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Am I imagining that Oprah Winfrey launched her presidential campaign last night at the Golden Globes Awards? Well, why not? Unlike the Golden Golem of Greatness, skulking fiery and furious in his lonesome White House tweet chamber, Americans of all identity persuasions love Oprah. Unlike the president, who attained “stable [for now] genius” status without ever reading a book, Oprah displays real curiosity about this vexing and wondrous world, and an eagerness to engage with it. Unlike the maestro of the janky Trump brand, with his penchant for serial bankruptcy and stiffing the help, Oprah appears capable of running a business empire.
Let’s face it: the Democratic Party has no other figure of gravitas on the bench. Everybody trusts Oprah, probably even more than the erstwhile Barack Obama, with his dogged allegiance to Wall Street and his fifty percent taint of innate white male cis-hetero patriarchical depravity. Oprah might be the Democratic Party’s last best hope before it collapses into the mausoleum of US political history, where the Whigs, Free Soilers, and Anti-Federalists lie a’moldering.
Politics in this land has failed in its effort to become show business, while show business is succeeding wildly in its attempt to replace politics. All Washington can produce these days is a succession of tedious irresolvable soap operas. Hollywood is enacting a grand moral drama of clear-cut heroines and villains, victims and oppressors, sticking to archetypal story-line of our lifetime: the campaign for freedom, equality, and decency. Show business loves the desert sunshine; politics is mired in the Potomac swamp. Oprah even has better hair than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Oprah herself is an object lesson in the social and political themes that America dares not talk about: a person of humble origins who succeeded wildly in American life by signing onto a once-sturdy and now-fading common culture. In fact, Oprah probably embodies all that remains of American common culture, and the multitudes adore her for it. They are reassured to know that the binding verities still exist. She moves in a realm where blackness and whiteness are emphatically irrelevant — which is surely a relief to people of good will who are sick of race-hustling from all quarters. Though she has credibly acted plenty of sharecropper roles in the movies, Oprah speaks English beautifully and doesn’t apologize for moving up from the ghetto patois of her rough childhood. She may not write all her own material — such as Sunday’s Golden Globes speech that may live on like MLK’s I Have a Dream oration — but she delivers her message with conviction. And who knows, maybe she did compose all or part of it.
One upshot of this is that Oprah might be capable of squaring the circle of America’s black-white racial quandary, which Mr. Obama could not accomplish: namely, restoring the idea that we have more in common as countrymen (countrypersons?) than the artificial barriers of the cultural Marxists falsely insinuate; that skin color, ethnic origin, religious order, and gender do not define adequately what we can be in the world, and maybe we would be better off putting those things aside and just work earnestly to bring out the best in ourselves without excuses..
This country is dying to put its house order. I daresay this is true of the great majority including the immiserated flyover folks who got snookered by Mr. Trump, and the big city hipsters who are coming into their years of power in the awful dimming of American prospects, and maybe even some of the suits in the corporate C-suits who still possess tattered memories of high school civics. I’m not promoting Oprah for president, but just you watch: somebody will. It is going to happen. The country faces enormous problems and predicaments, and the one-man soap opera at the center of it all is doing nothing but sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, leaving everybody else to choke and strangle.
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Right now I’m just enjoying watching the NYT try to figure out how to embrace Bannon. Until the expose he was the demon seed of course but now that he’s saying what they believe to be true in terms of the stability of Trump etc. they love him for it. But still, he is Bannon. An extreme case of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend” perhaps. Love watching them squirm. And the fiddler fiddles while Rome burns…….
“And the fiddler fiddles while Rome burns…….”
That was Nero. Not a nice chap at all. Created his very own Roman candles.
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question113281.html
” Fiddling while Rome Burns”
To occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis.
@ Green Alba
The CFN commentariat is a fairly erudite, culturally aware group of people who often disagree on the silliest of issues. They evince mutual respect as a rule, but rarely do they suffer fools. Your comment meant to enlighten us all about the origin of “fiddling while Rome burns” , combined with the provided juvenile link is , hands down, one of the most shining examples of pedantic twaddle ever witnessed on this comment board. Perhaps you thought you were commenting somewhere closer to home? Really, if you are unable to contribute to the conversation, why not just observe ?
Your sense of superiority is breathtaking.
That said, I had to look into the old file cabinet for some ancient survey class notes:
The source of that phrase is the story that Nero played the fiddle (violin) while Rome burned, during the great fire in AD 64. However, there are two major flaws with the story. #1 , there was no such instrument as the fiddle (violin) in first century Rome. There is no definite date for the invention of the violin, or fiddle, but it certainly wasn’t invented until at least the 16th century. If Nero played anything during the Rome fire, it was probably the lyre.
# 2 , the story may be completely false and Nero may very well not have neglected his duty at all. Nero died four years later, and we should remember that history is written by the victors. Suetonius recorded that Nero was responsible for the fire and that he watched it from a tower while playing an instrument and singing about the destruction of Troy. Others record this story merely as a rumour.
Nero was a bizarre character, but that doesn’t make this story true. Scholars differ over interpretations of events surrounding the fire. Rivalries and conflicting accounts, even those in contemporary reports, make the ‘fiddling’ story uncertain.
“The source of that phrase is the story that Nero played the fiddle
(violin) while Rome burned, during the great fire in AD 64.
However, there are two major flaws with the story. #1 , there was
no such instrument as the fiddle (violin) in first century Rome.
There is no definite date for the invention of the violin, or fiddle,
but it certainly wasn’t invented until at least the 16th century. If
Nero played anything during the Rome fire, it was probably the
lyre.”
I think you’ve just beaten me to the Pedantry Award. My comment was lighthearted and I do know it’s not historical.
But thanks anyway – I’m off to get the sackcloth and ashes as we speak.
Most people on here know I joke a bit. Sorry it missed.
Actually on rereading your response, I’m thinking of sending it to Pseuds’ Corner 🙂
Nice response, O’Greeny!
Plus, GA, Mountain gal said “fiddler fiddles while Rome burns” first anyway, so she should get the blame (if there is blame).
Least said soonest mended, I think.
Wait…I always heard that Nero was shredding on a Silver Gretsch G6129T!
Yes, like some of the responses to my post. Who cares who played the fiddle(if it really was a fiddle) while Rome burned? It’s an expression meant to convey, as you note Eoin, the attention paid to trivial matters while ignoring the significant ones all around us. So for me, the over-the-top attention paid to “will Oprah run”, the Russians, Bannon’s “tell all” book and all the rest ignores the very real significant issues we face. Add to that the focus on the latest disclosure of just who touched whose boobs and other pointless twaddle.
And how pathetic is it that a country of over 300 million can’t produce credible experienced people to run for President but only TV celebrities? That probably says where our values are though.
It”s an accepted figure of speech irrespective of how historically accurate it may be.
Anyway, I’m back in my normal casual-casual attire today. The sackcloth was damned itchy and the ashes unflattering 🙂
I Will Behave Better In Future.
People are gathering breath in order to respond to this. Should be good!
Popcorn at the ready…
From another blog:
Commenter#1:
As she accepted the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement award, Oprah gave a powerful speech about sexual harassment, racial injustice and press freedom
Commenter21:
Sure sounded like a nomination acceptance speech to me.
Really. Time for some comeuppance. I think Bannon has a better chance of becoming president. I didn’t see or hear Oprah as my cable has been long since turned off. I watch something from Netflix or from Amazon Prime once in a while. No one but a flaming liberal leftist would vote for Oprah. Or a complete idiot.
They would be the left equivalent of the ‘morans’ who voted for Trump. There are plenty of them. Now we have evidence of a comparable number on the other side. It looks like we have finally amused ourselves to death.
Oprah goes around ‘speaking truth to power.’ As if that ever worked. If you want to win, you kick power in the balls, and when it is down you cut off its head. The only thing wrong with that advice is that, more and more, power has ovaries. But the technique still works.
Oh yeah. The Trump true believers saw him as the ultimate mastermind. They perceived the man’s every move, every word uttered, every breath taken as a masterful move to crush his opponents and implement a plan well beyond the comprehension of mere mortals. The master 4-D chess player, hell 12-D chess player.
Nowadays, the bright bulbs of this collection of idiots have just shut up, hoping nobody else remembers their Trump boot licking. However, some idiots are still too stupid to see they were duped by a hustler, or they will do the idiot thing of doing anything to save face. These folks will be the loyal indentured servants of those with two brain cells to rub together.
You remind me of the person who got left with a crappy divorce who cannot stop obsessing over their ex. EVERYTHING in their life is defined by what their ex-did, what their ex is doing, etc.…
Replying to any criticism of Trump’s stupidity with this tired shit about Hillary, Obama, and crew is how children debate and argue.
ffkling, I was with you until the last paragraph. Are you referring to me?
“No one but a flaming liberal leftist would vote for Oprah. Or a complete idiot.”
Soooo unlike the “stable geniuses” who voted for the Tangerine Toddler, knowing his well documented history of serial lying, stiffing workers, filing for BK, refusing to release tax returns, dodgy ‘business’ associates, and general know-nothingness, right?
I don’t think Oprah is particularly qualified to be President per se, but she is intellectually miles above Hair Fuhrer, as JHK (correctly) pointed out, and would undoubtedly be a vast improvement. If she runs, I hope she hands that f***king moron his ass, beats him like a rented mule, and sends him back to reality TV –or even better –deserved ignominy and the ash-heap of failed presidents.
“–or even better –deserved ignominy and the ash-heap of failed presidents.”
Certainly if he joins the post-presidential lecture-circuit trail, his gigs will be a little different from the usual and the tickets will probably be cheaper. He may even develop a ‘vanity lecturing’ business model where you get in gratis and he gets paid in ego trips.
Where you get in gratis? This misreads the man, I’m afraid. It will be Trump University redux, except spun as a fake political movement. He’ll pitch the admission price as contributions to the cause, ramble for a few minutes, and then it’s This Way to the Egress.
Flaming liberal leftist= complete idiot. I’d expect many such votes alas.
No need to gather breath.
I have long thought Oprah to be both over-rated and more a figment of peoples’ imagination than anything. She can market shtick like nobody’s business but, shtick is smoke and mirrors. (Ask Bernie)
She built a big business and I tip my hat to her for that success. But, to think there is deep mental prowess and a clean slate, etc.? No.
Making everyone you associate with sign NDA’s will keep a lot of failures or unflattering doings under wraps. Not impressed.
I remember years ago she had a guy on her show to teach women about car issues. They had a wheel to show how to loosen the lugnuts and change a tire. She was handed a cross lug wrench, and she looked at it like she had no idea what to do with it. That said a lot about highly educated and connected people who need someone to help them with mundane but critical functions. At least Martha knows how to do stuff.
And Trump would know what to do with it? LOL. I doubt Hair Fuhrer would even know what it was for much less deign to actually do manual labor. That’s for the “little people” (who he routinely stiffs and suckers into voting for him).
I don’t have anything against Oprah, but do we really need another political naif running this country?
Have the political veterans done much better? Carter and Reagan were the last two Presidents who I thought weren’t slimy. We’ve been ruled by Ivy League “intellectuals yet idiots” since, and our culture and politics have degraded.
The presidency of Reagan was marked by multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any U.S. president.
The general consensus is that Reagan actually meant well and made course adjustments once he woke up to the need for them, it’s just that he was asleep at the switch so much of the time, especially in his second term. And of course now we know why.
Of course he also gave free rein to every jackal in the GOP’s vast zoo of opportunistic scavengers, but then again that pretty much goes with being a Republican in the first place.
Reagan always struck me as an interesting fellow, one like Bill Clinton who you might enjoy having a beer and conversation with. They both had that gift of gab and the ability to make someone like them. Reagan’s economic ideas were/are responsible for our monetary woes. As far as Billy boy Clinton goes, well I won’t start. I’m not so easily entertained.
Actually Doc it is a pretty easy argument to make that the longer a hack is in politics the less able they are to be useful (at least to anybody but those that pay them off and themselves). In ancient days, unless I remember incorrectly, “intellectuals” served only in advisory capacities and not in leadership roles. Real leaders must be multi-talented and have a wide range of knowledge in order to be of service to a nation and it people.
to be of service to a nation and [it] people. – Walter
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Everybody must be in a great hurry today…so many missing letters.
Perfection is seriously overrated and the thrill of “battle” is often the cause to err!
You may be right, Q. Also, I slept very badly last night and I can definitely feel the difference in my typo rate!
Just watched a trailer for Newsnight over here, which informed me that the US is ‘abuzz’ with speculation about Oprah throwing her hat in the ring.
Must go back and watch the footage – to see how ‘abuzz’ you all are.
@ Dr. Tom Quack
News flash………..President Carter is the only president since the 1920s not to have NOT engaged the US in perpetual warfare. On top of this accomplishment, Carter is the only president to have negotiated a true and lasting Middle East peace agreement between Israel and her most formidable enemy, Egypt. It’ has been almost 40 years since the Camp David Peace Accord was signed and peace and cooperation remain between the two countries. When Begin and Sadat were asked why Carter succeeded where all other presidents failed, they replied that Carter could be trusted. Carter inherited an economy in shambles. He installed Paul Volker as head of the Fed. Tough decisions were made to break OPEC. Carter succeeded. When he left office, America had reduced its importation of oil from OPEC by 1/3. Unfortunately, he would not receive the credit. Lastly, he was a truly honest, principled, gentleman who addressed the American people as adults and spoke the truth. President Carter, First Lady Rosalyn, and Grandma, Miss. Lillian visited our farm in 1980. Carter invited both Republicans and Democrats out to our barbeque because he was a good man. These were the most sincere, decent. kind people you could imagine. Everybody was so favorably impressed. Look how far we have fallen today.
Shows what little you know unless you equate slimy with honest sincerity.
Huh? I wrote: “Carter and Reagan were the last two Presidents who I thought weren’t slimy. ”
Carter and Hoover were our last two engineer presidents. Both honest, as engineers tend to be. Not great liars. Both demonized by aficionados of the subsequent other party President.
Could Carter get nominated by the Democrats today?
It seems to me that to be elected as US President now one has to be very media savvy as well as posses tons of money. We don’t’ have any interest in electing smart thoughtful people as the attention span of the average American is quite short so their attention is lost quickly. Americans are looking for flash and sound bites. Pretty much we’re into tweets. Critical thinking is dead and buried. We don’t know the difference between a persona prepared for TV and one’s genuine nature or character. We like TV and movie stars. So we get Trump and Oprah pretty much; one for each side of the table. Maybe next we’ll get that Duck Dynasty guy and Mama June; we deserve no better.
I admire Carter. One of his fatal political mistakes was being foolish enough to suggest we can conserve energy as well as “drill baby drill” Turning up the thermostat and wearing a sweater in winter is unacceptable. Most Americans won’t admit we live in a finite world and won’t until reality finally hits them over the head.
A very enjoyable post, JHK, thanks. Now I’m going to have to find out what Oprah said, as such glittering gatherings normally only flit past the boundaries of my consciousness. I didn’t even realise it was on.
Mr. K has a much stronger stomach that I if he actually watched it.
I didn’t watch the show either. Perhaps as a social critic, JHK feels bound to keep up with the zeitgeist whether he finds it terribly interesting or not.
Never mind the awards, they don’t matter. Here are the box scores from the show as Significant Cultural Moment:
Memorable Golden Globes moments: Oprah’s power, history-making wins and Seth lets loose
‘We realize how much louder and stronger our voices can be when we come together,’ says Natalie Portman
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/golden-globes-memorable-moments-1.4477210
“The ladies led the way at an unusually political Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Sunday night, as Hollywood’s highest-profile post-Harvey Weinstein awards show so far turned the spotlight largely toward female-focused stories and actors declaring, ‘Time’s up.’ …
“The Power of Oprah
“[L]eave it to Oprah Winfrey — broadcasting mogul and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s first black female Cecil B. DeMille Award-winner — to crystalize this cultural moment into a moving and emotional speech that garnered multiple standing ovations from the audience and accolades across social media.
“With her signature brand of personal tale-meets-inspirational oratory, Winfrey drew together threads about the American civil rights movement, the current backlash against sexual misconduct as well as the importance of the press in an amped-up speech that reached beyond those in the room to those watching at home.
“A different kind of red carpet couple
“A host of top actors helped flip the often inane red-carpet gauntlet on its head by turning up accompanied by notable activists working on social justice issues, from Me Too founder Tarana Burke alongside Michelle Williams, to pro tennis player Billie Jean King with Emma Stone.
“Others — like Salma Hayek and Ashley Judd, Sarah Paulson and Amanda Peet, and America Ferrera and Natalie Portman — chose to attend with a female friend as their ‘date’ for the night.
“‘We’re used to being the only women in the workplace. We’re used to being one-at-a-time players and we realize how much louder and stronger our voices can be when we come together,’ Portman noted on the red carpet.”
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Hash tag #girlpower, y’all.
Hollywood created a fetid swamp of sexual abuse, hid it for years, and now that it has come to light, loudly proclaims its virtue by wearing black dresses, and making “powerful” speeches.
Yes, and it would be nice if their black dresses covered them up a little bit more. Saw some pics and some were positively spilling out of the tops of their dresses. Seems to defeat the purpose; wearing black to protest the unwanted sexual advances of men while displaying as much of one’s body as possible on TV? Guess I’m just a hopeless prude…….
You know, it would really explain all this recent sexual harassment nonsense. One thing we know for sure about the network is that they’re always playing the long game. I’ll be really surprised if we see more than one or two white males in either party’s primary in 2020. Could be that they’re now simply unelectable, especially in view of the fact that new harassment charges can be leveled at virtually any of them so easily and apparently credibly.
Yeah, they sell their beauty and considerable sex appeal then complain when men gawk at them in their scanty attire, and, perhaps, even have the courage to touch them lightly on the shoulder. And the mass of non-celebrity young women are all too eager to follow them. Then these same women wonder why young men won’t commit and marry them.
Quite so. An absolutely disastrous model for young girls to follow since, beyond being despicable, it won’t work for them by and large, not any more in any case.
outsider, the picture you paint is a close neighbor to the ever-popular “she was asking for it” meme. Or the car thief who says, “If they didn’t want it stolen, they shouldn’t have left it parked out in public.” It completely obscures the responsibility that exists on the other side of the equation, i.e. the demand side, i.e. the men who create the market for female pulchritude.
Elrond,
Women are just as culpable in selling themselves (I don’t mean prostitution). They have a very narrow window of years to take advantage of their sex appeal, and those who have the goods would be crazy not to use what Mother Nature gave them. If women don’t want to be objectified, then they should all start wearing the Chador, with only their eyes showing so they can see. I’d be interested to see how they’d like it then.
Well give up on any idea that she will bring the country together. She is a notorious anti-White racist, raving about how a lot of Whites have to hurry up and die. At least twice when she was in Europe she accused White clerks or store managers of racism, once when the store was closed and wouldn’t open just for her. Another magic Negro high on entitlement in other words.
It’s too late for her in any case. The next presidential campaign will be Alexa against Cortana both in holographic form with long legs, big boobs and perfect hips.
Will be irresistible for both men and women alike.
It will come to that at some point, probably sooner than we think. Bodies fail, but avatars are forever. As are robots.
Only some of us have to die JS,….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sWsn1Q8lk
Of course I wonder who is going to choose which of us it will have to be….
If there’s a line for whites to “hurry up and die”, would you please consider jumping to the front of the line?
How kind of you to suggest that but you are going to have to earn my demise, absolutely everything cannot simply be handed to you don’t you know no matter what Oprah may say to the contrary.
Yes Janos, but liberal whites will fall all over her as they did for Obama as she will be a “feel good” look how liberal I am to support a black woman candidate. Have to admit I was taken in by Obama the first time around; not so for his second term. Sort of how so many in the US(and Europe) are positively falling over themselves to admit Muslim refugees as they want to loudly proclaim their liberal creds. That so many of these Muslims want nothing more than the downfall of Western society and any religion but that of Muslims seems to escape their notice.
Same here. I only knew it happened because the babblers on the radio were talking about it.
At one point I looked up from my PC monitor to the muted TV in the background and saw the awful visage of 101 year old Kirk Douglas. Whew, the horrors of abnormal longevity.
Didn’t know he was still alive. Still remember him in that Viking thing with Tony Curtis. Actually, that’s pretty much all I remember him in, although he seemed to be a ‘presence’ at that time just the same.
“Paths of Glory” and “Spartacus,” two early masterpieces of cinema’s Saint Stanley Kubrick, should be at the top of the list
Thanks, Pequiste. Paths of Glory, yes, I remember – on another level from The Vikings. Excellent film (P of G, I mean – opposite of the swashbuckling Vikings).
Q, My wife told me about it, and the worst part was that old, demented Kirk tried to speak.
It is abnormal. We’re not supposed to “get old” at all, but rather transform into “protectors” in middle age. But the Tree of Life isn’t on this planet so instead we just assume the degenerate trappings of it.
Did you also see how freakishly young Oprah looked?!? Something not quite right there!
Colbert/Stewart really should have run back in 2012 (or whenever that whuz)
Did you focus on the ‘Douglas dimple’? Is it still there, among all the leathery withers?
The cleft in the chin seems to be gone.
O’Greenie,
Here’s a link to the speech for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss6qQM054B0
I have a question for you though:
If Oprah were to be voted into the office of the Prezdensy (surely a demotion for her), won’t all of our men-type dangly bits* shrivel up an fall off, leaving us with nothing more than a sort of nebulous bump, ala Ken (of Ken & Barbie fame)?
*(Always liked that expression. 😉 )
Well, ozone, most of us have been circumcised, so we’re already half way there anyway.
“Well, ozone, most of us have been circumcised”
Really?
Yup, there’s no getting around that fact.
Wow. I had no idea. Have just looked on Wiki and you do indeed have a massively high rate compared to the UK.
Does this change things for you?
I have no idea what you mean and no interest in finding out, thanks.
GA,
Your British men don’t know how lucky they have it. You gave it up after WWII because your NHS quit paying for it. Now your non-Jewish percentage is about 4% while ours is still 55-60%. It used to be 90% only a few decades ago.
Capt S – No doubt your use of the word “drawback” has a double meaning.
My older brother was ‘done’ (1951) – so my mother told me, anyway – something to do with him crying endlessly as a baby and not sleeping. I haven’t the foggiest idea what the connection was. No such problems with my younger brother, so he’s unscathed. Brother no. 1 looks perfectly happy with life and wife just the same!
“Your British men don’t know how lucky they have it.” — and perhaps at the expense of the British ladies. The consequences of inadequate hygiene matter plenty.
So, hhmmm, who should be the “lucky ones”?
Circles
Are you suggesting a basic design fault?
GA – Perhaps not a design fault for males but, yes, it could be argued that it’s a design fault as related to intercourse with females.
Without excessive cleanliness on his part, problems routinely arise. Nature ain’t perfect and humans found a way to ….ahem….’retool’ the situation to adjust for it.
Yes, I get the risk (intellectually I mean!). I admit to my question being slightly (very mildly, I promise) facetious, which is perhaps worth a mea culpa. I need to curb my tongue-in-cheek activity – it has brought be low already today!
Anyway, my numbers are low and my relationships long – not had any problems 🙂
A Jewish pal, sadly, on circumcision:
‘The only way to lose a foreskin is to wear it off.’
Circles,
You are claiming that men are too lazy or too dumb to clean themselves, a proposition I find ridiculous, as well as an idiotic reason for circumcision. In fact, women have much more to clean down there and men are not yelling for them to get cut.
Oh my, ‘outsider’ got triggered. So, how are you in a position to know what percentage of males aren’t too lazy or too dumb to make sure they attain proper hygiene before relations?
Because, it’s pretty dumb to not realize that increased probabilities exist for acquiring or transmitting many diseases when a foreskin is present, no matter its state of cleanliness. Info for you:
AIDS – There are plausible explanations based on human biology for how circumcision can decrease the likelihood of female-to-male HIV transmission. (Also in male-to-male)
HPV – Circumcision is associated with a reduced prevalence of oncogenic types of HPV infection, meaning that a randomly selected circumcised man is less likely to be found infected with cancer-causing types of HPV than an uncircumcised man.
Other – Studies evaluating the effect of circumcision on the rates of other sexually transmitted infections have generally, found it to be protective. A 2006 meta-analysis found that circumcision was associated with lower rates of syphilis, chancroid and possibly genital herpes.
Cancer – Circumcision has a protective effect against the risks of penile cancer in men, and cervical cancer in the female sexual partners of heterosexual men.
Women’s health – A 2017 systematic review found consistent evidence that circumcision was associated with a decreased risk of cervical cancer, cervical dysplasia, HSV-2, chlamydia, and syphilis among women.
Detail provided above is from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision
Soooo, like I was saying……there have historically been practical, health-related reasons for that procedure.
Thanks, Ozone. I’ll look at it.
Not sure why your question is addressed to me, though. I don’t know as much about Oprah as you all do – we only see her occasionally over here – and I’m not taking the idea of Oprah as Prez all THAT seriously, but I’m not a fan of the gender wars anyway, so I don’t see why having her would shrivel up anyone’s bits. It’s not a zero sum game, is it?
Not being a fan of the gender wars doesn’t mean I think harrassment of any kind is OK – I just can’t be bothered with the attitude that we have to be at each other’s throats, metaphorically speaking, all the time. We’re all imperfect, whatever side of the divide we’re on.
Yes, ‘dangly bits’ is a useful and non-partisan expression we can all hopefully use without recrimination -and it lightens the mood, which often benefits from being lightened in such contexts. 🙂
“Not sure why your question is addressed to me, though. I don’t know as much about Oprah as you all do – we only see her occasionally over here – and I’m not taking the idea of Oprah as Prez all THAT seriously, but I’m not a fan of the gender wars anyway, so I don’t see why having her would shrivel up anyone’s bits. It’s not a zero sum game, is it?”
O’Greenie,
I simply addressed that joke to you as it’s my understanding that you’re of the female-type construction… and I thought it would be a fun jab at misogynists everywhere. (Thinking you’d give an amusing response. Was that wrong? 😀 )
Nope. Of course not. Sorry, my irony detector was needing a recharge, I think…
This site can be difficult to negotiate. I’m not popular on it, so I have to be careful 🙁
Ga, You’re popular in my book!
Aw, bless 🙂
Not to worry, Himself will be along soon to put me back in my place.
Already done – by another. Go back to the Beginning, Mein Frau, back to the top o’ the ‘eap, of the thread that runs so true….
*Meine* frau. Though it was your favourite language.
*Thought*
Meine Frau, even.
More haste, less speed…
Ps. I must say that I really despise the pander-y camera shots of the audience that are a hallmark of these spectacles. Why not just focus on the speaker until they’re finished speaking? I guess Hollywhacked feels we need hitting over the head with every reinforcement possible. It’s insulting in its lack of subtlety, *whatever* the platform or meme.
Being in the audience is a “role” and part of the overall performance. Every actress there – and the men are actresses too – yearn to be “caught” by the camera emoting to the speeches.
Being a woman is a performance after all. But on a deeper level, we’re all actors out on loan. It all depends who is writing our script, which we scripts we accept, and of course, how well we play it. We’re unlikely to play well a script we don’t like or agree with – not in real life acting that is.
I enjoy seeing these degenerate make believes assembled in a heap of insulated self importance.
Their state of being must be true hell: to pretend to be anything
in the painful knowledge that you are nothing at all.
It seems to be unbearable, drug filled corpses witness to the fact.
Soon enough we will have no need or use for them at all: I like
software actors, they are already good enough for my taste
and surely good enough for contemporary films. A queasy feeling must creep into their bones already.
A desperate, failing culture like the USA that selected Donald Trump to lead it could certainly select Oprah Winfrey, but to what end? I said select rather than elect because we don’t really vote for the president, do we?
The odd thing about this website, both JHK and the commenters, is that they so often speak as if American voters had many, many options for Prez in 2016 (and how the heck could they have chosen Trump?) They did not.
They had a choice between a knowledgeable business guy who understands the horrendous, entrenched corruption in Fed Gov and promised to do something about it…..versus…….perhaps, the MOST corruption-laden, long-time swamp creature OF Wash DC who would continue to generate the garbage.
Voters wanted someone who would take out the trash. Whether it happens, time will tell. But, it’s clear that the waste management team is now knocking on the door again of our primary swamp creature and the stench is irrefutable.
Seems like there are some smart people on here so, I’m perplexed why that basic reality seems to elude them.
I was hoping Michael Bloomberg would run but alas he did not, probably as a concession to Hilary. Too bad.
What we need more than anything is leadership and accountability. Trump, it seems, holds his subordinates accountable even if he doesn’t always do so for himself. Oprah did the same with several guests who used her show to falsely promote their products.
JHK has complained for years that no justice department ever prosecuted the criminals behind the housing crisis. Maybe it’s time for a new approach. I’d love to see Oprah put them in the public equivalent of stocks and pillory and exert moral condemnation in the public square.
It would certainly top the grifting of the Bushes and the Clintons, then end of whose dynasties we have To thank Trump for.
“What we need more than anything is leadership and accountability. Trump, it seems, holds his subordinates accountable even if he doesn’t always do so for himself.”
Unless of course they have the last name “Trump” or are married to people who’s maiden name is “Trump”.
Yeah, my guess is Ivanka could literally shoot someone on FifthAvenue and he would defend her. Point well taken.
Doc,
The approach should remain, that criminals go to prison, period. Jamie Dimon should be the first one in, regarding the housing crisis. His recent comment (for obvious reasons), that Bitcoin is a “fraud”, was classic. To Mr. Dimon, I say, “It takes one to know one.”
They have enough money to buy good lawyers to get them out of trouble. Some wag once pointed out that morality was more important for the poor than the rich because the rich had resources to get themselves out of trouble.
I guess what I wrote is my admission that I don’t expect the law to apply to the wealthy or powerful any more. Public shame, by contrast, can still be used against them and may be an effective tool. They can buy off politicians, but I doubt they’d want to face the wrath of Oprah.
Your expectation is correct. The the law does not apply to the wealthy or powerful anymore. There are endless examples day in and day out. I just don’t understand how people just look the other way. It’s a moral cancer.
Public shame may not be an effective tool. It doesn’t work on people who have no shame. In other words, sociopaths. Of which Mr. Dimon certainly is one.
Law is out, public shame is out…guess that leaves a tall tree and a short rope…it may work, being a little more long lasting than the one hour attention span of the typical Oprah follower.
Have you read Cialdini? Useful at getting the wealthy to be persuaded, even sociopaths.
Public shame works for the Amish, no force needed. Very powerful. It’s worth a try before the ropes come out.
Doc,
This is in reply to your comment below (Re: Cialdini). No “Reply” button below it(?). No,
I haven’t read Cialdini, but will look into it – you’ve never steered me wrong before.
On the Amish – they have a very strong moral compass, as most people do, to one degree or another. That’s why public shame is effective for them (and most other people).
The predatory sociopaths, in every fraud, racket & swindle, that run this country have no moral compass. That’s the problem.
Thanks for the lead on Cialdini. Appreciated.
She’s a female version of Obama, though yes, far more a self made person. But apparently she supported Weinstein at first. I mean there must be people who made her career possible. Evidently she’s changed her tack relative to him or someone induced her to change it.
Rather like Bill Clinton in that regard. You had to respect his will to power. It wasn’t family connections, unlike Obama or the Bushes, that got him where he got to. Oprah reminds me of that.
Janos, would you rather be ruled by Hillary or Oprah?
I watched just a few minute of the Golden Globes last night, the part where the host was–in jest– telling Oprah that she was not qualified to be president. The point being that it was at a similar event a few years ago that Trump was ridiculed; that supposedly being the defining moment that convinced him to run for the presidency.
I must admit, until last night it had never occurred to me that Oprah Winfrey might be president. We shall see, if we are still around in 2020. She is at least literate.
Sounds like a promotion to me. And how in the world do you put aside skin color, ethnic origin, religious order and gender? What else is left?
How about the deep mystery of human personality, you jackass. — JHK
Hey Jim, couple of points about today’s post. First of all, you are completely right that Oprah Winfrey (not probably, but certainly) “embodies all that remains of American common culture, and the multitudes adore her for it.” But I question a couple of the lessons you draw from her example.
First, you write: “She moves in a realm where blackness and whiteness are emphatically irrelevant — which is surely a relief to people of good will who are sick of race-hustling from all quarters.” The second part of this is right, but I think the first part misstates the case. Ask any African-American whether their own race, Oprah’s race, your race, or anyone’s race is “irrelevant” in America, and they would tell you of course not: America has always been a place where race matters. Oprah Winfrey’s achievement has been to forge a role for herself in American culture such that America itself no longer looks the same. Unlike America of yesteryear, today’s America doesn’t only look white. It still sounds white, though, which leads to my second point.
You write: “Though she has credibly acted plenty of sharecropper roles in the movies, Oprah speaks English beautifully and doesn’t apologize for moving up from the ghetto patois of her rough childhood.” Changing your manner of speaking, and shifting the cultural expectations that go along with it, back and forth between a common public realm and the smaller, provincial realm that you come from is a long-established maneuver. It’s so well-understood that it has a name: code switching. It’s a sign of privilege — i.e., that the rules are different for you than for other people — if code-switching is something you’ve never had to think about; you can simply demand it of others as a prerequisite before you treat them as your equal.
I’m sure there are lots of white Americans from certain backgrounds who work to change their accents to neutral newscaster-English — that will always be a thing. But there are lots who don’t (I think of Rep. Louie Gohmert), and I seldom if ever hear of them being berated for not measuring up to minimum expectations. It’s a problem when white guy with a thick southern or Texas accent still feels like an American while a black kid from Detroit or Baltimore doesn’t. Neither one may be prepared to be all things to all people, like Oprah, but they are both what America sounds like — not just one of them.
More of your tired preachments obfuscating the truth that Black culture in America has for decades now been on dysfunctional tract regards prospect of success in the US — or any other Westernized nation for that matter. And, on that account, so called ‘white privilege’ is enjoyed by all living in Westernized nations no matter color, ethnicity, etc., etc., etc. because all the advancements in scientific knowledge and theory referred to as modernity is almost exclusively product of Western Culture. ‘Black Lives Matter’ has done more harm to Blacks than Jim Crow laws back when, as has the ‘take a knee’ and the damaging injunctions of ‘Don’t be like Whitey’.
It’s so well-understood that it has a name: code switching. It’s a sign of privilege — i.e., that the rules are different for you than for other people — if code-switching is something you’ve never had to think about; you can simply demand it of others as a prerequisite before you treat them as your equal.
@Elrond
It is also a sign of acculturation. Acculturation, not race , is what is at issue in the United States, perhaps the world.
Race is a method of division used on the uncritical, and the unthinking; which appears to comprise the bulk of the Democratic party electorate.
Don’t think so ? I encourage you to spend some time walking around some of the “ghettos” of Toronto, and record your honest impressions; are you observing racial differences, or cultural ones? What you see in Ontario is exacerbated in the States by the economic model.
In short, no dominant culture is going to allow one that is inferior to get very far, with obviously notable exceptions, and it does not have anything to do with the color of a persons skin; If it did, how does one explain Oprah, or BHO , or James Brown, or the legion of other African Americans or immigrants who distinguished themselves in spite of such formidable segregation?
Race had nothing to do with it.
Prediction: There will be no more AA presidents. People are quick to forget that it was the non-white vote that elected BHO, two times- that is over, forever. A change in genitalia and visage will not override the cultural difference that has been on full display since 2008. The dominate culture ( not just white people) in the U.S. will not get fooled again.In the U.S., people are more divided, and alienated than they have been in 50 years. I submit that it is due to the erosion of a common American culture, and language, in addition to as yet unverifiable sources at high levels of government. One protective memory that I keep are the last words of Ma Joad:
“We the people, we go on forever.”
Race has everything to do with Oprah’s success. She’s playing the role of a Black Woman who is Queen of the Universe. Blacks love that kind of thing – sadly enough, many Whites do as well. Queen Latifah does the same in the music world. Bill Cosby did too until the Truth came out. Oprah is a hardened Black racist – and that cannot be hidden. We won’t let it be.
I would agree that had Oprah not been Black, come from an impoverished background, been sexually-abused and, yes, not been overweight — the magnitude of success she achieved would not have occurred.
Contrast to a white, Asian or Latina lady from a middle-class family, no abuse, beautiful and slender/average build. Uhhmm, no — that person could have only achieved a fraction of the success OW has.
Reality………. (although, cringe, I think that reveals alot about the psyche of American women.)
You didn’t capitalize White but you capitalized everything else, including Black. Inner self hatred or “just” a typo or unconscious sin?
Fair question. I think the inaccuracy was in capitalizing black.
Unlike with work-related writings, when typing online article comments, I don’t get too worked up about these things and my punctuation abilities have certainly declined in recent years.
I almost always capitalize Left and Right when referring to political leanings because I find it easy for people reading quickly not to comprehend correctly otherwise.
Bottomline: fat, black, female, formerly-poor and sexually-abused Oprah, in fact, later had all of that work to her immense favor. LOL, life can be crazy that way.
Kind of you to take time off from herding up the wolverines to tell us all about what life is like as a black person in a foreign country. Perhaps that is what Trump’s people were discussing with the Russians, “What is it like to be an American Vlad?”. It is easy to formulate opinions from what we read or what we see on TV, but even in formulating opinions from what we experienced, these remain severely limited in scope. Having grown up in Newark, NJ and then South Plainfield through the ’67 riots, and then working for over four decades in Bayonne, Jersey City and all sorts of other urban environs, I have lived much within black/white/brown integrated society. Ninety percent of what I have personally experienced was all races working and living is pretty much relative harmony and every one of them of any race that worked for a living lived well and peacefully.
Last year when I visited my daughter and son-in-law who are stationed in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and live just South in Clarksville, TN, I saw the most amazing situation of cohabitation I have ever seen yet. The miles and miles of single family developments surrounding this base are loaded with mostly military families and are integrated beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. White, black and mixed race families of all types living in small homes in Cul De Sacs and cluster homes, barbequing and hanging out in each other’s yards with the kids playing soccer in the back yard or baseball in the streets. I could not believe it and when I talked to everyone there about it, it was no big deal, simply the way they all lived. Yes the armed forces does tend to make brothers out of all of us, but still, it was a great thing to see.
Actual life is what it is, not what those who stare at the Boob Tube perceive it to be. You won’t hear me talking about life on Clayoquot Sound you know, it just wouldn’t be right.
The military gives them common cause and pretty much erases cultural barriers. Safe to say Janos was never in the military, or if he was, he got bounced out pretty damn quickly.
My remark was directed to Sargent Preston of the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mouth Police) but your point is well taken and damned too few actually serve in the armed forces, especially those who seek the office of Commander in Chief!
Countless Whites have been awakened to Black barbarism in the military. As have the Okinowans and Japanese who have suffered terribly from Black GI rapists.
Walter B: I’m genuinely glad to learn about the housing situation in and around Ft. Campbell. That said, the military is not the wider society — it is its own world, and I have to imagine it’s a changed one since the U.S. adopted an all-volunteer force. Everyone serving nowadays has elected to be there, which no doubt helps to foster a sense of commitment to a higher set of shared values. This is all to the good. But how sure are you that the racial equality you witnessed reflects the wider society? Maybe those shared higher values have displaced those of the wider society instead.
Re: the subtext of your comments, namely about me as a Canadian making comments about the U.S.: I think I demonstrate regularly that I’m well-informed enough to have an opinion; and I get to run my mouth how I want. It’s not clear to this day that anglophone Canada deserves to be called a society distinct from the United States. We’re a modest side-branch fortunate enough to have sovereignty in law, but certainly not in culture. Take my opinions for what you think they’re worth.
And I shall EH – and I do appreciate your intelligent commentaries and viewpoints. After all you are a pretty good egg at least IMHO. Living, working and travelling through so much of the really urban NY/NJ countryside and working with the urban people there, it just seems to me that the crap that they put in the media is not at all representative of what it really is. Ever since dirt bags like Al Sharpton found out that they could profit from racial violence they have created a new industry. They have profited from the misfortunes of racial discontent, but for the majority of us that live and work together, that is NOT how it is for the most part. But then, there is NO profit in peace, is there?
As one that majored in Personality Theory for my Honours B.A. in Experimental Psychology, the mystery of personality is not readily evident to most that don’t find an interest in studying Social Science. Journalists, & writers that are seasoned, understand the relation to creativity with respect to personality, and that’s why they are attuned to that frame of reference. Most others don’t pay much attention to personality because of the unconscious mind, which governs psychological awareness, or what is likely to be brought into conscious awareness.
RW
Maybe JHK just meant *who were are*, as opposed to what we look like and what religious set-up/ethnicity we were parachuted into by the the accident of birth, rather than anything too esoteric.
I may be wrong…
Huh?
Google Psychoanlytic Theory, Q. Shtik.
HAHA! Sorry, total typo there Q!
Who we are…
“…Oprah might be capable of squaring the circle of America’s black-white racial quandary, which Mr. Obama could not accomplish…”.
Really? One question, Mr Kunstler: when, in fact, did Obama even try? And as I remember it, if someone white disagreed with or criticized one of his policies, that person was deemed a racist; and the globalists that brought him to that level of power loved it, and must have planned it that way. How much better for the powers-that-be to have Oprah and Michelle at the top. We freedom-lovers could not only be called racists but also misogynists. WEEEEE!…Something to look forward to.
Sherlock– I did not say he tried. But certainly people expected him to act as a bridge of communication between black and white America… and it turned out he wasn’t. –JHK
Bath house Barry was and is a bridge of communication between the COLLECTIVIST NETWORK globalists and the piilaging of middle America, you censoring jackass.
Sent from the New Republic.
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It’s a cognitive trick on Whites. MLK talked about not caring about race but all Blacks and their White enablers have done since is talk about race, and legislate to put Blacks above Whites. It’s not working so Whites have to be put down even harder. And of course to give Blacks undue advantages would be unfair to other groups, so THEY all have to be put over Whites as well – even ones that weren’t ever discriminated against since they weren’t here. That is what Affirmative Action was supposed to be about, right? Righting a historical wrong? So how did all these other groups get in on it too?
A massive scam against Whites. And King would have been for it as well. He didn’t believe his own words, obviously.
I think she’ll probably make an exploratory run, but should she turn out to be a credible threat, the inevitable visit will come from some “friendly advisers” speaking for “some powerful people who prefer to remain anonymous” who will explain the realities of being president, after which she’ll either get on board with the program, or more likely, ring the bell and quietly get off at the next stop.
But should she decide to support Wall St and the MICC, she could indeed be a wonderful spokes-president in the mold of Barry O’Bomber. How about this? An Oprah-Michelle Obama ticket, with none other than Barry himself as the SecState? Now that dog would definitely hunt! It corners the female and blacks votes and pokes TWO sticks in the Clintons’ eyes.
And to add, by adding Barry to a cabinet position it subordinates him to Winfrey and to some extent his wife, so that visual’s a plus (former “most powerful man in the world” now taking orders from an even more powerful black woman); while still bringing him on board for name appeal, policy experience, and “gravitas.” And he’s made no bones about the fact that he still wants to be involved in US policy making, so that’s a win, win all the way around.
Jim Jones love things like that too. Always the lower above the higher: Black above White and Women above Men. Once when a woman managed to knock out a man (this man of love staged boxing matches), he roared with approval. He was decades ahead of his time. Only now are you people catching up to this Man of Vision. Congratulations, you have the disease in a very pure form.
Tragically, he was far too far ahead of his times, and the Democrats rejected him. Think of how well he would do now that American is just one big jungle cult! You would have risen high in his Church, the kind of Church you could really “dig”. He would have liked you….
His church? Fuck that! I’m starting my own!
Well it makes sense: she likeable on a superficial level. And let’s face it, that’s where people “live”. All those screaming White female fools will vote for her. Michelle Obama – not so much. She can’t hide her hatred and disdain nearly as well as Oprah can.
You’ll obviously vote for her – despite her vicious hatred against Whites. What do you care? You like it!
Well it makes sense: [she likeable] on a superficial level. – Janos
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You see, outsider, you’re not the only one. Standard American English is in the process of doing away with the verb “to be.”
Janos carries a pronounced passive/aggressive streak around with him in that closet of his. You see it when he projects his assumptions on others instead of just dealing with the comment itself.
But I still think he’s still a good guy way down deep. Now granted, it might take some serious mining equipment and a small army of colored laborers to get at it, but it’s there, somewhere!
“But I still think he’s still a good guy way down deep. Now granted, it might take some serious mining equipment and a small army of colored laborers to get at it, but it’s there, somewhere!”
I think it would take equipment more impressive than that used for fossil ice samples for prehistoric climate records, but if you say so… I did say no-one is irredeemable 🙂
I’m still trying to mentally picture him. Haven’t quite brought it into focus yet, but I’m getting closer every day!
Quite right, Crotch. Orwell said the same thing: the Fascist is really a decent fellow what with his hot water bottle, devotion to motherhood, and concern about his precious bodily fluids. He considers himself holding the Pass against the Barbarians. Orwell doubted that but in fact, we are doing just that. But he did admit that Fascists were capable of cooperating with each other, and that had they won, Western Civilization would have gone on.
What do you think he would have said of Europe today? Think he would have been pleased? I like him because he obviously loved England with a passion. Think he would have accepted it becoming a colony of Africa and Pakistan? I do not. Hitler saw farther and deeper than almost any. Many who love England have come to see just that. And yes, Hitler loved England as a great Nordic Nation and World Builder. I know that kind of stuff left Orwell cold, but it’s a lot closer than “Londonistan”. I appreciate both men’s views on reality, complimentary I’d say. Big view and the smaller, intimate view. The visions can be reconciled.
Scratch
“I’m still trying to mentally picture him. Haven’t quite brought it into focus yet, but I’m getting closer every day!”
You’re even closer now that you were. Further down Janos says a lady told him he looked like Christopher Wren.
He doesn’t say at what age, though, and CW lived to 90-ish, so you’ll have to keep refining your mental image till you have more clues. 🙂
I am obviously more lenient than you, Q. On both occasions I gave the benefit of the doubt and assumed a typo, even for Janos, who is not my best buddy.
Yes, unless you are billionaire you shouldn’t be qualified for any political office. Just like the founding fathers designed it.
I think before we start working on our country’s problems we need to stop murdering people in other countries and stealing their gold, natural resources and labor. I don’t know, call me old-fashioned, but I do believe that the people who live in Palestine, Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, etc, have the right to live their lives, be happy, and determine their own path in life. I don’t think dropping bombs on families in these countries, and destroying the civilian infrastructure, is an American trait that I can embrace. Murder and theft? Uh, no, it’s not kosher. It needs to stop.
Sadly, that’s the one thing that’s non-negotiable.
Indeed. Comments were made on the last thread, as they have been on other threads, about foreign aid being theft from the American people.
Just think how much good could have been achieved if the money spent bombing people had been spent *wisely* on civilian projects instead.
I obviously don’t mean the more nefarious projects, as we have occasionally seen on my side of the Pond, where ‘foreign aid’ has virtually meant vouchers to buy British military kit or grandiose schemes that benefit local kleptocrats rather than ordinary people. But properly managed and monitored by people of goodwill and good character, every American/British penny genuinely spent well would reap rewards for our countries too – for a start it would mean fewer people would feel obliged to escape the places they call home.
And we know that the most significant factor in reducing overpopulation is the education of women, so go for it and stop finding spurious excuses not to fund them. Everyone benefits, including us.
And yes, I know, Taliban etc. But they’re not everywhere. And if people have schools and hospitals, they’re far less likely to put up with the psychopaths coming in and taking over.
patrickd,
Yeah, I thought the ol’ self-determination thang was paramount in the pantheon of ‘Mer’kin values. Maybe no longer? Dispensing with a truckload of hypocrisy would be a good start to managing the coming contractions.
Not kosher? Is that some kind of joke? You do know that our Foreign Policy is largely in the hand of Jews, right? Jews who see America’s interests as identical to those of Israel?
You mean all those billions we provide to the Palestinians and to Hamas via Gaza is supported by Jews? Who woulda’ thunk it!
It’s funny, PatrickD, but I get so furious about Libya that I choke up and can’t talk about it. Nothing whatsoever to do with me personally (no dog in fight) but the idea that the highly-imperfect Moammar Khadaffi was targeted because he wanted to set up a pan-African bank, based on Libya’s gold reserves, AND THE NATO PIRATES STOLE HIS FUCKING GOLD, all 170+ tons of it.
I daresay it did not reside long in Fort Knox (assuming it ever got that far) before it was spirited off to the Middle Kingdom in payment of tribute.
Some schadenfreude there too I confess – although I wouldn’t be surprised if those three thousand tons of Chinese gold ended up radioactive and unusable. As Auric Goldfinger planned.
(And now the desperate black African hordes pour into western Europe through a broken Libya, precisely as Khadaffi warned us about.)
If Oprah runs, she might be facing a challenge from another billionaire, Mark Cuban. He hates Trump (though like the Donald is also a reality TV star – on “Shark Tank”) and has made noises about running, but I don’t think he’s selected a party, which would be a good sign not to box himself in. If he goes Democrat, a Winfrey v Cuban race would be fascinating. I don’t see any professional pols in that party who could beat them. Both Biden and Bernie are older than Trump – in other words TOO DAMN OLD.
And, IF it is true, as Michael Wolff claims, that Trump might be developing Alzheimer’s, I hope he’ll have enough sense left to not run again, IF he survives this term. I still have some respect for Trump for putting himself through this madness, when he could have spent his declining days playing golf on his many golf courses. The man, ill-prepared for the job or not, has been treated unfairly all along, and I’d hate to see a demented old man facing such ridicule in a second term.
Wrong sex, wrong race, and the presidency would actually be a step down for him.
Mark probably isn’t even a real Cuban, the fraud!
Scratch, it was a step down for Trump also. Ann Coulter, an early Trump backer who was ridiculed for saying he would win, made that point when she said that Trump was the only candidate in the race whose life would be much worse if he won.
Well, as the Wolff book contends, he never actually planned to win anyway. But unlike Trump, Cuban is at least rational. I doubt he’s stupid enough to get drug into that quagmire, even purely as a brand enhancement strategy. And I doubt anyone after Trump will be able to misrepresent themselves so grossly again, although you just never know these days. Just when you think we’ve plumbed the very bottom of the cesspool, the American people dig a hole and hit another wellspring of shit.
So no more White Male presidents? I’m awe of how easily and gleefully you accept that! Such reptilian flexibility….
Not until the men behind the curtain say so at least. This is obviously a well-coordinated full court press now. Hey, when we gonna get together and hammer some brewskies? I’ll bet you’d be a barrel of laughs to party with!
One woman at a poetry reading said I was the spitting image of Sir Christopher Wren, the great architect of London. She brought in an old picture and I could see the resemblance. .
The Celts once ruled much of Europe, being Overlords even over some of the Germans. Originally, they were much like them. But they softened thru easy living and of course they intermarried with their conquests and lost the purity of their racial type.
“But they softened thru easy living and of course they intermarried with their conquests and lost the purity of their racial type.”
Good for them. As I said in another context, monocultures are vulnerable to disease. In this context, psychological ones, also.
Idée fixe being one of them.
I doubt Trump deserves a shred of respect for the reason you cite. He got himself into the predicament because of utter cluelessness about the demands/responsibilities of the position.
Evelyn,
There were 15 anti-Russia neoconservatives, plus Rand Paul, running against Trump and he handily beat them all. I am thankful for that, though I wish that Rand had caught fire instead of the Donald. The people wanted peace with Russia, but the MIC would have none of that. The tragic part is that Trump could not stand up against the entire apparatus of the Deep State (how could he?), and he’s now become a neocon himself.
And of course the worst anti-Russian of then all you didn’t mention, but she came afterwards.
Of the republicans, Rand would have been my preference too. But for me Bernie was the one.
I blame Trump on Hillary.
Be thankful we didn’t get Bernie. He’s not really who you think he is. He also pals around with some serious white haters. But yes, Trump can be blamed on Hillary as the Dems didn’t run a credible(or likeable) candidate. And Trump can be blamed on the Repubs as they ran a cast of thousands and he was the one who stood out and was the last man standing.
The biggest problem to achieving all this good stuff is the oligarchs who are on a looting expedition of this country in every way. From the destruction of non-stop drilling and all the national parks and coasts and Alaska…..
They want everything with no regulations or rule of law and the American taxpayer who actually pays taxes has to carry every “accident on their backs”
They want to smash the social safety net….
They want to have us pay dearly for the private contractors who must keep making a profit for wall st and the war machine and where is the Twitterer in Chief in this…..maybe he wants to end it all.
No it’s not the polity at fault. Its the Donor class who nobody sees, but you can see their lobbyists writing all their laws.
So many things have to change and they’re all going in the wrong direction taking us all over the cliff……
In 2020 who knows what condition this mess is going to be in….BUT I can tell you they will be boasting about our richest country in the world with Trillionaires on top and those who fell into the maw of their making —the once proud middle class cast into the status of the Precariat…..
People see in Oprah what they want to see.
Does anyone see a powerful woman in the broadcasting industry who had a show for 25 years and never exposed the Harvey Weinsteins of her business, never questioned the titans of financial fraud on Wall Street, never challenged the Orwellian deep state surveillance agencies. She kept America in a hypnogogic state with fake news and Jerry Springer style circus bullshit.
I would never expect her to denounce the divisive identity politics of cultural Marxism – since it’s the water in which she swims. Oprah for President? Please!
Muller,
Well said.
” Jerry Springer style circus bullshit”
“…You get freedom! And you get freedom!…everybody gets….”
Just add either Jerry Springer or Maury Povich for the Veep position and with that, Ladies and Gentlemen, would be the crowning final achievement of the TeeVee, Edward Bernays and, behind it all as always, the Evil Fuckers.
I need an emetic just thinking about this nonsense.
Picking Jerry Springer for VP makes more sense. In a former life, when he was a serious person, and not a TV clown who sold his soul for mucho millions, Springer was the democrat boy mayor of Cincinnati. So at least he has experience fucking up a city.
Yeah she’s acting like she didn’t know. She Knew.
I had never considered Oprah. But a ticket like Tulsi Gabbard/Oprah Winfrey would get my vote.
https://medium.com/@bonannyc/meet-tulsi-gabbard-future-president-of-the-united-states-111c1936f03d
Tulsi checks all the boxes:
“When Hawaii’s 29th BCT was activated for a deployment to Iraq in 2004, I was not on the mandatory deployment roster. I stepped away from my campaign, and volunteered to deploy to Iraq because I knew there was no way I could stay back in beautiful Hawaii and watch my brothers and sisters march off into combat. I knew that some of those soldiers wouldn’t be coming home. I had to stand with them.”
– Tulsi Gabbard
How much of that was pure optics? She really had no choice if she wanted to remain credible. A better question to ask is what kind of job did she have over there? Running paperwork in an HQ? Very few people in Iraq and even fewer officers ( believe she’s a Capt) actually see anything remotely resembling “combat.”
Medical officer.
Look up the meaning of volunteer. She served two tours of duty in Iraq … how many men in Congress ducked as their choice.
Tulsi Gabbard didn’t claim to have bone spurs to get out of going into a combat zone.
Oprah as vice-president to Gabbard would be able to learn. Tulsi Gabbard is ready to be president now.
Medical officer in uniform (or soldier)… in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter being shot at … is serving in a combat zone. Medical officers get killed, too. Tulsi Gabbard is a war hero. Oprah Winfrey is not.
War hero? Did you forget to get your prescriptions filled again?
She was decorated for service in a combat zone. Makes her a hero in my book. They don’t give away all those medals in Cracker Jack boxes:
https://journal-neo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/tg2-1200×630.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Tulsi-gabbard-promoted-major.jpg/220px-Tulsi-gabbard-promoted-major.jpg
You forget, I’m retired USAF. And yes, indeed they do, “give those medals away in Cracker Jack boxes.” Especially for officers. I’ve written (and reviewed) more medal citations than years you’ve been alive, young numbnut. Medals = promotion points, so guess what? EVERYBODY gets the damn things just to make sure they’re promotable. We once had a Brig Gen (Ramstein’s Vice at the time) come down to Incirlik AB TR to fly one sortie in the back seat of an F16D so that he could nominate himself for another Air Medal Oak Leaf Cluster. Came in early on a Wednesday, flew tourist class over Northern Iraq on Thursday, and was back in Kaiserslautern in time to get hammered on Friday. Great work if you can find it. The dipshit ended up wearing 3 Stars and retired as the USAF IG. Died “tragically” not too long after retiring of something or another.
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105476/lieutenant-general-richard-t-swope/
What you don’t know would fill volumes janet-bot.
By the way, Major’s a “gimme” rank. Every Capt that stays in makes Major, especially in the Guard. It appears that she’s just a run of the mill Logistics Officer of some sort, although she’s obviously cultivated some serious political connections in her travels, no doubt in (possibly large) part to her good looks. Funny how that works. Photogenic young women seem to have all the right doors opened for them as if by magic!
That’s the flip side to all this sexual harassment nonsense that no one (least of all her or others that benefit from it) would ever want to talk about.
Why dump on a heroine like Tulsi, Scratch? Especially as an Iraq war veteran, whether she saw combat or not, her anti-war voting record in congress is commendable. Plus she young and good looking, and her poise on TV is outstanding. She had the courage to visit Assad in Syria and defend him, while others in her own party wanted her censured or even removed as a traitor. Trump even had her up to his penthouse during the transition for a chat, but obviously he didn’t listen. After an old pro-war crook like Hillary, the Dems should be looking for a younger, photogenic candidate from the younger generation. We baby boomers have had our turn (Clinton, W, Barry, and the Donald) and have blown it badly.
Plus she young and good looking, – outsider
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I didn’t know you’re black.
I’m not, Q. And I don’t understand what you’re getting at.
I had to read it a couple of times, outsider, but I think it’s the verbless idiom ‘she [ ] young and good looking’.
…which I took to be a typo, obviously.
I’m having a bad typographical day myself. Q must be making me nervous.
I think you nailed it, GA. Thank you. I do appreciate that at least someone, beside you, is reading my comments. It’s good for the site that Q.Shtik is keeping us on our toes.
Q doesn’t accept the typo excuse. It’s simply a nameless Evil, one aimed at him with the express intent of driving him crazy.
Q. hovers ominously over us all. He’s a bad man!
I’m not dumping on her, it’s just that being in the Armed Forces at one time doesn’t automatically make you a hero or heroine.
Fortunately I have too much on my plate to take on Q’s mental health as well. Typos are typos – they are named as such for a reason.
Were it not for their existence, what would the copyeditors do for a living?
And if the copyeditors were inhumanly unerring what would the proofreaders do for a living?
And if the typesetters and proofreaders were inhumanly unerring, we would deprive hawk-eyed readers of the pleasure of contacting the reprints team with corrections.
And yes, I know all these roles will prove to be ephemeral…
For now, we have to try to keep each other in work.
“Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.”
HB (I am afraid to include the author’s full name, less Eoin accuse me of patronising present company).
I agree Outsider. I would vote for Tulsi if she ran. Oprah, no way.
Hello Sir,
This is my first comment to your blog and I am writing as this is the first time I am daring to disagree, but it would be great to know your reason, which is though mentioned in your writeup but it would be great to know how when usually you stick to the truth, are giving a chance to wishful thinking.
USA have many wounds that have remained unhealed for too long, they are festering and rotting and they are infected.
Truth is something with which you can treat the wounds of USA, so that they can begin true healing.
I think there is no hope of healing the wounds with Truth.
A second Russian soul entering the Kunstler-land! Now we must proclaim ourselves a minority and demand equal rights with the natives!
As a first step, the Cyrillic alphabet must be enabled ASAP!
I hope it is female!
Just as I’ve long hoped that you were sentient. Alas, no.
I do sentire you as a pain in the butt, pardon my Russian.
Touche!
My most talented dog nose detects fumes of Russian arrogance but no estrogen.
‘No hope of healing the wounds with Truth.
Always the veiled insults with them. I vote ‘authentic Russian here’.
How many Russian females have you dated?
Finc,
Do high colonics count as a date?
I can’t say. I’m a gentleman.
I have just been reading about Theodosius, Sergius and Serafim, and the starets.
What are you disagreeing about? Don’t you think you should actually say?
Enjoyed reading all the replies,
All good Guys! Mr Kunstler like always is very informative.
This time I felt an overall optimist vibe and how Oprah might (just might) be better than the worst president ever, or anyone else and how her speech was a good speech.
Made me question are USA-ians still falling for speeches maybe the ones in that golden globe hall but is it also in the clusterfuck nation?
Russian Soul,
“…are USA-ians still falling for speeches maybe the ones in that golden globe hall but is it also in the clusterfuck nation?
I’d say, yes, Americans are still falling for speeches, and yes, they’re/we’re living in the clusterfuck nation. The one thing we might say definitively is that there’s an awful lot of pretending going on that’s more than counter-productive; it’s positively dangerous, as it keeps us distracted from what’s *really* happening. JHK reminds us of this twice weekly.
The third world banana republic of the atrophied United States of America is the world laughingstock politically. China is poised to
overcome USA hegemony in 2018, and as QE Infinity is withdrawn, and more money is printed for tax cuts for the wealthy, the social Marxists will move fully into political power across the USA.
Jill Stein would be America’s best bet IMHO.
The Repubs n’ Demo dudes n’ dudettes are defunct.
RW
Jill Stein?
Sad all that money spent on “As one that majored in Personality Theory for my Honours B.A. in Experimental Psychology…”
Yes indeed, Jill Stein versus the Deep State and the MICC.
Oprah might have a better chance, but not by much.
In a nation that has absolutely NO leaders of character and ability and has not been able to even offer up any that are even a suitable substitute for one, wondering what will be hurled at us next is anybody’s guess. Oprah is just about as “good” as any. It’s like being caught in an artillery bombardment, one foxhole is just as good as the next and just as likely to take a direct hit or get you through to tomorrow.
Those of us who are actually IN the political business have understood the absolute fact that elections are nothing more than popularity contests, sorry America so why not Oprah? You delude yourselves into thinking that somehow this magical merriment is how the most adept, the most competent, the “best” candidate is chosen for office. Bullshit! How can America not see that getting elected is probably the only “job” you can get in the country that has absolutely ZERO minimum requirements, no necessary talents, and requires little if any prior experience. And please nobody try to tell me that this IS a minimum age and “supposedly” birth requirements .
I think that Jim has raised a valid potential here as Oprah is undoubtedly popular, extremely well known and does in fact have the potential to get the woman president hurdle cleared and may even be able to be the first decent black president at the same time. Me, I think that Michelle and Barry are due back next time and I am still praying for an Allen West and Catherine Austin-Ftts team to become a possibility. In the end it does not matter IMHO because as Donald Trump is busy proving, the system is corrupt, the players are corrupt and the result will always be corruption. The only way for it to all be a happy ending is if the American public embraces corruption as a form of government. Oh, wait, they already have.
“I think that Jim has raised a valid potential here as Oprah is undoubtedly popular, extremely well known”
…As was Chuck Barris and Soupy Sales. We are descending deeper into the rabbit hole, and things are becoming “curiouser and curiouser”
I’m sorry, but this week’s offering, and comments are driving me nuts…and I fear it will be a very short trip.
A did not mean to imply that it would be a good choice ef, but you must admit that it is certainly possible that the entertainment addicted simpleton in this nation are very well capable of voting her into the job. Yes they ARE that stupid. Electability is the primary concern of those who put the possibles on the stage though they will only put forward individuals that will sell out their fealty to the masters. It is one of the reasons that Trump is not liked by both sides. His fealty is to himself not the Masters.
So then what is your model for the America 2.0? Or on the macro level, The Next Civilization?
Obviously, pure Democracy is contraindicated. That was known and explained by Plato 2500 years ago. Voters must be vetted. Only the qualified can be allowed to vote – and that will be a small minority needless to say.
Janos and Walter,
All that you say is true….
Frankly JS, I do not see an America 2.0. I look to the Deagel Webpage that predicts a huge population drop in America and to me it would appear to be the logical future if you know what I mean.
http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.aspx
Thus exits the statesman from the modern political arena. There’s no place for it in the iPhone and Twitter era. We may as well elect people based on the nightly ratings.
Good point! Can the first election via Twitter likes be far away?
Why not? Blacks can’t get to the polling stations just like they can’t get ID’s. Expecting them to is racism. And since they can’t get ID’s then no one has to. That opens the door for millions of illegals voting. Well played, Devil!
Janos,
I still say that is why Hillary won California by 4 million votes when she lost the other 49 states by 1.5 million. That winds up being 70% of the vote, statistically a near impossibility.
Our local Committeeman that we appointed as Mayor relies on Facebook “likes” which he collects in large numbers for the pictures he posts of himself lighting Christmas trees, giving awards to retiring service dogs, and handing out candy at the Halloween parades. I am dead serious, it works and it will continue to work at every level of politics along with the Line button, R or D. Americans are no longer capable of governing themselves nor do they, period.
Canine Officers have more rights than you do. Certainly the boys in blue like them better. You’re just a pale two legged. Ever see those “No more hesitation” targets?
Four legs good…two legs bad!
Even the bears have lawyers!
I can tell you that I’m nowhere near as averse to the idea of voting for Oprah as I was to voting for Hillary!
The main thing that concerns me about Oprah is that I’m sure she is pro immigration and probably doesn’t care a lick about the future of whites.
“I can tell you that I’m nowhere near as averse to the idea of voting for Oprah as I was to voting for Hillary!”
True that….
Hollywood is working overtime to apply lipstick to their salacious history of sexual abuse and power broker excesses. Oprah is a poster child for this effort – she’s the big lipstick. Oprah for president is the next scheme to deflect the public’s eye from their failing industry. Jim’s musings this morning are very disappointing. He’s starting to go off the rails. His prognostications are wearing thin. Time to change the narrative Jim.
Yes, alas. I’m reminded of his early posts anent Obama. A poor guy who had to buy white tube socks on the cheap, etc.
From earlier this morning on the previous thread:
“But do stop talking about them as if you gave a [toss].” – GreenAlba arguing with Janos
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I had no idea toss meant “shit” in British slang.
So I guess one could say “I dashed for the bathroom and barely avoided tossing my pants.”
Not what I’ve ever understood, Q, although I’ve never gone into it too deeply. From another source:
“It is used colloquially in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, to mean ‘I couldn’t care less.’ It is derived from the act of tossing a coin. If it is thought to be improper, it’s probably because toss-off is a slang word for an act of masturbation.”
The love affair continues. Earlier this morning? Previous thread? She’s playing 8th dimensional chess on your mind! Stay true to Janos and the Doctrine of the Eternal Ice.
My times are different from yours, Janos. Owing to that ‘great big water’ phenomenon that G3 mentioned in relation to Puerto Rico.
My past is your future…
“Stay true to Janos and the Doctrine of Eternal Ice.” I have no idea what that means, but it has a pleasant ring to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welteislehre
Our Ancestors grew strong in the Ice and Snow and so shall we. The Sun will be little more than a dim orb soon. Werewolves and Walkers are already coming and we have no Wall. But armed with true doctrine, we shall meet them even as Hunwulf’s Reavers met Bragi’s Wolves upon the field of glory.
Conan the only one left from his party from Asgard. Bragi asked him, “Tell me you name O Man so I can tell my Brothers in Vanaheim who was the last of Hunwulf’s Reavers to fall”. Conan replied, “Not in Vanaheim, but in Vallhalla you will tell them it was Conan.”
All someone like Oprah has to do is show up and voila, she is heir apparent. The problem with the Dems is that they have no agenda except a MSM led opposition to Trump. Trump won, because the Liberal side had their thirty years of power, Bushes included, and failed. The flyovers were the core of this voting bloc and they gave up on the current paradigm and voted against the politics of Washington, DC. If Oprah wants to challenge Trump, she needs to start talking issues, not racism, gender identity or gender politics all of which divide the country. She has the advantage of not being a Deep Stater. Also the advantage of being Black that succeeded, colorblind, in the American common culture. She makes an outstanding counterpoint to Trump. The moment that she isolates herself as a distinct culture representative, however, she will lose credibility. Trump won because he convinced enough folks that D.C. Is corrupt and needed to be cleaned up. The Deep State has been trying to clobber him including the GOP never Trumpers, unsuccessfully. Trump beat 16 GOP folks and the most rigged political machine in history. Dems will have little success until they figure out how he did it.
Without trying to steal Janos’ thunder, Trump’s presidency is probably the last gasp of the White Man. That is why, in spite of his obvious failings, his middle American white base will remain with him no matter what.
And what a failed instrument he is. He has NEVER explicitly mentioned us as he has Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Navajos, etc. Yet he has never called us “scum” as Bannon did either. And by oblique gestures like retweeting, he has shown some lack of hatred and appreciation, if not love and actual approval. Like starving men, we ate the grass he offered.
Last gasp? Last chance for peaceful change in any case. And so far I’m unimpressed. But then again, the forces against him are stupendous. I have no idea how sincere he is. He’s above all a political player. Rhetoric that loses has no interest for him.
“And what a failed instrument he is. He has NEVER explicitly mentioned us as he has Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Navajos, etc. Yet he has never called us “scum” as Bannon did either. And by oblique gestures like retweeting, he has shown some lack of hatred and appreciation, if not love and actual approval. Like starving men, we ate the grass he offered.
Janos,
Your construct has brightened my mood….
Our common culture some allege was never fair. For those with talent and the requisite luck and opportunity, success was possible. Oprah is one of these extremely fortunate people who as Nicholas Taleb put it, lives in ‘Extrimistan’. A not so mythical land where a small chance to make it big exists right next to a near certainty of failure. In other words America, the land of a few big winners and bigger losers.
To be young, a well paid television personality making four times what a privileged white male cis-hetero asshole was pulling down at the time in early eighties America. Combine that with the temperament for hard work, above average smarts and talent, and Oprah’s success was guaranteed. That early $200K a year when doing well and being white was making only $60K a year made all the difference.
She would be better than Trump. No doubt about that. Oprah would also be the perfect person to kick the can of the dead American Dream down the road a little bit further. Thinking all it takes is hard work dedication and ANYBODY can be successful is the kind of Kool-Aid American presidents must drink. Oprah has her own brand of that particular Kool-Aid flavor and is perfect for the status quo. Libertarian berry I think it is.
Oprah was a good choice ten years ago and nothing has changed about that when I suggested it back then. Right here in fact. Oprah is a good choice but I fear not a great one. Sadly of those we have none.
If you are going to run Oprah, I will have to promote Dolly Parton of Dollywood. It lived and died, all in one breath.
Could the media proclaim a new era of moderate progressiveness as they did for Obama as the blog author suggests?
Perhaps, but mainly it depends on at least the appearances of a growing economic pie otherwise the left starts its eating itself as we see now as each group tries to out hysteria one another to climb the ladder of victimhood.
Anyway I was asked last night if Oprah has any positions, heck no positions are racist. It will be an absolute hoot to see the various victim groups come before the great mother and plead their case, and dare great mother to not patronize them.
Run Oprah run.
How pathetic is the synthetic reality of Oprah, she panders as much as Trump does. Okay big “O”, time for you and Gayle to step outside the closet and put Stedman back in there mothballs and all. Oprah pretends mo betta then the Donald.
An example of irony is when a person like you uses the word “pathetic”.
Oprah pretends mo betta [then] the Donald. – buko
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Exhibit E
(I think we’re up to E aren’t we?)
Q,
“Mo Betta” is accepted as colloquial usage in some urban venues.
Will someone please explain this to buko and ely? I think I may be skating on thin ice with our host.
Ok, Oprah, hmmm….
I’ll accept the notion of Oprah buying into a common culture. And yes, she has an impressive track record of business success unscarred, as far as I know, by Trump-style shafting and frauds, not to mention serial bankruptcy.
Sigh, forgive my skepticism but, from what I see, Oprah fits hand-in-glove with “progressive” snow-flakery and all its attendant victimhood, identity, gender and race hustling.
I remember old-style lefties that concerned themselves with bread and butter issues. I knew some of them, Europeans who had lived through extreme hardship, partly inflicted by war-time chaos but also by a predatory class system in their own countries. Oprah doesn’t look or sound like one of those old timers.
I have to wonder how blinkered Oprah is by her association with people on the coasts who despise the wide swathe of the country in the middle. if she’s of that ilk, she won’t be of any benefit to the polity.
Jugurtha said that Rome was a city up for sale and that its demise would be speedy if it ever found a buyer. Washington is up for sale. That much is obvious, the lousy enrich-the-preposterously-rich tax scheme the latest evidence.
Will Oprah be the General Maximus enlisted to end the corruption that has crippled Washington? Or will she be the Chief Narcissist, pandering to the narcissism and obsessions of the bi-coastal – cough – “intelligentsia”?
Right now Washington is selling to multiple buyers. What if there’s a single buyer out there, let’s say in the form of a national capitol, that looks after its own national interest but one that comports itself quietly, that talks reason, that approaches other countries will business propositions and money to invest, that touts prosperity and stability and comity among nations. Does anyone know of such a buyer?
Oprah has just about all of it: simple origin, “enhanced melanin blessed”, congeniality, intelligence, mucho dinaro, public presence, super biz creds and . . . FEMALE but . . . NOT a MOTHER, or even significant “mother rearing/child nurturing” experience, from my understanding. How that is even applicable to “governing” an empire that is now sooooo very corrupt, evil and a hegemony, enforced by the likes of al-CIA-da and a brutal military/merc carnage machine, I have no idea. But the fundamental, primary and so very critical ROLE of wo[mb]Men to bear and nurture children to be responsible adults seems to me the most important role to “mankind”. That being said, the Trumpster vs Oprah would be an exciting match – with the usual caveats, of course: big-ass war, collapsed economy, assassination, coup, catastrophic geophysical/bio/chemical/radiological event etc. Eh, noth’n ta worry ’bout, right?
We shouldn’t be so quick to embrace childless, never married Oprah for president. She could be our own childless Angela Merkel – and look what she’s done to Germany!
Welcome aboard, “outsider”. Hoo-wah!
Just give it time. The narrative about Oprah will turn dark and sinister very shortly.
I presume you mean in the media generally, Dumbedup, rather than on this thread. For it to turn sinister on here, it only needs You-Know-Who to turn up. I’m rather hoping he’s on holiday.
He’s either writhing in fits of laughter or sick and retching uncontrollably. I anticipate his comment.
Both.
If the Deep State can’t count on her she will be a child molester by nightfall. She’s a black and female Democrat so we know what Janos thinks.
An insightful comment. The funniest thing about Opie is her relationship to her poor extended family back home. Their beggary was so extreme that she refuses all free contact with them. She couldn’t have made it unless she cut these people off. She may well give them something – she is a well known philanthropist. But it’s thru her handlers. They have no personal access to her.
I wouldn’t be surprised is she throws her hat in after all this hoopla. The trial balloon is flying high. And she’s been somewhat inactive for some years now, ever since her show ended. By her standards that is. No doubt she still has a thousand things going on.
Aren’t we a lucky bunch. The democrats are using the awards shows to pretend THEY have the solution, a better more user friendly celebrity in chief
Although I think your sentiments are probably generally true there Mr.Jim, I respectfully disagree about who the next executive might be.
I’d wager it’ll be someone exactly opposite of Trump; a long term, career politician, deeply in debt to the Deep State, well known in the DC establishment, boring, staid, unimaginative & of average intelligence, little machismo or assertiveness.
In other words, someone who was bought a long time ago, and will be simply an empty suit and mouthpiece for the military/industrial complex.
Besides what is this Oprah stuff but Hollywood purporting to be moral arbiter. Still. And giving lectures. And everybody’s supposed to listen. They got some kinda chutzpah.
Yes, it is. That “We Are, and Knowing Better Than Thou” is their stock-in-trade.
Don’t look too closely as it is a porno much of the time and on rare occasional a snuffer. A lot like Washington D.C. and Wall Street as it happens.
What they got is big balls and no brains. Fortunately for them nether do their fans.
The real problem with America is not who is President or from what party – the problem lies with the people who elect the same representatives to the do – nothing Congress election after election, then complain when the unqualified actors and celebrities they choose for President are unable to turn the country around.
The obsession with and total reliance on the Federal Government to solve everyone’s’ problems is getting sickening. The President is not God nor can any man fill that role.
I heard and read a little about the Wolff book over the week-end. It reminds me of a similar one written by the Observer’s political editor about then-PM Gordon Brown.
“There was an embarrassing scene at the summer barbecue in the back garden of Number 10 for those who worked there… When one of the secretaries was not typing fast enough for an angrily impatient Prime Minister, he turfed the stunned… girl out of her chair and took over the keyboard himself… Brown’s exhaustion and sense of isolation made his temper even shorter and blacker. Officials became even more apprehensive than ever about delivering unwelcome news for fear of the reaction… On this occasion what the aide had to tell the Prime Minister provoked a more scary response than the stabbing of the pen. Face like thunder, Brown reacted by swinging back an arm and clenching his fist. The aide cowered back… Brown crashed his fist into the back of the passenger seat in front of him… If anything, he seemed to think he could be more abusive to those who were closest to him. He was probably right: they were the most likely to bury the darker truths about his behaviour… Sir Gus O’Donnell became ‘very worried’ about Brown’s treatment of staff at Number 10.”
Darker truths indeed. Who is this? Caligula? In the Hollywood film Oprah can play the typist.
Will Oprah divest herself from her business holdings??? Or just more shenanigans?????
*Will’ Oprah divest…?”
I think we should stick with ‘would’, lest we get ahead of ourselves 🙂
In an interview with CNN, Donald Trump called Oprah Winfrey a “great woman” and said she would be his first choice for a running mate.
But he did not choose her. Another Trump lie.
Janet,
Are you so naïve to believe that the old white men who control the GOP would allow that to happen?
I must admit after reading today’s post that I suspect Jim may be pulling our collective leg.But I’ll play.
She has a lot of experience giving away other people’s shit yet leaving the impression that it’s from her own largess. That may make her America’s greatest Prez ever.
An attack by the Flying Monkeys?
Fire breaks out on roof of Trump Tower
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/fire-breaks-trump-tower-roof-article-1.3744249
Fly, My Pretties, Fly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ayK694PZI&t=12
Ms. Winfrey appears to be a poster child for the American meritocracy, and as such might make a more convincing “Entertainer as president”. However, if she ever ran as a Democrat , she would have to kneel at the altar of the Marxist left who do all the thinking for the Democrats these days. Does anyone remember the Democratic debate where “whats his name” had the temerity to say “All lives matter” ? He disappeared down the rabbit hole of history. The very qualities that make Ms. Winfrey likable across nearly every demographic would disappear as soon as the voting public sees her buy into BLM, cultural appropriation, White privilege, ad nauseam
Yes, she has built an impressive empire from her own hands, but I think after Trump, nobody will ever allow a celebrity near the Oval Office.
This is unrelated so pardon the semantic diversion.
I just came from the bank. A national bank of which I have been a customer since 1970 in various iterations. I met my wife there to add her as a joint tenant on an account.
This is what our common culture has given us. The office we were in looked like an interrogation room. It was cold, no plants, pictures, plaques or any human touch at all. An old wooden desk long past it’s prime in a room about 5 degrees colder than it should be. The bank employee was just as cold and impersonal – although I sensed that she wanted to be warmer and friendlier.
The exchange reminded me of that scene from “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days” and her interview with the Nazi propogandist. I felt like I was in a government office interviewed by an “official” instead of a bank employee.
Your ID please
Do you have any other form of ID?
Your mother’s maiden name?
Where were you born?
Dual citizenship?
Why do you want to make changes in your account?
When were you married?
When did you move?
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We are living in the world George Orwell and Aldous Huxley envisioned.
I much prefer that to banks that treat you like “family”. Cold and impersonal is the reality. The “family” stuff makes my skin crawl. One Japanese guy I had actually believed it – which made me very embarrassed. He actually welcomed me to “the family”. Actual words. The Hispanic woman who had been processing me played along too, but she noted my discomfiture I think.
But I respect him, sensing he was a real Confucian gentleman in his sincerity, despite his disorientation. His attitude might be very appropriate back in Japan. Trying to project it here seems utterly strange though. I hate it when White Americans do it, because it phony. But at least I don’t find it embarrassing, just disgusting.
As we all know, our host reads the comment sections on the days he posts new essays (i.e. Mondays and Fridays) so I am risking it all today as I point out to pequiste that criterion is singular and criteria is plural.
I hate it when White Americans do it, because [it] phony. – JS
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What is this, a joke?
You are being gas lamped.
Yes, you are, where it’s the future shock of a brave new world in a soylent green tinged old republic, by COLLECTIVIST NETWORK design.
Sent from the New Republic.
http://www.got-truth.com/
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The “O” as presidential timber? Hmmmmmm……
If being a hyper-narcissist is a criteria: Yes! (See “The O Magazine” for details. On each and every cover, and in many ads and editorial copy, pictures of and with “O” throughout.
If being a megalomaniac is a criteria: Yes! (Somehow, someway this not too talented actress and TeeVee talker parleyed her brand into a regular media empire. Great now she’s a network. The top of the media is a CLOSED SHOP – she did no arrive at her station without the selecting and care and feeding from some extraordinarily powerful media types.)
– If being beholden to extreaordinarily powerful media types and other “actors” in the realm of power brokers is a criteria: YES! ( No telling what had to be done to get to the top o the pyramid.)
No need for education (sorry Ron Paul, M.D or Jill Stein, M.D. or even a scurvey lawyer with a J.D.or even a M.B.A. like “W” or The Donald. NOT REQUIRED AT ALL.
No need for any sort of high-level negotiations skills; knowledge of international affairs or how the money empire works. Trump and Secretary Clinton both had that.
No, just an outstanding marketing logo and pullenty of name recognition are enough in this the U.S.S.A.’s crepuscular moments.
Well said. No one makes it alone. Who are the little men behind the curtain who enabled her?
I’m willing to serve if Tulsi Gabbard needs me. Why not Czar of the Department of Race? This Department could be created to counter any and all Federal entitlement programs, keeping America true to its Constitutional mandate of equality for all.
“I’m willing to serve if Tulsi Gabbard needs me. Why not Czar of the Department of Race? This Department could be created to counter any and all Federal entitlement programs, keeping America true to its Constitutional mandate of equality for all.
Janos,
Excellent idea! But how about enforcement? You will need an executive arm as an instrument of your policy. I would recommend Captain America, and his New Republic einsatsgrupen of “enablers of wish fulfillment”, along with, of course his shock troops…the sheepdogs.
Janos,
I’m for Tulsi also as long as she remains anti-war and wants to bring the troops home. But if she does a 180 to win over the War Party, then she would be worse than Trump.
As we all know, our host reads the comment sections on the days he posts new essays (i.e. Mondays and Fridays) so I am risking it all today as I point out to pequiste that criterion is singular and criteria is plural.
It reminds me of the old George magazine. Had a picture of gwashington on each cover ( hidden some where ) on purpose.
Excuse the profanity, but dafuq did I just read? You JHK who wrote a book on Too Much Magic, can even conceive of elevating the Queen of Every Harebrained Scheme To Come Down The Pike to POTUS? You say you are not promoting this, yet are completely make the case? Seriously have you lost your marbles? This cannot be the real Kunstler writing this. Who are you and what have you done with James Howard Kunstler?
the men who create the market for female pulchritude. – Elrond
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I always thought the word pulchritude meant chubby or pleasingly plump but all the dictionaries seem to just say “beautiful.”
Q,
Can we agree on “Reubenesque”?
Rubenesque….
Would you like to be alone, elysianfield? You’ve got a faraway gleam in your eye…
The word ‘onomatopoeia’ applies to a word that sounds, or feels, like what it means. ‘Pulchritude’ feels like the opposite of what it means. Is there a word for that too?
Elrond
In my pursuit of linguistic fun, I did some quick research for you.
I can offer you this…
https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-onomatopoeia-and-what-is-its-opposite
…which offers me the insight that “Because onomatopoeia are exceptions to the general rule, they don’t really have opposites. Almost every word is the relational antonym of an onomatopoeia.”
And the author’s final judgement that:
“A possible opposite could be a word that suggests phonetically
the opposite to what it means, like “scrumptious”, whose sound
hardly suggests something “pleasing to the taste, delectable”.
I would call these words “phonetically heterological”.
So I think ‘phonetically heterological’, though not very elegant, is what you are going to have to settle for. It lacks both charm and precision (well, it wouldn’t, wouldn’t it?). I don’t think it’s going to catch on, even with those who can spell ‘onomatopoeia’. 🙂
*well, it would, wouldn’t it*.
Today is looking as bad as yesterday for typos…
No, it hardly rrrrolls off the tongue, does it? But thank you for enriching my day. 🙂
Wow, that is the most hopeful article Jim has ever written! I don’t know much about Oprah, but the country sure could do worse than her as president. I would be concerned that if she does represent a sincere challenge to either of the parties’ policies and is likely to run for office, that she could get a mysterious case of cancer, or die in a small plane crash.
Back in the day, Norman Mailer thought that Mohammed Ali would make an excellent president. By refusing the draft, and passing up millions by missing three years of his boxing prime, Ali had some serious anti-war creds. And he would have had many experienced operatives to run the show while he crisscrossed the world to great adulation. It could have been a win-win.
They don’t give away all those medals in Cracker Jack boxes: – janet
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If you see a young “brown bar” (2nd Lt) with a lone ribbon on his left breast and he has never set foot out of the country you can be sure he got it for being a “Participant” as in soccer for five year olds. In my 3 years in the AF I was never even a participant.
Medals, like Performance Reports, have long been politicized. When I retired, their was even an “expectation matrix” of sorts being applied to medals and Enlisted Performance Reports (EPRs, 1-5 ratings) that you had damn sure better have adhered to before submitting. They were loosely based on rank, duty title, time in service, length of assignment, and number of deployments during that assignment, so that promotion boards could instantly read between the lines of a person’s bio.
Ex: Hmm, 12 year E-6 on a three year unaccompanied assignment to Germany, several deployments to the ME, yet he was only awarded an Achievement Medal (1 point) or Commendation Medal (2 points) after getting rather mediocre 5 EPRs with no senior rater endorsement? Dirtbag. On the other hand, here’s a 10 year E-5 on a one year remote to Korea, awarded a Meritorious Service Medal (3 points) with glowing 5 ratings and a senior rater endorsement. Wow!
Bottom line: you had to know “the code” to decipher it all, as virtually everyone got 5 EPR ratings and some sort of medal when they were reassigned. A 4 rating and no medal meant you were on the separation track if you didn’t pick up the pace. Anything less than a 4 and you almost certainly had separation paperwork in work on your behalf. I wrote exactly one 1 EPR in my career on a young man I soon after accompanied to the NAS Miramar Joint Detention Facility for the crimes of AWOL, auto theft (from a dealer, no less!), and a few other acts of similarly misguided juvenile heroism.
If Trump was the anti-establishment, anti-Clinton candidate of 2016, then someone like Winfrey can be the anti-establishment, anti-Trump candidate of 2020.
I’m guessing that, if Trump survives longer than through early to mid 2019 and especially if he survives to run for reelection, the political ground will be quite ripe and ready for an anti-establishment, anti-Trump candidate.
If the DNC grows a brain (that’s a long shot, but not impossible), they will lead with someone who is not only the most anti-Trump candidate they can find, but the most anti-Clinton candidate they can find as well. Sanders may fit that role but will be too old and he’s already shown he just takes his ball and goes home when the DNC is unfair to him. Warren isn’t anti-Clinton enough (she’s still an elder white woman from the upper middle class), and Gillibrand is in many ways just a younger version of HRC, although she could find a way to break out. Neither Gillibrand nor Warren (nor Sanders, for that matter) are anti-establishment enough, however.
Winfrey certainly has the anti-establishment, anti-Trump, anti-Clinton thing going for her. It could certainly be interesting.
Bruce,
Don’t forget that Liz Warren is part-Native American – at least so her college application said.
Harvard Law School professor Charles Fried, who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan and was part of the committee that put Warren in a tenure position, said in a written statement that her ethnicity never came up during the process.
Fried, who donated $250 to Warren’s campaign, told the Republican, a Springfield, Mass., newspaper, in 2012, “This stuff I hear that she was an affirmative action hire, got some kind of a boost, it is so ludicrous and so desperately stupid and ignorant, it just boggles the mind.”
Asked about Warren’s minority status, Robert H. Mundheim, the dean who hired Warren at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Boston Globe that summer, “‘I don’t think I ever knew that she had those attributes and that would not have made much of a difference.”
A number of news organizations interviewed dozens of faculty and students from the three law schools where Warren taught, and no evidence emerged that any claim about her ethnic roots played a role in the hiring process.
Warren’s a policy wonk. She’ll never get traction and would be a disaster if she did. Football analogy: Warren’s a great x’s and o’s gal as an offensive coordinator who would make a terrible head coach. Two entirely different positions. Nobody who tries to take on Wall St and/or the MICC directly will ever get traction. They actually own the place. Elected pols are just renting.
We seem to have morphed into a cult of personality politically somewhere along the way. Reagan started it for sure, but he was a rank amateur compared to Clinton, Obama, and Trump, while Bush the Lesser was little more than a front man for the Cheney administration, although he grew into the role over eight years. Bush the Greater was an honest to goodness career pol (with deep state connections no less!), which made him unelectable in ’92 without the advantage of Reagan’s coattails. So yeah, I’d make book on the fact that both parties will likely resort to female star power in 2020 and qualifications be damned.
Oprah would be no different than any other mainstream politician. The chances she stands up for working people by renegotiating horrible free trade agreements and limiting the supply of labor by securing the border are nil.
She will champion wealthy entertainers and academics and liberal politicians, most of whom are upper class and wealthy white liberals.
“I didn’t used to think I was a criminal,” Anna says, vexed. “I was an immigrant like any other.” But perception has a way of being taken for fact. Anna has been called dirty. She has been told she is a “rat.” A “dog.” She has been snarled at by white checkout girls at the grocery, hissing at her to “speak English!” (She does.) At the park with her son, she has seen old men lift their jackets to reveal pistols tucked inside. She has been screamed at while walking down the street, told to get out of the U.S. She has been spit on in front of her children.
Still, she loves this country.
There is a saying in Mexico about America. “Everything is better there.” Children are raised hearing this phrase, uttered with ultimate conviction, the way true believers talk about heaven.
For immigrants, heaven is minimum wage. Heaven is clean water. Heaven is an end to the constant threat of violence. For people like Anna, the heaven bar is pretty darn low, which is why so many immigrants embrace the thankless jobs most native-born Americans refuse to consider. If you can find paradise working in a meatpacking plant or emptying bedpans, imagine what your hell must have looked like.”
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/world/what-its-like-to-be-an-undocumented-immigrant-in-america/all#ixzz53eDJd3Gq
I started my working career below minimum wage. The whole jobs Americans won’t do is a sympathy ploy.
The whiners are not looking for equal opportunity, what they want is to be coddled, to get free handouts. Those who fight and struggle to get ahead are the ones who make it. This system of our has never coddled those trying to get ahead – it is a food chain that consumes those that cannot cut it. Oprah will make it better as soon as Whitey dies off and I can’t wait. I hope she whacks me first, the coddling bullshit is starting to wear me down.
I can’t speak for America, K-Dog, but here it is a thing. It’s not so much the money, it’s the kind of work.
Young Brits most definitely do not want to do back-breaking work picking fruit and vegetables in East Anglia (and yes, I know they may have to one day, if they want to eat!). Eastern Europeans will do it – and damned conscientiously, for long hours. The pay would be the same for both of them, barring the odd bit of illegal chancing by the employers. The result of the dilemma, post-Brexit, will be a combination of increased automation, and strawberries being grown in Poland instead of East Anglia. So fewer (backbreaking) jobs.
I don’t find the idea of foreign guests doing hard work that the locals think they’re above particularly edifying, but I guess it’s not something they spend their lives doing – just a way of saving money and moving on to something better. And I wouldn’t like to be doing it (not at my age anyway!) so who am I to judge?
Maybe Oprah will give everyone in America a free car! Maybe we will find out what really was happening at African Leadership Academy for Girls. Or learn more about her promotion of those nincompoops Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil. Or her promotion of the jejune Law of Atrtraction.
Maybe we willl experience a daily media circus around characters like James Frey that will make the present entertainment mogul look like an amateur. Come on people. Get serious. This blog is a hot mess if anyone here is taking this proposal seriously. JHK what in the name of all that is good has gotten into you? Full of praise for Oprah Winfrey?Has never done a damn thing for anyone except herself and her bosses. Ask the black community what they think of Oprah.
“keeping America true to its Constitutional mandate of equality for all” —janos
Janos, might you be confusing the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution? Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution mandates that government provide for the common welfare. It doesn’t say the goal is equality. Neither do the Democrats. The goal is to provide equal opportunity for all, to overcome nepotism (putting members of your family: sons, daughter, etc. into positions of power) and kleptocratic corruption.
“The President is not God nor can any man fill that role.” –rhys12
Exactly! But a woman (goddess) can!
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Well, Oprah has the Cat Lady vote sewed up, and Little Jane is in.
With backing from our betters in Hollywood and Kieth X, DNC vice chair, I don’t see how she can’t be the next Pres!
brh
Secretary of State — Queen Latifa
Sec. of Treasury — Gail King
Defense Secretary — Madonna
Attorney General — the ‘Sistah’ who co founded Black Lives Matter.
that’s just for starters. First foreign policy initiative will to be use US Aircraft Carriers to transport entire African continent into the US and sign them up for EBT benefits.
brh
Gayle King says it’s not going to happen, that Oprah will not run. Gail knows Oprah as well as anyone.
“I would bet my first, second-born and any unborn children to come, that ain’t never happening. Never. I’ll say never on this one. Nevah, N-E-V-A-H. Nevah.” –Gayle King
“First foreign policy initiative will to be use US Aircraft Carriers to transport entire African continent into the US and sign them up for EBT benefits.” –brh
brh, is this what is known as hyperbole? Africa has 1.216 Billion people and they do NOT want to come here. Even if a few came they would not eligible for EBT benefits.
Africans are entrepreneurs, so they would end up creating jobs for native-born white Americans. Entrepreneurship is higher among immigrants than native-born Americans.
Immigrants pay more than their fair share of taxes and make vital contributions to the United States. Despite their hard work and the fact that their wages are often low, immigrants are not eligible for food stamps or other basic safety-net services on the same basis as U.S. citizens.
Food stamps are available only to U.S. citizens and limited categories of lawfully residing immigrants.
Undocumented immigrants are not, and never have been, eligible for food stamps.
In 1996, most lawfully residing immigrants were cut from the Food Stamp Program, including many immigrants who had been living and working in the U.S. for several years. Recognizing the severe inequity and harm caused by this policy, Congress enacted two bills (in 1998 and 2002) restoring eligibility for some categories of immigrants.
However, most lawfully residing adults cannot receive food stamps on the same basis as citizens until they have been in the U.S. in a specified “qualified” immigrant status for five years.
Ok then …
but what about Queen Latifa as Sec of State?
brh
C’mon BRH – Maxine Waters would be the right choice for that gig.
And Texas member of the U.S. Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee, would be a natural for U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Don’t forget Rihanna! SHe has just got to get some big responsible job too; I’m thinking Chief of Staff.
ALL BLACK. ALL FEMALE. What can go wrong?
Welcome to the Hotel Kalifornia. You can check in, but you can never leave.
Secretary of State – Rex Tillerson (not qualified; only experience is as Exxon CEO)
Secretary of Treasury – Steven Mnuchin (not qualified; ran a hedge fund and worked for Goldman Sachs)
Secretary of Defense – Jim Mattis (qualified as a lifelong military man)
Attorney General – Jeff Sessions (mostly qualified as former US Attorney 25 years ago, US Senator and because he supported the Trump campaign)
Secretary of Education – Betsy DeVos (not qualified; nominated because of family money and influence)
Of these the ones actually qualified for the job are Jim Mattis and possibly Jeff Sessions)
“The country faces enormous problems and predicaments, and the one-man soap opera at the center of it all is doing nothing but sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, leaving everybody else to choke and strangle.” JHK
Let the Left and all the old political hacks choke and strangle until they’re blue.
Yeah, she and Stedman Graham will straighten out all our shit, bring us to the promised land.
Oprah? Why not Prince Akeem of Zamunda for us props and pawns?
Finca, if you are looking in, I’ve been meaning to ask you …
Seems like the left isn’t too confident the Russia collusion investigation will be yielding any solid results so they’ve shifted gears by getting some doctors to declare President Trump is mentally ill and the 25th amendment needs to be invoked to remove him from office. In Russia, wasn’t this a tactic the party employed to get rid of political opponents, and make them disappear? Was psychiatry misused in the Soviet Union the way the Democrats and their agit/prop dept. (CNN, MSNBC etc) are using it here, right now, in the US? Do you see any similarities?
As I mentioned before even after Woodrow Wilson suffered a major stroke and could hardly speak and was partially paralyzed, he was allowed to remain President.
brh
“the 25th amendment needs to be invoked to remove him from office.” –brh
Relax, brh, the 25th amendment is a non-starter. The bar is higher than for impeachment and removal from office. Trump is safe. His biillionaire friends are safe. The swamp is teeming. At least until November.
Changed your tune janet-bot?
Achtung! Alles Lookenspeepers!
https://youtu.be/HMQkV5cTuoY
Germans on the rise!
Do you have any videos of German girls being raped in train stations by your esteemed refugees?
The Mohawk Nation is just trying to survive as they are, as they define themselves to be. This isn’t acceptable to the Globalists of Canada – who insist they accept non-Indians into their fold.
http://marchofthetitans.com/2014/11/10/canadian-indian-ban-on-mixed-race-couples-comes-under-attack/
Many a dark truth is told in jest. The real German people are being replaced as the video celebrates.
Non sequitir or analogous
exhttp://marchofthetitans.com/2014/11/10/canadian-indian-ban-on-mixed-race-couples-comes-under-attack/ample.
Havunosham?
Remember, remember the May 9, you mother-bleepers!
Oprah, who like Trump, is a famous billionaire, bussinessperson and reality-TV star, could probably get elected, if events fell right for her. As a candidate, she would be loved by the lefties as much as Trump was by the righties and as President, she would be hated by the righties as much as Trump is presently hated by the lefties. But why the HELL would she? She has a great life and has the freedom to live anywhere and do whatever she wants. Unlike business and television, government is messy, unruly and moves at the speed of molasses. She would be 66 years old upon being elected and being President ages a person fast. Look at a before and after of Clinton, W or Obama; the contrast in appearance is astounding.
With the sunset of the GI generation, who believed in strong institutions, our federal government has become dysfunctional. Our elected leaders are beholden to the big money donors who put them in office and not to their constituents. Influence goes to the highest bidder. The two-. party system is there not for our benefit but is there to keep us divided. Fraud reins supreme. Oprah should stay away! Trump should have too, because he was right in saying it really is a swamp.
“ Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.”
Mark Twain
I think there’s a concerted effort to eliminate or seriously blur the lines of the traditional right vs left as a political issue and emphasize the cult of personality marketing meme. The Dems have eagerly played along with this for years now anyway, as they’re now virtually indistinguishable from the GOP that they allegedly oppose, campaign rhetoric notwithstanding. We have for all intents and purposes a single united party in DC representing the rich and powerful and their corporate and MICC interests. All the rest is simply marketing hype.
“The more laws, the less justice.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Sent from the New Republic,
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Oprah would be chomping at the bit to be offered the Democrat Party’s nomination for the presidency; that is up until her initial Zapruder briefing.
O, indeed!!!
Good one!
When the film ends the guy with cigar says:
ANY QUESTIONS? I didn’t think so
Above paraphrased from a Bill Hicks routine.
Bill Hicks talking about the TBSD 6th Floor Assassination Museum
“…..anyway they have the window set up to look exactly like it did on that day and it’s really accurate, you know, because Oswald’s not in it.”
Truth-telling geniuses like Bill Hicks, George Carlin and Dick Gregory are really missed and, man, are they needed today!
….don’t forget Lenny Bruce and Sam Kinison!
Sent from the New Republic.
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For sure! I saw Sam perform many times in the mid 80’s at the Sunset Strip Comedy Store. Bill and Sam were ahead of their time and died way too young!
The North Korean Fairy Tale
Now that North Korea is going to the Winter Olympics, do you think Trump should boycott the Winter Olympics? Why hasn’t the “stable genius” in the White House been able to defeat the North Korean leader who regularly threatens the U.S. and out-bluffs His Lowliness from Queens …
Too much money on the table.
As Congress fiddles and America burns, I’m driving a 20-year-old car and just trying to hang on to what modest little existence I have. If Oprah becomes President, will she give us all a free car, along with a few of her Favorite Things? Americans are so desperate and afraid for their own futures, they would vote for that.
J,
Oprah may be both intelligent and successful in our culture, but I fear her worldview. I wonder if she feels OJ was innocent?
Harry Potter and Finca’s theory of the Western Colored Projects
My daughter made me watch 4th and 5th installment of Harry Potter series, and the movie struck me as not childish at all.
It turned out that if not Mrs. Rowling, than the creators of the film tried to describe in an allegorical way the reality of the struggle between the White and Black World Projects, and the picture they painted in DETAILS coincides with my theory.
I wonder where the Red Project has gone, because without it the global West becomes unstable and falls into a Black World Project, which is actually shown in the last two episodes of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.
In addition, attention is drawn to the fact that the shooting of events in the film ahead of their counterparts in real life, and this turns these films into a kind of prophecy.
I must take it on. Urgently!
One more time: the calling card of the Black Project is the division of people into two distinguished varieties by birth and pejorative attitude towards those who are not of “our” kind.
Remember Hillary’s now famous “Deplorables”?
Isn’t that more or less a calling card of all (or at least most) political groups?
“Sargent Preston of the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mouth Police)”
Ha! How many of us are old enough to remember Sgt. Preston?
“On King! On you huskies!”
Sgt. Preston of the Mounties is still aired every so often around these parts. He carries around that Winchester 1895 carbine, a real classic. Its hard to believe that show was filmed in LA at some Republic Studios back lot.
Those were the days.
brh
Oh Oprah! Will the seas roll back?
Who is Oprah?
Consider we are strapped to a gurney and a pendulum swings across our chest dropping a hair lower with each pass. It swings through a slot in the ceiling on the end of a long steel bar. It’s bottom is shaped like a half moon and sharpened to a razors edge. When it swings at us coming from the right Trump pushes it when he is not tweeting. Otherwise the other Republicans swing it.
Coming from the left Democrats swing it. Currently they are taking turns and Oprah just gave that steel bar one good hard shove and here it comes. One cunt hair lower. Her tits gave a good wiggle when she let it go.
Eventually it slices us open but before that happens we watch the Republicans and the Democrats swing that bar at us again and again. They play the same game but with different set of elites and a alleged victims throwing their hate into the bar.
And we can’t change the game. We can’t have a third party who would stop the bar in mid-swing and keep it from dropping lower. We can’t because we are strapped down with thick straps of media leather. We can’t move and that camera on the wall watches all.
different sets of elites and alleged victims
However, the prisoner is able to attract rats to him by smearing his bonds with the meat left for him to eat. The rats chew through the straps, and he slips free just before the pendulum can begin to slice into his chest.
The pendulum is withdrawn into the ceiling, and the walls become red-hot and start to move inwards, forcing him slowly toward the center of the room and the pit. As he loses his last foothold and begins to topple in, he hears a roar of voices and trumpets, the walls retract, and an arm pulls him to safety.
The French Army has captured the city of Toledo and the Inquisition has fallen into its enemies’ hands!
” Her tits gave a good wiggle when she let it go.”
All ten of them? You randy old dog…stay away from my leg….
“Who is Oprah”
I don’t know, Finca, but I hear she is well off and lives in a grand ole Oprah house.
I’ll get my coat…
Germans on the rise! == Elrond
Oh, shit! They are, along with their fucking guard dogs!!
We better beef up our Western border and keep the gun powder dry!
Come on now, the whole point of the video is to celebrate Germany playing the good guy for once. But yeah, history suggests that Russia take certain precautions. Just don’t make any feints toward the Fulda Gap.
Back in the 1990s, I wasn’t well-informed enough to understand the implications of the West’s interventions in the Balkans. I do now, a bit. We never should have extended NATO to the east, either. For what it’s worth: our bad.
German artistry in Ukraine deserves a second Nuremberg.
They could consider all agreements between Kohl and Gorbachev cancelled by their support of Neo Nazis and the genocide of Russians in Eastern Ukraine by the method of artillery shelling of residential districts.
There are 2 phases to a self-inflicted fiasco like the Trump Administration. Once the initial insult is over (hopefully not 8 years of this shit) then there will be a swing back to patch over the damage – not surprising that America Inc. would turn to celebrity and money again – this time gettin’ it right.
It will be telling: Her Highness, Oprah’s pronouncement on the MOST RAYCISS advertisement from H&M clothing stores with the little Negro child in the “Coolest Monkey In The Jungle” sweatshirt.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/handm-apologizes-after-racism-charges-in-monkey-sweatshirt-row/ar-BBI6YRY?li=BBnb7Kz
She will turn this mortal attack on her heritage into her first real strategic operations after declaring war at the Golden Globes; a political campaign of enkulette the likes the world has never seen.
Hollywood enacts a grand moral drama. – JHK
Grand moral drama? I’m a tetch cynical. Hollywood looks to me like the place where narcissists trade diseases with cum-spattered degenerates.
So let’s say Oprah gets the Oval Office. What’s the agenda after that? What do the Democrats come to the table with? Nuts, sluts, snowflakes and trannies?
They’ll psychoanalyze the shit out of everyone.
Mandatory daily repentance 3 times a day, on your knees, facing the general direction of the Oprah House.
If you white or male, triple that.
Dr. Phil can be her Vice President.
Sure why not and Judge Judy can be attorney general.
Looks like Cliven Bundy got let off. Judge dismissed charges.
I just read that Oprah is an anti-vaxxer. Is it true?
Anybody that’s been through a polio outbreak is no anti-vaxxer unless they are seriously crazy.
Anti-vaxxers that are too young to have seen a polio outbreak should really bone up on what happened before the polio vaccine came out, and what happened after the vaccine came out. Nothing like facts and evidence to illuminate an issue.
And that’s not even talking about shitty diseases like diphtheria….
I was in the original trials in 1954. I was in the group that got the Salk vaccine, not the placebo group. I got a certificate that says “Polio Pioneer”, which I still have somewhere.
What isn’t mentioned now is that as years went by, some in my control group began developing mild polio-type symptoms; so did some polio survivors. I’ve always thought I don’t walk right. It’s not obvious, but I can tell. Could be after effects of the vaccine.
I remember listening to the radio in those times. Every daily news broadcast began with ” …… cases of polio were reported today in Massachusetts”.
It’s really tough luck about the after effects in your case. What did the doctors say? Did you raise the issue with them?
When I was a kid there was constant fear in the summer about swimming because water was thought to be a mode of transmission. I knew kids that got sick with polio. One lived down the street. He eventually got out of bed but couldn’t walk without crutches and leg braces. Went from being a happy and chunky little kid to skinny and sick looking. He died in his teens. I don’t remember what he died from.
When the vaccine came out everyone I knew ran to get a shot. And low and behold the polio outbreaks died down and stopped I think sometime in the mid-60s. At least I don’t remember any after that time.
My view is that polio is nothing to mess with. It can cripple and kill. Get the damned shot. At least that’s how I look at it.
I agree about getting the shot. Remember the iron lungs? Yech!
As I said, my gait isn’t perfect, but it’s not noticeable. Only I know. Since the effect is so slight and never hampered me, I never brought it to the attention of a doctor. I don’t even know if it was the result of the shot.
A brief article appeared on page one of the Evening Camden Courier Post dated July 29, 1949:
Collingswood Boy
Stricken By Polio
Camden County’s fifth polio
case of the year was announced
yesterday at Municipal hospital.
The victim is 8-year-old Q. Shtik,
1104 Merrick Ave…etc. etc
Several weeks later I walked feebly from the hospital with my parents holding me up on either side. Not long after I had fully recovered.
“Several weeks later I walked feebly from the hospital with my parents ”
Q,
And 70 years later you are again enfeebled…Maybe Oprah was right.
Get it together, volodya. Your posts are contradictory. Now you are suddenly concerned about those you call “nuts, sluts, snowflakes and trannies” who may be victims of a falsely alleged anti-vaxxer?
Vaccines You Need to Get Again – Oprah.com
Aug 1, 2017 – The vaccine is still the best defense we have against this highly contagious respiratory disease, which can cause coughing fits violent enough to crack a rib. Pertussis is especially dangerous for babies too young to receive the shot: About half of infected infants under a year old need to be hospitalized.
http://www.oprah.com/health_wellness/vaccines-you-need-to-get-again/all
The people that stand up straight and tall and say stuff like “you’re entitled to your own opinion but you’re not entitled to you own facts”.
Then these people talk about “your truth”. WTF???
They are obsessed with Trump’s fake news, especially about his inauguration, yet fail to see the beam in their own eye about the systematic fake news of the MSM.
I don’t think I agree with you about the vaccinations. I have in mind measles rather than polio. The Andrew Wakefield story is interesting, even (if you believe him) sensational. I think I do agree with him. One of the most astonishing parts of it was the appeal by Professor John Walker-Smith, the world authority in his field who led Wakefield’s team, against being struck off by the General Medical Council. Judges are restrained in their language but it demolished the GMC’s reputation for competence and fairness.
From the judgement you cite, SC:
“The GMC said reforms to disciplinary hearings were being considered.
Chief executive Niall Dickson added: “Today’s ruling does not however reopen the debate about the MMR vaccine and autism.
“As Mr Justice Mitting observed in his judgement, ‘There is now no respectable body of opinion which supports (Dr Wakefield’s) hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked’.”
Doctors mostly hate the GMC (my other half does) but science is science. And anti-vaxxers cause unnecessary deaths.
Vaccination is the single most significant benefit of modern medicine. Many other ‘benefits’ require inverted commas, as many experienced but disillusioned doctors will tell you.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17283751
GA
I thought we had agreed to ignore each other’s posts. Please don’t say it ain’t so because I would have to take you up on literally everything you write here. But now I’m here, the put-down you took about Nero fiddling was priceless.
The judgment was in the Guardian. Wakefield says that only one newspaper carried the story so I presume that that is it. From memory it said that the GMC had used ‘wrong judgement’ or ‘faulty judgement’ and had failed to take into account the prof’s expert advice. In other words, they ignored the facts that didn’t suit them and simply came up with the verdict they wanted. It does not get much worse than that.
Wakefield says that 90% of the prof’s case applies to him and that seems reasonable to me. As to why he doesn’t try to clear his own name, I think the reason is pretty obvious.
I wonder if the judge really did say what Mr Dickson quotes him as having said. I assume so, but really nothing can surprise me any more. (You have his comment in your supposed direct quote from the judgement. I don’t remember Dickson’s remark when I was reading it.)
A number of vaccines were withdrawn from the market because of serious safety concerns. Experts admit (once they have been forced into a corner and the admission forced out of them) that vaccination carries risks, sometimes with serious results. It is also argued that improvements in public health have been the decisive factor in reducing the incidence of measles and other minor diseases. (Yes, measles is not that serious – before you start.)
I am no expert in the field but I have come across a few medically qualified voices who have serious misgivings about vaccination programmes. In this respect it is bit like the mythical 97% consensus in AGW. There is no point saying that sceptics are denying science if science is not itself agreed.
Are you sure you want to start this up again?
“Experts admit (once they have been forced into a corner
and the admission forced out of them) that vaccination
carries risks, sometimes with serious results. It is also
argued that improvements in public health have been the
decisive factor in reducing the incidence of measles and
other minor diseases. (Yes, measles is not that serious –
before you start.)”
No-one has ever denied that some vaccinations pose risks. They never outweigh the overall risk to a population of non-vaccination.
And we are still left with Mr Justice Mitting’s observation that “There is now no respectable body of opinion which supports (Dr Wakefield’s) hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked.”
This is not the Guardian:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/
*In 2016, there were 89 780 measles deaths globally – marking the first year measles deaths have fallen below 100 000 per year.”
I suppose it’s not serious if it’s not your child.
“I am no expert in the field.”
Thanks for that.
But, OK, I agree to ignore your posts.
“They never outweigh the overall risk to a population”
How do you know?
Mitting: there is no respectable body supporting an autism link.
I take his word for it, at least at the time of the judgement, and probably still now, but I bet there are plenty of doctors with serious doubts. Again the comparison with AGW is probably valid. I don’t think there are many respectable scientific organizations which deny AGW but there are many scientists prepared to stick their necks out to do so. So just think how many individual scientists also agree but are keeping their heads down. How many actors think this MeToo campaign is dangerous nonsense but keep quiet about it? How would they be received if they were to say something.
A few months ago a conservative radio personality, George Hook, lost his job because he wondered out loud on air if it was wise for girls to go out, get drunk and sleep with complete strangers. Sunday Independent journalist Eilís O’Hanlon said that when she heard this her jaw hit the ground. She also said that nobody of standing had defended Hook’s views. Like the judge she was correct, but a great many ordinary people did and for sure much respectable opinion was keeping the head down.
“I suppose it’s not serious if it’s not your child”
My son is going on 17 and this issue was prominent in the news when he was born. He had severe eczema and later developed asthma (so in Wakefield’s view at risk) so we thought it wise not to let him have the MMR.
Your quoted statistics (like all statistics) are suspect.
“‘I am no expert in the field.’ Thanks for that.”
You are welcome, but neither are you, even if you are married to a doctor.
The vaccination issue fits into the fake news/ witch hunt scenario very well. It isn’t typical as some of the anti-vac. crowd at least appear to share some of the characteristics. I came across a Danish MP on a video about postmodernism (he was rightly arguing against it) who described Wakefield as the biggest trickster of all time. This is clearly absurd but the embodiment of evil motif appears in the bien pensant (or as the French say rien pensant) media in the guise of Trump, Putin and Weinstein.
“I agree to ignore your posts”
You know it makes sense!
Does Alba relate to herself as a statistic? An average? Or does let her children be treated as such? Probably not. Most Leftists, no matter how fanatical, have a good dose of commonsense when it comes to their own lives. Thus even as they shout the Party Line, they’ll take their kids out of public schools when the number of Blacks or Browns increase. Or move out of a darkening neighborhood.
As for Vaccination, I fear both sides have good points. Clearly many lives have been destroyed by vaccination, turning the kids into autistics. And equally clear, many lives have been saved. I’d ask have vaccines changed, as in more mercury being added. Early vaccines didn’t seem to cause such destruction: the rate of autism has exploded in the last few decades.
As it stands, many parents will wisely do almost anything to avoid subjecting their children to the risks of the MMR shot.
Janos
“Does Alba relate to herself as a statistic? An average? Or does let her children be treated as such?”
When I made decisions like that, it involved individual risk assessment, based on scientific evidence. Given that neither of my children had any pre-existing condition that vaccination would affect, it was a no-brainer. Except for a person with no brain – or one filled with silly things discovered on silly websites where silly people congregate (i.e. not qualified and experienced Immunologists).
“Clearly many lives have been destroyed by vaccination, turning the kids into autistics.”
B*ll*cks. And inexcusable, ignorant b*ll*cks at that. Sorry that’s rather ruder than [citation needed] but sometimes you just have to go straight for the succinct Middle English. Public health interests demand it.
As I offered earlier, but you clearly didn’t read:
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2015/02/01/anti-vaccine-movement-causes-worst-measles-epidemic-in-20-years/&refURL=&referrer=#24f9ec086069
“As it stands, many parents will wisely do almost anything to avoid subjecting their children to the risks of the MMR shot.”
Many parents are bizarrely unaware that just having a child doesn’t confer any scientific knowledge whatsoever on you, even if combined with the kind of self-indulgent internet sleuthing activities enjoyed by the gent above who started this ‘discussion’.
His contributions on the subject, like yours, have been *priceless*. Yes, that’s the word – *priceless*. If you don’t like that word, we have others.
Janos
Is GA referring to little ol’ me? Does this constitute indirect communication and thereby break the terms of the ceasefire? It was naughty of me to say it was priceless but I can’t do anything about it now. I have that effect on people.
Hitchens was the first to engage me on this topic.
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2013/04/some-reflections-on-measles-and-the-mmr-.html
That’s where I first came across improved health and sanitation as being important in the control of measles. I had quite forgotten the passage where he says he was targeted by a hoax letter writer purported to be from the mother of a child whose serious illness she blamed Hitchens for. As I keep saying, deceit is a constant element when it comes to maintaining the fantasy.
I bought and read Wakefield’s book, In Callous Disregard, taken from the wording of the GMC’s sentence of excommunication, as I recall. He is by all appearances a highly educated and articulate scientist and a dedicated physician. He has also been embittered by his extraordinary treatment, which I don’t blame him for. He points the finger at the pharma companies, surely with some justification. As you know, I think there is a deeper psychological dynamic. Deeper also in the sense of being unconscious and stupid.
The legend around Wakefield is a good example of this stupidity. According to it, he is supposed to have deliberately undermined the MMR so that he could clean up with his own patented cure. And to have subjected children to wholly unnecessary and unpleasant treatments because he was some kind of evil scientist who used them without mercy. (Ellrond once told me that, while he is not a believer, he could sympathize with those opposing vaccination being plunged into eternal hell-fire. Curious behaviour, when you consider it.)
Wakefield’s story is intricate and demanding. The shades of meaning surrounding medical ethics are not easy to take in, as the Walker-Smith judgment shows. If medical research is unethical then why is it there? You have to follow the twisted chronology of memos, approvals, Child A, Child B, Child C, more memos, more approvals, interventions from up the ladder, letters to the Lancet, letters from the Lancet, more interventions, more letters to and from the Lancet, meetings with the editor of the Lancet (this bit is interesting) and so on and so forth.
A central criticism in the judgment in W-S’s successful appeal is that the GMC started from a position of not believing him. They also used superficial and inadequate reasoning, drew ‘wrong conclusions’ and didn’t listen to any of the Prof’s expert evidence that challenged their own. So odd, so familiar.
S.C.: “Ellrond once told me that, while he is not a believer, he could sympathize with those opposing vaccination being plunged into eternal hell-fire. Curious behaviour, when you consider it.”
Here is what I previously wrote: “As a general matter, vaccines are safe and effective, including the MMR vaccine. Every one of us who hasn’t been killed or disfigured by e.g. smallpox, including all generations to come thanks to its eradication through vaccination, owes the scientific community an unpayable debt. And if there is a hell, Andrew Wakefield ought to pray that God’s mercy is all it’s cracked up to be, because he has a lot to answer for.”
As you can read, I said that subjunctively: *if* there is a hell. It’s true that I don’t personally think there is. What’s more, if I’m against torture, which I am, then I ought to be infinitely opposed to eternal and inescapable torture, aka ‘hell-fire’, which I also am.
If the religion I was taught as a youngster is true, that doesn’t leave me a lot of options. Aquinas wrote: “In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned.” So not only do the damned suffer eternal torture, but heaven above is filled with the gloating of the saved. With this being the vision of the universe promoted in so many pulpits, I’m surprised more people don’t do as I did and just chuck it altogether.
Though I dunno, maybe it is for real. In which case, maybe the Unholy Consult has a point after all.
Elrond
My memory is pretty good so. Is the phrase “if there is a hell” in the subjunctive? Wouldn’t that be “if there were a hell”?
If Q sees this I have a different question. Has he seen the word ‘withal’ used in recent years? I thought I did but I cannot remember where. I came across it recently in Bleak House though.
Counter-factually, then.
” you’re not entitled to you own facts”.”
Volodya,
Well, then, I guess that first person accounts are not entitled…I, however, would believe my God Damned Lying Eyes over the written page, and so should we all.
This country does not need another celebrity or the uber rich telling the rest of us peons how to run the government. A variation on this essay has appeared on most websites and you need to read the comments there, most of which echo my sentiments.
It also shows just how stupid the Democrats have become.
I saw Oprah on the Icelandic news this morning. It was the Golden Globes! How best to describe the scene? I’ll settle for unsettling. Hilarious definitely, just like Meryl a year ago.
“I see a new dawn on the horizon.” Where have I heard this before?
Another news broadcast provided another sentence, something about your personal truth being your strongest weapon, or something or other about ‘power’.
I had been wondering what Oprah’s political views were but this saved me the trouble of searching.
These ladies’ ‘personal truths’ amount to a delicious, self-dramatizing knowledge that they have the power to ruin any man’s career who ever looked sideways at them. There is nothing presidential about joining a witch hunt.
I have seen nothing in the whole sorry ‘me too’ affair but lies and trivia.
As for the Wolff revelations see my comment above about the ‘dark depths’ of Gordon Brown.
“something about your personal truth being your strongest weapon, or something or other about ‘power’ –Sean Coleman
Sean, Oprah is speaking about a power many men do not understand. Kind of like Stalin asking how many divisions the Pope has… clueless men.
Janet
Is this ‘power’ just deceit?
Leaving aside the trivial, how many of these allegations are credible? Read Ambra Battilana’s story in the NYT (For Weinstein A Brush With The Police, Then No Charges) and see if you can keep a straight face.
The whole thing is childish, a Children’s Crusade. First the self-congratulatory ‘Resistance’, now smug charades dressed in black.
Janet
You’re wasting your time. I will read no more of Mr Coleman’s posts, and not only because he has advised it, but I will allow myself this word of advice.
Mr Coleman has a dual modus operandi. It consists of (a) haughtily (and I do mean haughtily) dismissing any experience he has not shared, and (b) declaring loudly to the world ‘what a brave maverick I am in my research.’ Curiously unpublished.
I have ignored his previous recent comments. I don’t care what he thinks about Harvey Weinstein. I don’t even care that much about his bizarre crusade to rehabilitate Jimmy Savile.
But I couldn’t let the vaccination one go because views like that are dangerous. There have been epidemics following anti-vaxxer nonsense in the press. When herd immunity is lowered because of these people, there are consequences.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2015/02/01/anti-vaccine-movement-causes-worst-measles-epidemic-in-20-years/#4208fbc36069
The biography of the guy who wrote that article is available as a drop-down. Have a look and see who you think you should believe.
SC doesn’t even know that people die of measles.
You do the same thing anent Muslim rape. Just like the see no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil, coolest monk in the jungle.
After the Whataboutery Award of the Year as well, I see.
In other words, Irish Culture will be enriched by the addition of millions of Nigerians. All European Cultures are just horrible mono-cultures. Everyone looking the same is the Left Speak for Diversity. One is reminded of Orwell’s War is Peace and Freedom is Slavery.
Japan needs enrichment too. They’re far too happy and prosperous as they are. Nothing that a few million Muslims can’t fix though, eh Greenie? The Tribe hasn’t forgotten whose side they were on last time. But of course they’ll be coming for the Chinese and Koreans too in time.
What did the Celtic sage say of the Romans? You make a desert and call it Peace. Paraphrasing, You create a Mono-Color and call it a Rainbow. A Global Uniformity and call it Diversity. Do you realize it and not care? Or are you conflating the intermediary stages with the final result? In any case, the Lords of Salem know the difference and what they are about, even if you don’t.
I think you’re just won it. And we’re not even out of January.
*you’ve*
In other words, you just echo what I just said – as if that somehow magically disproves it. You think you’re a Witch with magic spells, powers, potions, and everything!
You said “mono-culture” in regards to White countries, did you not? Comparing White Countries to a failed potato crop. Did I miss something? I just extrapolate what your stated ideas will lead to and which are indeed leading to already.
Whites have plenty of diversity, both genetic and otherwise. We don’t need “enrichment” from utterly alien sources, which would only be an impoverishment.
Three cheers for your efforts to stand up for human health and welfare, GreenAlba. We must never lose sight of the fact that Janos is playing a different game altogether.
Do you enjoy popular science articles? Then you might appreciate this:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16844842/ai-computer-vision-trick-adversarial-patches-google
The nascent field of computer vision tries to replicate artificially what human beings do naturally: the visual recognition of objects. But like so many sophisticated electronic systems, state-of-the-art computer vision systems are vulnerable to being hacked — in this case by specially designed, abstract visual patterns, purpose-built to mislead and derail the computer vision algorithms.*
Janos’ posts work in much the same fashion: by dumping his assorted irrelevancies, inanities and barbarities into the mix, he derails meaningful conversation and attracts the more attention to himself.
* Bonus fun fact: This was anticipated by author Daniel Suarez in his Daemon book series a decade ago. These books are of potential interest to JHK’s readership in other ways, as well.
Quite right, Elrond. We have different goals. I’m on offense and you’re on defense. We intend to tear down your House of Lies stone by stone. As one of the Establishment, you try to discredit us, not matter how logical or reasonable we are. Needless to say, some of my material is whimsical, humorous, speculative, or even mystical, but you would take the same tack even if I was straight up serious all the time.
A brief meditation: If you met someone who said they loved you but wanted to change everything about you, would you believe their claims to love you? Just so, I don’t believe Leftists who claim to love the West or their particular Nation as they want to change everything about them – even their most essential aspect, the very People themselves.
Now obviously you can’t objections like this so you resort to ad hominems.
I ‘can’t objections like this’? This sentence no verb. Anent your remark, you are fatally undermined and I am objectively the winner! AHH-hahahaha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM
Thanks for the link, Elrond. So many AI-related things that I read give me fresh cause for concern!
Anent Janos, yes he does throw a lot into the pot at once, or rather in quick succession. I have no wish to be drawn into any of his historico-mystical stream-of-consciousness musings, especially the ones with rhetorical question marks at the end.
Re public health, which is more practical, I’m glad to take a rest from Immunology. Today I find myself, professionally speaking, in the realm of anatomy and physiology, which is, by comparison, without controversy.
Elrond: By focusing on an obvious typo, you all but admit your defeat. You got nothing and your intellectual and moral poverty is made clear.
Green: Like many, you’re more comfortable with facts and information as opposed to values and ideas. But the former are useless without the latter. And yes, such questions are more difficult – but also far more important.
Anent rape, janos, rape has no religion. There is no “Muslim” or “Christian” rape, although there are so-called Muslims and so-called Christians who rape.
The concept of rape makes its first historical appearance in early Jewish and Christian texts. Even today Christian churches don’t often talk about power and consent, and even more rarely do they truly acknowledge the reach and implications of Christian rape culture.
Rape is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable. Yet few people know that the Bible often condones and even approves of rape. How anyone can get their moral guidance from a book that allows rape escapes me. Perhaps they have been lied to about the Bible and carefully detoured around all the nasty stuff in the Bible.
Good for you, JHK! We could certainly do worse, and have certainly done worse, than put Oprah into the Oval Office. For all of the reasons you give as to why the idea may not be as crazy as it seems, I would add that Oprah might listen to Bernie Sander’s economic advisor, Stephanie Kelton, and help begin a new and more promising public discussion about so-called economic constraints, which are actually resource constraints that may provide more freedom to move than many of us have imagined. I forgot whether I linked to this video on a prior post (and if so, feel free to edit it out), but it has had a startling impact on my understanding of our economy and might have a similar effect on other readers of your blog. Again, I commend you for a commentary that may not sit well with some of those who read and comment here, but your fierce independence of thought has always been your greatest strength and appeal (even if you don’t, at this point, put any stock in MMT).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d57M6ATPZIE
Sean, according to what I’ve read and according to a relative I’ve got in the medical field, there’s no vaccine-autism link.
That’s not to say that companies making vaccine can’t be sloppy in their production methods and make people sick. So, yeah there’s a small risk every time you get a shot that something’s fucked up. But when it come right down to it, I’ll take the shot and take the risk. As I said to Beantown Bill I’ve seen kids with polio.
Don’t know about you but I caught the damned measles and chicken pox and the mumps. The chicken pox was fairly mild, the mumps was worse, measles was down-right nasty. I was sick as a dog for more than a week. There was no vaccine available back then for these things.
Countless parents describe the utter destruction of their children within days of getting a vaccine, particularly the MMR. Observation not conjecture or hysteria. There is a connection, at least with some of the vaccines. The pertinent question: how do the vaccines vary? Did they change them? Earlier varieties didn’t seem to cause this.
Robert De Niro was excited about a documentary about this. But he was taken to the woodshed a few years ago, and dully chastised, consented to the status quo that it had no place at a big film festival. The Elite will always support Big Pharma even if they’re not directly involved.
Janos
I’ve spent over 20 years working in medical publishing. Evidence-based medicine has been the standard for some time before that.
I think I’ll stick with the work done by the specialists I work with over whatever Robert De Niro was excited about – or whatever his nibs further up found on the internet.
I’m not aware that De Niro’s qualifications in the matter are any better than Gwynnie’s on the subject of ‘drinking’ your coffee from the wrong end. These people are a danger.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/09/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-coffee-enema-colonic-irrigation
If your child has a pre-existing condition that contra-indicates vaccination, that’s a different matter (like the child in the article above recovering from cancer treatment). Otherwise it’s a no-brainer. It’s bad enough that people have the legal right to take chances with their own kids without having a clue about science. But that they can take risks with other people’s children is shocking.
While on the treadmill at the gym (I sure hope Cold N. Holefield isn’t reading this comment) I saw a non-stop “Oprah running for president?” reportage and editorial onslaught, with expert analysis and opinion ( from folks who could not find their collective asses without a full police escort ) for nearly one half of the one-hour news cycle.
The string pullers are having a field day with this idiocy, aren’t they now.
Rumors circulating in Green Rooms, from 30 Rockefeller Plaza to Studio City, California, have it that none-other than Whoopie Goldberg is going to be earmarked for Oprah’s Cabinet as the Director of National Intelligence. She gets to keep her host gig on “The View” to boot.
You stand with slack jawed astonishment. Idiots levelling the accusation of idiocy.
I just read an article in one of those august New York mags that fairly brims with intellectual and moral superiority. They basically said that Trump’s win was because of idiocy and racism. Again. They tried to connect Trump’s ascension with George Wallace’s rise to national politics, idiocy and racism being the connecting threads.
It’s fine by me if they want to not see what’s right under their own noses. Their own inability to perceive and reason diminishes their own chances of survival.
They say that winners write the history. In this case it’s the losers trying to write it. No matter who it is, twisting and lying about history doesn’t change the FACTS of what happened and FACTS whether historical or otherwise are exceedingly stubborn things.
“It’s fine by me if they want to not see what’s right under their own noses” –volodya
But do you see how the billionaire-benefitting policies of Trump are hurting the white voters, the evangelical voters, who supported Trump? Or have you already forgotten about the coal miners and the working people in flyover country?
Yup, it will just continue to work of separating America, building on Obama’s work, Holder’s, BLM, Hands up, Kneeling, the new segregation on campus, etc. This is a holy alchemical separation, the very work of the universe. The Nigredo must be allowed to finish. The Carbons must settle to the bottom so the higher elements can attain the freedom of the aire….
“If we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall” –President Trump
“President Trump has said he may need a good government shutdown to get his wall. With his demand, he seems to be heading in that direction” –Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin
The current continuing resolution expires Jan. 19. Democrats say they won’t budge on a spending compromise without a path forward for DACA.
Trump is dysfunctional as an executive and does not know how to make a DACA deal. A government shutdown seems likely in 2018.
Great!
That will produce record gains in cryptocurrency, and more available privately held funds to export those, like you, who profess no State of the Union meets their needs.
Sent from the New Republic.
C
A
It just shows you how desperate people are for some kind of sane leadership when everybody seizes on the Oprah speech to make her a candidate for the presidency. Somewhat similar to the way that Obama was thrust into the national spotlight by virtue of a speech.. Has it really come down to this? Desperately grasping at straws in an attempt to avoid being sucked down into the whirlpool of dysfunction that is Washington DC? I guess if you are counting on the intelligence of the public to restore sanity, you are in for a big surprise. It’s one thing to read about this kind of shit in the history books, and another thing to be living it as it happens.
Yeah, it has come to this.
For his vaunted “intelligence”, Obamya didn’t bloody learn. He created yet another failed state in Libya. He didn’t prosecute Wall Street. He appointed Mary Jo to police Wall Street banks. Which is like getting a mafia consigliere to be police commissioner. For anyone not born yesterday, getting Mary Jo pretty much guaranteed that Wall Street would cruise on unmolested.
And Hillary’s emails. And the Clinton Uranium One deal.
I could go on but what’s the point. Hope? Nope. Change? Forget it.
Yes we can? No we can’t.
Some flotsam and jetsam:
I said it here many years ago: S.O.N.O.F.A.B.I.T.C.H.!
“Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you….”, Oprah.
My memory has been jogged to the more distant past, and Mary Jo Kopechne rises from the murky depths of Chappaquiddick. It was the end of Camelot.
All the energy, passion, and physicality of youth was splendidly on display last night as the Tide rolled to victory.
Brady the football Brat, not to be confused with Hellmuth, the poker Brat, tweeted this quote: “Fate says to the Warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the Storm’. The Warrior says ‘I am the Storm’.”
Is Trump the Storm?
Beautiful. The land must be purified by fire. Water only cleans the outsides of things. Fire cleans down to the molecular level. Nothing essential is harmed. The Carbons are left behind. The valuable elements are freed to seek more fruitful unions in higher wombs. As Crowley said, If a Man is a King, you cannot hurt Him.
Arthur Brown agrees…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
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Whatever volodya. As I mentioned earlier, you remind me of the person who got left with a crappy divorce who cannot stop obsessing over their ex. EVERYTHING in their life is defined by what their ex-did, what their ex is doing, etc.…
Replying to any criticism of Trump’s stupidity with this tired shit about Hillary, Obama, and crew is how children debate and argue.
Is this the best you can do? So sad and pathetic.
I can do better…..
You never change something by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that displaces the old one.
…..and WE HAVE.
Welcome to the New Republic!
CA
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“Somewhat similar to the way that Obama was thrust into the national spotlight by virtue of a speech…” –capt
Yeah, and looked what happened in 2008 and 2012! (Oprah is intelligent.) Do not be worried. When women hold more than 50% of the positions of power the positive changes will become evident.
Came back to eat my words.
From checking my usual stops, I found the view that Oprah is considered entirely electable. Didn’t watch the Golden Globes as I am hella tired of trannies. Our host, his typically prescient self.
Zappa Is missed. Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
I found a youtube channel like this. He thought many if not most actresses were actually men who had transformed into women. Fascinating if true or even if only thought.
https://www.amren.com/news/2018/01/leaked-memo-dreamers-critical-dems-future-electoral-success/
There you have it, frends. Treason. Don Jr must take up the baton (sceptre) from the failing hand of his father and lead us to Victory. Or it can be a Sword. You choice, fiends.
Trump Sr cannot secure our Nation. He is unable or unwilling to do what it would take to do so. But if his failure leads to a 3rd Party, and a new media network to facilitate it, then his Legacy could be real and rich indeed.
God bless, Diane Feinstein! Read those 312 pages of testimony she released, proof that Trump (not Hillary) is the Putin puppet, blackmailed and compromised and treasonous.
https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf
Read it and weep for our once-great nation which is now in the hands of a golden-shower-loving weakling.
The Hill Headline on January 8, 2018
Pelosi’s son celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago
As George Carlin kinda said:
It’s a big Mar-a-Lago and you ain’t in it!
While we argue in comments sections, on Facebook and with relatives at Thanksgiving dinner and worry about paying for medicine, they are partying with each other in mansions and laughing in our faces. They know it is a racket and they are all getting rich because of it.
Why no big outcry from Dems over the recent marijuana crackdown announced by AG Sessions.The answer is because one of their masters, big Pharma, wants a crackdown. Marijuana is a big threat to the drug makers of pain killers, opiates, seizure medications, chemo sickness medications (now at $350/month), etc.
Oh sure, Bucky, you have the pulse of the Democratic constituency well understood- LOL what a pathetic joke.
Name calling, eh! Prove me wrong! Have a take and don’t suck! Is that too hard for ya, ffkling? Maybe you are a pathetic joke!
13 Dem Senators voted against Senators Bernie Sander’s and Amy Klobucher’s budget resolution to allow Americans to buy cheaper prescribed drugs from Canada and elsewhere. One of those Senators was the progressive hero Corey Booker. GOP Senators Rand Paul, McCain and Cruz crossed party lines to vote for it, but Big Pharma won the day and the measure was defeated. But the Dems are for the working man! Sure, after, the big donors are taken care of!
Referring to you by your moniker now constitutes “name-calling”? You are the definition of a Republicon snowflake.
Oh sure, how do I prove you wrong that the Dems are not protesting sufficiently regarding Trump’s flip flop on marijuana? Do you have a meter calibrated to make such assessments?
Dumb and dumber.
LOL! I have been called a lot of things in my life but I have never been accused of being a Republican or a GASP! snowflake!
BTWI’m not happy with DNC and the corporatist Democrats, who sabotaged Bernie’s candidacy. I am presently partyless.
Trump is still a Democrat at heart, friend of Chuck and Nancy.
Trump chairs a meeting anent immigration and DACA with a bipartisan committee. Crazy? Unbalanced? Monomaniacal? No, sorry Libs. Utterly presidential – Chairman of the Board of one of the Fortune 500 type stuff. Indeed too much so for my taste. We’re going to get DACA despite his promise to us. He’s trading it for some kind of broken wall. Well it was only a Symbol, but an important one. The electronic wall of e-verify isn’t even mentioned. THAT would stop all this in its tracks. Again, is he serious? If so, how much?
For once I agree with you, janos. Trump is doing the right thing by protecting the Dreamers. They broke no laws upon being carried across the border as infants. Being undocumented is not a crime anyway.
I also like that Trump went back on his word about offshore drilling off Florida coasts.
My goodness, all the Republicons have their panties all in a wad over Oprah. That’s an encouraging sign if I ever heard one.
How’s the censoring working out for you Kunstler, you jack ass.
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Create your own website. Your freedom of speech has not been abrogated. JHK is the owner and can delete whatever he wants to delete.
I have.
Many.
……and you will get your dream of government shutdown
crytpocurrency valuations will accelerate in response….and so will privately funded voluntary deportations of those who profess no State of the Union meets their needs….STARTING WITH YOU.
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Sonderbehandlung.
I read a book sometime ago in which I recall that the author discussed the rise of the Celebrity Politician phenomenon in the US in which the US public confuses politicians and TV celebrities and politicians easily become celebrities and celebrities easily become politicians. I can’t remember the title of the book.
The US culture may be Farce?
May be?
“US culture”?
When it comes to politics, I have to admit it’s difficult for me to remain balanced and impartial; but I try. I’m trying to look at this Oprah thing equitably. My first inclination was to dismiss the idea as stupid. But on further reflection, why not? She doesn’t seem to have the gravitas to be a world leader, but in today’s world of instant communication and personal contact, why does a person have to – we get to know these people much more intimately, as Trump’s tweeting illustrates.
And Trump doesn’t appear to be a real serious person – someone with enough character to greatly respect. On the other hand, Trumps’s foes have relentlessly attacked him more severely than any other politician in memory, even more than Tricky Nick Dixon. In that regard, much of his agenda has been compromised in his first year.
I say this: Before we embrace an Oprah candidacy – or anyone else for that matter – we need to see how his presidency unfolds over the next year to 2 years. Otherwise, we aren’t being fair to the office. Then, we we would have a broader basis to make an informed decision. With all the slings and arrows being flung at him from all directions, I don’t believe we’ve given him a chance to either hang himself or become great.
As of this moment, despite what we think the near future will bring, we haven’t been attacked with nuclear bombs, the average citizen is not starving, most people aren’t homeless, the US hasn’t yet split into several independent nations, and unreasonably or not, the equity markets are booming.
I’m not pro-Trump, and I believe bad things may yet occur, but until they do, leave Mr.T the fuck alone. We gave Obama 8 years; I’m saying Trump ought to get a little more time.
Making excuses for Trump’s numerous flip flops and failure to do anything meaningful on account of his critics rings most hollow considering that the Republicons control all branches of government. By any standard, the Republicon congress has served as Trump’s chief enabler.
Your standard for evaluating Trump is we have not yet been attacked by nuclear bombs? You do realize that the US is the only country in the world whereby a single individual- now it’s President Dump-has the ability to destroy all life on Earth.
Trump and nukes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9M34DzAKo&t=82s
That’s not how it works, thanks to the genius of our founders in crafting our government as it is — divided powers and all preventing the impulse of one person to determine the nation’s destiny.
ffkling – “You do realize that the US is the only country in the world whereby a single individual- now it’s President Dump-has the ability to destroy all life on Earth.”
Yep. I also realize it was that same way for the three decades before before I was born, with folks like Dwight, LBJ, and Dick Nixon at the button. Our nuke arsenal was just as vast and deadly with all the non-Trumps in charge, and we’ve had greater cause in the past to fear that arsenal being used. (Something about a cold war going hot comes to mind.)
Maybe instead of working to get rid of Trump, we get working to get rid of the nukes? Nah, probably not partisan enough to fly.
“with all the non-Trumps in charge, and we’ve had greater cause in the past to fear that arsenal being used.”
Hmm…….for the vast majority of Americans the idea that this power of God like destruction rests in the hands of a person prone to violent outbursts of anger, rage, and revenge is cause in of itself, not to mention numerous existential threats, for deep concern and worry.
Could this be Trump’s destiny: youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9M34DzAKo&t=82s
a little more time , Bill, and also to be treated fairly by the media, including Hollywood.
i don’t think that’s going to happen, tho.
I’ve never seen such hatred.
brh
But at least now we are seeing how its done, and will treat any future Dem president in kind.
‘Measure for measure’, the Bard once said.
brh
That hatred leaves a real impression, unlike anything in my memory. It’s high, wide, and deep.
Oh sure, Republicans of recent memory are known for their “fair and balanced” treatment of a Democratic president-LOL.
Instead, it’s finally time the Dems grow some balls and fight the Republicons using the same sleazy tactics- all that matters is winning. Your comment reaffirms this belief. Thank you.
7.6 MAG EARTHQUAKE STRIKES CARIBBEAN.
Tsunami warning issued for Puerto Rico, Anguilla, U.S. Virgin Islands.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000c2zy#executive
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Yeah, here at the plant my West Indian co workers are fiddling around with their phones and tablets, with anxious looks on their faces, searching for the latest news from the home islands, and trying to make contact with loved ones.
Big worry seems to be a tsunami coming up and washing everyone away.
Puerto Rico is already on its knees; one more blow and it’ll be down for the count. This isn’t good.
brh
Best wishes to you and your loved ones.
As a subject matter expert on plate tectonics, more plate movement is anticipated…..
And the use of HAARP directed extremely low frequency in the induction of movement is another contributing factor.
“Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not.”
-MLK, 1968.
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“We gave Obama 8 years; I’m saying Trump ought to get a little more time.” –beantown
C’mon, beantown, we gave Obama 8 years, but Trump didn’t give Obama 8 years. Trump started the Birther Movement and falsely hounded Obama about his citizenship and his religion, falsely calling Obama a Muslim. Who is falsely questioning Trump’s citizenship? Who is falsely calling Trump a Muslim? Trump has had it easy, but he is a whiner with a paranoid victim mentality.
We cannot give Trump more time because he has already shown in his first year that he cannot complete a legislative agenda. By definition an agenda has more than one item on it (i.e., more than a tax bill).
Trump wants to waste billions of dollars on a border wall. He does not know anything about building walls. He doesn’t know anything about the border. He doesn’t know anything about the drug trade or kingpins. Narcos use drones, submarines, ultralight planes to smuggle drugs. They won’t be stopped by a wall.
And yet President Trump argues that his proposed border wall, a throwback to a bygone era, will “stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country and poisoning our youth.”
As he said last July, he is worried that smugglers will throw “large sacks of drugs” over the wall and hit US citizens on the head — a preoccupation that led to his request for a transparent border wall. He proves he is an idiot every day.
Should he get funding from Congress to build such a wall, Trump will be faced by an even bigger problem — the geographical reality of the border itself. Any wall will have to navigate floodplains, international treaties and the rights of landowners who refuse to sell their land. Simply put, Trump does not understand the dynamics of the US-Mexico border.
How about just stringing out spools of barbed wire, in depth, like on the western front in 1916? That wouldn’t cost much.
brh
Oh, I forgot trucks. Drug dealers and human traffickers rely on the trucking industry to move drugs and people via the 52 legal crossing points along the US border.
The incredible quantities of money generated by smuggling are often used to grease the palms of border agents and others who inspect vehicles entering the US.
None of this would be stopped by a wall.
Janet, that’s a HELLUVA PRICE TO PAY FOR BEING STYLISH:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhgcznole5pph6z/HELUVA%20PRICE.pdf?dl=0
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YES!!! OPRAH FOR PRESIDENT!!!!
……of the Screen Actors Guild.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xk9fcg2pkhkzgem/OPRAH%20FOR%20PRESIDENT.pdf?dl=0
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“…is now in the hands of a golden shower loving weakling”. Janet
“Still it holds a goodly share of bliss
When the sun gives way to Golden showers
Here is the point you should never miss;
Though Golden showers may come your way
They bring the flowers that bloom in May
So if it’s raining have no regrets
Because it isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining urilets…”
Another day, another Trump loss in court. A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects certain immigrants from deportation.
Judge William Alsup said the program must remain in place while litigation over Trump’s decision to end the program plays out. In a court ruling, Alsup said the Department of Homeland Security’s “decision to rescind DACA was based on a flawed legal premise.”
Trump’s presidency is based on a flawed premise that a billionaire who has stiffed carpenters, electricians, iron workers, sheetrock installers, etc., by refusing to pay them, actually cares about workers in flyover country who voted for him. Heard from coal miners in Kentucky lately?
TRUMP’S COAL BAILOUT IS DEAD
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/trumps-coal-bailout-is-dead/550037/
Diane Feinstein is an example of what Oprah said about speaking truth to power. By releasing the transcripts of a public document Feinstein exposed, and simultaneously neutralized, the deceitful Republican effort to demean the FBI investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.
Trump filed a lawsuit today against Fusion GPS in a futile attempt to distract. They are laughing at Trump, who doesn’t even understand libel law.
God bless Oprah. God bless Diane Feinstein. Me too.
Diane Feinstein = Tales From the Crypt.
Here is REAL speaking truth to power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxd3rfSXcs
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janet’s down at Finc’s chasing the dragon. Party on you two!
Janet,
May you be showered with gold.
…..Janet…..and may Golden Slumbers Fill Your Eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qrDlRsARwk
Your one way ticket is ready for voluntary deportation to Venezuela.
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Trump says the DACA bill should be a “bill of love”.
That’s right Donald, hit ’em hard. Let’s also build a Wall of Love.
To keep everybody in. For the Great Diversity Love Fest in 2024. And every four years thereafter. With a magnificent, stupendous event planned for 2060 jubilantly called, “Wane of the Whites”.
Gonna happen way before 2060. Can’t happen soon enough.
The US won’t exist as a single coherent entity in 2060. Very possibly not in 2030. In the event that some part of it does (likely the NE corridor), it will be totalitarian.
‘White privilege’ is the advantage enjoyed by all who live in Westernized nations, regardless of skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, national origin, sexual identity, or whatever other personal distinction one chooses to own. That’s because all the advantages of modern society are product of Western Culture’s singular achievements in advancing all areas of human endeavor. That is to say, the achievement of Europeans – those now demonized ‘Whites’
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Human behavior hasn’t changed in thousands of years, yet just within the few thousand years of Western Culture’s emergence it has advanced principles of social organization and governance that, beyond all other, offers the most hopeful prospect of averting humanities most egregious tendencies, thus instituting levels of tolerance and equality beyond consideration by any other cultures. Oh yeah, evil ‘Whitey’.
The broader contextual reading of history necessary to illustrate how unique – by all comparison — has been Western Culture’s progression from Grecian philosophy, Roman common law, the 13th Century Magna Carte, the 16the Century Renaissance, the 18th Century Enlightenment to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights is now being sacrificed to the smug, self-aggrandizing ‘virtue signaling’ committed by Oprah Winfrey during her Golden Globe demagoguery.
German artistry in Ukraine deserves a second Nuremberg.
They could consider all agreements between Kohl and Gorbachev cancelled by their support of Neo Nazis and the genocide of Russians in Eastern Ukraine by the method of artillery shelling of residential districts. == Finca
To the question of the meeting of Orthodox Irish with Cathars in the underground of the Catholic world
http://www.cathar.info/
First of all, it should be said that Albigensians were declared Satanists by the Catholics, who in the second half of the 12th century and in the first half of the 13th century demonstrated themselves as such “true” Christians.
Perhaps this was the most despicable and bloody time in the history of the Eurasian continent and it all began with the fact that on June 7, 1112, 30 young noblemen led by a 22 year old Burgundian aristocrat Bernard, knocked at the gate of the monastery of Citeaux and they all expressed a desire to become Catholic monks.
The head of this group turned out to be a man of outstanding virtues, immense willpower and “inhuman” humility, which he demonstrated by shifting and directing the popes and kings, creating and dismantling knightly orders, casually “inventing” racial anti-Semitism, the purposeful extermination of entire nations as the principle of international politics and while doing all that managing to receive the title of the “saint”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Clairvaux
Of course, his followers succeeded in translating their teacher’s ideas into reality only 8 centuries later during the reign of the Third Reich in Europe, but in 1147-1229 they for the first time in the history of Europe carried out several genocides, when the count of victims went to millions. Among them were the anti-Slavic and anti-Orthodox Northern Crusade, the anti-Greek and anti-Orthodox Fourth Crusade and the Albigensian Crusade, which was not only religious but also racial, and each time the murderers justified their atrocities with Satanism of those they were killing.
Indeed, the Albigensian Crusade was directed not so much at the followers of the Catharism as at the very Gallo-Romans of the Languedoc, to whom at one time Gaius Julius Caesar gave Roman citizenship.
In any case, this was the meaning of the order Kill them all, God will know His own
But it was this act of Caesar that turned the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, which later became the Christian Empire, and the Orthodox Church teaches that the appearance of the Roman Empire was one of the providential preparations to the Incarnation of the Mission of Christ.
A tearful story of how the leader of the Albigensian Crusade, Simon de Montfort, after storming Zara refused to participate in the Fourth Crusade, is likely part of the propaganda story that the Crusaders took Constantinople by accident, inadvertently “getting lost”, as the vile Venetians refused to take them to Palestine, where they allegedly were sent initially.
In their eyes the authority of the Venetian Enrico Dandolo was so great that they obediently did all that he asked of them (and he asked them to take by storm a “little” town, which was the capital of Byzantium), instead of their initial plans to take and burn Venice just as they did in a month in Zara, and six months later in Constantinople.
However, no propaganda can hide the fact that behind both the Albigensian Crusade and the Fourth Crusade and, even more so, the Northern Crusade, was a newly emerged force, which we will conditionally call militant Catholicism, which Orthodox Christians in no way can consider Christian at least because of the anathemas pronounced in 1054, and in 1147, within the framework of the Second Crusade, the Vendian Crusade began, which was openly anti-Orthodox.
The Vendian Crusade was proclaimed by the Frankfurt Reichstag in March 1147, at which the crusaders proclaimed as pagans Orthodox Slavs and Vikings, long baptized in Orthodoxy by the Irish monks, and the “holy” Bernard of Clairvaux substantiated the need for natio deleatur, that is the genocide, which was executed by Simon de Montfor in 1209 in Languedoc and Hermann von Salz, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in Prussia.
And the only reason why in 1147-1153 the count of the victims of the Vendian Crusade did not go to millions was the desperate resistance to the crusaders by the Orthodox Slavs and the Vikings living in the vicinity of the city of Stettin and the fortress of Dobin, which not only inflicted “unacceptable damage” on the crusaders, but also raised the crosses on the walls, shouting that they were Christians.
At the end of the 12th century, Irish Orthodoxy in Western Europe had not yet lost its organizational structures and understood perfectly well that Roman Catholicism was an anti-Christian force, with which the struggle was for live and death.
Irish were the first victims of the struggle against “heretics”, which unfolded right after the church relations with the Byzantine Orthodoxy were finally broken, and only then did the turn to the Cathars, Templars, Waldenses, Hussites, etc., etc.
So you and akmofo are basically contending that there has long been a “holy war” of sorts going on between the Christians and the Jews, with the Christians apparently getting the best of it for the most part, in that they’ve successfully inculcated anti-semitism into large segments of the population. And it goes without saying that both of them are united against Islam, the other third (to my mind half, as Christianity is little more than a derivative “Johnny come lately” conglomeration of half-truths, distortions, and downright lies to make people feel better about the fact that they’re truly fucked in this world, if not the next) of the abominable Abrahamic religious triad of insanity.
Where to start, where to start? To begin with, I’d recommend throwing the whole damn mess in the rubbish bin of history and starting all over again from scratch. I’m amazed that anyone can take any of this shit seriously in this day and age, but I guess there’s still just no accounting for people’s basic fear of their own death and what comes next, so they feel the need to hedge their bets with primitive superstitions and rituals. On the plus side, humanity’s likely not long for this world anyway, so maybe then the rest of nature (or what’s left of it after we get done fucking it up) can get back to some semblance of normal again. The idea that some wrathful and capricious “god” (no more than a primitive human psychological projection) either could or would “redeem” any of our lost souls is simply laughable on the face of it, no matter how many silly acts of contrition and/or blood sacrifice we would perform.
So you and akmofo are basically contending that there has long been a “holy war” of sorts going on between the Christians and the Jews, with the Christians apparently getting the best
No, not at all.
What I am contending is that there was at least a 1000 years ago and still is a potent anti-Christian force (the proverbial Black Project – my personal term) which is at war with the Christianity itself as a concept.
In various historical periods this anti-Christian force materialized in various shapes and forms, including being Christian on the surface – from certain Popes and Cardinals, to Teutonic Order and Crusaders, and to Ahnenerbe and NSDAP, to Hillary Clinton and American Neocons in modern times.
Anti Semitism is just a side dish for that force.
Also, I contend that back then, England, Norway, Denmark, Russia were part of a single Christian Viking Empire, with Christianity spread by the Irish Orthodox monks in the West and by the Greeks in the East.
And that the grandfather of Prince Hamlet was the Founder or Russian Royal Rurik dynasty.
So wrong. So wrong. Google “Jewish role in the Muslim Conquest of Spain” and read the wiki. Muslims would take a town and then leave a Jewish garrison to hold and administer it while they went on to the next. The Crusaders knew they were fighting both groups in the Reconquista.
Jews and Muslims have often cooperated against Christendom. As they are now in the mass invasion.
Janos, I strongly advise you to read The Jewess of Toledo by Lion Feuchtwanger.
In Russian version it is called “The Spanish Ballad” (Soviets didn’t like the word Jew).
First, if you didn’t read it, you are for a treat. Secondly, it may change your convoluted views of the history.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/349424.The_Spanish_Ballad
https://www.amazon.com/Raquel-Jewess-Toledo-Spanish-Ballad/dp/0615868991
” (Soviets didn’t like the word Jew).”
Lenin, Trotsky, Marx (both Groucho and Karl),
My convoluted views? From the wiki:
With the victory of Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711, the lives of the Sephardim changed dramatically. For the most part, the invasion of the Moors was welcomed by the Jews of Iberia.
Both Muslim and Catholic sources tell us that Jews provided valuable aid to the invaders.[34] Once captured, the defense of Córdoba was left in the hands of Jews, and Granada, Málaga, Seville, and Toledo were left to a mixed army of Jews and Moors. The Chronicle of Lucas de Tuy records that “when the Catholics left Toledo on Sunday before Easter to go to the Church of the Holy Laodicea to listen to the divine sermon, the Jews acted treacherously and informed the Saracens. Then they closed the gates of the city before the Catholics and opened them for the Moors.” (Although, in contradiction to de Tuy’s account, Rodrigo of Toledo’s Historia de rebus Hispaniae maintains that Toledo was “almost of completely empty from its inhabitants”, not because of Jewish treachery, but because “many had fled to Amiara, others to Asturias and some to the mountains”, following which the city was fortified by a militia of Arabs and Jews (3.24). Although in the cases of some towns the behavior of the Jews may have been conducive to Muslim success, such was of limited impact overall. The claims of the fall of Iberia as being due in large part to Jewish perfidy are no doubt exaggerated (Assis, pp. 44–45).
Again, pure mendaciousness, Yan.
Jews lived on the Iberian Peninsula long before the Christians and the Muslims ever got there. In fact, there were so many Jews living there, the name itself means the Hebrew Peninsula.
Whites were there before Semites. Two can play the dual identity game you see.
The Semite, Hannibal, (Freud’s boyhood hero) tried to take over Europe, but he was defeated. Rome prevailed.
Yes, Rome prevailed. And.. Instead of national freedom, we got genocidal conquests of Empire. Instead of free trade between free peoples in the Mediterranean, we got imperial theft. Instead of free thought, we got Christianity and the Dark Ages. Instead of free men, we got institutionalized feudalism. Instead of a religion that respects and elevates the dignity and health of men, we got a religion that debases mankind insists that savage thieving brutes be worshipped as gods. Instead of truth and life, we got lies and death.
Good article about the Jewish betrayal of their British benefactors in Palestine.
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/3646-the-lions-of-albion-and-israel-in-palestine-1945-1948
Once more about Harry Potter
I’m shocked…
There are so many important things happening in the world: Diana Feinstein publishes the minutes of a 10-hour interrogation of the main fabricator of charges against Trump that he collaborated with Russia during the 2016 election campaign:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dianne-feinstein-releases-transcript-fusion-190944422.html
One of the most pro-Clinton resources with a great pomp publishes a reminder of Senator Kosachev (in fact Putin himself) that any war with Russia will be a suicide for the US:
http://www.newsweek.com/war-russia-would-be-suicide-washington-part-russian-senator-775656
And the ONLY thing I can think about is that I wrote about the world politics without knowing the most significant artistic work on world politics in the first quarter of the 21st century!!
Not in any way to impose this concept on you, but purely to show the extent of my embarrassment and explain its causes, I must say that it seems to me that “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” tells about New York University and Courant Institute, and among the heroes of this series are such people as Grigory Perelman, Professor Engelbert Schücking and Stanley Kubrick.
These are all the people from Washington Square, which I wrote about and the prisoner of Azkaban, aka Sirius Black, is John Nash.
And this leads to far-reaching conclusions that Azkaban is a Psychiatric Hospital in Trenton (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”), the Death Eaters are the Rand Corporation and the Lindisfarne foundation, Bellatrix Lestrange is Hillary Clinton, and Volan de Mort is David Rockefeller, who had seven hearts – the same number as seven Horcruxes of Volan de Morte.
It struck me like a bolt of lightning; while dozing off to sleep over Suetonius’ “Lives of The Twelve Caesars;”
The Oprah Winfrey administration will break new ground in progressiveness, diversity, inclusiveness and (in the quest for ever-higher Neilsen ratings) perversity.
It has been pre-arranged that Wanda Sykes shall be the unanimous choice for a newly established government department and Cabinet position: Secretary for LBGTQBIN……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkfQM031gWQ
Ellen Degeneres is said to be crestfallen, as her non-selection for the exalted position is a direct consequence of her whiteness. Fortunately, she gets to keep her talk show ( for the time being.)
Aside from the fact that both Trump and Oprah are extremely talented actors (buffoons?), Trump definitely shows a conceptual depth in perception of the current situation and the experience in crisis management of relatively large organizations.
Oprah, not sure at all.
To understand Trump, don’t dwell on his Tweets – that’s the necessary buffoonish part in the environment of total media domination by his opponents, read his speeches, for instance recent speech on National security.
I have this bad habit of dropping in and seeing who is currently most full of shit. I give myself thirty seconds or so just to make it challenging. Then I decide. Being absolutely right does not matter.
Harpo Productions is a US-based multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey and is the sole subsidiary of her media and entertainment company, Harpo, Inc. Harpo Productions’s subsidiaries consist solely of Harpo Print, LLC (the company’s publishing house). One of its subsidiaries, Harpo Films
Number of employees?: ?12,554 as of 2012.
If that is a failure in the conceptual depth needed to run a large corporation I’d like a bowl full.
And Trump is not hard to understand and never was.
company founded by Oprah Winfrey
Ok, it was founded by Oprah, but was it ran by her?
From my experience with the wireless IT company (raised 60 mil in venture funding) which I founded together with a partner, we were pushed aside by the venture guys in about 20 months.
You need to dig deeper than that, Dog.
“the wireless IT company (raised 60 mil in venture funding) which I founded together with a partner, we were pushed aside by the venture guys in about 20 months.
Finc,
I know of a guy named Hardcastle, exactly the same thing happened to him in Russia…recognize the name?
Glad to see I’m not the only one turning to Suetonius to make sense of all of this stuff. Ah, collapsing empires.
Elysian, what I’m sayin’ is that the Progressive High and Mighty say they’re entitled to their own facts as they see fit. But as for the people that they consider their social and economic inferiors ie the Deplorables, they’ll tell the Deplorables what the facts are and the Deplorables get to keep their mouth shut.
I’m with you, I believe my own lyin’ eyes.
all the advantages of modern society are product of Western Culture’s singular achievements in advancing all areas of human endeavor. That is to say, the achievement of Europeans – those now demonized ‘Whites’
Actually, no.
Many inventions critical to European progress were Chinese innovations. Europeans appropriated many Eastern resources such as land, labour and markets through imperialism. European powers did not create world trade, but rather used American silver to integrate into bustling Indian and Chinese markets.
The belief that European hegemony derived from free trade, reasoned rule, and democracy is a patriotic myth. European powers won trading rights by force, and Britain developed the industrial revolution under harsh regulations. Cultural movements and ideas were spurred by contact with the outside world, particularly with the East.
That is to say, the achievement of Europeans depended on other previous Eastern civilizations.
My,my, my, the typical harangue that only in Western Culture has the full gamut of human behaviors manifested, implicitly denying that prior dominant societies too displayed that same innate spread of human tendency. Exercise a little scholarship in evolutionary zoology and anthropology so as not to remain so entrenched in fashionable polemic. Only Western Culture has instituted an order of governmental principles detached from purely tribal distinctions.
“That is to say, the achievement of Europeans depended on other previous Eastern civilizations”. More to the point, Western Culture, as sub-sequence to having made itself more reasoned to empirical evidence, was able to objectively incorporate favorable aspects of other cultures. Again, do a little objective scholarship.
I remember the 60’s well. Even though my generation, a good part of it, embraced the Counterculture, I remained part of the Establishment. I had, then, a certain contempt for the “hippies, peaceniks and flower children”…mostly just wrong-thinking rabble, their values based on little more than nebulous fantasies of peace, Marxism, and a future of simple happiness with a change in human nature from its sordid truth to one vaguely defined.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I wake up each morning and realize that those same simple bastards I had in contempt are now running this country…our military, our schools, our government….Oh, the horror!
But I now have contempt for the SJW’s, snowflakes, student populations seeking safe spaces. I see all the faults of those ’60’s malcontents evinced, and more! Is it possible that my unworthy heirs and assigns will one day wake up to the fact that the current crop of simple bastards will be in charge?
Who was it, Bill Ayres or Jerry Rubin, while once being arrested, taunted “…We have your kids”?
Yeah, apparently they were right.
So that makes you 90?
Oops…
“So that makes you 90?”
It makes me 71. Sorry, but I re-read my post and can not find the reference you question…
Oprah has shown herself unable to recognize a dangerous witch hunt, although she is hardly unique in this. Is she, then, a good candidate for improving race relations?
I have been reading Colin Flaherty’s Don’t Make The Black Kids Angry about the extraordinarily disproportionate amount of black on white crime in America and watching his YouTube channel in recent weeks and I think it is safe to say that he would not agree, any more than Obama was.
I actually have no idea whether nobody on this weblog knows his work or everybody. From my understanding he argues that the current policy to deny, excuse, condone, encourage and even lie about the problem is only making things worse.
I am familiar with denial and deceit (not to say delusion) in other contexts and had assumed that something similar would apply in this case too, but I was still amazed by the scale of both the problem and of the official response. In this part of the world people are aware that black crime in the US is serious but understand that it is black on black thing only. Oprah is reported to have said that the problem of white racism will only be solved when the present generation dies. Flahery appears to argue that the white racism explanation serves only to encourage the lawlessness as it excuses and justifies the crime. He also argues (reasonably) that appeasement will not work, such as reclassifying serious crimes as misdemeanours in an attempt to reduce the number of incarcerations The prison policy is, of course, something that has been tried elsewhere in the world and shown to fail.
Once again we can see the value of evidence (or its absence).
Flahery claims he can (1) show thousands of videos to back up his case that the problem is huge and under-reported. The retort is that (2) white people do it too. Show me the videos, then. (3) White people deserve it anyway. Where does Oprah stand on this?
You have not embraced cavepainter’s ability to objectively incorporate favorable aspects of other cultures nor reasoned empirical evidence if your deductions come from anecdotal videos, instead of an analysis of all crimes committed.
DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that a majority of most violent crimes are committed by people who are the same race as their victims. Indeed, the rate of white-on-white violent crime, it found, is about four times the rate of black-on-white crime.
You left out the rate of black on black crime. Just sayin’.
“You left out the rate of black on black crime. Just sayin’.” –capt
Re-read my response. Black on Black crime is there in my comment: “most violent crimes are committed by people who are the same race as their victims”
I responded to the specific issue raised by Sean Coleman, the “amount of Black on white crime in America” by reminding that whites do a whole lot of killing of whites, more than Blacks kill whites, four times more.
Janet
I do not trust those statistics you quote, just like I don’t trust anything you say. After all, our host tried your email address and found it was fake. Perhaps the reason white on white crime is higher than black on white is because the communities are segregated so criminals pick on their own. But I hear that on the dangerous edges it is getting more dangerous. Perhaps the crimes aren’t being reported, or not reported as crimes per se (in Chicago I understand car jacking is now classified as a misdemeanor). There are a lot of perhaps-es.
‘reasoned empirical evidence’ and ‘anecdotal videos’
One anecdotal video is an anecdote. Two anecdotal videos are anecdotes. Perhaps a dozen are too. But hundreds and hundreds, day after day, week after week? And Flaherty says he is only scratching the surface. Where are the anecdotal videos of the reverse situation? (His point no. 2.) And where is the reason in reporters not reporting it? “A group of teenagers”, “Nobody was expecting it” or where assaults are described as “fights” as if nobody in particular was to blame. If there were white racist attacks as you believe why aren’t the media showing them at every opportunity, which is what they always do? Flaherty also has a playlist (when he is not banned from YouTube) about hoaxes, where everyone gets their knickers in a twist about a swastika in a school toilet, or racist graffit on the walls of a black church, and the culprit turns out to have been black.
‘Embracing’ an ‘ability to objectively incorporate favourable aspects of other cultures.’ Flaherty includes all races other than black as white in his work because it is black problem. Try embracing that.
Yes, he is justly famous among those in the know. Blacks murder at seven to eight TIMES the White rate. Seven HUNDRED times as often. As Darwin said, they are a different species. The idea that we are all born the same is just an unsubstantiated Liberal dogma, one of the core beliefs in their catechism.
Again, do a little objective scholarship. –cavepainter
cavepainter, it is common knowledge that China was much more advanced than the West in technology and technical expertise up until the late 18th Century, but it is often neglected that the West learnt a great deal from Confucian governance, ethics and social philosophy in the same period.
The West, that has traditionally prided itself as the `giver’ of modernity, was in actuality, given modernity by the Chinese. Chinese historical sources highlight the existence of full-fledged capitalism; and sophisticated governance, separation of powers, and rule of law since the late Han Dynasty, and developed further during the Tang Dynasty. Without those inheritances from the East, Europe would not have had the Age of Enlightenment or the Scientific Method, so all those things you so Eurocentric-ally credit to the West should be credited to the East.
No, the scientific method is exactly what they did not have. Their technical knowledge was trial and error, and long experience. All very fine, nothing wrong. And sure, their natural philosophers and artists observed nature, but not in quantitative way. That’s the difference. That and experiment. Once we got the method, we soared past their rickshaws in our Ferrari.
Yep, Janet is once more attempting — to use your metaphor re Ferrari and rickshaw – oblige the Leftist tenant that all cultures, peoples, societies, beliefs, generations must be held ‘equal’. That horse has been ridden too often so should be put back in the barn.
Well done Boomer Roberts. Even Ozone will have to admit it’s real now – a Johnny Come Lately, but one of many. The Mass Man is slow to awaken, but Oh when he does, When He Does! – he will seek a Leader to lead him to Victory. JS – Janos Slackerneusm
Are Whites Being Setup For Genocide?
Paul Craig Roberts
Identity Politics has responded with outrage against People Magazine’s choice of white male country singer Blake Shelton as “sexiest man in the world.” According to adherents of Identity Politics, the choice indicates that People Magazine is itself racist and part of the white supremacy movement to elevate white people above people of color. The choice is doubly outrageous because, according to a writer in Salon, it reinforces and celebrates toxic white male sexuality and elevates a white man to a position of popular acclaim.
Every white person needs to read this article — http://www.unz.com/article/the-end-of-white-celebrity/ — to understand how they are being demonized and marginalized to the point of oblivion. By focusing primarily on white heterosexual males, Identity Politics tries to split white women off from white men by the use of the pejorative “misogynist”, but, as the article reports, white women, such as Taylor Swift, are also publicly demonized for their whiteness.
Reading this article in The Unz Review reminded me of an article I read last November in a Texas university newspaper that declared white DNA to be an abomination. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/30/texas-student-newspaper-blasted-over-anti-white-your-dna-is-abomination-column.html
Think about this for a minute. Suppose the writer had said “homosexual DNA is an abomination,” or “black DNA is an abomination,” or, heaven forbid, “Jewish DNA is an abomination.” Anyone who declared homosexuals, blacks, or Jews to be an abomination would be instantly fired, sued, charged with hate crimes and driven so deep into the ground that they would never reemerge.
The article in the student newspaper was a bit too much for Texas and produced a furor of its own. Lost in the furor was the realization that the writer was correctly interpreting the Identity Politics that today defines the liberal/progressive/left. Hillary Clinton herself expressed Identity Politics when she declared Americans who rejected her as president to be “deplorables.” CounterPunch printed an essay by its radio host that concluded Trump’s election was not legitimate because he was elected by racist, sexist, homophobic white male Trump deplorables.
In other words, Identity Politics cannot be dismissed as some sort of idiocy on the part of a few kooks. It is institutionalized in American politics and culture and is becoming a habitual way of thinking. The growing demonization of white people parallels the demonization of the Jews and can result in marginalization and physical destruction.
The immigration policies of white countries have created a diversity basis for ganging up on whites. If we put together a diverse population with the anti-white ideology of Identity Politics, we have a political and cultural trap for white people.
It seems paradoxical that Identity Politics is led by white/liberal/progressive/leftists advocating their own marginalization. However, as it is a correct conclusion from Identity Politics that white DNA is an abomination, white adherents of the ideology can logically see their demise as a benefit to humanity. But why should they be allowed to condemn whites who do not see themselves as an abomination?
What we are seeing unfold with Identity Politics was foretold by Jean Raspail in his futuristic novel The Camp of the Saints. Perhaps white people should read it as an indication of their possible fate.
I call Betteridge’s Law on that headline.
Didn’t bother reading the rest of Janos’ claptrap. Last time I did that, I got burned with some surreal nonsense about human-animal hybrids. My poor brain can only take so much.
Phooey on that so-called “Smart Quotes” feature. I should have turned it off ages ago. Here are the proper links:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/paris-afterparty/#comment-303769
The last post you read was one the one asking you in what sense you loved the European peoples and nations, including your own. You didn’t answer and responded instead with vicious mockery.
Shame.
“Once we got the method, we soared past their rickshaws in our Ferrari.” –janos
The method is not patented. The East has the method and they have roared ahead of Europe. Germany is Europe’s largest and strongest economy, with its nominal GDP of $3.42 trillion. China has an $11.8 trillion economy. Japan has a nominal GDP of $4.84 trillion.
There’s a good case to be made that China is the most powerful country in the world. There are many kinds of power — diplomatic, cultural, military and economic. So an easier question to ask is: What’s the world’s largest economy? That’s almost certainly China.
By the way, janos, your Ferrari uses components not made in Italy. Ferrari’s are not 100% “Made in Italy”. For example, Ferrari uses Japanese NGK spark plugs in its formula one cars. Sorry, Charlie.
The GDP in terms of PPP (purchasing power parity) is projected to soon be at $23.76 trillion for the U.S. and $34.31 trillion for China. I won’t mention Italy’s GDP. The spare parts for your Ferrari will soon come from China.
The United States has a great deal to lose if it drops out of NAFTA, as 26% of imports come from the two partner nations. Canada and Mexico are its second and third largest trading partners, respectively.
Trump will pull out of NAFTA and crash the US economy.
“‘White privilege’ is the advantage enjoyed by all who live in Westernized nations, regardless of skin color, ethnicity, religious affiliation, national origin, sexual identity, or whatever other personal distinction one…” Cavepainter
Very well put. I would venture to say that throughout the History of Man that it’s not more than a thousand or two Original Western White thinkers that have created the world we have today. Maybe just a few hundred.
Of course the unintended consequences are always there, but this in no way could prevent the inevitable implementation of seminal ideas. You can’t stop human nature just like you can’t stop plate tectonics.
Sure, Einstein thinks and then an A-bomb explodes. This example illustrates the dangers that lie in thought, but also in Nature. And to survive on current scales we will need atomic energy eventually.
Point is, the entire world is better off, by and large, because of ‘white privilege’. What we should be saying is that it’s a privilege to live in a white world.
That was not his point but that was a good way to turn the blade to your own bullshit ends.
The real point is that we all live in a thunderclap moment in history where cheap oil let’s us all live like kings. A spike in affluence that will be but a long century wide.
If a few thousand white assholes set up a system that rapes the world and DOES NOT LET others contribute you might at least be going in the general direction of the truth. Capitalism, their legacy, is a system where people waste entire lives playing catch-up and not being able to truly contribute. Lazy racists think that is the best of all possible worlds. They suck.
I pretty much agree on the cheap oil.
We don’t know what people other than whites would have done, but my guess is that they would have “raped the world” and not contributed much else.
What system do you propose, instead of capitalism?
Show me the man (of any color) who can solve any one of our current major problems, and I’ll kiss his feet.
I’m not a racist. I’m a realist.
I’m a realist – and therefore a racist.
Yes, that too. Nowadays that link must be forged.
The psychological chains of political correctness must be broken and shed.
If you hate the White Race – and therefore yourself – then you must subtract yourself from it. Stop trying to murder Us. That’s illegal and unethical. Suicide may be illegal, but the ethics are debatable, depending on the motive. You have the very highest motive – a desire to help the World.
Just the other day you were praising this kind of person, the person who invents labor saving devices. You’re not very integrated yet. Maybe you should hold off on the suicide until you are and can be sure that it’s the right decision.
“If you hate the White Race… Stop trying to murder Us. That’s illegal and unethical.” –janos
It is the 21st century and now janos claims the white race is concerned about ethics?
Was it ethical for nazi-controlled European whites to murder millions of Romani, Jews, gays, lesbians, Slavs, etc. in The Holocaust?
Was Holodomor ethical as whites controlling the USSR murdered millions?
Was it ethical for white Europeans to commit genocide against millions of indigenous peoples all over the world?
Now you feel the tide is turning, you are becoming a minority, and you are crying like a widdle baby. Verily, janos, the white race will reap what it has sown. Non-white Jesus did get that right. Live by the sword, die by the sword; the white race uses violence and can expect a violent response.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever the white race soweth, that shall it also reap.
janet
“Was it ethical for nazi-controlled European whites to murder millions of Romani, Jews, gays, lesbians, Slavs, etc. in The Holocaust?”
Included in the ‘etc.’ was euthanasia practised on handicapped and disabled people, because they threatened the genetic purity of the Aryan master race. The omission of disabled people from Janos’ rhetoric has, to me, been glaring for some time.
I have often found myself wondering what his attitude is to those whites (or Whites, as he finds himself obliged to call them) to whom accidents of birth (literal or figurative) have not been kind. I wonder if he considers airing his views might be a step too far on this website, even for him. At the very least I’d have thought they might metaphorically lose their capital ‘W’, but I won’t presume what he thinks in the way that he is wont to do with me.
I also wonder if such issues affect his views on abortion. He uses ‘abortion on demand’ as a slogan but I haven’t seen any nuanced discussion of abortion in any other circumstances than simple ‘on demand’ would suggest.
Janos?
And please do me the courtesy of not assuming what my own views are. Such courtesy has been glaringly lacking thus far. Although I realise it is not about politeness per se. As a tactic, it has more to do with attempting to lower your opponent’s reputation in the eyes or ears of your audience without them saying anything at all. I’m sure it works as well as any other equally shameless tactic.
And please don’t think I’m talking in terms of anything as crass as what went on under the Nazis in the present context, Janos. I don’t think for a moment that any such horrific thoughts have ever existed in your head. I’m just wondering what your views are on those of the master race who don’t quite fit your narrative and can’t fight the good fight.
“Was it ethical for nazi-controlled European whites to murder millions of Romani, Jews, gays, lesbians, Slavs, etc. in The Holocaust?
Was Holodomor ethical as whites controlling the USSR murdered millions?
Was it ethical for white Europeans to commit genocide against millions of indigenous peoples all over the world?
Janet,
Yes, there were…excesses….we admit it, OK? Don’t be so judgmental….
This remark about excesses needs to be saved for the next time someone tries to pin all Stalin’s crimes on the head of somebody or other for advocating Medicare for All, or some other form of socialism.
So Alba, you agree with Janet’s tit for tat morality? That we deserve genocide? I’m asking but it does seem that you do. If so, that represents a profound failure of the Life Force within you. The individual is just an example of his or her race. In themselves they are little and often nothing. You don’t even exist as you imagine yourself to be – as an “individual” separate from everything and without overwhelming influences.
“So Alba, you agree with Janet’s tit for tat morality? That we deserve genocide? I’m asking but it does seem that you do. ”
When you have a moment, Janos, do have a look at those few sentences again, in the light of what I keep saying to you about putting words in people’s mouths.
There’s not one sentence of the three that stands up to scrutiny.
But I am off now for a nice cuppa and will pop by some time after 3pm Alba-time, when JHK’s next post will appear… I will leave you to your self-appraisal, but not with any expectation of its success by normal standards.
Finc,
I know of a guy named Hardcastle, exactly the same thing happened to him in Russia…recognize the name? == Elysian
Comrade Elysian, remember – no names. Only codes, passwords and safe houses.
Over and out.
“Show me the man (of any color) who can solve any one of our current major problems, and I’ll kiss his feet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lmh5XVRW0
It could be Mr. JHK himself speaking. Like many others, he knows the problems and publicizes the problems, but can’t solve any of them, just like any current organizational structure can’t solve them.
It’s an astounding dilemma. Solutions so conceptually simple, yet so difficult to put in place.
The Human imperative meets the Earth’s imperative. Solution soon.
“Solution soon.” –tucsonspur
I’ve been reading JHK for more than 20 years. So many times it seemed something was going to happen “just around the corner.” But nothing happens. Well something happened: reverse inflation.
The typical American spent one-third of his income on food 100 years ago, which is twice today’s share. Ten percent of infants died in their first year back then, compared with one in every 168 births in the U.S. today.
More reverse inflation: Globalization has dramatically brought down the cost of clothing in the last few decades. Now just 3 percent of a typical consumer’s budget, clothing demanded 13 percent of one’s income in 1915.
Well, it’s fairly well known that since 1913 and the creation of the Fed, prices are up about 1,000% or more.
Here’s just one article that says the opposite of what you’re saying,1st paragraph:
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/101314/what-does-current-cost-living-compare-20-years-ago.asp
When I shop for clothes it seems that they want money from my pocket AND the shirt off my back.
Iranian Solitaire of President Trump
In the previous post regarding Iranian policy of American presidents, I explained that the lifting of sanctions against Iran was necessary to revive the evangelical Christians’ concept of the US as the “Shield of Israel” by forcing Iran to recognize the state of Israel.
Accordingly, for Hillary Clinton, who can be considered the worst enemy of Iran and Shia Islam, the lifting of sanctions was an attempt to prevent Iran from recognizing the state of Israel, since after the start of the religious war between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq and Iran, the copyright of which undoubtedly belongs to Madam Secretary, Iran’s political motivation to deny Israel the right to exist, namely, the struggle for leadership in the Islamic Ummah, has disappeared, especially given that the Palestinians backed by Iran during the Cold War, in Syria mercilessly murdered the Alawites, who without any doubt can be considered Shiites.
But the lack of pressure from the US at this critical moment created Iran’s illusion of status quo, which can not be touched, and the attempt to quietly build a nuclear bomb and return to this issue from the position of strength.
There is one subtlety: Israel is not the same!
Contrary to popular beliefs, religious Jews (such as the Hasidim) who truly want to restore the Temple of Jehovah are the most convinced opponents of present-day Israel, because from their point of view, the real Israel must be restored by Messiah, and the attempt to restore Israel before the Messiah is a riot against the will of God, who expelled Jews from Israel.
The fact of the matter is that today’s Israel was build by the prisoners of concentration camps and the Stalinist Jews, among whom were many Heroes of the Soviet Union.
And the demolition of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the building of the Temple in its place, where, according to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Antichrist should have sat, was not part of their plans from the word at all.
The most interesting is that the religious Jews are in complete agreement with them because somewhere in Al-Aqsa there is a stone from which the planet and the Universe has begun and if an unclean Jew steps on it, especially a religious but not a purified Jew, then a terrible catastrophe will occur, and from this point of view, Muslims in this place are preferable to religious Jews even from there own point of view.
Thus one must either recognize that religious Jews are mistaken and the present Israel is recreated by the will from above, and then the “Shield of Israel” was the Stalinist USSR, and now Russia, or that God has weakened and His prohibitions can be overcome, or join the opinion of religious Jews and go to a demonstration against the very existence of Israel along with the Hasidim.
But God will not be put to shame and the second option to Orthodox Christians can be dismissed as absurd, especially if we consider that Comrade Stalin decided to restore Israel and ask all these questions after he restored the Patriarchate and the Church in Russia and God gave a victory in the Great Patriotic War to the Stalinist USSR and to the Orthodox Church of Patriarch Sergius.
And the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA), who read the aforementioned Protocols and thanks to them prayed for the victory of Hitler, he granted shame in 1945 and spotted Judas in 1986, and they still celebrate this “victory”!
Especially I want to draw your attention that all the above facts are well known, absolutely reliable and only Clinton’s propaganda prevents you from independently realizing their significance, and my role boils down to just putting them together.
But Donald Trump has a more difficult task, because he and the Evangelical Christians who support him are pressured by the Cold War propaganda.
And it’s unfortunate that the Clintonoids managed to drive a wedge between him and Steve Bannon, who would have explained to him these circumstances.
All this is connected with Harry Potter in the most direct way, because in the last two series, it is obvious not only the allusions of Volan-de-Mort to Hitler’s Germany, but also to the struggle that is now taking place in the “Anglo-Saxon world” in full accordance with the theory of Colored Projects.
And in these series is the answer to very subtle and complex issues of the 12th century, which the Clintonoids are carefully trying to conceal.
Yes, finca, you are right. Trump and Putin are just figureheads living in a world completely controlled by the Clintons. Strange how she wasn’t able to get elected, but you still talk about her as if she has the power.
Hillary Clinton is a very dangerous serial criminal, a mastermind behind a vast unconstitutional, illegal Matrix that penetrates the Federal Government, the Judiciary and both political parties.
It is really a miracle that she blew the elections.
“Trump and Putin are just figureheads living in a world completely controlled by the Clintons.”
And yet Putin has done extremely well out of being a figurehead, financially, by all accounts, so I don’t think he’s going to be complaining. 🙂 And “extremely” is a serious understatement.
“But God will not be put to shame” – Mountains Finc
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It’s not about god. It’s about us following a path illuminated for us by god. You can follow the path, or not and be lost in the darkness.
You’re an intelligent guy. My suggestion to you is learn Hebrew, and read the TaNaKh in Hebrew. Every language imposes its own way of thinking and understanding. This is especially so with Hebrew. This will set you on the right path.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ancienthebreworg/videos?sort=da&view=0&flow=grid
As to the Temple nonsense, the Prophets made it very clear that following the example of others is asking for bondage. And indeed it has proven to be so. That the Kings and their Temples and their Taxes and their Gov Mafia are no more, IS A GOOD THING! Only ignorant idiots and paid foreign agents view this differently, which tells me everything I need to know about the Vatican sponsored Litvak Hasodoms.
Some good news this morning…
“On Wednesday, [the] leaders [of New York City], at a press conference in a neighborhood damaged over five years ago by Hurricane Sandy, announced that the city was divesting its massive pension fund from fossil fuels, *and added for good measure that they were suing the five biggest oil companies for damages.*”
“Smart money has been pouring into renewables; dumb money has stuck with fossil fuel, even as it underperformed markets for the last half-decade. Just two months ago Norway’s vast sovereign wealth fund began to divest, which was a pretty good signal: if even an oil industry stalwart thought the game was up, they were probably right.”
The Guardian 12.24pm
We may not be motoring to Walmart forever (I walk or get the bus anyway, as you know, albeit to Sainsbury’s or the Co-op) but we might as well keep the place clean and above water for as far as we can in the meantime, although we know we have 30-40 years of damage locked in already.
Talking of damage, I saw footage of the devastation in California last night, with the mudslides and flooding following the fires. My sympathies to any readers in the area. It looked horrific. Last year was bad; 2018 appears not to be starting any better.
“I walk or get the bus anyway”
In the dire thought processes of the times, I expect that makes makes me both politically correct and a ‘virtue signaller’ (with single or double ‘l’ according to geography), instead of just someone genuinely limiting the damage they do and the discretionary outflows from their wallet.
That is excellent news, GreenAlba. But speaking of the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, the City of New York has more work to do — expensive work, and that right soon — if it is to avoid its current commuting problems becoming a nightmare.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-10/the-most-awful-transit-center-in-america-could-get-unimaginably-worse
Penn Station is notoriously terrible and crowded. Currently, 24 trains operating at a time make it just possible to move commuters in and out from New Jersey every day. If they don’t collapse altogether, at least one of the tunnels under the Hudson River will need to be taken offline for 18 months of repairs due to its age complicated by flood damage, during which those 24 trains will be reduced to six. Imagine that, if you can.
Thanks for the link, Elrond. That’s mind-blowingly horrendous.
“But in a case of extreme political myopia, Corzine’s successor, the White House-eyeing Chris Christie, canceled the plan to keep gasoline taxes low.”
That bit made me want to poke my eyes out. Petrol prices here have always been high, because of tax. Although we don’t have the land area anyway to compete with American levels of suburbanisation, I think that’s been a good thing overall, although the punters have naturally never liked it.
I’m glad I live in a small, walkable/bus-able city. And Alba has the potential to be quite Green. It already is because of the more-than-adequate rainfall, but we don’t just do rain*, we do wind too (combined they are not nice), so we have enormous on- and offshore wind potential, especially in the north. We could eventually export electricity to our big southern neighbour. Water too, probably 🙂
*as Billy Connolly famously (here anyway) said, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.
And all that diversity will just help you be more green. They’re better at it – real Lord of the Flies type stuff. You need to get Piggy’s specs so you can SEE….
Bill Connolly? You’re a gonna need Bull Connor. Only he can save po Piggy! Of course Piggy will have to let us use his specs to make fire and such. Share and share alike. Law of the Pack and the Greater Good. Hey, it’s better than a stick sharpened at both ends…..
Work beckons, so I won’t be leaving too long a string of early transatlantic posts, but a thought occurs to me (not terribly usefully, I admit) about the Oprah-for-Prez phenomenon, upon which I have not commented. I didn’t take it too seriously when JHK suggested it, although I thought the post was very pleasant and positive in its musings.
I think she might make an excellent President if you folks had a parliamentary system something like that of Ireland. That way she could make a good job of stately duties that don’t involve being head of government. Whatever her personal qualities, and I am less familiar with them than you all are, I don’t see where training for serious government could have slipped in, as with any other celebrity (including business-oriented TV show hosts).
The role of President in a parliamentary system has the virtue of not attracting types with dictatorial tendencies, since they have no outlet for them. And perhaps it makes the role of Prime Minister seem more like just serious hard grind, without the razzmatazz (although I’m sure our Boris would do his utmost if given the chance…) so it equally might be less attractive to those whose egos are sustained by razzmatazz and rallying.
As a President in such a system, Oprah might do wonders as an ambassador for the United States, being capable of gravitas, yet having the common touch that appeals to many constituencies, both at home and abroad.
So maybe you could just change the system instead. 🙂
It normally takes a really tough, smart and resilient politician to be a party’s leader and prime minister in a parliamentary democracy.
Not too many persons can handle the rough and tumble of “Question Period” to my mind. It exemplifies the ability to think and speak extemporaneously. No cue cards, teleprompters or such nonsense is present to assist. A fraud will be exposed in an instant.
Good point, Pequiste. Just as well for the PM that PMQs are only for half an hour a week.
Some of them do it less well than others. Theresa May has been christened ‘the Maybot’ by a journalist who does regular satirical columns that often include her. Given her habit of answering questions with repetitive platitudes (I’m sure ‘strong and stable’ is even memorable over your way), the name has caught on.
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Interesting ruminations there that tangentially lead me to thoughts of what “the common touch” just might be. I think it’s expressions of sincere empathy.
And so to the one question that The Powers That Be are terrified might be asked — and answered: “Who benefits in a society without empathy?”
Any division and distraction amongst the scrabbling and scratching proles (especially those “ideas” and “discussions” that bend towards the destruction of empathy) is welcomed, approved, promoted and blasted through the media bullhorn.
Now, as you keep that specific question in mind, watch for distractions and misrepresentations in a concerted effort to stop the thought.
Quite so, ozone. The Powers That Be are never slow to find scapegoats in order to divide and conquer – and people still fall for it every time. And as you suggest, some elements of the Governed are more than happy to oblige with their own agendas.
TPTB found out how to cash in on the green eyed monster long ago. The damn lizards!
You have no empathy for racists. And we are growing exponentially – even Paul Craig Roberts is one of us now. You’ve got to do better, Boomer.
“…abominable Abrahamic religious triad of insanity.”
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Nicely concise there Mephisto, but you somehow forgot to include the descriptor “sanguinary” into the word string – it adds that special something just better somehow.
But WHOA & HEY: talk about FAIRY TALES!
Those folks got all the bases covered in that department.
In other Oprah News (TM;) Robin Roberts, of TeeVee’s “Good Morning America” is being earmarked as the Oprah Administration’s (TM) unanimous choice for presidential press secretary. ( It shall no longer be named “The White House” as that is just plain RAYCISS yo.”
Diane Feinstein, RassianGate of President Trump and the Parselmouth from Brooklyn
It finally became clear that the President Trump’s gambit to pass a tax reform began before he became president, and perhaps even before he became a presidential candidate.
The point is that it’s not just about changing the tax laws, it’s about changing the model of capitalism, because the old model that allowed ever-expanding consumer credit to create a system of pyramids, as a result of which the state and the FED lost control of their printing press, has failed.
And the beneficiary of this system of pyramids was the same group of people who are at the control of the Council for Foreign Relations, the protégés of which Trump and Tillerson are now purging from the State Department.
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/monetary_policy/67401516/284905/284905_original.png
According to the official version presented in Wikipedia, the founders of this organization were the notorious Warburg and the equally notorious assistant to President Woodrow Wilson’s “Colonel” House. But in fact, the Council on Foreign Relations is another name for the organization of American scientists “The Inquiry”, which since September 1917 was created by the order of President Woodrow Wilson, by the same Colonel House and American philosopher Edward Mezes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquiry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Edward_Mezes
It is noteworthy that the very idea of such an organization of scientists, which was supposed to make humanity happy with the plan for the rational organization of society, was developed at the Pratt Institute in the late 19th century and strongly resembled either the Medici gardens or the Platonic Academy.
But now this group of scientists reminds me most of all of the Hogwarts school, because it was founded by Charles Pratt, nicknamed Parselmouth.
Naturally, looking at the list of presidents of this organization, it’s hard not to notice David Rockefeller, whose 7 hearts and the influence of his protégé on the life of Cyrus Black – aka John Nash – forced me to assume yesterday that he is a prototype of Volan de Mort, and Hillary Clinton of Bellatrix Lestrange.
Diana Feinstein looks like Professor Snipe, since it was she who during the interrogation of the FBI director Comey in the Senate Intelligence Committee forced him to admit that he lied to President Trump and leaked information about it to the press specifically to initiate the creation of Mueller commission to investigate the links of Trump’s election campaign with Russian hackers.
And there were no other reasons for the Congress to create this commission.
As a result, Mueller runs around Washington in search of the crime Trump committed, although in fact the law on the special prosecutor demands first the detection of a crime and only then the appointment of such special prosecutor.
And yesterday, Diane Feinstein published the interrogation protocols of people who fabricated the so-called Fusion GPS file, which became the basis of this investigation, after which it became clear that Trump’s election campaign had a snitch who leaked to Comey in the FBI, and commentators of conservative channels began to systematically call the Obama administration – the Clinton administration , that is, practically recognized that this Bellatrix Lestrange committed a coup d’état by overthrowing and replacing Obama with herself.
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/fbi-agents-text-messages-could-014227011.html
What actually gave President Trump the reason to capitalize his success in late December, when he managed to pass through the Congress and the Senate tax reform, which is also a reform of the medical insurance. After the publication of Feinstein, he openly urged the Republicans to rally around him and finish off the Mueller’s commission.
And it may very well be that this is the battle for Hogwarts, that is the main ideological battle in the early 21st century. Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, if he remained in Trump’s team, would probably call this the Battle of Stalingrad, but in 1943 it was necessary to fight with the state – Hitler’s Germany – and now the enemy is the Black Project in its naked form.
What is actually shown with a full luster in “Harry Potter and the Death Eaters”.
Finca
If nothing else (and I use that as a mere form of words, nothing pejorative!) I have to admire your stamina – on a regular basis 🙂
I cannot claim to rise to the challenge of reading all your long posts, but I noted your mention of the Cathars, having spent several holidays in the region and visited quite a few of their impressively situated castles, as well as the village of Montaillou (which seemed curiously uninterested in advertising its medieval connections).
The museum of torture looked grim, which is why I settled for looking at just the perverse instruments visible through the window. And I still have a photo of their unfortunately translated poster in English that promised to ‘transport you to Middle Age’. Sadly I had no need of their services, being already there.
Also not far away is Rennes-le-Château, with its Da Vinci Code connections – not my cup of tea but maybe you are into the Holy Grail stories. Interestingly (or not…) I am within cycling distance of Rosslyn Chapel, which also featured. It’s tiny, so the sudden flood of literary(?) pilgrims was a bit of a problem – I believe they’ve done some refurbishment since DB made them famous.
Sorry, GB, but the key word here is Stalingrad, not Montaillou.
Fieldmarshal Mueller should’ve quit drawing arrows on the map of Trump’s organization, pulled the thermometer out of his ass and stuck it out of the window to feel the freezing temperature of New York’s Russian winter.
OK Finca, but I was in the Ariège, so Montaillou it had to be.
We were on a walking holiday, not a mission 🙂
Sorry, Green Alba, for calling you GB – fat finger, will be punished by a vegetarian diet.
‘Twas already forgiven, FInca!
The museum of torture was in Carcassonne, not Montaillou, which is minuscule, despite having provided, by historical accident, so much of the detailed information we have about Cathar life.
Mystical meteorological factor of Russian winter
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/enter-jeb-and-hil/#comment-240749
I expect that makes makes me both politically correct and a ‘virtue signaller’ –Green Alba
Green Alba, there is nothing wrong with being virtuous or correct in my book. Nice not to feel alone among so many ruffians. Your contributions are appreciated.
Cheers, Janet. I am often incorrect and not especially virtuous, but I take your point!
Getting back to the topic of Oprah Winfrey, her 22 second video clip on the topic of racism showed a shocking clumsiness in use of language.
When she says of older white racist people that “. . . they just have to die,” Oprah makes it sound like she wants those people to be killed, and maybe that she would like to participate in the killing. Racism will not die until those people die, was her point.
She should have said something like: racism will not disappear until an older generation of white racists is not longer with us.
But I am of the opinion that her premise is false anyway. As long as the various races exist, people will be aware of the race of another person, and there will be some who behave in a bigoted way based on that awareness.
I recall reading in one of the popular magazines, back around 1968, that there were liberals who claimed never to be aware of the race of the person they were talking to. I think those liberals were lying.
. . . no longer with us.
I also think it’s a bit fanciful to imagine people don’t even notice the race of the person they’re talking to, but they can get to a point where they don’t think about it any more than they would that a person has a nice head of red hair.
If you watch kids in early years classes, it means nothing to them. My grandson (5) never mentions that some his friends are different to look at. Children aren’t born racist – they have to be taught.
To the extent that’s true, it ceases to be as Blacks get older and fall behind White kids. As you may know, they walk far quicker than Whites, and are far more active in general. But to the extent they have a mental edge (like talking first), they soon lose it. By four or five, they are falling behind.
Asian kids are even slower to walk and less active than Whites. Talk to somebody who works in day care and they’ll tell you. The Races are very different.
What a nice surpise, Janos. I wasn’t expecting to find you just here.
” As you may know, they walk far quicker than Whites, and are far more active in general.”
No I don’t, and I am not taking your assertion at face value.
“By four or five, they are falling behind.”
Nor that one either, at its face value.
“Asian kids are even slower to walk and less active than Whites. Talk to somebody who works in day care and they’ll tell you.”
Well, by good fortune, Janos, the mother of my 5-year old grandson, i.e. my daughter, has been doing exactly that for a living for 16 years, plus three years of being educated and trained for it. So that’s almost 20 years. And, curiously, she has never mentioned any such thing.
What she does know, which everyone (including myself) who has ever taught knows, is that children from poor families start with a disadvantage in their educational life. You wouldn’t cut it as a statistician, Janos – don’t give up the day job.
Although it’s not ‘day care’ that my daughter works in. It’s early-years learning, in a nursery attached to a primary school, so the ethos isn’t somewhere to park your kids because you’re working, it’s about preparing for learning, through structured play, and storytelling etc. (& gardening and composting even), plus helping kids to acquire the social skills needed for school (I say ‘helping’ before anyone jumps in to say that’s the parents’ job – of course it is).
Here 4 and 5-year-olds – all of them – go to pre-school nurseries. And modern life being what it is, she spends a massive amount of time assessing every facet of what they achieve individually while they’re there.
Nice try, though.
Well you must have trained her to be just like you – a denier of hero own experience.
Janos, stop digging. It lacks dignity.
Professor Severus Snape – a half-blood wizard serving as Potions Master
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Severus_Snape?file=Severus_Snape.jpg
Dianne Feinstein – United States Senator and a leader of the US White Project
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/AP_dianne_feinstein_jt_160528_16x9_992.jpg
How Trump is helping ‘Sneaky’ Dianne Feinstein win her ‘tough primary’
http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/10/politics/dianne-feinstein-trump-tweet-sneaky-california-reelection/index.html
Ain’t that a beauty!
After Diane made a pitch to the Trump’s team to score a goal at the Mueller’s gate, Trump now gives Diane a helping hand with her still mostly anti-Trump voters!
To be honest, the last two samples have saddened me. Not angry, just sad. I think the site has become mostly a hate Trump site. Clusterfucknation used to talk a lot about urban development and I enjoyed those topics in JHK’s books, and such topics interest me, especially in how local universities keep building and building…it’s creepy how they simply expand and grow, wiping out anyone in their way…these and other related topics used to be part of this site, but all I see now is Trump is evil, he’s a monster, imbecile, etc.
Now, the Wolf book is touted as gospel, which it isn’t. It’s mostly lies and isn’t selling well, but again, it gives most of the viewers to this site something to feed on.
There is little doubt that two thirds of people on this site hate conservatives, Christians, white people, Southerners, any kind of positive feelings for America and the West, and only want to see it all fall down so we can have the World Made by Hand. And, for over a decade, the end of everything is brought forth and will crash IN SIX MONTHS FROM NOW…but everything, stubbornly enough, is still here.
Oprah Winfrey is touted as some great healer and unifier…this from a woman who openly said she hates whites, and for all her denouncing sexual abuse at the Globes, hugged and embraced Weinstein over and over. She’s not stupid, she is smart, although not brilliant as most of you believe, but like a lot of blacks, will say what she has to say to get power or hold the forum. Much like Obama did…and JHK and most of you supported, I daresay, loved him…and he was a disaster. Moreover, a lying, two-faced disaster, but an ethnic, charming disaster seems to be one all of you like.
Also, the woman is an ACTOR. They make it up as they go along. Trump, despite you despising him, is trying to straighten things out…he’s kind of like Dad who comes home to find the house a wreck after a wild party…and when he tries to clean it up, the kids bring in a lawyer to sue him for sweeping the carpet.
I also am saddened how the investigations about Hilary and Obama, which are a political crisis far worse then Watergate, are ignored so you can dump on Donald. Now, you are calling him senile, much like Reagan’s enemies did. You’re all so predictable.
Trump’s not perfect, and like JHK, I chose him over Hilary, who would have been terrible, but I’m more on his side then any of yours.
I say that, as I repeat, in sadness. Most of you seem a lot of ideologues who want him destroyed, dead, and those who support him equally extinct, as you do our world. I doubt you’ll get your chance because, as I’m 65, I’ve seen life go on. I also think two columns a week is unnecessary. It’s tough for me to log in every week and go through the threads and posts. I do enjoy JHK and so much of his work, but I don’t feel home at home here.
Meargen, I think you are experiencing the residential (or better yet citizenship) hazards of visiting, or living in, the Clusterfuck Nation.
Don’t fret – comes with the territory.
I think you and the rest of us will find that, in the final analysis, even the most connected and holy of Hollyweird and Media types will turn on Oprah in a New York second when the “truth,” whatever it is, comes out.
Check out Seal’s denunciation of Her Highness:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5256725/Seal-calls-Oprah-ignoring-rumors-Harvey-Weinstein.html
Trust me, she won’t get to even receive an invitation to a Zapruder briefing. She will return to “O” magazine, the OWN network, and her the “…White people must die…” crusade after the circus packs up and leaves town.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/oprah-racists-die_n_4280460.html
Censor this:
https://www.infowars.com/bombshell-undercover-video-twitter-engineers-admit-censoring-conservatives/
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“Janet’s tit for tat morality” –janos
janos, I was citing the Bible, Galations VI (King James Version); whatsover a man soweth, that shall he also reap. But this powerful proverb is also found in Hindu religion under the name of LAW OF KARMA.
Repent, janos. Renounce violence. Because “They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind”
…..and Karma is represented by the perpetual wheel in motion…..
The very same wheel that took a big mud dump on Oprah:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5253561/Oprah-caught-California-mudslides-killed-13.html
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Harvard Professor, Steve Pinker (Jew), admits the Alt-Right is full of very intelligent people who have been “infected” with the Truth – and that modern Liberalism and Academia are largely based on lies in regards to Capitalism, the races being the same, men and women being the same, and Muslim terrorism. The fact that he refers to the Truth as an infection indicates that he really doesn’t like us knowing, and would probably prefer if we had remained under the spell of the professional liars called Professors and Politicians. We’ve been “radicalized” – comparing us to Muslims Jihadists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJ5bvw6Ckw
The truth shall set you free.
http://www.got-truth.com/
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Trump wasn’t talking smack, and he wasn’t talking shit. He was talking “shithole”, as in Haiti and African countries, regarding immigration.
Phony prudes and lefties who can’t stand the truth vow that they will not take any more of his shit or his shitholes, unaware that they’re full of…..it.
…..as 2018 is to 1968.
In the old republic, the present crisis of ignorance has produced a political ruling class not interested in protecting the Constitutional Republic,but rather interested in protecting their personal rank and privilege.
The velocity of chaotic events in 2018 will make1968 appear tranquil, for the old republic.
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Trump wasn’t talking smack, and he wasn’t talking shit. He was talking “shithole”, as in Haiti and African countries, regarding immigration. Phony prudes and lefties blah blah blah –tucsonspur
Any CEO of any company in America who said such things would be fired. Trump did not insult leftists. He insulted everyone, including Republican representatives. Here is the statement of Republican Mia Love, whose country was among the 55 countries Trump insulted.
“The President’s comments are unkind, divisive, elitist, and fly in the face of our nation’s values. This behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation.”
Love, whose parents are Haitian and was the first black Republican woman elected to Congress, said in a statement Thursday evening:
“The President must apologize to both the American people and the nations he so wantonly maligned.”
Republican Senator Hatch: “Part of what makes America so special is that we welcome the best and brightest in the world, regardless of their country of origin.”
Trump could be the leader of the KKK or the Nazi Party. His comments are sickening. The Resistance will be strengthened by his white supremacist remarks.
The Trump White House made a very strong statement in support of the president’s ‘shithole countries’ comment: “Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people.”
The spokesman’s name? Raj Shah. I got a good laugh out of that.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42656433
A desperate attempt to win back the voters he is betraying a la DACA.
To try to be all things to all people is to ultimately insure that you are nothing to anyone. That’s what Trump is choosing and what Canada has chosen.
Slowly but surely Trump’s blatant political incorrectness is being normalized. I have a feeling that shitholes-gate will blow over like a fart in a windstorm.
Note to janet: Cristie is still not behind bars.
Everything in life is shit, except the urine == Finca
Why everybody are so rattled by Trump words?
It is well known in Kunstler land that all countries outside the Global West are shitholes, except the ones that actually happen to be pissholes.
The disruption in the space-time continuum induced by the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse has produced a vast array and quantity of geological, meteorological, and sociological events unlike none other.
STAR DATE 2525:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yu56rfxwcu6zvqm/2525.pdf?dl=0
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Nothing rayciss about it ladies and gentlemen. NOTHING.
To call the poverty-stricken, disease infested, ignorance perpetuating nations what they are: shitholes, is just a vulgar, indeed profane way of stating a fact. A startling fact if one has not been paying attention. A hard fact about the concrete actuality of a world that is mad – The Clusterfuck Planet (apologies JHK.)
That Africans by the millions are desperate to leave their countries of origin for anything better is boots-on-the-ground proof that their nations are shitholes.
That Central Americans by the millions, have left their countries of origin to come to something better would indicate that their crime and violence suffused, poverty laden, corrupt and dictatorial junta-ruled shitholes are just that – shitholes.
That citizens of countries of modern Mesopotamia are leaving their countries of origin by the millions to come to something, anything, better is telling. Anything to get away from the brutality of lawlessness, religious hate, dictators, ethnic cleansing and genocide. ANYTHING.
That is because their countries of origins are shitholes and no amount of whitewash, varnish, lipstick, perfume or liberal pronouncements by millionaire TeeVee personalities will change that fact.
It is a hard thing to look at reality straight up and call it plainly and, in a very UGLY way, what it is. Donald J. Trump will be pilloried and possibly (figuratively) crucified for his comment. We shall see. But whatever happens in TeeVee land, Manhattan’s tonier districts, and Baghdad on the Potomac his words come as a shock treatment that will, in the final analysis, prove salutary. Naming the problem is the first step in treating it.
The U.S.S.A. needs more Somalis, Guatemalans or rape-ugees from SHitholistan, like we need war with Best Korea, Venezuela and The Islamic Republic of Iran. We don’t.
The president would be very smart to go fast track to end ALL immigration to the country by getting Congress to repeal the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965 and try and salvage this country before the U.S.A. itself turns into a shithole. We are on a fast track to that destination as it is.
“To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller, 1968.
……starts with one individual, one family, one neighborhood, one village, one community, one state, one nation, in spontaneous cooperation.
And deductive logic reveals establishing our Constitutional Republic allowing for the working for 100% of our Constitutional Citizens is required before accepting the ingress of unvetted refugees or exporting of funds to other nations, that are not working for 100% of their citizens.
In the old republic, COLLECTIVIST NETWORK globalists enjoy accelerating the future shock of a brave new world in a soylent green tinged model, for the benefit of COLLECTIVIST NETWORK globalists, until they don’t.
…..and members who don’t measure up to the model are properly managed with AI enabled drones, until there are no undesirable members left to manage.
Incoming refugees are praising California Governor Jerry Brown for his generosity in making California the first lawful sanctuary state in the old republic, effective January 1, 2018! And the refugees believe Jerry represents the consent of homeowners, and fully expect to be welcomed into private homes for loving care. Welcome to the Hotel California!
….all the while the cumulative REAL ESTATE holdings of STATE GOVERNMENT continue to escalate.
…..as the federal government sends $768 million to the peninsula of Saudi Arabia for “humanitarian aid.” – December 19. 2017.
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Relative to Trump’s latest affront to decency, I wondered if the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) had a definition for shithole and lo and behold it did. Google it.
I also found this link:
https://www.crobsabroad.com/blog/2017/04/04/5-of-the-biggest-shitholes-in-the-world
The question then is NOT ‘do such places exist?’ but rather is it proper for a US president to openly acknowledge it.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Thanks for the great link Q. Shtik! A place I would like to add to the list of shitholes: Battle Mountain, Nevada.
Jen in San Jose
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Armpit of America
Battle Mountain, Nevada (2001-2005)
Gene Weingarten, a Washington Post Sunday Magazine writer, proclaimed Battle Mountain “Armpit of America” in 2001. That was darn right nasty of him.
Battle Mountain was the place where a band of Shoshones attacked a group of whites back in 1857. You can always tell how one of those fights went – it was a battle if the whites won and a massacre if the Indians came out on top. The place became a mining and railroad town – still is. It’s also the Lander County seat of government
That newspaper scribe didn’t figure on the pride that courses through most American West communities. Battle Mountain citizens didn’t whine or wail about the title. They got together and put on the Festival in the Pit. There are billboards along Interstate 80 that proudly proclaim the event. It’s been going on for three years and even has a big time corporate sponsor – Old Spice.
A large toilet seat hangs on the “Welcome to Battle Mountain” sign. Almost everyone in town supports the festivities that start with a street dance on Friday. Saturday is the big day beginning with the Pony Express Road Race with children pulling decorated wagons. Famed Ronald McDonald did a magic show.
A person could really get tuckered out trying to participate in all the events. Quoting Lisa Wolf in the Elko Daily Free Press, August 17, 2005: “The festival sported a dunk tank, volleyball tournament, massage therapist (?), horseshoe throwing contest, wheelbarrow contest, Poker Run, boxing, rapelling off the water tower, and Indian fry bread.
“The beauty/talent pageant was a tie between a women who glued Mormon crickets to her underarms and a little girl who breakdanced.” Indian fry bread, by the way, is one of the great treats offered at celebrations in the West.
That ought to be enough to keep everyone entertained but Battle Mountain people do things in a big way. There was a beer chugging contest and the local band of Native Americans performed traditional dances along with a dance honoring mothers and the earth.
Winners won Old Spice Deodorant. What did you expect? Trophies?
There is, too, the fact that westerners will use any excuse for a party and Battle Mountain throws a great party. I’m still trying to figure out why the massage therapist at the celebration?
A Blue Grass Festival has replaced Festival of the Pit beginning in 2006. Shucks!
Sources: “Battle Mountain hosts ‘Festival in the Pit'” by Lisa J. Wolf, Elko Daily Free Press, August 17, 2005; Nevada Place Names, Helen S. Carlson, University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1974.
Montecito, California.
http://people.com/home/oprah-winfrey-montecito-home-devastated-by-mudslide/
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That’s right peasants – Oprah’s 62 acres and Montecito mansion is what is important.
We, and the Media, have already forgotten about thousands of homes destroyed in the Houston, Texas area as a result of Hurricane Harvey. People dead; lives devastated.
We, and the Media, have already forgotten about thousands of homes destroyed in Florida as a result of Hurricane Irma. People dead; lives devastated.
We, and the Media, have forgotten about Puerto Rico where millions of Americans remain without essential services like water, electricity. Tens maybe hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed by Hurrican Maria. People dead; lives devastated.
But Oprah, she needs the coverage because she is The Media and also’ cause the Evil Fuckers want her to have the coverage. The Lumpen, Proles, peasants, and serfs can just piss off.
HERETIC!!
The ballroom days are over for the Undevine Ruling Masters of the Universe.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8fshwf4rniocofh/Atone.pdf?dl=0
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….and here is the Undevine Ruling Masters of the Universe’ favorite ball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQ8xXjfqhg&index=15&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-
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The OED’s earliest citation for shithole is from the seventeenth century, and it’s given as ‘coarse slang’ for ‘the rectum or anus’.
Please stop being a BUTTHOLE.
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Ah, ha, ha, ha….oh, the chuckles…
CNN is eating it up. No, not that, but how I wish it were so.
Don Lemon is saying the full word, no bleeping, and the on screen banner spells the word out in full, no asterisks, as if trying to shock the nation into disbelief by the very sound of this scatological reference.
He colluded with the Russians, he’s mentally unstable, he’s unfit for office, but how about it, how about this one people, no, I’m not kidding, he said “shithole”! “Shithole” people, I shit you not!
The Great Gladiator of Gotham strikes again!
Trump is playing the fools.
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But ask yourself, which ones?
….Why, that’s elementary, dear Watson.
The COLLECTIVIST NETWORK operated mainstream media, career politicians and career lobbyists.
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Hail the Gargantuan Gadfly of Gotham!
CIVIL HERETICS!!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b44q1pelvewnbl3/Civil%20Heretics.pdf?dl=0
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Oprah is now talking about running:
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20885:Oprah-2020%3F-A-Progressive%27s-Take
Was Kunstler the first to predict this or was he dreaming about what was already being talked about?