t really float to the top on Veritas’ site. Here we’ve got stringent rules. In fact both of my kids had to go in to clerks office for validation because their signatures did not match their records since there were done at fresh 18 years olds. 4 years later, their signatures had morphed of course. The level of inspection to even get the no-cause absentee ballot was really terrific.
@ Goldy89
The level of inspection to even get the no-cause absentee ballot was really terrific.
I think I see the problem. You are talking about absentee ballots. No large scale fraud there.
The article in the NY Post is talking about mass fraud in mass voter mailouts where you do not have to apply for the ballot, it is simply sent out to a list of voters.
Fraud in that type of voting has been rampant.
Trump is doing some decent work in the Middle East too. The recent Israel-Qatar rapprochement I cite as an example of the headway he is making in that part of the world.
He’s not getting much credit for it tho, as far as I can see.
Brh
I posted this in the last thread. Another groundbreaking move, similar to his effort with N. Korea.
The only time the McMedia got excited about anything he has done on the foreign policy front is when they were hoping he was going to turn Syria into a parking lot — they even called him presidential.
Interesting how the Democrats are held to a higher standard than Republicans every week. Only partisan zealotry could explain it rationally.
Anyone that would actually vote for Trump must be completely partisan IMHO. Four more years of this guy would be too much for the world as it is.
RW
How so?
Journalists and the public actually expect Biden and the Dems to try to tell the truth, be organized, use data-based approaches, and be fairly rational. Trump at this point gets a hall pass. I don’t really even see a point for debates at this point. Though Trump has set himself up to be shellacked by promoting low-expectations for Biden. It just doesn’t matter at this point.
Journalists seem to do a hell of a job ignoring establishment perfidy, donkey or elephant style.
“Mostly peaceful protests” come to mind.
In what universe has Trump gotten a ‘hall pass’ on much of anything? The things he wanted to do that were actually decent for the American people get stonewalled, while establishment line items for donors get through without controversy.
The one I like best is “Peaceful but fiery protests”, which is how CNN was describing the arson and looting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
President Trump most assuredly ‘gets a Hall Pass’ for National Security Briefings I’m pretty sure.
RW
And yet Pelosi appears to be afraid of a Biden-Trump debate. I’m betting a big reason is because how “well” the Clinton-Trump debates turned out for the Dems four years ago. And Hillary was supposed to be one of the smartest humans who have ever walked the earth.
Oh, it does matter at this point Bucko. And we’ll just see who does the shellacking. Biden will ignore Pelosi and he will debate. He’s got that “tough-guy-proud-Scrantonite” bravado going on. That same bravado he used when he went to Ukraine and “muscled” that AG out of office. Yeah, he’s a tough guy. Even when his boss at the time was the First Metrosexual President Lol…
This essay is spectacularly good. You nailed it! And you are not alone in this.
Many thanks to our host for this week’s rollicking fantastic post.
Like JHK, I cast my first presidential vote in 1972 for McGovern, I voted for the Democratic presidential candidate faithfully, until 2016.
I differed from Jim that election in that I was one of those wacky types who having voted for Sanders in the Democratic primary could not bring myself to vote for HRC. I feared a hot war with Russia by 2018 at the latest.
Considered voting for Jill Stein, but decided I would like to support an effort to throw a big monkey wrench in the system. I had reached the point where it seemed worth a try. So voted for the GOP candidate presidential candidate for the first time in my life.
And yes, it appears it was a colossal monkey wrench into the machine, judging from the Russiagate, Ukrainegate, impeachment and assorted other efforts to get Trump out of office.
it would be nice to get some calm and order in the US of A, but voting for Biden sure as hell would not get us any of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May
Burt Lancaster’s General was correct. The President was not just a weak sister, but a criminally weak sister who had to be replaced. Is Power all? No – but it is necessary. Necessary but not sufficient. Thus Leftists turn it around and say it is not only not sufficient but not necessary.
Kirk Douglas as his aide, “Jonesy” betrays the General and foils the righteous plot.
In real life, Lancaster was a Liberal who supported MLK and consorted with Homosexuals. He was on Nixon’s enemy list. He refused the role of Dirty Harry because it promoted a right wing or old fashioned view of policing. Who is the weak sister now, Burt?
I’m a Burt Lancaster fan for sure, Sredni.
My favorite Lancaster movies are…
The Swimmer
The Rose Tattoo
Seven Days in May is okay, but not my favorite Lancaster film.
He was a great actor IMHO.
RW
First of all I love dinner friends who get horrified at what I say and still are my friends the following day…. Jim, I had to get that out. 🙂
LOL. And now after reading their article, let us know if they are still your friends. On the substance itself, I find your term LONG EMERGENCY is outright genius, It is succinct, informative and empowering and a clear indication as to the type of journey the US faces. It inspires a creed: “Never get too optimistic, never get too pessimistic and, above all, never ever loose your head…” especially if others around you choose to do so.
I am a registered Democrat only so I could vote in this blue county I live in on the local level. My county rep, a very liberal but fair individual who could at least give you his philosophical reasons for being so, earned my respect and votes. Not this year,no sir. For the simple reason that no democrat who keeps silent about what their party has wrout, deserves my vote . I sat this one out. He’s been in office for over twenty years,and lost out to some crazed newby dem. As did our female sheriff of 25 years. I’d pick anybody over anyone with a Democrat prefix. Good riddance to all of them.
The best thing for the country is if the government goes into full paralysis as every single one of its actions only serves to decrease the freedom of the citizenry.
Exactly what the FF were afraid of, so they tried to limit the power of that government. 200+ years of liberal pressure has brought us to the almost socialistic State we have today.
I estimate that 3.5 million Democrats like me voted for Trump in 2016. I don’t think that very many of us will vote for Joe. Without our vote, I don’t see how he could legitimately win.
He will lose a decent number of them from last time around like my brother-in-law, a union pipefitter here in Michigan, who is tired of Trump’s over the top bullshit and the economy that never really developed for him the last three years. In addition, we have many of my former GOP friends influenced by the Lincoln Project coming over. Then we have the turnout that just wasn’t there for HRC. It’s going to be tough for Trump which is why he’s focused on siphoning a portion of the minority vote and putting Kanye on the ballot For almost all it will be a bridge too far given his approach to race baiting and his awful management of policy on the COvid hoax that disproportionately has affected them. Personally I’m happy being the underdog this time around though. Will drive voter turnout for the 60% who think Trump sucks.
Keep believing that. I can’t wait to watch the YouTube montages of libs’ heads exploding , updated for 2020!
KAG 2020
Michael Moore is already sending out warnings about Democratic ambivalence and arrogance. If you remember right, he did the same in 2016. And he was right.
For me it’s mostly the sense that the Democratic party is entirely phony and soulless at this point; a propaganda operation of bubble-dwelling elites trying to impose their Orwellian utopia from the top-down on the rest of us and willing to cancel anyone who resists. There is something deeply scary and un-American about this Party now that I think a lot of people have woken up to. Trump, for all his faults, is at least still recognizably human and American, not an empty-suited avatar of a faceless propaganda and technocratic control system.
I will do whatever I can to…. – JHK
JHK is yet to realise what ordinary people in the-ever war-torn Middle East have understood and lived with since Britain invaded Iraq in 1914 for resources:
Fossil fuels are so energy-dense and perfectly portable, they help softening the unknown future for humans – and then gradually killing it!.
Despite the future is unfolding before our eyes every second anew, fossil fuels kill the future, rendering it a history – before it even born.
JHK can change nothing that is in the hand of our civilisation, powered by the force of all fossil fuels extracted since 1700.
It will take centuries before the natural future comes back to earth alive, owing to the colossal fossil fuels energy put into constructing our outgoing civilisation since 1700.
Instead of thinking he can change this and that, JHK can comfortably shout in the four corners of the world:
“Fossil fuels have not built all suburbias – all over the world – but even killed the future.
The future has long died and became a history“.
I am certain that JHK is up to speed on all of this.
A bit of advice: Stay away from ‘Peace Vigils’ in any nearby cities. Community Members organized a ‘Peace Vigil’ in Bridgeport’ as a response to dozens of Community Members getting shot recently in Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Meriden and so on. The thing barely got started when gangbangers showed up, spraying bullets, hitting 3 people. This seems to happen all the time, people being shot up at Peace Vigils.
Brh
My sister is a liberal and is involved in some Twitter group. I looked at it once and decided I would rather have a root canal than read it. Apparently she watches Rachel Madcow constantly. Her poor husband, would come home from work every day, and request she turn that shit off. I get that. It is the same reason I can’t listen to Alex Jones. Sometimes all you want is quiet.
Now they are getting a divorce. She told me he hates more than anything else: paying taxes and liberals. I personally think he is a delightful man. I am waiting to see my sister on TV apologizing for her white privilege or asking folks about what pronoun they prefer. Yes, it’s that bad. I hope she moves to Minnesota so she can hang out with my ass-wipe cousins. She would be happy there.
I’m not haaaapy!
Meaning that is the reason why a divorce is needed.
The problem is that life is too easy for them. They are like refugees who arrive in a camp outside warzone, get three squares a day, clothes, and complain that they have to share a room, or the water in the shower isn’t hot enough. Or the wifi is slow.
The women of the past, their great grandmothers, had to churn butter, make their own clothes and fight off Injuns.
But nowadays they aren’t haaaapy!
Been married to a man like that. It wasn’t just the shower that he complained about – the rain had the nerve to annoy him by falling on him on the way home too.
And then the gods had the audacity to make his second child a daughter, just like the first one. The horror. The disappointment. After almost two years of him ignoring her, then a confession of how he’d never had any feelings for her, so great was his disappointment that she wasn’t a boy, but he was sorta kinda beginning to appreciate her, I decided we could do the job ourselves without the whinger giving me stress stomach pains. And we did.
We’re all allowed one bad choice. It’s how you learn.
Hi Green Alba,
I didn’t mention this is his 4th failed marriage and my sister’s 3rd failed marriage. I don’t think those two are learning anything. Oh my…..
Hi MP
That’s sad. I think after the second one has failed, you should probably conclude it’s not for you – or you’re not for it. One or t’other. 🙂
I have to say, since reading this blog for years now, I can understand how you get frothy about your ‘liberals’. People outside the US have always noted that the excesses are greater over there, whichever side you’re on. But I sympathise a whole lot more than I used to with ordinary conservative Americans (NOT the far right) in your exasperation. I’m pretty conservative (small ‘c’) myself in most things, even if I’ve never voted for the big C’s.
I try not to comment on your internal affairs, but mostly on things that affect us all. But people who smash up shops, steal whatever they fancy, and burn stuff are not protesters, as I’ve said before, but criminals, no matter what colour they are. I don’t know how some of the police – despite the bad apples we all have in our police forces – can stand to go to work in the morning.
Or in the evening!
The sour grape on top is our old friend & ex-presidential candidate, Hillary who (on film) stated that Biden shouldn’t concede the election NO MATTER WHAT. Does that include winning it I wonder? She doesn’t seem to remember that the peaceful transfer of power is the cornerstone of our government.
The violence that’s been minimized by the media is unbelievable & the lack of honesty is going to catch up with them. While I don’t think a 17 year old kid with a rifle had any business at a riot, the 3 men he shot were all convicted felons and none from that town. One charmer (RIP) was a pedophile who spent over 12 years in prison & had a long rap sheet. Who’s paying these people to show up in hot spots? Where’s the investigative reporting?
Your column today was inspiring. The summary of egregious actions were the tip of the iceberg that the Democrats are sailing into. They’ll blame Russia, China, leprechauns, space aliens, deplorables, conspiracy theorists, racists, KKK, and the post office but never themselves.
“ …their (Democrats) Orwellian insistence on shutting down free speech in the name of diversity and inclusion…the drive for coercion, the wish to push everybody around, to tell them how to think and what to do.”
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In the 1960s it was, “We had to destroy the country in order to save it”. In 2020, it’s “We had to obliterate freedom of speech and expression in order TO BE FREE.”
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“Math, history, and literature are too hard because they are products of ‘white supremacy.’ Better get rid of all that — and while you’re at it, cancel white people on the basis of their sheer whiteness.”
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The more one is called a racist and demonizes White culture, the more Whites will turn and BECOME racists even when they were not so before. The more White culture is “erased”, the more Whites will resist such “Cancellation”. The more one is threatened, the more drastic will be the push back. Too many Whites today simply do not comprehend that they and their way of life and culture is in peril from those who seek easy scapegoats for all the World’s ills for last few hundreds of years. Too many Whites are still preoccupied by the Hyped Virus and with being thrown out of work and falling behind in bills, and worst of all, not having FOOTBALL! God, the horror! All people had a hand in creating this mess we are in, and all people bear a portion of shame and blame for it. No one gets a free pass, and no finger pointing until it is pointing inward.
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“…Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden. Does anybody still believe he is a plausible chief executive — even in his own degenerate party?”
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2020 could be the year that proves that cognitive functionality is officially not a requirement to hold the Office of Presidency (some might argue this was already well established by a couple of the “Public Servants” who were propped up in the Oval Office in prior years. Some might also argue that mental functionality is actually a hindrance for anyone “serving” in that position). But this year would certainly seal the deal.
Thanks, Jim. This was one of your best. Thanks also for the honesty.
Pro tip: never ever ever vote for a democrat. They want your guns, your independence, and your soul. The guns and independence they will destroy. Your soul they will eat. They are truly satanic.
Thanks James, Excellent commentary, Frank
At last, a full on, brilliant endorsement for Trump’s reelection without apology or ad hominem attacks on his intelligence, personality or character. Thank you. I’d almost given up. As for your fancy dinner guests, I hope they heard you exclaim as they disappeared forever into the night: “It’s not the President’s job to stroke your vanity.” Good riddance!
Friends falling out is bad. I am sure we can all massage these things and stay friends if we don’t use abuse. Once insults have been exchanged, it is hard to get along.
;0. Indeed.
Do you think I mistake you for a friend?
Certainly not. There’s been sufficient insults exchanged to prove that.
Nor would I give YOU the honour.
Great summation of where things stand, JHK! Your words ought to be carved in stone for the benefit of future generations.
One silver lining to the last four years is that, not only has the deep state clearly revealed itself, but has shown to be vehemently at odds with both our constitutional republic as well as the welfare of the general population. President Trump has managed to largely purge the deep state’s malign influence from the Republican party, excepting RINO holdovers. An additional bonus is the RINOs have clearly self-identified and will increasingly find it difficult to attain high office as Republican candidates.
Democrats, on the other hand, are madly, illegally, and now violently grasping at straws to retain and regain power. They seem self-assured that wholly aligning with the power center of the deep state will assure their survival and eventual victory. It’s a dubious proposition, but their on-going predicament and craven leadership have left no alternative but to fully embrace the dark side, no matter the damage to the people and their country.
January 27,1992 there was an article in “The Boston Globe” about the dismal performance of Patriot complex during the Gulf War.
The article ended with this quote from MIT Professor Postol:
“What are the odds I would see 13 misses and one hit if the Patriot was successfully shooting down 80 percent of the Scuds?”
You may calculate this probability yourself-if you want to look at the number preceded by numerous zeros after the decimal point-just open MS Excel and plug “13” and “0.8” into “binomdist” function.
I am not MIT professor but I am wondering too:
What are the chances of Mr.Rittenhouse shooting 3 Peaceful Protesters and hitting 3 Convicted Felons ???
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It’s called Serendipity, J45.
Also it is called statistical sampling.One of the common mistakes is to generalize from a very small sample.
I am still wondering why, oh why – after he conducted just one test – he ran to the police and got himself arrested.Police pointedly looked the other way.
Or maybe,Evil Incarnate as he is,he wanted all of us to assume that 100% of Peaceful Protesters are Convicted Felons ???
Well only the most enraged violent rioters among the rioters would charge to clobber or shoot Rittenhouse, so it’s sort of self-selectiing for scumbaggery.
General Milley says no military in US election. Also says he will not follow an unlawful order:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/29/top-us-general-says-no-role-for-military-in-presidential-vote.html
Can Trump defy Congress and the Supreme Court if it comes to that?
In just about two months, the time will be NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM
Whoops!
https://www.oann.com/cdc-accused-of-quietly-modifying-covid-death-stats/
Jim once stated he really doesn’t want us linking to other sites or video in this comments section, so I do it rarely …
Two incendiary videos released today, one in Baltimore, a casually dressed, slightly overweight young white guy walking down the street, suddenly you see a young black stalking him, crouched down holding a brick, then he strikes the man full force with the brick in the back of the head. It was sickening to watch. Apparently it was delighful street theater because you can hear the peels of laughter and cheers of the people filming the action.
I know, what was a white guy doing walking on a street in Baltimore? Good question.
The 2nd video from posh Upper East Side Manhattan, in the middle of the day, on a subway platform, young woman waiting for the train suddenly knocked down by a Community Member who looks like Colin Kapernich, he climbs atop of her (in plain view of onlookers) gets her legs apart and begin to simulate the sex act. Fortunately citizens intervened and she was saved. Police were able to identify the assailant as a felon and former inmate.
So that’s it, nothing unusual really. These videos are easy to find if you are interested in looking them up. Cannon Hennant is forgotten already but we’re still hearing about Jacob Blake. I expect a few more Joggers will be shot fighting the cops between now and Nov 3, LA seems ripe for another conflagration, it’s been almost 30 years since the last one.
Brh
Marlin, I think I may have posted a few times that when I was in college in the Midwest, I was right in the thick of the rioting. It was scary and very unpleasant, what with the National Guard on every street corner with M1’s ( I think they were M1’s), gunshots popping off all the time and troops staying in our dormitories.
After the riots, the community members treated us very differently – much more hostile. Later that year my roommate, who was a good kid, but very geeky-looking, went out. A while later he came back looking like he was in a comedy movie: His glasses were on a 45 degree angle with one lens shattered and cuts and bruises all over his face; he was mugged.
Still later, I got accosted by 2 righteous citizens. One of them stopped me and asked for a match. Me, being naive, looked down at my shirt pocket to pull out a pack of matches and promptly got punched in the face. Was I mad, or what! Let me say it didn’t go much further, as how should I put it, I “negotiated” my way out of it.
So, I’ve experienced violence and I hated it. I try very hard to to avoid trouble. BTW, I’m not tough at all, but when I get real mad, well, watch out.
Bill
What the heck were you doing in college in the midwest, when you had about 100 colleges and universities in your own native Boston?
Brh
FUNNY..400? colleges in Massachusetts.
I had an unhappy home life (Which is minimizing how bad it was there) and couldn’t wait to get away. I applied to Tufts, but it was way too close, and I never showed up for my interview. I got accepted to Michigan State and it ended up being my second choice. I also got accepted to Rensselaer (RPI) but when I drove to Troy, NY, I didn’t like it at all. The school I went to was a mistake. I should have gone to Michigan State, but who knew? If the me of today could go back in time, I would tell myself to apply to and attend UCLA. Anyway, that’s why I didn’t go to school in Boston. If I did, I would have applied to MIT. Oh, well.
@Majella:
Went to look at the video you posted, but it was taken down by the up-loader. Hmmm.
Bill
I’ve checked the video links posted on the previous thread (?)…all working. Which one was it and in relation to…?
And part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxIR5Ej9Cns
Ah, found it, Bill
Here’s a shortened clip, just the Danbury story which is probably all you’re actually interested in, I’m guessing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn7YGFJ9CHU
Beantown…we visited there in 1989, briefly, on our first circuit around the States. As fate would have it, twelve years later a younger brother of mine married a Bostonian – a lesser Whitney, but still basically ‘Brahmin” I gather…(?).
They live in southern Vermont currently, having bugged out of the city to evade the coronavirus, having two youngish children, one of whom is immune-compromised.
Amen, James. I’m also a classic liberal and feel the same way about the Democrats. We need to be open and honest about what we see if there’s any chance at fixing it.
Dana
Do you seriously expect ‘open and honest’ from Trump’s administration? He is so much NOT a ‘classic liberal’.
But what about the Democrats? Don’t change the subject, Jam.
Classical liberal.
Words have meaning, Jello.
Like ‘predecessor’, you mean?
Must be jelly cause jam don’t shake like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OmyXYiw2no
Ha! Seriously? Didn’t stelmosfire call you a ‘wise poster’ (or some such) up thread?
That was pretty funny, though. A Pomgolian rip-off of a Pomgolian punk, with soft-porn cartoons of a manga beauty who’s about 40 sizes smaller than the song alludes to? Haha!
benr, whenever I read your posts now, my mental image of you is a shaggy-haired surfer-dude, snap-back on backwards (though you probably wear your MAGA frontwards), just wishing he could be at Del Mar rather than slaving over his ‘puter, managing his server banks up & down Calif, while waiting to be TOLD to take his mother-in-law to the Mall or bingo.
https://youtu.be/Ga_zYo-Ugb4
I fully expect things to go down the tubes. I very much want to be proven wrong. At my age, I don’t fancy bugging out, so I’m going to stay. If things get gnarly, I could always go over my daughter’s house, but she lives on a Main Street, while I’m nestled a mile off the road in the woods. My s-i-l is an extreme liberal, such that I can’t even mention Trump’s name, and my daughter is, too. They don’t know I have guns, and once told me there’ll never be any in their house. Still, I love her and I want to protect her, so me, my wife and my weapons will be going, if necessary. Let them scream, TS.
Okay.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/08/29/seahawks-pete-carroll-this-is-about-racism-in-america-that-white-people-dont-know/
The Coach of the Seahawks sounds no different than any other Leftist. Professional Sports have become ridiculous. Even the almost all White NASCAR and NHL. Whites can’t have anything of their own.
Let it all die. Maybe then Whites can get serious about saving themselves and their civilization. Real war instead of the fake war of sports. Being prepared will be the best way to avoid actual war in fact.
Remember the NASCAR noose? Or Jessie Smollett? Or that kid that just got millions from CNN because he “smirked” at Geronimo?
Remember how they were reported?
Always good to remind people about reality.
Indeed I do remember them all and remember all that right winger violence?
I sure don’t it seems we have a left wing violence problem yet all the mcmedia wants to talk about is all the Nazis we have all five of them in the entire united states.
Like Dylan’s artist, they’ll take the dark out of the nighttime and paint even the daytime black:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/few-proud-white-marine-corps-121808109.html
Too few blacks everywhere, NFL quarterbacks, hockey players, upper echelon military, corporations, etc., etc.
Now they want to replace a confederate monument with a statue of Chadwick Boseman.
It’s unending. Black everything. Exceptions can be made for white women.
Space is black. The stars and planets only mar its purity. That explains Sky and Telescope. Nothingness is black. Thus the nihilist Antifas support them because they see in them their extinction.
My noggin is nutating!
…nice.
“Biden crawls out from under rock, stumbles his way through yet another incoherent speech.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzrisLL7mDI
Welp there is that non support staring everyone in the face.
“Biden crawls out from under rock, stumbles his way through yet another incoherent speech.” – Maj
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I only watched 1/3rd of the video and felt that Biden read from his monitor very well.
Yes, Q.
It really only takes 30 seconds to recognize he can read from his auto cue well – and look straight down the camera. These are very useful media ‘tricks’
Pity Trump delivers his vomits of bullshit in an unconvincing monotone while switching left to right, and projecting a thought bubble that states “ I don’t actually MEAN any of this and just WISH it was over, so I can balls-deep in a bucket of KFC…”
Gee! I heard today that the nasty bunch of commies in the DC Appellate Court sided with Judge Emmet Sullivan. 8 to 2….SCOTUS next, no doubt.
Oh dem gall dern commies!
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It’s an Eminence Front
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Its%20an%20Eminence%20Front.pdf
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Earlier this morning before Jim’s new essay appeared I was in the process of catching up with reading and commenting on the tail end of the previous essay’s comments.
So that I shouldn’t have wasted the effort, here is a list of the 6 comments I wrote, the person to whom they were directed, and the day and time they were posted.
If you are interested please look them up by executing a Ctrl-Find command.
Kim 8/31 @ 9:42 am
GA 8/31 @ 12:01 pm
Maj 8/31 @ 10:47 am
benr 8/31 @ 11:23 am
Maj 8/31 @ 12:29 am
CancelMC 8/31 @ 9:35 am
@ Q
I knew an old man once who would say “‘am ‘n’ heggs”.
No one even need bother to go look I asure you its the typing nazi Q atempting to corect you poor guy cant actualy postt much oof hIs 0wn c0ntent bbut hay at leest we know he is reeding hours.
Surely you can do better than your usual posts, benr, just once in a while…
Tucker was great again tonight, as usual. Biden blames Trump for the violence and hints of more to come if Trump is reelected:
https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight
Downright disgusting.
I mentioned general Milley above and wish he had said something more hopeful and inspiring, considering the current widespread violence and the Democratic coup attempts.
Maybe the boy doing a man’s job in Kenosha should be wearing the stars, and these generals and colonels go home and help with doing the laundry and folding the linen.
He is a good kid who made some bad decisions that ultimately got him into a situation where he had to defend his life. The antifa blm thugs were going to execute him like they did Jay Bishop. The generals and colonels haven’t lifted a finger to stop any of our cities from burning. But they want to destroy this boys life. Sorry, I don’t even trust them to do laundry or fold anything properly but I trust Kyle.
Do these people just shrug their stars if Biden gets elected and say, ‘Oh well, that’s politics?’ They will most likely think themselves noble to abide by the Constitution and let politics run its course, hardly realizing or caring that they will no longer have much of a nation worth defending.
Hmmm that is a good question. It seems like they are so far content to let the entire thing burn down. I suppose they feel they will always somehow have a place and who knows, maybe they will. I doubt we get to the election without major disruption. It is pretty clear that things are hot like high summer and will be so even when old man winter gets here.
Another White Hero has arisen.
https://www.amren.com/news/2020/08/rebellion-against-critical-race-theory-in-the-federal-government/
He works in Sandia Labs – which the article says designs our nuclear weapons. The Enemy is within, almost to our heart. The Orcs are in the Deep. They tried to quash it, but their attempt only drew interest. If they fire him, then it will be a kind of vindication. He’s putting it all on the line, at least in terms of this career – or perhaps any. Human Resources doesn’t like rebels after all. And this will be remembered (add italics).
I hope we are entering a new age of super heroes. The super villians sure do seem powerful right now. But things can change in a flash. I hope this nuclear lab critical race theory rebellion gains a critical mass! Maybe become something way bigger and more profound.
“I hope this nuclear lab critical race theory rebellion gains a critical mass”
I see what you did there. Nice!
Thanks!!
Amazing video link, Sredni, thanks. Sandia’s right down the road from me, so I’m surprised I haven’t heard about this yet, although I’m sure Sandia pressured local news outlets to keep a lid on this. Purity tests have indeed come to federal employment. Three of our suggested five HR performance goals this year were mandated word for word by management and all include “demonstrations of loyalty” to the organization in various forms. I had no idea that this white guilt kind of stuff was going on down at Sandia (never once heard of critical race theory until now), but given the monkey see monkey do mindset of management, in won’t surprise me at all to see it up here next year. Which is totally ironic, as our black population up here is probably way less than 1%, but rather, heavily Hispanic. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes down up here among them.
Aren’t ‘demonstrations of loyalty’ what determines the longevity of White House employees and Cabinet seats? So it’s not ALL ‘Democratic wokes’ so is it….
Hate to say it, but Mr. Peterson’s best case scenario is probably that he be fired so he can take legal action and move on. The usual outcome for DOE whistleblowers is slow and painful career suicide. An administrative reprimand followed by isolation in crappy assignments, total ostracization, and needless to say, zero chance for promotion. But I’d be surprised if he hasn’t already been visited by some “unofficial officials” to give him some stern “career advice.” DOE rarely cares about what you might be disagreeing about; but rather, just that you’re disagreeing publicly at all. Their methods of coercion are always quite subtle, even as they’re more often than not quite effective as well.
Well that’s why he’s a hero. This is a boil that needs to be lanced. It’s racism against Whites, straight up. It’s no mere coincidence that so many Corporations support Black Lives Matter. The Anti-White program has been gaining strength for generations, pushed by the Globalists.
The man’s got big brass ones, I’ll give him that. You’d have to experience the culture from the inside to believe it. Extremely uptight given the Security Clearances involved.
Add your own italics, you lazy Jesuit!
great blog post.
For myself, I’m less motivated a Trump vote this year than in 2016, but still probably a trump vote. In 2016, pulling for T felt anarchic. This year, the democratic party feels more anarchic. I’m not sure the totalitarian tendencies of woke leftism wouldnt quickly break down, once realized, into a purer anarchic stew of true “anything goes,” which is attractive to me. A Trump vote in 2020 feels more like a vote for a nostalgic 20th-century-flavored status-quo than a Trump vote in 2016.
Anything goes? Stay away from Blacks if that gets to be the ruling philosophy. You probably have no idea of the depth of their hatred for Whites.
Needless to say such a philosophy will destroy any society that adopts it. As Madison said long ago, If we were sages we would need no laws at all. Since we are not, let us proceed.
Feeling have no relation to Truth.
I think it goes both ways, too. Complete anarchy wouldn’t last a day. In areas with a large number of ‘urban youths’, warlords would arise and crush one another in a thunderdome, their justice capricious and awful to behold.
In a place peopled by the descendants of pioneers I wager hempen justice would come back right quick and everyone would be better off.
It would be the end of the empire regardless.
Jeez, I wake up early this morning to do a little Kokanee Salmon fishing out at Twin Lakes, turn on the news and there it is, a Community Member shot in LA last night by sheriff’s deputies.
On my last post I predicted something might go down in LA, sparking a conflaguration. No I don’t have a crystal ball, but it’s not hard to see. LA seems ripe.
Sonething evil has been unleashed in Ct, every day in cities large and small people being shot and stabbed, run down with cars, beaten to death … yesterday Hispanic women stabbed to death in Ansonia and Windsor Locks, a black woman in Bridgeport killed while sleeping from a shot thru her bedroom window. 4 or 5 other people shot and stabbed, and this on a Monday. Sometimes our people are being caught up in it; yesterday young mother carjacked in Manchester, assailant makes off with baby strapped in in backseat looks like it was a Mexican, or Puerto Rican, who knows, baby was recovered pretty quick by State Police. Man arrested was carrying a large knife and bags of heroin. That’s what’s happening here, luckily we have small towns and rural areas in the state where standards of behavior and western civilization remain intact. But these areas are shrinking fast.
Brh
Get ready for a false flag event involving a patsy wearing a Trump hat.
They have been breathlessly mouth breathing for months how all the rioting is Trumps fault as if these are Trump supporters and not Bernie or Biden supporters.
You know like that loving man who shot at a bunch of Republicans playing baseball a couple of years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting
I find it hilarious they make noises about right wing groups causing violence yet where are they? Where is this magical right winger violence?
NFARC called them out and succeeded in shooting three of their own members!
Months of idiot leftist Antifa and BLM rioters it started long efore with Marxist professors hitting people with bike locks and has escalated.
We have both sides engaging in a game of chicken but the amount of total violence between right and left has been almost 100% Democrat supporters.
benr…so much correct punctuation -actually, PUNCTUATION! Where you c&p this piece from?
Your own post is riddled with basic errors.
IQ.
Typos. Go fuck yourself.
Attacking Benr for stuff you can’t do.
LOL.
It amuses me what constitutes an ‘attack’ in your weird CT-riddled world.
“We sleep soundly because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
BRH,
Something evil, indeed. Actually, there is no need for a special evil, just a lack of civil order will suffice.
Humanity never changes.
Never.
Indeed E!
I don’t know about you, but I for one am tired of being lectured to about racism every day and hearing how Black Lives Matter. Actually Black Lives seem pretty cheap. I don’t know if they think we’re stupid, we don’t watch the news, we don’t know what’s going on around us not sure what?
Brh
Repeat the lie until it is accepted as truth.
Joe Biden is honest.
Joe Biden is not a crook.
Joe Biden is not into sniffing and pawing at little girls.
Joe Biden has never offended Female Secret service agents by swimming in the nude in front of them.
Joe Biden would never grab them by the pussy.
Joe Biden has all the answers he just could no apply the fixes to all the problems in the last forty years until he get anointed President.
Joe Biden is compos mentus.
Joe Biden cares about the little people.
Joe Biden is against all the rioting and looting.
Joe Biden cares.
Go to sleep vote Joe Biden…sleep…vote Joe Biden for build back better!
Rinse and repeat until you believe all the above.
Ever see some human riding a mountain of water in the middle of the ocean and wonder what does it take to do something like that well besides huge brass nuts or a death wish?
https://www.surfer.com/videos/ever-wondered-what-its-like-prepping-for-a-jaws-event/?utm_source=postup&utm_medium=email&em_hash=9645b92593f045d1c6519aa746851f48
Nice video as well.
Special interest note to Q yes people talk like this and worse write it as well.
How ever it is interesting to see people prepare to ride 20-40 surf.
With all of these serious existential threats to human existence, it’s a good thing that everyone is out shouting for “Justice” for Breonna Taylor to punish the cops who fired back after Breonna’s criminal boyfriend shot one of the cops serving a valid Search Warrant.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWhbSKlN3fE
Will you put a computer chip in your head and connect your brain to the new big 5G network to attain the big Utopia?
If I could instantly & continuously access every single episode of every Star Trek episode (all incarnations) ever recorded? Maybe…nah – yes! Please!
Especially if all Pucker’s imagined scenes were included (as long as it was no more than $1.99 pm).
This is a fascinating story in today’s National Post. Wonder why the plane has never been found. Must be at the bottom of a lake or on a mountain top.
Missing in the Yukon
National Post (Latest Edition)1 Sep 2020
The disappearance — somewhere over the Yukon — of a U. S. military plane with 44 people on board has baffled family members, the military and search parties for more than 70 years.
The transport plane en route from Anchorage, Alaska to Montana was last heard from about two hours into the flight during a routine radio check on Jan. 26, 1950. At the time, the skies were clear and everything was fine.
The disappearance of the Douglas C- 54 Skymaster prompted one of the largest recovery searches in North America, but not a single trace of the plane was ever found.
“As far as I’m concerned, this is the biggest unsolved mystery in Canadian history,” Andrew Gregg, the director of an upcoming documentary that casts a spotlight on the long- forgotten crash, said in a Guardian article. “There’s been no major search at all since 1950. We just want to get the story out there and then see what happens,” he said.
Snagglepus
One time we were up in central Maine Deer hunting in the Dover Foxcroft area, watching the news in the lodge we were at, some other hunters found a 2 engine plane in the deep woods that had crashed 15 years earlier. There’s still alot of remote areas in the US and Alaska. About 10 years ago there was a small plane crash in Ct and it took weeks to find the wreckage.
Brh
” it took weeks to find the wreckage”
BRH,
I hear that you can park your car in some areas of Hartford, and never see it again!
That’s funny.
Acknowledged, but a ‘military’ plane with 44 people on board? Didn’t they have some kind of little black box beeping away in 1950 to ‘home in’ on? America doesn’t like to leave its military equipment behind, even if the place is friendly little Canada and the location is well guarded by polar bears. Maybe it was a ‘friendly fire’ episode because the defence people thought it was a Ruskie plane flying over the North Pole.
I think it might be at the bottom of some glacial lake. Wasn’t there a US WW2 plane that sank while being refueled because the ice was too thin? Lake Placid or Gander, Newfoundland. I forget the details of the story, but I thought they brought it up to the surface years later. Somehow a missing plane wreck and a ship that goes down in ocean waters feel different to me. They should be able to find 44 souls and put the families at rest.
Maybe I am thinking of the recovery operation of RCAF Halifax HR871 off the coast of Sweden………..
Everybody stays on the trails. Nobody really goes in the woods.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence
Neither side concedes after November.
Where do we go then?
Is there even a where?
Cry Havoc?
Chicago Warlordism.
The future is here.
It’s just not widely distributed.
Yet.
Then Krampus comes for Christmas and burns the whole damn thing down.
I’m Dreaming of a Woke Christmas.
Good blog today Jim, and I agree. Although I support Trump because of the America first/anti-multinationalist policy he has advocated for– so I think he has a positivist agenda, and its not wholly or necessarily anti-democrat. Speaking of the democrats, what are they for, exactly? It seems incoherent, muddled, confused, and opaque. Are they for wokeism? are they for foreign wars and entanglements? I don’t know. Maybe both. The corporate, multi-national donors & those in the MIC have one agenda, while the ‘progressives’ have another. How long can the democrats remain together as a party? I’m not sure if they can survive without some real major conflict.
A dystopic American future now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVCSUafFVI
Hey Ben you ought to take a drive up there, check it out for yourself, report back. It looks like if you bring a load of “beer and smokes” you’ll be Ok.
SLAB CITY!!!
BRH
Was thinking about it but I was just in Borego springs and it was 115 in the shade.
It was so hot my glock 21 sf was to hot to handle.
Just an observation.
For at least a couple of decades, the buildup of homeless in primarily Blue states and cities has been noted. The local governments would not do anything about it because the presence of these bands was a repudiation of the entire Liberal Democratic credo, that giving people freebies to buy votes was the political key to success. Of course homeless are going to be attracted to Blue areas with their giveaway programs. So the number of homeless continues to grow and be ignored.
Another indication the number of homeless gives is an indication of the health of the general economy, maybe better than unemployment numbers. If the economic health during the past 12 years has been so good as both Obama and Trump have claimed, why do the number of homeless keep growing?
Maybe it has to do with a very leaky southern border, and perhaps northern too.
Let us see, lots of idle people sitting around doing nothing in predominately Blue cities. Hurting economically, looking to blame somebody, anybody for their plight. Mental illness, drug usage, lassitude prevail. What a target for any group to sprinkle money into to create trouble. BLM has a hand in this in their desire to be noticed, but the coordination and resources provided are much bigger than BLM.
What a perfect situation for the globalist anarchists. Lots of unhappy people available, a cause, BLM, mental illness, drugs. Even the real BLM folks are bitching toward the biggest part of the “protestors” for using their cause to rebel against America.
The homeless, sleep all day, raise hell all night. What a great deal. And the MSM feeding on the whole thing.
Yes…ironic given that impoverishment of the marginals is a result of right-wing political policies since the 1980s. You can bet poor people who haven’t migrated from the ‘non-democtratic’ city nirvanas are no better off than those who have.
Actually, all this dissing of ‘Democrat-run hellholes’ ( Which even President DimDon is now riffing on) is fascinating. Would some woke-Trumpista please name even a few of the GOP- run utopian cities? Like, cities more than a half-million? Please?
Marella,
I would have expected you to know. It is cities that are black or brown that are shitholes.
But we are not allowed to say that. So they say Democrat-run as a rough proxy.
Even a poor white place like West Virginia has a comparatively low-crime at the 7th lowest crime rate of any state in the union. It is impoverished and even drug damaged but is still down there with Idaho, Maine and New Hampshire.
So they mean black. But they have to say Dem. Being PC you know.
You list three states, all sparsely populated. Go on…
At the end of the day, it is the party of violence chaos rioting looting burning stealing assault and murder vs. the party of law and order. That, in and of itself, should justify voting Republican to anyone planning to participate in this year’s elections in November, no matter whether they identify as a Democrat or a Republican, as a liberal, a conservative, or a moderate. Buildings businesses and cars are being burned to the ground. Business owners who try and protect their businesses from the mob are being murdered, and some armed citizens have started to shoot the looters. This has to stop. After all the riots are put down, after our government has Restored Order, then will be a time for politics, and time to vote for or against candidates based on their tax policies, their views on immigration, their stance on hot-button issues like abortion and gun control. But now is not that time. The Democrats have overplayed their hand with support for rioters, and now they reap the whirlwind.
Yup!
Scot Adams said he has lost three jobs because he is White.
Scott Adams? Mr Dilbert? This quite a claim to make sans evidence. I’d be willing to bet he has had -or needed -a ‘job’ in years.
If he has had ‘gigs’ withdrawn, it’s just as likely due to his Trumpista crowds as to ha pinkish hue.
Do a search for “sans” on this thread.
Monkey see, monkey do.
I keep telling you = low IQ.
🙂 Wow, you’re so consistently repetitive….*yawn*
And being so clever and all, why do you waste your time slinging the same old shit, none of which sticks, at me -so far beneath your bilious contempt ?
Get a new line, troll.
Covid observation
Saw a Fox headline saying that the rates of new cases is rising in 26 states. ???
So my skepticism took over and I brought up the daily reports and started looking at trends over the last couple of weeks. What a surprise!?!
The real number of upward trends is tada, seven. All slow risers and not surges.
Downward trends across the south, especially Arizona, Florida and Texas.
The vast majority are level, most post mini surge, for example California at 5000 per day.
Hmmm, you would think that someone would be looking at this steady state character of infection. Why? Because mitigation is pretty much in place and we still have this “leakage” occurring. Large numbers.
Is this because of hide bound anti maskers? Or opening the schools? There is a source of people being infected on a constant basis, where the heck is the supply coming from?
Maybe re-infections or recurrent cases from on going infections?
Where are all the scientists?
It’s simple.
Infected person a goes to the grocery store and touches the shopping cart.
Person b uses same cart before virus is de-activated and is now infected.
It takes about 45 minutes for UV light summer sun levels to deactivate the virus so everyone who touches that cart for up to an hour is a possible source.
What is really coming out about this is the death rate is miniscule.
We have been lied to at every level as to the lethality of this virus.
We have been either lied to with positive testing or the tests are defective.
We have been lied to.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I said this at the very start: they took a novel form of a virus from a massive family of viruses and claimed it was super duper special and broke all the rules of viruses to date.
The Corona Con.
Yes BUT now it has been admitted not guessed at by we the tin foil hat wearers or so some of the blind here call us.
Infowars was onto this within a week or two.
Infowars is an interesting thing. One one hand Alex is a very smart guy — extremely well read, has a photographic memory, and is capable of speaking on highly complex issues and rattling off facts entirely free of prompting or notes. I’ve listened once or twice and fact-checked some of his spicier claims and he has a near 100% hit rate.
On the other hand, the way he frames things and the hype and hyperbole he creates and engages in to hook listeners are borderline conman-ish.
It is true that they have gotten a lot of things right. But they make themselves such an easy target for ridicule. And as Uncle Saul teaches his radicals, ridicule is perhaps the most effective tool in our political environment — particularly when the audience has never learned to or does not know how to critically think.
Only about 10,000 people have really died from it in America, John. The CDC admitted as much. Obviously there has been a coup and your Fauci and Birx are now being pushed out. So why not believe the new CDC since you believe the older version?
Or do you “enjoy” worshiping the Covid God? For Fear is a very great worship, is it not?
You have just made up a statistical lie that should get you an award. The CDC said no such thing.
My husband is diabetic. That means he’s immune compromised with regard to Covid. But he’s fine. He’s got years in him – probably a couple of decades – and he lives a perfectly normal life.
If he gets Covid and dies from it, he will have died of Covid.
Stop lying.
And he’s not in ‘fear’ at all. He goes to work and sees patients, just as before, except that some of them will have Covid. But facts are facts.
Only about 10,000 people have really died from it in America – Sredni
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The other 173,000 died WITH Covid, not FROM Covid? Is that your argument?
It is, but his argument ignores the fact that the people with ‘underlying conditions’ (and you only need to have slightly raised BP to be technically considered to have an underlying condition – and it’s easily treated) weren’t, in any real-world scenario, likely to die of that underlying condition, for years or decades.
And they might have died of something else. They might have died of sepsis. Or cancer. In which case they’d have been registered as having died of cancer, not high blood pressure, because it was the cancer that killed them.
Or they might have been knocked down by a bus, while walking about with an underlying condition.
As Buddha said, If a, then b. And your side has been ruthless in attributing covid to absolutely everything – so you have no high ground there at all so don’t even go there.
Can you at least admit Cuomo is a mass murderer for putting covid patients in nursing homes with the vulnerable elderly? Did that happen over there too?
I don’t have a side, dimwit.
Lots of people have died here of Covid without being registered as having died of Covid. Mostly in the community, as witnessed by doctors who saw them and whose professional judgement was that they ‘probably’ had Covid’ but in the absence of test kits at the time, were unable to register them as Covid deaths.
Likewise, if you have Covid, partially recover, but die 30 days later of Covid-induced blood clots or whatever (i.e. beyond the 28-day cut-off), you will not be registered as dying of Covid, even though you died of Covid because you didn’t have blood clots previously.
Stop being so partisan – it’s unhelpful to everything.
“Can you at least admit Cuomo is a mass murderer for putting covid patients in nursing homes with the vulnerable elderly? Did that happen over there too?”
I can’t say anything at all about Cuomo I haven’t followed what he did in any detail, other than reading what people have said on here. He’s just a name to me.
I wouldn’t call what happened in the UK ‘mass murder’ because that’s emotional dingbattery. But there was huge incompetence, mostly caused by people being caught on the hop and making up protocols on the hoof, having not had to deal with something like this before. (You will recall that if you run exercises to train people in planning for an actual pandemic, you get accused of preparing for a ‘plandemic’, so you can’t really win and sometimes have to live with a shambles.)
While some of the patients (in the UK) were recovered Covid patients (but presumably still ‘shedding’ virus’), as far as I know, most of the people sent unwisely to care homes were non-Covid patients who were in hospital for other things, and weren’t tested before they left hospital. That was dumb, but not ‘mass murder’.
It would have been difficult to keep it out of care homes anyway, since most of the staff are poorly paid, often can’t afford to take time off when sick, and are often going to several care homes in a give period. Add that to the lack of testing kits and facilities at the time (and a shortage of PPE), and you have a problem anyway, not that it excuses the incompetence and lack of forethought.
A lot of things would be done differently if it were to happen again. Scotland is using its field hospitals both for training and as a source of beds to be used in any future ‘second spike’, specifically to take patients who no longer require hospital treatment, but shouldn’t be sent back to care homes yet.
Probably far less than that, Q, but yes. My argument? The CDC said it a couple of days ago!
The updated number is 10,980 for COVID alone — sans underlying conditions.
And the kicker is, one of the underlying conditions they list is “unintentional and intentional injury, poisoning, or other adverse effect.”
Corona suicide, bro. You could not make this shit up!
You could.
I have no choice at this point than to believe you are somehow tied into this medical tyranny John. Is that where you want me to be? The CDC has already reported that only 6% of all the deaths in the US from covid were actually solely caused by covid. The remaining 94% were for other reasons than covid and the person just had covid too at the time of death. It’s all a farce at this point but it doesn’t matter because they have inflicted the deep damage that they intended too and clearly they have also made deep psychic inroads into the population.
“I have no choice at this point than to believe you are somehow tied into this medical tyranny John. Is that where you want me to be? ”
Not patronising at all …
You are lying about the CDC – details above.
Right – and of course the CDC never lies. Experts ARE ALWAYS right. Obey Obey Obey
That’s the response of a petulant teenager. Try again.
You don’t need to go to the CDC. Other countries also have data.
What did you think about the percentages of patients (from neurodoc) – of any age – who end up with serious organ damage?
Would you like your parents – or your sister – to spend the rest of their lives unable to walk up a flight of stairs?
I think its terrible that people suffer grave harm from the virus. But its the actual number that counts when you are trying to justify lockdowns and shutdowns that affect the lives and livelihoods of literally billions. And I did not take the time to read through neurodocs reports or posts but I think that it is sad and I am not going to let you try to make it out that I don’t care about anybody and I’m effing done with that particular aspersion.
And to be honest with you my parents have not been particularly concerned about getting the virus just sayin
I didn’t say you didn’t care. I’m just pointing out that it could happen to your parents as well as to someone of 80 with high blood pressure. And it would be more serious if it happened to your parents because they could otherwise expect decades of healthy life.
I don’t promote the view that the US should have been locked down for months, especially in places where there have been hardly any cases. I have on multiple occasions expressed sympathy with Prof. Giesecke’s position (Sweden) which was to avoid a lockdown (while closing upper schools and universities) but ask people to observe social distancing, where possible and wear masks, especially where distancing was not possible. The other Swedish guy pointed out that it was dangerous to rely on masks without observing distancing as well, because people might get a false sense of security. Mitigation, as JohnAZ has repeatedly pointed out, requires both – and aims at getting people back to work as safely as possibly. Full safety isn’t possible.
But you won’t budge on your ideologically driven positions, by even backing social distancing or wearing a mask in an ‘effing’ shop.
Sorry, that last bit wasn’t all meant to be in italic.
And just now we are super concerned about patroniZing? Let me def get an LOL in on that one.
I’ll try not to parse that phrase ‘let me def get an LOL’ too assiduously.
But LOL away, if it makes you happy.
If you think the CDC is lying, why are you complaining about what they’re saying? I mean, it’s not true anyway, right? So it’s meaningless to discuss percentages?
If you don’t like ‘patronising’, wait till you find that we can spell ‘light’ and ‘night’ properly. If I were you, though, I’d look at that ‘let me def get an LOL’ first before worrying about -ise -ize customs. I mean, seriously … 🙂
But it’s fine to spell use -ise or -ize in English English, although -ise is more often used owing to French influence in the 19th century. Freedom, eh …
BTW, FInca once provided data on a particular day of traffic on this site and it was 51% US and 49% non-US, so it’s fine to express that love of freedom that y’all have and tolerate other versions of the English Language, which, as I hate to point out, originated here in its modern form.
I mean, I’m better at switching than most, having worked in publishing with books for both UK and US markets, but you wouldn’t want a dog’s breakfast of mid-Atlantic English if I slipped, would you?
Just heard on the news: No masks in British classrooms! Alba could have told us this, but I had to hear it on the telly. It doesnt fit in with her pro-mask agenda so she saw fit not to mention it.
Oh really! Isn’t that very interesting, I’m so glad you caught that.
Wow look at that Alba! Even a backwater like Louisiana is mandating that children wear masks in the classroom. Who knew Britain was so anti-science??!! No doubt you hang your head in abject shame and come to places like CFN so you can reestablish your moral center as a covid carer and tout your medical knowledge. It is also curious to me that your husband being a medic hasn’t been required to get a covid test. My uncle was told the other day if he wanted to see a certain specialist he would have to get tested before the appointment. Sounds like Britain is behind the times or maybe just not convinced covid is as bad as it is. Or whoa what if that is it! Covid is not all that bad and ya’ll know it but nobody wants to be the one who has to admit they were wrong.
Goodness, my little ideologically driven friends, you are truly desperate.
Janos has just heard on the news something that I haven’t heard yet myself. And yet he thinks I should have told him. O-kaaaay …
Right, I’ll tell you what I know about what’s going on in ‘British classrooms’ in a moment. Make that what I think I know – why would you think I’d know? Leaving aside that it’s decades since I had a child in school, or indeed taught in one, education is devolved in the UK. That means there are NO Covid instructions for ‘British classrooms’, but there are separate instructions for English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish classrooms. Since I know very little about what’s going on in any of them, what I can tell you is practically useless. That, my little ideologically driven friend, (I’ll deal with SSL’s dog’s breakfast of a post separately), is one of many reasons why it wouldn’t occur to me to tell you about it.
What I have told you about, since I know (or think I know), from my daughter and from snippets of Nooooz, is that in nurseries (kindergartens), such as where said daughter works, the children are not wearing masks and neither are the teachers and assistants (unless they want to, I think), and there is no social distancing between the children (because any attempt would be delusional, as I’ve said on many occasions), although there are ‘bubbles’. But there is an attempt to have distancing between the adults (parents and teachers/assistants).
Moving on to schools proper, what I *know* is that my 8-year-old grandson has to wear a mask if he goes on the bus to school. Mostly he walks. I don’t think they are practising any kind of social distancing either, for the same reason as in the nursery – because it’s unlikely to work. They’re in five days a week. As far as I’m aware children in primary schools are not wearing masks in class.
I did hear a couple of weeks ago that one SECONDARY school in Edinburgh and another one somewhere else in Scotland had asked pupils to wear masks. In the classroom? No idea – my understanding is that it was just in halls and corridors where kids were moving about between classrooms. I think this may have been extended to other schools in Scotland, but here’s the thing – again – I don’t know. And, frankly, I don’t care. Why would I be paying attention when I don’t have kids in school?
Finally, I *think* something similar is going on in English SECONDARY schools, but I really don’t know. Wales and Northern Ireland? Not a clue, sorry.
So, you see my difficulty with telling you about ‘masks in British schools’? I don’t know. There’s the tragedy of it. But I have to say I don’t really care either. I’m wearing a mask in shops and on buses and I see very few people wearing them in the street when they’re not about to go on a bus or into a shop. That’s all I really know about, sorry.
SSL
There’s a lot in there, Gish Gallop* style, so you’ll have to excuse the long response.
“Oh really! Isn’t that very interesting, I’m so glad you caught that.”
Oh, dear. See above.
“Who knew Britain was so anti-science??!!”
The ENGLISH response to Covid has, as I’ve said on multiple occasions, been shambolic. It’s currently been accepted as having been shambolic to the point that PHE (Public Health England) has been summarily dissolved in the middle of a pandemic. It’s been replaced by something else whose name I can’t remember, but the person in charge of it is the woman who’s been in charge of ‘track and trace’ or whatever their equally shambolic testing/tracing effort is called (Matt Hancock and his boss repeatedly referred to it as ‘world-beating’ before it, you know, didn’t really happen – and then didn’t really work). And, from what I recall from snippets my other half passes on to me from his doctors’ blogs, the person at the head of whatever body is to hold this new health/pandemic entity to account is [drumroll …] her HUSBAND.
Welcome to Brexit Britain. You think Bumblin’ Johnson’s government is all about SCIENCE. Hahahahahahahahaha!! The current government ministers were picked not because of any obvious – or even coyly hidden – knowledge or competence, but because they are loyal Brexiters. They are the stupidest, most incompetent shower of fools I’ve ever seen put together by an equally incompetent head fool.
“It is also curious to me that your husband being a medic hasn’t been required to get a covid test. My uncle was told the other day if he wanted to see a certain specialist he would have to get tested before the appointment.”
OK, I’ve told you what lunacy prevails in England – let’s turn to Scotland. Not much better, I’m afraid, but slightly less ostentatiously shambolic. Nicola is trying hard to look better than Boris, because it’s playing brilliantly in the pro-Independence polls. But even Rin Tin Tin wouldn’t have had to stretch himself to look better than Boris. And at least he’d be there.
But let’s get back to the Covid test. For an NHS person to get a Covid test, they have to go to a Covid testing centre. Generally, they are drive-in centres, and could be an hour or more away. And we don’t have a car, you’ll recall. It has been hard enough getting tests for patients, outside of hospitals, let alone doctors. And what would a test of a medic on one particular day tell you anyway? If he gets tested (without symptoms) before going to a care home, is he to test himself again when he comes out? What if he goes to three care homes in one shift and the results don’t come back for days? If he had symptoms, he could send for a postal test, as could I. But it would take days to come and days to process (I keep hearing about upcoming 15-minute tests but they don’t seem to actually manifest themselves anywhere useful).
You’re talking about science when what you should be talking about is COMPETENCE. There isn’t much around, sorry to disappoint you.
Here’s a bit of idiocy, if you’d like an anecdote. My grandson is back at school. Except that he’s not, because my daughter’s had to keep him off so far this week due to him coughing a bit and having had a bit of a sore throat. Them’s the rules, according to the school. So she called the NHS helpline and was told he didn’t have Covid symptoms. Because he doesn’t have Covid symptoms they won’t send her a test kit. But he still can’t go back to school while he’s got any kind of cough. She calls me when she feels the need for a rant about this kind of thing. (Being a tolerant, patient kinda person, I’m a bit of a rant-magnet – hubby has been firing brief but frequent rants in my direction about the NHS for years.)
The advice on masks in schools, as far as I can see, is changing week to week, according to whoever is panicking about the latest surge in ‘cases’ somewhere. I’m not interested in surges in cases, as I’ve already said – I’m interested in how many people are dying (a lot fewer now) and how many people are suffering long-term organ damage. In France they’re panicking again and masks are mandatory almost everywhere, as far as I know. The advice I’ve seen a while ago was that if you were standing beside someone in an office, for example, collaborating on something, for say 15 minutes, the mask would help you very little. That’s not where masks have their best use, which is in situations where people are in enclosed spaces, especially with little ventilation – and are also observing social distancing. They seem to be making a difference in factories, meat plants and the like.
I’m sure you’ll also have gleaned some information that you were looking for from my post to Janos. The rest of your own post is a dog’s breakfast of utter lunacy, to which I can offer no rational response.
* https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
So basically where we have arrived at Alba is a place where you are kinda saying all of these covid specific health mandates are really not quite as important as we were told. And it looks like you are at a place where you aren’t really concerned about the virus. Mainly you just follow whatever rules you have too to get by but covid may as well just be a hoax to you huh.
SSL
No.
This thread has epic potential.
10,980
Dr. Green Alfalfa, LARP, disagrees.
LOL.
(Me and) My shaaa … dow … ‘trolling down the a-ve-nooo …
There have been 41,000-odd Covid deaths in the UK, which has a population of around 65K. So if you’ve only had 10,980 deaths, I have to say that’s flippin’ brill, mate.
Do tell us about your grateful feedback from the Royal Society and the Oxford team about their work on masks, though, Narc.
In your own time.
10,908 geriatrics. Not even a flu season.
Quite the pandemic
LOL.
But the statistics don’t mean what you are manipulating them to mean, so your figure is pointless. Sorry.
And, following your ahem … reasoning, the people who normally die of flu are also either immunocompromised, old, or very young.
So you could argue, following your brilliant logic, that flu deaths are actually ZERO.
Well done.
LOL 🙂
The statistics are straightforward.
10,980 deaths among individuals with no pre-existing conditions. Most of whom are geriatrics.
COVID is not deadly for the average person, and you claimed millions.
Low IQ.
(1) Please link to my quote of ‘millions’ (of what?).
(2) Please provide verifiable statistics on influenza deaths in individuals without pre-existing conditions, without which your repeated comparisons are beyond meaningless.
(3) Your manipulation of the statistics remains manipulation.
(4) You should have stuck with STM publishing, which would have made you less tempted to cite fog.
Our Resident Narcissist numbers her points now. That will make them seem more authoritative.
10,980. Stings, doesn’t it?
LOL.
BTW, for a laugh, rather than just insult you, I checked your stat to see if anything has changed in the truthiness department. And lo and behold:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/17/no-underlying-conditions-coronavirus-deaths-english-hospitals
Approx. 41k deaths in the UK (41,514). And the death rate for deaths directly attributed to COVID sans preexisting conditions (the issue in question) is 5% or .. wait for it —
2,075.
You have no credibility on anything at this point
Beyond parody.
I’m STILL waiting for you to provide the stats on flu deaths NOT in people with underlying conditions or in old age. And while you’re at it, you can also provide stats on long-term serious sequelae of flu that makes people unable to function and work.
Your comparison with flu has been CONSTANT and remains meaningless without those statistics, so please get a move on and exercise that IQ of yours in a useful direction.
C’mon, Narc-troll, them goalposts are a-jivin’.
Seasonal flu, as per the Narc. Death stats please. No underlying conditions, no old age.
Ask Ronnie if you need to.
So easy.
Doesn’t seem to be, though, does it, Narc?
Totally incapable of critical thought. No ability to interpret or compare statistics.
NO credibility at all at this point.
Still waiting for those seasonal flu death stats, dummy. No old people. No underlying conditions.
Apples and apples, or oranges and oranges.
Low IQ.
There aren’t enough floors in the world to roll around laughing on. 🙂
Spin it all you want.
You just got owned.
Your cognitive dissonance is beyond imagining.
Bring those stats, clown. You have shown yourself for what you are. And you think asserting the contrary will make it so.
Textbook narcissism.
Bless.
SSL
Good Lord. I am not taking any position on the Covid at all. I am just reporting the trends on each states new cases. Mortality was dismissed as no worse than the Flu a while a go. So we are in the world of worrying about permanent damage, which Covid does Quite a bit ( Neurodoc), or the three weeks to 2 months that it takes to get over it. That compares to 2 -4 weeks for the flu. Flu costs billions a year in productivity and lost wages. Covid, if it becomes flu like, is much more contagious and damage-causing than the flu. Wouldn’t it be better to either clobber this sucker or at least try to avoid it, mitigation. You all may be the “bravest” folks in town. You remind me of the old saying,
I won’t quit smoking, it takes a real man to face cancer.
Dumb then, and dumb now.
I have said it before and now,
If people had followed the guidelines and just avoided the crud six months ago, there would be no lockdowns or closed schools or recessions today.
It is to your credit, John, that you don’t let your political views (strong as they are!) get much in the way of your attempts to watch what’s going on Covid-wise.
Don’t let those who are unable to do that get you down.
Well said Mr. Kunstler! I feel like printing this out as a sort of abstract for why I will vote the way I plan to vote in a few months.
Yesterday I was chatting with our town’s library director, a staunch progressive and were discussing how to survive the upcoming months of election coverage and the potential violence that may result and she kept saying that encouraging people to vote was really important (I agree) and then she said, “We need everybody to vote because then we have a record of who voted for whom. Because if you aren’t with us, you’re against us.” I didn’t say much in response but it certainly set off alarm bells. Is someone planning to leak voting records? It happens now when someone is being harassed/cancelled; people have their home addresses published online! My imagination doesn’t have to go far to find the idea of people exposing Trump voters in the same way.
Or changing their votes, or just putting them in the trash.
That is alarming. Isn’t the secret ballot one of the cornerstones of our system? Why are records kept at all?
I’d never given much thought to the disposal or identification of ballot papers, but I’ve just done a few minutes’ research. At the end of the process they’re burned (in the UK), but several people offered testimony that some were used for information, including by political parties for future campaigning, and that other times there was considerable laxity in the disposal, e.g. bags ripped and lying open in warehouses or elsewhere for anyone to steal papers.
And a couple of people said that in the 1960s, MI5 had names of communist voters gleaned from ballot papers. Someone cited a book where it was claimed that the South African government had lists of all communist voters in Britain, supplied to them by Special Branch.
The things you learn …
Yes they are always actively doing things. Our side never does anything. Case in point. She indicates she is doing something potentially illegal and should be treated and reported as such. If I was in your town and she said that to me I would have smiled at her and then when I got outside I would have called the police and reported it to the local media. Oh well.
If one side always plays by the rules and other doesn’t, the good guys are doomed. Alexander didn’t try and untie the rope – he cut it. Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn’t have been in Kenosha, but he was. Many heroes on Normandy beach forged their papers because they were below the age of enlistment. Even the Government doesn’t care about the rules anymore – except to punish Us, their enemies. So why should we once things get going?
I one town on Cape Cod, the Gays published the names of everyone who had voted against Gay marriage as a form of shaming. As far as I know, no investigation was done and no one got in trouble. And of course it indicates that at the higher levels, Gay marriage was already accepted, thus the shaming.
Your instinct is correct as to what should be and should be done if things are as they should be. I’m just not sure if things are that way anymore and if not, your action wouldn’t help.
Why would it be secret that you voted for or against gay marriage?
I can see the way my MP voted on anything I’m interested in by checking his voting record online. And any other MP.
You’re conflating the general vote in elections with the vote of Parliamentarians?
Shameless. They represent the people and their vote is our business. It doesn’t work the other way around, not here at least or at least it’s not supposed to.
Are you talking about referendums against gay marriage, voted by the population? Perhaps you could be clearer?
Regarding Mr.Rittenhouse – a lot of people suddenly become closet lawyers regurgitating smatterings of legal knowledge they picked up on Judge Judy show.
1.He crossed the state lines !
2.He brandished assault style weapon !
3.He made a wet fart while discharging assault style weapon in the vicinity of the People of Special Needs Housing Installation !
Why dont we learn from the Masters ?
You know when was last time the United States officially declared a war ?
“On June 4, 1942, the Senate approved a resolution declaring war with Rumania. The Senate unanimously approved the resolution, 73-0.”
Thats it.No more official wars.Only peacekeeping and nation-building.
Mr.Rittenhouse was on a peacekeeping mission.Thats all you need to know.
Those who will follow in his steps will build a coalition and remain invisible.
To be honest that first shot was the start of civil war 2.0 if the leftist turds don’t cease desist!
My guess is this leftist BS will escalate.No sane person grabs loaded AR-15 pointed at him.
Those punks on Antifa payroll are clearly psychotic.
Like VC charging right thru the concertina wire.
Ford foundation knows how to pick the best and the brightest.
If they start taking out electric grid it will be worse than CW 1.0
Because I still foolishly assume that the electricity is a given.
In his blog essay yesterday JHK wrote the following:
But here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years (and I write as someone who has remained a registered Democrat since 1972):
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Given all your ‘bill of particulars’ against the Democratic Party I have to ask: why on earth have you remained a registered Democrat to this day?
There must be something technical or tactical in your reasoning that is beyond my politically weak mind to understand.
Dem. Vs. GOP used to be Working Class vs. Elite. It was philosophically easy to chose a side.
Today, the Dems do not give a damn about the working class, only the minorities and giveaway. The Working Class just elected Trump in 2016. Dems hooked in with the globalists in the 1990s or so and started their separation from America.
That is what is driving people away.
Life was simpler then.
But, John, your reply to my comment doesn’t explain in any way WHY JHK would remain a registered Democrat.
You know Q, probably just legacy.
My own dad grew up in the Roosevelt years and was a registered Dem until the day he died. In the war he was a member of the 793rd Combat Military Police and he was on a detail that provided security for Ike a few times, so of course he voted for Ike, and then for his VP, Nixon. I know he voted for Goldwater, because of ‘The Commies’. Still, being a blue collar union man, he remained in the Dem party.
Might be similar with Jim, grew up in NY most likely in a Democratic family, and came of age during the Vietnam war years. Everybody was a Dem back then. In my own town Republicans were the old Yankees, we were yankees too but Swamp Yankees, there’s a difference.
I hope I’m not talking out of school here.
Brh
Father in law life long DEMOCRAT and union never registered as anything but before he died refused to vote at all.
His party left his values in the dust.
He was a solid blue collar union guy his entire life.
Had two jobs over thirty years Boeing and crown cork and seal and when they closed his factory and dumped all of them their union rolled over for a fat bribe.
Budweiser rolled in and took over the Van Nye’s building the company ruled as to damaged by an earthquake.
Budweiser made no repairs and started people up making half of what they were making before.
I am still a registered as a Green, yet I will vote for Trump.
Why does it matter how one is registered?
Genuine question: will you be voting by mail, or in-person at a consulate/embassy? If the latter, do you have to travel far to do so?
FBI agent Gelatin trying to figure out where I live.
LOL.
Huh.
A simple question about non-resident voting turns into a tomfoolery-style scare.
What is your problem? And do you think you’re so clever and important that the FBI cares where you live?
You know, they already know anyway, indirectly. As a ‘good’ US citizen, you must still file your foreign income tax returns, right?
If you’ve retained citizenship and wish to exercise your franchise rights, right?
What a fucking plonker.
You think that I think you are FBI.
This is exactly the sort of thing I am talking about. Only you could misread that.
Low IQ.
Hahaha…as if.
You name me “FBI agent Gelatin” and next post you deny it.
You also know I don’t think that YOU think that.
Your trolling style is entirely monotonous – zero variety. *Yawn*
Yes, Dr. Gelatin.
And I also believe you are a Dr.
Low IQ.
…and your every snarky post proves you’ve got nothing. What a wanker.
thanks Jim. I was a liberal Democrat my whole life (until about six years ago).. no more. it grieves me to have to end my 60-year relationship with major league baseball and (almost all of) the cinema, and it grieves me to have to withdraw from my hopelessly-woke family and friends; it’s not the way I want things to be, but it’s obviously the way that it’s gonna have to; you see I’m bad-bad-whitey so.. the tyrannical new left is forcing me to choose sides
I’m glad you had to choose a side. Some people have been experiencing this shunning for years and now its finally smoking ya’ll all out. Now maybe this can be the beginning of an awakening but I ain’t counting on it.
I’ve been following this blog for years, but I just registered to be able to comment and participate in the discussions. And I’m going to contribute on Patreon as well, after seeing many subscribers desert Kunstler due to his support for Trump.
This was such an outstanding article. In many ways it speaks for me, voicing all my grievances with the Democrats, who have been possessed as if by a demon. They have become unrecognizable. Even language itself has become inverted to disguise their lunacy; the “progressives” are actually regressive. “Liberals” are actually despotic and dogmatic. Fascists on the streets brandishing red, black and white flags are pretending to be anti-fascist.
I read and reread this article. I wish I could write like this. I have a entire dam of emotions yearning to find expression.
While reading this, I think I spotted an error:
“When their basic philosophy is not incoherent, it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith.”
Shouldn’t it say “When their basic philosophy is INCOHERENT,” or else “NOT COHERENT,” instead of “NOT INCOHERENT,” which is akin to saying “When their basic philosophy is coherent, it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith.”
Keep up the outstanding work James!!
Welcome aboard Shox. I’ve been here for 12 years? maybe more. BRH, Janos, Q, BTB, all wise regulars.
GA, VOL, BENR, and a whole bunch more,
Fuck Majella she-he is an ass along with Cargill. South of the equator and spins the wrong way.
C’mon RIP, that’s harsh. She seems like a decent and intelligent person. We all don’t gave to agree on everything.
Nightowl and Majella go back and forth; both give as good as they get.
Brh
Maj has not always been an ass it is a learned response from being attacked so often.
Bravo, Stelmo. It takes balls to speak the truth.
What brought THAT on?
Here is a succinct summary of the system in all its slimy sagacity in the form of a book review.
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-finger-in-the-dike-election/
That was a good read, thanks for posting it. The premise of a useless ruling class became evident to me twenty years ago post-dot-com-boom when I realized business schmucks had become nothing but hustle lacking talent or skill. I dropped out of the rat race after reading Clarey’s “Enjoy The Decline” realizing that to actually implement something among the elite required “cogs” and that is exactly what any ruling class wants: To languish in eucalyptus aroma therapy no matter what. I am ready with my blowtorch and have already done my time protecting our civility. I’m loving this build up to the election catastrophe.
Blowtorch? That sounds exciting. Monkey wrenching! Against Against the Fall of Night.
That’s exactly what he’s saying – their basic philosophy is routinely incoherent (continuous illogic, duplicity, and deceit will produce that effect). When their public pronouncements actually are somewhat understandable, i.e., not incoherent, the effect is hypocritical and in bad faith, the unending, rank hypocrisy being off the scale.
@KappaJoe OK, Now I understood. Their basic philosophy IS incoherent for the most part. But whenever it isn’t, it presents as hypocrisy and bad faith.
In recent days, I have been re-reading many books and watching many documentaries on communism (or any movement founded on the tenets of Marxism/Leninism), and on the psychology of its power elite. Duplicity, split-personality, double-standards, double-think and corruption to get ahead are very familiar traits of any such movement. They do not believe in anything themselves. But they will feign belief in anything just to get ahead. And of course, the one trait that really stands out is “psychological projection” as described by Jung: that is, where they accuse their enemies of being the very thing that they are.
It’s unfortunate that people will stop reading Kunstler because they disagree with his stance. If you only engage with those who think exactly like you do you are in a cult.
Allelulia!
At one point his politics were pretty much 180 degrees out of phase with my thoughts.
Now they are at the moment pretty aligned and for the same reasons.
Hi Mr. Kunstler,
Thank you for your blog post. What I find most interesting about it is the way in which many of the sins you cast at the feet of followers of the Democratic Party, can be also thrown at the feet of the Republicans. “When their basic philosophy is not incoherent, it presents as explicit hypocrisy and bad faith. … The key to understanding the Democratic “progressive” ethos is this: the drive for coercion, the wish to push everybody around, to tell them how to think and what to do.” This is a problem of the Republican Party, and especially of President Trump as well! You could have argued that this is a problem of LIBERALISM in general—that it tends to coercion—and such a critique has been mounted by conservative thinkers, but you don’t. Hmm, “cancel” culture? You think that this isn’t insidious and widespread with Trumpland? Where did this whitewash of the widespread in-toleration of dissent in Trumpland spring from, Mr. Kunstler?
You do not argue that the Republican Party is conservative, and I am assuming this is because you can’t make that claim in good conscience, since we seem to lack consistent evidence for it. Maybe we can accept “conservative tendencies”? Republicans increase aggregate demand and deficits—but only when it suits the aims of its controlling corporate and wealthy interests. When the Dems want to do the same thing, then and only then, do they get horrified about deficits! Please understand, the Dems have slightly different if similar controlling interests; perhaps you like the ideology of Repub overlords rather than Dem overlords in the abstract? Consider coercing woman and control of their bodies, vis a vis abortion. Don’t get me wrong, I get the arguments that conservatives make about a foetus being a human being, but the point is that it is an ASSUMPTION. And as a grounding assumption it is not open for discussion, its non-negotiable. So, this gives Republicans the desire to coerce women to do something they do not want to do—for good moral reasons—as they understand them. The other side has a different grounding assumption. It doesn’t want to coerce women; it has good moral reasons—as they understand them. The difference is that you ignore the coercion on one side and focus on coercion on the other side.
Law and order? Yeah, the rioting is not good. And shooting people isn’t either. I will go with the majority on that one saying its not OK. It probably bypassed your attention that people who support Trump can be also pretty violent and packing. All self-defence, right? The President has been pretty vocal about the efficacy of force and has a clear unwillingness to condemn the violence on his side of the fence. Perhaps this is attractive to you. It isn’t to me. Biden comes across as old-school on this stuff. Your argument is that Biden will be easily manipulable once in power, captive to the left. But at no time has he gone the defund route, and has been comfortable sticking within the mainstream of the Democratic Party thinking—even during the primaries, rather than stake positions out further left to get votes—why, because he understands that mainstream Dom voters are more conservative than the left wing of the Party. Your post might be summarised, in part, as: “AOC is coming to take our shit!!! And to take a shit (on America)” Maybe America will resonate with that message?
But, I am guessing it won’t, as the electorate wrestles with the President saying he needs to be elected President to save us from all the violence and chaos that has emerged in the last four years. Yeah, it makes perfect sense as an argument when you realise that Joe Biden has been President for the last four years, with AOC pulling the strings behind the scenes, undermining the country through incompetent rule… WTF? Yeah, that is as batshit crazy as it sounds … and I think an electoral college majority is going to determine the same thing. And I wonder if your dinner friends didn’t already point that out to you.
As for the world made by hand? It is going to need us to work in the spirit of community. There is only one candidate talking about that, and it isn’t President Trump. The irony of your position, to me, is that the current President will SPEED UP the emergence of the world you continue to warn us about. Because the Long Emergency, is first and foremost an emergency brought about by the internal disintegration of community in this country—a situation that is reaching a crisis point as we speak—under Republican Party domination of the Federal Government. I would have more sympathy for your position if it were not for the fact that Republicans currently have their hands on 2.5 of 3 branches of government, and for two years before that, all 3! And it is the Democratic Party’s fault?
You seem to not enjoy both parties and acknowledge the corruption in both coming from the power in DC. Exactly! The Dems got away with portraying themselves as the anti-power pro working class unionist party that protects all of us, the common man. Then they, the Dems and the RINOs got bought off by the business elite and all the things the working class had been doing for a couple of generations went overseas, and not just China. So the Dems mutated into the party of the POC. Just now those POC are finding out the same thing as the union boys and girls did a generation ago, the Dem elite do not care one whit about them. So now, the POC are about to do what the unionists did, vote against the hypocrisy of the Dems, and vote for the guy that is not Dem or GOP, but a new opposition to both political parts of the Deep State.
It is easy to understand why folks are disillusioned by the entire scene in DC and looking for alternatives. Biden is a consummate Deep Stater and presents a very corrupt Dem party that has hurt many many people in their quest for power. Trump is that alternative, both in 2016 and now. Even more now! Trump promised to tear up the corruption in the swamp. As a lame duck, he may be much more effective at doing just that. Hopefully!
Anyway, lots of folks feel very betrayed by the DNC and are getting ready to jump to Trump.
Hey, how about that,
JUMP TO TRUMP!!
Well said, and logical JohnAZ. If you want to back up your thoughts and opinions abcdef, you need to vote for Trump. He is the disruptor, the non-career politician (NOT a politician actually), more business and fairness oriented, etc. He’s the best you are going to get. Deliver a blow to some of the DC corruption by casting your vote for Trump. And, get all your family and friends to do the same. Your future life will be a lot better off.
Hi amb,
I think the logic of your position, as I said to JohnAZ, gives us an authoritarian leader who IGNORES the US Constitution, in order “to get things done.” You up for that amb? And if you have a line in the sand where you would say–“President Trump! That is not OK!” What would it be?
Hi JohnAZ,
You are right–I dislike both parties, but your solution of “jumping to Trump” is not a viable one, in my opinion. He isn’t because he is even MORE corrupt than the alternative. And, the Republicans are also corrupt. For Trump to do what you want and hope for him to do, you have to overthrow the democratic principles of this country, given the separation of powers in the three branches. I resist that premise and so should you. At least the Democratic Party hasn’t been embracing that view… at least yet!
I repeat, JohnAZ, Trump and the Republicans had the 3 branches for two years AND 2.5 of 3 branches and couldn’t do what you hoped from Trump in his populous persona. To get what you want done (if he intends it–as far as I can tell he wants what will make him better off first; of course, I respect that you feel differently), he has to rule WITHOUT the two other branches to stop him. So, the logic of your position gives us King Trump, doesn’t it? Is that a bargain you embrace?
I recall Obama being excoriated as a dictator by many on the right, including Trump on the campaign trail, for issuing so many executive orders (as if he had a choice when the GOP simply closed down the processes in both the House & the Senate).
In total, Obama issued 276 in 8 years, of which 147 were in the first term and 129 in the second term.
President DimDon has already issued 182, in 3.75 years. Who’s the ‘dictator’?
Low-IQ reasoning. An executive order is not necessarily a bad thing.
More interesting is the number of occasions Obama prosecuted journalists and whistleblowers.
He holds the record — a tally which is higher than all previous US administrations combined.
Chalk up own goal number 25.
There you go again, wee man. The point is that Trump was scathing of Obama’s “rule by EO” with the rightwing nutjob media & the blithering GOP leaders calling it a dictatorship.
“https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-trump-obama-executive-orders-20191019-fkj23rhqgncdfd7dkmztimofky-story.html
As to his prosecuting 8 whistleblowers in the interests of national security, was that illegal?
Yes, the Republicans want much deregulation and less governmental interference in all things except a woman’s uterus.
‘It probably bypassed your attention that people who support Trump can be also pretty violent and packing. All self-defence, right?’
No, maybe not all, but over the last four years violence and aggression have been the Left’s modus operandi to silence and cower the Right. From Maxine Waters on.
Biden comes across as an old school stiff, and having done six stints in the Senate is a perfect example of the need for term limits.
Now of course, with usual political disingenuousness, he must move towards the middle then later placate those further Left. And Biden gaining the presidency opens wide the ‘primrose lane’ for Leftist loonies.
You didn’t mention any of the treasonous perpetraitors who tried to overthrow Trump in a coup attempt based on fabrications and deceitful, ongoing collusion. The Comeys, the Schiffs, the Clappers, the McCabes, the Strzoks, the Pages, Obama, Loretta Lynch, etc., etc. And Biden sat in on an important meeting with Obama and others regarding how to undermine Trump and get him out.
You also didn’t mention Hunter Biden and his father’s shady overseas dealings. His aptitude for foreign affairs can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IWC72tSD8
Yes, Trump is bad on the environment, but to blame him and the Republicans for the ‘internal disintegration of community’ is too much of a misleading stretch, since the causes can actually be traced to policies of diversity, immigration and globalism, neglect of cities, particularly Chicago, and the Left’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ in general. The hate whitey and cancel history campaigns are stoking the fires, not Trump. The Black Live Maggots will not intimidate us.
p.s. Yes, All lives matter.
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Hi Mr. Kunstler, – abcdef
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Oh no! The man who softens up the person with whom he disagrees by first saying “Hi.”
Hi Q. Shtik,
Just because I disagree with Mr. Kunstler views doesn’t mean that I have to be mean spirited or knowingly unreasonable. I think that being cheerful is a better attitude to bring to a conversation then some of the more hostile attitudes that I read of here. I have observed that some folks that dislike Mr. Kunstler’s views (and of those who follow him to varying degrees) can be a just as snarky as some of those on the right… though the racist & misogynistic views I sometimes read here can be a bit much. Mr. Kunstler’s views have changed quite a bit since I started to read him in the years before the Great Recession. I find that transition interesting.
Grow or stagnate if your views are the same as a decade ago you are stagnate and possibly out of touch with reality.
Hi benr,
I want to point out that the problem I have with your grow or stagnate metaphor is that cancer grows. Growth, per se, is not necessarily a positive thing. The problem I have with Mr. Kunstler’s position, is not that it changed. The problem I have with it is that he IGNORES the sins of the side he supports, even when–in my opinion–these sins are far worse than the side he castigates.
But…but…but!
Benr – didn’t you post that your views were 180 degrees apart from JHK 10 years ago, and now they agree?
Sounds like YOU sat still while HE ‘evolved’. Does that make you ‘stagnant’?
No problem, I was just bustin’ your chops.
Hi Q. Shtik,
I figured; I was just being cautious! 🙂
another dumb start is ‘I think’.
People need to understand that the Dems are completely corrupt and insane. They have no platform or political agenda re our country other than to just “be in control”. Amongst all sorts of nefarious activities, they will utilize voter-fraud in a big big way (mail-in voting is one of their methods). They have flooded states with illegal immigrants who are voting. And, they have the media, who are bombarding Americans with false information and liberal/globalist propaganda, in their pocket. And, Trump won some states only by a razor thin margin (due to all the illegals). And, the Dems, Bloomberg, Deep State, and the Commie Globalists will spend billions and take every underhanded action they can think of to sabotage Trump and America. Bloomberg spent $100MM so the Dems could win the House majority and look at the nightmare that caused for POTUS45, not to mention all of the lost progress in so many zones. Bloomberg is quietly spending billions to support the Dems, and his only goal is ensure POTUS45 doesn’t get re-elected (he has $85BB, so a few billion is NOTHING to him, he is single-handedly going to alter the natural, organic election process of our country). Soros groups, the CCP, and the Eurozone are working on sabotaging POTUS45 too. If there isn’t a huge grassroots movement: if all Repubs/Conservatives don’t get out there and knock on doors… if they don’t convert their family and friends… if they don’t educate everyone they can… if they don’t get the non-voters to register and vote… if they don’t wear Trump hats and t-shirts… if they don’t put Trump signs on their lawns, etc. etc. etc. we could very well lose to the Commie Globalists (the elitists, the 1%, the “Party of Davos”) and they will destroy what is left of the great American experiment. (They are so desperate that they are willing to use covid and the economic shutdown as methods of sabotaging POTUS45’s re-election.) ?
THERE WILL NOT BE A TRUMP LANDSLIDE! HE COULD LOSE. EVERYTHING IS AGAINST HIM. IF WE SNOOZE, WE LOSE. STOP THE LONG PATTERN OF CONSERVATIVE/REPUBLICAN LAZINESS AND UNWILLINGNESS TO FIGHT BACK. STOP THE COMPLACENCY. THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE CRAZIEST, VICIOUS, DISRUPTIVE ELECTIONS IN US HISTORY.
DO YOUR PART! MAKE EVERYONE YOU KNOW DO THEIR PART! IF EVERYONE DOES THIS, WE CAN GUARANTEE A WIN, AND CAN SAVE AMERICA.
Trump’s on thin ice since the covid, and 3 million Democrats from 2016, maybe more, are going to run onto that ice and try to sink him.
Yes, it’s get out the vote.
Hi amb,
I don’t see any significant evidence to support the claims you make, when you write: “Amongst all sorts of nefarious activities, they will utilize voter-fraud in a big big way (mail-in voting is one of their methods). They have flooded states with illegal immigrants who are voting. And, they have the media, who are bombarding Americans with false information and liberal/globalist propaganda, in their pocket. And, Trump won some states only by a razor thin margin (due to all the illegals).”
Sorry, amb, saying it is so, doesn’t make it so. Just as an example of Occam’s razor, what is a more likely
A. That mail in voting will throw the election, when we have been doing mail-in for years in a majority of states with negligible evidence to back your claim–and DT WON, with this system, by the way in 2016, or
B. That given that there is evidence, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/11/only-1-in-5-republicans-say-theyre-likely-vote-by-mail/, to back the claim that a CLEAR MAJORITY of people voting by mail are Democratic Party followers, and that 40% of ballots will be mail in ballots this year, it is statistically possible (even likely) that Trump will look like he is winning on Election night, only to see his lead slip away as those mail-in ballots are counted after polls close, over the following week.
I think B is more likely, by the way. But, given our President’s penchant for creating chaos and trying to win no matter what the collateral cost to those around him, he will still call it a fraud, even if B is true.
Saying it is so is reality you saying it is not does not in fact make it reality.
Partisan hack much?
California alone has wiped 5 million voters from the roles for a variety of reasons deceased, wrong address, moved out of state.
California also has a motor voter ID act which requires someone to uncheck the box to not vote and how many people will do that?
All they need for id is a utility bill and a matricular consolar card and they get to vote as well as drive legally in California.
The DMV was crowing about signing up 800k people in the first year.
The data is highly massaged and disputed by the very people who will gain power from allowing the illegal alien votes so the data points that prove this have been slowly wiped from the internet.
“California alone has wiped 5 million voters from the roles for a variety of reasons deceased, wrong address, moved out of state.”
So, you’re getting your wish, benr! Callooh callay!
Hi benr,
Do you have any significant EVIDENCE that the people who signed up to vote are actually not eligible to vote and are committing fraud in voting? Or are you making a supposition here under the assumption that people who are not entitled to vote are signing up to vote in significant numbers–not just a few, but widespread–you know, large enough to affect an election result? If you are going to complain about a theoretical issue (as far as I can tell) – than why not complain about an ACTUAL issue–there is a lot of voter suppression going on in Republican led states–https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659784277/republican-voter-suppression-efforts-are-targeting-minorities-journalist-says; https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/presidential-voting-season-tidal-wave-voter-suppression-washing-over-multiple-n1128041; https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/new-voting-restrictions-america; etc.
I will add that there is also a similar impulse amongst Democratic Party folks, as https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-democrats-suppress-the-vote/ shows. However, since Republicans control more governorships and legislative houses than Democrats do, they have more to lose and more power to affect suppression change than the Democrats do. The point I think is this–complain about the things we have evidence for that affect true voting capacities and the will of the people and point to those who are successfully doing it.
Wow. Interesting to see that the last straw has finally broken the camel’s back. I too feel we’re long past “blame Trump for everything (about 3 3/4 years ago, to be honest). I’ve never felt that was a worthy argument against the guy…but I’ve always felt that he was a blowhard and everyone should just get over it. After all, what are we gonna do about that?
That said, it’s a tenuous state of affairs when his opposition has become so fringe that he actually seems the more reasonable candidate (at least for some sense of, errr, normalcy).
I can’t see myself voting for either presidential candidate, yet again. Looks liek it’ll be a 20-yr streak for me on that front. But I will be voting down every progressive on the state and local level that I can put my chad-poker to. They have gone insane, and only seem to find solace and meaning in making things different just for the sake of. Ain’t supposed to be that way, folks. Different isn’t always better. In many aspects, I’d say it rarely is.
Also love the irony of the progressive left decrying whiteness, yet putting up…Joe Biden. Naturally, his VP would become president in short matter of course, so that solves that dilemma. But it’s ridiculous on a rail I’ve never seen before.
Pesci, help us all.
So why not vote for him then? The lovable blowhard?
Lovable is a bit of a stretch. Amusing, sure. But I’ll have to mull over actually giving him my vote. I’ve tended to stay delightfully aloof on presidential elections, mainly because I always believed (and generally rightfully) that there would be no difference in my life if either candidate got the nod. Local and state-level voting I’ve treated differently, as the results manifest much closer to home. It truly feels like things may actually be different this time around. Dammit.
Yep. Uniparty/globalists or Trump.
We are witnessing history.
“We are witnessing history.”
When aren’t we? Can you get any more banal?
This is a poetic expression often used by native speakers of English.
You are nearly there!
The definition of “poetic” has shifted markedly, then.
In a district near where I live, this is the Democrat candidate for State House:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJO1AnGPmP4
Sadly, the district has been about 90% blue for decades, and the Republican “candidate” is a 72 yr-old retired janitor, who may be a nice enough guy, but doesn’t even understand that he could (should, must) use this against his opponent.
Wish I could vote in that district. Hell, wish I could run.
BTW – that clip is just a small part of his 7min diatribe.
Best if everyone thinks of prime causes. We HAVE lost our sense of community. Why? Because we are divided into different camps. Why? Because this division is based on the current economics of a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. Why? Because the system is rotten and corrupted, allowing for some people and organizations to accumulate way too much wealth and power. Why? Because – and here is the crux of JHK’s argument, I think – we have entered the beginning of an energy crisis. Remember, energy resources are not just a function of supply, but also a function of production costs. And all the oil the U.S. is extracting is necessarily too expensive and getting more so.
When wealthy and powerful people realize this issue exists, they become afraid for their future and take defensive measures to insure their own futures remain bright. They accumulate an inordinate amount of resources. It’s like a group of kids realizing there’s only one pie left, so each kid tries to grab as big a piece as they can.
I’ve always been somewhat uncomfortable with the idea that the elite are crazed with lust for money and power. Now maybe that’s so, but maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s just their own way of prepping in a world of diminishing resources.
Looking at things in this light, we can see both political parties are selfishly looking out only for themselves. It makes no difference which party is in power, and that is why I don’t vote. Not voting is a vote for positive change. The parties’ goals are the same; it’s just their methods and their morals that are different. My desire is for the decision-makers to realize the true issues are more physical in nature and to work to resolve them.
Well said.
I disagree resources are the issue.
Yes there are looming resource shortages but they are not here today. Exhibit A: Oil prices are much less than they would need to be before they will put a brake on the economy.
Sometimes I see this argument, hey, oil companies are losing money, and if they produced at breakeven then prices would be high enough to put a brake on the economy.
But if so, how the hell do they keep producing oil? To claim that oil companies can produce on an ongoing basis at a loss seems to me an argument akin to claiming the perpetual motion is possible, contrary to the laws of physics.
So what IS causing the crisis? Whatever it is in human nature that allows mass hysteria to happen. What we have today is like the witch hunts of New England, the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, etc. And today, it’s intersectionalist wokeism.
“intersectional woke”
ya
Dr. Jordan Peterson has well stated that it is a cultural marxist movement.
“Yes there are looming resource shortages but they are not here today. Exhibit A: Oil prices are much less than they would need to be before they will put a brake on the economy.”
You misunderstand the system. The issue wrt price is that the prices are oscillating back and forth in a no man’s land, on one hand too high for the average person yet on the other too low for producers to operate at a profit.
There are plenty of signs of this and of peak cheap oil. Here are a few:
1) Shale oil has never been profitable, yet we engage in it. Why?
2) Exxon-Mobil just been removed from the Dow
3) Chevron maintaining profits only by cutting exploration and selling assets
4) Look at the inflation-adjusted historical price of oil. From 1920-1970 it was $24 barrel in 2016 dollars. Last year, pre-covid, it averaged about $72.
5) Falling oiling discoveries as reported by Forbes:
In other oil-related news, IHS Markit released an eye-opening report last week suggesting that conventional drilling and exploration may be at death’s door. In the past three years, oil and gas discoveries made by conventional means have fallen to a seven-decade low. What’s more, “a significant rebound is not expected,” the report’s authors write.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/10/07/a-rate-cut-in-question-falling-oil-discoveries-and-record-silver-inflows/#657f55741726
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Cheap-to-get oil is disappearing at an incredibly fast rate. The reserve replacement rate has pummeted in the last ten years:
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Rystad Energy concluded this week that 2017 was yet another record low year for discovered conventional volumes globally. Less than seven billion barrels of oil equivalent has been discovered YTD.
“We haven’t seen anything like this since the 1940s,” says Sonia Mladá Passos, Senior Analyst at Rystad Energy. “The discovered volumes averaged at ~550 million barrels of oil equivalent per month. The most worrisome is the fact that the reserve replacement ratio* in the current year reached only 11% (for oil and gas combined) – compared to over 50% in 2012.” According to Rystad’s analysis, 2006 was the last year when reserve replacement ratio reached 100%; largely thanks to the giant onshore gas field Galkynysh in Turkmenistan.
Not only did the total volume of discovered resources decrease – so did the resources per discovered field. An average offshore discovery in 2017 held ~100 million barrels of oil equivalent, compared to 150 million boe in 2012. “Low resources per discovered field can influence its commerciality. Under our current base case price scenario, we estimate that over 1 billion boe discovered during 2017 might never be developed”, says Passos.
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https://www.rystadenergy.com/newsevents/news/press-releases/all-time-low-discovered-resources-2017/
We could find dozens of expert articles on the topic and they all say the same thing: the cheap, easy-to-get oil is gone.
Look at Vietnam. Its production will drop 10% a year until 2025. That is a monstrous drop. And it must have consequences not just on how the government can tax it or what share goes to profits and wages, but ultimately what goods and services – amounts, kinds, quality – the people of Vietnam can consume.
This is the Long Emergency. we are in it right now. It means more unsolvable problems and more poltiticans and scumbags out there telling us they have solutions for these unsolvable problems. The future is Venezuela, for the lucky countries.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Vietnams-Oil-Production-To-Drop-10-Annually-By-2025.html
I respectfully disagree with your disagreement. I guess the future will tell us who’s more correct.
What do people want?
A nation in gratitude of the past sacrifices of the people who lived before– not just an idea and an ideal but a place— or a country based on what they can get today– a multinational company with a flag & an army.
I’ve been trying to reason out what Trump (non-republican, populist/civic nationalist) and Biden (globalist, neo-liberal) stand for.
Maybe it was BRH and is vodka smoothies– but I find myself now in the bucolic town on the Mississippi called Bemidji– drinking my 6th or 7th vodka drink (I’ve lost count)– and btw, its a corn vodka made by Costo’s Kirkland– I’m a bit disappointed with my parents here, my dad oughta have some great Russian potato stuff, but whatever– it’s free, and I’m getting pretty hammered by this point.
No smoothies for me! some sierra mist & lemon– diet sierra mist in fact, my dad is diabetic. These old Russians live hard, boy.
Bemidji. Have you ever read any of John Sanford’s Minnesota Crime novels about Virgil Flowers (that fuckin’ Flowers)? He either lives in Bemidji or many times stopping off there.
Yea I’ve met that guy… Haven’t read any of his thrillers though
Aren’t you supposed to be putting in mint juleps and trying to talk like Truman Capote?
I can honestly say that I’ve never tried a mint julip.
They are tasty.
The best mint-enhanced beverage, however, is coffee Pedrocchi in Padua, Italy.
A drink for the gods.
The left promoted mental illness and endangers the health of young people in schools:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/31/uk-sexual-acts-dice-game/
https://www.transgendertrend.com/proud-trust-nothing-proud/
“After four hours of Sexuality aGender training what will young people have learned about sexual health? Very little about sexual health per se, nothing useful about consent, STIs, erectile or menstrual problems, or how to be safe and confident in their most intimate and emotional relationships.
They will have learned there are no specific words to describe their sexed bodies because anyone can have any “body part”; that there is no such thing as normal; that there are no risks attached to anal sex that enough lube won’t solve; that rare intersex cases and the results of FGM are examples of the diversity of human genitalia.
The ideas promulgated by Sexuality aGender are particularly harmful to girls and women. The growing pressure on them to agree to anal sex [11], its normalisation via pornography and some magazines such as Teen Vogue, and the physical harms that can result are all well documented. ..
No school should be considering using this guide, which, it needs repeating, is marketed as a training scheme for all young people from 13 and as a useful tool to meet a school’s statutory duty under the new RSE guidelines.”
The utter, utter insanity of the left. Teaching young girls to destroy their fundaments so they can do pornographic tricks for boys and men who have had their minds damaged by porn.
Anyone here have daughters? Is this what you want for them?
Protecting your children is without a doubt one of the best reasons of all never to vote for the left.
School systems here adopting a politicized, BLM, f##k whitey curriculum … even in all white towns. It’s a point of pride with teachers unions and local Boards of Education … with full backing of media and state government.
At a young age your little ones will find out how racist their parents are, that they’re living on land stolen from Indians, the founders were war criminals, and their country is illegitimate. 12 years of that hateful bullsh#t and you’re ready to burn down Portland and loot Seattle.
Brh
Stole? Did they have a deed issued by the KIng of England? Or Spain? Or France? The beggars! Vagrants! We kicked them off the land the were squatting on.
This is how our ancestors thought. That’s how it’s done: Force and Fraud. Just as they did to each other. Just as they do to us now. Watch “The Naked Prey” on how Black Africans treated some Whites who tried to treat them this way.
This is none righteous, no not one. Sin is what unites us. That being said, I’m all in favor of staying right here. We won this land by force and fraud, battle and blood. The Devil granted us the Deed.
Don’t try to be too good lest you die. If you must, then die to the world and become a priest, or a monk, or a priest monk, a brother, or a sister. You can then pray for the sinners you left behind in society.
In 3 words, “might makes right.”
Yes. Might makes right. And the truth is always your shield.
1) We took it, fair and square. Just like you took it from those who came before you.
2) We needed it. It was us or them.
3) If it wasn’t us, it would have been someone else.
Any other discussion on the so-called morality of these issues of invasion, colonization, etc, is pointless lip-flapping as far as I can see.
Sredni, Q, and Kim;
Carry your morality in your left hand, a sword in your right…which will you strike with?
Human history makes the question irrelevant. We are what we are, we do what we do.
Deal with it as it will never be otherwise.
Never.
I’ve got a three yr-old boy in private preschool right now…terrified of shit like this for when he moves into kindergarten in a few years. Full-scale private school is a bit out of reach for the long haul (at the moment), but I can only imagine I’ll be the dad at the PTA meetings raising hell.
I read an article out of Tennessee this week:
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/08/15/rutherford-county-schools-tell-parents-not-to-monitor-their-childs-virtual-classrooms/
…basically saying that teachers don’t want parents to monitor their kids’ distance learning classes at home. No doubt some of it is because there are parents that hover and cause trouble…but the upshot is that they don’t want parents to know their third grader’s English teacher is for some reason teaching LGBTQ/racism studies instead of teaching how to read, write and comprehend.
keep a low profile.
do some training at home, warn him to not be guilted at school.
Side Note: FWIW he’s only in preschool two days a week right now, the rest of his socialization and learning happens at home or when we visit extended family. But in two years we’ll be up to five days, offsite, supervised by potential 23 yr-old indoctrinated activist morons. Or maybe not. Don’t know until we get there.
I briefly spoke above of the different moral values of each party. I agree with you about the left. As I’ve said many times, I’m not voting for either party, but if you put a gun to my head, I’d vote Republican first.
Regarding sex education and sex in general, I’ve always looked at American sexual attitudes with a lot of humor. Americans are very screwed up when it comes to sex, IMO.
Think about it. The ultimate purpose of sex from nature’s point of view is to propagate and to continue the species. In order to make that work, nature made sex exceptionally pleasurable with a concurrent sex drive that insured we would always engage in it. It’s also easy to achieve an orgasm if one is physically and emotionally healthy ( I might get some disagreement on this one. But how many people are both physically and emotionally healthy?).
I’m somewhat of a libertine when it comes to sex. I believe it should be often engaged in with anticipation and joy. I’ve always been in favor of teenage sexual exploration, as long as both parties are emotionally mature enough to handle such a powerful experience, take proper precautions and are not forced into it in any way. Unfortunately, like most aspects of Americans’ existence, the whole process has been screwed up. I won’t go into detail here.
That said, I think school sex education classes are not a good thing. First of all, this is an area that rightfully ought to be handled by parents. I don’t know about you, but I’d feel very uncomfortable having a total stranger, someone who’s attitude about sex might be messed up and I wouldn’t know it, telling my kid about such a thing.
And then there’s the extreme twisting of present day sexual identity and values I feel are demented. No, no no. Not my kid! Good thing I don’t have to worry about that. I’m sure I would make the news if I had a school age child.
Americans are very screwed up when it comes to sex, IMO.
compared to? Thais who sell their daughters for a refrigerator, the girls service many clients a day and die of aids [This I heard on public radio, forget the talkers name or his book title, if he has one].
Compared to Africa, where the billboards ask ‘please dont rape babies’?
Tel Aviv, with 1000s of whore houses and Ukrainian sex slaves?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Israel
While doing a little back-research (trying to find when I might have first posted here), I found JHK’s entry of May 31st, 2010:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/welcome_home_to_slum_nation/
It was a poignant reminder of why I came to CFN in the first place and likewise a lens through which one can observe the ‘change’ in JHK’s perspective. To quote a couple of lines from taht Memroial Day entry:
“America today is arguably a far less civilized land, and even more neurotic, than the Germany of the 1930s. We live in places so extreme in ugliness, squalor, and dysfunction that just going to the store leaves a sentient American reeling in angst and anomie. Our popular culture would embarrass a race of hebephrenics. We think that neck tattoos are cool. A lot of our pop music is overtly homicidal. Our richest citizens have managed to define a new banality of evil. Our middle classes are subject to humiliations so baroque that sadomasochism even fails to encompass the finer points. And we don’t even need help from other nations to run our own economic affairs into the ground — we’re digging our national grave with a kind of antic glee, complete with all the lurid stagecraft that Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue can muster.”
And, this one, in particular, is relevant to today’s post:
“…I could only imagine the scene back home at the Indianapolis Speedway (or the dozens of Nascar ovals around Dixie) — the frantic idiocy of America-on-wheels, the fat slobs in beer can hats grilling cheez dogs in the parking lots, letting loose their asinine rebel yells as though this made men of them, and above it all the deafening noise of a people literally driving themselves to death and madness.” To which now might be added “wearing tehir MAGA caps”.
Finally, and prophetically:
“Memor
ial Day this year is the welcome mat to our hard time. We’ll be lucky if some honorable as-yet-unknown colonel in the wadis of Afghanistan comes home to overthrow president Glenn Beck, or whichever lethal moron ends up in power after 2012. We’ll be a very different America then, with no going back.”
You got your ‘lethal moron’, JHK, even if Glenn Beck (the person) has been sidelined, Glenn Beck (the conspiracy theorist meme) has not.
@ Majella
While doing a little back-research (trying to find when I might have first posted here), I found JHK’s entry of May 31st, 2010:
Trying to find when you first posted here? Or trawling the old posts trying to find a “gotcha”? You wanted to find him contradicting himself?
And you got nothing.
You quote, who knows why or to prove what, “or whichever lethal moron ends up in power after 2012.”.
My own first thought is that the “lethal moron” who ended up in power after 2012 – lethal to the Constitution and the Republic – was Barack Obama.
As to your preferred JHK theme, lambasting fat, four-wheeled America, I am sure he has not gone away for good. Happy Motoring is still here for the nonce. It is still the case that the Western world is plagued by obesity. 36% of US adults, 30% of Canadians, 31% of Australians, 28% of Brits, and 30% of NZers.
But what should Jim make of the fact that obesity is even worse in the Third World? Poor old Nauru has a rate of 61%. Samoa and Tonga are around 48%.
The whole world, even places like South Africa and Argentina (both 28% obese), are eating huge volumes of rubbish and the USA is far from the worst.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate
What has happened to Jim’s writing that you now so disapprove of it? That he has turned the rhetorical shotgun on a different target? He has turned it onto people like you, the fakes and frauds, the social cowards, the mealy-mouthed, the ethically inconsistent, the self-regarding, bourgeois good-thinkers, the virtue signallers, the philosophically handicapped equivocators, the tear-it-downers, the build-nothingers, the perversion-promoters, the haters of everything that has ever put food into their mouths, the magical thinkers…
and aha…there it is…JHK’s spot-on bullseye that defines all of this targets, left and right, the magical thinkers.
And that’s what you don’t like. Your own brand of magical thinking getting a little wake-up-to-yourself slapping around.
You know what magical thinking is? Thinking that a mob can burn down your local Starbucks last night, but – as you tuck yourself in and outside police patrol the smokey streets – wondering if you still might be able to get your double frapacccino with Peruvian goat milk in the morning.
Regarding obesity:
Yesterday I had a doctor appointment because I had been experiencing dizziness and extreme tiredness for 2 weeks straight. The medical practice uses various protocols to insure safety in this era of Covid. And so, I sat distanced from my fellow waiting patients until I would be called into the inner sanctum of the medical professionals behind a door with a combination lock.
This allowed me to sit quietly observing the comings and goings of people with my meanest-spirited critical eye.
Common amongst both patients and medical staff were grossly overweight Black and Latina women. The less numerous men were no prizes either.
I would observe with disgust and contempt, say, a Black woman (notice here that I am adhering to the NYT dictum of using a capital B when discussing Blacks as a race) with remarkably huge thighs, buttocks and hips. My head would be ever-so-gently wagging as if saying no. And my eyes would roll back in my head far enough to see the underside of my own brain if this were possible.
I began to wonder if the woman was weighed and came in at, say, 250 or 300 lbs and her body were divided up into 3 segments with the middle segment extending from the knees to a line encircling the midsection at the belly button and then comparing the weight of that section with the weight of the sections above and below. I guesstimated the middle section would come in at 70-75% of the total. What must it be like, I wondered, to go through life cursed with such proportions?
I was then roused from my sick reverie when a medical technician came from the back area and called out for “Q., Mr Q. Shtik.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/low-intelligence-causes-obesity-what-research-shows/
The claim is that low intelligence is related to adult obesity.
This may be because low iq people are less likely to be able to question the mass of wrong and harmful information about nutrition, health, and healthy lifestyles that they get from mainstream sources, such as Big Pharma, Mig Food, Big Med, and related bodies such as the Federal Dept of Health and the CDC.
Not very sciency, but very eugenicsy.
Eating and obesity are also connected to emotions, and people deal with it differently. Some stop eating, and others eat for comfort. There is also plenty of research suggesting that eating is a natural reaction to stress, as it prepares the body for hard times.
One of the biggest red flags here (even if you knew nothing about the subject) IMO, is the logic itself. If one is stupid for consuming products made and deemed safe and good by the beast system, then one must also be stupid for consuming the beast-produced media and study claims about stupidity. Both are, at a minimum, product of a misinfo. or a lack of info.
I also enjoyed this question at the end: “What do you think? Does the study point out an inconvenient truth? Or is it unfair to fat people?”
As if one is in a position to answer/comment on this after reading this news tidbit. Even the title is a highly misleading distortion of the (minimal) content.
The McMedia.
Obesity has zero to do with intelligence but is used as a coping mechanisms among many things.
You see a lot of sexually/emotionally abused people are over weight.
I see people with severe back or skeletal problems are over weight ie blown disks and back pain keep them from exercising so they eat to compensate and a vicious circle it becomes.
Some people suffer from Sleep apnea which can cause a wide range of issues as well as weight gain.
Some people just like to eat.
But most of all the American diet is toxic even when you think you are eating healthy unless you grow it yourself you don’t really know what you are getting.
Don’t forget, at least for folks of mid African origin – that putting on weight during times of feast – and becoming skinny during famine, is actually an evolved trait. Ditto in the Pacific islands. It mad sense then – but is counter productive in our current culture.
I call the look ‘shelf butt’–Black women store more fat in the bottom than females of other races do.
The butt sticks out like a shelf.
Gelatin is going full Antifa in her rage spiral.
Night ‘bot is masturbating to his own posts again.
Kim, I’ll get back to you later, you sanctimonious twit.
Have you figured out where I live and who my employer is, Dr.?
Rent-free in your (tiny) brainspace.
LOL.
🙂 Do I give a fuck?
Get back to me? Don’t you mean get back at me?
Such deep-seated bitterness. All civility cast aside. Was it – please tell me no – just a mask all along?
But be careful, the constant regurgitation of bile can rot your teeth.
It would appear so, Gelatin.
You were trying to find out more details about my exact location higher up the page.
Rent free.
I don’t give a flying fuck where you live, Narc-owl. Germany is sufficient information for me. My question was a genuine one. I simply want to know how committed you are to vote for the Conspiracy Thoerist-in-Chief.
The thing with narc women is that they can’t resist getting really personal.
And it is hilarious.
Kim posted:
“Get back to me? Don’t you mean get back at me?
Such deep-seated bitterness. All civility cast aside. Was it – please tell me no – just a mask all along?
But be careful, the constant regurgitation of bile can rot your teeth.”
No. I meant back TO you.
I am far from bitter, wee Kimmy. I find the whole trolling of you & your fellow narcissists quite amusing, in fact.
In terms of ‘civility cast aside’, I’m only giving as good as I get from the likes off thee, amn’t I?
As to the source of constant bile regurgitation, get a mirror.
Kim
There you go again, ascribing motivations and perspectives that fit your own perverse world view. I wasn’t looking for ‘gotchas’ – a frequent accusation from you, along with dishonesty, classic projection .
I posted the earlier writing to illustrate how much JHK’s perspective has changed in a decade.
And, FYI your arrogant tosses, I was looking back to see when I might have first posted (it was 2008, though after many years of reading the weekly posts) because stelmosfire was extolling the virtues of long-time posters, claims 12 years himself. See? Not everything is a conspiracy, you CTNJ.
Conspiracy Thoerist-in-Chief. – Maj
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One of my grandsons is named Theo.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-priest-warns-us-voters-you-cannot-be-catholic-and-be-a-democrat
How many Catholics voted for Obama? What percentage? Zero Catholics voted for Obama. Thus zero percentage.
WOW! This Fr. James Altman in the link is one sick pup.
Al contraire, he is a Holy Man. You are a sinner. The only way we could make good our Deed from the Devil was to convert the savages to our religion. Beggar that he was, he could have no place at our table down below. But in Heaven, his good deeds and the Blood of the Lamb could wash him and make his soul as White as snow.
Spiritual Downy!
As twisted as all this might seem or even be in some sense, it was the only workable formula. The Indians hate us and want to declare every square mile of North and South America to be “sacred land” off limits to non-Indians. As you know, the first duty of the Conqueror is to bear the hatred of the Conquered. They had to be kept down, down here. Now since we have imported in two or more hostile nations (the Blacks and the Hispanics), the Indians are the least of our problems.
“As you know, the first duty of the Conqueror is to bear the hatred of the Conquered. ”
How could we not ‘know’? Must be the twentieth time …
Al contraire, he is a Holy Man. – Sredni
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Oh yeah, he’s Holy. He says anyone who votes Democrat will face the fires of hell.
Of course there IS no hell but just the ‘good’ father’s assertion is enough to sicken me.
Thanks for the history lesson, Maj.
I’m not upset over JHK coming out as a Trump voter at all. We all get more conservative as we age. Fears become stronger, regardless of who’s in power. We fuss, we stew, we bemoan the younger generations for not “getting it”.
I’m saddened that the fertile mind that gave us “The Long Emergency” and “A World Made by Hand” is aging, pure and simple.
But that’s the fate of all of us. He sees the early signs of dementia in a 77 year-old, and that frightens him because he sees himself as possibly in those same shoes in a few short years. Nothing wrong with that.
Carl Jung said it well: “Life is difficult”. Put more bluntly, “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”
Clusterfuckers, cut Jimbo some slack. He’s still an eloquent elocutionist, even having slipped a notch. Sorry he’s lost some friends, but he’ll undoubtedly pick up some new ones as he goes, a little more gnarly, a little more senile…whatever turns his crank.
And won’t it be a hoot to read his blogs while the Golden Golem runs amok for another four years?
@ tom clark
This is the classic application of Alinsky’s Rule 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Essentially, this approach involves heaping and social opprobium on to the target, so that he is isolated and, out of fear, no one dares to rally to him or support him.
Very often, the left has always liked to go with the mental illness charge. This means that if, say, you describe what the left is doing, you are a “crazy” conspiracy theorist. What a looney. You see Reds under the bed. (Mental illness)
If you oppose the practise of innocent children being trained in to be sexual toys for sadists and in unhealthy and damaging filth in schools, you have “hang ups”. (Mental illness)
If you fear being killed by a jihadi, you are an islamohobe. (Mental illness)
If you want to live among people of your own temperament and culture, you are a xenophobe. (Mental ilness)
If you want to be able to use a public toilet without being accosted, you are a homophobe. (Mental illness)
You see, you fear homosexuals because you are afraid that you are one. (Mental illness)
In this case, you say Biden has dementia perhaps because you have dementia. Because you have an unreasoning and visceral fear of yur own dementia. JHK is projecting! (Mental illness)
So JHK is so mentally impaired that week-in week-out he can produce a bi-weekly column of some of the best social commentary around today?
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Slow Joe should be so impaired.
The odd part, to me, is that in many ways the orange fella has been far superior to the typical admin, even if he’s fallen short of my hopes.
I don’t see a new war, he’s been rather peaceful for a US president.
He isn’t a socialcon as much as I’d personally like, but you’d think that would be a relief to the left leaners around here.
His sin seems to be that he’s crude, which nobody denies.
Or perhaps there is a bigger sin- he broached the topics of protectionism and migration restriction. That’s neoliberal heresy, even mentioning adding barriers to free commerce in any way makes him The Devil.
I miss the old hard hat Dems who kept closed borders and industrial tariffs, I really do.
Haven’t seen any sign of an apology yet for that pile of lying filth you sent in my direction the other day. And after demanding an apology from me simply for misreading a paragraph of your brilliance. An apology which was immediately forthcoming.
Do you find apologies hard?
If so, I’ll settle for a reasoned and detailed response to my response to your lies and stupidity.
Apologies, Rupert, that went in the wrong place – meant for Kim.
No worries. For a second there I was a touch confused.
I’d like to think we can all agree or disagree utterly while maintaining a certain civility, though it seems to be harder and harder all around.
The number of topics and ways to broach the topics among family have become ever more difficult as tensions in society have increased, let along among strangers on the internet.
Green Alba
‘ Haven’t seen any sign of an apology yet for that pile of lying filth’
Nor will you, ever. Like Narc-owl, whenever found out or called out, Kim simply ignores it and moves on to his next target of indignant opprobrium & condescending snark.
So predictable, the narcissist’s nature.
What makes me laugh, Majella, is that he sent that stuff, which wasn’t just vile but STUPID and completely lacking in any kind of critical thought, but he upbraided you for a lack of civility.
CIVILITY!!!
Perhaps he’s up for the Gaslighter of the Year Award.
Misogynists have a head start. They cannot apologise to a woman. Simply can’t happen. it HURTS. And their dangly bits fall off. 🙂
while maintaining a certain civility – Rupert
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!!FUCK Civility!!! 😉
A certain amount of it is part of what lets us have this nice space courtesy our gracious host, I wager.
While I might be more of a Janos in mine own views, I appreciate that this isn’t an echo chamber.
“If you want to be able to use a public toilet without being accosted, you are a homophobe. (Mental illness)”
I’ve always wanted to use public toilets without being accosted. I guess that makes me a homophobe?
I’m pretty sure my lovely gay nephew has always aspired to using public toilets without being accosted too. How confusing.
If there were lots of jihadis about, I might fear being killed by a jihadi, BTW, but my chances of being killed by a falling chimney pot from four storeys up are statistically greater, albeit still negligible, and I’m a fairly rational person. So I can still walk past the little mosque and go to the halal shop for spices and such and really not worry too much. But if it’s a statistical outlier wind-wise, I’ll look up at those chimney pots occasionally too on my way there and back.
I wonder how my chances of encountering/being killed by a jihadi compare with my chances of encountering/being killed by Covid.
Goodness, the fun one can have with statistics. 🙂
The Gospel of Me by Green Alba. Not a ha’penny’s concern about other parts of Britain where people are threatened by them – or the vast networks of abusers who have pimped out over a hundred thousand British girls. Not a smidge! With enormous self satisfaction she triumphantly goes into the halal shop for spices – where other, lesser Brits fear to tread. The Over-Woman! Why stop there? Why not go into the Mosque as well? Why not convert?
Why not provide the statistics for the likelihood of being killed by jihadis in Manchester, dumbo, compared to being hit by a car, for instance?
If I lived in Manchester or London, my post would have read exactly the same.
I have friends in Paris and Brussels. They don’t fret about being killed by jihadis, but they take care crossing the road. I was in Paris, making my way to my friends’ home, when the Bataclan attack was taking place. It wouldn’t stop me going to Paris again. Statistics, boyo, statistics.
You’re so selfish you can’t even get past wearing a flippin’ mask in a shop, or to consider that one of the poorly paid staff might have a diabetic five-year-old who could do without mum bringing Covid home.
Even with the crime risks, the other knock-off effects of diversity are worse in the main. It introduces group conflict and real barriers of culture and understanding that make forming broader popular movements difficult at best, drives down labor bargaining power via plenitude, increases cost for relatively fixed items such as housing, increases competition for coveted slots in the social order, is used to break down native culture and family ties via sophistry (just what /is/ English/American/etc anyways huh?), etc.
Diversity is doom. Some interesting street cuisine and the smug feeling of transcending the provincial is a small payoff for the loss of your people and your home.
The ‘grooming’ gangs (in the UK)? Cartel violence? Jolly green joggers scoping out your neighborhood? Part of the cost.
I’ve been in a mosque twice. Once in town while donating blankets after an earthquake or tsunami or something somewhere Muslim, following an appeal (had to take my shoes off). And once on a visit to the Ummayad mosque in Damascus (very nice inside), where they made me wear a long, green, very unflattering gown lest my almost-60-year-old person might distract or inflame worshippers, which I found rather funny. I’m not tempted to make it a habit (haha) but it was interesting.
As the Koran states, Kill one, terrify a thousand. The same principle as the Covid scams. Works every time.
But as for the girls, it’s very much more than one. The threat there is very real. As is open Jihad if they don’t get their way. For now they depend on the power of the womb and the West actually paying them to outbreed the native populations – easy to do with low White birthrates. But they have other weapons they can use.
Btw, a nation that pays an alien people to outbreed them is already conquered in a deep sense. As they well know and you do not.
What’s the most popular boy baby name, Alba? Is it John? James? Thomas? You know what it is, you hypocrite.
@Rupert
“Diversity is doom.”
I would agree that TOO MUCH diversity is a bad idea, in places that were originally largely monocultural.
A health sprinkling of people from different cultures is perfectly fine and improves life in many ways. The decision on what constitutes ‘too many’ is for the locals in specific areas to decide, hopefully with some humanity when it comes to genuine refugees, but also with some common sense and gratitude if a significant proportion of their doctors and nurses come from abroad. And the people who wipe their elders’ bums.
The provincial? Try finding an English village without a very popular Indian takeaway.
Unfortunately the English (and Scots) went to India and executed a very effective ‘takeaway’ of resources, rendering the native population virtual slaves, for a very long time, which is the ultimate cause of the presence of ‘diversity’ in our midst. Look at all those wonderful Victorian terraces in the poshest parts of London and ask yourself where the money came from to pay for them. And the Georgian ones before them.
Janos
I didn’t know, so I looked it up.
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2019/most-popular-names-in-scotland#:~:text=Olivia%20and%20Jack%20remain%20the,Records%20of%20Scotland%20(NRS).
“Olivia and Jack remain the most popular baby names in Scotland, and Smith, Brown and Wilson the three top surnames, according to figures published today by National Records of Scotland (NRS).” 🙂
@GreenAlba
I don’t think the average Englishman or Scot benefited from the empire. The people who benefited from that also curiously benefit from global capitalism and free migration. It isn’t their ox being gored, it’s the descendants of the miserable people thrown off the land to worn in Dickensian mills.
GA the Portugese were in India before the English. Portugese were pretty cruel in the colonies they hung on to in Africa; I’d say India was better off under English administration than they would have been if the Portugese had stayed in control.
Brh
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/baby-names-popular-uk-babycentre-2019-olivia-muhammed-a8974461.html
Muhammad. We were talking about Britain and your lack of concern for it, you blighter.
In other words, Britain deserves to die. That’s your post-Christian morality for you right there. Instead of enhancing life, it is a way of death. Thank you for clearly expressing this great Evil, Alba.
Rupert and brh
I merely pointed out the reason why we have Commonwealth citizens in our midst. Many of their grandparents fought in our wars, including the last one.
You are right, Rupert, that it wasn’t primarily the ordinary man/woman in the street that benefited from the Empire – it never is.
But some pretty ordinary people made very good careers out of it just the same and acquired enormous wealth (even through the Civil Service and its generous pensions) that they wouldn’t otherwise have had. And most people benefit in some way from their country suddenly acquiring great wealth.
But that wasn’t my point. The British Nationality Act of 1948 was the result of Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nationality_Act_1948
Those people learned to speak English. They were offered citizenship a long, long time ago. If it had been Norway that had run a quarter of the world they’d have spoken Norwegian and people would have headed to a different mother country. Sometimes things just are what they are and can’t be undone. I don’t support unlimited immigration from anywhere, but it made more sense to me to have Europeans here than having more immigrants from outside Europe.
Stop talking tripe, Janos.
Or don’t, whatever …
@GreenAlba
That’s a relatively balanced take, though I’d wager the balance has long since gone over in attempts to sate the endless cheap labor desire of the post-national elite.
I think you’re more open than I am. I’m from the states and diversity is worse here and has never quite worked as advertised. I end up taking a hard stance against it for many reasons, but I know one of the inevitable ends of forced diversity is suburban sprawl- places not worth caring about, as people flee their cities to avoid increased dysfunction and tensions.
GA,
Kimmy would no doubt be incontrovertibly convinced that your nephew, being gay – sorry, Kim: a homo – will be accosting any & every user of said public toilets.
That’s as easy to believe as the Holocaust denial, and fits in the same school of Delusional thinking.
I would be tempted to pass on some of this nonsense to young Cal, but why would you want your young rellies to know any more than they need to about these people? Their life will be hard enough.
I could also tell him about that Anglin person Janos is so fond of quoting, who said something about ‘the entire purpose of the homosexual is to convert young boys’ or words to that effect, but I don’t think he’d believe me.
And, bizarrely, it’s just never occurred to us to discuss people’s sexual orientation at family gatherings. Weird, I know. 🙂
a certain class of men use toilets for sex.
At UCLA, campus security keeps a lid on it, or tries.
no lids on the commodes, however.
Pretty much what YOU apply when arguing with those who disagree with you, Kimmy. You’re very skilled at it.
” We all get more conservative as we age. Fears become stronger”’
Tom,
Fear…is that the answer? Or could decades of hard won wisdom have a factor? Youth sees only in black and white. Nuances come with experience, knowledge, perspective.
I agree Jim. This thing is going off the rails and common sense has been totally lost. On my street I have houses with Biden signs and some BLM posters. Nobody messes with them because that is their right to use their first amendment rights. At the same time the communists drove down the street and stole every Trump sign they could find. Guess they didn’t like the amount of support (4-1) they were seeing. Probably gonna get messy folks. Keep the faith and don’t ever be silenced in your opinions. Look for a massive Trump win and then contested voter counts. It’s what they do.
Evil people don’t play by the rules. Good people keep forgetting that.
Does it feel like the right time to deconstruct Jeff Bezos yet? Under his leadership Amazon has been a fervent and aggressive supporter of both Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Therefore Amazon has been involved one way or another in the rioting and looting that incidentally has destroyed many many small businesses (potential competition) and perhaps irreparably torn the social fabric of civilization. And do recall how Bezos himself said he was happy to lose racist (i.e. any and all White Conservative and Christian Middle Class and Working Class People) customers over Amazon’s in your face support of BLM. Thus Jeff Bezos clearly always supports and uplifts black lives at all costs no matter the context or circumstance huh!?
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats
Many of the entities funding the looting, the burnings, and the murders are these giant, monopolistic, parasitic, global corporations who have no interest in any nation or human beings in general. These leeches are funding those who kill our culture while killing the killers too. It’s time that these globalist criminal corporations who intentionally incite social unrest, destruction, and murder to increase their power and stranglehold on global resources are crushed and annihilated.
Did you know that he reveres Jean Luc Picard? Did you know about his ‘Clock of the Long Now’? Compare with Jim’s ‘Long Emergency’.
I’m putting politics aside for the moment and considering just the nature of the man and his company. Originally, he was going to name it “MakeItSo.com”.
Here’s some stuff, with an anti-Trump bias, about the man who ‘owns
capitalism’:
“Is there even a choice about Amazon anymore? This is a question that haunts businesses far more than consumers. Companies such as Nike resisted Amazon for years; they poured money into setting up their own e-commerce sites. But even when Nike didn’t sell its products on Amazon, more Nike apparel was sold on the site than any other brand. Anyone could peddle Nike shoes on Amazon without having to explain how they obtained their inventory. Because Amazon Marketplace had become a pipeline connecting Chinese factories directly to American homes, it also served as a conduit for counterfeit goods, a constant gripe of Nike’s. Wired reported that, at one point during this year’s Women’s World Cup, six of Amazon’s 10 best-selling jerseys appeared to be knockoffs. To have any hope of controlling this market, Nike concluded that it had no option but to join its rival. (Amazon has said that it prohibits the sale of counterfeit products.)
Ben Thompson, the founder of Stratechery, a website that vivisects Silicon Valley companies, has incisively described Amazon’s master plan. He argues that the company wants to provide logistics “for basically everyone and everything,” because if everything flows through Amazon, the company will be positioned to collect a “tax” on a stunning array of transactions. When Amazon sells subscriptions to premium cable channels such as Showtime and Starz, it reportedly takes anywhere from a 15 to 50 percent cut. While an item sits in an Amazon warehouse waiting to be purchased, the seller pays a rental fee. Amazon allows vendors to buy superior placement in its search results (it then marks those results as sponsored), and it has carved up the space on its own pages so that they can be leased as advertising. If a business hopes to gain access to Amazon’s economies of scale, it has to pay the tolls. The man who styles himself as the heroic Jean-Luc Picard has thus built a business that better resembles Picard’s archenemy, the Borg, a society-swallowing entity that informs victims, You will be assimilated and Resistance is futile.
In the end, all that is admirable and fearsome about Amazon converges. Every item can be found on its site, which makes it the greatest shopping experience ever conceived. Every item can be found on its site, which means market power is dangerously concentrated in one company. Amazon’s smart speakers have the magical power to translate the spoken word into electronic action; Amazon’s doorbell cameras have the capacity to send video to the police, expanding the surveillance state. With its unique management structure and crystalline articulation of values and comprehensive collection of data, Amazon effortlessly scales into new businesses, a reason to marvel and cower. Jeff Bezos has won capitalism. The question for the democracy is, are we okay with that? ?
On Jeff Bezos’s ranch in West Texas, there is a mountain. Burrowed inside its hollowed-out core is a cascading tower of interlaced Geneva wheels, levers, and a bimetallic spring. These innards, still not fully assembled, will move the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that has been designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years, with a hand that advances with each turn of the century. Bezos has supplied $42 million to fund the clock’s construction, an attempt to dislodge humans from the present moment, to extend the species’ sense of time. Bezos has argued that if humans “think long term, we can accomplish things that we wouldn’t otherwise accomplish.
That Donald Trump has picked Jeff Bezos as a foil is fitting. They represent dueling reactions to the dysfunction of so much of American life. In the face of the manipulative emotionalism of this presidency, it’s hard not to pine for a technocratic alternative, to yearn for a utopia of competence and rules. As Trump runs down the country, Bezos builds things that function as promised.
Yet the erosion of democracy comes in different forms. Untrammeled private power might not seem the biggest threat when public power takes such abusive form. But the country needs to think like Bezos and consider the longer sweep of history before permitting so much responsibility to pool in one man, who, without ever receiving a vote, assumes roles once reserved for the state. His company has become the shared national infrastructure; it shapes the future of the workplace with its robots; it will populate the skies with its drones; its website determines which industries thrive and which fall to the side. His investments in space travel may remake the heavens. The incapacity of the political system to ponder the problem of his power, let alone check it, guarantees his Long Now. He is fixated on the distance because he knows it belongs to him.”
In 2018, Amazon paid no federal taxes. Got a rebate of about $130 million. Go figure.
Yep. Trump sure drained THAT swamp! But at least it didn’t get a tax CUT, did it? Instead, all the Trumpistas (and the rest of us) GAVE Amazon $0.15 a piece.
Very interesting factoids about him that I didn’t know. Thank you for sharing them. Maybe it was never his intention to create a monopoly with global reach and power or maybe it was. Either way as you point out it is most important as to what a profound threat Amazon has become to basic freedom and human rights. The fact that Amazon is awash in profits but doesn’t contribute to the treasury of the US despite benefiting from the country in countless ways shows that Amazon has no loyalty or concern for the continuation of our culture our country beyond utilizing it to the fullest extent possible for profit.
“manipulative emotionalism of this presidency”?
“as trump runs down this country”?
When you look up the term “drive-by journalism”, these are the example quotes you will find.
They stand out like dogs balls in the middle of the entire text, suddenly appearing out of nowhere, without previous connection, without being justified or followed up.
It is journalistic Tourrettes.
Sure Bezos is bad, Very bad. So what does the journo suggest? Nothing. Of course before anything else we have to change Article 230 so that we can discuss it all freely.
Then it is time to break up Big Tech.
Way too precious, Kimmy:
“Drive-By Journalism
The art of writing a story that, under certain circumstances, can lead to the subject losing their credibility, their reputation, or their job. Then the writer of the story sitting back and laughing. Source: Rush Limbaugh.”
Your examples do not compute. Those quoted lines are entirely contextual. Quit whining.
In fact….you’re starting to sound like an Australian…lots of Aussie blokes are called “Kim” and the expression “stands out like dog’s balls” is distinctly Australian.
https://outbackdictionary.com/stands-out-like-dogs-balls/#:~:text='Stands%20out%20like%20Dog's%20balls'%20meaning,One%20Definition&text=Very%20obvious%20or%20clearly%20visibile,is%20looking%20in%20that%20direction.
As well, you waxed lyrically informed about what a prick Paul Keating was and offer much analysis regarding Jacinderella. Hmm.
Are you likely to admit your heritage? Did your family arrive “with or without baggage”?
Did you know that antifa has set up a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos house?
That is akin to biting the very hand that feeds you.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/jeff-bezos-guillotine-protest-amazon-workers
Not really. As so often, things are not that cut and dry.
Bezos funds the Purple Revolution groups and runs agit prop for them via the Washington Compost because he is a globalist who requires tools to shape the world he wants to exploit; however in his Amazon warehouses he treats employees like disposable livestock.
There was a great piece on Amazon a few years back, and I have refused to by anything from them since reading it.
In this case, the Antifa folks actually have a point — compartmentalized as their brains may be.
That’s the case with the whole limo lib crowd for the most part.
Oddly enough in their own eyes it’s not two-faced at all, it’s right and just. Neoliberalism just means markets uber alles. Restrictions on markets such as borders or tariffs or even, really, labor laws or protections? Wicked things that stymie human development.
They dress up their self interest as virtue in their own minds and any criticism thereof becomes dastardly vice.
Bang on, friend.
Quite so. How could they do this to us? Easily, apparently.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-says-wont-join-global-213059332.html
Won’t join global vaccine effort. Thank God. He has spat in the face of Gates, WHO, and by extension, China. Says WHO is corrupt and under China’s influence. Our President!
Yes, he’s been virulent on the virus!
Wonderful! An American Titan holding back globalist tyranny and making it easier for smaller countries to resist and dissent as well.
America is not finished yet.
This is why they hate him so.
“An American Titan…”.
Oh, please…like John Wayne? Or Superman?
That is good news! There is no cure for a cold so the whole covid vaccine thing seems to be a front for something else. Unless covid isn’t truly a coronavirus and has other elements within it that respond to vaccines differently than a typical coronavirus that is.
Well for me the takeaway is that he’s not part of the Cabal and the Plan. In good Capitalist style, he’ll make all kinds of vaccines available to us – BUT THAT’s IT. Nothing mandatory. And if the Cities and States start going that way, people will flee to States that don’t go that way. And Trump will support them.
It is a front for something else. They well know how inefficient these things are. We’re going to need more than one. And we’re going to need them every year or who know – every quarter? They love the idea of always sticking us, getting us to report for sticking, tracking us and denying us everything if we “fall off the wagon”. A fucking nightmare.
That’s my thought. I don’t care for flu shots, I’m not going to let someone stick me with some new and unknown thing rushed out the door, particularly when those someones aren’t people that I trust.
Best case in this world is it’s a racket, but a harmless one, meant to gin up profits for some connected types.
Worst case it has some serious side effects such as boosting infertility and I’d rather my bloodline continue, thank you kindly.
Ho hum – this has been a vey sad, but enlightening post and comments – a real cross section of what the USA has become. It is sure different from the country I lived in in the mid 70’s – which I have re-visited often – loved and now despair over.
What most of the posters (and our darling JHK) tend to forget, is that that when the USA sneezes – many parts of the world catch colds or even pneumonia. The actions of the USA policies are not restricted to the USA – they affect the whole planet. The tendency towards “big man” politics encourages others in other countries – especially if Trump gets away with it. Think Balsanaro etc.
But more importantly is the fact that Trump and his henchmen/women in the USA are trying (and succeeding) to remove not only the social contract (such as it is in the USA) but also the environmental one. The impacts of the gutting of the Nixon policies on the environment, won’t only impact the USA – it will impact the whole world. At least, as I understand the Democrats appear committed to reversing the Republican attack on the environment. For this reason alone, I would support them. Yes the culture is hugely conflicted – with guilt driving so much weird actions. But the global impact has to be considered. There is no planet B.
Devoid of specifics. Another Rorschach test for Trump haters.
But the truth on the Dems is right out of the bag now and you are reduced to firing blanks. So you may as well get on home – with a heavy heart, I am sure – because It must be about time for Biden to have his mush.
No, Kim
What Hugh Spencer says is right on the button. ‘Specifics’ is where the whole argument falls down a rabbit-hole. His macroview is accurate.
Your ‘truth on the Democrats’ is just the repetitive bullshit of Trump himself, amplified by his media sycophants like Hannity, Carlson & Ingraham on TV & Limbaugh and a legion of other mouthpieces on other media.
It’s simple – Goebbel’s well-known dictum of repeating a lie often enough has been President DimDon’s schtick since the 1970s.
You’ve taken it, hook, line & sinker. You’ve got plenty of company, so you hardly notice. He shares few (if any) of your political values. He has NO values, political or otherwise.
1. Fail. Someone already conjured the Nazis earlier in the thread so no Godwin’s Law “NPC of the Day” award for you.
2. As to “Goebbel’s well-known dictum”, apparently it is not well enough known, as The Big Lie was not Goebbel’s advice – how stupid a public statement would that be – but was in fact Goebbel’s account of the dishonest methods of the Lugenpresse.
Ironically, his famous description of how they work became also one its best examples. That is, for those who understand or perceive ironies.
Thanks again, genius. Keep it up and you could turn out to be known as the Wrong Way Corrigan of historical references.
The real propaganda genius in Europe and in Germany specifically in the 1920s and 30s was Stalinist Willi Munzenburg. Look him up. Goebbels was a piker compared to Munzenburg. For example, it was Munzenburg, by creating numerous Communist Front organizations, who orchestrated the massive Save Sacco and Vanzetti campaign inside the United States. Sadly for Munzenburg, Stalin grew suspicious of the Comintern and International Communists — no matter how loyal — and had them hunted down and executed; Munzenburg was one of thousands, they caught him on the run in France.
Brh
@ brh
Yes, he was in particular a master of setting up front organizations. The leftists and globalist have never forgotten his lesson of setting up a proliferation of organizations – they could all share one postbox – so they could appear to represent a wide range of grassroots voices.
It enables them to deny they are commies. Like Jacinda Ahern’s front, the international socialist student this or that which never spent a moment concerned with education or careers, the interests of students…but instead they are just looking for dupes and positions on politically appointed boards..the Homos for Christ, the Greens Against Excess Oxygen, the American Hunters Citizen Disarmament Club, Concerned Transgender Preschool Teachers, United Jihadis for the Desacralization of Christian Churches (a 501c3), International Freedom Council for Undocumented Pakistanis Freeing Mexican Oppression, the International Society for Drug Liberalization (Medellin branch), NAMBLA Big Brothers for Troubled Youth, Felons Against Incarceration,…
Munzenberg was a genius. With a printing press and a PO box he could pretend to represent the interests of every group from Alaska to the Congo from a desk in Hamburg.
ThLincoln Project sounds like something he would come up with if he were around today.
Göbbels was a student of Edward Bernays.
Edward Bernays is the godfather of propaganda (ahem, “public relations”) as we know it.
I don’t know anything about either but I am putting my money on Bernays. I think we have been involved in a propaganda war (and losing it) for nearly 300 years.
Kim
I stand corrected on the provenance of the “big lie” scam. Thanks for that.
I should have taken a few seconds to check what I thought I knew…much as it only took a few seconds to check on whether or not Federal Reserve members travel with or without passports, yesterday. Ah, but you were “given to understand”, thus deflecting any possible error onto whomever gave you that erroneous information. Nice work!
However, it doesn’t detract from the fact that this is one of Trump’s tactics, and has been from his first foray into public life.
Aside from that, your eloquent insults betray your true underlying nature – a self-obsessed, condescending narcissist. Loads of company for you hereabouts.
Hi Kim
Devoid of specifics? Hmm. So, you think it is devoid of specifics the Hugh Spencer says that Trump is a. dismantling the social contract and b. the environmental contract–by “gutting Nixon [era] policies on the environment?
Do you need him to mention the litany of things that Trump has done on the environment, or will you just concede that Hugh has a point? Here, have a look at what a well known communist rag, National Geographic, has to say about the “specifics”… https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/.
And if you don’t want to concede, can you offer some evidence that addresses Hugh Spencer’s point?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/sep/02/what-has-four-years-of-donald-trump-meant-for-the-climate-crisis
Nice try, abcdef.
Wee Kimmy will never concede when he’s wrong. *Crickets* is all you’ll get. Just take a minute to remind him a couple of times before the thread ends on Friday morning.
Hi Majella,
No worries. Kim may surprise you though and concede the point.
Good luck with that!
Such a strawman argument.
The planet will be here long after we are all dust and the sun goes dark.
How is the United States strip mining the oceans of anything that swims, crawls or wriggles through the mud?
How is the US opening one coal fired power plant a week?
Other than nuclear waste everything we do is cancelled fairly quickly for example look at reduced driving and how fast the air cleaned up everywhere including filthy China and India during the over reaction to covid.
Trump knows the word at this point runs on oil not the faux green energy and with out that your ability to even post drivel like the above is not going to happen.
@hugh
So this is how your world expectation is because this is what you are arguing for or a mad max world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK2qzuNRYAI
“All news is lies & all propaganda is disguised as news.” – Wille Munzenburg.
Willi knew what he was talking about.
Brh
Is his own statement not also propaganda, by definition?
Whatever happened in the new “Jaws” movie when the Black Lives Matter protestors showed up in Amityville to protest Chief Brody for refusing to hire Captain Quint ( played by Samuel Jackson) to go catch the racist Great White Shark that was just eating black swimmers on the beach while leaving the white swimmers alone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egrWEhSwc5Q
Amityville didn’t have any budget to hire Captain Quint (played by Samuel Jackson) to catch the “Mother-Fuck’n Shark” because the Amityville city budget had been exhausted by all of the government diversity administrators that the city had hired over the years to placate Black Lives Matter.
Puck,
Yes, who can forget Quint’s memorable phrase…” {‘m tired of these motherfucking sharks on this motherfucking beach…” and, of course, his “We gonna need a bigger boat…and reparations!”
The shark, however, was not racist…as in all other ways and endeavors, black meat is superior. Ever tried it?
…Just asking for a friend….
Ooh, you are bad!
One Peaceful Protester was arrested in Wisconsin for pointing loaded gun at the police.
Pending trial,released on $10,000 cash bond.
No surprises there,every teenager in Wisconsin has $10,000 in his back pocket.
The same Peaceful protester was arrested yesterday for carrying flamethrower and smoke grenades.
Released today on $2,000 cash bond.Them damn cash bonds are expensive and the Judge took it into consideration.
https://www.wbay.com/2020/08/31/neenah-man-arrested-at-green-bay-protest-has-ties-to-antifa/
This BS will escalate.
This is a great article. it is handy to have the names all in one place. I have been looking up a few of them. This is how you learn.
The Uniparty is going to contest the election when Trump wins.
That is the plan. Get ready for more street-level fireworks.
https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1300991437371310081
And I hope they have DC ready for Sept. 17 when Soros Purple Revolutionistas plan to “storm the White House.” The Maidan model has reached America.
It’s on, kids.
Matthew Raphael Johnson says it goes back decades, at least as far as 1971, the year he was born. This is a very interesting talk about Angela Davis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msRMb0AlfyY&list=PLpUAbNK9GAkGOsK4gKQevnqEWNGt-ooW_&index=24&t=0s I only discovered Johnson recently.
Interesting. Thx
We ain’t seen nuthing yet. It’s on like Donkey Kong. The Spirit of Nixon has descended on Trump and he will call out the dragoons (cavalry) on them.
Medical Examiner Informs Prosecutors that Fentanyl Overdose Killed Floyd
By George Parry, former federal and state prosecutor
https://spectator.org/minnesota-v-derek-chauvin-et-al-the-prosecutions-dirty-little-secret/
On May 31, the chief medical examiner informed Hennepin County prosecutors that George Floyd’s toxicology report indicates a fatal overdose of fentanyl. This information was withheld from the public for three months. This withheld information could have prevented or quelled the rioting, looting, and burning. Why was it withheld?
Fentanyl has killed a lot of people I knew and patients on the box. Fuck that shit. Son, BIL, young friends, The martyr Saint George was a dead man walkin’.
A son to fentanyl, StE? I’m sorry to hear that, man.
” Why was it withheld?”
Are you sure it was withheld? Someone posted the toxicology report on here ages ago. I remember forwarding it to my husband, as he was unaware of the fentanyl (et al) issue.
Yes GA it was with held for political reasons as another monkey wrench for the marxist revolution called BLM to use to destroy my country in favor of a woke style of government.
It’s also being used to get orange man bad out of office.
How an intelligent human such as yourself can’t or won’t see that is beyond me.
“How an intelligent human such as yourself can’t or won’t see that is beyond me.”
I merely asked a question, benr, and pointed out that I’d seen the toxicology report myself (it seems an age ago, but it was relatively soon after the event) and forwarded it to my husband. Not sure how that makes me dumb. So ‘withheld’ doesn’t seem accurate to me, since it was clearly available.
If you’ve paid attention to my posts since the whole Russia-gate thing, you’d know that I have repeatedly stated my view that:
(1) While I’m not impressed by Trump (and have criticised specific hypocrisies, e.g. using cheap foreign factories for his products), I don’t support any seditious attempts to remove him and do not wish to see him removed any other way than by the ballot. Additionally, I haven’t the slightest problem with him being re-elected.
(2) I do not support rioters in the street wrecking your cities and threatening people or businesses. In any way.
Maybe I haven’t said it often enough for you. That’s principally because I mostly try to mind my own business when it comes to your internal affairs and generally comment on things that affect us all. As I have also said recently on more than one occasion.
So, what exactly am I supposed to have done to look so dumb, despite being ‘intelligent’?
Only ‘repeatedly’ was meant to be italics there, sorry.
@ GreenAlba
There was a preliminary autopsy released very early in the whole episode that said he’d died of a heart attack. Got very little coverage. Then there was a private re-autopsy made at request of the family. That brought the charges re knee on neck May 29.
Two days later, May 31, they get the toxicology report.
Then during June, July and August, city centers burn, businesses are destroyed and people die while this information goes unreported and false narratives spread unrefuted.
So maybe the report was not “withheld”. Maybe it was just “not reported by the media”, but the media surely knew about the toxicology. That is 100% certain. But the media wanted the cities to burn.
And of course the prosecution has about the report known the entire time. They should have dropped the murder charges against Officer Chauvin. But they didn’t.
And the one armed goon who tried to kill Kyle Rittenhouse has not bee charged with anything.
So I here that the US has pumped out 125,000 ventilators to the tune of 50 large apiece. That’s $6,250,000,000.00 folks. Thanks Andrew Cuomo. Can I send you the bill?
hear
What is the historical lesson of the country of Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe? Is one lesson that in a multiracial society, it’s too tempting for opportunistic politicians to play the Race-Card and Race Hustle?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VOtV7aYzaBg
There are parallels with Spain in the early Thirties. From its inception in 1931 the Left (in particular the Anarchists) caused violence and disorder and Catholic churches, cultural institutions and clergy were targeted in particular. The policies of the left-wing government were unsuccessful (notably agrarian reform) if not harmful, and it was no surprise that the country elected a ritht-of-centre government two years laater. the political establishment, especially President Alcala Zamora) sought to undermine the government and the largest party, the right-of-centre, was barred from the parliament.
Alcala Zamora was himself ousted by unconstitutional means. The Socialist Party planned a coup d’état, a national rising. in the end, in October 1934, only in Asturias did the workers (miners) revolt in numbers. (From memory – well this is all from memory – strenuous and successful attempts were made to release those imprisoned for the failed revolution and to harass those involved in suppressing it (not sure about this last bit).)
In 1934 the Socialists (PSOE) committed themselves to Biolshevik-style extremism) under two of its three leaders, Prieto and (“Our Spanish Lenin”) Largo Caballero, who wanted to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat. The third, Besteiro, correctly warned that it would lead to massive bloodshed and accused his party of (my favourite quote) building “a Himalaya of lies”.
President Azana, who enjoys an undeserved reputation as a democrat and a moderate, supported the 1934 coup along with the rest of the Left. Azana is on record as saying that the Left alone had the right to govern and would not relinquish power.
Things got even worse after the illegal election of February 1936, and the attacks on the Church resumed or intensified. Left-wing militia caused mayhem with the acquiescence (and probable encouragement) of the government. (Does all of this ring a bell?) It became increasingly clear to the Right that if they did not act they would be destroyed. General Moa’s coup in the spring of 1936 was premature and Franco withheld his support. He finally stepped in in the summer after the murder of the Leader of the Opposition (Solano, killed at his home by PSOE youth militia and police or national guardsment) and the attempted assassination on the same day of Gills-Robles, leader of CEDA (who ws not at home when they called).
The conventional view that the Popular Front were defending democracy is laughable. I think the similarities with what is happening now are striking.. Indeed I suspect the script for earlier outbreaks of mayhem and carnage, starting with the French Revolutoin, were not too dissimilar. For example, what was the real sotry in Allende’s Chile?
@ Sean Coleman
Thanks for the precis. It is hard to get non-leftist reading material on Spain in the 1930s. If you could recommend anything it would be appreciated.
The foremost authority is Pio Moa Rodriguez, a reformed Communist terrorist from the Franco era. Unfortunately he cannot get his books translated (he said that a French publisher had been interested but did not the think the time was right). One commenter on a video of his said that it was worth learning Spanish just to read hm. It is a little bit like trying to get an English translation of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together.
It looks like the Democrats have lost it in every conceivable way: with race and the global warming and corona fantasies. I don’t know if they have a death wish, though. Quite possibly. But I think they sincerely just want to make the world a better place and are not particular about how many people get killed (as usual). As for destruction, I think they believe it is a good thing because the Bad has to make way for the Good. Collective fantasy impairs one’s judgment.
Agree. Some of the Antis may be nihilists though, whose main interest is destruction. They then conflate the satisfaction they personally feel with the idea that it’s making the world a better place. They merge in with the criminal class by degrees. No doubt some of the criminals rationalize what they are doing with BLM crap, while others just laugh about the whole thing.
Nihilism is most a White thing, degeneration back to the primitive in other words, or in some case, a true death urge. The Blacks, already primitive, don’t suffer from this.
“Masters of Deceit.The Story of Communism in America and how to fight it”
1959,by J.Edgar Hoover
https://archive.org/details/MastersOfDeceit/mode/2up
When I watch how the case of 2 lawyers who threw Molotov cocktails at the police car slowly dies or how a Felon becomes a Saint I always recall Chapter 15 of this FBI Field Manual.Commies are masters at sabotaging legal system.
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Campaigns involving court cases as a general rule provide the most sustained agitation. These can be divided into various exploitation stages:
1. The arrest stage: the “victim” has been illegally arrested. The charges are “trumped up.”
2. The trial stage: “false evidence” is being used, the jury is “packed,” a fair trial is “impossible.”
3. The appeal stage (assuming the defendant is found guilty) : in most instances a guilty verdict serves the communist purpose best. Otherwise, little propaganda is left, except for a few self-congratulatory articles. The communists use every device, inside and outside the courtroom, to break down the American judicial system.
4. The clemency stage: this is probably best suited to agitation. The Party operates a whole series of tactics. Here are a few: Mass meetings. Rallies. Demonstrations. Picket lines. These, also used in other exploitation stages, now become imbued with “gravity.” “John Doe Will Die in 2 Weeks. Wire the Governor. Demand His Release.” “Save My Boy, Please. He’s Innocent.” “Where’s America’s Conscience? This Man Has Been Framed.” Sojourns. Treks. Pilgrimages. Motorcades. Encampments.
The convergence on a selected spot, the state capital or Washington, D.C., of members and sympathizers from all over the country. They arrive by train, battered old trucks, rented buses, hitchhiking. Get your tickets, meet at the station, don’t miss the Clemency Train.
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Oregon Governor, Kate Brown’s plan for peace has been dismissed by the other agencies she hoped to bring in. Why should the sheriffs get involved, facing injury, lawsuits, and death, just to prop her up when the criminals won’t even be charged in most cases? Like the gods of Valhalla they rise up again, if not the next night then the night after.
She may be able to mandate the State Troopers to come in, but I doubt if they are very happy about it for the same reasons. Trump mocked her this morning.
He is beating them.
Nah, State Police pulled out too, their CO citing no political support and rabble being arrested were immediately released without charge by the lefty DA.
The Ladies in Charge, Mayor Wheeler and Governor Brown, are on their own ahahahaha!
Brh
A few nIghts ago the antifa-BLM mobs showed up at Mayor Wheeler’s highrise, and set the building on fire! It was the Mayor’s birthday, so naturally the energized rabble engaged In noisy street theater late into the night, disturbing the peace and generally raising hell.
Mayor Wheeler is a Harvard graduate with a large brain who always considered himself “down with the struggle”. Who knows, maybe at one point he thought of BLM-antifa agitators as his own private Comsomol Army? That was until the night he showed up at the riots for a ‘listening session’ (as if Mario Savio’s Free Speech Movement was being replayed) and was tear gassed, and a frozen water bottle bounced off the side of the head, LoL. Now BLM-antifa call the esteemed mayor “Tear Gas Ted” haha.
Brh
Echoes of Philippe Egalite in that, and the liberal nobles of late 18th century France as a whole. Reform can be good, reform can be needed, but throwing your lot in with radicals can be bad for your health if you’re a son of fortune.
Yes, very rich. “I’m with you”. Resign, asshole.
The Myth is growing. A Kenosha battle song has been written in the tradition of Irish fight music – changing the words to that old chestnut, My Little Armalite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgHwh_vF2L8&feature=youtu.be
Ah, if only Mr Covington had lived to see this. He loved Ireland predicted our Revolution would take a similar form.
Teargased Gas Bag Ted has at least had the decency to move so as not to put his neighbors in danger.
The Gaycare center sends the parents a big bill for taking care of their kid.
Drop your kid off at Gaycare….
http://www.therainbowbabies.com/Gay-PositiveDaycare.html
JHK – not to incite a circle jerk, but you’ve always displayed cojones by not hiding behind internet anonymity and putting yourself out there. Those of us with functioning brains recognize the value in that simple detail.
Upon reflection, this (for some reason) ballsy declaration may, by the domino effect, help open the door for many others with open eyes, life experience, and consternated prefrontal cortexes to start talking and pushing back. I’ve avoided social media for years because I don’t want to hear what my “friends” group-think about this or that. I also have no interest in being publicly piled-upon for playing devil’s advocate on any number of topics where the majority obviously lack simple logic and knowledge. I can handle a pile-on, but if it’s unnecessary, public and logic-free, fuck that, I don’t want it.
I’ve remained carefully quiet, except to my wife and a few select friends, who get to hear “all the hits” on a periodical basis. Even my close extended family, whom I love, are stricken with TDS and I just nod and do everything I can to move on to another topic with a closed mouth. They know I lean differently, but I see no need to engage in detail with them as they are over the opposite cliff with politics. For example, they know I shoot trap and (likely) own multiple firearms, but we don’t talk about it. Myself and others like me may need to sack up in daily public life if things are to the point they are. I’ve been writing down my thoughts, but I’ll still remain in the background – for now.
You just set a controversial bar for those that think and see.
Just wanted to say thanks, and good luck with the inevitable backlash. I presume you’ll handle it with cautious dignity. Hang on tight and we’ll see how things go.
Be careful.
My wife works for a very progressive non-profit and one of the people who recently was let go made it a policy to DOX people and her lifes mission to get people fired from their employment if she can for supporting Donald Trump or being conservative.
She has managed to get a couple of people let go and each time she is successful she tries even hard with the next person she can.
All this malignant bullshit from people who use social media and stupidly put their company they work for on Facebook, twitter, pintrest or what have you.
Understood. Tail currently tucked, I don’t intend to start doing all the things I said I’ve avoided…I just respect those who lay their stones on the block. It shouldn’t be (in America), but it can be a risky game, especially if you rely on your reputation to receive work.
benr –
P.S. Your wife’s former co-worker sounds like a prize. Yeesh. Wish we could prosecute such behavior. Probably where we’re headed, if any sense of morality can somehow prevail.
Remember that the people that are Leftist want someone to tell them what to do, they want to be directed by some form of government. Thinking for themselves is a foreign entity.
They become unstable when someone presents independent thought.
And very emotional to the point of violence.
Good post. I feel similarly, and act similarly offline. I don’t bother discussing this stuff with my US-based friends, as most, though thoughtful lefties and classical liberal types, have gone full corpro-fascist over the past 4 yeras.
Here in Germany, it is easier to discuss these things openly, even with those who disagree strongly, but I would still never do it in certain settings. Too many unhinged, emotionally fragile low-vibration types who are very unpredictable when the rage hits. Ain’t worth it.
This book should be a required reading for every ignorant cop at every police department.
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Looting-Riotous-History-Uncivil/dp/1645036693/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=In+defense+of+looting&qid=1599068235&sr=8-1
Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class.
Thank you,Vicky !!!
Lives of small business owners and their employees in Portland,Seattle,Chicago will be mightily improved !!!
If you make the Walton family and Bezos even richer, you help the downtrodden.
I wish the GOP were better on these issues, but market liberalism is so deep in their DNA they seem to have trouble seeing big biz as dangerous in this era. It’s something that needs to change but might be slow in changing. Tax cuts for oligarchs who hate you isn’t a win.
Yes, “Vicky” appears to be a real catch. (“She’s available, gents!”)
The only views that matter are hers. I imagine she’ll feel differently when the oppressed decide to burgle her home while she’s at Starbucks “writing”.
One nice perk is the 2-Star rating the book is currently receiving. Let’s go for 1, folks! Oh, and many thanks to NPR for giving this person a national platform.
Vicky is “heshe” in Newspeak.
Cleft chin makes he/she/it particularly attractive.
Yet IMHO Bradley Manning aka Chelsea Manning is all-around winner.
Mr/Mrs/Ms Manning has 12 rows of combat ribbons on his/hers/its chest.
While Lt Gen Lewis “Chesty” Puller only had 7.
IT IS NOT YOUR FATHER’S ARMY !!!
Just listening to Biden on Fox talking about how Trump needs to allocate 400 billion dollars to the schools to open safely.
This guy is a joke.
School funding is handled at the state level, we pay property taxes to fund the schools.
Open the schools safely, really a joke. No one anywhere has an idea how to do this. There is no safe way to open schools. You can “flatten the curve” maybe by mitigation, ( here I pause for a chuckle envisioning teachers trying to get grade schoolers to socially distance themselves and wear masks) or you can let her rip, allowing the crud to run through the schools as the kids will be less affected by it. Lately though, the scientists are saying that the kids, especially asymptomatic ones, may be responsible for the ongoing infection rates that just go on and on.
Joe, there is no safe way to open schools. Just a desire by you and your socialist friends to spend more money at the federal level and wrest more power from the states. Let the states do their jobs and try to open up their schools in a way to minimize the damage.
Remember the guy who said that the crud has infected 5% of the public and surge or flattened curve, will eventually infect 75% unless a vaccine is produced. That is reality and the Dems someday will understand what is really going on.
Mitigate, go to school, go to work, go to restaurants etc., open things up but use your heads to protect yourself. Our goal should be to minimize the social damage until the vaccine allow us to fight back.
Joe, quit listening to the Leftist idiots, the “know nothings” of your party, and your credibility might improve.
The latest evaluations of the Ro of the crud says that the herd immunity number is 85%.
Right, no really safe way, only mitigation. Many schools that do open will be shut down in October-November if they aren’t very careful. On top of it all, Trump may be killed by the Chinee crud.
Despite his loathsomeness, I’d never wish THAT end on President Putz.
Well, turns out the 1918 flu took out President Roosevelt, and sitting President Wilson.
How we can trust you that your quote of Joe is correct?
Magic word “Look” is missing then followed buy what you’ve written.
So Maj, Sorry for the dig 02:14 Sept. 1 2001 OK Shit happens.
No worries. It did seem out of character for you.
THRILL OF FUNICULARS
The road to the presidency can be steep, as can the descent from it, particularly this time for Republicans if that’s how it goes.
Most of us knew from the outset that it would be a wild roller coaster ride with Trump, but it’s interesting, to me anyway, that a roller coaster can be viewed as a single line funicular.
Here are some old photos of America and its funiculars:
http://www.funimag.com/photoblog/index.php/articles/us-the-great-era-of-lost-american-funiculars/
Not a thrill you say, party pooper, okay then, Fun Funiculars.
Holy Shit TS those were the days.
Funicular Days.
Look at Bezos’ background and compare to Trump:
https://celebanswers.com/was-jeff-bezos-born-rich/
Trump is a brash, bumbling, buffoon of a bashibazouk, a fake it ’till you make it president and a lying, cheating NY hustler. A spoiled silver spooner and a narcissistic fop. This is the man I must vote for, a money grubber and destroyer of the Earth?
What’s up with his elimination of the payroll tax? He said it. That’s what he wants, to eliminate it. There goes Medicare and Social Security! Read it here:
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/511608-trump-grabs-third-rail-of-politics-with-payroll-tax-pause
Yes, it always seems like character only matters when one considers Republicans or conservatives or just generally non-liberals. Liberals are always able to maintain their positions being liars and cheaters, etc., etc. I guess that is why all the coup plotters walk free and enjoy life while little people are buried under the jails if they have wrong think or have the audacity to defend themselves from domestic terrorists who announce on video and live stream their desire to murder people they disagree with. I guess that is why Jeff Bezos is able to advocate openly for open borders and do everything in his purview to undermine the little immigration controls America has, all the while actively working with ICE on facial recognition technology to assist with the apprehension and incarceration of border jumpers. Sounds kinda like people who make money off of both sides of the war. Very ethical for sure. And if celebrities do it and say it its got to be right! Medicare and Social Security are doomed anyway. How much is the final reparations tab gonna be? 180 Trillion? It’s all just gonna be printed huh
Those are certainly good points, SSL. Like most everything else, character and integrity are going to be viewed differently depending on what political lens you’re looking through.
Good analogy on the Bezos facial recognition and open borders. Right, business is business, ethics be damned. But I have to say, Bezos seems a lot better at it than Trump. And not just on ethics violations.
I just wish that we had a better candidate, but it is what it is.
That payroll tax cut, if it were to ever happen and if made permanent, would greatly accelerate the demise of SS and Medicare.
Would you pay your taxes in full if reparations came about? Tough not too, isn’t it, possibly facing jail time and all the while the coup perpetraitors get away with it?
I wish we did have a better choice too tucson. I like some of Trump’s bellicose non-PC stuff because it really did break the hoity toity mode of Washington to some extent but I guess by this point that is pretty 2017 of me. But I know that not everything Bezos has done either is all evil or what have you. And I guess he does come across in a more cultured an saavy way. I hope that it doesn’t come to the reparations thing but you know, I really am wondering if paying taxes will be enough if the colored revolution wins? I think people like us may just have to go to jail or labor camps or re-education camps no matter what. Until we either think right or are no longer a problem anymore so to speak. I’m not sure how much longer the system has before full chaos mode is reached too. Once the genie is out of the bottle its hard to get him back in it again.
I just loved it and knew it was going to be great when the audience cracked up after Trump said, ‘I like people who weren’t captured.’ Talk about irreverence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wefb0ESoVDo
Would you pay your taxes in full if reparations came about?
Could that cause a counter revolution?
SSL:
“Liberals are always able to maintain their positions being liars and cheaters, etc., etc.”
That’s a very broad generalisation…
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”
Eric Hoffer
@ Majella
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.” – Eric Hoffer
I have never understood the appeal to authority. What makes Eric Hoffer’s view any more valid than the baker or butcher’s?
Who is he that we should listen to him? And this particular quote seems especially vacant.
What a crowd-following dummy you are, Majella.
I’m pretty sure Eric Hoffer would have a similar view of your ‘pearls of wisdom’.
“I have never understood the appeal to authority. ”
How could you? As a complete narcissist, you recognise only your own ‘authority’.
Payroll taxes are paid on employed people, trump and the governors [most of them] have shut down workplaces.
Governors yes, but Trump too?
it continues and DT does not say ‘open up now’ does he?
“What’s up with his elimination of the payroll tax? He said it. That’s what he wants, to eliminate it. There goes Medicare and Social Security!”
Probably won’t happen, but…let’s be honest, the economy is now destroyed no matter what. The Fed owns our ass more than ever. Inflation will kick in next year, bowling alleys open or not. And I say that as a small business owner. Most people will, from a place of self-preservation, take some help now vs. endure worse for the forseeable future, as we are actually not noble, selfless creatures at the core. We can be, but on the whole we will always choose ourselves first. Regardless what the enlightened, reforming progressive avatars would posit as truth. They would choose themselves too, in a heartbeat (after posting on Twitter about how they won’t).
Medicare and Social Security will continue, just as fucked as they were six months ago. What’s the difference?
Have you been hit hard, if so, getting much help?
Everything stopped for a few months, no clients wanted to spend money. Got 8 weeks PPP loan worth about half of normal income for those two months. And got the one-time $1200 “stimulus”. So yes, been hit hard, but got some help. Help is done, but I’ve worked up extra income to replace. Now the question is will people keep spending money.
Sounds pretty rough. Good luck in the future, I think we’re all going to need some.
I like the fact there’s business people like Mr Mango posting on here. Not everybody is a dilettante, like myself for example.
The police department in the small hill country town of Kerrville, Texas, reported finding a man’s body last Saturday in the early evening, in the Pedernales River near the state highway-87 bridge. The dead man’s name would not be released until his family had been notified.
The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption while visiting “someone” in Fredericksburg. When he was found, he was wearing black fishnet stockings, 10-inch spiked heels, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, a false-boob padded bra, purple lipstick, dazzle dust on his eyelids, 2 1/2 inch false eyelashes, and a Biden T-shirt.
The police removed the Biden T-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.
Police do care.
Hahaha! Great – straight from The Onion?
Lol
Uh oh, in N Detroit, 16 yo Community Member shot by White Guy. Sure the kid was committing armed robbery at a car wash, so what? Trouble could be brewing in Motor City but maybe not. Maybe they’ll let this one go. It was a fair fight, both parties armed, no cops involved!
Brh
Yep
Blm’s stated goals are focused on police brutality, not fighting between
civilians.. They could care less about that, in fact they want the opportunity to do that themselves without police interference getting in the way
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/accused-killer-kyle-rittenhouse-allegedly-211844241.html
The Hero punches out evil Black girl who had attacked his sister. Is there nothing this intrepid young man is afraid to do?
“Protesters” sing Happy Tear Gas to Mayor Ted on his birthday!
In other news, the Hero, Putin, poisoned another one of his enemies. Victory by any means and against all enemies.
Mayor Ted is looking for some new digs according to the news…he’s grown tired of ppl screaming at him outside his house
800k condo, in addition to his other properties. The McResistance pays well.
“In other news, the Hero, Putin, poisoned another one of his enemies. ”
You’re straying from the narrative. The narrative is that when Putin poisons someone, it’s actually anyone but Putin.
Not the simple argument that Putin poisons people and smirks ‘so sue me – and anyway a big boy did it and ran away’.
BIDEN Polls Under TRUMP in Michigan! Michael Moore ATTACKED For Being Alarmed!
Jimmy Dore ripping the Democrats for being ridiculous, stupid, and other choice adjectives. Isn’t it amazing that during this era comedians are among the wisest in our culture? Actually, it is a commentary on our culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeKRakJSe_8
I like watching dore occasionally.. He has a low threshold for hypocrisy.. His criticism of the dnc and democrats is 100% and it’s interesting since he critiques from the Left… He has been particularly unloading on Sanders, who he correctly identifies as a complete fraud.
Yes, Jimmy has been on point on many issues. But like so many, he can’t take the final step to get out of the swamp of cognitive dissonance he is stuck in. Fear stops many from being true to themselves.
Poor old Matt Taibbi, huh? Stuck with the same affliction…I guess to a narcissist, everyone else has clay feet.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/defund-the-police-antifa-are-very-unpopular-epoch-times-big-data-poll_3485708.html
The Epoch Times National Poll conducted by Big Data Poll found that American voters overwhelmingly reject the “defund the police” movement, with 61 percent opposing the call and 24 percent supporting it.
24% of people tell pollsters they support defunding the police.
Where was the poll taken? Folsom?
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The Mighty Quinn.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/The%20Mighty%20Quinn.pdf
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https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/5038-one-terming-trump-w-h-o-s-behind-the-mask
Good summary of the RNC from the Catholic pov. It ended with an opera singer singing Ave Maria – I didn’t know that.
Pro-Lifers called out Margaret Sanger as a Eugenicist and a Racist. Imagine America with 20 million more Blacks. Paganism, especially Scientific Paganism, has a contribution to make as well.
Let us have a Moment of Silence, gentlemen.
Tom Seaver has died.
Brh
Tom Seaver has died. – BRH
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Yes, and only 75 years old. Cause: Lewy Body Dementia (Google it. It would not be my choice of ways to go) plus Covid.
This brings up the ongoing dispute about the semantics: Did Seaver die of Covid or with Covid?
Here’s a riddle for you: Let’s say I am experiencing some Covid symptoms so I go to a medical facility to be tested. They swab my nose and say they should have the results in 3 days. I leave the facility and I’m no sooner outside than I am run over by a bus. Three days later the test results come back and say that I, indeed, had Covid. Did I die of Covid or with Covid?
Keep in mind, if I hadn’t had those Covid symptoms I would not have been at that medical facility being tested and stepped outside and got run over by a bus.
I will guess that GA says with Covid. I will guess further that Sredni will say the authorities will list me as having died of Covid.
Words are very important.
To any sentient being, you did not die of Covid. In this country the death certificate would say you died of trauma (with appropriate detail). But the public health authority MIGHT list you erroneously as having died of Covid because you died within 28 days of a Covid diagnosis. It is better to go to the ONS (Office of National Statistics) because they don’t use that criterion, as far as I know, but would use the death certificate.
However, consider how many people get run over within 28 days of a Covid diagnosis. I’m betting it’s pretty damn rare. And it has to be compared with the number of people whose sequelae include organ damage or blood clots (which they never had pre-Covid) and who die 29 or more days after their diagnosis. They will not be counted as having died of Covid by the public health authority, even though to any non-partisan person, they died of Covid. What goes on their death certificate would depend on the judgement of the doctor. If they died of Covid sequelae, that would presumably get a mention, even if it wasn’t listed as the primary cause of death.
In America until very recently if you test positive for covid and die they list the death as covid.
Is that really true or does it vary from state to state?
If they died of Covid sequelae, that would presumably get a mention, even if it wasn’t listed as the primary cause of death. – GA
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I can always count on a thorough and sensible response from Greenie.
Barr eviscerates CNN hack on mail-in ballots.
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1301279197579612162
The McPress.
Whenever some brainwashed, politically correct nincumpoop levels a broad, racist accusation against white males for something that some group of people did in history to non-white people, just respond:
“Yeah, except for the Osmonds (the Mormons).”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Ax1yA9q74
Lol I am glad you rolled that one out again. I was feeling a little blue this morning and it made me smile :-).
I wonder if The Jackson’s and The Osmond’s had a big competitive rivalry? I wonder if they hurled racial epithets at each other?
LOL that would be hilarious actually. But so weren’t both groups real big in the hippie era? If they did do that they probably all got together after and smoked weed and dosed on acid and found some kind of mystical path to racial reconciliation that they forgot about the next day.
The politically correct preoccupation with Historical grievance is the same religious ethos of White Evangelical Christianity re: “Sin”? This would explain why the biggest politically correct ideological “Bible Thumpers” are white females, right?
Haha well if that is the case then it is time for you to prepare for your redemption sinner! You’ll have to be washed clean and made new 😉
Are you going to read Chasten’s book? The Society is insane.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ECgej3F8LGI
He may have something to tell me but that book will sit on my coffee table for a long time, maybe forever, without getting read. Is it bad if you view books as more of collectors items than like anything else?
Mother Mary prays and Jesus weeps, or maybe he laughs, at the electoral shit-show engulfing the US. I died like a dog, or worse than a dog, for these dick-heads, sez he, or so I can imagine. For who could have pictured in those far-off days of the Roman Empire, in that dusty backwater where he preached, that his sayings, or his purported sayings, would be a cornerstone of a mighty, globe-girdling civilization, or that his life and death at the hands of imperial officialdom would serve as the example for uncounted millions through-out the intervening millennia.
But it’s come to this, where everything is the opposite of what our intellectual betters insist that it is. Trump is a “threat to our democracy” sez they, drawing themselves to a great height. Well, no he ain’t for, by their own example, those making the accusation are themselves the most dire threat to “our” democracy, attempting but failing to overturn the 2016 election. Trump is a “threat to the Constitution”, they say, jutting their jaws, squaring their shoulders and saluting like real marines. Um, no, again, Trump is no threat to the sacred document, it’s those making that same accusation that refuse to live by its rules, that insist it’s a “living, breathing document”, and one that means what they and only they say it means.
And it’s those making those accusations that undermine the administration of justice, that threaten basic civil order in the streets of major cities, and make a mockery of sense and reason and rationality, for nothing in the world-order they envision has got the least resemblance to anything that can actually work, the proof of this blindingly obvious in the homes and on the streets and highways of the US and major western countries.
And so you sit back and laugh. As to whether it’s enough to attract the notice of deities running this cosmos, your guess is as good as mine.
V
The Deity May have given up on this very corrupted society. And rightfully so.
The master plan of the Uniparty is about to succeed this fall. We will soon be under global control via the Democratic/RINO party.
The Demrinocrats. The Deep State in full bloom.
I feel very sorry for the millennials and Gen Zers as they will never know what freedom from government control feels like.
There is very little difference between the US and Russia right now! Just wait until the Dems take over in November, we will cross the line.
The Democratic Republic of The USA will be gone. Forever!
A generation from now will record historically that all those conspiracy folks were right and the very obvious subterfuge by the Liberal globalists of the Democratic Party Was a total success.
America, you deserve what you are about to get!
Turns out the white guy in Baltimore who was stalked by a Distinguished Community Member and laid out with a brick on the back of the head in a surprise attack … was an editor at the Baltimore Sun.
Apparently it was a variation of the Polar Bear Attack prank that was popular a few years ago, and still is. It’s all caught on video strictly for entertainment purposes. And it doesn’t matter who you are as long as you are a White Polar Bear, there have been elderly ladies, 95 year old men (in Brooklyn this summer) and in Newark, NJ last year, a learning disabled handicapped man took a surprise hard right to the temple while waiting at a bus stop. Every got a good laugh out of that one.
Brh
This is just a random BS.
Organized BS with a full-auto TEC-9’s could happen anywhere.
All it takes is to built a Section 8 housing.
On the presumption that our poor,needy and disadvantaged will become rich,happy and succesfull by osmosis.
Drug War in Long Island
https://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/17/drug-war-long-islands-hempstead-getto-free-market-tec-9s-276000.html
Back then Blues (Crips) won.They had more TEC-9’s and better tactics.
Reds (Bloods) retreated to NYC,licking their wounds.
JHK’s magnificent rant in this installment has been a long time coming and one can see the slow but steady development. Slowly but surely, he is coming over to my side. That’s why I never uttered a disrespectful word against our Benevolent Host even when he deleted my posts and allowed his minions’ lies to stand. Because I know, deep down, JHK is receptive to the Truth. Even though it indicts his Tribe, which he seems very loosely attached to. We’ll know that the day of deliverance is at hand when JHK begins to sound like Brother Nathanael. DEUS VULT.
I am very happy to see Janos back in action as Sredni V. SSL, malthus, and Kim are all greatly needed here. I am too incendiary to be a regular contributor but, I’m sure Janos remembers me when I was able to post freely. Flying the Black Sun flag, I launched siege after siege against The Tribe and slaughtered Sacred Cows by the train load. That and I did some pretty good light-hearted satire as well.
The only thing I might be a tad sore with JHK is, many years ago, I offered a great example of an architectural eyesore. Unlike some of the PROPOSALS on paper which got mention in the Eyesore of the Month section, this humdinger actually exists. It took a LOT OF WORK to find all the info on it as the Canadian government is secretly embarrassed by it. Given how difficult it was to find pix and the architect firm that did it.
Maybe if JHK had featured it, I wouldn’t have gone over to the side of the Rebellion within Clusterfuck Nation.
You know how they plant agent provacateurs at legit protests?
This post seems kinda like that. Globalist playbook. Everyone is a Naziracistbigothomophobe!
Black Sun flag — get the fuck out of here .
For BRH. I know I’m obsessing, but it is a fascinating story. Here is a link for you:
https://pressreader.com/article/281582358026407
That is interesting, Snagglepus. What a mystery.
I have a book around here somewhere about ships and aircraft lost in arctic and sub arctic regions since the mid 1500s when Elizabethan Captain Martin Frobisher explored the northern coasts for gold but didn’t find any. My fav is Henry Hudson, marooned in Hudson Bay with his son and 8 loyal sailors in 1609, never to be seen again. There were quite a few aircraft lost in the 20s and 30s when adventurous daredevils tested their mettle against arctic wasteland extremes. Needless to say plenty of bodies iemain n the ice up there in excellent states of preservation, waiting to be discovered. Someday that plane will be found.
Brh
This morning Nancy Pelosi says that she did nothing wrong and it was the shop owners fault for setting her up.
What a beautiful snap shot of a typical Democrat, or even Deep State politician. To them, lying, cheating are all part of the DC game.
She knew exactly what she was doing. She was above having to respect the rules in place. After all, she is THE SPEAKER and my hair is a mess. Just like the mayor of Chicago.
She got caught! Ahaha hahahaha!
Then I saw the polls from Fox this morning and promptly felt sick. The liars and cheaters are winning. Arizona, Phoenix is polling nine points ahead for Biden. The Dems long term game plan is succeeding.
Arizona Democrats are also suppressing black voices and therefore putting black lives in jeopardy
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/03/lawsuit-seeks-to-ban-kanye-west-from-arizona-ballot/
Wow. Reading this in the news this morning. Salongate.
‘Pelosi briefly addressed the issue with reporters, saying “I think that this salon owes me an apology for setting me up.”
No contrition, just looking to play the blame game. Somebody else’s fault because of her own actions/choices. What a flaming hipocrite!
Like a lot of things the colored revolution has layers. There is the paid for street violence and riots and then there is the weaponizing of laws and perversion of good will to intentionally undermine national identity and homogeneity for fragmentation purposes. This is another way the wealthiest and most privileged soulless vampires ensure the destruction of the middle and their permanent power.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/02/data-new-foreign-born-voters-in-swing-states-exceed-2016-margins-of-victory/
SSL
Yep!!!
Rationality is now outnumbered. Demographics rather than issues determine the results now. As I have said, the Liberal game plan, that the RINO groups led by the Bushes have signed up to has just about cooked this country’s goose.
One or two more elections and the Browning of America will be complete.
Or could it be John that demographics actually always determined the issues? The White population has been declining for several decades and look at how quickly the culture has changed. The Elite are completely aware of the relationship between genetics and culture and thus their total dedication to destroying White America and replacing it with a lower culture that obeys their total and complete global tyranny.
The role of genes as a causal factor needn’t even be mentioned. Simple group dynamics works in itself- after all, in Yugoslavia the various ethnes aren’t nearly so distant as Anglo and Bantu, yet incompatibility arose all the same.
The fact that our crumbling empire has invited in large numbers of unassimilated or absimilated peoples from around the world just means the inevitable chaos will be all the worse.
Oh ok. I actually like the sound of groups dynamics better so that is appreciated. I agree!
Yeah, we have invited in large numbers of people unwilling to assimilate. But we have allowed in many many more by ignoring the immigration laws. That is a big part of the Dem master plan for uniparty control.
Wink! Wink! It is working too.
@JohnAZ
I think it goes beyond mere will or unwillingness, assimilation in the old sense is actively discouraged and what does occur isn’t to an old traditional American folkway but to the consumer culture of global capital, which is actively hostile to the old ways of Dixie, Yankeedom, Appalachia, the Midwest, etc.
Part of a plan for control perhaps you are right, but I’m not sure it started that way but rather became that way around the time ‘diversity is our strength’ became a slogan.
For diversity is their strength, so long as they can ride the tiger and keep the lid from blowing off the whole unstable mess.
Two questions, SSL.
The Black percentage is still 12 to 13% of the population! Where is the big upsurge in the number of blacks vs. whites to trigger a revolt.
A large percentage of the revolt is white!
A much better explanation of demographics is income, no, income opportunity. As the Elite grows, and the outcasts grow even faster, the time bomb is forming.
Latinos are growing faster than anyone now. If all we are doing is loading up the poverty masses by the introduction of illegal immigrants, could it be that this one issue is what is fomenting the rebellion that is coming.
Both income distribution and ethnicity are demographics.
Paying the Deep State trillions of dollars per year and allowing them to get away with doing nothing may signify it is time for Thomas Jefferson’s order to throw off this government, not the Constitution, THIS government. The Liberal piece of s**t that it has become.
If there is a leadership in the rebellion, I wonder if they know what they really want other than gimme, gimme?
I just think a multi-ethnic, multi-racial empire stretched as thin as one possibly can imagine is not long for this world. I think it is as plain and simple as that. You can split the hairs on what diversity and demographics are but the basic situation is what it is. As you say the Elite are dedicated to the destruction of this country. It’s simple. Keep letting in millions of foreigners every year and the social and cultural bonds get ever more weaker and weaker until snap, crackle, pop
Right!
In the old west, what settled things are when locals took law enforcement into their own hands,
They hung the SOBs.
Same thing today, the only thing that will stop what is happening is when folks in large order defend themselves, families and livelihoods. The revolution will stop.
“A recent statement by the National Museum of African American History points the way. It listed undesirable traits of “whiteness” that oppress blacks: linear thinking, rugged individualism, self-reliance, the intact nuclear family, a strong work ethic and delayed gratification, respect for authority, punctuality, planning for the future, English common-law justice, property rights, and good manners.”
Well, ladies and germs;
The above quote, ripped shamelessly from an article by Jared Taylor at the Unz review, lists chapter and verse, the cultural issues that have begat and maintained racism in America. Nothing less than a complete abrogation of the responsibilities of Western Culture can even begin to address the issue.
There can be no rapprochement with one who holds these views. No discussion, no dialog. No coming together of the minds. There is but one solution;
If you are white…kill yourself.
Do it now.
Hurry.
And…the link;
https://www.unz.com/article/why-america-has-gone-mad/
Nah,we’ll pass,we are not into Jim Jones/Heaven’s Gate stuff ?
One smart chick who wrote deep history books discovered a Law:
““The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold”
If Brothers want to escalate they will get what they ask for.And probably much more.
Two other solutions: Kill them or separate from them. That’s it: Three.
One more: Become them, let yourself be dragged into the abyss with them. Though this may be a psychological variation of number one we’ll give it its own slot.
So four.
Choose ye, then. Not to choose is to choose four.
They burned the dinosaur museum in Kenosha. No dinosaur ever called me a cracker.
But some of them may have eaten you like a cracker 🙂
Why not? Don’t we have dinosaur vitamins? Why shouldn’t they have human crackers?
Take the Tucker Carlson challenge. Type in Antifa.com and see where you end up.
I did. And my world was changed forever. It’s all real: Vampires, Werewolves, Demons, Zombies, etc.
And people said I was crazy, fact free, and not thinking critically LOL
They said you didn’t exist, but you’re just as real as the werewolves.
Ahahahahahaha!
Straight to the Child Molester’s homepage!
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What the mind of man…..
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Thank you, Jim for a great column, one of your best–and they’re all spot on. I came upon your site some months ago and haven’t missed a Monday or Friday since. It’s one of the main go-to sources for this political independent looking for solace in these crazy times. I also love the comments (most of them). It gives me a shred of hope that I’ll have some company in the gulag.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-orders-barr-designate-defund-013425319.html
Defund the Cities of the Coastal Plains. They are in a State of Rebellion and the Iron Heel must come down.
I guess this will do if he goes through with it. Skip over the step of investigating Antifa – that might to some very awkward findings. If Barr drags his heels, fire him. He’s done enough heel dragging already.
These cities are going to rebel once he wins and they must be weakened beforehand. And let’s face it, the Elite of these places are with the rebels – as are in some sense everyone who votes Democrat – which is the majority there. So even if they don’t support the terrorists outright, they do indirectly.
Good analysis, SV. Barr is now obviously a Deep Stater as his reluctance to release Russiagate information shows his anti-Trump colors. It is too bad that when Trump went looking for managerial talent for his administration, all he could find were people that wanted to stop what he was trying to do.
Are you laughing at Wheeler as much as I am. Revolutions eventually cut off their own heads.
One comment though. This blog has been discussing the decline in the US’s economy, even the world’s, for a long time. The income gap has been turning into a chasm. Then Covid hit. The worst effects of the income chasm and a service sector shut down will be in the cities. Concrete evidence is the increasing of the homeless situation in those cities.
So you are right. The hammer needs to be put down on the cities now.
Or CW2.
Yep, as the progressive terrorists and their allies are often heard saying “if you are not with us you are against us”. One must assume this is the operating procedure from the bottom to the very top. Plus they declared war a long time ago.
“Yep, as the progressive terrorists and their allies are often heard saying, if you are not with us you are against us”
Didn’t know George W was a progressive terrorist, he of the ‘war on turr’ – the things you learn. 🙂
High IQ take: both parties involved say it.
If you kept scratching you arm, eventually you would go through the skin to the muscle and then to the bone. Immigration is like that: a little leads to more and more to a lot.
From another angle: Can you watch a flower open? No, it’s too slow. But it opens nonetheless. Likewise immigration changes a nation slowly and then more quickly – then “suddenly” it’s a deluge and people are fleeing for their lives. If you really cared, you would know this. But you’re on the side of the immigrants because you’re one of faux “good people”.
You know, SV, I am becoming convinced that the illegal immigrants are responsible for just about every malaise in the country. The competition at the lowest levels of the food chain is making it difficult for everyone. Using the Fed money to bail out the illegals is what is destroying the federal budget, as more and more welfare recipients are being created. Our biggest problem is trying to create enough new jobs to absorb the influx.
Then Covid hit, I hope they are going home.
Yes, absolute hell for the White lower class. And the Blacks as well. And of course, a huge welfare burden and an increase in stress on the environment.
From a more subtle pov: Interest, Care, Compassion are a limited human resource. With a huge amount of that going to the Blacks and then the Hispanics, what is left for poor Whites – the rightful receipients of this from the upper classes? Almost nothing. You don’t get “points” in polite society for caring about poor Whites.
Don’t wonder about why White male suicide is thru the roof – this is why. They’re at the bottom of the social pyramid and cursed at to boot. They know they have no country any more and that they’ve been betrayed.
Easy answer, SV.
I heard a woman owning a business in Minneapolis talking about 1500 other small businesses being destroyed by the protestors having a very hard time recovering from the riots, not protests, riots.
Make it SOP that whenever a rioter, looter, thug touches or crosses into a business, that the business owner is entitled to blow the SOBs head off. The riots would cease in about 15 seconds after the first occurrence.
That is about the only thing that will put the hammer down on CW2.
Could that destruction of the independent middle class have been the main purpose of instigating these riots – from the Elite pov? I don’t get it as a political strategy. If it was, it was a goof because too many people put two and two together and rightfully blame the Democrats. Covid was bad enough, but people opened only to face broken windows and fire.
Yes, only force will stop it. Ideally, citizens and the police working together. That’s what built America after all.
KIM,
HIS–
Ronald Wilson Reagan, the greatest American President of the 20th Century. He single-handedly freed millions of eastern Europeans,
Actually, the Amnesty #1 was the beginning of the end for USA.
The Dems and rinos tricked old Ronny.
They promised to deal with immigration after the amNASTY but they refused and kicked the can down the road.
By then the gipper was worn out fighting everyone and everything one man can’t hold back the flood he only has 8 fingers, 2 thumbs and 10 toes after all.
For you Nightowl. Well, and others who are interested too.
I think dem Germans have had it….
https://consentfactory.org/2020/09/02/new-normal-gleichschaltung-or-the-storming-of-the-reichstag-building-on-29-august-2020/
Thanks. CJ’s writing on the Covid Hoax is a thing of beauty. Smart guy.
Matt Taibbi’s latest essay is right on the money. He agrees that the ‘coup’ conspiracy is real and that the DNC is loathesome.
However, he also has here provided an exquisitely detailed critique of The Trumpian Disaster – what I wish JHK could find in his heart to do as well.
Disgust & loathing of the DNC/Biden/Harris et al cabal is all very well and good, but to also dismiss entirely the toxic effect of the Insane Clown President (Taibbi’s work – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWobxRSQKQ ) is to go down a rabbit-hole.
Taibbi’s piece is here. I would encourage you to subscribe.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-trump-era-sucks-and-needs-to
Majella
I guess it is up to every individual to decide which will be worse.
I think of Trump astride a bronc trying to ride it for his 8 sec, (4 years). He has literally had the entire global Democratic Deep State thrown at him during this period. As JHK has said many times, he is taking the brunt of every really rotten decision his predecessors have passed down to him. He really has done very little of his 2016 agenda because of the constancy of the Resistance. The Deep State really has cancelled most of his stamp.
It sounds like you understand what the Dems really want, a total restructuring of this country under uniparty control. Some jerk in DC stated today that the real goal of the Dems is not to only get rid of Trump but ALL of the GOP. I know you do not like Trump and what he has done, but remember much of that has been because of the Resistance and the oncoming takeover by the socialist bastards. Do you honestly believe that Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and the gangs behind them are a better alternative. Look forward four years with both alternatives. Do you really think that Biden and his tax happy, spend happy cohorts will grow this country as well as Trump? I hope not!
JohnAz
You give Trump too much slack. His abject failure is due to a complete absence of character, which is also why he has had such resistance since he announced. Initially that resistance was from within the GOP but see now how his toxicity has colonised them – Lindsey Graham & Ted Cruz being the most stand-out examples.
Much of the criticism of the Dems is “hair on fire” catastrophising, with absolutes such as “completely corrupt”, “Demonic”’, “want to destroy the Constitution” and so on. I have no truck with either party, and certainly what the DNC/BIDEN is offering is not the socialism you fear so much, and is certainly not in line with my political views.
But, JohnAZ, did you read the Taibbi piece? I’d appreciate your thoughts on the perspective he provides. It’s only one person’s opinion, I know, but he is a respected journalist. (I have devoured everything he’s written – great books & the RS column for years,)
You Liberals do not get it, that is all.
The Dems want to socialize this country, they have since Teddy Kennedy wanted universal health care.
This government mucks up everything it touches. Every government does. The lazy ass bureaucracy is the culprit. The Dems want that Federal bloc in place and running the show. When and if it happens, the inefficiency of DC will be a wonder to behold.
Trump presented a roughshod tough alternative that presented the message, I want to destroy this bureaucracy and the people supporting it.
Your journalist has used a common technique. Destroy the target then let up a little on the people that support him. He presented nothing that would disqualify Trump. If Trump had had a few more GOP RINO votes, he would have put his plan in place and the country would have lost more of the Liberal bureaucratic ineptitude it has acquired in the last fifty years.
As it was, as Taibbi said, Trump lost most of the time and what he was elected for, a halt to the Elite tourniquet on the economy, was largely unsuccessful as the Deep State out maneuvered him time and again. I believe his own ineptitude of selecting managers under him was one of the problems. He kept picking his enemies instead of his friends. I will admit that that may be because after the GOP primary season, he did not have many friends left. He has a lot of scar tissue in his back from all the knives that were stuck in it. Proof of his inability to fill in his cabinet with people willing to follow his orders was his dependence on the Trump family.
Answering you simply, Trump got very little done of what he promised. What we have right now is the continuation of the Deep State policies that have torn this country apart domestically and globally for two generations. Remember right now that the rioters in Portland are after Wheeler, not Trump. Trump shows up in Kenosha and the people joined into reconstruction talk. Biden shows up, no one else did.
This country is still looking for the way to escape the doldrums, and the Progressive path, an acceleration of the present, is a fool’s mission.
I would call you journalist a typical unidimensional hack that should be working for CNN of the Wasshpo.
’ Answering you simply, Trump got very little done of what he promised’
Trump was never capable of “getting it done”. As Taibbi points out, he could promise whatever he liked, because he’s a salesman, that’s all. He really didn’t expect to win, either.
He’s the “Surprise!” President, and now his ego cannot accept the possibility of defeat, and his schtik has aw
Leary’s been “campaigning”, not “governing”.
Your petrified fear of ‘sociaLism” remains a major weak point in your world-view, but I’ve been telling you that for years now. I don’t expect you to change your mind…you’ll live in the fear of its imminent arrival, not realizing it’s NEVER going to come, at least not in the form you foresee.
Aw
Leary’s = always
A realization of the truth from someone who knows.
Since a picture is worth a thousand or more words, behold the Ass Wipe:
https://imgur.com/Li4YTM2
I am skeptical that 100% mail-in voting would be totally workable and free from fraud.
First of all, there doesn’t seem to be a reliable system to insure that everyone voting is a citizen. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Back in early summer ballots arrived at our house for me and my wife to use in the Primary election. Although I had no intention of voting I looked over with great care the instructions for these mail-in voting ballots. I wrote a comment about it on this board concluding that many things were bound to go wrong.
And then, also, there was mail-in census correspondence that arrived at my house. One piece was addressed to my son Thom who has lived the last 23 or more years in Philly (a different State). If they can’t get THAT part of the census process right how valid will the results be?
Regarding the accuracy of death certificates:
The sixth anniversary of my brother Armand’s death is coming up 2 weeks from now. (I have told this story before but I’ll tell it again.) On Monday Sept 22, 2014 I received a phone call from a detective in Mirimar, FL who informed me my brother had died and had been lying on the floor of his home for 5 or six days.
As luck would have it the lady (Nicky) next door was taking one of her smoke breaks, sitting just outside her front door and a mere 10-15 ft from Armand’s front door. She noticed a pile of newspapers at his door. She knew he was an early riser and that the second his WSJ and Miami Herald hit the ground he would step out and retrieve them. Nicky just happened to be an employee of the Police Dept so she called in and within an hour a team came out, broke in and found my brother. Fortunately Armand’s wallet contained a piece of paper that said “In case of Emergency call my brother, etc. etc.”
My wife and I flew to FL, arriving Friday 9/26. We met with the detective whose main concern was assuring that I was Armand’s only living close relative and that there was none other such as a wife or former wife or children. There wasn’t since my brother was a recluse of the first order.
I got in touch with the coroner, arranged for cremation and at some point was given 10 or so copies of the death certificate. By this time I had been able to determine from the dates of the papers piled up at the door that the papers dated 9/17 were the first to go un-retrieved. The paper dated 9/16 was in an office area within his bedroom. The TV section had certain evening shows ticked which I assume were the ones he planned to watch that evening. When I delved into his computer files I discovered that he had updated a certain financial file that very day and saved it at 3:30 PM.
When Armand’s body was found he was wearing short pajama bottoms (the detective shared more than a hundred photos he had taken of my brother and all the rooms of the house). and the light was on in the bathroom that adjoined the bedroom. He was on his back, half in the bedroom and his legs in the bathroom. A towel rack in the bathroom was nearly torn from the wall and eye glasses were on the floor. I could envision what had happened with near certainty as if it was captured on video. He got out of bed, almost certainly while suffering a heart attack, stumbled into the bathroom, grasped the towel rack to hold himself up, but fell and crawled several feet, rolled onto his back and died. This almost certainly occurred in the early wee hours of 9/17 although it could have been the late hours of 9/16.
The Death Cert says he died on 9/22, the date the authorities found his body. The cause of death was described with several technical terms which in layman’s language mean ‘heart attack.’ I believe the autopsy performed was at best perfunctory. They have old people dying all the time in FL of perfectly natural causes as, no doubt, my brother did. The medical examiner or coroner is not going to work OT carefully checking the body for needle injection sites or pump a stomach to see if some old duffer offed himself with a hundred pills of some sort.
So, two important elements on a death certificate (date and cause of death) aren’t necessarily accurate. If you’re somebody important maybe they’ll work harder to insure ’cause of death’ is accurate, but otherwise……………pfft!
Andrew Cuomo made a direct threat against POTUS. Hillary Clinton seditiously told Biden not to concede the election under any circumstance at all including a clear Trump victory. Nancy Pelosi called the POTUS and his allies and supporters enemies of the state. Jeff Bezos via his Washington Compost threatened America with more riots and mayhem if Biden doesn’t get elected. Biden blames Jay Bishop’s murder on his support for Trump. They were all drawn out of the woodwork by supporting rioters that would behead them if given free reign. That was easy. There will be grave consequences. Lasting consequences require consensus. The business of building. Those who are only driven to destroy or thrive off of destruction aren’t interested in building. So there isn’t any need to negotiate with destroyers or concede to them in any way, EVER. Embrace their precedent though and consume them with their own fire. They have no legitimacy and must pay for their treasons. And yes. As POTUS recently reminded us, Obama committed treason too.
There are lots of jokes flying around about Gitmo being expanded. Once can only hope there is something to it.
Obama needs to be frog-marched out of his haunted house coup control center in Kalorama straight to the nearest military tribunal. Though I confess Brennan’s trial will provide the most satisfaction.
Totally credible anecdotal testimony that Trump said that Americans soldiers and marines who died in WWI and WWII were “losers” and “suckers”.
This will (or at least should) cost him ten points out in the heartland. Is bone spurs deliberately setting out to lose this thing?
What is the context, mystery man?
By all means, post the full quote so we can all assess your credibility.
That’s all over the media now, a disinformation campaign propagated by Atlantc Magazine. Have you seen Atlantic lately? One issue last spring, out of 8 articles and stories, everyone of them was some angle on how Trump was inept, unqualified, mentally I’ll, a Russian agent and so on.
Brh
Good reporting, I’d say. 🙂
I was terrified enough by Mrs. Clinton, especially with close friends in Siberia, that I voted Republican for the first time in my life–something I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams 40 years ago. Now my feelings toward the Democrats go beyond terrified. I fully agree with your assessment of them. I wonder if they might have maintained some sense of sanity if they had won four years ago, but on the other hand, they accepted Gore’s loss in 2000 and their patience brought us Obama, who had a shot at setting things on a better path, but didn’t. The Democratic party no longer represented my interests as of 2012 and I told them so. Voting green is no longer a sufficient protest vote for me (except at the local level where they have a chance). I want to defeat these esso bees. I thought Reagan destroyed America, and then I thought W destroyed America. Nah, those two were nothin’.
Trouble out in Rochester, NY; in March, a distinguished citizen, Daniel Prude, age 39, Community Member, dosed on PCP, running naked thru the streets, subdued by the police, died in hospital about a week later.
Now apparently Mr. Prude is the latest — this week’s — Black Victim Celebrity — there have been street disturbances in Rochester and Times Square, and his family, who called the police on Mr. Prude in the first place, is angling for a monetary settlement from the city (which is what this publicity is most likely about)
These black celebrity victims are getting more and more unlikely and bizarre, from strong armed robber and fentanyl addict George Floyd — St George — to rapist and woman beater Jacob Blake, and now Daniel Prude, a maniac dosed on PCP running naked thru the streets.
Lefties need to come up with some better victims. Real victims like Cannon Hennant and Ms Baker in NC are ignored incidentally. I wonder why that is.
Rochester was at one time a prosperous industrial powerhouse, home city of the Eastman Kodak company. Those days appear to be long gone.
Brh
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“…I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election…I still view Mr. Trump as the designated bag-holder for the catastrophe of our economic quandary, but his political opponents would surely make things worse with their crypto-Marxist fantasies of a totalist American nanny-state.”
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So in November, America will choose between a “Catastrophe of our economic quandary” and “Crypto-Marxist fantasies of a totalist American nanny-state”. My oh my, wouldn’t the Founding Fathers be pleased with what we have done with their dream. Actually, probably both the economic quandary and the American Nanny State will both happen no matter what. Those trains both left the station years ago and have built up such momentum that nothing will stop them. And like in the movie “Silver Streak” from years ago, the train will roll along until crashing headlong into the remnants of The Great American Nation and leave rubble flying off in all directions until all that remains is eerie silence and a ruined Grand Hall. (In a related note, Amtrak will likely reduce daily service on many long-haul routes in October to just three times a week. It looks like The Greatest Nation In The World is incapable of maintaining even a skeleton passenger rail service for much longer).
“…here is my bill of particulars against the Democratic Party and what it has come to represent in recent years…”
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Short version: They Stopped Being Democrats.
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